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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

1 year

Seems @Channel4 @all4 have changed their usual month-only availability window for my film, for which thanks to them.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

2 years

My dad Colin Baddiel died earlier tonight. Thank so much to all of you who sent unbelievably lovely messages about him in response to all my posts over the years. He leaves a huge hole in my sky.

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David Baddiel

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3 years

…coming…

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David Baddiel

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6 years

It’s just about still coming home.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

2 years

Buried my dad today. We went after to toast him at Banners in Crouch End. Dining there, at the same time, was one of my heroes, Peter Gabriel, who came over to say hello. It lifted a day that had some bleakness. Thank you, God in whom I do not believe.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

5 years

I feel I should take the job of Brexit Secretary now. If only so that when I resign, Theresa May can finally be proved right than No Deal is better than a Baddiel.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

6 years

Home.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

3 years

So…it’s been a while since we were here for this particular fixture. #ENGGER

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

2 years

This has aged well.

Priti Patel MP

@pritipatel

3 years

This illegal gathering was an insult to those hospitalised with COVID, our NHS staff and everyone staying at home to protect them. Thank you to @MetPoliceUK officers for risking your own health to break it up. Police are enforcing the rules to save lives.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

3 years

It being 25 years since Three Lions was first released, Frank just sent me this pic of this piece of paper. I didn't realise he still had it. Should be in the British Museum, surely...

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

4 years

Please, please, please can one of the journos say to him, "But...having a small child not at school, and one parent being ill...in a pandemic...is *not* exceptional circumstances. It's really fucking unexceptional."

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

3 years

It’s…

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

2 years

Is one allowed to ask who is paying for all this, or will one be arrested?

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

2 years

At my dad’s house to sort stuff out. Very weird to see his chair without him in it. That’s life: and indeed, death.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

5 years

Personally, I'd say fucking a prostitute is considerably more moral than fucking the country.

Piers Morgan

@piersmorgan

5 years

Halo Hugh... Britain’s moral standard-bearer. 🙏

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

2 years

That this shit is on here and not taken down and from a verified account is just fucking staggering.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

5 years

Two of my cats have formed a retro 80s electro-pop duo. Here's their first album cover.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

2 years

Whether he’s Sir Mo Farah or Hussein Abdi Kahin he’s a hero.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

8 years

Well @RealJamesWoods . Beyonce can do what she likes with her body. Trump cannot do what he likes with it or any other woman's. Clear now?

James Woods

@RealJamesWoods

8 years

Just a little confusing...

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

3 years

Take. That. Off.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

4 years

Something I wrote in The Sunday Times a month ago.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

4 years

Nice to have the worst father ever tell us what a good father would do.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

2 years

This joke has almost made it worthwhile. Almost.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

5 years

Whether she knows it or not, "North London metropolitan liberal elite" is alt-right code - shit alt right code - for Jews. My mum was a refugee to this once tolerant country from Nazism. So this son of immigrants says - it's a short lecture - fuck off.

Channel 4 News

@Channel4News

5 years

"This daughter of immigrants needs no lectures from the north London, metropolitan, liberal elite." Home Secretary Priti Patel says she will "end the free movement of people once and for all".

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

6 years

Thanks to the England team, and manager, for giving us this beautiful World Cup run. It’s been a ride.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

5 years

Jedward have not aged well.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

2 years

I have to say that if anyone is looking for a role model for a Jewish comedian able to get serious when necessary, look no further than Volodymyr Zelensky.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

5 years

It's worth watching in full, in all it's hideous rudeness, because one thing you then realise is: it's not a tape, there are actual young musicians who are being disrespected - whose big moment is being turned, by wankers, to shit. #notsureiveputthatplainlyenough

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@BBCPolitics

5 years

Brexit Party MEPs turn their backs as the EU's anthem, Ode to Joy, is played as they take their seats in the new European Parliament [tap to expand]

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

2 years

If, as the Government is implying re the BBC, we should only pay for something we like and agree with, I wonder if I can ask for all the money back I’ve had to spend in taxes on Brexit.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

5 years

What a cunt.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

2 years

Probably be easier to move on, Liz, if every single day it didn't turn out there was another fucking party.

Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

@Haggis_UK

2 years

Liz Truss - Boris Johnson "has apologised, & I think we now need to move on" 🤔 #PartyGate

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

1 year

Might be just me but I’d say the Games of Thrones shame walk sequence is *also* a violent misogynistic fantasy.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

3 years

Devastated to hear about Sean Lock. He toured with Newman and Baddiel on our last show together. One of the funniest men I ever knew.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

5 years

I wonder if the many beautiful little films like this on social media are slowly making people realise that animals have exactly the same emotions and empathies as us and that the idea of human specialness, which allows us to treat them very badly, is just an old religious myth.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

2 years

This is my late dad’s cat that I’ve now inherited. I already have 3. Wish me luck.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

2 years

Home. In fact it’s come home. A sentence I thought I’d never write. I’ve gone. Thank you Lionesses.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

4 years

What do these wankers actually want?

Rupert Myers

@RupertMyers

4 years

Far right thugs attacking the police - what a total mess

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

2 years

I’m no king of business but I think I might have sorted this kind of thing out *before* I spent the 44 billion?

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

1 year

A very lovely and poignant photo posted by Demi Moore on Instagram of Bruce Willis, who has Frontotemporal Dementia, - which is what my dad had. It’s a terrible disease but it’s very impressive the way his family and others around him are dealing with it.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

4 years

This has gone viral, in part because a lot of people seem to think it might be real. The giveaway for me, though, is it's my brother.

Ivor Baddiel

@Ivorbaddiel

4 years

Adorable moment man interrupted by his son on live TV

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

2 years

What is this “we don’t comment on market movements” bollocks from Truss and Kwarteng? You caused it. It affects people - their mortgages, their cost of living, their businesses. So answer for it.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

4 years

This is mad. Either ban shit or don’t. Don’t “recommend.” “We don’t think gatherings cause infection so we’re not banning them but don’t go to the pub, club or theatre.” Pardon?

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

4 years

How depressingly similar to what my grandparents would've seen in their neighbourhood, the one they had to flee from in 1939.

Amichai Stein

@AmichaiStein1

4 years

UK: anti-Semitic graffiti on walls all over Hampstead and Belsize Park this morning

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David Baddiel

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2 years

The arm broke off my glasses. I tried supergluing it back on. That made it worse. I put them in the microwave to try and melt the superglue off. They caught fire. Wondering if I need some kind of sponsor I could call before making most of my decisions in life.

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David Baddiel

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4 years

There might be some who feel a little sad about Rule, Brittania, seeing it, now divorced of triumphalist origins, only as a Proms tradition. Watching this however makes it clear how it’s still basically a Cunts Anthem.

Nigel Farage

@Nigel_Farage

4 years

Stick two fingers up to the BBC and sing Rule, Britannia!

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

5 years

So I'm not a Royalist. But I think this is a brilliant photo.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

5 years

My granddad on my dad's side fought for the British in WW1, my grandad on my mum's side for Germany. I'm remembering them both, today. Hope that's OK, amongst all the present arguing about what it's OK to remember.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

6 years

Fuck off. Just fuck off.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

11 months

When Holly Willoughby said "Firstly, are you OK?" I genuinely thought she was talking to someone behind camera, before realising that of course she was talking to us, the great British deeply-traumatised by everything's that happened on an ITV morning show public.

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David Baddiel

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2 years

It’s appalling what has happened to Salman Rushdie. It’s also appalling that there are people who will think he brought it on himself or somehow deserved it.

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David Baddiel

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4 years

They aren’t protestors or counter-protestors. They are cunts.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

2 years

Pretty good.

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David Baddiel

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1 year

Idly reading the responses to Jacob’s tweet very early on Christmas morn and quite pleased if surprised to see this particular usage of the old catchphrase.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

5 years

Mad as fuck.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

5 years

As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!). They must, with Europe and others, watch over...

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

4 years

From cunts.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

6 years

Presented without comment.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

4 years

One thing we’ve learned is Cummings family have a large estate with a lot of private land. So. Why not test your eyesight by driving round *that*...rather than on a public road to a public beauty spot for a nice walk on your wife’s birthday?

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

2 years

Please be Jacob Rees-Mogg.

The Independent

@Independent

2 years

Tory frontbencher ‘caught watching porn in House of Commons’ 🚨

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David Baddiel

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2 years

On the round of local radio interviews, Liz Truss comes across as so far out of her depth, I feel I need to call the RNLI.

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David Baddiel

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1 year

That clip where Meghan demonstrates how she overdid her first curtsey to the Queen - that's what she's doing - showing how *she* overdid it - laughing at herself for getting it wrong - everyone in the orgy of bad faith saying she's mocking The Queen/British customs knows this.

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David Baddiel

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2 years

Saying now that lockdown rules imposed by The Government were too rigorous, in order to excuse The Government for not following the rules they imposed, is a fucking astounding bit of shitillogic.

Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

@Haggis_UK

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Naga Munchetty - Do these fines, more than 100, reflect well on this Tory government? Jacob Rees-Mogg - "This is a non story..." #BBCBreakfast

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4 years

"I don't believe in gestures."

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

5 years

In memory of Monkey, who I deeply loved, but finally had to take to the vet for the last time just now @telegraph

David Baddiel: 'My cat is like an old man'

We think we share a deep connection with our pets – but do our attempts to read their minds actually say more about ourselves?

www.telegraph.co.uk

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David Baddiel

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5 years

Dolly is 18 today. I love her beyond measure. And she's so lucky that she inherited my looks.

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David Baddiel

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2 years

As much as I disagree with @BorisJohnson and @NadineDorries on every political issue, I deplore this clear attempt by an anonymous Government social media account handler to make them look fucking idiots.

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David Baddiel

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6 months

Friends has always been a bit sneered at critically - too glossy, too popular - but actually it was an amazingly funny and engaging sitcom, driven by six brilliant comic actors, of which Matthew Perry was the most purely funny.

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David Baddiel

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2 years

I’m fifty fucking eight today. Oy.

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4 years

I'm going to suggest that only David Bowie could play a 2 hour Glastonbury set and every song is a banger and you've still only scratched the surface of his bangers.

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10 months

Yesterday, I was - I mean I am every day, but more specifically yesterday - a very proud dad.

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David Baddiel

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4 years

I love the fact that the spin the Government have gone for is “Dominic Cummings is a great family man” when what he did could have killed two members of his family.

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David Baddiel

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5 years

Still no honour for me. Must fuck up some elections and beat up some women.

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David Baddiel

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4 years

Just so unbelievably unempathetic of Jacob Rees-Mogg to talk about "what he would have done" if he had been in Grenfell. All it does - apart from implicitly criticising the victims - is bring home that he, of course, has never the fuck had to live anywhere like it in his life.

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3 years

I always knew @BillBailey would rock Strictly. But I didn’t know he would turn out to be middle Earth’s Fred Astaire.

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David Baddiel

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2 years

People are getting upset about the joking and laughing but please lets not let that get in the way of the main point, which is the fucking *lying*.

Paul Brand

@PaulBrandITV

2 years

EXCLUSIVE: Video obtained by ITV News shows Downing Street staff joking about a Christmas party on 18th December last year. No 10 has spent the past week denying any rules were broken. This new evidence calls that into question.

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David Baddiel

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4 years

There is no "tone." @DrRosena asks a completely straightforward question in a completely straightforward manner and @MattHancock 's tells her off, as if she's been rude or shrill or perhaps even just a woman asking a difficult question.

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

@DrRosena

4 years

I will respectfully challenge the Government - I want our country to succeed. However, I will not 'watch my tone' when dozens of NHS and care staff are dying unnecessarily. A clip of my Q to the Health Sec today.

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David Baddiel

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3 years

Thank you for asking, Shelagh. The answer is: fucking great.

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3 years

What must @Baddiel and Skinner feel like hearing their song belting out across #Wembley at that winning moment.

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David Baddiel

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4 years

Those startled by the fact that Dominic Raab, The Foreign Secretary, doesn't know the history behind taking a knee should perhaps remember he also didn't know the history behind the UK being an island.

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2 years

Took my late dad’s cat, now ours, to the vet yesterday. She’s not had vaccinations for a while. The vet said “don’t worry we can inject her today and she’ll be fine to…” but then trailed off. I hate about unfinished sentences so I said “Play at Wimbledon?” Nothing. Tumbleweed.

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David Baddiel

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4 years

I think they might be trying to kill us with gracefulness.

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@joncstone

4 years

Brussels has lit up its main square in Union Jack colours to say goodbye to the Brits 😭

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David Baddiel

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2 years

Now might be the time to admit I never really understood how Tim Westwood was ever seen as anything but the Alan Partridge of hip hop.

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David Baddiel

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5 years

What's weird about this, as with the unmasking of Boris's girlfriends neighbours as Remainers, is the notion that people who cross paths with politicians in any kind of controversial way must themselves have no politics - which is basically, no people.

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@BBCPolitics

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It has emerged that the father who confronted Boris Johnson in a London hospital is also a Labour activist Read more:

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David Baddiel

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5 years

Breaking: Lulu Unhappy With Backing Singers.

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7 years

I personally think it'd be funnier to let Donald come but hold him at the airport because he comes from a country that promotes terrorism.

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David Baddiel

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4 years

QC, apparently, stands for Quite the Cunt.

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@goddersbloom

4 years

As I understand it your son died because he believed early release for jihadists was justified because they could be rehabilitated Society is demanding these releases stop immediately A very pragmatic view, nothing vile about it. Grieve silently is my advice

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2 years

I'm starting to wonder if Terry Venables was right.

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David Baddiel

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4 years

I wonder if TI himself gets a hymen check, as he's clearly a cunt.

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David Baddiel

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2 years

This makes me very proud. Thank again Lionesses.

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7 months

I don't think I've ever seen anyone put so much emphasis, significance and passion into saying absolutely nothing.

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7 months

I cannot stop watching this. It’s one of the most peculiar things I’ve ever seen, which given the venue, is really saying something. Get to the end (if you can).

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6 years

My son, hypnotised and overawed as ever by the beauty of nature.

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David Baddiel

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3 years

From my daughter‘s Instagram stories...made me well up a bit.

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David Baddiel

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3 years

Heartbreaking and yet hilarious. Good on you for this beautiful piece ⁦ @lewis_damian ⁩.

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David Baddiel

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6 years

If you don't smile at the noise the otter makes when chomping down, you're not human. Or otter.

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David Baddiel

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2 years

If Nadhim Zahawi resigns, I'm never going to stop laughing.

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David Baddiel

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2 years

I'm starting to wonder if Boris Johnson was actually sent to prison, he still wouldn't resign. Jacob Rees-Mogg would be on Newsnight claiming that he was doing a great job governing from his cell.

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3 years

If you thought "well, she can't possibly be more impressive" think again.

CGTN Sports Scene

@CGTNSportsScene

3 years

🥰"Hi, everyone. I wanna say thank you to you guys and I hope you could enjoy my tennis. I'm thrilled to win. Love you all, see you." - #EmmaRaducanu , whose mother is Chinese from Shenyang, China's northeastern Liaoning Province, spoke in mandarin after the #USOpen triumph.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

4 years

This is the *sad* day. The *happy* one is on Sunday. Join us next time for another episode of Easter For Three Year Olds.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY TO ALL!

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

2 years

Obviously there are always complex social and structural forces involved, but it is amazing how often history has been fucked up by psychopathic individual men acquiring power. You'd think we might have found a way round that by now.

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David Baddiel

@Baddiel

2 years

Only one way to cheer myself up this morning. Although sausages are veggie and we haven’t got any bacon. I’m aware it looks like a melted clown. Colin would throw it at me.