Evan Davis @EvanHD Twitter profile

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Evan Davis

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6 years

So.. guess what. Having survived several years of people saying "you're not as good as Jeremy Paxman", I now look forward to people saying "you're not as good as Eddie Mair". I'll be moving to @BBCpm at the end of October

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6 years

Just missed my tube stop reading tweets from people thinking that I'm a secret far right racist (and one who's happy to be used in Britain First campaigning material). It is so ridiculous that I haven't wanted to dignify it by saying any more than my original clarification. 1/5

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5 years

OK folks.. if you listen to @BBCPM , you will know we've been working up a list of things we can do to improve our political coverage. Here is the result. Note Number 10 - that we are not fixed on this list. #openpolitics Also:

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6 years

Agree with her or not, @courtneyact is the most articulate advocate for respecting all kinds of gender / sexual identity that I've encountered. It's a pity that we at @BBCNewsnight have never featured her, while @channel5_tv have made weeks of good TV out of her.

Courtney Act

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6 years

Lovely chat with @evanHD at @student pride. Next stop: @BBCNewsnight

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7 years

Well well well. The Fixed Term Parliament Act worked well didn't it.

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6 years

I'm in a good mood, I have music playing and I just found myself doing the @theresa_may dance. I can't help but feel this has been her best week since the election. In dancing, she's found a metaphor for her premiership... doing her awkward best in an impossible situation

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5 months

Everyone one of us who has ever worked on @BBCNewsnight are proud to have been associated with it.. It has always attracted some of the very best in British journalism - with some stunning films, prescient analysis and brilliant reporting. All with flair and wit. 1/3

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3 years

@itvnews @robertmooreitv Brilliant reporting Robert, of a historic event.

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4 years

After two weeks (timed to the hour) I am now leaving quarantine and taking Mr Whippy to the park. Joy.

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4 years

Sir Patrick Vallance's interviews make clear that it's not the behaviourists who are in control of policy. Many feared social scientists were running the show but it seems epidemiologists are actually the ones talking of herd immunity. Maybe right or wrong, but it's not amateurs

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Evan Davis

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6 years

But to be clear: the photo isn't a fake; it's the attempt to read my politics into it that's wrong. Overall, I think if I was a happy clappy far right racist, I'd avoid posing for photos with racists. Or campaigning publicly with them, as it would breach my BBC contract. 5/5

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4 years

It is Mr Whippy's 7th birthday today 🎂. He is not really aware of such things, but here he is enjoying a chewy snack. As you'll see, he derives enormous pleasure from simple things and is thus easily fulfilled in life, which provides a lesson to us all at this difficult time

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Evan Davis

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5 years

John Humphrys really deserves all the accolades. I found that the more I saw him at work on @BBCr4today close up, the more I respected him and understood why he had such enduring appeal. Way more to him than the adversarial interviews people talk about. #humphryslastday

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5 years

Please someone.. organise a huge citizen's assembly this weekend. 100 members of the public, a day long session with the options explained, advocates given the chance to sell their case, expert guidance on the implications. I so want to know what the public's considered views are

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10 months

I think my late father would be very pleased with this account of his death from the great @DeccaJourno .

Evan Davis on the day he got married — and his father killed himself

‘I’m only crying because I loved my dad so much. I’m not sad. This is not a sad story.’ By Decca Aitkenhead

www.thetimes.co.uk

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6 years

Good grief, I'm waking up to the fact that it's already my last @BBCNewsnight this evening. I'll officially be able to say "I'm between jobs" from tomorrow. Until Monday.

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6 years

@Andrew_Adonis @BBCr4today @BBCNewsnight I dare say @BBCNewsnight could find a spot if you were both interested.

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@EvanHD

5 years

Such sad news about Paddy Ashdown. The man who took the broken pieces of the SDP Liberal Alliance and moulded a proper party out of them. Always friendly. Always interested. And a well liked and familiar neighbour in my street too. All our thoughts are with his wife Jane tonight.

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7 years

Emily is too modest to retweet this, so it is important that the rest of us do.

BBC Newsnight

@BBCNewsnight

7 years

Huge congratulations to our very own Emily @Maitlis - she has just won @londonpressclub Broadcast Journalist of the Year

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8 years

By far the biggest shock to the established order in this country in my lifetime. #EURefResults

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2 years

So sorry to hear of Hilary Devey's passing. I didn't know her well, but she really brought a wonderful grit to the Den; it was quite different to anything we'd encountered and audiences loved it. She'll be long remembered.

Dragons' Den star Hilary Devey dies aged 65 - BBC News

Hilary Devey died at her holiday home in Morocco after a long illness, her publicist confirms.

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@EvanHD

5 years

Decision by the Brits, to leave the Interail ticketing arrangement has been reversed. Didn't take long.

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5 years

First day in the new job.. t minus 5 hours. (Had to start my new presenting gig on fireworks night or Halloween. Felt the former would be more appropriate). @BBCPM

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@EvanHD

5 years

The Northern Irish appear to support any kind of Northern Irish backstop, according to a @LucidTalk poll just published. Even if technology solves the border issue, 62% would choose to stay in SM and CU regardless of what GB does (including 22% of unionists)

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Evan Davis

@EvanHD

7 years

Hey, it's official: my book on bullshit is out on May 25th. It's in @thebookseller , so definitely not fake news

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5 years

We all need a holiday.

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5 years

My take out tonight... I don't know how the country resolves this.

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6 years

I have to say, that I will genuinely miss the daytime office conversations with the @BBCNewsnight team. Audiences perhaps don't realise how much the output depends on the vitality and intelligence of some underpaid staff.

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@EvanHD

5 years

This is not dissimilar to binge-viewing Borgen

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@EvanHD

5 years

@mikegalsworthy @BBCr4today Top spot on @BBCr4today generally regarded as 0810.. which was given over to the winning party, Labour. The Tories had the second "best" slot between 0730 and 0800. I'm sure there are lots of biases at the BBC, but you need to check your own selective observation bias.

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Evan Davis

@EvanHD

4 years

@afneil Oh no.. this looks like it has gone past the point of a negotiating ploy. Huge loss to the BBC. Well done on exiting with such good grace. Look forward to seeing you on TV in your new role, (and hoping you're not just in management).

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Evan Davis

@EvanHD

2 years

Also on @BBCPM .. We embark on a mission to illuminate some of the fraught arguments around gender identity and biological sex.. in a light-not-heat kind of way. You'll judge whether we've succeeded - but we have @IndiaWilloughby and @Docstockk conversing on this.

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Evan Davis

@EvanHD

5 years

Huge moment for Brexit.. if @theresa_may wins tonight, she gets a year in which she only has to worry about votes in parliament, and no longer worry about her own party. The implication is that she logically pivots to parliament's view which is clearly towards a softer Brexit.

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Evan Davis

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8 years

Just for clarity (if needed), I don't do political endorsements but I am available for selfies with random strangers on request.

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@EvanHD

5 years

Is the case for another referendum almost being made by Brexiteers now? They say this deal isn't what people voted for in 2016. But the public surely didn't vote for no deal and acrimonious divorce from our closest partners either. 1/2

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@EvanHD

4 years

For those listening to @BBCPM , this is the photo Mark wanted me to see and to share. He wants his ICU experience to serve as a reminder that Covid can be serious.

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@EvanHD

5 years

@PeterRNeumann @michaelgove Amazed to see this still getting so many retweets and likes. Everybody should read the transcript and make up their own mind. But I for one saw this tweet and then read the speech and felt @PeterRNeumann had totally misinformed me as to what had been said.

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Evan Davis

@EvanHD

7 years

I wonder if Bernie Sanders could have beaten him.

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Evan Davis

@EvanHD

3 years

@ruskin147 Rory.. leaving already? Can't be true.. just as you are getting the hang of it. What is true though, is that you'll leave an Elon Musk sized hole in the BBC.. it'll take ten people and a dozen robots to replace you.

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6 years

And in other news..

FT Economics

@fteconomics

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EU and Japan finalise deal for trade zone covering 30% of global GDP

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Evan Davis

@EvanHD

3 years

@PippaCrerar I think you meant to say fish is 0.05 per cent of UK economy.

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1 year

Think I'm right in saying the next British general election HAS to be held by this day in two years time.

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@EvanHD

3 years

Thinking that @bbclaurak has done a very good job here.

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@EvanHD

9 years

My only tweet on this: a lively audience event like this easily beats the podium debates. #bbcqt

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5 years

Interesting piece.. Key question: if we (in the media aspiring to be neutral) call Marine Le Pen "far right", should we not call President Trump the same?

Jonathan Lis

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5 years

Donald Trump is a white nationalist and people inspired by his rhetoric are killing others. This is not opinion, it’s fact - but our media hides away. Journalism cannot operate in fear or deference. If something must be named, we must name it. My latest

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4 years

Very well done @omrgriffiths - who is to be the new editor @BBCr4today . Happy for my colleagues over there. I'm really sorry to lose her from @BBCPM where she has been both delightful to work with, and incisive in her judgement. She really is very good.

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@EvanHD

3 years

Another question (it sounds loaded but is not meant to be). Who, if anybody, thinks it's a good idea to open nightclubs in England right now?

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3 years

Mr Whippy in the park this morning, looking dapper in his new collar (care of The Artisan Tree). Note his careful turn of the head to show it at its best.

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Evan Davis

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6 years

So I clarified in a tweet (or thought I had clarified) that I had merely posed for an innocent selfie. But for avoidance of doubt, I did not know who they were. (This was pre Brexit, pre--Trump). 4/5

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5 months

The reaction to the cuts announced yesterday shows that it has earned itself a special place in British public discourse. It has always had a cultural influence that goes well beyond the evening audience. The programme in its current form will be missed I think. 2/3

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Evan Davis

@EvanHD

3 years

Fox calls it for Biden

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Evan Davis

@EvanHD

6 years

But here is what happened. Over two years ago, I was walking in Kennington when two people who I didn't know jumped out of a van and said "can we have a selfie?" That is a not very remarkable event. So I said yes and smiled with them as I ordinarily would. 2/5

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Evan Davis

@EvanHD

9 years

Giving money to home buyers without building any more homes just means you push up the price of homes (helping elderly home owners). Discuss

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Evan Davis

@EvanHD

5 years

A facilitator helping the Commons find a way out of this would suggest two votes on Monday. First choose between May's deal and a Customs Union deal. Then take the winning option, and decide whether to leave that way on 22nd May or put it to a public vote against Revoke. Discuss.

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6 years

An hour later, I'm at the local flower show (*this is not made up, my partner was the judge) and I got a call from my editor "we have a W1A situation". And it was explained to me who was in the photo and how it was used. 3/5

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Evan Davis

@EvanHD

8 years

Will be hard to find a better #Pride2016 tweet I think.

Justine Greening

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8 years

Today's a good day to say I'm in a happy same sex relationship, I campaigned for Stronger In but sometimes you're better off out! #Pride2016

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5 years

@ruskin147 Rory.. you are being showered with good wishes and respect. And deservedly so. Wishing you well as you deal with it.

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5 years

The case made in this piece is quite familiar, but it's fair to say that @giles_fraser is becoming one of the most fluent critics of the remainer world view. Why won't Remainers talk about family? @unherd

Why won't Remainers talk about family?

Our social care crisis is a crisis of family and community life

unherd.com

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5 months

A note of optimism amid the sad news about programme is that the team is incredibly strong.. And I can only imagine there is a brilliant future for everyone involved in it. 3/3

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10 years

I don't think I have ever cried on this programme and I don't intend to start now, but I'm sad to say it's my last @bbcr4Today this morning

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7 years

So does Trump reflect an anger far greater than we understood? Or did he just succeed in whipping up that anger?

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3 years

@jessbrammar That is really sad news.. you've made a huge impact, truly adding real diversity to the media eco-system. It's a huge loss. I hope you and the others go on to even bigger and better things... no-one could have done it better.

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5 years

The great Brian Walden on Weekend World was someone I religiously watched as a teenager. I learnt a lot about journalism from doing so, and I admired him immensely. l think he is one reason that I work for the BBC.

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4 years

Fascinating that projections from the highly respected @IHME_UW show 68K covid deaths by November in the UK. Or, if we choose to wear masks, 48K! OK, it's just a projection. But it's odd to me that the mandatory mask wearing debate here isn't livelier.

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9 years

Whether you think it good or bad, cherish this event folks.. You don't get many earthquakes like this in a lifetime.

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5 years

So if you accept that the deal is a betrayal of the referendum, we have to conclude that nothing people voted for in 2016 for appears to be available now. So where do you go next? 2/2

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10 years

I didn't believe it when I read about it in the papers but now it's official. I'll be leaving @BBCr4today and heading off to Newsnight.

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7 years

Was @Gatwick_Airport built before architecture was invented? The arrivals experience could not be more dismal.

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8 years

Small detail given the momentous events, but I guess we can say farewell to a third runway at Heathrow now.

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4 years

Well done PM team. Very happy at this.

The Voice of the Listener and Viewer (VLV)

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Congratulations to @EvanHD @BBCPM and @BBCRadio4 for winning the VLV Award for Best Radio News and Factual Programme 2019. News and current affairs feature strongly in the @vlvuk Awards. Public service broadcasting at its best.

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5 years

Feel this should be getting more attention.

Witness in Berlusconi’s bunga-bunga trial ‘poisoned’

A Moroccan-born model who attended Silvio Berlusconi’s bunga-bunga dinners has died in hospital, allegedly killed by radioactive poisoning.Magistrates opened a murder investigation after the death...

www.thetimes.co.uk

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4 years

@BBCCarrie What a fantastic three decades Carrie. You are a giant, really good luck with the next phase.

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2 years

If you've been listening to @BBCPM and my conversation with @ottolenghi A link to the recipe

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1 year

William Hague not hiding his disdain for Truss and Johnson in his @thetimes piece on former leaders taking responsibility for their failures.

Boris Johnson and Liz Truss should fess up to failure

Leaders who deny any culpability in their own downfall have a corrosive effect on their party and the wider electorate

www.thetimes.co.uk

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7 years

I fear the Poppy will be finished if RBL don't close down this kind of faux outrage. It's divisive nonsense

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6 years

I hate commenting on public issues, and BBC issues in particular. But I'm sympathetic to BBC women who want BBC men to openly support their campaign for equal pay. So here are my views in full. 1/9

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7 years

Every few years, a budget or #AutumnStatement comes along that breaks seriously bad fiscal news. This is one of those occasions.

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5 years

Why if all the indicative options are laid out on a piece of paper, do you not ask MPs to rank them?

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3 years

Thanks to @JonnyDymond for filling in for me again on @BBCPM today. I’m off work as I’m “living the story” with my own positive covid test. It was a PCR home test taken on Saturday as I live in a surge borough. The result was a big surprise...

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7 months

Can't be said enough what a wonderful colleague @kirstywark has been to generations of @BBCNewsnight staff. Many TV presenters are rather marmite.. but not Kirsty. You never hear a bad word said about her. She's so professional on air and hugely supportive of staff off-screen

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Celebrating 30 years at #Newsnight for @KirstyWark - she is the kindest colleague, a journalistic tour-de-force and always bursting with energy, ideas and wisdom. Really sad that she is leaving Newsnight after the election but what. an. innings ❤️

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5 years

We apologise but due to technical problems we cannot bring you PMQs live, so we are broadcasting a repeat from earlier in the year.

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4 years

Mr Whippy voted early today, but hit the morning traffic and had to queue for a few minutes. Fortunately, he's a patient hound. #dogsatpollingstations

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9 years

And #W1A is as close as I'll ever come to Strictly. Hope you enjoyed it.

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5 years

Why is the final choice on April 12th being increasingly framed as Revoke vs No Deal? Surely parliament would always prefer Referendum (Remain vs Deal) than Revoke on its own, and surely EU would accept that as a grounds for a long delay?

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4 years

At 5pm it's the last @BBCPM under the superb editorship of @omrgriffiths (before she crosses the floor to @BBCr4today ). She's calm, intelligent and pleasant. To get any one of those is a result; to have got all three makes us spoilt rotten. Sorry to be absent (quarantining) today

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2 years

@ruskin147 Very sorry to hear that news Rory. Until we got a dog, I had never appreciated how deep the bond could be. You must all be feeling devastated but you can at least take heart from the great life Cabbage enjoyed with you.

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5 years

My feeling right now: there are undoubtedly days when it can be appropriate to blame, crow, mock or incite violence on the streets. Today is not one of them.

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2 years

Hey folks.. you may have clocked that @BBCPM is sporadically delving into the fraught arguments around gender identity. If you missed our first item last November, you can pick it up on @BBCSounds . A discussion between @Docstockk and @IndiaWilloughby

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8 years

EU citizens wanting to stay here in the UK.. you'll probably be ok, but at least you have two years to find a partner and get married

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6 years

Under-appreciated point: as I understand it, if Britain changes course and pursues EEA + Customs Union, with a view to negotiating Canada+++ at leisure, we will still have to sign a backstop in the withdrawal deal.

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5 years

Given that things the government says are 100 per cent certain are quickly abandoned when they no longer apply, people will ask whether we can assume other proclamations can be disregarded too (such as "there will be no second referendum")

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2 years

made me chuckle more than it should have.

Chuck Thomas

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2 years

"If it's still too long let me know."

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5 years

Hard to see Tories sticking together under May if she wins tonight. Hard to see them sticking together under a brexiteer appointed by the membership. Limited options that keep party in tact.

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5 years

Sunday Times piece on shadow cabinet deliberations: "The meeting featured the first substantive shadow cabinet discussion on Brexit for several months. 'Usually it is an afterthought but this went on for 20 minutes,' a Labour source said."

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5 years

Australia winning is the best chance that #Eurovision will come to the UK in the near future.

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6 years

Sorry.. bit late to this but regulatory alignment is surely transitive. If A is aligned with B, and B has to be aligned with C, then A has to be aligned with C. Is this just a way of ensuring that Britain ends up shadowing the single market in Phase 2?

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5 years

Is there a clever brexiteer game to be played here? Vote for the deal next week to get to May 22nd departure date; vote against the legislation sometime after April 12th (so euro election is then impossible) but deal then falls as law not passed. Or am I missing something?

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10 years

I had been determined to outlive John Humphrys on @BBCr4today so I have failed. But you can't turn down Newsnight

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7 years

Will HMRC stop charging fees for using credit cards too?

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4 months

You may have noticed that I have acquired a close interest in heat pumps. It's quite possible that 12 million of them will be installed in the next 20 years, which is a big deal. Maybe we should be talking about them more? FYI: in 2023, 36,799 were installed. Up 25% on 2022

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