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Jennifer-Anne Scott

@NifS

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Sky News political reporter, ex-BBC Online/Radio 4/Regions, Nottingham Post and tech hack. Likes music heavy, wine dry and men long haired... (she/her)

Westminster & Leicester
Joined March 2009
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@NifS
Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
The one comment I will make is to those claiming the public don't care about this. The amount of people following the BBC live page alone is at Brexit/election levels.
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
5 months
Nice to know @mrjamesob reads Sky News (and especially my articles 😉). You can read the piece he quotes on Miriam Cates being investigated here:
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LBC
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'This is the same Commons that Nadine Dorries resigned from.' @mrjamesob questions how 'anymore damage could be done' to the House of Commons in light of the recent Miriam Cates allegations.
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
4 years
Statement from Ofqual: "The Chief Regulator, Sally Collier, has decided that the next stage of the awarding process would be better overseen by new leadership. "The Ofqual Board supports Sally in this decision, and thanks her for her leadership and service."
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Can I recommend people watch the @maitlis lecture in full rather than just reading one or two lines in the papers? It wasn't a straight forward BBC bashing, far from it, but instead an interesting take on the challenges facing journalism in this political era.
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
PERSONAL NEWS KLAXON: After almost six years of ALL THE NEWS at the BBC, I am heading off to pastures new after recess and joining the excellent online politics team at @SkyNews at the end of June.
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
4 years
Well, now it has been formally announced inside the beeb, just a note to let you know I have been made permanent on the BBC Politics Online team... :) It really is a dream come true after competing for my place for... well... years! I'm ecstatic!
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Yet another thing I have in common with Katy Perry... what? I am sure there is more than this and living off Just Eat!
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KATY PERRY
2 years
one of my favorite sounds ever is the sound of a crisp new newspaper being read over breakfast for an hour or so… The popping out of it, the folding, the scribbling on the crossword… I hope it never goes out of fashion in our digital world. It is too romantic. 🗞️♥️
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
3 years
Cannot praise @SecKermani enough. An amazing and brave correspondent brining us the facts from the ground of Kabul. Journalism at its very best. Stay safe.
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Some Tory MPs have expressed concern about Mark Spencer's appointment as leader of the House while he is under investigation for Islamophobia - allegations he denies:
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
1 year
The legend that is @rodstewart is currently on @SkyNews offering to buy private scans for 20 people due to the hold ups in the NHS. He also says he has always supported the Tories, but it is time for them to go and let Labour take power.
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
4 years
The Tories say they will not remove the whip from the MP accused of rape. They did remove the whip from Charlie Elphicke when he was accused of assault (now found guilty). Oh, and they removed it from Julian Lewis when he won the select committee election over Grayling.
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
3 years
From 16th August, if you are a close contact of someone with Covid, you will no longer have to self-isolate if fully vaccinated, says @sajidjavid . Instead, they will be asked to take a PCR test asap and, isolate if they are positive.
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
1 year
@PickardJE Ed Balls.
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
3 years
Could this mean... gigs?!
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
7 months
Rishi Sunak has claimed a general election is "not what the country wants", despite insisting he is unafraid of going to the polls, in an interview with @BethRigby More on Sky News:
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
1 year
Damning response to Sunak's speech from RCN. Pat Cullen has written to the health secretary, saying the PM is "detached from the reality" of what is happening in the health service, and said his speech focused on "false promise and hollow boasts" rather than practical measures.
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Covid Bereaved Families campaigners tell the BBC they are "sickened" by last year's No 10 Christmas party...
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Look how happy @SteveBakerHW looks :)
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Sky News
2 years
Suella Braverman MP claims that she is "the only authentic Brexiteer standing" in the Conservative leadership race, she continues by saying she is the only one who who has 'proven under extreme pressure that she has a vision for Brexit.' Latest:
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
3 years
I am going to point this out again. People are able to be sad about London/Essex/Herts going into Tier 3 without undermining the struggles of those who have been under Tier 3 conditions for a long time. Let's try and support each other on this, OK?
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
That's just shy of 75% of her cabinet. For context, Johnson's first cabinet was 64% privately educated, May's was 35%, and even Cameron's was 50%.
@BenKentish
Ben Kentish
2 years
New Cabinet break-down by schooling: Comprehensive: 5 Grammar: 3 Private: 23
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Johnson and Sunak fined
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Watching Sliding Doors on BBC One and both miss smoking in pubs and having friends in London who can afford to have a spare room for you to crash in...
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Reacting to the decision, Sophie's mother, Sylvia Lancaster, said: "Once again we have a justice system that fails to deliver justice."
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
3 years
We had the red wall and the blue wall. Is this the start of the yellow brick road? BBC News - Chesham and Amersham by-election won by Lib Dems
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@NifS
Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Well...
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@NifS
Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Pass handed in, goodbye email sent, that's it. Almost six years at the BBC is done. Thank you to all my colleagues for all the opportunities. And thanks for believing in public service journalism, no matter how hard the punches. I am proud to have worked alongside you.
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
3 years
Amy is taking the news of an impending lockdown well...
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
1 year
Government makes announcement, ex-minister criticises it. So far, so normal. But a serving minister retweeting the criticism? More on the story here as Tories face off with each other again over housing policy:
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Truss asks Starmer about RMT strikes... His reply? "She is asking me questions because we are a govt in waiting, they are an opposition in waiting!"
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
4 years
I apologise, Twitter followers, for your disappointment. Shame on the BBC for hiring someone who doesn't know her classics. And shame of me, as my preference for fantasy fiction and Slipknot has clearly impeded my ability to cover elections, terror attacks, Grenfell and Brexit.
@catherinerowett
Prof Catherine Rowett 💚 Ex-MEP
4 years
Are we a bit surprised that a BBC politics journalist does not know the Scylla and Charybdis cliché (or its classical reference)? #scyllaandcharybdis
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Sky News' @BethRigby says No 10 source tells her PM is about to resign
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
1 year
@SophyRidgeSky Is it like the weather warning system now? Yellow = serious risk of journalism?
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
"Sunak's team are quietly confident he'll get to the final two - he needs 120 votes to guarantee that - but Team Rishi are taking nothing for granted. "And nor should they in this acrimonious, ill-tempered and unpredictable race," writes @BethRigby
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
3 years
Just finished my first shadowing shift as from next week I'm taking up a two month stint on @BBCRadio4 Today In Parliament to edit, produce and report. Thrilled to be back with the team and get some more top Westminster radio under my belt. Happy days!
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
3 years
Good morning all and Merry Brexmas! Looks like today is the day for a trade deal. Follow all the updates on the @BBCPolitics live page here:
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Sir Keir Starmer says the nation "share in the grief" of the Royal Family, adding: "Above the clashes of politics, she stood not for what the nation fought over, but what it agreed upon."
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Back to work it is then! Off to Osterley for day one with Sky 😀
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
He also hit back at criticisms from Owen Jones, who has called SKS a "con man" over the change. Starmer said: "I am not focused on Owen… I am focused intently on winning the next general election."
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
1 year
Clearly no love lost between Grant Shapps and biz committee chair Darren Jones. The pair debate the economic decline (or not) of the UK. Jones says it goes down since 2015, Shapps says economy has grown since 2010. Jones then tells Shapps off for being rude and interrupting
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
"On my watch"? Subtle... :D
@MrHarryCole
Harry Cole
2 years
Now Chancellor Rishi Sunak takes a swing on Partygate and what would happen on "his watch"... "We have always been the party of sound money — we will always continue to be on my watch — and that is the only kind of party I am interested in."
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
I was in the hall for Starmer's speech and the atmosphere couldn't have been more different to last year's. It had changed from tense, divided and full of heckling to supportive, excited and full of standing ovations.
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
3 years
Just did my first day for the regions team at BBC Millbank, and what a slick operation! Excited to be part of it going forward, while keeping the online politics role I love. Got to enjoy a happy day in otherwise bleak times...
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
3 years
My best one was on a first date. I sent a text to my best mate saying: "He is quite grumpy, but is pretty and is buying me a drink, so that's the important stuff covered!" But I didn't send it to my best mate. I sent it to him... Tried to make a joke of it, but... he left.
@MattChorley
Matt Chorley
3 years
PLUS: As David Cameron opens up his mobile to MPs... Which text message have you regretted sending? xxx sent to the boss? Sexts sent to your dad? Bitching sent to the person you're bitching about? Reply 👇 I am v free.
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
That was quite the PMQs, but the biggest line is Truss committing to the triple lock on pensions - meaning they will need to rise by 10.1% in April. Why is that big? It has been a Tory commitment for ages? Well, it comes after Hunt refused to commit to it just 48 hours ago.
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
A sunny start to my last day at the BBC...
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
4 months
Sometimes, people scoff in Westminster at journalists that come from a trade press background. Right now, I couldn't be prouder as CW alumni. Keep fighting the good fight @ComputerWeekly - and everyone else, start reading it #PostOfficeScandal
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Bryan Glick
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I can't tell you how many times since @ComputerWeekly revealed #PostOfficeScandal in 2009 I've said, "Why isn't this leading BBC news?" Tonight on @BBCNews at 6 it finally did. Delighted for the victims - now UKgov: compensation, justice, accountability
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
@maitlis You can watch it on the @SkyNews YouTube channel here:
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
11 months
The last PMQs Unwrapped by our @joepike before he abandons us all 😞 a real loss for Sky, and for the Millbank newsroom. Hope you know how lucky you are to get him BBC!
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
4 years
I am doing a list of pubs with gardens and heaters in London. If you have any recommendations, please tell me the name of the pub and the nearest tube/rail station!
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
3 years
@CarolineLucas Some of us have noticed ;)
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
1 year
Walking through Westminster tube station earlier listening to a podcast and when I looked up, I saw the podcaster in front of me and must have pulled the most ludicrous face as I did a double take! Apologies @mrjamesob 🤣
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
3 years
Post night shift reward. So happy to have found somewhere in Leicester that does Camden Hells... :)
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Sky News knows how to treat its staff at conference... #rejuvinated
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
An aside... it isn't a major surprise people are resigning now before they get booted out in the reshuffle tomorrow. It means people can do it in on their own terms and get their letters out there, rather than painful phone calls and disappearing into the distance...
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Definitely train wine time. What a week!
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Hello to my new followers! I hope you're having a lovely evening. I just thought it might be of use for some of you to know I covered the health and social care story this morning... Night all!
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
3 years
Today marks five years at the BBC... I looked fresher when I started! :D
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@NifS
Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 months
It's official. Scott Benton has been suspended from parliament and there will be a recall petition - meaning Sunak could be facing YET ANOTHER by-election....
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
3 years
Uh oh...
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
What we know: - Met partygate investigation has ended with 126 fines issued - They cover events on eight dates - Some people received more than one fine - 12 detectives worked through 345 documents, 510 photos/CCTV images and 204 questionnaires - The operation cost £460,000
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
4 years
Well, this is weird... (first time in five months back in the office!)
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
4 years
This Ten Minute Rule Bill from @stellacreasy with cross party support is coming up in the Commons shortly and I spoke to her about it... MPs call for wider gender pay gap reporting
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
11 months
Go away on holiday, they said. It will all be fine, they said. Now finding myself scrolling through politics Twitter while watching heavy metal in a tent 🤣
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Love or loathe her, I just heard someone on the radio argue Liz Truss shouldn't be PM because she isn't married (she is but not really the point). It's 2022 guys
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
4 years
I hate commenting on what women MPs wear, but DAMN Theresa May's green dress is awesome and I couldn't let it go unpraised...
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Halfway through my first full week @SkyNews and, I must say, I'm loving it - not only because they have an angry (sparkling) water tap!
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
10 months
Went to an 80s themed party yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed channeling my inner Cindi Lauper...
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Meep
@ChrisMasonBBC
Chris Mason
2 years
A group of cabinet ministers are about to tell the Prime Minister to resign, including the Chief Whip, reports @ionewells
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
4 years
*U-TURN KLAXON* The UK is abandoning the underpinnings of its existing coronavirus-tracing app and switching to a model based on technology provided by Apple and Google...
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Morning! Sure it'll be a quiet one... 🤫
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
PMQs is on its way - follow all the updates here:
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
1 year
There is something rather sinister about the remnants of a freshly eaten Lindt reindeer...
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Stephen Crabb starts listing resignations and asks if the government now has the “capacity to address overhanging issues” as it is “deteriorating as we speak”. PM says “When I came into parliament there were about 140 Conservative MPs… there are now 365 or so...
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
4 years
The Law Commission says women should be protected under expanded hate crime laws - powerful case study and contributions from @stellacreasy and @womensaid
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
4 years
@PickardJE I can only go by the buses going outside my window in N8, but they have gone from totally empty to being a third full I would say, sometimes more. Looks quite stark after weeks of being totally empty.
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
4 years
Another wonderful night to be a BBC Journalist on Twitter working the late shift...
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Quite the haul of leaving gifts!
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
I love my colleagues, but I think they may need to take a course on personal space...
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
I've said it before and I'll say it again - BBC local radio is BRILLIANT.
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
3 years
No pressure...
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
1 year
My proudest moment of the day was downloading an app to inform him I wanted to go for a pint. I'm modern don't you know... 💜 this man
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Valerio Esposito
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She’s an icon, a legend, and she IS the moment. Now come on now. @NifS
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Brutal from former Tory MP Nick Boles, says by the next election "millions of former Conservative voters who will have tired of being lab rats in Truss’s and Kwarteng’s ideological experiments" and will go Labour.
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
1 year
I am disgusted and will be complaining directly to @Deliveroo . I hope you will join me in sharing your outrage at the treatment of this young woman. And in case you do see this Cristina, I really hope you are OK and have found the help you need, no thanks to your company.
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
@BenKentish "Seek and Destroy" - Metallica... no? What?
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Happy Gothmas from me and my spooky tights! 🎃👻
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
Wow, people think I get a lunch break!
@JenFullick
🇬🇧Abicat 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
2 years
Bless the little hacks at the @BBCPolitics . Polishing off their vitriolic apple pencils, to send off their tweets & chortle in their wine glasses over lunch . Where will this one get another job when we #DefundTheBBC I wonder.
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
3 years
Another conference over. Gosh I'm tired and looking forward to bed. I'll miss our press room mouse though...
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
4 years
SUPPORT BUBBLE TIME!!! May have actually cried a little when I realised I would be able to hug my boyfriend this weekend...
@nickeardleybbc
Nick Eardley
4 years
BREAKING: PM announces limited "support bubbles" for England from this weekend; allowing adults living alone or single parents to join with one other household
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
2 years
OoO on, rum and coke poured, all checked in... This time tomorrow I'll be in Rome and out of the country for the first time since before Covid. EXCITED
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
1 year
I am looking to talk to women in the UK who love live music but have experienced harassment or sexual assault at gigs or festivals. Not a happy topic I know, and more than happy for it to be anonymous, but please do get in touch. My DMs are open. #journorequest
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
1 year
I know people will say this is the gig-economy, zero hours contracts etc, but ffs, a young woman on her own in central London late at night is sobbing her heart out and you are employing her! Why are you not checking she is OK???
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
3 years
Asked by the Mirror what the point is of allowing journalists to ask difficult questions if he won't answer them, Matt Hancock says journalists should focus on the "big things that matter".
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Jennifer-Anne Scott
4 years
Hi twitter. I've had a good day. Nice to share positives right?? :)
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