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Jim Pickard 🐋

@PickardJE

9 months

I've written this new piano piece, still trying to work out what to call it

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Jim Pickard 🐋

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4 years

it’s a privilege to live in a country where you can do this to the premier with zero repercussions, don’t ever take it for granted

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2 years

huge breaking news at BP: - BP to exit its 20% stake in Russian oil giant Rosneft - BP chief executive Bernard Looney to resign from board of Rosneft with immediate effect

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Jim Pickard 🐋

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2 years

the killer tweet that appears to end the debate

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2 years

your reminder that almost 2,000 people have been prosecuted at Westminster magistrates court for ignoring lockdowns, attending parties and breaking quarantine during this pandemic

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4 years

this is more Thick Of It than the actual Thick Of It

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2 years

yes this a thousand times over

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Jim Pickard 🐋

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4 years

lest we forget this golden moment

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2 years

Nadhim Zahawi forcing himself into the role of chancellor then using it to destroy the prime minister is proper game of thrones stuff

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your reminder that almost 2,000 people have been prosecuted at Westminster magistrates court for ignoring lockdowns, attending parties and breaking quarantine during this pandemic

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2 years

now that’s a headline

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2 years

keen to hear why Johnson is holidaying in the Caribbean for two weeks when the Commons is sitting and there are 22 weeks of recess at other times of the year

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2 years

this is the most interesting thing I’ve read today

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4 years

this is the guy who should have his own statue in Bristol: Paul Stephenson, who in 1963 led the Bristol bus boycott

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2 years

if you think Keir Starmer quitting would mean Boris Johnson feeling obliged to quit I have a bridge to Ireland to sell you

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2 years

still the best radio moment of our era

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4 years

lest we forget this golden moment

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Yvette Cooper: “Today, Tory MPs voted to make it a criminal offence for Ukrainian families to arrive in the UK without the right papers with a penalty of up to 4 years in prison...when British people have made clear we need to help Ukrainian refugees, this is deeply shameful."

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Jim Pickard 🐋

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4 years

if Keir Starmer owns a field what else is the man capable of

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4 years

Tommy Robinson is endorsing Boris Johnson's Conservatives and former Conservative leader Sir John Major is not

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5 months

it is objectively quite funny that the biggest surge in immigration in British history came *after* Brexit

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2 years

incredible anyone has to say this but sneering at a working class female Labour MP for going to the opera is not a brilliant look

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2 years

good to see Chris Whitty getting a knighthood, this is someone who spent Christmas Day 2020 (and maybe 2021 for all I know) working on the hospital wards

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2 years

somewhat awkward timing for Shell to be announcing a quadrupling of annual earnings to $19bn

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3 years

meanwhile in covid-free New Zealand, a music festival at the weekend

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Jim Pickard 🐋

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2 years

interesting stat of the day: Liz Truss wants to change the law to require 50% of a workforce to vote "yes" in order for a strike to go ahead Liz Truss just won 47% of support from the Conservative membership to become leader (57% result on 82.6% turnout)

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2 years

they should use this in an advert for going into teaching

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2 years

Every time this clip pops up I watch it. His face, and the way he automatically takes off his hat.

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2 years

never seen this sculpture before and love it so much

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2 years

now that’s a headline

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2 years

one little-known fact is that Mark Drakeford spent the first lockdown living in a hut at the bottom of his garden because his wife and mother-in-law were both shielding in the house

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Jim Pickard 🐋

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4 years

it’s the public’s fault for not taking enough tests but also for taking too many tests

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3 years

the health secretary has announced a testing system for all travellers into the UK around 53 weeks after the pandemic began

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2 years

think we are allowed to share this again today

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2 years

the karaoke machine was provided by Helen MacNamara - director general for propriety and ethics at the time - you couldn't make this up

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2 years

Breaking: new figures from the Electoral Commission released today show the Conservatives accepted another £80,000 from Lubov Chernukhin in the last quarter

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3 years

the Conservatives have been in power for 29 years out of the last 42

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Boris Johnson to claim new Tory economic model will end ‘decades of drift and dither’ – politics live

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Jim Pickard 🐋

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4 years

imagine being this precious about being asked to clean your hands

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4 years

useful context to suggest Labour’s spending plans might not be quite as extraordinary as some think - via The Times

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2 years

essential one-minute Owen Paterson explainer from Ian Hislop

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2 years

can’t believe the chancellor did all those tax cuts behind the prime minister’s back

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Jim Pickard 🐋

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2 years

love this Hilary Mantel explanation of what history actually is

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Jim Pickard 🐋

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3 years

perhaps people will understand this morning why some footballers have been wanting to make an anti-racism gesture

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4 years

Boris Johnson asks Keir Starmer to name a country with a working contact tracing app Starmer replies that the German version has already had 12 million downloads #pmqs

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1 year

millennials aren’t getting more right-wing as they age: fascinating statistics via ⁦ @jburnmurdoch ⁩

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2 years

mask, mask, mask, no mask, mask

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4 years

what scene in what film always makes you cry? mine is when the priest in Les Miserables forgives Jean Valjean for stealing his silverware and then gives him some candlesticks for good measure

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4 years

Boris Johnson has touchingly praised the two immigrant nurses who stood by his bedside for 48 hours at the height of his illness here is a reminder of some of Vote Leave’s anti-immigration rhetoric from 2016

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2 years

the Lib Dems are quite punchy these days

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Jim Pickard 🐋

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5 years

Cambridge Analytica

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to choose UNUSUAL name for baby that UNIFIES the US and UK

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2 years

CHAOS WITH ED MILIBAND

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Angela Rayner: “Liz Truss has even crashed the pork market. Now...that. Is. A. Disgrace.”

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3 years

hopefully in future office workers with flu and colds will work from home rather than “bravely” staggering into work and infecting everyone else

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3 years

strong words from the @ft editorial board

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Jonathan Van Tam asked about the behaviour of Dominic Cummings: “In my opinion the rules are clear and they have always been clear. In my opinion, they are for the benefit of all and in my opinion they apply to all”.

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3 years

can’t believe this is happening: crass, insensitive, disproportionate, outrageous

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3 years

just watched this six times

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Keir Starmer: “Pay rises for City bankers. Pay cuts for district nurses. I didn’t see that in leaflets on Wakefield.” #pmqs

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3 years

Sunak is asked by @GeorgeWParker - why 40 out of 45 towns receiving £1bn through new "town deals" happen to have Conservative MPs - why affluent Richmondshire (his seat) is designated as "priority 1" in the separate Levelling-up Fund while places like Barnsley are priority 2

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2 years

removing the whip from Tobias Ellwood and not Chris Pincher is the final reminder of why the last regime was….problematic

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2 years

can’t believe Johnson flew all the way back from the Dominican Republic to watch Sunak become leader, now that’s true friendship

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4 years

can’t decide if the Star has lost its mind or is having a genius purple patch

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5 years

Obama on Memorial Day, 2010

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5 years

Awkward letter to Times from leading constitutional expert

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Jim Pickard 🐋

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4 years

because you can’t plug a leak with a Grecian urn?

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2 years

not sure this sleaze story is going to disappear as quickly as they hope, expect more of this kind of thing 👇🏻

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2 years

if you want to know what a long week it's been, Kwasi Kwarteng was still chancellor 7 days ago

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2 years

whenever you question your own political analysis there’s always someone worse

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4 years

if Cummings is unhappy about inaccurate stories in the media just wait til he reads that lockdown Spectator piece by Mary Wakefield

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4 years

to believe this you have to believe that they were too ill to look after a kid but somehow able to drive nearly 300 miles

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4 years

@PippaCrerar Source says his trip was within guidelines as Cummings went to stay with his parents so they could help with childcare while he and his wife were ill - they insist no breach of lockdown

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2 years

literally the justice secretary

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Raab, "The police don't normally look back and investigate things that have taken place a year ago"

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7 years

I better stop making jokes about May in case she ends up as my editor by September.

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2 years

- Jacob Rees-Mogg tells Newsnight that he can’t discuss today’s cabinet - when reminded the PM didn’t tell cabinet about the police investigation he replies “you don’t know anything of the kind” - except that Downing St spokesman told the entire press about it this morning

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6 years

A reminder of some of the senior establishment figures who sat on the campaign committee of Vote Leave, which has just been fined by the Electoral Commission: Liam Fox Iain Duncan Smith Dominic Raab Michael Gove Boris Johnson Steve Baker Chris Grayling Priti Patel Lord Lawson

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4 years

there aren’t enough tiny violins in the world for this tragic tale of a man who might have to pay more tax when he sells his (squints at notes) 27 homes

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3 years

incredible advert from @GreenpeaceUK

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1 year

the story so far: Pincher Tractorgate Owen Paterson Greensill Capital Partygate Mustique the £800,000 loan wallpapergate Lebedev peerage Warburton secret hampers the £150k treehouse Zahawi tax Williamson bullying Imran Ahmad Khan Raab bullying Patel bullying illegal prorogation

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3 years

someone has just referred to that new channel as "Wetherspoons TV" and I can't stop thinking about this

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sometimes I think Gove is wasted in politics

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there’s a lingering disquiet about Tory MPs voting last week against an amendment to stop private water companies dumping raw sewage into rivers and coastlines…not sure they’ve gauged the public mood on this

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Apocryphal quote about journalism: “If someone says it’s raining & another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the window and find out which is true.”

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“‘Defund the BBC’ was last night’s pontification from former Sun editor Kelvin Mackenzie, who once put Diana’s covertly recorded private phone calls on a premium-rate line so readers could ring in and have a listen.”

They won’t remind us, but the tabloids hurt Diana just as much as Panorama did | Marina Hyde

The BBC makes a convenient scapegoat when in reality all of us were part of the ecosystem that destroyed Diana, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

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5 years

Tusk: please do not waste the six-month extension UK:

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5 years

the Tory press office has just delivered actual chicken breasts to lobby journalists in a somewhat peculiar move even by the usual standards of political gimmicks

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3 years

this is too good

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2 months

is it churlish to ask who was home secretary last year

Suella Braverman MP

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1.4 million people were granted visas here last year. Asylum approvals at a record high. Work & student visa numbers, including many dependents, are appalling. This cannot go on: we don’t have enough homes, GPs or schools to support this level. 1/2

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5 years

A Brexit year is equivalent to seven human years

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4 years

it really isn’t political point-scoring to look at this graphic and ask what has gone wrong

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2 years

not sure the Brexit minister quitting is a sign that Brexit is going swimmingly well

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6 years

Quote of the day is Heseltine on Boris: “A man who waits to see which way the crowd is running and then dashes in front and says ‘follow me’....”

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- Johnson is asked at liaison committee if he's worried that Brexit will cost 4% of GDP (official forecast) but the Australia trade deal will only add 0.08% to GDP - the prime minister replies that Britain had a very successful vaccine programme

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7 months

I’ve found today’s tweet of the day and am now logging off because it can’t be surpassed

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Brexit fast becoming a holiday which half the family didn’t want to go on and now the car is stuck in a traffic jam and mum and dad are arguing over the map

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just the most perfect tweet

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the rules about gatherings in spring 2020 were pretty clear, which is why my family held a zoom funeral for my grandmother, one of tens of thousands taking place at the time

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Breaking: the New York attorney general has subpoenaed former US president Donald Trump and his two eldest children in a probe of the family’s business

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this quote from Captain Tom Moore just stopped me in my tracks

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Matt Hancock announces that 11,788 retired health workers have returned to the NHS “in its hour of need” - what absolute heroes

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John McDonnell has told shadow cabinet colleagues to stop asking him "are you alright?", telling them: "Normally when a socialist revolution fails they all get taken to a football stadium and shot, at least that hasn’t happened this time.”

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today's untruths from Boris Johnson at #PMQs : - that he never said inflation fears were "unfounded" - that Tory government has built new nuclear plants - that Warm Homes Discount is £140/week (tis £140/winter) - that Labour would rejoin EU - that Labour wanted Xmas lockdown

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Siri give me an example of “closing the stable doors after the horse has bolted”

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maybe a good moment to recall Heseltine on Boris Johnson: “A man who waits to see which way the crowd is running and then dashes in front and says ‘follow me’....”

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2 years

merciless assessment by The Economist

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