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Former senior racing trader and on-course greyhound bookmaker...now punter & racing editor

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@Stephenh61
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3 years
@ajcdeane He was still in power when Peston started his first covid question tbf
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5 years
@RichardPTh @HWick_Bluenose @theweeflea Absolutely...it will thrive not tank...your son moving to Singapore is excellent...but absolutely nothing to do with your views on Brexit
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3 years
Just seen that Greenateen now rated 168....Moscow Flyer was 170 at peak...surely the clearest argument yet that the ratings are suffering from wild inflation and a lack of commonsense
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3 years
@alexwickham @iainmartin1 Vorsprung Berk Technik
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5 years
@Peston Turn off BBC, ITV and SkyNews be a start😀
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5 years
@bbclaurak Grayling running the timetable
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@kelvmackenzie Madness, and cheered on by the “open-borders” brigade that dominate academia
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@Stephenh61
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6 years
@ZacGoldsmith Do find all this rather baffling...the govt spent 9m quid on delivering a pro-remain leaflet into everyones home...let alone the ministerial time involved in campaigning...thats the real scandal (and they still lost!)
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@Stephenh61
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6 years
@SkyNews Good grief, stick to the news please...this is worse than Faisal’s daily doom-laden Brexit narrative tbh
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@Stephenh61
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4 years
@Peston @thesundaytimes Its an extremely good response too...effective in demolishing the lot of it tbh
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6 years
@AwayDays_ @WillThompson5 not too bad for Adidas trainers tbf
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8 years
@MichaelPDeacon whatever you did, whatever you said, you didn't mean it....
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@Stephenh61
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6 years
@afneil It really is disgraceful...the UK coverage has been sneering and downbeat from the off
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5 years
@DouglasCarswell Isn’t it extraordinary that whenever Peston, Faisal et al make these exclusive “discoveries” from the EU, that they exactly mirror their own opinions and preferences...
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3 years
@ajcdeane *Faisal Islam, Robert Peston, Lewis Goodall etc etc
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@Stephenh61
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6 years
Worth noting today that both Nick Rust and Bruce Millington have gone out of their way to publicly promote playing FOBTs as a bit of fun they enjoy...both got it disgracefully wrong
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@Stephenh61
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4 years
@SirSocks Government and the scientific experts have got the tone right from day 1...the media, with a few exceptions, not so much
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@Stephenh61
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8 years
@George_Osborne for heavens sake you are better than this...we currently stop educated Indians coming to the UK to prioritise EU citizens
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@Stephenh61
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4 years
@ItCorbyn @Peston @DavidGHFrost @MichelBarnier @michaelgove Horrendous bias...the broadcast tonight, complete with mocking laughter, was utterly disgraceful for a supposedly neutral journalist tbh
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@Stephenh61
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6 years
@gamray @ZacGoldsmith This was the second referendum old stick...quite happy for another look in 45 years...although the EU will be long long gone by then
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1 year
Very sad news… Great character of the betting ring, Johnny Lights passed this morning. Thoughts with his wife and daughters.
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@Stephenh61
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2 years
@montie @Liztruss @AlStewartOBE And letting people answer…never on an ego trip, but probing in the right areas
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@Stephenh61
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5 years
@KateAndrs @ShankerASingham So unlike Carole to get the facts wrong 👀
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@Stephenh61
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6 years
@Peston @SteveBakerHW Absolutely right...the complacency and arrogance from Major to Blair to Cameron made brexit possible and inevitable tbh
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18 days
Just the four UK jumps on today, all overlapping into one another….from 4pm SEVEN tracks are all staging races…on a Wednesday in April…complete madness, impossible to follow
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@Stephenh61
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5 years
I’ve had 25k ew the winner at 66/1 but was roaring on Enable for my life...👀
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5 years
@JuliaHB1 Dual citizenship apparently...millions better spent elsewhere tbh
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@Stephenh61
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4 years
@CatharineHoey What a brilliant refreshing difference for the people of Broxetowe 🎯🎯
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4 years
@afneil Their Ratner moment
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5 years
@keiththecamel @afneil believing them is one thing...using parliamentary privilege to name them another matter....innocent until proven guilty
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@Stephenh61
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3 years
@SweetLiberty7 @MaajidNawaz The lack of accountability always was the main reason tbh....when you can’t vote them out they are conceited and detached from reality
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8 years
@paddypower a terrible loss to the EDL...I mean the EPL
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@Stephenh61
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7 years
Racing Post campaigning for 100 quid stakes on FOBTs to stay "for good of racing"...let that sink in for a minute
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4 years
@CatharineHoey Farcical and embarrassing tbh...an actual labour activist masquerading as a political reporter
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@Stephenh61
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3 months
@notayesmansecon They should never have left the EU tbh
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@Stephenh61
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5 years
@PaulEmbery Circa 300k net arrivals every 12 months for the past decade has gradually changed and strained many aspects of life...people who pretend otherwise or solely blame “austerity” are deluding themselves tbh
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@Stephenh61
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2 years
@WestTip1986 @BarristersHorse The person at the top is responsible for his (civil service) staff…its not hard to see the parallels tbh
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3 years
@PaulEmbery He isn’t sure if it is Friday today tbh
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@Stephenh61
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1 year
This is absolutely bang on…racing needs to clear the decks of all the grifters at the top and start again
@itvracing
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1 year
🗣 "We should be proud of our sport" @RichardHoiles delivers a passionate plea on making racing accessible and fun to all. #ITVRacing | #TheOpeningShow
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9 months
@KemiBadenoch @PickardJE @FT FT lost the plot since the referendum tbh…agenda driven nonsense
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6 years
Mugabe will release his resignation statement next week via his Unibet blog #Mugabe
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6 years
@Peston @michaelgove @BorisJohnson Are you seriously suggesting 500k overspend made a difference to a million votes....the govt sent a leaflet into every home in the land
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2 months
@kelvmackenzie That will raise a few eyebrows
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2 years
@GeoffNorcott @CarbonCriminal should be doing thyme for sure
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4 years
@ajcdeane Imagine the scrabble score
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3 months
Imagine if the dogs was marketed nationwide in the way Romford/Hove are doing….they would be mobbed out Friday/Saturday til next Christmas
@RomfordDogs
Romford Stadium
3 months
Watch Trap 6 Merlins Mate for John Mullins, the highest of them all out the traps⬆️
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5 years
@bbclaurak They literally spent two hours backslapping Bercow yesterday and have had three years of hot air and no result on brexit...worlds smallest violin playing tbh
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4 years
@DamianGreen Labour activism alive and well at Sky as usual tbh
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1 year
@Peston Excellent news…should not be upto civil servants to decide who is in power, or for that matter, incredibly biased activists masquerading as journalists
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2 years
@stephenj_colvin @PaulBrandITV Activism not journalism
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4 years
@IainDale Quite...agenda driven nonsense, jumped on by a sympathetic media all day
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3 years
Not saying they have over watered at Aintree, but Red Marauder is into 25 with Stan James 👀
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4 years
@JuliaHB1 Its all verging on madness tbh...whether its Peston or Morgan, the media have genuinely completely lost their moral compass
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5 years
@JohnRentoul @TheRedRoar He was just a naive young man in these formative years tbf
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7 years
@Holbornlolz disastrous news for the working classes planning their usual fortnight in Zurich this
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4 years
Superb🎯
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5 years
@nickgoff79 walk out boldly talking into your phone "yes, that seems to have fixed the leak, should have no more problems"
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20 days
@Catters61 @BBC Perhaps he could have taken over the Jim’ll fix it slot?
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@Stephenh61
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1 month
Underused and retiring in top form, an example to several others
@AtTheRaces
At The Races
1 month
"After 40 years I think it's time to call it a day!" The legendary commentator Mark Slater is all set for his final call at @FfosLasRC ... Happy retirement Mark and congratulations on a superb career 👏🎙️
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2 years
There have been plenty of appalling articles in the trade rag over the years, but this one has just got the gold medal…
Who is this fella ? Who in there right mind wants to lump on at cheltenham this mans not well…
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@Stephenh61
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6 years
@PolhomeEditor Give Seamus Milne a few hours to delete his browsing history old cork...
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5 years
@CarolineFlintMP @oflynnsocial Absolutely...horrible sneering and quite right to call it out
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8 years
@MaryRiddell what utter rubbish
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2 years
@clarescastle @Peston Not a journalist, an activist
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4 years
@ProfKarolSikora Ignore the haters Prof and keep booting out the facts and positivity 🎯
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3 years
@truemagic68 I am sure Faisal Islam will be outside the factory this morning on the beeb to announce this excellent vote of confidence, along with a 15 point twitter explainer....or is that only when he was scaremongering when thought they would relocate?
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3 years
Things get tense as @icyNKFA makes it through to judges houses @Franmberry 🙏🙏🙏
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@Stephenh61
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5 years
Just watching back Cheltenham, what an incredible race Native River ran in the circumstances (not least with yard 0/46 past fortnight)...some warrior
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6 months
@stephenpollard Often those who shout the loudest have the least to say….I would still be confident the vast majority of people are appalled by all this, not that this knowledge particularly helps at the moment 🙏
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7 years
@montie @Peston Just painful, one-sided pro EU/anti UK nonsense repeated every single day tbh
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6 years
@JuliaHB1 *but still paying for the divorce
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4 years
@afneil Peston on 3pm, answers begin at 4pm
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4 years
@Nortonios @BenStarSports Wonderful dinner, thank you 🎯🎯
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5 years
@PolhomeEditor Almost as if they don’t want to leave at all👀
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@Stephenh61
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10 months
Coverage of betting and a vibrant betting by someone who lived and breathed betting and racing…seems a long time ago unfortunately
@horsevault
History of Horse Racing
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1989 John McCririck & Bookmaker Ralph Harris
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2 years
@BarristersHorse Peston really does need to have a long lie down
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4 years
There are libertarian arguments about credit cards for gambling, but on balance this will protect people (especially 18yo+) from potentially disastrous financial outcomes and should be 100pc welcomed
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7 years
@afneil The “people were duped” line really is a dead duck now surely...sneering superiority not a good look and never been true either tbh
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6 years
@MichaelPDeacon £3.30 ? good luck with that
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18 days
@bbcnickrobinson @Nigel_Farage @reformparty_uk @Ofcom @TiceRichard @LeeAndersonMP_ Paul Mason, Lewis Goodall, Faisal Islam, John Simpson etc etc etc etc all paragons of neutrality ofc
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6 years
@robbyyy @bbclaurak Seized upon by the usual suspects...Faisal has already done a ten point breakdown...the same people using the same models etc etc
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3 years
The video (about to come out) of the brawl between the stable lass and GE’s partner will make Ffos Las ladies day look like tea with Queen
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5 years
@Kevin_Maguire @GMB Fortress Britain? Net immigration is over 250k every year! Its hardly a fortress
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3 months
@legwill @afneil I do worry that all you remoaners had no idea what you were really voting for tbh
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6 years
@GaryHynds @jeremycorbyn @theresa_may Literally ran from the chamber before listening to @JohnMannMP or @lucianaberger speeches...a complete disgrace on every level
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2 years
@MrTCHarris @thequentinletts He really is hopelessly wooden and uninspiring….apart from that, is there one actual policy emerging on anything
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4 years
@JakeLex1989 @GoneGlenntal @jeremycorbyn @JezzFest What time would you like us? Can I bring any other tories along? Seems churlish not to thank the old boy in person tbh
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5 years
@KJL1911 @ITVNewsPolitics @itvnews Us...there is no “EU cash”...its our own cash recycled and returned (oh, minus 8-12bn quid every single year)
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7 years
@Nigel_Farage Worst ever Proclaimers remix this tbh
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6 years
@PickardJE The suggestion that nothing would be withheld has been redacted
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4 years
@RobbieGibb @lewis_goodall Ridiculously biased, relentlessly anti-Brexit and anti-government activism not journalism tbh
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5 years
@afneil Those who shout the loudest usually have the least to say...ignore them, complete nonsense
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3 years
The actual knowledge (and ability to explain) that is so badly lacking these days...
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3 years
@JuliaHB1 Nothing wrong with a bit of roll play tbh
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7 years
Imagine a top jockey paid by a bookmaker to write a blog on their website days away from a major race,tipping up a NR then riding tother one
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6 years
Heartening to see Andy Stewart there to represent racing tbf...
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5 years
@JuliaHB1 Disgraceful
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