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Nihal Arthanayake

3 years

This is one of my best mates Simon de Winter. COVID killed him at 9.24am on the 30th December. His parents wanted you to see this picture of him. Not just a number. Please observe the rules.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

4 years

For every white kid who would call me a paki there were at least ten white kids who would give him a hiding for doing so. I believe in people.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

3 years

She most likely has a name.

The Mirror

@DailyMirror

3 years

Woman hopes to make history by becoming first female boss of major trade union

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

3 years

A team of young men from all different backgrounds with a truly honorable manager has taken England to a final! This is England.

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Nihal Arthanayake

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3 years

My mum had her Astra Zeneca vaccine over a month ago and on Sunday Spurs lost to Arsenal. I am not of course saying that the two things are related but you have to ask the question.

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Nihal Arthanayake

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4 years

Dear white people, some of you really hate people like me. These people insult us, try to undermine our achievements and make us feel like we don't belong here. Would you mind being our allies and not ignoring it when you hear it. Many thanks.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

4 years

We lost Luna a month ago after 14 years and we will never stop loving that dog but our house was not a home without a staffy in it. So say hello to Lyra.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

2 years

I'd be gutted if people who worked for me had a party in my house and didn't tell me about it.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

7 years

Sir Vince Cable is 74 years old, that means by the next general election he will be 74.

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Nihal Arthanayake

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3 years

Don't boo people's national anthems you donuts.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

3 years

Please don't attack: Italian cars. Italian fashion labels. Italian restaurants. Italian foodsfuffs. And most importantly - Italian people. Lose gracefully and move on.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

2 years

50 years ago 27,000 Ugandan Asians were allowed to resettle in the UK after fleeing persecution. 50 years later 50 Ukrainians have so far been granted visas. The Home Secretary's parents are Ugandan Asians.

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Nihal Arthanayake

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4 years

Just wanted to tell you that @bbc5live have asked me to extend my contract for another two years. Thank you for listening! Off to bathe in the haters tears.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

3 years

One word for all the anti vaxxing, COVID denying, marchers: India.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

3 years

When you see the number of COVID related deaths over the last 24hrs on the news know that one of them was one of my best mates, a son, a husband, a brother and an uncle. Life is precious. Please stay safe and value life in 2021 and beyond.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

4 years

So far so good.

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This is going to be a fantastic year for Britain.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

2 years

A pensioner tells @MartinSLewis on my @bbc5live show that his energy bill next year will be over £7,000 and his state pension is £8,000 per year. He sounded very very concerned.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

4 years

"Dogs are made of good" - @rickygervais 😥😍👍

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They thought they were all alone in the world — they were wrong ❤️

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

11 months

I wonder how the search is going for 100s of our fellow humans who were on the overcrowded fishing boat that sunk in the Mediterranean?

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

5 years

So my understanding of the BBC ruling is that if a public figure called me a "Paki" I could tell you that what they had said was racist but I couldn't say that aforementioned public figure was a racist. I'm glad we cleared that up.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

5 years

I asked my son what he thought about same sex marriages. He replied "I think it's morally wrong to separate people who love each other because of their sexuality". How comes an 11yr old can figure it out but some adults can't?!

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Nihal Arthanayake

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4 years

Almost twenty years to the minute that my dad Tilak Arthanayake died. He was such an amazing man. If you've lost a parent you'll know that you never really get over it. Perhaps you never really should.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

2 years

Me in a "Diversity and Inclusion" meeting.....

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

7 months

I once had Calvin Robinson on my show, he made little sense, it was like playing tennis with someone who only served at you, except he was holding a cricket bat and was using mouldy plums instead of tennis balls. It was bizarre.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

3 years

I spoke to a fella at the pub who volunteers for the RNLI and he was telling me about the amount of abuse they get. Yes, a man who volunteers to pluck panicked people out of the sea gets abuse. The state of us.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

3 years

Dear Arsenal fans, Trust in Arteta. Give him more time. Yours sincerely. All Spurs fans.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

4 years

Oh well. Bye then to HRH. Hello to Harry and Meghan. Two people in love with a baby. Now should we start looking at food banks, schools and NHS funding, child poverty, the Care System, police and prisoner numbers, post EU trade, what have I missed?

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

3 years

A very brave thing for @alexberesfordTV to do considering where he is in the food chain compared to Piers. Taking on indispensable talent built around a cult of personality can be a very dangerous thing to do career wise. Let's see if @ITV protect Alex.

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Nihal Arthanayake

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2 years

The teachers at the school where my wife works are making up food hampers to give to some of the parents of the kids there. This is beautiful but also desperately sad. Teachers are amazing.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

3 years

You didn't get "cancelled" if your employer fired you after posting racist bile on social media. You got fired.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

7 years

Can you explain @DailyMailUK why you thought it relevant to state the religion of the poor little girl who died at Drayton Manor today?

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

4 years

How many BAME people packed out beaches in Bournemouth? Asking for some friends who are feeling like someone is trying to create a narrative.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

4 years

How many non Jewish people in the music industry, artists, DJs, managers have publicly expressed their disgust at Wiley's anti semitism? Silence is complicity we were told in relation to anti racism. No double standards I hope when it comes to anti semitism?

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

3 years

For some weird reason it effected me when I looked around the entire floor at the BBC where I work and I was the only non white person. It is like this pretty much every day, but today it kind of upset me.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

3 years

“My biggest concern was history repeating itself.” Who the hell can argue with a husband not wishing to see his wife go through what his mother went through?!

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

4 years

Bloody hell!

Ricky Gervais

@rickygervais

4 years

@bbc5live @TherealNihal Totally irrelevant, but I'd like to say what a great broadcaster Nihal is. Well on his way to becoming a national treasure. Informed, open-minded, fair, astute, caring and funny. A dying breed.

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Nihal Arthanayake

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3 years

I really hope Saka finds a big club to play for after the Euros. He deserves it. What a player.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

4 years

I'm selling this by the gram. As soon as I get my burner phone I'll tweet the digits #pabloescobake

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

5 years

My parents' generation must have had to endure so many comments and "jokes" and smiled and got on with it while feeling humiliated. Now that my generation and younger are having none of it suddenly we are being hyper sensitive?! Nah bruv.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

2 years

I wonder how many UK news outlets have picked up on the fact that the British actor/director @rizwanahmed won an Oscar last night.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

4 years

Hopkins banned from twitter, have a great weekend everyone!

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

4 years

1st August 1922 to 17th June 2020. My wife's grandmother and my kids' great grandmother passed away peacefully in her sleep this morning. She was an amazing woman. Elegant, eloquent and full of love. Rest in peace Aachi.

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Nihal Arthanayake

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5 years

Heart breaking to wake up and see that churches and hotels in Sri Lanka have been attacked and many killed. We have been calling friends and family. Spare a thought for the people caught up in this terrible violence.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

2 years

Can you imagine what kind of person you have to be to write a newspaper column that criticizes @MartinSLewis Don't be that person.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

3 years

I have been to a Gurdwara on a Sunday morning and seen the homeless and indeed anyone who needs a meal being fed. This is not a new thing for the Sikh communities to do. They do it all the time.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

4 years

Where should the @MarcusRashford statue go?

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

5 years

More white people have to stand up and challenge this bigotry, when you hear your mates and your family members say racist things, challenge them. We can't do this alone. Don't make excuses for it.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

3 years

Heart breaking, please pull through Christian Eriksen.

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Nihal Arthanayake

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1 year

TRIGGER WARNING: I came home to find the dishwasher stacked like this and it is unacceptable.

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Nihal Arthanayake

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4 years

For every numpty that tweets me some racist bollocks I know that there are 100s if not 1000s more people of all backgrounds who listen and support the show. Thank you.

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Nihal Arthanayake

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3 years

Last Tues my wife found a lump in her breast. On that Thursday she saw a GP and yesterday she was told thankfully it was a cyst.

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Nihal Arthanayake

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7 years

Men, read this an act accordingly.

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Nihal Arthanayake

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4 years

It would cost (Sir?!) Phillip Green £108,750,000 to pay his 14,500 staff £2500 per month for three months. His yacht reportedly cost £100,000,000. It's not this simple but you get the point.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

3 years

Thank you so much @richardosman I so totally loved being on #houseofgames this week. Mostly because i won this....

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Nihal Arthanayake

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2 years

The candour of Sri Lankans is incredible. I have been coming to the same hotel for over 20 years. One of the waiters recognised me and said "hello sir, so nice to see you, you are fat now." Brilliant.

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Nihal Arthanayake

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3 years

Son just hit a four. A lovely summer's evening in Alderley Edge. U13s cricket.

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Nihal Arthanayake

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3 years

3rd PCR test negative so all set to fly to Tokyo this evening. Looking fwd to bringing you some amazing stories from the Olympics.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

2 years

Would it be misplaced to ask if Rishi Sunak's ethnicity had anything to do with him not being elected leader of the Conservative Party?

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

2 years

This was quite a moment. The power of radio. @bbc5live

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Sam Fender telling a story that happened to him because of an interview he did about the song "Dead Boys"

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Nihal Arthanayake

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4 years

We all put our hands on her heart as the injection went into her front left leg. She was gone in seconds. And our hearts broke all at the same time #Luna

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

4 years

Just put some flags on my twitter bio to confuse the racists.

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4 years

I hope the BBCs £100million creative diversity commitment also looks at class. Plenty of talented people should benefit from this and socio economic background should be taken into account.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

3 years

My response to a text that came into the show today. Both @amateuradam and @Konnie_Huq had to listen to it.

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Nihal Arthanayake

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2 years

When a boy called me a paki at school I punched him. He didn't do it again. For all those "sticks and stones..." nonsense quoting people. Words do hurt, and a punch in the face does too.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

2 years

“We didn’t realise that calling you a paki would have upset you.“ I am actually laughing at the absurdity of these apologies.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

3 years

I know this makes me sound old but I felt joy hearing @TomDaley1994 say "my husband" after winning Gold. I am glad that my kids will see that as a perfectly normal thing to say.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

5 years

Father’s Day tomorrow. Want to tell you a little about my father. He came to this country in the 1960s. Worked hard and bought a house. He taught us about tolerance and the power of education. He died of a heart attack in 2000. I miss him every day. Part of me is him.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

3 years

The Sikh Community in the UK representing! (The food is delicious too trust me)

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@bbcmtd

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Sikh groups, including Coventry-based @LangarAid have arrived in Dover to help deliver food and water to stranded lorry drivers in Kent:

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Nihal Arthanayake

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3 years

Some advice for 2021. Listen to Doctors and data not Julias and Laurences. Imagine having to actually write this.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

4 years

I bet I contribute more to the UK than you do David, I can assure you my mum who worked in the NHS did. I was born here. I have two cultures. British and Sri Lankan. I love them both. You hate yourself. Get some therapy.

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Nihal Arthanayake

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3 years

One of my best mates who died in Dec of COVID is being cremated tomorrow. Can't say goodbye in person. Rest in peace Simon de Winter. In a World full of pebbles, you rock.

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Nihal Arthanayake

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3 years

Finally, my amma (mum) has had her first COVID jab. Getting the second jab beginning of April. Her grandkids are very happy!

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4 years

I went into a supermarket at 11pm last night and there were plenty of packets of wagon wheels and chicken hot dogs. Not sure what people are hoarding if they're not buying the basics.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

4 years

After the Dominic Cummings story and the terrible events in America with the death of George Floyd and the video in Central Park I am utterly exhausted by the World we are currently living in.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

2 years

Listening to @BBCBreakfast and Charlie Stayt is using the word "people" not "migrants".

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

5 months

I saw a lack of diversity in my work place over a long period of time, it effected me and it was isolating and lonely. Yet all these gbeebies loving types made me to be an "anti-white racist" If a single one of them think I am going to be quiet they are even more stupid.....

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Nihal Arthanayake

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3 years

Good morning Britain. I've joined the club....

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3 years

A week ago an opposition player called the ref a "motherf**ker!" My son went upto him and said "no matter how you feel you can't say that" and then one of the sweary kids own team mates thanked my boy for telling this kid about himself. I was very proud of my son.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

3 years

The reaction of some to Sako, Rashford and Sancho is ample reason why players both black and white continue to take the knee.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

4 years

Luna 14th October 2005 - 6th March 2020.

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@TherealNihal

3 years

I mean.....I had to get a pic with him. #SchittsCreek @BritishGQ

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

4 years

If you dont like me as a broadcaster/person and hate my show just dont listen. Calling me names isn't going to make me change who I am or what I do. Trust me. I know my worth.

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@TherealNihal

3 years

My mate Simon's mum told me today on the phone that she brought him into the World and she got to hold his hand after he passed away. She was also in hospital with COVID. She is back home now. They lost a son and I lost a brother from another mother.

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Nihal Arthanayake

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@calvinrobinson Oh, I remember you. It was an utter waste of time. I have an amazing array of thoughtful eloquent guests, you were neither. Enjoy your time off.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

3 years

I have the flags of England and the UK in my twitter name because racists don't own flags. In the 70s and early 80s people let them do that. Not anymore.

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@TherealNihal

3 years

Happy Diwali in trying times. For Hindus and Sikhs all over the world. There is light.

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@TherealNihal

4 years

Yes, of course they do. "Save the whales doesn't mean f**k the pandas" I'm getting bored of explaining this to people Ste.

Ste4233

@ste4233

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@HLTCO @TherealNihal Typical brainwashed footballer Do WHITE LIVES NIT MATTER!!!!

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Naga Munchetty followed by Nihal Arthanayake. For the kids with long surnames who want to get into the media!

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Naga Munchetty will be the new presenter of the mid-morning programme on @BBC5Live :

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Nihal Arthanayake

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4 years

'Barcelona players will take a 70% pay cut during the coronavirus pandemic and make additional contributions to ensure non-sporting staff receive full wages.' @premierleague ?!

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Read this exchange on my Insta dms and what it tells you about social media performative activism vs an actual contextual attempt to explore what is happening. Not to mention the anti semitic trope inherent in the exchange.

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@TherealNihal

4 years

That anti-woke backlash is amazing. The last stand of the prejudiced who are sick of being called prejudiced for being prejudiced.

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2 months

Can anyone identify what it is that the country no longer has, that Lee Anderson wants back?

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3 years

This is the absolute real world consequences of misinformation, conspiracy theories and downright lies.

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Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

11 months

This party took place on the 14th Dec 2020. On the 30th Dec 2020 one of my closest friends died alone in hospital. Everyone other than his mother, father and wife had to watch his funeral on a video stream. Those were the rules.

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EXCLUSIVE: First ever Partygate video revealed as Tories drink, dance and laugh at Covid rules

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4 years

Mugged me off.

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You win some you DRAW some @TherealNihal ⚽ Looks like someone has been playing havoc with Nihal’s audio after #THFC 's 3-3 draw with #WHUFC 🤣 #TOTWHU 🎧 Listen to the show on @BBCSounds -

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Interesting to note that their ethnicities do not feature in this article. Wonder why? 13 from Walsall in court charged with historical sex offences against kids

13 from Walsall in court charged with historical sex offences against kids

The defendants face abuse charges relating to four youngsters between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2016

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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5 years

"You can't say anything these days!" is code for "I wish I could still chat racist bollocks and get away with it."

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Evening wear in Ibiza. Took me more times to get this pose right than Dan Wooton at a memorial.

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Spent a long time trying to work out how to word this post. In the end I just want my son to be able to play football without some other kid saying something racist to him. East Manchester Junior Football League please sort it out.

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Powerful and emotional speech from @CNN @VanJones68 There will be former President Trump supporters equally upset.

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