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2 years

Poor old Channel Four. Not broke, doesn’t need fixing, zero public demand for change & Strong opposition in industry & Parliament but still about to get flogged off for no discernible reason

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Just remembered that the 4pm wine time guys are the ones who keep telling us that working from the office makes people more productive & once again the sheer nerve of it all is something else

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James Cleverly does his best to defend PM's planned big party at Chequers on radio. Minutes later senior source' says it's being moved. Months of this to go, guys.

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4 years

I have NEVER SEEN so many men doing the food shop as today in supermarket. Has lockdown changed boring chore (ie women’s work ) into Heroically Important Hunter Gathering/trip out? One guy was in full hunter-style camo, head to toe.

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Absolute silence as @DrRosena describes three children saying goodbye to their mother on an iPad as she was dying in intensive care, while no 10 partied on. If the PM was a cabinet minister his position would now be untenable

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3 years

If a blowout Christmas = lockdown for most of January, I can’t be the only person who’d...rather bin the big Christmas Day? Am not a natural grinch but January godawful enough already

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2 years

aggghh not 'letters into the '22 cttee' rigmarole again. We're not having another private game that only Conservative party members can play - if your PM isn't up to it, that's a general election

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8 years

Brexiters still telling everyone to stop 'scaremongering' about economic shock; once it's actually underway, it's called 'reporting'

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2 years

Boris Johnson skipping away from partygate while a ton of juniors get fined & Rishi Sunak's ambitions get trashed is the most Boris Johnson thing ever

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@gabyhinsliff

7 years

If May announced slaughter of the firstborn right now the Mail would describe it as a boon for overstretched parents

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1 year

No better monument to this era than a HS rail link from London to the north that doesn’t quite reach central London & doesn’t quite reach intended bits of the north either imho. Well done everyone.

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2 years

I've seen 4 PMs quit before Johnson & with each it was sad on a human level, whatever you personally felt about them. Brown & his little boys, walking out of no 10. May getting tearful. With Johnson: nada. Snide, lacking in grace & self awareness.

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@gabyhinsliff

4 years

Due to an epic #parentingfail BEHOLD the Halloween uh pineapple

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@gabyhinsliff

2 years

Fair play to Boris for giving us a list of Tory MPs who genuinely thought he hadn’t done enough damage last time, though. Possibly his one act of public service

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2 years

This whole ‘planning for three terms’ thing is nonsense. Johnson barely has plans for next week, never mind 2030. That’s half the problem.

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@gabyhinsliff

2 years

I mostly think spouses aren't fair game in politics but - non dom status was a big issue in 2015 election, Treasury makes policy on it, sorry but this is absolutely a matter of public interest

Rishi Sunak’s wife claims non-domicile status

Tax status allows Akshata Murty to avoid tax on foreign earnings

www.theguardian.com

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@gabyhinsliff

3 years

Not just the PM who cones out of this Dyson thing looking grim. Whose first thought when asked to help in a national crisis like this is ‘but what about my taxes’?

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@gabyhinsliff

5 years

Yep. See also; if a twice divorced woman with a boyfriend half her age & kids by several different men ran for leader we’d literally never hear of anything else

Lewis Goodall

@lewis_goodall

5 years

Imagine a working class politician. The police are called to the home of his girlfriend where he’s living after reports of an altercation. He refuses to discuss it. Or how many kids he has. What do we think the papers/middle classes/Conservative society would think of that man?

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4 years

If Cummings has just quietly hired some geeks, without writing a self-dramatising blog about it, they’d probably have gone below the radar & nobody wd’ve checked their internet histories. That desire to be *seen* to be clever/iconoclastic is his weakness

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@gabyhinsliff

4 years

Ok who’s going to tell them

🇧🇧🏳️‍🌈 / 🆓🇵🇸 m a r c u s

@marcusjdl

4 years

This is funny

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4 years

If i was PM I’d get Major, Blair,Brown, Cameron & May together as an ad hoc panel to advise as needed in crisis response. They’d all put country over party; all got more experience than him of crisis

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6 years

Finally we have found The One who can lead us through Brexit

BBC News (UK)

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6 years

Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden

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2 years

Remembering when some letters fell off a wall behind Theresa May & everyone was like ‘can she survive this humiliation’ & gosh those were innocent times

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2 years

It is really, really uncomfortable watching the PM chuck his own people under a bus like this. It’s the opposite of leadership. #pmqs

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4 years

‘Go back to the office to save jobs, which we’ll then destroy in a no deal Brexit’ is a...complex message.

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3 years

Good morning, but mainly to teachers trying to build a mass testing system from scratch with no warning and/or staff in what was meant to be their Christmas holidays

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@gabyhinsliff

4 years

The ‘go back to the office, what’s wrong with you all’ crowd have gone a bit quiet

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@gabyhinsliff

3 years

Ah, the old ‘war with France’ stage of a local election campaign. Traditional.

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@gabyhinsliff

3 years

Does anyone else find themselves wanting to go to bed early out of sheer boredom now, like some kind of mediaeval peasant who goes to sleep when it’s dark because after that there’s nothing to see anyway

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@gabyhinsliff

6 years

Successful women, be warned that Rod Liddle may not fancy you, I'm afraid only you can decide if this is a risk you wish to take

The Spectator

@spectator

6 years

The truth is men do not automatically find successful women attractive, says Rod Liddle:

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@gabyhinsliff

3 years

Chris Whitty taking on Nicki Minaj arguably his finest if least expected hour

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@gabyhinsliff

2 years

Really glad Starmer has opened by bringing this back to the feelings of the victims, who have got a bit forgotten in the ensuing drama #pmqs

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@gabyhinsliff

4 years

So @MarcusRashford ’s feed is full of small cafes, who must be struggling themselves now, stepping up to offer free school meals in holidays when govt won’t. They shouldn’t have to but we’re a better country than we sometimes gloomily think.

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@gabyhinsliff

5 years

bloody hell, that roar of a speech from Jess Phillips. Reminder that you can only fight populism by not sounding like a politician & so few can do it

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@gabyhinsliff

2 years

Penny mordaunt’s expression as Truss defends her catastrophic mini budget is something to behold #pmqs

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@gabyhinsliff

6 years

It’s *almost* like the colour of someone’s coat is not actually how you tell the sex of their baby.

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@gabyhinsliff

4 years

If DC had said ‘I’m really sorry, it was wrong, but I was frightened for my little boy & panicked’ some parents might have thought; ok it was wrong, but these are difficult situations. But trying to bluster through it is genuinely enraging

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@gabyhinsliff

2 years

how long before the IMF is accused of getting woke

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2 years

My favourite thing about this is that she wrote it from..home

Home-working is a middle-class Remainer cult

The Civil Service has fallen prey to an ideology that worships employee satisfaction to the detriment of everything else

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@gabyhinsliff

6 months

My god but this is bleak. One kings speech left before election you’re probably going to lose, one last chance to do what really matters to you, and it’s this?

FT UK Politics

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6 months

Braverman pushes to restrict tents for rough sleepers

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6 years

Oh god we’re going to have to talk about Brexit again now

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1 year

Me on Carol Vorderman & the liberation of caring a whole lot less about what other people think

Carol Vorderman’s later-life renaissance gives us just the kind of political hero we need | Gaby...

Compared with the insecurities of her 30s, the broadcaster’s 60s have given her a confidence we could all learn from, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

Logging off now, but just want to say there will be good Tory MPs & ministers hating every minute of this, who need to decide if this is what they want their party to become. Politics is being demeaned & as with expenses scandal, there will be lasting damage

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@gabyhinsliff

3 years

From ‘schools are safe’ to ‘schools are closed’ in 24hrs, if that’s really what we’re getting, is a hell of a way to build parents’ trust in govt messaging

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@gabyhinsliff

2 years

Starmer nailing it: sexual harassment is about abuse of power, and the power Pincher had was handed to him by this prime minister.

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2 years

bleak detail about the MP rape arrest is that allegations reportedly first made in Jan 2020. Nearly two and a half years just to get to this (still quite early) stage in the process, & that's not even unusual.

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1 year

That was a brutal #pmqs for Sunak & if No 10 has any sense it shd now be asking itself if it wants to risk going through this all over again in slow motion with Braverman, the other Cabinet minister he shd (for different reasons) never have appointed

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@gabyhinsliff

2 years

can we just agree that Conservative party members are not allowed to take any decisions of consequence ever ever again

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@gabyhinsliff

7 years

Lab: we need to listen to the voters. Voters: we think Corbyn is hopeless. Lab: yeah not those voters.

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@gabyhinsliff

7 months

In the old days seven Mirror reporters would have been made to dress up as bins & follow the PM around asking what he had against then & I regret that Fleet Street no longer has the resources for this frankly

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@gabyhinsliff

2 years

‘If you don’t like the decision, just sack the umpire & get in a friendly one’ is a lousy, lousy way to run a country.

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@gabyhinsliff

3 years

Pitch: a reality tv show where celebs train as HGV drivers in two weeks, possibly starring Andrew Neil, come on it's not worse than whatever the actual plan is

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@gabyhinsliff

4 years

Sad to hear some who obeyed rules in awful circs sounding guilty for *not* breaking lockdown to be with loved ones. They should be publicly thanked & reassured they weren't being mugs; they were saving others the same distress, & we are eternally grateful.

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@gabyhinsliff

3 years

He’s an Alevel politics student who got into watching local govt meetings in his spare time & I hope his MP invites him to parl’t when allowed in return for the JOY he has unleashed

'I made Handforth Parish Council go viral'

17-year-old Shaan Ali told Radio 1 Newsbeat about his hobby of watching local council meetings

www.bbc.com

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@gabyhinsliff

5 years

all of them should now be required to attempt this, in public

YouGov

@YouGov

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One in eight men (12%) say they could win a point in a game of tennis against 23 time grand slam winner Serena Williams

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2 years

The missing bit of Geidt jigsaw is why this came to Geidt. "can we do this dodgy tariff thing' surely a Q for govt lawyers - attorney general or Dept for Trade? If PM's personal ethics adviser is consulted there's surely something here we're missing?

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2 years

Every day for Tory MPs is a litmus test now; defend the indefensible, or be able to say in times to come that you called things like the Savile slur out. Such revealing choices.

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6 years

Labour doesn't just have an anti-semitism problem. It's got a 'literally anything can be tolerated, if the alternative is offering even mild criticism of Jeremy' problem.

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@gabyhinsliff

4 years

Neighbour asked why we don’t just decide not to put the clocks back this winter for once,given how miserable everything is already,and tbh I can’t think of a reason why this is a bad idea

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@gabyhinsliff

3 years

Big question is; what do we know now that we didn’t know in December, when SAGE was advising R wouldn’t come down without closing schools, or didn’t know last week (ie in time to give schools more time to prepare)

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2 years

All eyes on Rishi Sunak, then. Morally wrong for PM to host a presser unsubtly-hinting-but-not-quite-saying don't go out on the town in the run-up to Christmas, but then deny support pubs, restaurants, theatres, cinemas etc. Parliament shd force the issue.

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@gabyhinsliff

4 years

If I had a job I couldn’t do from home my biggest Q would be; what does ‘actively encourage’ mean? What happens if I say no? What’s the difference between ‘encourage me ’ & ‘make me’? What if I don’t have childcare?

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4 years

From a Mustique villa 8 months ago, to a tent on the edge of a cliff. Perfect metaphor for where the PM’s taken the country, tbh.

PICTURE EXCLUSIVE - Boris Johnson FINALLY breaks cover

Boris Johnson, fiancée Carrie Symonds, 32, and their baby Wilfred, have been holidaying in a remote three-bedroom cottage on the Scottish coast.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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@gabyhinsliff

5 years

Unpopular opinion; Change UK falling apart doesn't mean the bad stuff which drove them them away from their original parties is now magically fixed, apologies for interrupting the gloating

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2 years

What the absolute hell is this

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Tories accuse Labour’s Angela Rayner of Basic Instinct ploy to distract Boris Johnson:

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4 years

If anyone’s feeling like an inadequate parent after reading too many Facebook posts about educational craft activities, just to say in this house we have done 0% craft & lots of ‘entertaining yourself while mum is on a work call’ & I bet we’re not alone

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2 years

Partygate is basically jumping the shark now. Like one of those increasingly implausible soaps where the writers have exhausted everything else & they're just like 'sod it, let's make a plane crash on Emmerdale, nothing left to lose'

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2 years

If I was a PM who couldn’t cope without being mothered by my famously efficient QC wife, I would simply not sleep with half of London until she was driven to divorce me, but whatever

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@gabyhinsliff

3 years

Genuinely don’t understand how big name covid deniers on here are not curled up into a ball too mortified to tweet, let alone argue the toss with people who were right when they were still banging on about how London was close to herd immunity

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5 years

‘If you thought Westminster was in crisis, Brian has lost his reading glasses in The Archers’ says Radio4 continuity announcer in inspired piece of trolling.

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@gabyhinsliff

8 years

UK now predicted to lose its triple A credit rating. You know, the one we supposedly endured austerity to keep. So that was worth it

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6 years

Met my husband at work;have been asked out, nicely, by men I wasn't interested in at work;& been harassed.REALLY NOT HARD to tell difference

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3 years

Oh good a Cobra meeting to discuss us being suddenly cut off from the continent *breathes festively into paper bag*

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4 years

Chris Grayling is now available for another job, please remain vigilant

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9 months

@lucigosling How lovely! Does she want to be an illustrator? I too am sometimes bitey in the mornings)

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4 years

Strong starts from Starmer, Phillips& Nandy a reminder there’s still loads of talent in Labour; it’s just during the Corbyn years we rarely saw it. We got Burgon & Gardiner on telly 24/7 instead

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6 years

If anyone's still unsure how Boris would react to Brexit going sour, his running away from the Heathrow vote offers some interesting clues

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2 years

No offence to Sunak or Mordaunt but govt is not a game of spin the bottle, where if you don’t like the result you can just keep spinning again

The Times and The Sunday Times

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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Senior Conservatives are holding talks about replacing Liz Truss with a joint ticket of Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt as part of a “coronation” by MPs

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Yvette Cooper currently raising PM's admissions yday re meeting Lebedev without officials (almost forgotten in all the drama). Only PM capable of staying on as caretaker only to end up having to resign again over something else.

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3 years

Builders have arrived for the day & they’re talking about Dominic Cummings, if you were wondering about cut through.

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7 years

I'm still not sure if that was an actual party conference speech or someone's anxiety dream

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4 years

Another was charging round on the phone throughout to his wife, shouting ‘Asparagus? Where the fuck do they keep the asparagus?’ like a sweary Anneka Rice

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Weird side effect of covid; this whole ‘no deal’ panto sounds so tinny & unconvincing. EU not buying it. Domestic audience not got time for your drama.Strong ‘toddler wailing face down on pavement, ignored by knackered mother’ energy all round

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3 years

Deep in STimes interview of Keir Starmer is this snippet, on a bill Labour wants to propose on violence against women & girls

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7 years

If this isn't the actual slogan then Labour are missing a trick frankly

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4 years

Seriously tho getting nigh on impossible to see this govt running a full term, which is wild given 1.majority 2. Less than a year in. I’ve never seen a British govt collapse under the weight of its own implausibility but that now feels ...possible?

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2 years

That story is not just wildly offensive to Angela Rayner (and many women reading it) but whoever briefed it makes their own PM look like a slobbering lech/ I mean, imagine - which really isn’t the genius strategy they seem to think

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Meanwhile this is basically all your worst fears confirmed

Why I quit working on Boris Johnson's ‘world-beating' test-and-tracing system | Anonymous

This programme is not fit to bring Britain out of lockdown, says an anonymous customer service adviser

www.theguardian.com

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Been dipping into GB News & so far it's mainly shown that good telly is really, really hard to make. Sky, BBC, Ch4 make it look effortless. GB News accidentally revealing that it really isn't.

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6 years

I don't think I want to hear John Humphrys doing any more interviews on stuff like sexual harassment, thanks

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7 years

Genuinely sorry about Nick Clegg, if rumours are true. History will judge him more kindly than you lot are about to.

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7 years

If 'new frontman for Spandau Ballet' isn't a job for George Osborne frankly hard to know what is

Tony Hadley

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A statement from Tony Hadley :- I am no longer a member of the band Spandau Ballet & will not be performing with the band in the future.

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4 years

Sorry Newsnight, but of all the non-medical experts whose view on coronavirus I’m not fussed about hearing, Farage is pretty high on the list

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4 years

If Leicester was reportedly top of a list of 10 places the Joint Biosecurity Centre (with access to all the data) worried about, surely about time we knew the other 9? Relevant to how people treat the new freedoms they get on July 4, no?

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It’s not just what he says, it’s @KimDarroch ’s willingness to go on the public record in the first place which tells you something seismic is going on here

BBC Newsnight

@BBCNewsnight

4 years

"The idea that you could re-write your part of the agreement is just unacceptable. It's a breach of international law." In an exclusive interview former US Ambassador, Sir Kim Darroch, responds to suggestions the PM could modify the Brexit withdrawal agreement 22:45 | @BBCTwo

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getting uncomfortable towards the end of that #ImACeleb - made me wonder if giving Hancock this platform when feelings still so raw may potentially backfire on the show, never mind MH himself. Obv he didn’t have to take it but they didn’t have to offer…

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8 years

If you don't have time for the full 'Gove and Boris' story, basically Gove is the penguin on the right

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3 years

Good morning, but mainly to the nurse who is just giving my dad the vaccine. The relief is indescribable.

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3 years

I get the calls for PM to intervene in NI after awful scenes in Belfast but not what people imagine he’s going to do about it. He has no history there, no previous hint of interest/understanding (or he won’t have done the Brexit deal he did). We are used...

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@gabyhinsliff

2 years

People who think Starmer resigning over beer wd lead to Johnson doing so: I’m genuinely baffled. No way he wdn’t try to brazen his way out & if you’re hoping his MPs oust him, why would chaos in Labour be the spur where a bonfire in their own party isn’t?

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