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Henry Mance

@henrymance

22 days

I interviewed Gordon Brown - possibly the model for an ex-prime minister, certainly the model for the next chancellor

Gordon Brown: ‘I really didn’t think we could go as far backwards as we’ve gone’

The former prime minister says Britain could have avoided austerity — but that politics has changed since the 1990s

www.ft.com

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Henry Mance

@henrymance

3 years

enjoying the Super League’s new knockout format

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1 year

those BBC rules in full: - Attenborough can't broadcast a show about UK nature loss. - Lineker can't tweet criticising the government. - Alan Sugar *can* tweet criticising strikes. - The BBC chair *can* be a Tory donor who didn't disclose he facilitated a loan to Boris Johnson.

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it's only a matter of time before the state funeral is postponed as a mark of respect to the Queen

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the funniest part of the second jobs saga is that some Tory MPs spent this year telling footballers to stick to their day jobs

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3 years

why not cut out the middleman and install a petrol engine?

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3 years

I'm sick and tired of waiting for Marcus Rashford to put forward a fully costed plan for social care

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3 years

calm down everyone, it's not as if the British prime minister took a private jet from a climate summit to a dinner at an all men's club with a columnist lobbying for one of his mates to be given a political favour, and then gave that political favour the very next day.

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2 years

in conclusion - the prime minister, who furiously ordered an inquiry into whether there were any parties at Downing Street during lockdown, was at a party in Downing Street during lockdown

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Priti Patel wearing an anti-bullying ribbon? What next - King Herod with a Children in Need badge?

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2 years

give Liz Truss some credit: she has put an end to all Downing Street parties - including the Conservative party

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7 months

Look, even in The Thick of It, they didn't host a party conference in Manchester while scrapping a major public transport connection to Manchester

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3 years

finally, a right-wing comedian on the BBC

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Greta Thunberg took a boat to New York. Boris Johnson took a plane to Cornwall.

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the only person to resign over Downing Street parties so far is Allegra Stratton, who a) wasn't there and b) trialled the argument that they were work events, which is now official government policy.

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7 months

Israel's president is denying the concept of innocent civilians, on the brink of a major military offensive. A very bad sign.

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2 years

Downing Street’s claim that the wine was being drunk at a staff meeting would at least explain some of its decisions in the pandemic

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that Tory culture war in full: - last week: why doesn't the unpatriotic BBC play the national anthem every day - this week: we've had to apologise to the Queen for disrepecting her dead husband

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4 years

The bloke who is too scared to be interviewed by Andrew Neil wants you to know he is bravely standing up to terrorists

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3 years

RASHFORD YOU ARE STILL A HERO

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3 years

the silver lining of lockdown is the chance to post this clip again

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4 years

Predicted grade versus Actual grade

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2 years

almost exactly a year ago, London was hit by flash floods. so yeah the Met Office is giving us warnings about heavy rain after a heatwave. this is how climate change works

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3 years

when Priti Patel calls on other European countries to do their bit...

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2 years

does not seem great that the government will be choosing a new head of the Met police at the same time that the Met police is investigating the government

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2 years

the photo of Boris Johnson with several colleagues and empty wine bottles during lockdown raises serious questions for Keir Starmer

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3 months

The Conservative party will suffer an electoral massacre if it doesn't deliver what the voters want. Unfortunately what the voters want is for the Conservatives to suffer an electoral massacre.

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3 years

I can handle the German pandemic response being better than ours, but I don’t think I can handle it being funnier

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2 years

What exactly is Boris Johnson doing about Ukraine that another Conservative prime minister could not do?

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2 years

good idea, but what if someone loses it?

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#BREAKING EU lawmakers pass law for single charger for all smartphones from 2024

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2 years

pitching article reporting article writing article tweeting about article

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4 years

I bet Dominic Cummings explicitly warned about a Kent-Surrey border in a blog written last year (and edited late this afternoon)

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3 years

i'm guessing that Cummings is now an evening-only invite to the wedding

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3 years

HELP PLEASE: I am looking to hire a Tory MP for basic jobs such as arranging meetings with ministers. Salary approx £100,000 a year for two days a month. No written contract. No need to disclose interest when working. Apply after 3pm when the rules may have changed to allow this.

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interesting how Prince Philip announces he is in hospital, but won’t allow cameras beside his hospital bed. interested in privacy but only when it suits him?

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I always wondered why Jo Brand told so many fat jokes. And here's the answer - from Georgia Pritchett's brilliant My Mess Is a Bit of a Life. How infuriating.

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£2.6m for a briefing room, and this is the podium??

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one Tory MP’s view of the leadership contest: “A circular firing squad composed of people without any weapons training.”

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3 years

Boris Johnson: when the facts change, I change my mind four weeks later

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2 years

You are cordially invited to the launch of Sue Gray’s *Report* B.Y.O.B.

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2 years

let’s remember how the mini-Budget was greeted at the time by those who have for years moaned about “the experts”, “the Establishment”, “the blob” etc etc… 1.

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4 years

Latest government message is that everyone must move on, so that Dominic Cummings doesn’t have to.

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Kwasi Kwarteng tells the BBC he doesn’t know whether the prime minister’s chief of staff is paid through a lobbying company. No follow-up questions! Glad we cleared that up.

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3 years

oh, to be a fly on the wall at tomorrow's Cobra meeting when Dominic Raab tells colleagues, 'you wouldn't believe how much we rely on the Dover-Calais crossing'

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2 years

a lot of people get that eating less meat is good for the climate. but many don't realise *how good* for 50g of protein (recommended daily amount), here are average greenhouse gas emissions - beef: 25 kg - cheese: 4 kg - chicken: 2 kg - peas: **0.2 kg** the difference is huge!

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strong statement by Matt Hancock - now let him get on with his vital work giving Covid contracts to his neighbour, hiring his best university friend as an adviser, and criticising government advisers who break social distancing rules.

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3 years

it is almost funny that Boris Johnson rejected a junk food tax and a fuel duty rise, because they would be taxes on "working people" - but wants to increase national insurance, which is literally a tax *only* on working people.

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5 years

the fourth went home alone

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Funny old world - nearly everyone who watched PMQs live thought Boris Johnson was disastrous, but watching the BBC’s 10 o’clock news, you would think he’d won it.

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- the prime minister was not aware of any allegations - he didn't even know the guy's surname was Pincher - he thought the sex-pesting was a work event - he is waiting for Sue Gray's report - he has just spoken to President Zelenskyy

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JD Sports executive chairman tells Radio 4 that Brexit is costing the company “double-digit millions” and will probably lead it to move 1,000 distribution centre jobs to the EU Is it worse than you expected? “Yes, considerably.”

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2 years

I, for one, welcome our new free speech overlord

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Britain can be a country famous for its humour, or it can be a country where TV presenters have to apologise for light-hearted comments about politicians appearing with flags. Not sure it can be both.

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Boris Johnson can’t handle a woman crossing her legs, but is the only man capable of leading the west’s fight against Vladimir Putin (editors, pls check)

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2 years

so glad that the government has responded to these news stories about parties at Downing Street by *check notes* cutting the funding of the country’s biggest news organisation

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2 years

let me get this straight - Boris Johnson’s evidence is that he can’t work when he’s on a laptop in his home, but he can work when he’s at a drinks party in his garden?

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Downing Street logic - given events in Ukraine, it is not appropriate to change the leader, but it *is* appropriate to provoke a trade war with key international allies in order to shore up the leader’s position with the right wing of his party

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Twitter exchange of the day

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imagine the media coverage if prime minister Jeremy Corbyn were presiding over queues at petrol stations

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this (from the Sunday Times) is completely damning for Dominic Raab

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4 years

The news in brief: - The civil service told Robert Jenrick to reject Richard Desmond's development. - Jenrick ignored them, and so suffered an embarrassing legal defeat. - The government wants to keep Jenrick in post, and to reform the civil service.

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2 years

who could have leaked the video

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2 months

Pointless on both channels simultaneously

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3 years

Who better to tell the public that they must follow the rules than Priti Patel, who broke the ministerial rules and faced no punishment?

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10 months

Just look at this car - 3.5 tonnes and designed with contempt for everyone else's safety. Why do we even allow them to be driven in cities?

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4 years

Another mind-boggling story about Robert Jenrick. He had a planning application rejected twice by the council, then he got elected as a Conservative MP, resubmitted it in his wife’s name, and - hey presto - Tory councillors intervened to approve it.

Tories gave Robert Jenrick home renovation the go-ahead

The housing secretary had an extension to his £2.6 million Westminster townhouse approved by Conservative councillors despite officials objecting to the scheme three times, The Times can reveal.Rob...

www.thetimes.co.uk

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4 years

If Dominic Cummings did edit an old blog so that it appeared to warn about coronavirus, it matters for three reasons: 1. It would mean he made a false statement in the press conference 2. That would question the credibility of his whole Durham story ...

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4 years

Woah, this seems far-fetched. But I have checked on the Wayback Machine and get the same result. What else could explain it?

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Excuse me while I collapse of national embarrassment

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Stanley Johnson has been accused of breaking his then wife's nose, and of inappropriate touching of two women. let's stop the jovial TV interviews with him.

Two women accuse PM's father Stanley Johnson of inappropriate touching

Two women, one of them a Tory MP, allege Stanley Johnson smacked and groped them.

www.bbc.co.uk

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It’s a tragic story - unemployed people are turning up on England’s beaches in a desperate search for work

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The government has not been able to reach a deal with Brussels or Greater Manchester. Next stop, US trade talks!

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2 years

people Boris Johnson thinks are a security risk: - Ukrainian refugees people Boris Johnson doesn’t think are a security risk: - his party-throwing Russian millionaire friend whom the head of MI6 warned was a security risk

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3 years

for some Brexiters, lorry seems to be the hardest word

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4 years

From Russia, With Leave

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well, at least we know that no Tory MP had a second job as a consultant for the eastern leg of HS2

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superb stuff from the education secretary: Gillian Keegan: The schools budget is now the highest ever. Nick Robinson: It was actually higher in 2010. Gillian Keegan: Well, 2010 was the highest year ever!

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it may take 50 years to see the benefits of Jacob Rees-Mogg as Brexit minister

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tomorrow: Boris Johnson explains that he was only singing Happy Birthday so that he knew how long to wash his hands for

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5 years

High correlation between people relaxed about no deal disruption and people intensely worried about Extinction Rebellion disruption

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very fun interview with Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary by @Philgeorgiadis

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11 months

I'm not saying Boris Johnson is unreliable, but in his resignation statement he says "I have been an MP since 2001", when in fact he wasn't an MP between 2008 and 2015.

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those 102 backers in full: Jacob Rees-Mogg Chris Pincher Stanley Johnson Downing Street’s various puff photographers Whoever paid for the wallpaper The kid who got rugby-tackled years ago The woman next to me on the flight from Dominican Republic Darius Guppy Lord Lucan

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makes you wonder why they didn’t finance the Downing Street refurb by just renting it out as an events space

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So they called Michael Gove, got £200mn in PPE contracts, lied about their involvement, made £61mn in profits from a national emergency, and stashed their share in trusts in the Isle of Man. And then they say they’ve been made scapegoats 😂😂

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the search for Brexit benefits is going worse than you possibly imagined

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1 year

- Crypto is a scam - Bitcoin is not really useful - The whole thing looks like a massive transfer of wealth from individual traders to wealthy, sophisticated investors My interview with one of crypto’s most eloquent critics, programmer Stephen Diehl:

Stephen Diehl: Crypto is the ‘commoditisation of populist anger, gambling and crime’

The software engineer has denounced crypto assets as vehicles for pure speculation. But his views have made him a target of harassment — including death threats

www.ft.com

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4 years

Am starting to think Lukashenko didn’t get 80% of the vote after all

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Protestors fill Independence Square in Minsk. #Belarus

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Dominic Raab has rejected calls for his resignation, saying he’s still technically on holiday and will deal with work matters on his return.

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today’s politics in brief: - Downing Street claims the rules were followed in its Christmas drinks parties, which turns out to mean they weren’t - Matt Hancock claims his pub landlord didn’t get a PPE contract, which turns out to mean he basically did

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Ukraine's counterattack around Kharkiv is particularly impressive given that they managed to plan it despite Britain changing prime minister

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1 year

too good

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absolutely superb. calling MPs *from his holiday* to assure them he has changed

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New: Boris Johnson has been personally calling Tory MPs from his holiday in a bid to secure their backing, @camillahmturner has been told. He promised one MP that there would be a "different culture" in Downing Street if he becomes PM again.

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I'm getting the hang of commenting on US politics - if Trump scrapes home in the electoral college, but loses popular vote in 2016, the Democrats are out of touch. - if Biden scrapes home in the electoral college, and wins popular vote in 2020, the Democrats are out of touch.

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someone please tell BBC News at Ten that Ukraine is being invaded

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3 years

Boris Johnson has the highest admiration for the Queen, and no one who followed the prorogation of parliament saga in 2019 could *possibly* doubt that.

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I have lost my diary - anyone know what happened in mid-2016?

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finally the truth about Succession! creator Jesse Armstrong says Logan’s will was underlined, NOT crossed out - if you were crossing something out, you wouldn’t start below

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. @henrymance talking to Jesse Armstrong about Succession

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Britain has granted a grand total of 50 visas to Ukrainian family members so far, and Boris Johnson is probably marching around Downing Street asking what the hold-up is with Roman Abramovich’s peerage

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Superb. The Met Office has responded to criticism from the Mail on Sunday (left) by pointing to a story from MailOnline (right)

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don’t like election rules? weaken the Electoral Commission don’t like impartial news reporting? weaken the BBC don’t like your mates being punished for breaking lobbying rules? propose a ridiculous replacement system on the same day a Tory MP is due to be suspended

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under government plans, young people won’t have to sell their home to pay for care, because they won’t own one

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