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Jenni Russell

4 years

The reason we're in deep trouble now: Boris was never up to the job of crisis leader. His role was figurehead. But his Cabinet can't fill the gap because they were chosen for Brexit loyalty, not competence. We're being led by bunch of inadequates. My col

Opinion | The U.K. Needs a Real Government, Not Boris Johnson’s Puppet Cabinet (Published 2020)

This prime minister has set his government up to fail. We can’t afford that right now.

www.nytimes.com

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Jenni Russell

@jennirsl

1 year

Please read; the most important piece I've written. Mass poisoning has suddenly killed off most sea life for 30 miles by the Tees. The govt claims it's natural; ind scientists warn it's manmade. The govt is desperate not to inquire too deeply as its freeport policy is at stake.

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4 years

This is the complaint I've just sent the BBC about their cowardly suspension of @maitlis from @BBCNewsnight

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6 years

Remember the total panic on Boris’ face when his side won. He didn’t expect, want or know how to do Brexit - it was just a tactic to become PM. That’s why he bottled the leadership contest, & why he’s had no ideas, just slogans, ever since. A rotten, vacant, lazy, dangerous fraud

Carl Dinnen

@carldinnen

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He’s going for it. #tomorrowspaperstoday

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5 years

Johnson is even nastier than we ever dared fear. He revealed tonight that he is the most dangerous, contemptible man in British politics. No Tory with humanity or morality should support him now.

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@jennirsl

8 years

Saddest fact is that the people who voted 'stuff you' because their lives were tough will now get stuffed. By the people who led them on.

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6 years

Boris Johnson's resignation was an act of desperation. He knows the verdict of history is about to come down on him - and bury him. My column for @nytimes . Boris Johnson Has Ruined Britain

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@jennirsl

5 years

This is just a stunt by Johnson aimed at his base - but @peston is acting as his megaphone by sending the message Johnson wants out there; that he’s defiant. The truth is: he isn’t. He complied with the law. Peston’s doing No 10’s job here rather than his own.

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@Peston

5 years

. @BorisJohnson will tonight stick two fingers up at the Benn Act by sending the letter to @eucopresident it stipulates asking for a three-month Brexit delay but refusing to sign it. He expects to see MPs in court.

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5 years

Wow, the MP Andrew Bridgen just making Rees Mogg Grenfell remarks worse; defends him by saying he’s a very clever authority figure who would not personally have accepted the advice to stay in a building on fire. Says Grenfell residents not authority, leadership figures. Appalling

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@jennirsl

4 years

Alastair Stewart is a fine journalist, and a thoroughly decent, kind, generous man. None of us know exactly why he has lost his job, but I don't believe for a second that he's a racist. He has caused unintentional offence but nobody should be sacked for a single mistake.

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1 year

What's at stake for the rest of us; the creation of sea deserts around Britain and the poisoning of the only sea we will ever have, unless we put pressure on MPs, Sunak, Coffey and the govt to transform the casual way we dig up and dump the toxic waste buried by our rivers

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4 years

1. Weeks after Russia report warned of Russia's dangerous, growing influence, Boris Johnson rewards his patron & newspaper editor, Lebedev, with a peerage giving him direct lifetime access to Britain's power networks. It's a gigantic stuff-you to the country.

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4 years

Great opening by @maitlis @esmewren - last week's govt bullying hasn't cowed them. Johnson boasts he's proud of the country's record on coronavirus. Maitlis points out Britain is world leader in excess deaths, & asks: Is that really something to be proud of?

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@BBCNewsnight

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We’re live now on @BBCTwo with Emily Maitlis – you can also watch online at #Newsnight | @maitlis

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2 years

Mordaunt is lying when she claims she was never in favour of self-id. As equalities min at 2018 Tory conf she told me transwomen were women, & refused to believe there was a threat to women's safety if any man could claim to be one in loos, jails, changing rooms. #C4LeaderDebate

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@jennirsl

4 years

Tories branding their press office as an independent fact-checking account isn't a 'daft row to pick'. It is sinister manipulation, a deliberate attempt to confuse the public, sow distrust of all politicians. @maitlis #Newsnight nailed wretched @JamesCleverly on the lies.

Laura Kuenssberg

@bbclaurak

4 years

This seems like a really daft row to pick - follow our @BBCRealityCheck or @FactCheck for actual fact checking

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@jennirsl

3 years

The EU were clear from the start that if Britain chose Brexit the EU would have to defend the single market. There would be no cherry-picking allowed. Two days before no-deal looms, leading Brexiteer suddenly grasps that the EU meant it all along.

Best for Britain

@BestForBritain

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Chair of Vote Leave, Gisela Stuart, on @SkyNews : "No Deal is not a preferred option for either side, but the solution is now a political one... We probably need to accept that their commitment to how they define the Single Market is even more fundamental than we had appreciated."

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5 years

The greatest flaw in Cummings’ strategy may be Boris Johnson’s character. The PM who loves to be loved has been shellshocked by conflict this week; defeated, humiliated, rambling. His brother’s shock resignation, I’m told, left him in tears. But he’s chained to Cummings’ plan.

New York Times Opinion

@nytopinion

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Dominic Cummings, a single-minded insurgent, is now the most powerful individual in the British government, writes @jennirsl

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5 years

Journalists refusing to be spun by access to the No 10 machine are the ones to read in this latest Brexit crisis - the fearless @BethRigby here.

Beth Rigby

@BethRigby

5 years

Unspun version 1) Govt asks for a Brexit extension as legally required by Benn Act 2) PM writes an additional letter saying why he believes a delay is a mistake and he will not negotiate one

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Disaster in the sea and a warning of more

Sixteen months ago there was a mass die-off of marine life in the North Sea off Teesside. It was an extinction event: a catastrophe on a scale no one in Britai

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Jenni Russell

@jennirsl

7 years

What was acceptable to men 15 years ago was never acceptable to the women they targeted. But men could get away with it. Until last week

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@bbclaurak

7 years

Fallon also told me 'what was acceptable 10, 15 years ago is not now'-but doesn't take the opportunity to apologise - more on @BBCNews at 10

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4 years

Why is @bbcnews sugarcoating the facts on Boris Johnson's children? Correspondent on news channel says he has 4 children with 2nd wife. It's public knowledge -after courts lifted order - that he has 5th with Helen Macintyre. Rumours of more. PM dodges truth. #borisbaby

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3. This is an immediate disaster, unfolding now, while govt pretends: no problem. We have a broken system. Our environmental safeguards are feeble fictions. The PCBs & heavy metals buried at freeport sites will poison food chains forever unless we change the way we dig & dump

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@jennirsl

5 years

Hey @BBCr4today , @BBCRadio4 , fix your headlines! 8.30 am: ‘Parliament has been suspended following raucous scenes in the Commons last night’. No! There were raucous scenes in the Commons BECAUSE Parliament was being suspended. Don’t reverse cause and eeffect!

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@jennirsl

3 years

No you haven't, @MattHancock . You've partially vaccinated them. Until they get the 2nd dose they won't be safe. You've extended the gap btw jabs from 3 to 12 weeks on no evidence. No other country is doing this & the BMA is pleading with you not to. You're fiddling the figures.

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💬 @MattHancock : "We've now vaccinated, as of this morning, three quarters of all over 80 year olds in the country and a similar number of care homes and I'm just so proud of the NHS team who are delivering on that."

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@minxlj @Jamie_Woodward_

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5 years

Grieve defeated. I despair of the Commons. So many cautious little toads putting party and career before country. we career a little closer to unplanned disaster.

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Appallingly soft cosy chaps-together interview by @peston with @BorisJohnson -johnson to Peston: you’re a brilliant journalist! we’re both Balliol men! - lots of mutual appreciative laughter but no taxing by Peston on critical points: horrible foretaste of kowtowing to come.

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@jennirsl

4 years

Thank you, @bbclaurak @Peston , and every other political reporter who refused to let Downing Street choose who could be briefed by government. That way lies craven reporting and a bullied, more ignorant press.

Heather Stewart

@GuardianHeather

4 years

Political journalists boycott No 10 briefing after PM's aide tries to ban selected reporters - live news

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1 year

Todays Times leader castigating the Government for its inadequate and secretive investigation into the marine fir-off in the Tees. It must explain itself. @theresecoffey @Mark_Spencer @RishiSunak

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@jennirsl

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Ludicrous from Johnson when journo asks him if he accepts that Cummings went for 60 mile round trip drive 'to test his eyesight'. Johnson says he now has difficulty with his eyes so believes it. What?? The new govt eye test is to go driving with your family when you can't see?

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#Newsnight - @maitlis asks manufacturer of ventilator parts: you got in touch with the government after their appeal for help - what happened next? Andrew Rayner, manufacturer: Nothing.

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Leading Tory MP on Boris: “He genuinely doesn’t give a flying fuck what the policy is... he’s never done the homework, so he doesn’t know anything. There really is no point in talking to the Prime Minister about policy at all.” Terrific by @harrytlambert

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@jennirsl

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Voters of Beaconsfield, if you detest Boris Johnson's Brexit, please vote for the only candidate who can oppose him in the Commons, @DominicGrieve1 . A vote for Labour or the Greens here is a wasted vote. Back a principled, brave man. Please RT.

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@ShippersUnbound

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Datapraxis MRP shows Dominic Grieve on 36%, 15 points behind the Tories. Lab and Greens combined currently totalling 14% Would need a shift away from Cons and a massive squeeze to save him

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2 years

Why is @ChrisMasonBBC acting as propaganda loudspeaker for Boris Johnson here? Johnson is desperately trying to create momentum & the impression he's a winner. But even @GuidoFawkes only has him at 72, including anonymous backers, against 123 for @RishiSunak . Don't do this Chris

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@ChrisMasonBBC

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NEW: I’m told Boris Johnson now has more than 100 backers and so could be on the ballot if he chooses to be

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1 year

Alastair Campbell's use of aggression rather than persuasive argument on @BBCNewsnight this week is, unfortunately, nothing new. Here he is in 2018, interrupting and talking over anyone who doesn't agree with him. It's no way to illuminate an issue or change any minds.

BBC Newsnight

@BBCNewsnight

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“You’re talking nonsense.” - Alastair Campbell to journalist Jenni Russell. “That is exactly the kind of attitude, that kind of arrogance that is going to destroy the Remain campaign.” - Jenni to Alastair @campbellclaret | @jennirsl | #newsnight |

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Presence, intelligence, integrity, forcefulness; @Keir_Starmer blasting holes in the Government’s damaging plans for Brexit. By diverging from the EU’s rules we’re heading for a thin brutal deregulating future. How I wish he was Labour’s leader. Then they might have a hope.

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@jennirsl

4 years

You should be ashamed of posting this fawning, sycophantic, ludicrous image. Good Johnson is back at work but he's a man who's was casually, lazily blind about the virus for much too long, king of nothing. Obsequious idolatry is dangerous - and very un-British.

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@halfon4harlowMP

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Good to see @BorisJohnson back at the helm!

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@jennirsl

5 years

Now Govt trying to ram through extraordinarily complex Brexit legislation, shaping all our futures, in less than 3 days. No time for MPs’ scrutiny. Remember Lisbon Treaty took 11 days’ debate, Maastricht 23. Outrageous - they want country to leap in the dark. & follow @IanDunt !

Ian Dunt

@IanDunt

5 years

This really is the most extraordinary godawful cynical Jacobin shitshow. 100 pages. No impact statements. Ministers who do not even understand if Northern Ireland will have to fill out export forms to send goods within the UK. And they want to bludgeon it through in three days.

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@jennirsl

6 years

What a liar. There’s no Brexit surplus, as Govt’s own figures show. EU membership cost c £9bn pa; Brexit will reduce govt revenue by £15bn pa. This money is coming from higher borrowing. Even then, av NHS increase from 1948 is 3.7%, this will be 3.4%. H/t @ChrisGiles_ @ifs

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@BorisJohnson

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Fantastic news on NHS funding - a down payment on the cash we will soon get back from our EU payments. #TakeBackControl #BrexitDividend

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Mothers. They're called mothers. It's the scientific term. The ones with large gametes.

Scientific American

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A study of more than 100 birthing parents showed that pregnancy and birth cause changes in brain circuits that may be involved in empathy and bonding with the child

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@jennirsl

5 years

Just imagine how different and hopeful politics would look now if we only had a credible, competent, intelligent Leader of the Opposition to confront our reckless dangerous PM. Instead of the stubborn, defiant limited, confused man we have now.

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@jennirsl

4 years

! Now we hear from @DominicRaab on @BBCr4today that the new return-to-work guidance applies from Wednesday. Not today. Simply incredible that Boris Johnson made 12 min pre-recorded speech last night which didn't say this. So incompetent.

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@jennirsl

5 years

Jesus. The deceit of this government. May: The commons must tell us what it wants. Also May; But not the cabinet. In case MPs approve something I don’t support. - She’s rigging the game while pretending the field is fair. Hope Ministers break the whip.

Heather Stewart

@GuardianHeather

5 years

NEW - Downing Street sources confirm whipping for tonight - Tory MPs will be instructed to vote against the business motion, setting up indicative votes; given free votes on the Brexit options; but cabinet ministers will (again) be ordered to abstain.

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4 years

Its now clear that it was the BBC's public censure of Emily Maitlis that provoked her into not presenting Newsnight last night. The BBC should be backing its journalists in speaking truth to power, not undermining them.

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@jennirsl

4 years

This is the complaint I've just sent the BBC about their cowardly suspension of @maitlis from @BBCNewsnight

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It’s disgraceful of Hancock to say this. Hes an intelligent man; he knows it’s a lie and one which poisons the whole Brexit debate, because voters believe it. He’s saying it only to boost his leadership chances. It’s the Boris Johnson principle.

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Why does Matt Hancock keep going on about no deal being fine? Does he not get the connection between that sort of careless talk by leadership contenders trying to ingratiate themselves with party members and the ‘just get out with no deal’ frustration of Tory voters? @BBCr4today

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Johnson signals he'll be a lapdog to Trump. Watch out, Britain; we're going to exchange a partnership of equals with EU members for a craven capitulation to whatever America demands of us. Destructive lunacy.

Boris Johnson defies calls to defend ambassador Sir Kim Darroch against Donald Trump

Boris Johnson has said that he is not embarrassed by his “good relationship” with President Trump as calls mount for him to voice support for the embattled ambassador to Washington. Mr Trump piled...

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johnson just lied about building 40 new hospitals for the second time IN THIS DEBATE - he isn't! The Tories have allocated money for six. There is some seed funding for plans for others. It's a total untruth.

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@jennirsl

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Even when he's announcing something as simple and devestating as Lockdown Two, Boris Johnson can't deliver a single sentence without stumbling and pausing. Just enraging that the man chosen as a great communicator is a muddled woffling windbag.

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5 years

Excellent by @aliceTTimes on @bbcnewsnight : Kim Darroch’s leak shows how well he was doing his job. Schools the ignorant and terrifying Brexiteer Richard Tice who claims that Darroch was naive to write frankly as he did. Diplomacy runs on frank private advice. Always has.

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@jennirsl

6 years

Let’s remember how Brexiteers reacted when Obama offered a single opinion on the consequences. Incandescent indignation. How dare he intervene. Trump’s bullying, sneering? Craven acceptance.

(((Dan Hodges)))

@DPJHodges

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The British Prime Minister has outlined her policy on Brexit. The US president has outlined his policy on Brexit. Tonight, the Brexiteers are telling the British people they must side with the US president. In the name of sovereignty.

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Biden's acceptance speech is a revelation. We saw a man transformed by power & responsibility tonight. Gone was the diffidence, the halting delivery. He was passionate, fluent, inspiring, energetic, moving & genuine. He was always decent; now he has force and fire too.

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Thank you - I was on @BBC5live to discuss No 10's Brexit strategy but @DKShrewsbury either doesn't understand it, or is embarrassed by having it exposed, so he retreated to repeated sexist insults instead. @StephenNolan showed DK's ignorance of Northern Ireland's politics, anger

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@jennirsl brilliant on 5Live just then. Had @DKShrewsbury completely rattled! Good work.

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Terrifying. Scotland's court rules Johnson lied to Queen about real reason to prorogue Parliament. No 10 briefs: BJ may defy law to deliver Brexit. Johnson deliberately undermining faith in institutions that bind us. Easy to erode; tough to rebuild.

Brexit: Scottish judges rule Parliament suspension is unlawful

Scotland's highest court says Boris Johnson, in effect, misled the Queen over the move.

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Cummings is still in power because Johnson is a puffball politician who relies on him to do the real work. Cummings' network is now so powerful that Boris is "almost a hostage" a senior Tory close to Johnson told me. Me for the NYT. #DominicCummngs

Opinion | Boris Johnson Can’t Fire His Brain (Published 2020)

How in the world did Dominic Cummings survive?

www.nytimes.com

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Repetitious tripe in @BorisJohnson ‘s resignation speech. Literally nothing new. Vacant exhortations glorious future etc. Complains Govt didn’t turn Brexit into workable plan. But it’s impossible-Boris sold UK a fantasy he never expected to deliver. And he still has no idea how

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Johnson & Cummings: inflaming hatred of Parliament & enticing voters into backing a strong man to ‘sort out the mess’. They are lighting a fire under Parliamentary democracy. They don’t care what they burn down as long as they rule the scorched earth. We are in real danger.

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Cummings: “The more hysterical remainers become with a campaign to arrest the PM unless he surrenders, the stronger our position with the country will get. Most MPs do not understand how much the country hates parliament and wants someone to sort out this mess.”

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3. This is an immediate disaster, unfolding now, while govt pretends: no problem. We have a broken system. Our environmental safeguards are feeble fictions. The PCBs & heavy metals buried at freeport sites will poison food chains forever unless we change the way we dig & dump

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The utterly inadequate characters of these men confirmed in fifty depressing minutes - I detest Boris Johnson's lies and relentless amorality; dislike Corbyn's sanctimony and lack of realism; neither are in any way the leaders we want and need now #ITVDebate

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@jennirsl

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Hooray for @jk_rowling , for @jameskirkup , for @FraserNelson who has the courage to allow his columnist to write about the truth of biological sex, and for @MForstater who cannot, the courts rule, say that sex is real. #IStandWithMayaForstater

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The tide is turning. The waves are getting bigger.

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The Times, in an excoriating attack on Johnson's character, behaviour and leadership, say this Prime Minister has to go. 'The truth is that no one in Britain or abroad can any longer trust a word this government says.

The Times view on Boris Johnson’s position: Game Over

Boris Johnson is still clinging to office in Downing Street, despite the resignations yesterday of Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, and Sajid Javid, the health secretary. That is a mistake. He has lost...

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Amazing how powerful small countries are when they have allies. & how weak medium-sized ones are when they have none. Who'd have guessed? If this comes as a shock to 'senior Tories', just wait til we're actually out. Its a cold hard world out there.

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What Trump's in love with is Kim Jong-Un's terrifying totalitarian power. Remember when Trump called him a strong guy and said he wished' his people' would sit up to attention the way Kim's did? Trump wants total obedience, applause, fear. Kim has it all.

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Rishi Sunak is doing, infinitely more than we could have imagined. This is radical, earth shaking economic support. Imagination, empathy, practicality. will work with unions to help create new ways to shore up incomes. Millions will be shaking with relief. #sunak

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May's huge error: trying to outflank Brexiteers by stealth not truth. Brave leader would've told UK: Brexit you were promised is undeliverable because it's based on lies - we must compromise or face disaster. Me for @nytopinion Theresa May a Secret Genius?

Opinion | Is Theresa May a Secret Genius? (Published 2018)

The prime minister’s allies say that she’s actually a skillful tactician. But her maneuvering may not be enough to get the country through Brexit.

www.nytimes.com

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Amoral and power-hungry, Boris Johnson is lying with knowledge, calculation and abandon. He and his advisers have made a ruthless and sinister decision — to subvert and smash up British political culture.

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2. A peerage for his brother Jo looks terrible too, but Johnson & Cummings won't care. This is a power play: supporters get the message that loyalty in media & elsewhere will be handsomely rewarded. Public distaste now doesn't matter when havefat majority, & elex in 4 yrs time.

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This is why women need single-sex spaces, and why @kemibadenoch is right to propose that the Equality Act should define sex as biological sex, not as a legal fiction.

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Couldn’t have said it better @jennirsl

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This is unbearable - every theatre, concert hall in the UK is under threat. Naked philistinism from a PM who always claims we're a great nation. Less than a billion would save them all. If you care, write to your MP, demanding the govt keeps theatre alive.

James Graham

@mrJamesGraham

4 years

Southampton’s Nuffield Theatre is closing for good. 60yrs of investment, training & serving its community. All profitable in normal times, just needed shortfall funding while closed & it didn’t come in time So sorry to the 86 made redundant, & the locals who loved their theatre

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I can't emphasise this enough. Losing tonight is Johnson's plan. 5 wks ago Tory strategists told me he'd go to country in Oct after being blocked by EU, Parly. 'Being frustrated by both sides is essential to the election Johnson plans to fight.'

Boris Johnson is fighting an undeclared election

Boris Johnson needs the Brexit Party. That’s the assumption observers make when they see the polls. With the Tory-Labour dominance broken by the rise of Farage and of the Lib Dems, the only way the...

www.thetimes.co.uk

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@jennirsl

4 years

Hopeless - UK virus tracking still failing. Just flown into Heathrow: all asked to fill in online compulsory passenger tracking form in case flight has Covid. But nobody checks so some don't bother.Passport machines can't ask. Huge contrast to Greece; checked & may be tested. ???

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@jennirsl

1 year

@andymcsmith Thank you Andy! I now discover @alextomo has been on top of this story for @Channel4News and @PrivateEyeNews has been rigorously uncovering the astounding story of the Tees freeport project for many months . Do follow @Joe_Redfern who led the challenge to govt, & @applied_marine

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@jennirsl

6 years

@JosephBCioeJr @giftedcrisisact @McAllisterDen Logic isn't sexist, but you are. It's men who make life dangerous for women. It isn't women's responsibility to prevent men attacking them.. It is men's responsibility not to be rapists.

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@jennirsl

4 years

Shockingly poor presentation by Johnson. Stagey, mannered, very hard to follow. What's the R? He doesn't explain it for anyone who hasn't been reading this stuff. Doesn't EVEN MENTION the key q everyone wants answered: when do we see family, friends again?

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@jennirsl

4 years

Superb coruscating editorial from the BMJ on how Boris Johnson and his government - fatally fumbled their way through the virus crisis. 'They were forewarned but not forearmed' .The UK’s public health response to covid-19

The UK’s public health response to covid-19

Too little, too late, too flawed The UK government and its advisers were confident that they were “well prepared” when covid-19 swept East Asia. The four-pronged plan of 3 March to contain, delay,...

www.bmj.com

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@jennirsl

4 years

Trump and Johnson; careless incompetent egotists who fought for the top job not because they hungered to do something for their country, but because of what the job would do for them; filling a psychological void within. My column:

Opinion | America, We Know What You’re Going Through (Published 2020)

The lessons from Boris Johnson’s bout with Covid.

www.nytimes.com

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@jennirsl

4 years

Speechless. Johnson claims whatever Cummings did was fine because he had good intentions and instincts. So rules, instructions and Govt laws are irrelevant. What matters are your instincts.

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@jennirsl

5 years

CONGRATULATIONS TO GINA MILLER WHO TOOK THIS THROUGH @thatginamiller

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@jennirsl

4 years

Johnson opens debate with a lie - that election is necessary because Parliament was blocking Brexit. No they weren't. MPs voted by majority of 30 to start his deal passing. He's called elex purely to get himself 5 years as PM.

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@jennirsl

4 years

Superb by @suzanne_moore adding to all the arguments bravely made by @VictoriaPeckham @HJoyceGender @Glinner @MForstater @selina_todd @jameskirkup @DebbieHayton @FionneOrlander @LordLucasCD @Docstockk @bindelj - thank you.

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@jennirsl

5 years

Have never admired @BarryGardiner before. Tonight his articulate rage and dismay on #newsnight at Johnson and the Tories' calculated strategy of accusing any opponents of betrayal and being traitors is completely compelling. @maitlis conducting great interviews.

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@jennirsl

4 years

A senior Tory, a Johnson supporter gets in touch to say he is incandescent with anger at the PM and Cummings, both. Rage at the sense that everyone else's quiet endurance and sacrifice has been belittled by Cummings' licence to break the rules.

Jim Pickard 🐋

@PickardJE

4 years

a usually apolitical friend gets in touch to say he hasn’t felt such public anger from people he knows “since the poll tax”

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@jennirsl

7 years

It's the power and influence Brexiteers promised us.

Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧

@montie

7 years

Oh dear

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@jennirsl

4 years

Fascinating sobering i/v from Germany's health minister on why they were so well-prepared for corona. Grim contrast with UK. Second grim contrast; German government prepared to come on Newsnight. Johnson's UK govt ministers have been too scared/arrogant to appear for months.

BBC Newsnight

@BBCNewsnight

4 years

Germany's health minister tells #Newsnight they took advantage of the opportunity to prepare. "We were able from the beginning to have broad testing," with a high capacity of around one million tests per week. @MarkUrban01

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@jennirsl

4 years

Who was on the private plane from London to Cannes last weekend, trying to evade the UK's lockdown and the French ban on arrivals? Why, just seven men aged 40-50, and three women aged 23-25. Nothing repellent to see here.

Hugh Sykes

@HughSykes

4 years

#CoronavirusLockdownUK #coronavirus #France More on that private jet detained in France, & forced to return to the #UK . It was publicised by French police on Thurs, and appears to have happened last Saturday.

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3 years

Excellent report from @maitlis @BBCNewsnight on the fear and apprehension in Washington in Trump's last days. "A man so scared of losing he convinced a mob that he hadn’t. Where do they go for their politics when he’s done?"

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1 year

Disaster in the sea and a warning of more

Sixteen months ago there was a mass die-off of marine life in the North Sea off Teesside. It was an extinction event: a catastrophe on a scale no one in Britai

www.thetimes.co.uk

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@jennirsl

6 years

Johnson led the country into the Brexit disaster purely to make sure he’d be PM. The gamble has failed but if he’s going down he’s determined to take Britain down with him too. A wrecked economy to match his wrecked career. What selfish malevolence.

Boris Johnson

@BorisJohnson

6 years

This is an important moment. Clearly No10 are negotiating a “backstop” that makes the UK a permanent EU colony. We cannot escape EU laws & ECJ until they allow us to – which they may never do. That’s not what the biggest majority in our history voted for #NoColonyStatus 1/4

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Runswick Bay Cottages🧡

@StayInRunswick

1 year

@jennirsl Lifeless or half dead crabs have been washing up on our beach at Runswick Bay for 2 years looking like this. The kids would go crabbing on the jetty and pull hundreds of crabs up each Summer- now there are none

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4 years

The govt's daily press conference has become an enraging exercise in fluent, complacent, platitudinous stonewalling. No answers to the important questions; just evasive promises that everything will improve sometime soon.

Only 2,000 frontline NHS staff have been tested for coronavirus

Hospitals have been forced to beg vets for testing supplies and brew their own chemicals as only 2,000 frontline staff have been formally tested for coronavirus.Some NHS labs can only carry out a...

www.thetimes.co.uk

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@jennirsl

7 years

Appalling divisive misrepresentation by the Telegraph

Nicholas Guyatt

@NicholasGuyatt

7 years

"Remember that black student yesterday, the one on the front cover, who was attacking white authors? Yeah, we made that up. Sorry."

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Huge sympathy with and admiration for @Anna_Soubry who has had to endure appalling treatment - simply for standing up for what she believes the country needs. We need brave thoughtful politicians and she is one.

Anna Soubry 🖤🤍🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇬🇧

@Anna_Soubry

5 years

Unable to campaign today as I have been giving evidence in London at a trial in Westminster Magistrates’ Court. The defendant is accused of harassing me.

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6 years

Outstanding; @IanDunt has nobly read the white paper . Verdict: we're in trouble. 'Deluded', 'vague', 'skirting round the issues instead of addressing them' - this would have been a starting point 2 years ago but this close to the end, it's terrifying.

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@jennirsl

5 years

Letwin defeat means Johnson keeps up his record of losing every single significant vote since he became PM.

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@jennirsl

4 years

Trump sounding normal. But so did Boris Johnson when first ill. One thing's sure; the White House will lie that Trump's basically fine & in charge even if he isn't, just as Downing St did with Boris. Claimed he was running country on day he nearly died. Stay sceptical.

Kasie Hunt

@kasie

4 years

First remarks from POTUS since COVID diagnosis -->

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@jennirsl

3 years

That should do it.

Standard News

@standardnews

3 years

Boris Johnson will ‘visit Scotland this week in a bid to save the union’

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@jennirsl

3 years

Trump is terrified. Last week he told his mob to march on the Capitol: 'We fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” Now with political & business empires imploding he's frantically denouncing violence. Too late.

The White House 45 Archived

@WhiteHouse45

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5 years

Yet again; the brexiteers claiming, untruthfully, that leavers were voting for a clean break in the referendum. On the contrary every leader of Leave was promising voters that they'd get good deals - whether as Norway, Switzerland, or Canada plus.

I Am Incorrigible also on Bluesky, threads & masto

@ImIncorrigible

5 years

REMINDER: @jennirsl : "Brendan [O'Neill] is rewriting history as Brexiters so often do. There was never any vote to have a clean break on Europe. The words "clean break", the words "no deal" were never used" #c4news @LBC #r4today #bbcqt #PoliticsLive #Newsnight #bbcaq

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@jennirsl

1 year

Hello @KathViner , when are you going to uphold the principles the Guardian claims to stand for - the fearless pursuit of truth? You have been craven on this issue, and have let superb journalists Suzanne Moore and @HadleyFreeman be driven out for taking a stand for women.

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