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The video of that Thick of It quote that people are sharing.

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Well. This is spicy. Conservative MP Bob Seely makes the most of parliamentary privilege to name individual London lawyers working for Russian oligarchs and questions their morality.

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Jacob Rees Mogg wrote an article criticising lazy civil servants staying at home. It featured this photo, supposedly of empty desks in the Serious Fraud Office. Unfortunately...the photo was actually taken in Rees Mogg's own cabinet office department. It has been quietly deleted.

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Good morning Miriam Margolyes.

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Rooney's lawyer claims WhatsApp messages that would show the leaking of stories to the Sun are on a phone dropped off the side of a boat. He says it is now "lying at the bottom of sea in Davy Jones' locker". Vardy asks the court: "Who is Davy Jones?" The judge intervenes.

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"While employed by Downing Street, I was sent to the Co-op on the Strand to fill a suitcase with bottles of wine for a lockdown-busting party held at Number 10 in honour of the future deputy editor of the Sun."

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If a court has ordered your newspaper to issue a front page statement acknowledging your legal defeat to Meghan Markle, why not shove it out on the quietest news day of the year? Merry Christmas to one and all!

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The BBC, having adopted wall-to-wall Prince Philip coverage to avoid being criticised in parts of the media and politics.... has now received so many complaints about their wall-to-wall coverage they’ve set up a streamlined form to complain about it.

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Foreign developer buys London pub, is refused planning permission to replace it with flats, still orders the bulldozers in regardless and is ordered to rebuild it exactly brick-by-brick. Especially pleasing if you just keep imagining the developer’s fury.

Rising from the rubble: London pub rebuilt brick by brick after illegal bulldozing

Carlton Tavern reopens six years after planning ruling that campaigners hope will prevent developers demolishing other sites

www.theguardian.com

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Buy the fan. Every year about now you consider buying the fan. Then when you finally decide to buy the fan there are no fans left. Buy the fan.

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Right so *deep breath* it appears Geoffrey Cox spent April, while Brits were still under lockdown rules, in the Caribbean, voting in parliament over Zoom, earning £100,000s representing a tax haven island *against the British state* over corruption claims?

Geoffrey Cox earns fortune for working in tax haven

Tory MP Geoffrey Cox QC earned hundreds of thousands of pounds from a second job that saw him vote in Parliament remotely from the British Virgin Islands, a source disclosed.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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This is the most simple explanation of why everyone is feeling very tired after two years of this. (From @diamondgzrblog who is committed to old-school blogging and therefore always great.)

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Andrew Neil’s opening monologue on GB News was about how the channel wouldn’t push false narratives. Anyway an hour later there’s an uninterrupted, unchallenged to-camera monologue by host Dan Wootton on GB News about how lockdowns don’t work. This is definitely new territory.

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Not going to lie, as an ageing millennial it’s quite emotional to see the rapid growth of trend pieces blaming Gen Z for killing stuff. We carried the torch for for so long guys. It’s your turn now.

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I am watching the women football and notice that ALL the comentators are women. I also note when mens football is on there is a symobilic female comentator to cover the broadcasters arse. Should I complain there should me a male commentator in women's football

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Just got second dose of Pfizer at Science Museum in London, they’re doing them for anyone who had their first jab 21+ days ago on a walk-in basis with no need to book. It was brilliant, the staff, the volunteers were brilliant. Ten minute queue, go do it Londoners!

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Peak TV ratings during Queen's funeral BBC1: 19.5m BBC2: 2m ITV: 5.3m Sky News: 934,000 BBC News channel: 831,000 Combined peak of around 28.5m viewers on main channels, final figure will be a bit higher. Excludes streaming. Massive audience but smaller than Euro 2020 final.

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Prince Harry is… not a fan of Rebekah Brooks.

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Asked to confirm her name, Rebekah Vardy says: "It's Rebekah Vardy."

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If you're the journalist currently covering the Rebekah Vardy libel hearing who is noisily eating food while reading your article back to yourself, your microphone is still on and a high court judge is looking confused.

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It’s been a long year.

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So are A Levels happening?

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Vardy is now being asked whether she respects other people's privacy. She says she does. The court is now hearing quotes from an interview she once gave about having sex with Peter Andre: "Peter's hung like a small chipolata... the smallest trouser equipment I've ever seen."

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Streisand Effect latest.

Carrie Johnson and the curious case of the vanishing Times story

Report had claimed Boris Johnson tried to hire his now wife as chief of staff when foreign secretary, but then it was deleted

www.theguardian.com

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In a wood-panelled Victorian courtroom in central London, after almost three years of very expensive legal arguments, Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney have just taken their seats a few feet apart for their libel trial.

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Excl: Press regulator Ipso will have to rule on whether Jeremy Clarkson's column in Rupert Murdoch's Sun broke any rules. Lord Faulks, who oversees the press regulator, was due to have dinner tonight with... Rupert Murdoch at his Mayfair flat.

Press watchdog ducks Murdoch dinner date after deluge of Clarkson complaints

Exclusive: Ipso head declines private invite after receiving 12,000 complaints about Jeremy Clarkson Sun column attacking Meghan

www.theguardian.com

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Channel 4 got peak audience of 9.2m for US Open final. Real audience probably much higher if you take in those on streaming. Amazon got a load of free advertising and avoided Olympics-esque bad publicity about paywalls. And Channel 4 privatisation consultation closes on Tuesday.

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Jim Waterson

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I have been looking into Martin Branning for several years. If you would like to join the people already sharing fresh information with me then my DMs are open, my email address is jim.waterson @theguardian .com, or you can WhatsApp me directly: +447760993558

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Sun and Mail publishers examine claims against journalist Dan Wootton

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Vardy loses in of the all-time great self-inflicted legal defeats.

Rebekah Vardy loses ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel case against Coleen Rooney

Rather than clearing name, ruling leaves Vardy with legal defeat and destroyed reputation

www.theguardian.com

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And the winner of the 2021 Nostradamus Award goes to @matt for his GB News predictions from May.

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As one person who works for an MP said to me the other day: "We’ve had more emails demanding we save the Afghan dogs than emails demanding we save the Afghan people. It’s very disconcerting."

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Boris Johnson personally overruled Ben Wallace to allow Pen Farthing's animals to leave Kabul on a charter plane, friends say Friend of Farthing Dominic Dyer told Mail Plus: "Mr Johnson's wife Carrie 'most certainly had something to do with the change'"

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If you stick “energy bills close” into Google News then there’s loads of local news stories about shops and restaurants shutting down as they get their new energy bills. All of these are in recent days.

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Excl: Tory MP pleaded for lucrative Middle East work, saying he needed the money "to pay school fees". WhatsApp messages seen by the Guardian also show how he sought to use his pro-Saudi stance as as an MP to secure a second job.

Tory MP needing ‘to pay school fees’ pleaded for lucrative Middle East work

Exclusive: Daniel Kawczynski’s WhatsApp messages show he claimed to be most ‘pro-Saudi’ MP in bid to secure second job

www.theguardian.com

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Anti-Vaxx protestors storming the old BBC Television Centre to hold the BBC responsible for... vaccine passports? Either way the studios they attacked are... mainly leased by ITV to make Good Morning Britain, Lorraine, and Loose Women, so that showed them.

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David Sherborne, acting for Rooney: "What does FFS stand for?" Vardy: "Can I?" Judge: "Yes." Vardy: "For fuck's sake." Sherborne confirms he just wanted to check he understood. This is day one of a seven day trial.

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Grew up near here. Locals oppose almost every attempt to build new houses. Then are disgusted and organise campaigns when everything keeps closing because there’s no young people living there.

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Campaign to save school with no pupils

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Vardy: “If I’m honest…’ Rooney's barrister David Sherborne: “I would hope you’re honest because you’re sitting in a witness box.” (If you want to get an idea of courtroom: England's record goalscorer continues to silently sit here, staring into space, carrying his wife's bag.)

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BBC say Sajid Javid was due to do a round of broadcast interviews this morning… but is no longer available after the Christmas Party video was released.

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I don’t like putting personal things on Twitter... but in hope of encouraging the odd person... I just took three months of shared parental leave. Was apprehensive but now think people should be strongly encouraged to consider it, if you can make finances and logistics work.

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If just five Tory MPs had voted differently then Liz Truss would not have made the final ballot to be Tory leader. These were the Mail front pages from that period as they built momentum to get her over the line.

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Five hours since I asked News UK if they had any comment on Times journalist and Times Radio host Giles Coren tweeting this, deleting his tweet, then deciding to do it again with a different phrasing. No response as yet. Obviously scrutiny of tweets is a priority for UK media.

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Honestly the Oxford Street candy shop story - a giant brightly-painted scandal taking place in plain sight for years along the length of the country’s most famous shopping street - is just too perfect as a state-of-the-nation parable.

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Over £100k worth of counterfeit or illegal goods on my table seized yesterday from American Candy Shops on Oxford Street by our hard working @CityWestminster trading standards officers. As I was telling @VanessaOnAir we need landlords to take responsibility about who they let to

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Thoughts and prayers with the National Trust's social media manager after this swiftly-deleted reply to Charles Moore's claims in the Spectator.

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The National Trust is absolutely Done With Your Shit

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Look it's just a suggestion but if you're running a broadcast television channel in the UK, you might want to consider if you really want to run a political investigation on election day while polls are open. (My Ofcom compliance rates are... free!)

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Coleen Rooney is giving evidence and says she “believes” Vardy was the leaker. Hugh Tomlinson QC, for Vardy, says beliefs do not count as evidence: “You might believe Derby County might win the Premiership in two years’ time. It’s not evidence is it?” Wayne does not react.

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(General point: As a nation the U.K. really needs to stop asking the BBC complaints department to rule on all our deepest cultural issues and just go to therapy.)

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After the Guardian asked whether it was appropriate that the chairman of a supposedly independent press regulator was having dinner at Rupert Murdoch's flat, former Tory minister Lord Faulks said he would no longer attend.

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This “correction” has been pinging around BBC LGBT staff groups, as further evidence that BBC management have no idea how to handle trans issues, even within a positive feature about a quiz show.

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The BBC has confirmed the following: "We can clarify that Brain of Britain's list of women finalists included a trans woman, a detail which was not made available to the Woman's Hour team when they covered the story."

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Westminster Council blocks the pedestrianisation of Oxford Street, then can’t work out why people don’t enjoy shopping on a busy road, so instead commissions a giant scaffold mound in an attempt to get people to visit, now the mound is a financial mess.

Marble Arch Mound: Deputy leader resigns amid spiralling costs

Westminster Council's Melvyn Caplan steps down after total costs nearly doubled to £6m.

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Sir Robbie Gibb's brother-in-law put on the interview panel for Ofcom chair, ahead of Paul Dacre's second attempt at passing the vetting process.

Ex-Tory adviser married to Tory MP will help choose Ofcom chair

Michael Simmonds to join interview panel as ‘independent member’, with Paul Dacre favoured for the role

www.theguardian.com

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When Captchas go too far: I cannot access tracking details for my Royal Mail parcel because apparently I cannot accurately discern what constitutes a “smiling dog”.

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You’d have to be a very bad person to laugh at Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, and Will Ferrell flying in to watch Wrexham at Wembley, struggle to understand the offside rule, and then lose the fairytale ending to the documentary they’re making… because they lost to Bromley.

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This, strangely, has not been widely reported -Sienna Miller believes Rebekah Brooks learned of the actor’s pregnancy through illegal means -Miller says the Sun editor knew before her friends knew -News UK tried to stop us reporting on this court hearing

Sienna Miller says Sun used ‘illegal means’ to find out pregnancy

Actor tells high court about her view of how details were discovered, which the publisher denies

www.theguardian.com

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Southwark council recycling centre has cancelled its open day, where you get to see what happens to your bins, as “a mark of respect” to the Queen.

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@RossMcCaff The audiobook is going to be one of the most memeable things around. All these damning newspaper articles are no match for the tiktok gold of the man himself reading this out.

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Boris Johnson's register of MP's interests is so chaotic. Last month it was "£275k for a speech" and "Rupert Murdoch flew me to Montana". This week it's "The JCB man is paying my family's rent and the Kurdistan President gave me a second-hand bicycle."

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People actually watched Piers Morgan's show last night. Got 334,000 viewers for Cristiano Ronaldo interview part one. Just behind BBC4's repeat of the Secret Life of Farm Animals, which got 337,000 viewers in the same timeslot.

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Thinking of people refusing to watch at this difficult time.

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Well it’s certainly different.

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Piers Morgan down further to 59k viewers on talkTV. Being beaten by Nigel Farage (74k) and Dan Wootton (75k) on GB News.

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The courts hears comments made by Vardy in the aftermath of the original leak accusation: “Arguing with Coleen is like arguing with a pigeon. You can tell it that you are right and it is wrong but it’s still going to shit in your hair.” Coleen Rooney looks on intently.

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American TV channels going “look if we’re going to report from Scotland our viewers are gonna wanna see a big castle”.

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I’m now reporting from Edinburgh in Scotland where 20,000 world leaders and delegates have gathered for the COP26 Climate Summit. COP, by the way, stands for “Conference of the Parties.” It’s the 26th time they have gathered to discuss and take action on this critical issue.

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Daniel Morgan murder investigation panel refuse to hand over their report to Priti Patel for vetting.

Daniel Morgan murder: panel refuses to hand over report

Priti Patel demanded that findings be handed over prior to publication

www.theguardian.com

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Will be voting for the Serbian entry because too many countries are getting slick and knowing and we need to fight a rearguard action to defend utterly insane stuff in #Eurovision .

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Wagatha Christie libel verdict tomorrow at noon…

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Hang on, I thought this "Chris Pincher stands down as Tory whip" story sounded familiar. From 2017:

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What’s particularly crazy about this story is the sheer ferocity and fury from GB News viewers demanding presenter Guto Harri be cancelled. They kept it up for days until channel bosses decided they had to act.

GB News shows attracted zero viewers after boycott over taking the knee

Channel label Guto Harri’s on-air gesture in solidarity against racist abuse suffered by the England team ‘unacceptable’

www.theguardian.com

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Nothing quite like hearing a highly-paid lawyer, in the hallowed surroundings of a wood-panelled Victorian courtroom, carefully enunciate Rebekah Vardy's private messages about Coleen Rooney: "What a cunt, I'm going to message her.... that cunt needs to get over herself."

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Sienna Miller outside court said she had wanted to take the Sun to trial - but could not afford the risk of millions in costs. “They very nearly ruined my life.” Names Rebekah Brooks. Says she hopes someone with more money than her can take the newspaper to trial.

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Government ministers are seriously unlucky with their phones breaking beyond the point of data recovery when asked to hand over their messages. Even unluckier if their iCloud backup was either switched off or failed at the same moment!

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Television news ratings last night have been *way* up on normal this week, people are actively tuning in for the latest on the Downing Street parties. BBC News at Six pushing 5m viewers, News at Ten on 4m, Newsnight and Question Time all benefitting.

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Latest on GB News… Guto Harri suspended for taking knee… senior staff leaving… rumours of more to follow… talk of relaunch with rejigged presenters… channel facing choice between mainstream-style news with a right-wing twist or going full culture war

GB News in crisis as exec quits and presenter is pulled for ‘taking the knee’

Director of programming at rightwing TV channel resigns and Guto Harri taken off air after viewer backlash

www.theguardian.com

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It’s easy to mock “bring back pounds and ounces” as government policy. But you could build an election-winning manifesto around those boomer Facebook memes: “Who remembers when we could play in the street, every meal was a pint of spam, and we were beaten until we were happy?”

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Hahaha absolute boss move to have an entire recruitment process re-run for your benefit, make the government look daft for a year, and then say your won’t apply again because the system is rigged against you. PERFECT.

Jake Kanter

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BREAK: Paul Dacre is OUT of the race to become Ofcom chair. In a blistering letter to The Times, he takes a swipe at just about everyone after his "infelicitous dalliance with the Blob".

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MailOnline has activated the Dad's Army graphics tools.

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The court says the loss of the WhatsApp messages between Vardy and her agent was "deliberate rather than accidental". Essentially the judge did not accept that a mobile phone accidentally fell over the side of a boat in the North Sea shortly after a request was made to search it.

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Can anyone explain why they’re suing Aldi’s Colin and not - to quote from the piece - “Waitrose's Cecil, Sainsbury's Wiggles, Tesco's Curly, and Asda's Clyde the Caterpillar”?

BBC News (UK)

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M&S begins legal action against Aldi over Colin the Caterpillar cake 🐛

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Imagine running as a paper candidate as a favour, going to bed all happy, then being woken up in the middle of the night with the words “you’ve got to attend council meetings for the next four years”.

Richard Osley

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So close in what is supposed to be Tory stronghold in Hampstead Town. Labour may even have won a seat and have to get their candidate out of bed in time be here for a declaration. They didn’t do any work so candidate was told he wouldn’t be needed here.

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Just leaving here for future use as a reaction image.

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Take a load of already sold-out trains carrying people to their families for Christmas, cancel a load of them due to staff getting Covid, cram everyone from plague central London onto the remaining trains, see what happens.

UK train services hit ahead of Christmas as Covid causes staff shortages

Operators across the country announce cancellations and reduced capacity amid Omicron surge

www.theguardian.com

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Separate, but related: British newspapers have negotiated a specific opt-out from forthcoming online harms legislation for the (often anonymous) comment sections on news websites.

Marie Le Conte

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every politician coming out in favour of banning anonymity on the internet should also give up the right to ever give an unattributed quote to the press, IMO

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If you know, you know how this man was a legend.

Harry Gration: Ex-BBC Look North presenter dies, aged 71

The 71-year-old broadcaster's wife pays tribute to her husband, saying "he will forever be with us".

www.bbc.co.uk

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It’s just a little thing but millions of people just got a push alert talking about “cost of living” rather than an abstract concept called “inflation”. Which is much clearer!

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Netflix have bought the Roald Dahl estate and everything associated with Roald Dahl. Prepare for Dahl-themed everything.

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London to get 4G mobile coverage in all underground tunnels and tube stations by 2024, as part of Sadiq Khan’s war on the Evening Standard print edition.

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LBC is currently deconstructing Boris Johnson's claim Keir Starmer should have prosecuted Jimmy Savile. I'll be honest all I'm hearing are the words "KEIR STARMER JIMMY SAVILE" an awful lot.

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A 30% cut is also what Deliveroo charges many restaurant owners, so I guess they now know how it feels.

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Deliveroo tumbles 30% in London debut

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Prince Harry, Baroness Lawrence, Elton John, David Furnish, Liz Hurley, and Sadie Frost have collectively launched legal action against Associated Newspapers. They allege misuse of their private information by the publisher of the Mail, Mail on Sunday, and MailOnline.

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“A ‘heavy tweeter’ is defined as someone who logs in to Twitter six or seven days a week and tweets about three to four times a week.” 👀

Sheila Dang

@Sheila_Dang

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NEW: Twitter is struggling to keep its most active users - what it calls "heavy tweeters" - engaged on the platform, according to internal docs. It is the most important type of user. They are less than 10% of all users but account for 50% of revenue

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Jim Waterson

@jimwaterson

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Channel 4, back against wall battling privatisation, pays seven figures to Amazon to put US Open on free TV. Which is a win for Channel 4 trying to show relevance, for Amazon who get publicity and look nice, and stuffs the BBC who have only got highlights.

Emma Raducanu’s US Open final to be shown free-to-air in UK on Channel 4

Channel 4 have struck a late deal with Amazon Prime to show Emma Raducanu’s US Open final against Leylah Fernandez live on free-to-air terrestrial TV in the UK

www.theguardian.com

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Jim Waterson

@jimwaterson

2 years

The high court ordered notice of Meghan Markle’s legal defeat to appear on the front page of MailOnline for a week. It’s quite well hidden. (Also for fans of UK court reporting, this is probably the only time BAILII will feature on the front of MailOnline.)

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Jim Waterson

@jimwaterson

3 years

Our country has just poured a beer over itself for finishing dead last and been cheered for it. #Eurovision

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Jim Waterson

@jimwaterson

3 years

Uhhhhh BBC climate change quiz where is “simply stop people driving cars to make space on the roads for lovely cheaper public transport, because private car ownership is bad and annoying and stressful unless you live in the middle of nowhere”.

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Jim Waterson

@jimwaterson

2 years

Soooo there's a puff piece on the BBC homepage about a 20-year-old who claims he turned £50 into £5.9m within nine months (a 11,799,900% return!). Also says he set up a crypto coin without mentioning it shut down in October? Many questions!

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Jim Waterson

@jimwaterson

2 years

More on how royal family quietly exerts control over British TV coverage of the royals, complete with WhatsApp groups signing off footage and now a battle over the historic record.

UK broadcasters battle monarchy over control of Queen’s memorial footage

Palace has said TV channels can only retain an hour of footage from events during the mourning period

www.theguardian.com

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Jim Waterson

@jimwaterson

2 years

1929 warning sign: Shoe shine boy giving stock tips. 2022 warning sign: Guys on TikTok teaching you how to attain the passive income lifestyle by buying whole streets of terraced houses using illegally obtained 95% mortgages.

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Jim Waterson

@jimwaterson

2 years

The big public health message that Sajid Javid was supposed to promote to millions of people on TV/radio this morning… but now won’t, due to the Christmas party story.

Paul Mainwood

@PaulMainwood

2 years

If you are over 40 the nhs booking system now allows you to book 3 months out. Or rebook if you already gave an appointment. Text on site may not have updated yet, but you can.

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Jim Waterson

@jimwaterson

3 years

In an alternate reality the Daily Telegraph never ran this story.

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Jim Waterson

@jimwaterson

2 years

Storm media thing: loads of the footage you see on mainstream outlets of planes struggling to land at Heathrow comes from this one YouTube livestream account run by a very excited guy shouting “WOOAAAHHH”.

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Jim Waterson

@jimwaterson

3 years

Given millennials will soon split into two groups who either: a) get large housing-related inheritances from parents b) don’t Then upping a tax targeting younger working age people - in order to help wealthier old people keep their houses - seems bold!

Ministers mull national insurance rise to fund social care

Boris Johnson refuses to recommit to Tory manifesto promise not to raise taxes

www.theguardian.com

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