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Matthew Thompson

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2 years

Every so often, you remember that in April 2020, Scotland’s chief medical officer resigned because she visited her own second home, with her own immediate family.

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Speechless. Members of the public with nothing but a narwhal tusk and a fire extinguisher tackle a murderous terrorist. Heroism, pure and simple.

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Macron: "Brexit is the choice of the British people... pushed by those who predicted easy solutions... Those people are liars. They left the next day so they didn’t have to manage it." Oof. #SalzburgSummit18 #eu2018at

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Bloody hell. Asked a fairly reasonable question in the Commons, Matt Hancock replies: “I will not have this divisive language. I will not have it.” You will not have Parliamentary scrutiny? Then you may be in the wrong job, sir.

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I’m sorry but if @maitlis can’t walk outside and tell you it’s raining then what’s the point in journalism? He broke the rules. On the Barnard Castle trip at least, that is incontrovertible. Fact. Not opinion.

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NEW: Sky News understands the BBC statement on Gary Lineker is incorrect. That Lineker has not agreed to 'step back', and has instead been taken off air as he is unwilling to apologise for his comments this week on social media.

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4 years

The man with the tusk is apparently a Polish chef named Łukasz who works at Fishmongers Hall. Bloody Poles. Coming over here. Taking out our terrorists.

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3 years

Anti-lockdown protesters, including Piers Corbyn, have gathered outside court to make political statements after the sentencing of Wayne Couzens for the murder of Sarah Everard. Staggeringly inappropriate.

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5 years

John is 91 years old and has just been arrested for protesting outside the Cabinet Office. #ExtinctionRebelion @LBC

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2 years

We’re outside the UK visa application centre in Rzezsow, Poland. It’s -3 degrees. People have been waiting in this queue for 3 hours. There are children here. An 84 year old woman. And plenty of room inside, but they won’t open the door.

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For me, this was one of the defining moments of the Queen’s reign. 2011. The first British monarch to visit Ireland in 100 years. And she did this. “President, and friends,” she says, in Irish, to the visible astonishment of Mary McAleese. Still gives me goosebumps today.

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4 years

If you’re tweeting about Boris Johnson right now for any other reason than to wish him a speedy recovery, do us all a favour and put your phone away. #coronavirus

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5 years

A Trump supporter is milkshaked by a hostile crowd in Parliament Square. And then it all kicks off... @LBC #TrumpVisit #trumpprotests

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4 years

Things already escalating here on Parliament Square. Bottles and smoke bombs thrown at police. And you can see as a protestor smacks my phone out of my hand as I try to film the scuffles. Turning on journalists too. @LBC @LBCNews

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4 years

It bears repeating for those at the back. Questioning, criticising or otherwise holding to account the Government of the United Kingdom is NOT unpatriotic, or failing to sufficiently “believe in Britain”. It is the democratic duty of Members of Parliament.

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3 years

Hard to believe this is central London on a Monday night as opposed to some decadent festival. Spontaneous cheering. People quite literally dancing in the streets- the liberation is palpable.

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6 years

Middle class Oxford student stabs boyfriend with a bread knife. Avoids jail. Homeless Polish man steals somebody else's marathon number. Gets 16 weeks in jail. Go figure.

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2 years

Between 2014 and 2017, Israel is estimated to have deported around 4,000 asylum seekers to Rwanda and Uganda. Nearly every single one of them left. Many were smuggled back towards Europe, facing capture by militias, Islamic State, and a perilous crossing of the Med. (1/?)

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4 years

“If you don’t love this country, leave” says this man, an immigrant himself, to widespread applause (and not very socially distant handshakes) #Parliamentsquare @LBCNews @LBC

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3 years

Muslims who are offended by cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad being shown at Batley Grammar School have every right to let their feelings be known. But they must also know that they have absolutely no right not to be offended. Blasphemy is not a crime.

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4 years

Hi Matt. The economy is growing at its slowest rate in nearly a decade. But don't let the facts get in the way of a good election campaign eh?

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@MattHancock

4 years

Good news that the economy is growing strongly. You can’t support the NHS without a strong economy.

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4 years

Extraordinary. The PM’s official spokesman says he can’t act as a spokesman for Dominic Cummings, so all questions about Dominic Cummings’ actions need to “go somewhere else”. It’s not entirely clear where they go, if not to Number 10.

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4 years

This story is truly stranger than fiction. It now turns out that one of the people that stopped the terrorist was himself a convicted murderer, out of prison on day release. Now we’re having to ask questions about the nature of rehabilitation and redemption.

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3 years

Dear @metpoliceuk . Last weekend, my wife thinks she was drugged. She got home safe. She kept the drink. But has spent all week being passed off between you and the NHS, with nobody willing to take responsibility for testing her. Is this treating sexual violence as a "priority"?

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4 years

BREAKING: More bad news for the NHS coronavirus tracing app. Parliament's Committee on Human Rights says it is "not reassured" the app protects privacy, and that if the app doesn't prove effective, the level of data gathered may actually break the law. @LBC

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1 year

Hope you will forgive me if I am a bit less active on here, and absent from your screens for a few weeks. Some rather more pressing business to attend to... Send help 😬

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2 years

Well. What was previously a joyous atmosphere turns to a chorus of boos and whistles as Boris and Carrie Johnson walk up the steps into St Paul’s Cathedral. @LBC #Jubilee

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2 years

People in the queue here all say the same thing. If they happened to live in France, or Germany, they wouldn’t need to be here at all. They could just take their relatives with them. The U.K. has quite literally left them out in the cold.

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4 years

Several hundred people are gathered in Parliament Square, here ostensibly to protect monuments and statues from a BLM protest that is no longer happening. Heavy police presence, but so far peaceful, people mostly just drinking in the sun. No social distancing. @LBC @LBCNews

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5 years

PM has just told the Commons: "There will be no checks between Northern Ireland and GB" Two options: 1) He is being deliberately untruthful. 2) He doesn't understand the deal that he has just negotiated.

Brexit deal: NI firms must declare goods heading to rest of the UK

The Brexit secretary says there'll be no forms to fill in - then reverses his position shortly afterwards.

www.bbc.co.uk

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1 year

NHS: “An increased risk of miscarriage is not linked to your emotional state during pregnancy, such as being stressed or depressed” So he can “believe” what he likes. It doesn’t make it true. And it comes close to blaming women’s emotions for their miscarriages.

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3 years

My wife went for a run today. A man started to jog alongside her and tried to talk to her. It’s not the first time. She just wrote this, and I’m sharing with her permission.

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3 years

This is hilarious. White House style briefings scrapped by Johnson (in spite of spending £2m on a shiny new room) because... journalists might ask difficult questions?

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4 years

Blimey. Medical journal @TheLancet not pulling any punches this week. "Patients and NHS staff will die unnecessarily" "A national scandal" #coronavirus

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4 years

NEW: Nearly half of Conservative Party members (47%) think Islam is a threat to the British way of life, according to polling for charity @hopenothate And yet just 8% thought the Party had a problem with Islamophobia.

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4 years

This is extraordinary. The Conservative Party press Twitter account has renamed itself "factcheckUK" as if to give the impression it is a genuine fact checking account. Unbelievable.

CCHQ Press

@CCHQPress

4 years

. @jeremycorbyn has accepted the idea of a second independence referendum so he can do a deal with the SNP #LeadersDebate

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5 years

. @jeremycorbyn didn’t feel like answering my questions as to why he attended a State Dinner with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping but not @realDonaldTrump @LBC

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4 years

Wow. The most significant thing you'll hear today from Chris Whitty: "We have probably reached the limits of what we can do in terms of opening up as a society... The idea that we can open up everything is clearly wrong. Choices will need to be made." @LBC

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3 years

So Edwin Poots, darling of the traditionalists, is favourite to be the next DUP leader. For those who don’t know him, a short introduction to the man, in his own words (THREAD) On the age of the Earth: “My view on the earth is that it's a young earth. My view is 4000 BC.”

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NEW: TikTok prankster “Mizzy” has been fined £365 and given a Criminal Behavior Order which bans him from posting any content on social media without the express permission of people in his videos, & entering any private residential property without permission, for 2 years.

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4 years

A chorus of “Rule Britannia” breaks out amongst the protests on Parliament Square, followed by the national anthem. Things are getting a little angry again. @LBC @LBCNews

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3 years

Here’s the thing. The essay was sent to basically all journalists this morning. Getting hold of a copy is not journalism. It’s having an email address. It was issued under embargo. They have a right to be a bit miffed if you break that.

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2 years

Can we just be absolutely clear. Imposing a no fly zone on Ukraine would be an act of war by NATO against Russia. The cataclysm that would provoke would be unimaginable. Deeply unserious to be even considering it. And for prominent journalists to be earnestly suggesting it.

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5 years

NEW: Jess Phillips has just told me a man has just been arrested trying to get into her Parliamentary office, shouting that she was a fascist. @LBC

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3 years

Truly, there is no moment more “BBC” than Kirsty Wark appearing on @BBCNewsnight to say “we asked the BBC to appear on the BBC to discuss the BBC but the BBC said no.”

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4 years

You do wonder, when all this is over, whether all the people panic buying toilet roll might have developed a bit more empathy for the people fleeing war in Syria and trying to stop their kids drowning in the Mediterranean. But I doubt it.

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4 years

Are you actually kidding me? Minnesota police arrest a black CNN reporter live on air as he covers riots caused by police racism.

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2 years

What I simply fail to understand about the Government’s argument that strict visa controls for refugees are necessary to prevent Russian spies, is that if Putin wants to send spies, he’ll send spies. Salisbury or Litvinenko weren’t the result of a lax refugee policy.

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3 years

It’s standing room only in Soho this evening. A carnival atmosphere. “This is London,” one man tells me.

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Explosive revelations in the ST that suggest Braverman was warned over Manston,& may have mislead Parliament. Bombshell quote: “She knowingly wantonly and deliberately, even after receiving advice, failed to bring the Home Office back within the law”

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5 years

Labour: “We want to give all young people free university education!” TIG: “We want to conscript all young people” Tough choice for the youth vote.

National service should be compulsory for the young, says Chuka Umunna

The new Independent Group spokesman also wants more financial help for people to go to university.

metro.co.uk

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4 years

Asked what the Government’s response would be if the US authorities asked to interview Prince Andrew, @BorisJohnson tells @LBC : “that would obviously be a matter for the British Government” He is, of course, in charge of the British Government.

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3 years

Amazing. Antivax protestors storm Television Centre… which the BBC left in 2013. So they’re effectively storming the sets of Loose Women and the Graham Norton Show.

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4 years

Ouch. UK's Brexit envoy to the USA has not pulled her punches in this resignation letter. Says she can no longer "peddle half-truths on behalf of a government I do not trust" 😱

Boris Johnson's Brexit envoy to US resigns with furious attack on government 'peddling half-truths'

Alexandra Hall Hall says civil servants being asked to be not ‘fully honest’ with the public

www.independent.co.uk

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4 years

NEW: Boris Johnson says Dominic Cummings “followed the instincts of every father and every parent... and has acted responsibly, legally and with integrity” @LBC

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1 year

The Good Friday Agreement was transformational. And there's no better evidence of that than in the fabric of Belfast itself. A short thread on some of the changes my home has seen in 25 years of peace. Let's start with an obvious one. Stunning Victoria Square.

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Health Secretary Matt Hancock has refused to say he will resign if we don’t hit his target of 100,000 tests by the end of April @LBC

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2 years

@SusanlLawson I’m so very sorry. This hit me like a punch in the gut.

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3 years

Hi. This is Margaret Beckett. Margaret is a woman. Margaret was also Foreign Secretary. This isn’t hard. It’s on Wikipedia.

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3 years

Wonder why the BBC felt this person wasn’t a suitable presenter for the impartial state broadcaster? It’s baffling, frankly.

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A lot of people are asking me for a comment and here it is:

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2 years

Of course, that may be the immediate problem. But the source of the issue is a decision to use a tiny private company in a remote Polish town to process thousands of visa applications, and to maintain a highly bureaucratic visa process in the face of a humanitarian crisis.

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The queue to see the Queen lying in state at Westminster now stretches *several miles* along the Thames. It’s growing by the second. And this is just the back half of it! @SkyNews

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Absolutely brutal focus group quote in @thetimes on the last few years of Tory government: “It feels like we’ve got alcoholic parents. Everything’s crazy and then the next morning it’s suddenly ‘Let’s go and feed the ducks.’ It’s not secure enough. You can’t help but love your…

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“You’re getting married in the West of Scotland? In February? Are you mad?” *smug face*

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5 years

NEW: A London Assembly committee say Boris Johnson has now missed a deadline to provide them with information on his dealings with Jennifer Arcuri. They have the power to formally summons him. It’s a criminal offence not to attend. Sources tell me they’re minded to do so.

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4 years

Scenes. Officers from @metpoliceuk take a knee alongside #BlackLivesMatter protestors, and the crowd goes wild. @LBC @LBCNews

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3 years

@TheFreds You'd love to be at their next album sales meeting. "Sorry fellas, I'm afraid sales are down 95% on the last album." "So what you're saying is our sales rose 5%? Result!" 🤦‍♂️

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2 years

Really unusual to see an official @metpoliceuk account publicly criticising the Mayor of London... Sign of the depth of feeling within policing?

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4 years

I'm sorry but this is just the wrong call, completely. And actually just looks a bit spineless. Stand by your journalists.

BBC News Press Team

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BBC statement on last night's Newsnight

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3 years

Vice President Mike Pence confirms the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as President and Vice President of the United States. It’s over.

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1 year

Been pointed out that the wording of the BBC statement does not actually suggest Lineker had agreed. It says “the BBC has decided he will step back” Though I think you could still argue the impression given was of a more consensual decision. Source close to him objected to that

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BREAKING: The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has identified “extensive failures” by local authorities and police forces to tackle the sexual exploitation of children by grooming gangs and other networks. Some of the detail is harrowing. Graphic content warning.

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Oh dear. A hospital in Somerset has just announced it’s not taking any new patients because it has so many COVID-19 cases. Not the headlines you want as we start to ease lockdown...

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3 years

“She was just walking home” has been the rallying cry over the death of Sarah Everard. But in court today the prosecution has said there are five better words that summarise what happened to Sarah: “Deception, kidnap, rape, strangulation, fire.” @LBC

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The aftermath of the fires in Dagenham yesterday. It’s genuinely like something from a post-apocalyptic film. @SkyNews

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BREAKING: Wayne Couzens sentenced to a whole-life term for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard. He will never leave prison. @LBC

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4 years

It’s starting to lose control here on Whitehall as police are attacked with bottles, traffic cones and other objects. Some protestors appealing for calm. @LBCNews @LBC

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2 years

Imagine having an inflation take that’s so good, it changes the way the ONS measures inflation… 👏 @BootstrapCook

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Since @ONS now publish experimental inflation indices showing how different population groups experience inflation rates differently (thanks to @BootstrapCook ) we can see how inflation rates differ by income, and it isn't pretty.

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The prayer to open the US Congress ends with “Amen and Awoman” Honestly. Amen is derived from the Hebrew word אָמֵן, or āmēn, meaning truth. And has absolutely no gendered quality whatsoever. These people are dewomented.

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3 years

The UN Convention of the Law of the Sea is fairly plain. There is a duty to rescue anyone in distress. Not to turn them back because it’s politically inconvenient.

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4 years

It’s exploded into violence again as another squad of police outside Parliament is pelted with objects. @LBC @LBCNews

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3 years

Just a tank. In the middle of London. Obviously.

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“Titanic sinks after largely successful voyage”

BBC News (UK)

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27 police officers injured during largely peaceful anti-racism protests in London

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. @JoshuaRozenberg nails it live on Sky News. @KayBurley : "How would you feel if you were the PM and given bad legal advice?" JR: "If I were the PM and thought I'd been given bad legal advice I'd probably leak it to Sky News so that they could report it" 👌

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If I hear one more person say "but my mortgage rate was much higher in the 1980s/90s and we survived"... It's really simple. Houses are much more expensive now. The average cost of the current rises is about £2000. The cost of 15% rates in 1989 was £1,200 in today's money.

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Football has got halfway up the drive and realised it left its keys down the pub. #ENGCRO

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1 year

So. In fairly major job news, tonight I will be making my debut presenting @SkyNews through the night. Insomniacs of the world unite! See you at 00:00.

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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says travellers must stay 2m apart on public transport where possible. Good luck with that. The tube yesterday...

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There is a strange Venn diagram of people who think it is the natural and obvious order of things that the island of Ireland should be united as one geographic unit, and that Scotland should break away from England.

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@afneil Sure what would Strathclyde professors know about politics?

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Was it by being an isolated island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with no major international airports or transit hubs?

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In 2018, Israeli newspaper @haaretzcom tracked down six of those who had stayed, and wrote that: "All six live a meager existence in Kigali, struggling to survive." Is this "building a new life in a dynamic country" as Johnson has just said?

Asylum seekers deported from Israel to Rwanda warn those remaining: ‘Don’t come here’

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www.haaretz.com

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The final warning from Israel's experience is that after a significant public backlash, and legal intervention from the Supreme Court, the scheme fell apart.

Israel's top court slams asylum seeker deportation plan: 'Rwanda denies deal, what legal recourse...

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4 years

Or, put another way: the people who actually advise the Government on people's behaviour refusing to answer any questions about how this scandal may affect people's behaviour.

Lewis Goodall

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Now PM, Vallance and Whitty all ignoring questions about Cummings.

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BREAKING: The terrorist who killed two people before being shot dead by police on #LondonBridge was known to authorities and had connection to Islamist terror groups @LBC

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2 years

*taps mic* A small announcement. After 4 wonderful years at @LBC , the time has come to move on. Beyond excited to say I’ll be joining @SkyNews as a Correspondent at the end of June. Forever grateful to @global , and cannot wait to join one of the biggest names in the business.

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Commenting on the policy in 2017, the UN Refugee Agency said it was "concerned that these persons have not found adequate safety or a durable solution to their plight." It also said it was only aware of nine people who had stayed in Rwanda. Nine. (2/?)

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I think, in hilariously “W1A” fashion, part of the problem seems to have been BBC News’ own reporting of the BBC statement. It seemed to imply at first that Lineker was involved in the decision to “step back” Exhibit A:

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Just so we’re clear guys. Times that it’s ok to approach a woman whilst she‘s out jogging: 1) She has just dropped something. 2) She is about to run into an open sewer. 3) She is on fire. 4) Literally no other time. That’s it.

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