Mark Solomons @solly_mark Twitter profile

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@solly_mark

2 years

@UpshotTowers It's a far cry from the one at Orient (though, to be fair, this is from 2014). Particularly taken by a £10 fine for pinging balls before warm up.

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The fake outrage of the modern football fan. Something I've done for The Spectator.

Get a grip, YouTube hustlers. Don’t watch football with the camera on

Once upon a time, football fans used to come home from seeing their side lose, and they would shrug their shoulders, kick the cat or get roaring drunk. But now, a new generation of self-obsessed...

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@BBCRadio2 Good to see they've finally admitted what a complete unmitigated disaster that joint effort was. Whoever came up with that idea should be the one leaving.

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@stu_bot3000 @LevParikian I always felt that wigeon was named by someone who saw a pigeon nearby and couldn't be arsed to try any harder.

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6 years

@Herring1967 Edward Albee and Johann Sebastian Bach.

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2 years

I've had bylines in everything from Engineering Weekly to The Sunday Sport but this is the first time in my 127 years in journalism that I've hit the pinnacle...a byline in the Spurs matchday programme.

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5 years

@BBCArchive This is truly fantastic. The accent, the attitude, the wit and the wisdom - It could be any one of dozens of mums round our way when I was growing up. Amazing stuff.

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Well, we had a blast. No disgrace losing to a lovely and talented team. I knew we should have gone on Pointless instead. Proud of my kids. And VCM is really really lovely. That's all folks. #onlyconnect

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4 years

@Dannythefink My uncle was part of London's Jewish volunteers sent to Belsen when it was liberated. He set up 'Sam's Cafe' to feed the starving to make them fit enough to travel. Met a Polish woman. Married her.

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7 years

@SpursOfficial Can you fix it so that when the opposition are about to take a penalty, you can make that section of the pitch move 'imperceptibly' please?

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6 years

@BootstrapCook Not sure the decision to ban someone for life from a network broadcaster is his to make.

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2 years

A White Stork has landed down the road. A rarity but quite apposite. It's the national bird of Ukraine. @rspbminsmere

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2 years

Oh the joy of seeing my first Brambling in the garden this calendar year. @RSPBMinsmere

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3 years

@sturgios @FourFourTwo My brother was manager of a Co-op in Hampshire when security chased a shoplifter. As the thief got to the front door Matt Le Tissier was coming in. The thief stopped momentarily and went 'fuck me, it's Matt Le T....' before security guards pounced on him (the thief, not Matt).

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5 years

@Baddiel @daraobriain Hi, I'm a hairy biker and me and my mates often pay to go to these gigs where we'll not laugh at a single joke, get offended by the act and end up in a massive fight, spilling out into the car park where all our motorbikes will get knocked over, making us even angrier.

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@notDcfcBoss

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3 years

Lovely views of a bittern tonight @RSPBMinsmere and everyone needs a hobby.

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2 years

@piersmorgan @RMTunion Yes you have...it's because his friends have joked that he looks like him. He said as much on your show though you may not have heard him over the sound of your own voice.

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10 years

It all started with Dawson saying 'who nicked my deodorant' and Tim Sherwood going 'who'd want to smell like you' sarcastically

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9 years

@piersmorgan @itvnews Perhaps he didn't want to ask a God he doesn't believe exists to save a monarchy he doesn't believe should exist.

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3 years

Minsmere in the snow. @RSPBMinsmere

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A beautiful black adder at @RSPBMinsmere today. What a beauty.

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6 years

@SpursStatMan @SpursOfficial @WilliamHill Still better than Sissoko.

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4 years

@TheSun @piersmorgan Haven't we suffered enough?

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4 years

Adders aplenty in @RSPBMinsmere today. Four in one batch, a lone male elsewhere. Indebted to @CRCuthbert for showing me round.

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2 years

@AdamCSharp Leigh-on-Sea pronounced Leyoncé

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7 months

@ConfedMatthew @DAaronovitch We found a mobile phone, clearly belonging to a child but it was locked ..and in German. When a text came up it allowed us to reply, giving them our number. Eventually the child's mum replied. We posted it to them in Germany. Kind to Kinder.

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3 years

@SkyNewsBreak @DJWalker11 You should refer to him as a police officer not a former police officer as he was still serving when he murdered Sarah, using his job as a means to do so.

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4 years

My first ever stone curlews and they didn't disappoint. @RSPBMinsmere @CRCuthbert @CarlBovisNature @LevParikian

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4 years

@TobyGuise @Dannythefink Or the Jewish woman who stood up in the middle of the theatre and said 'is there a doctor in the house?' to which a young man stood up and said 'I'm a doctor'. The woman replied: "I'd like you to meet my daughter, Becky."

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3 years

@john3ners There's something ironic about him being cancelled in Whitehaven.

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9 years

@suzannpettersen Well done for firing up the Americans to win. Now go hang your head in shame.

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5 years

@piersmorgan Yes, but they all like Mickey.

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@sturgios @WaterstonesPicc I've been here for the last three weeks trying to find the Jubilee line. I feel like Tom Hanks in Terminal.

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9 years

@frankieboyle On one hand we want free speech, on the other we want Lord Sugar to apologise for calling someone 'fatty'.

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11 months

@THFCHarvey18 I once liked a Beyoncé post. It didn't lead to anything (unless you count the restraining order.)

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4 years

@piersmorgan I thought you didn't approve of celebrating second place?

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2 years

@Anthony_Bonnici Good job that bloke is shutting the railing-style gates to stop the water coming in.

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6 years

@Joey7Barton @SportsBreakfast Because only former footballers have opinions that matter on this subject (in which case, I assume you won't comment on politics or music as you've never stood for election or made a record?)

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2 years

@WillieMradio We don't have much luck with cups, do we?

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4 years

@HadleyFreeman I disagree - the end result suggests anything but. So pleased Julie Andrews is the kind of person we want her to be.

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3 years

The hides are open @RSPBMinsmere and the first visitors were treated to a bittern flypast. Let the boom times begin.

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3 years

@SkySportsNews B..b...b...but you said he was going to Man City, roughly every 15 minutes for the last nine months. You spent whole matches in which Spurs weren't even playing discussing where he was going to go. Anyone would think your 'experts' were actually a bunch of charlatans.

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3 years

@AmyToosh88 @thespursweb Redknapp's inability to recognise that defenders are an important part of winning a football match is astounding.

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3 years

Have finally read @baddiel Jews Don't Count. I understand it's obligatory, along with crying at Fiddler on the Roof, supporting Spurs (debatable I know), pretending to like chopped liver and idolising La Streisand. Unfortunately it's not 'us lot' who need to read it.

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8 years

@Baddiel @richardosman Lidl Dorrit.

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5 years

@martynziegler Apparently Labour have asked him to run their in-house investigations into anti-semitism.

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2 years

@Ash_coys @JaiP72 Chelsea hate us more than anyone else and so do West Ham but that's because they haven't really got anyone else to hate as much. For Spurs fans it always has been and always will be Arsenal for reasons of geography, history and competition.

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6 years

@rosskempsell @GuidoFawkes @talkRADIO I couldn't think who he looked like at first but then I remembered...

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2 years

@sturgios Cro Meghan.

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1 year

Ash is right. Getting rid of Corbyn hasn't stopped the wave of anti-semitism from the left.

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1 year

Every week, this government decides to kick off a news story that results in British South Asians getting a deluge of online racist abuse. But I'm delighted that racism was defeated in 2019 along with that nasty man Jeremy Corbyn, well fucking done everyone.

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6 years

@piersmorgan With the added irony above it of a £5 discount voucher at your local German-owned supermarket.

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@solly_mark

3 years

Gorgeous great white egret at @RSPBMinsmere

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2 years

Top piece about the disgrace of Qatar's WC. FIFA should never be forgiven for this, nor Beckham whose avarice is greater than his desire for a knighthood it seems. But Neville and Lineker had a chance to show how genuine their humanitarian credentials really are and have failed.

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5 years

@piersmorgan @BBCBreakfast @GMB I watch GMB because sometimes I get lucky and find that nice Ben Shephard on there, letting guests get a word in edgeways.

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3 years

@dannykellywords For you the VAR is over.

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3 years

Bearded tit at Island Mere today @RSPBMinsmere

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6 years

@Herring1967 Or Barbara Bach, come to think of it.

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5 years

@nytimes Sweeping chimneys as a nipper, bless yer guvnor and no mistake, I dropped an 'apenny on the floor and the Dodger nicks it and legs it down the frog and toad. I later found out he'd used it to buy the biggest turkey in the shop for his crippled brother.

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5 years

@visualsatire It's what he would have wanted.

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2 years

Gorgeous whooper swan at Island Mere this morning @RSPBMinsmere

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4 years

@jamesdoleman @NadineDorries Perhaps she's including the Daily Mail in that after they dared to criticise Cummings.

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3 years

@DPJHodges @JamesMills1984 I think he's perfectly qualified to talk about what isn't a successful political strategy.

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5 years

@davidyelland If you were still editing the paper the subs would have changed it to 'if I were'.

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2 years

@BDStanley @ChayQuinn This once happened on the Broadmead Estate in Woodford Green when the police tried to use the lift on their way to bust a top floor drug den back in the 80s.

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3 years

@cockonball They're so rich they've even changed the spelling of Newcastle.

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2 years

Stranger the adder (that's his name), still posing for photos in November when he would normally be hibernating. Shows how mild it is. @RSPBMinsmere @whistling_joe @CRCuthbert

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2 years

Sunset last night on Saunders Hill @RSPBMinsmere

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6 years

@1alisondonnelly @lauracpowers @AmandaYeardsley @MooseAllain @JenHLewi @fechtbuch Late to this I know...but my ex-wife got our daughter's birthday wrong by one day. On her passport.

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3 years

@JoelTaylorhack @theJeremyVine I've looked at it again and Parry says minorities 'in all areas' need to be crushed. Which is still pretty damning in any context.

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@solly_mark

6 years

@piersmorgan So you lost, roughly, eight million viewers who had been watching ITV just minutes earlier?

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@solly_mark

5 years

@edmackrill @JamesCleverly Those anti-Boris, anti-Brexit, anti-Conservative MSM outlets such as the Telegraph, Mail and Express who all led on the story, you mean?

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4 years

@LittleEmUk @Dannythefink My uncle (great uncle really) was Samuel Treforrest (originally Baumwald!) and his wife Edda. Their stories were recorded for posterity by the Holocaust Centre in Washington. If you Google Treforrest the videos come up.

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4 years

One of two great white egrets on Island Mere this evening. Magnificent beast. @RSPBMinsmere @CRCuthbert

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@solly_mark

6 years

I failed my A levels but look at me now - a middle aged overweight bloke who spends a hours every day telling people to fuck off on Twitter before downing a bottle of Scotch and crying myself to sleep listening to old Smiths songs. #alevelresults2018

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3 years

@JeremyVineOn5 @theJeremyVine @MartinDaubney @SholaMos1 Her simple explanation made his rant look ridiculous.

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4 years

A first for our garden, a black redstart. Stayed for a while. @RSPBMinsmere #BreakfastBirdwatch @CRCuthbert @CarlBovisNature

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Glossy Ibis @RSPBMinsmere

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Red kite feeding on a dead bird, seen from our kitchen. @RSPBMinsmere

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For those of us who are his neighbours in rural Suffolk, Bill was one of the loudest and most articulate voices in the fight to prevent Sizewell C ruining this area. We'll miss his advocacy and wise counsel.

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Former BBC Breakfast presenter Bill Turnbull has died. He was 66. He was loved by our viewers. He was loved by his colleagues. Bill will always be remembered for his warmth, humour and being a brilliant journalist.

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@greyfoxdave @nytimes I find giving the name 'Spartacus' is best so that when they call out 'Spartacus'? everyone can do the old joke.

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@solly_mark

3 years

Got a glimpse of a golden oriole at @RSPBMinsmere tonight. That's a first.

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@solly_mark

4 years

How did your day start? Me? To the sight of a blue tit pecking to death another blue tit on the patio. Even after the victim had died, the aggressor continued to peck its eyes out and mutilate it. @RSPBMinsmere @CRCuthbert @CarlBovisNature

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3 years

I'm avoiding general Prince Philip Twitter but every mention from the people I follow has been respectful and dignified. I follow the right people it seems.

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@solly_mark

4 years

@quantick Sacked By The Useless HR #officecomplimentbeatles

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5 years

@piersmorgan The bridges were burned by the person who leaked the email.

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@solly_mark

3 years

The curlews are back. @RSPBMinsmere

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1 year

@simon_schama If you want to know what it was like to be a young girl in Auschwitz and, later, Belsen, then see this recorded interview with my great aunt Edda. She married my uncle who was among the liberators.

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2 years

At last...a national newspaper with a sensible argument against the madness of Sizewell C. The wrong tech in the wrong place at the wrong time, will take decades to build, damage what is arguably the most important wildlife reserve in Britain and paid for by all of us.

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@solly_mark

6 years

@Hippiepig @iainmartin1 @StigAbell @JohnRentoul @ladyhaja Perhaps the point is that Dyer summed up a feeling and a mood far more accurately than Britain's political columnists. Which is why so many of them are getting all uppity over it.

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@solly_mark

4 years

Young cuckoo (that's right isn't it?) has just landed on the garden fence and flown to a nearby tree. @RSPBMinsmere @CRCuthbert @jonevans61

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@solly_mark

8 years

@piersmorgan No, but it explains why the rest of us are depressed.

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5 years

@MartinPengelly The intro is possibly the worst I've ever seen in a national newspaper. Unfortunately, the rest of the piece goes downhill from there.

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@solly_mark

6 years

@AyoCaesar Back in the early 80s my friend was flashed at on London Bridge in the wee hours by a man with no trousers on. She ran off but immediately came across his trousers which he'd tucked away at the side of the pavement and threw them in the river.

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@solly_mark

3 years

My favourite ever footballer. I cried when we sold him to West Ham (I was 7). I'll probably cry during the tribute at the game today (I'm 58). Farewell Jimmy.

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5 years

@RealBetis_en @DJWalker11 @SpursOfficial Classy tweet.

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6 years

@SpursOfficial I think he may just be the nicest, humblest player we've ever had. And there's been a few over the years.

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@solly_mark

4 years

I appear to have acquired two adders in the garden now. I thought they were both female but not so sure. Anyone know from these colours? @CRCuthbert @RSPBMinsmere @jonevans61 @suffolkwildlife

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@solly_mark

4 years

Three or four times a day he comes by. I think he's seen me.

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8 years

@piersmorgan Not sure the 'insult' is worth getting upset about. Not sure the reaction is worth it either. Nor the reaction to the reaction.

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