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Ben Ando

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9 months

We’re one of the world’s richest nations and part of the G8. But our aircraft carriers don’t work, we can’t build a train line, our roads are full of potholes, we can’t pay our doctors and young people can’t afford homes. Where the fuck is all the money?

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2 years

I mean, thanks for three decades of peerless easy radio but this is total shit. Losing a talent like this, after the Steve Wright disaster, surely means someone has seriously dropped the ball in ⁦ @BBCRadio2 ⁩

Ken Bruce to leave BBC Radio 2 show after 31 years and join Greatest Hits

The long-serving DJ says it's "time for a change" and he'll join rival station Greatest Hits Radio.

www.bbc.co.uk

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2 years

@ArchRose90 @vivjones10 Maybe she’s just being courteous? I’ve been in public situations with people I don’t like but I don’t have a hissy fit about it.

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@BenAndo

3 years

@bojack90s Akshata Murty is worth £27bn and went to all that trouble to avoid £20m tax. Thats the same as having £27,000 in the bank and dodging paying 20 quid. It’s greed.

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4 years

Am I a horrible person for finding some of the Captain Sir Tom stuff a bit mawkish, and thinking the PM leading a ‘national clap’ is slightly distasteful?

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@BenAndo

2 years

I’ve given @BBCRadio2 and Scott Mills a try. I really have. But it’s just… dull. No spark. Like vanilla radio blancmange. The sell seems to be ‘yeah Scott may be dull but plays great music!’ Thing is, I can get great music on Spotify; radio is about much more than the music.

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@BenAndo

1 year

Is it time to ban this on dual carriageways? Stressful and tedious.

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1 year

Best Twitter exchange ever…

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Ben Ando

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2 years

@ArmendarizDis16 It was a single shot hunting rifle, not an automatic weapon. It’s only the second such incident in 7 years. Actually, it kind of proves European gun laws do work. At least better than the insane free-for-all in the US.

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1 year

Got to admit it’s good to hear Steve Wright back on @BBCRadio2 today. Wasn’t expecting it. But every link so natural. Just feels so.. err… right?

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Ben Ando

@BenAndo

5 years

The incomparable @afneil skewers another politician...

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5 years

Yowza. Tory Minister comes on to attack Labour's plans to build 100,000 Council Homes and walks straight into Andrew Neil's trap. Beautiful television.

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1 year

@oflynnsocial It’s called global warming for a reason. Britain, in northern latitudes, may not become intolerably hot but are you ready for the mass migration of millions displaced from more southern latitudes that do?

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10 months

UK average salary in 2023 is £34.9k. Average salary in 2003 was £21k, which adjusted for inflation would be £36.5k now. Working is less worthwhile than it was two decades ago. Yet billionaire wealth has increased by 1000% since 1990. All I want for Christmas is a pitchfork.

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4 years

I can’t be the only one who hasn’t watched Strictly and doesn’t give a shit about it.

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@BenAndo

2 years

BBC managers, just put this out: “The BBC employs many individuals with strident political views. Unless they are specifically employed to present or report on political programming these are irrelevant to their role with the BBC if expressed elsewhere.’

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Ben Ando

@BenAndo

7 years

@PeterKGeoghegan Having reported from Northern Ireland both during the troubles and since, I believe emphatically that the Good Friday Agreement has NOT failed and is arguably one of the very few real achievements any of our politicians have managed in the last quarter century.

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2 years

Let us never forget today is the anniversary of what will probably be the greatest apology in the history of journalism.

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7 years

@toryboypierce I'm a commuter - and suffering due to decades of under-investment in the rail system. I say well done to the engineering unions for negotiating a decent rate for doing an important, tough job on a day when most would prefer to be at home.

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3 years

@NadineDorries This boils my piss. The Government of the day does not ‘own’ anything. It is a custodian. Channel 4’s output is wonderfully different to that of the big streamers. Nothing is holding it back. It is doing well. It isn’t broken. It doesn’t need ‘fixing.’

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11 months

A short article about my career change. Working for the BBC was great but, for those facing an uncertain future there now, I promise it’s not the be-all and end-all…

From News Correspondent to Model Trains

What work were you doing previously? I was a BBC News TV/Radio correspondent. What are you doing now? I’m now the Director

www.careershifters.org

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@BenAndo

3 months

Is it just me or is this the most tedious turgid shit ever? #ClosingCeremony #Paris2024

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@BenAndo

10 months

Got a long drive. Thought I’d try @BBCRadio2 again. But all I can hear is Scott Mills drivelling on about himself and his boring panto. Can’t he find anything else to talk about? This is utterly tedious. If you have no personality, that’s ok but at least play some music.

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Ben Ando

@BenAndo

6 years

#GreenForGrenfell Downing Street goes green to mark one year since the Grenfell Tower disaster.

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@BenAndo

4 years

I know it’s only Monday but I really feel like going to a pub and getting pissed.

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@BenAndo

2 years

@Practical_Phil @BBCRadio2 He is carrying on - albeit on another station. The issue for me is timing, coming so soon after the Steve Wright fiasco. To lose one enormously popular, multi-award winning broadcaster may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like management carelessness.

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Ben Ando

@BenAndo

9 years

Huge Chinook helicopter hovers over Fosse Barrier in York delivering vital equipment needed for repairs. #floods

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@BenAndo

3 years

@BBCLondonNews Correction - it’s not “the right thing”. It’s just a thing. Why on earth would you continue to wear a mask when you don’t have to?

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1 year

Delighted to be able to join @DBCargoUK and @DraxGroup supporting @MartinHouseCH naming 66190 in its honour.

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@BenAndo

3 years

@rickygervais “The person who never made a mistake never made anything.”

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@BenAndo

8 years

Is this the moment Chelsea win the league for @LCFC - who were 5000-1 outsiders at the start of the season?

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@BenAndo

5 years

Small section of ceiling collapses at London’s Piccadilly theatre. Show halted and theatre evacuated. No one seriously hurt.

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@BenAndo

6 months

We need train drivers. We need bus drivers and HGV drivers. We need these workers to keep our society moving. So why is there a recruitment crisis? Maybe if MPs had to use public transport they’d start talking these industries up instead of decrying them.

Teenagers could help fill train driver shortage

The government has put forward plans to reduce the age to qualify as a train driver from 20 to 18.

www.bbc.com

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2 years

Andrew is a brilliant journalist and this para struck me: “But it has been part of the genius of the current Tory Government that the quality of so many public services is now so low that it's not always immediately apparent which days are strike days and which days are not.”

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@afneil

2 years

Strikes are proving unions no longer have power to paralyse the nation via @MailOnline

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4 months

Democratic mandate exercised. Whatever your views, I urge you to vote. It’s what our forefathers fought and, in many cases, died for.

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3 years

@MrTimDunn Sorry Tim but it’s a mess. It is less than the sum of its parts. It takes two fine symbols - the BR logo and the union flag - and combines them in a way that diminishes both. It’s like roast potatoes and ice cream - delicious individually but not together.

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3 years

Incidentally, most of Europe imposes a licence fee. In Switzerland, for example, it’s the equivalent of £292, or nearly twice that in the UK. Nothing against Swiss TV or radio but is it a worldwide brand that everyone has heard of and, largely, respects? #fundthebbc

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1 year

How very sad. George was a fine journalist and a gracious colleague.

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1 year

Ten people - TEN - now have the same combined wealth as the poorest 3 billion. How can that be anything other than wrong?

GET A GRIP

@docrussjackson

1 year

1990: 15 billionaires in UK. 2023: 177 billionaires in UK. 2000: globally, 470 billionaires, worth a total of just under $1tn. 2023: 2,500+ billionaires, collectively worth over $12tn. 2023: 66% of ALL new wealth ($26tn) created since pandemic began went to world's richest 1%.

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1 year

@andreajenkyns ‘Had this *of* happened…’ ?? Who wrote this tripe, and didn’t you proof it?

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1 year

I’m really sorry to hear about Huw’s troubles. In my time at the BBC he was never anything other than a brilliant journalist and presenter and a considerate and thoroughly decent colleague.

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@BenAndo

2 years

Trying to think of anything in the UK that’s definitely improved in the last decade. Public Transport? No. Healthcare? No. Personal freedom? No. Living standards? For most, no. Social care? No. Anything?

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5 months

@kelvmackenzie Balmy ideas would be lovely. Barmy, not so much. Of course barmy is what anyone is if they truly believe the Conservatives have anything left after 14 years. They’re stale and complacent. It seems to me their race is run. A period in opposition is healthy every now and then.

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@BenAndo

3 months

@DrEilidhMaria @gw_emily Which means you’re both underpaid. Those at the top love it when the worker ants fight amongst themselves.

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@BenAndo

2 years

@AlStewartOBE The obvious answer is to have a universal basic benefit that everyone gets - enough to pay for food and rent. Then anything you earn on top is a bonus.

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@BenAndo

3 years

I am out on the piss. Just spat into a urinal. Feels great. Off to get a burger. Fuck you all. 😂

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@BenAndo

2 years

@BBCNews They don’t. When I was a BBC reporter I understood I could tweet about, say, football but not about anything remotely newsy or politically opinionated. But his BBC role has no intersection with news or politics and he can tweet what he likes.

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1 year

@Rod__Mason So what transmissions from the moon were the Soviets picking up? You don’t think that if Americans weren’t there they’d have played along?

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@BenAndo

2 months

@kelvmackenzie I’m an atheist who thinks the monarchy is an outdated anachronism. I’d stand for the anthem but those lyrics don’t work for me. And he’s hired to coach football, not sing. Who honestly cares apart from a handful of right wing bed-wetters who want to take offence at anything?

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2 years

My (grown up) children mock me for calling all fizzy drinks ‘pop’. Is that a regional thing (Midlands), a generational thing (mid 50s eg ‘old’) or just a me thing? @muddyanod @jf_ando

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9 months

Oh no no no no… Steve Wright: Radio 2 presenter dies aged 69 - BBC News

Steve Wright: BBC Radio 2 presenter dies aged 69

The DJ hosted programmes on the BBC for more than four decades, including his popular afternoon show.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ben Ando

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1 year

Just heard that UK Defence Secretary - in our big moment on the international stage – tell Ukraine that Britain is not ‘like Amazon’ when it comes to requesting weapons. We really are becoming a sad, petty little country, led by sad, petty little men aren’t we?

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4 years

He’s right, isn’t he?

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7 months

@LizWebsterSBF @The_ChrisShaw I agree, but the thorny truth is that most farmers voted to leave. They allowed greed to cloud their judgement, and can hardly be surprised if there is a little sympathy now as they – ironically – reap what they sowed.

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1 year

I get Eurovision is popular, and I’ve no issue with it dominating BBC1 and BBC radio for the last month, but why is it being featured on @BBCNews virtually every day? It was news when Liverpool was announced as host city, and the result will (arguably) be news. That’s all.

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1 year

Thanks @theJeremyVine for allowing us on your show to talk model trains. They don’t call it the world’s greatest hobby for nothing! @mikejhale @baby_pendo

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10 days

@sophielouisecc I’m struggling to see how a middle aged mum with kids who’s never been in trouble in her life decided to urge 300,000 people to set fire to a crowded hotel potentially trapping men, women and children. But here we are.

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@MatthewStadlen I’d give them 7/10. Lots to go obvs, but they’ve hit the ground jogging, at least. WFA and improving ties with the EU and China obvs priorities. And they handled the summer unrest very well and resolved the doctors’ and train drivers’ disputes. But there is much still to do.

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@BenAndo

3 months

@Adrian_Hilton @Fox_Claire @Nigel_Farage It’s a bit ‘used-car salesman’ for me. Ironically *too* smooth. All the patter but none of the matter.

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7 years

Worst. Valentines. Ever.

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10 years

Demonstrators near the Israeli embassy in Kensington, London, protesting against missile strikes on Gaza. http://t.co/A5yb85LyUI

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2 years

@danwootton I’m not saying there was no booing but all I could hear were cheers.

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7 years

Greetings from Kensington palace where the BBC has deployed a team with baby-look hairdos for live breakfast reports on Prince Whatsisname...

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2 years

Scottish Times sub-ed had a bit of a shocker…

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2 years

A long list of who’s to blame…

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3 months

@trussliz I think you have mistaken yourself for someone who is still relevant.

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3 years

2022: Please don’t be memorable. Just be routine and ordinary. I’m all unprecedented-out.

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2 years

@Tankslider @BBCRadio2 Or maybe you just weren’t ready for Radio 2? Why leave radio 1 if that’s the music and style you like?

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@BenAndo

2 years

@helensaxby11 @jennirsl @sussex_police At the time the offences were committed the culprit was male. The headline should read: “Man who carried out sex assaults on children now convicted.” That is accurate, and that he has now transitioned should be clarified in the second par.

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2 years

@THEJamesWhale @helen_spirit1 The one Brexit benefit I’ve seen is that without a supply of instant cheap labour workers can stand up for themselves. Remember if wages had kept up with house prices since 1970 the ave salary now would be £84k. Capitalism has redistributed wealth from workers to asset hoarders.

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10 months

The Daily Express - which championed Brexit - is now aghast the EU is creating integrated transport plans for the, err, EU. Of course, if we were still in the EU the Express would accuse Brussels of trying to ‘dictate transport policy to the UK…’

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4 years

@kelvmackenzie Good for her. My takeaway from that is that all remuneration should be taxed. What are ‘dividends’ even for anyway? Are they for anything other than avoiding tax on income?

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2 years

Lest we forget the nonsense that was spouted. It’s a tough call but I think my own favourite remains Davis’s ‘no downside… only a considerable upside.’ What’s yours?

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2 years

This is true isn’t it?

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5 months

Rishi Sunak just told BBC news he had to leave the D-day event early because his itinerary was planned ‘weeks ago.’ So it was never intended that our prime minister would stand shoulder to shoulder with Presidents Biden and Macron? I find that hard to believe. It’s pathetic.

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3 years

@20S0mething @robinince So what you’ll get then is full fat Conservative forever. To win a majority - esp with FPTP - you need a broad church. To get in power Labour needs to reach left-centre ground. That may be right of where you are personally, but it’s better than where we all are now isn’t it?

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9 years

Tweet from one of those who survived Anders #Breivik 's murderous attack on Utoya island in 2011...

Bjørn Ihler

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Our best weapon in fighting extremism is humanity. The ruling in the #Breivik case shows that we acknowledge the humanity of extremists too

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9 months

If I was interested in the traitors, I would watch the show. I don’t, because I’m not. Please @BBCRadio2 can we just play music and stop banging on about it. For the majority of listeners who weren’t viewers it is utterly tedious.

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6 months

@confidencenac So… because she’s a well-known and outspoken senior opposition member who’s often asked for her views, whereas he’s an anonymous journeyman backbencher, the rules should be different? This takes double standards to preposterous levels even for you!

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2 years

@Liberalsnowfl19 @Practical_Phil @BBCRadio2 I’ve tried listening to Scott Mills. I’m sure he’s a nice guy and he’s competent enough but he’s just dull. No wit when talking to guests. It’s that undefinable edge that some have. Sadly, he doesn’t.

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3 months

@implausibleblog @Paul68958640 Come on. To evade the strict rules on impartiality governing news channels in the UK GB News claims not to be a news channel. So you can hardly be surprised that the Chancellor feels no obligation to appear. This is the lane you’ve chosen. Own it.

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2 years

@BBCNews “A slap in the face for right wing opinion formers who don’t believe in free speech and don’t want any other view permitted.’ Fixed it for you.

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2 years

@beanbaby111 @woodwindmark @BusterPell @AnAndrewBrown @frdragonspouse @RMTunion He’s on £84k. Fun fact: if wages had kept pace with house prices since 1970 then the *average* UK salary now would also be £84k. Instead we’ve got a gig economy and average earnings of £35k. Free-market capitalism values work far less than simply holding property/assets.

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3 years

@WelshChris1 @Matt_Mark2 I can still hear them, though I left the BBC nearly two years ago… 😂

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4 years

Just received my @ltmuseum District Line moquette cushion to inaugurate 2021 - the international year of the geek.

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2 years

@HelenBarbaraSmi @Peston So… you’re saying you voted leave and, because of the opposition of the media, judiciary, academia , HoC and HoL, Brexit didn’t happen? As an unapologetic remainer that’s wonderful news - the last six years must’ve been just a bad dream.

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2 months

I feel like I’m the only fifty-something in the world who doesn’t give a shit whether Oasis reform or not. #square #grumpyoldman

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2 years

Your regular reminder that if you have political views but think the BBC isn’t impartial you’re like the football fan who accuses the ref of bias when he awards a penalty against your side, but don’t mind winning a dubious one at the other end…

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2 years

@stickofrock @BBCRadio2 Only every time I put on R2 in the afternoon. But increasingly I don’t bother.

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1 year

Are we going to wake up to the possibility that while private enterprise is great for making cars or running a restaurant, the overriding drive for profit/share dividends by capitalism makes it unsuitable for essential infrastructure such as water supply?

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7 months

@DCBMEP ‘Back on track?’ On track to where? From where I’m sitting the once fiscally respected, globally-minded and law-upholding Conservative Party was careering towards a far-right, ultra libertarian cliff and no one is at the wheel!

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3 years

@UKSpunkyMonkey @gordoncraig11 @NadineDorries That left wing narrative that’s led to (checks notes)… the Conservatives wholly or jointly in power for the last 12 years? So what you want is a totally supine media that only ever supports what you want? Do you think that’s what freedom of speech means?

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2 years

Bravo everyone involved in the coverage of today’s events. Not a shot, remark, montage or, indeed, foot wrong. Remarkable. @BBCevents @BBCNews @thehuwedwards

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3 years

I encountered James Brokenshire on numerous occasions as BBC crime reporter and he was unfailingly decent, courteous and a genuinely nice man. Moving to hear his wife on @BBCRadio2 speaking to @theJeremyVine just now.

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3 years

Bravo Private Eye. I feel like I’ve heard this on a loop for the past fortnight.

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10 years

Hilarious tale of D-Day vet (89) from Hove told by care home he couldn't go to Normandy then reported missing by staff.. guess where he is!

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7 months

Omg. The way he keeps reeling off names as if it’s some kind of gotcha. This is pathetic ‘journalism’ - I almost feel I should apologise on behalf of my former profession!

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Keir Starmer explains to Harry Cole how law works, after he tries the ‘you represented unsavoury characters’ nonsense. “Lawyers represent clients. Doctors treat patients. The fact a doctor treats a patient doesn’t mean the doctor agrees with what the patient’s beliefs are.”

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3 years

Can’t beat a drink in the orangery of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s old house!

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5 years

New Home Secretary @patel4witham previously blocked her own constituency Police Federation because she didn't like what they said about police cutbacks.

Essex Police Fed

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5 years

New Home Sec. Our Statement: “We hope Priti Patel picks up the more constructive relationship we had with her predecessor Sajid Javid rather than accusing us of scaremongering and crying wolf"

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I’m no cheerleader for the PM but bravo for holding his nerve on new Covid restrictions. I don’t really understand new measures in Scotland and Wales now so many are vaccinated. Or what’s the point of vaccination? Are we expected to cycle in and out of lockdowns indefinitely?

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2 years

The Huws at Ten! Top team @thehuwedwards @BBCHughPym

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