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9 months

What sort of swing do Labour need for Fiona Bruce and Laura Kuenssberg to lose their seats at the next election?

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Congratulations to Glen Owen, political editor of the Mail on Sunday. This is misogynistic, creepy and desperate. It tells us nothing about Angela Rayner, but a huge amount about you.

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Farage has now gone through one interview as a candidate, with Mishal Husain, and bereft of client journalism and a friendly crowd, he’s reduced to a dull, pub bigot, unable to answer with other than lazy slogans. Chippy and hopeless. #r4today

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5 years

Bloody Poles, coming over here and risking their own lives to defend us from terrorists.

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6 months

Laurence Fox ordered to pay £180k damages, on top of costs.

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2 years

Mark Francois, given airtime to blather in about the glories of ‘finally’ returning to imperial measurements. He was five years old when the UK went decimal. He remembers nothing of the imperial system at all. Absurd little man.

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4 years

John Redwood - doesn’t want “people to need papers to go to the pub”, quite happy for whole industries to need papers to go to their markets in Europe. A selective libertarian... #r4today

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5 months

Premier League fans faced with unjust and unjustifiable season ticket increases next season - non-league is about 10% of the price, you can have a pint, the people are friendly, you occasionally get to throw the ball back, and the lows and highs are identical. 100% recommended.

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16 days

Robert Jenrick talking over Mishal Husain by repeatedly saying “Ben Wallace said it!!” is an excellent reminder of how pitifully shallow the Tory talent puddle is. Painting over cartoons to deny comfort to scared children is clearly a good measure of the man. #r4today

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3 months

An English bloke, quietly and heroically defending his bit of England against the hate and chaos of the English Defence League. The irony shouldn’t be lost on anyone fully sentient.

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3 months

Spare a thought for Tony Hill who has been working at break neck speed in blazing hot sun to rebuild the Southport mosque wall before the far right can return. He said: “And if we have to build it again afterwards we will do just that.”

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7 months

Andrew Cotter is such a good commentator. Let’s the pictures tell the story, doesn’t talk when he doesn’t need to, never thinks it’s his show with the rugby as a supporting act.

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5 years

@MarinaHyde This is all about Terri Coverley suddenly realising the DNA on that cup could keep a family division judge busy for a year.

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2 years

It’s been a while now, but I’ve still not read three better paragraphs on the royal family than this, from the Irish Times.

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5 years

Those ‘Sunday league’ blokes who mock women’s football. Honestly, you’d all throw up after ten minutes of trying to keep up with this lot. This is just good football.

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5 years

Not sure there’s a more important Twitter account than @AuschwitzMuseum It makes you think and reflect every single day.

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5 years

On the first Christmas Eve in #Auschwitz on 24 December 1940, the SS set up a Christmas tree on the roll-call square with electric lights. Beneath it, they placed bodies of prisoners who had died while working or frozen to death at roll call, Poles & Polish Jews.

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7 months

@henrywinter @FA Did you keep a straight face when you typed "desecration"?! Honestly?! Definition of 'desecrate' is "to treat a sacred place or thing with violent disrespect." Definition of 'sacred' is "connected with God or a god or dedicated to a religious purpose". I mean...

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5 years

England lost a football semi final yesterday, in front of 11.7 free-to-air viewers. They reached a cricket one today, in front of a fraction of that on a subscription channel. Which sport has the brighter future? It’s not rocket science. Kids don’t follow what they can’t see.

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2 years

The thing I most admire about Andy Murray is his ability, as an evidently kind, thoughtful, decent human, to morph into a hyper-competitive, single-minded, brutal bastard when required. Then change back. An extraordinary, incredible man.

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I sat and interviewed Laura Trott the day after she won her second gold in 2012. She was just great - savvy and smart. 12 years on, as a pundit, Laura Kenny’s every bit as impressive. She knows it inside out, but wears that lightly. It’s a great way to be.

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1 year

I'm off to spend the morning smashing tennis racquets against Andrew Castle's front gate, which he will have no problem with because "That's OK, and do you know why? Because it just is. It's human, and we can auction it for charity."

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3 years

@Joanna__Hardy But juries don’t just give you the “benefit of the doubt”, do they? They are the interface between the law and human experience. They offer real life flexibility to a system, thus making it truly answerable to the people it serves. Juries make law relevant.

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5 years

My daughter spent three hours in an operating theatre today, cared for by a brilliant cardiac surgeon, for whom English wasn’t a first language, nursed by people from Britain, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean. Our NHS is incredible. Its diversity is our strength.

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7 months

Nick Robinson both asking and answering the questions to and on behalf of Angela Rayner. #r4today

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11 months

Liz Truss posed in a £4m tank she didn’t own, and the Telegraph got terribly aroused. Angela Rayner posed in a £3,570 outfit she didn’t own, and the Telegraph got terribly annoyed. A joke of a newspaper.

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🔴 Angela Rayner poses for British Vogue in an outfit worth £3,570

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4 years

May I approach the day with the optimism of Ollie Pope, trying a reverse sweep while England are 65-4. Suffice to say, shortly after England became 65-5 and Ollie wasn’t required to play any further shots, reverse or otherwise.

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The Sue Gray story perfectly encapsulates the last decade of British political life, in that 99% of the population have absolutely no idea exactly what it means, what's happened or why, but 100% of people will have an opinion of some kind.

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3 years

Nick Robinson cutting Kwasi Kwarteng into a thousand pieces, live on the radio. A list of perfectly reasonable questions, met with a panicked bluster. No honesty, no answers, no dignity. #r4today

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3 years

London’s New Year fireworks quietly reminding everyone that Greenwich is the centre of the world. Which, when in the right pub, is of course correct.

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3 years

Who’s going to tell Liz Truss that the staged dropping of her voice and slowing of her delivery does not turn an inane sentence into a profound observation? #r4today

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5 months

In a sane world, Gillian Keegan would be a dim vox pop, who goes viral for talking herself into a hole. In reality, she’s the Education Secretary. A staggeringly hopeless one. #r4today

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4 years

Brandon Lewis appears on #r4today to say that the PM has been transparent during this crisis. If he means Johnson’s been incredibly hard to see, and often appears to have disappeared altogether, I find myself, for the first time, agreeing with him.

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4 years

Andy Ripley died ten years ago today. A brilliant, brave, charismatic man, he took on life, rugby and cancer with equal flair. His e mails arrived signed “Stay fab”. He did.

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6 months

Nick Robinson, hosting the Today programme, while talking over Rachel Reeves to mansplain a party political broadcast on behalf of the Tory party. #r4today

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3 years

Great Olympic Traditions - Number One. I’ve just criticised a refereeing decision in the Taekwondo final. A sport I know nothing about. I’m sitting alone in my house. Nobody to hear me. I even threw my hands up in disbelief. Totally ridiculous.

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1 year

If Mel Stride did this interview with his underpants on his head, while singing songs from the shows and playing the harmonica with his buttocks, he would emerge from it with more dignity than currently looks likely. Craven and cowardly. #r4today

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5 years

Why don’t they just sit in a studio to do News at Ten, rather than loitering outside and being shouted at? Why the obsession with outside broadcasts?

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1 year

My poor old Charlton. A sad husk of a club, on and off the pitch. Chancers in the boardroom, as ever, blaming the manager, like restaurant owners selling off the pots and pans, then sacking the chef when the complaints come in. Pathetic. #cafc

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2 years

James Cleverly culminates a car crash interview, laden with deflection and self-interest, by saying it would be “churlish” not to allow Johnson to use Chequers for his wedding party. The Tory Party - the gift that keeps on taking. #r4today

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3 years

@Joanna__Hardy Sat on a jury for an historic sex abuse case when I was 40 which considered events eight years before I was born. Bloke ran alibi. Yup. 12 counts. Every count, a different reason why, 48 years ago, he wasn’t there. Extraordinary.

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@patmurphybbc My Dad interviewed Clough just after my brother was born. Clough asked him how my Mum was, and Dad told him about the new baby. Clough told him to go home - he should be with Mum, then sent her a bouquet, apologising for “detaining” him. There’s a certain style to that!

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4 years

My Mum and Dad have been married for almost 52 years. Got their first Covid jabs together, and today get their second in the same way. Incredibly proud and grateful to have two parents who will both be able to receive 5G.

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3 months

A news alert has just come through, saying "Charlotte Dujardin out of Olympics after 'terrible error of judgment' with horse'" and I can't lie, I don't know if I even want to click on the link...

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7 months

A great evening. Dad getting a lifetime achievement award at the Sports Journalism Awards. The whole family turned up, from Blackheath to Brooklyn. Beyond proud. “Greatest of his generation” was the quote. An extraordinary career. #SJA2023

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3 years

Two years ago today, @amycollinsAC spent three hours in an operating theatre, while a brilliant cardiac surgeon sorted out the unexpected mid-game tantrum her heart had thrown. This week she graduated as a physio. ‘Proud Dad’ doesn’t nearly cover it.

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8 months

I wish everyone would stop doubting the political probity of Kemi Badenoch, the woman who hacked Harriet Harman's website.

Bafflement over Tory MP's admission she hacked Harriet Harman's website

Former hacktivists say action by Kemi Badenoch breaches Computer Misuse Act and question potential for prosecution or reform

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2 years

The moment Charlton’s new owner posed with an electric guitar and spoke of his desire to be a ‘rock star’ it was clear we had a Poundland Michael Knighton on our hands. Not a single thing he’s done since has shifted that impression. #cafc

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1 year

Why am I able to read Rishi Sunak's opinion on Jonny Bairstow being given out at Lords, but not Rishi Sunak's opinion on Boris Johnson being thrown out of the Commons?

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4 years

My daughter, @HonorCollins has been working throughout the lockdown. She came home to this tonight. @Se_Railway Bertie, at Bexley, you’re a star. We’re very lucky to have you.

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2 years

The most revealing thing about Johnson’s interview, apart from his ‘tactic’ of just talking over Mishal Husain, is how unimpressive he is. No insight, no common touch, no mastery of his brief, no focus. Just blurted word salad. A saloon bar bore. Desperate stuff. #r4today

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1 year

@martynziegler "I lodge this appeal on the grounds that the KC who prosecuted me was, I have discovered, opposed to murder in his personal life, as well as professionally. As there cannot possibly be any separation of the two, this is clearly grounds for a retrial..."

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1 year

How on Earth, given everything of genuine importance that’s going on in the world, is Philip Schofield’s view of his future career prospects leading the main news bulletin of the nation’s largest news programme? Absolute madness… #r4today

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3 months

Suella Braverman has just complained, on LBC, that "The law got in the way of my plans". The prisons of England are full of people expressing similar sentiments. Thanks to her time as Home Secretary, you can also end that last sentence after the word "full".

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1 year

A combination of giggling crowds, Djokovic bouncing the ball more than the Harlem Globetrotters ever did, and Andrew Castle sounding like a smug estate agent hosting a Tory fundraiser drives me effortlessly from Wimbledon to the Tour de France...

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5 years

Happy 50th anniversary to my extraordinary Mum and Dad.

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5 years

If anyone knows a Gemma Hallett, she’s dropped her wallet opposite the LSE in Kingsway. I found it. Can we retweet this and get it back to her? Thanks.

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1 year

Andrew Castle, as Djokovic smashes his racquet - “That’s OK, and do you know why it is? Because it is. It just is. He can sign the damage and we’ll auction it for charity.” Very rare to actually witness the moment of transition from aspiring twat into full Partridge. An honour.

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2 years

Footballer grabs linesman, linesman shrugs him away, the tiniest, faintest of contacts, footballer says he's been elbowed in the throat, the world goes a bit mad. Everyone involved should feel a bit embarrassed...

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1 year

@Joanna__Hardy I care about meeting old Etonians, but from the opposite end of the desirability spectrum.

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4 years

@martynziegler That’s a great apology, isn’t it? Inviting someone to come and do their job at your place of work, after you’ve set her up for abuse on social media. Their largesse knows no end. Or beginning.

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3 years

Oliver Dowden, squeaky little voice and the gravitas of a balloon sculpture, putting his finger on the mood of the nation with all the dignified precision of a drunk on a bouncy castle. #R4Today

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1 year

@Joanna__Hardy I'm not trusting anyone with a noose who can't yet properly operate an apostrophe.

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3 years

Unlikely, I accept, but if Gina Coladangelo’s nickname in Whitehall was “useless”, then Johnson’s WhatsApp message can suddenly be read very differently.

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5 years

My daughters are graduates, my sister is an executive head teacher, my Mum teaches English to refugees, my sisters in law are a teacher and a chef and my wife is a judge. Every day is International Women’s Day in our house. They’re all incredible. We trail in their wake.

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@MarinaHyde I sat next to Hollywood, his partner and another couple in a restaurant last year. Never seen a display of faux anonymity like it. A neon “please don’t notice me” sign would have been more subtle. All clenched stomach and optimistic trousers. Horrific.

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9 months

Football, rightly, praises Klopp, but a word also for a non-league manager with a full time job, who took 2 midweek training sessions, and still found time to again visit a seriously ill player in hospital. @CorinthianFC are rightly proud of @m_golding3 Decent, proper leadership.

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4 years

Is Matt Hancock seriously saying people have turned down the vaccine because their appointment time was outside of office hours? Offer me a jab at 4am, and I’ll see you there. I’m sure millions feel the same. #r4today

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2 years

Nothing says integrity and probity like Chris Philps endlessly gabbling a pre-prepared statement while gulping water and deep breathing into the microphone. #r4today

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2 years

Happy Birthday to the old man. Never thought it would coincide with a World Cup, but…

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4 years

Clive Woodward has just deconstructed Eddie Jones, live on TV. Brilliant analysis, home truths and all of it calm and considered. Utterly damning.

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5 years

Reading about Coleen and Rebekah, and thinking how wise Billy Wright was to marry Joy Beverley, who never had any issues with her Instagram.

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5 years

@MarinaHyde Three of the best jokes of the entire week in the first paragraph, and it’s not even front-loaded. Wonderful.

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3 years

Ah, the Michael Vaughan hat-trick - the “I’m sorry if” non-apology, the racist tweets, and the glib “I’m a different person now” explanation. Pathetic little man.

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6 months

Andrew Mitchell reassuring us that a party which couldn’t stop one of their own MPs taking cash from an old lady to pay off “bad men” in a flat at 3am, can stop the Rwandan government breaking any rules. #r4today

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3 years

North Koreans have been banned from laughing for 11 days to mark the 10th anniversary of Kim Jong Il’s death. To ensure compliance, sombre music will be played and TV stations will broadcast Mrs Brown’s Boys on a loop.

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Slaughter in Gaza, and the best we have to offer is multi-identitied, historic marketing huckster Grant Shapps, cosplaying a statesman. It’s shameful how talentless this government is. Shameful. #r4today

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4 years

We’re very lucky that Dominic Cummings is a genius and allowed to sit, unelected and untouchable at the heart of government, otherwise all sorts of things in this country could be going quite badly.

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1 year

Depressing that Nike aren't making a replica Mary Earps keeper's shirt for the World Cup. Reminded me of seeing this young fan, when United played at Lewes in the FA Cup. If you can't see it, you can't be it.

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5 years

@seaningle Please don’t do the “Will it stand up in court?” gag. Please.

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6 months

‘Nye’ is a brilliant, beautiful thing. Imagine Dennis Potter adapting the 2012 opening ceremony for the Welsh, then add Michael Sheen’s genius and a lot of politics. Wonderful.

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5 years

Dominic Raab. An estate agent who tells you the leak is a water feature. #r4today

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5 years

My grandad, a kind, gentle man, landed on D Day plus 3, and continued all the way to Germany. He never spoke about it. He then spent 40 years as a football journalist. I know what he’d have made of rioting morons singing about “10 German bombers.”

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4 years

This may be the worst debating point ever taken up by anyone about anything.

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@metpoliceuk @JamesCleverly He urinated BESIDE the plaque. He did not urinate ON it. This is basic stuff.

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@paulweatherley I'm not doing the joke about them being in a stable relationship. I'm better than that...

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2 years

Listening to the very end of a thrilling Test Match on the radio is one of sport's absolute joys.

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@collinspatk1 Harsh on Andy Gray.

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4 years

To write anything, anywhere near as good as this… @MarinaHyde on America’s toddler.

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4 years

Cressida Dick being achingly selective about when to be precise and when to be vague. All to avoid embarrassing the PM, over his latest actions. Everyone who meets him, ends up having to cover for him. Every time. #r4today

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Congratulations Mark Harper. From “Jewish temples” to “I’ve been very clear”, maybe the biggest car crash interview on #r4today ever. Unbelievably terrible.

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5 years

Labour told everyone who wasn’t, in the eyes of ‘Jeremy’ and the cult, to fuck off. So they did. Brilliant strategy. Worked really well. Really hurt the Tories there. Top work, Seumas. Strategic genius. Twat.

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4 years

@crawleytown @aizlewood1 I hate to be picky, but I take slight issue with his contention that “It’s no good if he scores a hundred goals if we let 50 in at the other end.” That would, in fact, be very good. That’s just maths, really, not football, but there you go…

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3 years

52 not out. A beautifully constructed innings. Happy Anniversary!

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6 months

After a season that’s had genuine tragedy and real triumphs, surely the best moment yet. @CorinthianFC into the play off final. Well done to all the squad, @m_golding3 and all the management, and @amycollinsAC for putting them back together again. Brilliant. You can’t buy spirit.

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3 years

The most ferociously contested crown in British sport is historically “Worst governing body”. Football long held the trophy, tennis for a while and athletics and cycling have made strong, recent bids, but the ECB are taking things to a new depth. Truly, self-servingly pathetic.

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1 year

Mo’s last marathon effort through Greenwich…

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3 years

Lord Frost. Arrived, achieved sod all, barked, brayed, boasted, achieved sod all, left. The latest Brexiteer to say it was simple, find it wasn’t, fuck it up, and fuck off. Twat.

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2 years

Robbie Coltrane as Cracker was one of TV drama’s great performances. The storyline with Robert Carlyle was truly incredible. A huge, in every sense, wonderful man. We are less for his loss. Rest in raucous peace.

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7 months

Christian Horner gets accused of inappropriate behaviour with a junior employee, the company run a secret inquiry, headed by an un-named, male lawyer, it clears him, the complainant gets suspended, and he calmly suggests we "draw a line under it." 'Entitled' doesn't come close.

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The next time a Premier League club complains about workload, I’ll remember @amycollinsAC looking after her players, getting home from a non league semi final at 1.45am, and being on the 7.30am train back to work in the oncology unit…

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