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Adviser to @PeterKyle + Councillor for West Green @haringeycouncil . Previously @YvetteCooperMP , Shadow DCMS @JoStevensLabour + Political Reporter @DailyMirror

N15 and Westminster
Joined December 2011
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5 years
Rebecca Long-Bailey hits back at the old line that Labour crashed the economy - says it was a "global crash" and hits back at Rishi Sunak saying "you're boss [Sajid Javid] was selling derivatives at Deutsche Bank at the time 🔥 #BBCDebate
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EXCLUSIVE Labour MP Nadia Whittome sacked as carer for speaking out about PPE shortages
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Sexist comment of the week (so far). Phone up a male MP and say I'm calling from the Daily Mirror, he asks me who I'm calling on behalf of. Erm myself a political journalist.
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Dominic Raab listing off maternity rights, minimum wage and saying UK has led the way on workers' rights. Pretty sure he's been opposed to all of those 🤔 #Ridge
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6 years
Was kind of hoping for something a little more inspiring today if I’m honest lads
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5 years
Shortly arriving in Brussels with Peter Grant, Vince Cable, Dominic Grieve, Caroline Lucas, David Lammy, and Liz Saville Roberts members of @BestForBritain who are making the case for a Brexit extension to give time for a referendum to the EU ahead of the European Council summit.
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4 years
First day in the new job as Political Advisor to @JoStevensLabour after a lovely send off from the Daily Mirror lot last week. On the same phone number.
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3 years
Came last @finsburyparkrun and I couldn’t be prouder. Thanks to the lovely tail runner who kept me company and all the fab volunteers!
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Lovely to hear from Imelda Staunton. My mum has always boasted about appearing on stage with her. (She doesn't always say it was as a lion in their school production of Noye's Fludde. Imelda, naturally, took the lead.)
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5 years
In silence outside the EU parliament the Union flag is lowered and replaced with an EU flag 🇬🇧 to 🇪🇺
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5 years
This is literally what an election is.
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HuffPost UK Politics
5 years
Jo Swinson: this general election 'isn't a popularity contest'
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4 years
Did Peston actually say "evening gentleman" ignoring the Chief Nurse Ruth May?
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2 years
Absolute honour to be elected as a @HaringeyLabour councillor for West Green alongside @swills_17 and @SeemaChandwani .
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Hearing Unite are already coalescing behind Laura Pidcock for deputy Labour leader.
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5 years
BREAKING Change UK split - six return to being Independents but five stick with new party
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7 years
Lord Buckethead and Howling Laud Hope have arrived at the Maidenhead count #ge2017
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4 years
Dominic Raab rejecting "international comparisons" saying they're not always "helpful" after it's pointed out the UK has overtaken Italy when it comes to coronavirus deaths. But his own slide slow contains a comparison of death figures.
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4 years
"I'm of course aware of it" sounds like what I used to say when I hadn't read the books for uni. #PMQs
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3 years
Not sure Boris Johnson wants to look in the Mirror with @PippaCrerar on the loose😉 #pmqs @DailyMirror
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5 years
Nicola Sturgeon says of the members of public who intervened today: "It's how we all hope we'd respond in a situation like that but in truth none of us know until we're confronted by it and hopefully we will not be in that position"  #BBCDebate
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So the chairman of the Labour Party voted for a managed no deal, ten of the TIGs voted against a customs union which would have passed with their support and 27 Labour MPs voted against a second ref which lost by, you've guessed it, 27. #Brexit
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6 years
The Tories can laugh about Corbyn raising buses all they want but that’s kind of how a lot of people get around - if they still have a route to take #pmqs
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1 year
One of the things I absolutely love about the Labour Party is that you can rock up to a canvass session the other side of the country where you know nobody and are just handed a stack of leaflets and treated like family. 🌹🌹🌹 #labourdoorstep
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BB “we fought big time fascists when I was knee high to a grasshopper up in Yorkshire when I grew up I fought them in the West Midlands in the NF we don’t duck democratic choices out of fear of fascists. It’s cowardice and we are not a nation of cowards” #PeoplesVoteRally
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5 years
Melanie Onn has quit as a shadow housing minister after Labour whipped in favour of second referendum proposal put forward by Kyle/Wilson (in the name of Margaret Beckett)
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5 years
This is very cool.
@kimjwhitehead
Cllr Kimberley Whitehead
5 years
Here we have the fantastic @AngelaRayner discussing the manifesto using sign language with a voter - she never fails to amaze me 🌹 View it here 👉🏻 #manifesto #Labour @GrahamJones_MP @Azhar4Pendle @labourpress @UKLabour @Hyndburn_Labour @DisabilityLab
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Caroline Lucas highlighting how the 30 worst areas for social mobility all voted leave. She says “instead of leaving the European Union, let’s fix Britain” #peoplesvoterally
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5 years
Say what you like about Theresa May but she's currently being interviewed by Andrew Neil when she really doesn't have to #GE2019
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4 years
Did Boris Johnson struggle to spell "Keir"? 🤔
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2 years
Made a new friend in Wakefield @simonlightwood
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I’m running #greatnorthrun for @samaritans because I’ve lost too many friends and family members to suicide.  In my own struggles with depression it’s been a comfort to know they are always there. No matter what you're facing a Samaritan will go through it with you.
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4 years
This is so important. Coronavirus is "not a great leveller" the poor are disproportionately worse affected.
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5 years
I have spoken to too many female MPs who are genuinely scared about their safety. The Prime Minister's callous response to frightened MPs like Paula Sherriff this evening makes me feel sick.
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5 years
Standing ovation for Dominic Grieve and Sam Gyimah. Mr Grieve says the rally is so busy that the man on the door tried to turn him away. #peoplesvoterally
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2 years
Always demoralising to lose fitness but thank you so much to all the @finsburyparkrun volunteers who cheered me round today. Feel so much better for doing it!
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Nicola Bartlett
3 years
Can you imagine if this happened under a Labour chancellor?
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Pat McFadden
3 years
Treasury writes off £4.3bn in fraudulent covid payments just before new tax rises come in. Remember this the next time we hear a homily from the Conservatives on sound public finances. And where is the Chancellor?
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They did it! Can’t stop grinning. What a nail-biting final and what a leap forward for women’s football. There’s no going back now! #WEURO2022 #ENGvsGER
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@HolstaT The need for outfits which would take me from day to night.
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6 years
Responses from the Jewish leaders and Jeremy Corbyn following anti-Semitism meeting read like a terribly mismatched Guardian blind date. "Positive and constructive"/ "disappointing missed opportunity" - "we definitely clicked" / "the most awkward night of my life".
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5 years
Why?
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Gordon MacMillan
5 years
This guy has just held a plank for 8 hours and 15 mins. Look at that face. Amazing.
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3 years
Happy New Year! #REDJanuary off to a cracking start.
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3 years
Just finished @samaritans Jog 30km in November running for those I’ve lost to suicide, those who struggle and because of my own ropey mental health. @samaritans need our help - a friend had to wait 1/2 an hour to speak to someone. All donations appreciated
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5 years
Saying sex is a “positive action” for men but by implication not women is seems quite a concerning attitude in general tbh.
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3 years
Totally buzzing to be back! Thanks to everyone at @WestReservoir for such a warm welcome this morning.
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7 years
Actor @peteregan praises the Labour government for bringing in the hunting ban in 2005 #keeptheban
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2 months
Great afternoon in Beckenham for @LiamConlon2 🌹 🌹 🌹
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Nicola Bartlett
9 years
That's one way of putting it #EndAusterityNow http://t.co/8shKuGgRjg
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3 years
It’s a lovely morning in Brighton.
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3 years
It’s personal for @JoStevensLabour : ‘My Covid hospital stay haunts me a year on - No10 parties make my blood boil’
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5 years
Labour MP @annaturley says “I will not vote to harm the people I represent even if they ask me to” #PeoplesVoteRally
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4 years
If anyone in Muswell Hill has lost a gecko my parents have found one in their garden. Dm me to be reunited.
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7 years
. @nick_clegg says "no deal isn't a cuddly alternative to a bad deal it's a disaster for Britain" #GE2017
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4 years
This might be a testament to my mental state but it's making me laugh every time.
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Harry Yorke
4 years
Sir Lindsay Hoyle and Bob Blackman have now established a Commons routine: LH: "Flight officer Blackman clear to land" BB: "Thank you ground control."
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Caroline Lucas says “a People’s Vote has to be a catalyst for the greatest social and economic transformation we have seen in this country for generations” #PeoplesVoteRally
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Baroness Boothroyd says “for two years Theresa May has been struggling to keep her party intact and the leader of the opposition has been struggling to keep his opinions intact” #peoplesvoterally
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In Bridgehall Community Centre in Stockport where Angela Rayner brought up her first child for launch of her deputy leadership bid. She is set to tell party members Labour must 'win or die'
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2 years
The great thing about @parkrunUK is even when you don’t feel up to running you can volunteer. Well done to everyone at @finsburyparkrun today - you smashed it!
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5 years
When I first moved to Paris and knew no one I felt very lonely and went and sat in Notre Dame and half prayed and mostly reflected. It brought comfort. It is devastating to see that special building burn.
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4 years
Really great to see @DrRosena on @loosewomen today answering questions about mental health ahead of #WorldMentalHealthDay so many people struggling right now. Important message that A and E always there for people in crisis.
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2 years
To be honest this week my achievement is even making it to the start line @finsburyparkrun have a great run everyone! @parkrunUK
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5 years
Jeremy Corbyn says he enjoyed the Question Time debate last night. He said he's happy to take questions from "anyone, anywhere, anytime" - not sure that's the experience of some of my colleagues in the lobby 🧐
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Always fun knocking doors for @AJogee !
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Nicola Bartlett
3 years
Just too keen for conference.
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2 months
Oh go on…vote Labour! 🌹
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5 years
Leo Varadkar says MPs voting tomorrow should not assume there would be unanimity for an extension if the UK asked for one. All EU27 have to agree.
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4 years
Anyone who normally hates @bbcquestiontime I would recommend tonight's installment with Matt Hancock, Yvette Cooper, the RCN's Donna Kinnair and John Sentamu. Thoughtful, careful and forensic questioning.
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4 years
I think I would have totally understood if Christmas mixing wasn’t allowed from the start but now it feels like something is being taken away.
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2 years
It was a big deal for me to go swimming today after a long break. My MH had really deteriorated and when that happens I often stop doing the stuff that really helps. This is to remind myself that I ALWAYS feel better after a swim. Thanks @WestReservoir for being the best.
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Is John McDonnell coming to us from the nightclub he was in last night? If so massive respect. #marr
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6 years
EXCLUSIVE Labour's Rosena Allin-Khan calls on football fans to fly the English flag with pride and reclaim it from the far right
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6 years
Jeremy Corbyn says he wouldn’t want to mislead the house - last night’s defeat was not the worst since 1924 but the worst ever #PMQs
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Nicola Bartlett
3 years
Great thread @e_casalicchio I'm a 40mg of citalopram a day type gal. I run and swim (may have mentioned that 1 or a 100 times😉) but when I'm bad it's impossible. It's a balance between lowering expectations and not beating myself up. A lot of work goes into managing this disease
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Emilio Casalicchio
3 years
Great that this guidance is being updated - and lots of sensible sounding advice in there. One thing I would note: Just as we need to break the stigma around mental health we need to break the stigma around medicating for it where appropriate.
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3 years
@JackieLongc4 @TomBlenkinsop @sterling7 Fair play to his sister for doing that as a teenager without complaint! She must be so proud tonight.
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3 years
This isn’t the boast they think it is.
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1 year
My slowest @parkrunUK in a long time but I’m so pleased I made it this morning! It’s been a bad week for the black dog so thank you to all the @Lordshipparkrun volunteers and @ElinWeston for getting me round!
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Wearing my women’s England shirt to bring the men luck! (And cos that’s the only one I have 😉) #EURO2024   #ENG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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5 years
Tory Philip Lee has just crossed the floor to join Lib Dems. Boris Johnson technically doesn't have a majority.
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5 years
Journalist James O’Brien is talking with leave voters who have changed their mind. This man says he first considered it when he saw people from Eastern Europe being abused in London #PeoplesVoteRally
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5 years
This is lovely but just imagine being the third friend in this group.
@TheWomensOrg
The Women's Organisation
5 years
Katarina Johnson-Thompson: Gold Medallist and World Champion 🥇 Jodie Comer: Emmy and BAFTA award-winner 🏆 Liverpool born. Best friends since school. Game-changers. Record-breakers 🌍 There’s something about scouse women .. 👏🏻
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Belated posting for #redjanuary2024 . Taking part this year because exercise really helps me tackle my depression but depression often saps my desire to exercise. I kicked it off this year with a bracing swim in Alnmouth in Northumberland with my dad and a jog around Amble 1/31
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5 years
What. A. Headline.
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3 years
In the 1990s the Tories had us in portacabins, now it's train carriages. Plus ça change... plus c'est les mêmes Tories.
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Rt Hon Grant Shapps
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As #GreatBritishRailways marks a new era for our railways, we've put retired Pacer trains to new uses serving Northern communities: 🏥A family support centre at a hospital 🍳A kitchen for a mental health charity 📚A new classroom for kids The last one was delivered yesterday👇
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With final story filed made the long trek (15 mins up the road) home where my dad has very kindly recalculated all his timings to have the meal in the evening Merry Christmas from me and my minimalist tree.
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Yes Lindsay Hoyle! The deputy speaker wants to call in cats to deal with Parliament's mouse problem. I am entirely on board with this solution. 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈
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Lucky The Red Flag doubles up as O Christmas Tree for a December election.
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Why does the Prime Minister say the WASPI issue is “emotionally charged”? Could it be because they’re women? 🤔 #pmqs
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Huge cheers for Ian Blackford from the SNP and Liz Saville Roberts from Plaid Cymru who says Brexiteers got “drunk on their own Churchillian rhetoric” #PeoplesVoteRally
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. @timfarron says Theresa May is taking people for granted #ge2017
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Stephen Barclay horrifies Labour MPs: "Today is time for this House to come together and move forward someone who previously did that ...was former secretary of state for N Ireland Mo Mowlam, her biography was called Momentum before it was a faction forcing out colleagues."
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SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford urges Boris Johnson to learn the lessons of history says in the banking crisis the banks were bailed out but ordinary people were not. He asks for an emergency universal basic income. Boris Johnson agrees to meet with him #PMQs
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Can't believe it's my final day working with the indomitable @CaitProwle . She's smart, funny, strong and endlessly big hearted. She is a massive loss to Labour but, as a @GMB_union member, I'm mighty glad she'll be there fighting our corner. And I'm sure she'll be back!
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Sorry I’m too female for you. Yours, a female journalist.
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Nicola Bartlett
4 years
Can't believe how nonchalant my Dad was about his vaccine. "Yeah I had it yesterday."
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Nicola Bartlett
4 years
Great event today by @RunThroughUK at the Olympic Park - well organised and spaced out. So nice to run with other people again! 🏃‍♀️
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Nicola Bartlett
4 years
What we now need is for the chancellor to extend the furlough scheme to those who still cannot work while venues stay closed so that organisations can make plans to keep our world-class creative talent in the sector.
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Jo Stevens
4 years
This is a much-needed injection of cash but for many it's too little too late. It needs to reach theatres teetering on the brink fast- especially those across the towns and small cities where venues + arts orgs are so vital to local economies providing many interdependent jobs.
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Nicola Bartlett
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. @MirrorAlison embodied what the Daily Mirror is about. Big hearted, tough and always standing up for the underdog. She was hugely encouraging to me as a young reporter and I know she'll be missed across the newsroom.
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Guardian news
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Alison Phillips ‘to quit as Daily Mirror editor’ amid Reach budget cuts
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Nicola Bartlett
3 years
And he doesn’t seem to have spent lockdown expanding his repertoire.
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Joe
3 years
sad to announce that the Westminster Bridge bagpiper is very much back. I am convinced this guy will outlive us all
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Nicola Bartlett
5 years
Standing ovation for Baroness Betty Boothroyd who obliges the crowd with an “order, order” #peoplesvoterally
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Nicola Bartlett
4 years
Have felt so lucky to have @WestReservoir nearby during the last few months - even when it’s 13.4C like this morning! For me looking after my mental health is a constant task but swimming really helps and chatting to the lovely staff and fellow swimmers. #WorldMentalHealthDay
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