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5 years

Worst. Burlesque. Ever.

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4 years

The Coke advert but with Pfizer lorries instead of Coke ones.

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The best thing about this is knowing it was probably Tom Daley’s idea

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Near, far, wherever you are... 😉 #OpeningCeremony

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7 years

Not the same Boris Johnson who, less than two months ago, called Jeremy Corbyn a "mutton-headed mugwump"?

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4 years

Someone has put a gold Alan Partridge outside the headquarters of BBC Radio Norfolk

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1 month

Sarah Vine complains about the spouse of a cabinet minister having a prominent position in the national media.

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Ed Balls interviewing his own wife, @YvetteCooperMP (aka our new Home Secretary) on @GMB is beyond parody. And they dare to accuse the @Conservatives of corruption and elitism?

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6 years

Hang on

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1 year

Apropos not much: the man in the blue jacket, who looks to camera and puts his thumb up, is the guy who noticed Brighton’s owners were trying to sell the ground and run off with the profits in the 1990s when we were in the fourth division. 💙🤍

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This is beautiful. #BHAFC

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3 months

Huge “new junior minister at Defra” vibes here.

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3 months

En route to Cardiff today to celebrate seaweed innovation! Ar y ffordd i Gaerdydd i ddathlu arloesedd mewn gwymon!

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2 years

[interior: a pub on Tyneside] - I see one of the nominees for Best Actor behaved violently at the Oscars - Javier Bardem? - No, but the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has opened a formal review

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6 years

Some personal news: pleased to announce that I have managed to print a letter the correct way up on some headed notepaper after only 3 (three) attempts.

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7 years

“Can you give us a reason to be optimistic next year?” Prince Harry asks President Obama. And then with perfect timing, adds: “Please?” #r4today

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4 years

It’s looking really bad for Waitrose if Lyse Doucet’s gone in

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4 years

Well ..look who’s back .. #nopanic #coronavirus #AtHomeTogether

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11 months

Just to confirm that Kinbrace is a village in Sutherland, not an instruction #StormBabet

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7 years

Tim Farron (in Fife): "What do you think about independence?" Voter: "That woman needs a kick up the arse!" Farron: "I'll take that as a no"

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5 years

The last days of Frome

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Bog roll aisle, Frome Sainsbury's. Why?

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4 years

Oxford vaccine 70% likely to tell you it went to Oxford, tests find.

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4 years

Voxpopping. Green Park. At a safe distance from the public. “Hi, I’m from BBC News, can I ask you about social distancing?” “Sorry, my boss thinks I’m self-isolating.”

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7 years

The Labour party Christmas card is pretty sassy this year

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6 years

Letting a proper photographer into the Commons is one of the best ideas in ages.

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3 years

In Calais to work on this story with ⁦ @BBCMarkEaston ⁩. Ukrainians can’t get visas here. The Home Office presence in Calais consists of three officials in an unfinished port building handing out ready salted crisps.

Ukrainians on way to UK hit paperwork dead-end in Calais

"No visa for at least another week," said Misha, simply. "No-one can help us in Calais."

www.bbc.co.uk

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5 years

QC Jolyon went out Like a modern Dickens Where a fox was roundabout Threatening his chickens Sharply swung his baseball bat In a silk kimono ‘Gainst the fox, and that was that, he was killed pro bono

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27 days

Fun bit of Olympics news: LeBron James has just arrived in London on the smae Eurostar as Adrian Chiles

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7 years

Two-thirds of them have written about it for national newspapers

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2 years

Boris Johnson’s term as PM is currently 30 days shorter than Theresa May’s.

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4 years

Ofqual has decided Barcelona v Bayern was 5-5.

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6 years

If you interviewed Paddy Ashdown for the telly and asked him for a few words for level before starting the recording, he would recite “Jabberwocky”

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4 years

Congrats to the Home Office for getting an interview with the Home Secretary, who doesn’t answer questions often.

Home Office

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4 years

. @PritiPatel was in Dover today seeing first-hand how Border Force officers are intercepting small boats in the Channel. We are committed to tackling this issue and working with the French government to make this route completely unviable.

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3 years

A special well done to everyone staging a protest at a BBC building that hasn’t been a BBC building for nine years.

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5 years

Why commas are important, no. 377

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8 years

Excellent email to start the day

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4 years

Holmes under the hammer

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6 years

*serious Twitter dad face* It’s popular for journalists to moan on here about PRs emailing and phoning them. I phoned two PRs on spec today with a frankly ludicrous request and between them they spent hours helping me. I’m grateful.

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2 years

Hello from the High Court, where four migrants and a group of organisations are trying to get an injunction that will prevent people being removed to Rwanda next week.

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3 years

Good morning to everyone from the Central Line

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5 years

I’ve been thinking about the best photo of the Theresa May era, and have decided this is it.

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5 years

Imagine if President Trump had got confused with the time difference and phoned Eddie Mair

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4 years

So that’s all good. #w1a

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2 years

@RobBurl Ask him about the time the cast of Up the Elephant and Round the Castle had a whip round for a young actor to land a punch on him in a fight scene. Jim angrily told him he’d never work again. David Thewlis has since done ok. (Credit to @AlanKelloggs for that anecdote)

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Callum May

@callummay

7 years

I’m sure people in other overnight office jobs have done the same. Oh yes, and if you’ve gone round photographing your colleagues asleep you’re a weird, creepy bastard. *PERSONAL VIEW ENDS*

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4 years

He even gets the nuances of devolved education policy.

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4 years

I don’t even know what to say. Just look at what we can do when we come together, THIS is England in 2020.

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4 years

This was ten years ago today (thanks @jogreen1971 for the gracious reminder)

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8 years

Patricia Routledge becomes a Dame in the new year honours list, presumably for services to the best gif on the internet.

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4 years

“My electrician earns more than a member of the bar and surely that can’t be right” Former high court judge Sir Richard Henriques says on #r4today . He isn’t going to be popular next time he wants a new light fitting.

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@callummay

5 years

The Wi-fi network at the @UKSupremeCourt is entitled “SUP Lawyers”, which is co-incidentally what I said as I walked into the building.

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4 years

Among the incredible quotes in the Sunday Times piece about the PM’s first year in the job:

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2 years

He didn’t take it brilliantly.

Meldrew Point

@MeldrewPoint

2 years

Happy Meldrew Point Day, Will Smith! You’ve reached 19,537 days old and hit Meldrew Point - the age of Richard Wilson on the first airing of One Foot in the Grave. I don’t believe it!

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6 years

Um, what?

Stephen Jones

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6 years

Police officer on Sky just now: we can't rule out there never having been a drone at Gatwick.

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6 years

Ready for England v Panama everyone?

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7 years

...Diocese of Portsmouth says: "We also believe that children... should all feel equally welcomed, valued and nurtured as children of God"

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@callummay

7 years

It would be quite a gig if they all turned up

Anglican Communion News Service

@AnglicanNews

7 years

Archbishop of Canterbury joins Pope in calling for Status Quo in Jerusalem #AnglicanNews

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4 months

Stphn Brd to stp dwn

Financial Times

@FT

4 months

Stephen Bird to step down as Abrdn chief executive

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4 years

@JonnyDymond @chinmj Lambeth Palace says “The Archbishop does not comment on personal or pastoral matters”. So there we are — a personal/pastoral matter. And not a marriage.

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4 years

THREAD: A flutter of excitement ran through Anglican Twitter in the early hours after the Duchess of Sussex said she and Prince Harry had been married in private by @JustinWelby before the wedding we all saw.

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4 years

now @JonnyDymond reports... a person close to the Sussexes saying this “backyard wedding” was a private exchange of vows. The couple were legally married on May 19th. The BBC was told that the event had been incorrectly described in last night’s interview by Meghan.

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8 years

Boris Johnson, who 2 months ago wrote a poem about Turkey's president having sex with a goat, is foreign secretary

Boris Johnson wins 'most offensive Erdoğan poem' competition

Ex-London mayor wins £1,000 prize for limerick about Turkish president in contest challenging crackdown on free speech

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

You will never see a greater byline/news story combination.

School bus gets stuck under low bridge again

Some of the pupils at Ashby School in Leicestershire were on their way to take exams.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@callummay

8 years

Lord Heseltine on BoJo on @bbc5live . Off. His. Christmas. Card. List.

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@callummay

5 years

Hope he gets a fair trial.

PA Media

@PA

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#Breaking Mark Royden, 46, of Devon, has been charged with attempted theft and criminal damage of the Magna Carta at Salisbury Cathedral in October, Wiltshire Police say

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6 years

Holidays are coming, holidays are coming

Simon Jones

@SimonJonesNews

6 years

The lights of the first lorries on the Manston site for a post-Brexit rehearsal.

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4 years

Tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty You’re listening to the sound of

Chris Mason

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4 years

NEW — Professor Chris Whitty: ‘The trend in UK is heading in the wrong direction and we are at a critical point in the pandemic. We are looking at the data to see how to manage the spread of the virus ahead of a very challenging winter period.’

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5 years

Reminder: a foreign language GCSE was compulsory in England until 2004

Sun Politics

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All kids will have to study a foreign language GCSE in a bid to boost Britain’s bilingual skills post-Brexit

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7 years

*PERSONAL VIEW KLAXON* Incredibly annoyed by this. I used to do night shifts. Reading and writing words is not physical work but it can still be knackering. I sometimes had a nap.

Allie Hodgkins-Brown

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7 years

Thursday’s SUN: “Here Is The Snooze” #bbcpapers #tomorrowspaperstoday

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5 years

I’m not allowed an opinion on politics but: maybe some of the colleagues who spent last night on air, keeping flood victims informed and entertained, then read in the paper that their station might be sold or closed should write a strongly-worded letter.

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@callummay

5 years

*Kenneth Williams noise*

Michael Deacon

@MichaelPDeacon

5 years

One of the nude men has climbed on to on a gallery ledge. Two policemen are attempting to pull him off

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6 years

This is not going to go down well on CBeebies.

Paul Mason

@paulmasonnews

6 years

Suggestion: ditch BBC crap Brexit debate format and telecast live to ALL CHANNELS for 90 mins. One big forensic PSB anchor and two expert journos from left and right - eg me and Julia Hartley Brewer, drawing evidence from a panel of experts eg: Portes, Lilico, Renison etc etc

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4 years

This is a problem. The law says that the C of E can’t marry people a) outdoors in a venue such as a back yard; or b) without witnesses. But….

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3 years

Late disappointment for British canoeist #Olympics

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1 year

Went out for a walk and found a 1970 local phone book in a skip. Delighted that it contains the home numbers of both Pinner celebs: Barry Cryer AND Bob Holness.

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4 years

One of the most amazing bits of gossip I’ve ever heard involved Bruce Forsyth being mistaken for Valéry Giscard-D’estaing by the Pope.

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4 years

This is incredible radio @BBCRadioSolent

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I am actually in shock.

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5 years

Programme idea: Tim Montgomerie and Lord Adonis locked in a room doing a Gogglebox-style review of the news.

Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧

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The BBC has become Remain’s propaganda vehicle.

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6 years

I’d forgotten I made this ages ago just in case

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7 years

That’s not how “on background” works, Mail Online

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4 years

When you’re in a long queue For a burger or two That’s in Moray

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@BBCNorthEast

4 years

A newly-reopened Burger King drive-thru in Moray had to close due to long queues of traffic. Police had to go to the branch in Elgin due to demand. Police Scotland said: “Police attended after large amounts of traffic. The store closed and traffic dispersed.” (Pic: Fubar)

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@callummay

7 years

When the boss gets a bit emosh at Christmas drinks

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7 years

"You are never mutineers, never traitors, never malcontents, never enemies of the people" - the Speaker's message to MPs after hearing stories of online abuse.

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2 years

I would like to see Ken Bruce replaced by Rob Brydon, impersonating Ken Bruce.

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6 years

Hats off to the NUJ for misspelling “Ed Miliband”; “Ken Clarke” and “Liam Byrne”.

Tom Watson

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6 years

Welcome news that the NUJ are supporting amendments to the Data Protection Bill today.

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3 years

@lottelydia I wholeheartedly agreed with this on reading it and later remembered awkwardly that I am a television journalist.

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@callummay

4 years

This looks like the final stage of an Anglican computer game

Diocese of Bath & Wells

@BathWells

4 years

Getting ready for our first ordination service @WellsCathedral1 of our 17 soon to be deacons. Due to #coronavirus restrictions, we are holding 4 very small services over this weekend #newrevs #MaskUp #ordinations Find us on to watch all services .

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5 years

Open for a close-of-polls surprise

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2 months

Good news for the president of the Spanish football federation: he now gets to snog Dani Carvajal.

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8 months

Bradley Walsh on BBC One while Graham Norton is on ITV. Feels vaguely unsettling.

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@callummay

4 years

@JonnyDymond (Here is the proof! I’m indebted to @chinmj )

FacultyOffice

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6 years

The Registrar of the @Faculty_Office has signed the Special Marriage Licence for HRH The Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to be married in St George's Chapel in Windsor

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6 years

“Vicar” 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 an 👏🏻 appointed 👏🏻 office 👏🏻 held 👏🏻 by 👏🏻 some 👏🏻 Anglican 👏🏻 priests 👏🏻 and 👏🏻 isn’t 👏🏻 a generic 👏🏻 term 👏🏻 for all 👏🏻 church 👏🏻 ministers #VicarGate

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5 years

Possibly the boldest political RT of the day so far

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1 year

The new Hundred kits have been revealed and Welsh Fire are going to look like trendy vicars

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@PA Curtis Coulson, 30, sobbed as he became the first person to appear before Sheffield Magistrates Court following disorder in South Yorkshire over the weekend report @PA . He is alleged to have swung a stick at a woman outside Sheffield City Hall and will go on trial in September.

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5 years

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Jobs in Woking

@JobsInWoking

5 years

NEW JOB: Assistant Manager - Pizza Express - Woking GU21 →

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8 years

Just door stepped an entirely innocent member of the public in the mistaken belief she was the shadow Welsh secretary. How's YOUR day going?

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8 years

Today the Sunday Times profiles the Archbishop of York, who it reckons has also been managing Arsenal since 1996.

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6 years

Why isn’t the BBC reporting that Andrew Adonis is on the TV?

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6 years

Hi, very senior Foreign Office official. The big Sikh temple in Amritsar is definitely not a “Golden mosque”.

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3 years

I’ve spoken to the Isle of Man and Gibraltar governments this morning about reports that the territories might might house asylum seekers while their claims are processed by the UK. And guess what?

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@callummay

4 years

A plague on neither of your houses

Hugh Pym

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4 years

Second patient to get the COVID jab at University Hospital Coventry - would you believe it....William Shakespeare from Warwickshire

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9 years

Just noticed that John Betjeman predicted Twitter in 1954.

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Adam Wharton, 28, of Selwyn Street, Liverpool, has indicated a guilty plea to burglary at the Spellow Library on County Road on Sunday report @PA . Magistrates heard he was seen wearing a balaclava and "sweating profusely".

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@callummay

6 years

The foreign secretary has posted a picture of himself stuck in a maze; the chief whip has a picture of his phone off the hook. The government’s social media game is bloody weird.

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4 months

Happy election night to all those who celebrate. This is my office, containing a button that lets me talk directly to Professor Sir John Curtice. It’s quite a good gig.

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