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Diary Reporter @EveningStandard MA @CityJournalism 22/3 claudia.cockerell @standard .co.uk

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Claudia Cockerell
7 months
The River Fal in Cornwall is home to the last fishery in Europe where they catch oysters by hand and sailboat. But this centuries-old industry is on the brink of collapse because private water companies won't stop dumping sewage in the river:
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Went to (gatecrashed) Nigel Farage's 60th birthday party last night for @Londoners_Diary . His half melted ice sculpture will stay with me for many, many years. A lot happened:
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@emmaloffhagen I think about this often. Have been building a list on notes
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5 months
@campbellclaret Hi Alastair! I wrote the article and I was in the room.. I don't think I misconstrued anything, here's a clip for anyone interested.
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3 months
There were innumerable conga lines
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3 months
This is about Sam Taylor-Johnson........ I gasped
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3 months
Farage shared his broadcasting secrets in a speech indistinguishable from pantomime
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3 months
Trump described Farage as a 'prophetic leader' via videolink
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3 months
Farage teased a 'big announcement' in the coming weeks, but said he didn't want to make it on his birthday: 'Why spoil a lovely booze up?'
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3 months
Asked the DUP's Ian Paisley whether Farage is returning to politics. 'Of course he is'.
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5 months
A summary of Rishi Sunak on #GBNews #right
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2 months
Good day for my press card to arrive!
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@emmaloffhagen Or 'parmigian' for parmesan. Pick a side
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2 months
lambs in cheshire. so hard to photograph but incredible to see
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Rishi Sunak
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You just can’t beat the Great British countryside.
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Never been more jealous. Watch my dad on University Challenge Christmas semi final riiight now. Here is a BTS of our rigorous buzzer training session after it became clear he did not, in fact, know the rules @amolrajan
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2 months
Say what you want about Thames Water but the super sewer is undeniably chic
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4 months
Freshly dropped on the MPs register of interests, Liz Truss's advance for Ten Years to Save the West. 😬
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Personal favourite from Andrea Jenkyns' election leaflet: one of her top 'local achievements' is a charity concert she organised... in 2014. Before she was an MP. As she wrote on her website at the time, 'dozens' came and they raised 'over £800'. Decade defining
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Dug through flight records and found the private jet Keir Starmer chartered to Scotland last week. Can't say I'm not a *little* disappointed
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5 months
At an Alastair Campbell talk yesterday a young member of the audience told @campbellclaret her friends no longer wanted to vote for Keir Starmer because of his stance on Gaza. His advice for them? "Get off your high horse and vote Labour". Problem solved!
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The girl who threw milkshake on Nigel Farage is auctioning off her tracksuit for charity 👀
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2 months
The new plastic bottles with attached lids are a terrible invention - but that's what makes them genius. My piece in today's @EveningStandard
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I wrote about high horse-gate and why Labour is foolish to think young people will look past their stance on Gaza
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Thames Water is a menace to life as we know it. There’s the existential, domesday threat of London running dry, and then the slow, sad decline of village life because our rivers are dying. I wrote about both for @Perspective_tw
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Enjoying all of these first day of year 7 in sibling's hand-me-down blazer type pics
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imagine if your parents scrimped and saved to send you to Winchester and this is how you hold a pen
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My psychic powers are available to anyone who wants to skip a Euros game for a party
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Rishi 'longtime Adidas devotee' Sunak thinks *those* are Sambas???
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Sun's out. Sambas on. Secure future.
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Labour's favourite little game is making you think someone has died in a freak accident when really they just want £1
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The JustGiving page for Jeremy Hunt's marathon run is a rollercoaster but maybe my favourite part is David Gauke giving a fiver with no gift aid. Even Zachary Big Shlong did gift aid
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It's worth looking in detail at the 15 tweets @faizashaheen is being being blocked from standing as the Labour candidate in Chingford over. They include 2 of her own posts, and 13 posts she liked over a ten year period. 🧵
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2 months
Labour's emails are getting a bit wild-eyed man in the street
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Went to the premiere of Stanley Johnson's Chinese state funded film last week, where he retraces Marco Polo's route through China. Johnson told me he had a "wonderful time" in Xinjiang and that it's all "absolutely fine" over there
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James Turrell + Richard Serra + In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg = Supersewer
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2 months
I do love a witheringly pedantic sic
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6 months
Went through the MPs register of interests with a nit comb to find all the ridiculous presents they received in 2023. Personal favourite: Michael Gove got £3000 from a dentist in Berkshire for Christmas. Hollywood smile incoming
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@Londoners_Diary
Londoner's Diary
4 months
Plus: Wokery scone mad
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2 months
Are politicians expected to endorse every word of every tweet they've liked in the last decade? It's disturbing to think that something as inconsequential as a heart button pressed ten years ago can be weaponised against someone who didn't fit neatly in with the party line.
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2 months
A great loss for reality TV
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Londoner's Diary
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"I’m not going to do Dancing on Ice, I’m not going to be on The Traitors, I’m not going to be on I’m a Celebrity, or whatever any of these shows are," says Liz Truss
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6 months
What have the British got to learn from American Classicists? Rather a lot, it turns out. I wrote about studying Latin and Ancient Greek in Texas, where students had lively discussions over @EmilyRCWilson 's Odyssey and read dusty Latin tomes for book club
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Claudia Cockerell
2 years
@gilesduley Hi Giles, I'm really sorry this has happened to you. I'm a student journalist and I'd love to write a piece about this, if you'd be willing to have a quick chat please do follow me and I can DM you! Thanks so much, Claudia
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I went to Stonehenge last week and met the 'druid king', who told me how he and Keir Starmer saved the solstice:
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4 months
@tombutlerbowdon Yep, Theresa May got a 20k initial advance! Although she registered 350 hours of work, while Truss bashed out 10 years in 90 hours
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Maybe having no dreams is the secret to Starmer's success. Too exhausted to function cos I spent the night running through treacle to catch a train
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10 months
I asked Mary Beard how often she thinks about the Roman Empire and other such glib questions for today's Diary @EveningStandard @wmarybeard
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23 days
1 more sleep til I get to see this view again 😍 #Glastonbury
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David Cameron quietly went to see Taylor Swift over the weekend. Apparently he remained seated for most of the show and didn't know the words to any of the songs, except Love Story
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There should be a word for people who try and do the reverse nepo baby thing of 'my parents were working class / my dad was a toolmaker / I'm one degree of separation from being salt of the earth' etc
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BUT WHAT ABOUT THE LICHEN
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You *almost* have to laugh
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Former PMs Tony Blair and Boris Johnson and wrestling star John Cena among guests at lavish wedding of Asia's richest man
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Why has Timothee Chalamet come to Dune 2 photocall dressed as Lea Seydoux if her outfit shrunk in the wash
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If someone told me it was the new Turbine Hall installation I wouldn't blink
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Playing a game of count the sweeties in the jar except it's how many times Rishi Sunak says 'plan' my guess is 4,367,523
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Incredible @azaizamotaz9 at the #SirHarrySummit . He said being named one of TIME's 100 most influential people of 2024 felt 'fake': 'They didn’t even give me the opportunity to speak about the genocide happening in my home,' (nor did they cover his ticket or hotel for the gala)
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2 months
One of the most poetic things I've ever seen in London was this plastic bag trampled into the shape of a dove
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Claudia Cockerell
5 months
My sister @rachelcockerell 's book is out TODAY! It's about a long forgotten rebel Jewish group who spent the early 20th century searching for a homeland outside of Palestine. She tells the entire story by weaving together primary sources. Get your copy:
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3 months
Dug up a story from 2019 where Monty Panesar said he'd like Sadiq Khan to "pass the baton to me as the Mayor of London." Now he says he wants to be Prime Minister. Shoot for the moon x
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Claudia Cockerell
1 year
@HugoSAS @GoodLawProject @JolyonMaugham Hi Hugo, I'm headed down to Cornwall tomorrow evening to do some filming for a short doc I'm doing on the sewage crisis. I'm hoping to come to the court hearing first and would love to speak to you -- please follow me back so we can DM! Thanks, Claudia
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Jess Phillips recently said her motto is a Katy Perry lyric (from Roar, natch). Met Angela Rayner at a Labour Christmas party and asked for hers. She promptly airdropped me this pic of her bedroom wall:
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4 months
Sneak preview of tomorrow's Londoner's Diary
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2 months
David Cameron makes his TikTok debut.. and omits Israel entirely from his explanation of why the Middle East is a dangerous place right now
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The best thing about Brooklyn Beckham is that every time he does something you think surely, *surely* this is satire and it never, ever is
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A good time to revisit the bumper guide @EthanCroft98 and I did in the Londoners Diary about which MPs wet their whistles at which private members' clubs
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Is... is Grant Shapps using an airbrush filter for this interview? Either that or he is GLOWING
@SkyPoliticsHub
Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge
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"I always accept that my seat is at risk." Defence secretary @grantshapps reacts to the YouGov poll that projects him to lose his seat. #PoliticsHub 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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50% of the Booker Prize shortlist were called Paul. But winner @paullynchwriter insists "there's no Paul privilege":
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Carrie Johnson has discovered IKEA, one £200k flat refurbishment too late
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#MetGala takeaway: bum cracks are the new cleavage. Good on Kendall Jenner opting for a demure builder's bum
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As a wise man once told me, it's time to take the work experience you did aged 16 off your CV
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1 year
Something very second wave feminism about this salad
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Happy sunday from frosthole crescent
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4 months
Platonic ideal of a nightmare blunt rotation
@Conservatives
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Conservatives are the Party for women.
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If I see this type of subheading in a magazine one more time I will expire
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Aurora Borealis, aka one of those girls who's much prettier on Instagram than in real life and is therefore on my anti bucket list. For @ESInsider
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Nicky Haslam and @caitlinmoran in a skunk soc meeting
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Anyone who donated £1 yesterday must be feeling like a real chump today
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My first article in print! I wrote about Matt Hancock's icktok for @EveningStandard Online too:
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11 years
Watching your buns collapse brought a tear to my eye @GlennCosby #prayforglenn
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8 months
Did some internet sleuthing today to get to the bottom of the *mystery* that is Susan Hall's pickpocketing:
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Claudia Cockerell
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@Ed_Miliband #NoOffenceBut you should stop addressing people with imperatives. Saying 'look' to people won't make them agree with you
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@GrantTucker There's some nice variation between flattery and menace
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This dijon mustard shortage is really starting to get to me
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4 years
Wrote about the joys of studying Lat'n and Greek in Texas! And what we here on pudding island need to learn from the southern belles and beaus
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@gbkburgers Chuck Norris doesn't have twitter, because he's already following you. #ChuckNorrisJokes
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Slash let's see if I can hold your attention about lids for 400 words
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Matt Hancock could learn a thing or two from the Conservatives social media team about clipping videos
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@edcumming Not easy being a trussafarian
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Claudia Cockerell
2 years
Hey @Christian_AusGP , I'm a Journalism Masters student at City University in London, and I'm producing a news story on the Ozempic shortage in Australia due to the TikTok trend. I'd love to speak to you about it – please follow me back if you had a moment! Thanks, Claudia
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Claudia Cockerell
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@Feargal_Sharkey Hi Feargal, I am a journalism masters student and I'm making a mini documentary about how sewage is wiping out British native oysters. I'd love to speak to you, please follow me back so we can chat!
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Started my day with a phone call to Nigel Farage to find out if he is really going on I'm a Celeb 🙃
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Lol Grazia have added a caveat to their interview about how rich Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty are. That should quell the mob
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Damian Lewis has formed a new band. But this time, it's not of brothers. I caught up with him after a gig to celebrate his debut album, Mission Creep: @lewis_damian @Londoners_Diary @EveningStandard
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