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Award-winning storyteller and trainer for people & brands, merging data & creativity. Media columnist & radio broadcaster.

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4 years
Dominic Cummings - ‘My work here is done’ #DominicGoings
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One of the things my non-Jewish friends here in the UK can’t grasp. An open invitation to pay respect to murdered Jews is attended almost entirely by Jews. A march for Palestine attracts thousands of non-Palestinians. Which is fine - but we feel so alone in our own country
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It is ironic that this column about the submarine tragedy from Boris Johnson is accompanied by a story of ignored warnings, ridiculed whistleblowers, rule-breaking, cutting corners, incompetence, hubris, arrogance and alleged lying
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@toadmeister @Arwenstar Surely 'speculated'. How can you conclude something when you don't have access to the actual medical data of the individual involved?
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There is a very odd follow up question here from Laura Kuenssberg. The PM says - wrongly - that he followed all advice without hesitating. But instead of challenging that she says: ‘maybe the scientists were wrong’. As if that’s what he wants her to say and us to think
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BBC News (UK)
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"Maybe there were things we could have done differently" PM Boris Johnson tells @bbclaurak there will be time to "understand what exactly" the government could have done to tackle coronavirus
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Sometimes he verges on the polemical but @piersmorgan @GMB interview today with the embarrassingly bad Helen Whately is astonishing. Find it somehow. It's a brilliant example of angry, urgent journalistic scrutiny. And a terrible example of government PR incompetence
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Weird feeling for someone who voted to remain in the EU to watch it implode over UK’s ability to work faster and harder to get more vaccines. It is a brilliant advert for Brexit - and for the ancient principle of first come, first served
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Yet again where is Dido Harding? Surely she knows better than anyone that if you’re the boss and things go wrong you have to show leadership. And the testing debacle is yours @didoharding
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This isn't just pathetic and cowardly - it's wholly irresponsible @piersmorgan . People need information at a time of crisis on as many news outlets as possible
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Piers Morgan
4 years
The UK Govt has banned any ministers from appearing on @GMB after a series of them made complete fools of themselves in the face of basic & important questions. This is a pathetic & cowardly response to THEIR shameful incompetence. cc @BorisJohnson . @10DowningStreet
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Overly forgiving, careless with money, unwilling to address flaws, abandoning him during illness, forcing him to change nappies and unsophisticated. It’s his wife who’s to blame for Boris Johnson’s woes says Tom Bower whose own wife is a close friend of and was ennobled by Boris
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I voted against leaving the EU and am desperately disappointed about our isolated position. And then unelected bureaucrats like Ursula von der Leyen announce things like this and I wonder if I was wrong all along...
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Sky News
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has threatened to block vaccine exports to the UK and other countries with markedly higher rollouts of coronavirus jabs. Read more:
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I think Piers Morgan is going to be essential viewing over the coming weeks @GMB - and my advice would be for any Minister @piersmorgan and @susannareid100 interviews to have facts and figures to hand...otherwise you look shifty
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Piers Morgan challenges Michael Gove over the UK's open border policy during the pandemic. #GMB
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If Peaky Blinders had been made in America by @HBO with all resources that comes with it, we'd be talking about it as one of the great drama series. We're too reticent about the talents of Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory, Tom Hardy and especially Steven Knight @ThePeakyBlinder
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For 90 minutes, @BBCr4today has repeatedly referred to Liz Truss as the ‘first female foreign secretary’. Is there really no one on the programme who has heard of Margaret Beckett?
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@MattHancock Matt, you're completely right. Could this pledge also be extended to multi-national companies who - by using expensive lawyers - are able to avoid contributing to the UK economy through taxes that I must pay?
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Still one thing bugging me about the Hancock affair: surveillance video taken on and stolen from super-secure government property. How much more is there and from where else?
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Why is Rishi Sunak seeking pandemic advice from Gordon Ramsay, a multi-millionaire British TV star who lives in LA, has siphoned off taxpayers money to pay staff and whose restaurants are so expensive that most people will never visit them?
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Over the next few weeks I'm speaking to industry leaders and experts to hear how they've reacted to the pandemic. It starts tomorrow with @GordonRamsay who sat down with me to talk about the challenges facing hospitality and how he launched a TV show in lockdown. #PlanForJobs
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This exchange between @piersmorgan and Edward Argar basically feels like being bollocked by the editor for not knowing what the story is. 'Come back tomorrow'. And a completely justified bollocking
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‘You don’t seem to know the numbers on anything crucial to do with this virus.’ Health Minister Edward Argar tells @piersmorgan and @susannareid100 he didn’t know how many hotels are ready for quarantine or how many people obey self-isolation rules on arriving in the UK.
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I lost my dad this week and because I couldn’t be there, the only thing I could do was write about it
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@StigAbell Stig, as some of us have painfully experienced and recounted, elderly and sick people are being denied treatment for non-covid sickness and turned away from hospital. Many are dying. Having an empty one down the road doesn’t feel much like good news to be honest
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@richardaeden What does 'unproductive' even mean? We didn't get our way?
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Sacrilege to say this I know but has Rishi Sunak shown himself - so far - to be more of a brilliant media performer than Chancellor? The complicated, bank-reliant, impractical small business loans strategy has been a disaster when compared to other countries
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Sentence of day frm Matthew Parris: ‘That he’s a habitual liar, a cheat, a conspirator, a cruel betrayer of women he seduces, a politician who connived to suppress mention of a daughter he fathered, a do-nothing mayor of London and worst foreign secretary in living memory’ #boris
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@George_Osborne @BorisJohnson @trussliz @EveningStandard With your love and knowledge of London presumably you’d also want to credit local MP @TulipSiddiq ?
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8 years
How to spot a psychopath, according to this week's @spectator
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Just trying to figure out whether anything else that happened around 5 or 6 years ago - anything else - might have contributed to us having to spend ‘eye-watering’ sums of money to persuade foreigners to work in the UK and then train them
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Oh dear, that is some mistake... @Telegraph
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Oh how we laugh at those tinpot countries rife with corruption... #libor
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3 years
This morning Sarah Vine admonishes the honesty of Harry Sussex. Sarah, of course, is married to Michael Gove who led the Brexit campaign and enjoys a reputation for his liberal use of the facts. The truth is, she’s right
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@MarinaPurkiss The one who tried to hide the money trail
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Very few journalists emerge from a Question Time appearance as sensible, independently-minded and fair. @Gabriel_Pogrund did so brilliantly
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“I have no idea if in the context of asymmetric warfare there is anyway to avoid civilian casualties” Journalist Gabriel Pogrund discusses the Israel-Gaza conflict saying that he doesn't think "that either side is well served by their leaders” #bbcqt
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What a fantastic sight. The Golden Horizon, the world’s largest sailing ship, arriving in Fowey
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@George_Osborne Unless of course you - a journalist and editor - have just retweeted messaging from a far right group pretending to be Extinction Rebellion
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The brilliant ⁦ @MarinaHyde ⁩ captures the surreal nature of all of this, especially those of us who have lost loved one. Every day - every day - about 1000 people are dying of this virus. And we’re talking about police and Easter eggs
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@JimBethell James, it's not that your tweet was insensitive, more that it failed to acknowledge you have benefited from the kinds of advantages that almost no young person will ever have. They have to pass exams to succeed in life - you never did
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Just so everyone knows, I sadly have had coronavirus but I'm on the mend. Rest assured that it was not as bad, painful or vomit-inducing as this #imagine #Galgadot
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@BarristerSecret It's also a fundamental misunderstanding of his own career! A commentator is not a journalist. Journalists don't 'finesse arguments under the illusion of wisdom'. That's what Matthew does
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@montie Although they are - as far as I'm aware - full British taxpayers, unlike others who seek to lecture us, from Belize and elsewhere
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@George_Osborne You did. But you told it so badly, uninspiringly and without any real vision that the other side won. Maybe you didn’t tell it well enough?
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@JimBethell James, I agree with you. But would it be just as correct to write: sustained and repeated government refusal and inability to address junk food culture, national pollution, workers' rights, lack of funding for new technologies and show real leadership?
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Dear @JustinOnWeb wouldn't it be useful for listeners to @BBCr4today to know that Dylan Jones has very close ties to the Tory party? Have no doubt Corbyn played the grandad but if editor is going to tell tales we ought to have some context
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There are so many eye-watering figures from Rishi Sunak that it’s difficult to comprehend. One though stands out: £12billion has been spent so far by Dido Harding on the disastrous track and trace project
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‘Funniest, rudest, most mischievous man I ever worked with.’ And my mum used to work with @Robin_Askwith My Saturday memories are of Greavsie lighting up a studio rather than a stadium #JimmyGreaves
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Taking an Uber from Hampstead to Chiswick at 10.15pm - £75. Profiteering from the pandemic @Uber ? Thanks, I’ll take the train
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Somebody who knows somebody else mentioned that a woman said she was having an affair with Boris Johnson. Is that really a front page story or is it a diary item? No wonder the Sunday Times doesn’t carry a byline
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Not a businesswoman or an executive or even a banker. A single mum. Do we define successful men like this?
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That Lord Lister was enabled to make money and policy at the same time without any oversight goes to the heart of how Boris Johnson and ethics work
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How is this even a column?! I need glasses. Poor me. Will 950 words be ok?
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BBC bosses: ‘We need to get out of the bubble and talk to real voters to understand what’s really happening in the country.’ @BBCr4today : ‘Great idea, we’ll present from Britain’s top universities’.
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Dear @RBKC if you want to rebuild some kind of credibility do not let Catherine Faulks out of her bubble ever again. Unbelievable arrogance
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It would surely be relevant for @bbcnickrobinson to introduce his guest @FraserNelson as editor of a magazine with extremely close connections to Rishi Sunak. Otherwise you’re deceiving people in the same way as the Sunaks have
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@emilyhewertson Running a department also comes down to an individual’s character, ethics and trustworthiness. In which case, Angela Rayner is streets ahead of Gavin Williamson
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Alot of criticism of @GBNEWS but I think this segment with @BeccaHutson is the smartest thing they've done. I love it when broadcasters say 'let's look at what's in the newspapers' but that's yesterday's news. Twitter is now
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Our digital guru Rebecca Hutson gives the lowdown on what's trending 👩‍💻
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Forget about the Royal connection. If you were looking after a very elderly and frail great-granny and an estranged relative came home for 15 (!) minutes, then boasted in a self-admiring interview that *he* was protecting her, you’d be fuming #Harry
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@PippaCrerar Let's not forget Conservative Peer Michelle Mone
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Oops, from a few days ago: Facebook won't listen to your calls without permission but, erm, Mark Di Stefano and the FT might
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@MsHannahMurphy Here's what to watch: Facebook insists it WILL NOT listen or watch or scan your "Messenger Room" video calls. There won't be ads. Facebook says it won't use the content of the calls to inform later advertising.
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@cocobyname One of them is the actual Home Secretary! Whose job it is!!
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‘I made a case against Brexit but it wasn’t heard’ says George Osborne in BBC’s Cameron documentary. A more honest assessment would be: ‘It was heard but my argument wasn’t good enough.’ Being sorry is pointless unless you can understand why people feel so angry #thecameronyears
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@JGForsyth 83% of the French - in August - are working in their normal offices. James, have you ever visited France?
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@JasonGroves1 Perfect imagery and wording from some very out-of-touch people unaware of the racism story that's dominating headlines
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@MattGarrahan @PickardJE New? I've been tweeting it to the @FT and @Gabriel_Pogrund since 8am yesterday morning! Perhaps just as interesting is why Gabriel ignored the story in the first place. Because he must have known...
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@George_Osborne Without irony, you wrote an artice this week criticising politicians for imposing stringent cutbacks without even mentioning that they are in fact continuations of your own austerity drive that helped to fuel Corbyn's rise to power
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@adamboultonSKY No excuse but. But?! Surely just no excuse - otherwise you're kind of apportioning blame
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@JohnJCrace The Spectator, Coffee House today. Delusional? I prefer ‘unique take’. Can hear Veronica saying so…
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I know it’s wrong but I can’t stop thinking about David Brent: ‘Get the guitar…’
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How it started... How it's going
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@piersmorgan You should. I had to watch my dad die on a mobile phone on March 31 because I couldn’t visit him. One rule for some and not others
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@DPJHodges Great idea. And then maybe the Mail on Sunday could write a positive story about a Labour MP and the Mirror do the same for a Conservative. Give it a go, Dan. See what the editor says
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@suzanne_moore Same feeling form me when nice Conservative woman came round and I said ‘Sorry, they’ve really let you down at Westminster.’ Her response: ‘You’re telling me!’
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Yorkshire cricket’s sponsors. I wonder what they feel about the club with which they’re associated - the England cricket captain’s club - being labelled institutionally racist #AzeemRafiq
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@oflynnsocial Watership Lockdown
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This, above all, I can never forgive Dominic Cummings for. When he was breaking the law to take a trip to see family at Barnard Castle, I was self-isolating as he asked. And I had to listen to my dad die on the phone
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@oflynnsocial Very well argued piece Patrick. Not sure I agree entirely with you, especially the line ‘people remember these things’. Do they, will they? If so, surely that will impact the Tories even more so, to Starmer’s benefit
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How it started … How it’s going
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@MichaelLCrick @tomorrowsmps Yes, obviously, Michael. But why ‘we’? Don’t you mean ‘I’? Because Jews have always been an ethnic minority
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@PrivateEyeNews Satire? Perhaps Sarah Vine is looking for a job. Her column this morning...
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The greatest comeback since David Cameron. Ziggy is home, 7 days later, having crossed the M4 to eat at both of the Heston Services. Beat that Lassie
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@jonsopel @mrjamesob Jon I agree with you but have they also been expressing dismay and anger at the way the BBC leadership has been so apparently poor in duty of care for all involved?
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@mrneilforsyth He’s also the only celebrity I’ve ever sat next to who’s more interested in you
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Brilliant @JANUSZCZAK on the Turner Prize: ‘A jury of interwoven curators who hop from international biennale to international biennale, learning the trends, drifting ever further away from the realities of art. Someone please close down the farm’
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Not for 1st time, this piece by James Forsyth - married to the PM’s official spokesman, best friend of Rishi Sunak and godfather to his child - is meaningless propaganda. ‘Plugged-in’ comment means analysis not copying quotes. ⁦Miss @PhilipJCollins1
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The leaving do I wasn’t able to attend
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Rishi, do you mind if I ask whether it would have also been justifiable and reasonable to take care of my dad in his dying last few days rather than stay at home as I was legally obliged to do...?
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Taking care of your wife and young child is justifiable and reasonable, trying to score political points over it isn’t.
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⁦Letters from Julia Neuberger @simonmontefiore ⁩ ⁦ @KarenPollock100 ⁩ that reflect the surprise, anger, disgust and dismay that so many Jews felt at the Guardian Editor’s crass defence of Jeremy Corbyn
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This may well be the best piece of science comms we’ve had in a year. Brilliant @Channel4News programme with @krishgm and a totally fantastic performance from Van Tam. This should happen every week, each channel takes a turn
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TONIGHT: Deputy CMO Jonathan Van Tam faces viewers questions on vaccine myths, fears over 2nd dose delay, will Covid mutations mean re-vaccinations, schools reopening, summer holidays & did govt really do everything possible to avoid 100k deaths? #AskJVT #c4news 7pm
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Totally delicious. ⁦ @jayrayner1 ⁩ sinks his teeth into what might be the most overpriced pop-up restaurant in Britain and it’s a fantastic read
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Love this book recommendation from ⁦ @DAaronovitch ⁩ for Sunak and Truss. Although why not add Poe’s Fall of The House of Usher. Two incestuous survivors of a family living in a disintegrating house, full of fear, sickness, doom and guilt in which one buries the other alive
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You've got to admit one thing - David Cameron is still brilliant at PR and sales. 'As I say in my book...' 'As the book makes clear...' 'In the book...' 'As I write in my book...' @BBCr4today
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@FabrizioRomano How can one of the 6 best players in his position in the entire league be deemed too expensive at £40m?!
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Great interview from ⁦ @forster_k ⁩ with ⁦ @Elif_Safak ⁩ - and what a novel!
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‘We had no idea that a mutant variant would be so transmissible’ announces politician Steve Baker to journalist Simon Jack and no one is around to challenge this utter falsehood. Can’t we have someone with a scientific background on hand @BBCr4today to offer analysis and honesty
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Am surprised not more fuss is being made of Sky/HBO series Landscapers. Totally brilliant. Not just the acting of David Thewlis and Olivia Coleman but the writing of Ed Sinclair and direction of Will Sharpe #LandscapersHBO
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Many things make Kirsty Young the best interviewer Desert Island Discs has ever had. But perhaps the most important is that she listens intently - the best questions are the ones that answers inspire #KirstyYoung #DesertIslandDiscs
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@edgarwright Totally with you. Just sat with the kids to watch Silence of The Lambs for their first time. That Jodie Foster line at the end: ‘Don’t worry miss, this is the FBI, you’re safe’ provoked such bizarre, tense, unforgettable laughter in the cinema. Not same on the sofa
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@lucysiegle And a more candid headline about his lifestyle
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@oflynnsocial Such a good point Patrick. Broadcasters are being hammered for alleged bias but it’s their lack of imagination and resistance to change that’s more important. Viewers are bored #thatsnotentertainment
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@martinkettle @johnharris1969 Does it honestly matter Martin? I think his behaviour is largely despicable but on this he’s right and should be applauded - these people need our help and, like your newspaper, he’s helping to keep the story alive and on the front pages
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@Gabriel_Pogrund @mrjamesob @HarryYorke1 Do you get the same answer if you ask ‘Who funded the Prime Minister’s immediate family while he was in office’?
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