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Exiled Mancunian most commonly found jogging along the river Cam listening to The National

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Joined October 2008

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@harrisimo

Brian Harris

2 months

Can you travel from Land's End to John O'Groats without stepping foot in a Tory constituency? No. Because there are two 'barriers' of Tory seats blocking your route out of Cornwall and across the Borders into Scotland. Otherwise, yes, but only via Wales. #GeneralElection2024

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Brian Harris

8 months

Off peak return Cambridge to Manchester is £129.40. Absolutely fucking insane. Costs *less than half that* in petrol to drive (for one person). What sort of stupid, stupid country makes train travel 2, 3 or 4 times more expensive than driving? Tory Britain.

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5 years

I'm one of the comfortably off in Cambridge. I would happily pay more in taxes specifically to properly fund our welfare system. Not because I'm particularly charitable. But because I want to live in a fair, equitable, compassionate and decent society. #dispatches

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Brian Harris

8 months

Wait till people find out that Fujitsu sued the NHS for £700 million in 2014 after its IT contract was cancelled due to it being a "train wreck" - money that could have gone on patient care. #r4today #PostOfficeScandal

Government 'loses £700m NHS IT legal battle with Fujitsu' - BBC News

Taxpayers could be hit with a £700m bill after the government reportedly loses a legal fight with Fujitsu.

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4 months

Even the UK weather is telling him to piss off. It's quite a look. #generalelection

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2 years

A country with James Cleverly as Education Secretary and Dorries as Culture Minister does not deserve to be taken seriously. #r4today

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Brian Harris

7 years

Watching Macron. OMG is this what leaders of other countries are like? Appear to have some semblance of personality. Speak with clarity and answer questions. Appear human. Can we have one of those please? #marr

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5 months

Dear #R4Today No-one gives the tiniest wee fuck what deluded clown and neo-fascist fangirl Liz Truss thinks about anything. Yours, the entire British nation

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2 months

Over to #politicslive where of course they are interviewing a Tory about the Conservative leadership race. FFS. Can we please just ignore these fuckers for a while. 14 years was more than enough.

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@BBCLookEast "Since January, our sickness rates have fallen by a third, staff turnover has reduced by 36%, and complaints about services are down" Govt: THIS MUST STOP

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5 years

@martinkl Which he wrote on mounds of toilet paper he'd stockpiled from the nearest apothecary.

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Brian Harris

10 years

Best street name. Ever. http://t.co/BqvweK3Hn3

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8 months

@CharlesOJ "Tory Britain" because they've been in charge for the last 14 years. When Labour get in and nothing improves, I'll post the same thing with "Labour Britain" in a decade. Seems fair enough.

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Brian Harris

5 years

Don't quite get why Corybn visiting a homeless shelter on Xmas Day is so fucking hilarious to everyone on #HIGNFY

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Brian Harris

5 years

The longer the #DowningStreetSource hashtag keeps trending the more difficult it becomes for any journalist to use it on here without facing ridicule. Would leave Kuenssberg with almost nothing to post...

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Brian Harris

2 years

@PippaCrerar @cazjwheeler A Prime Minister forced out by his own ministers for repeated misconduct in office shouldn't be allowed resignation honours. It's a farce.

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1 year

Here's how you "stop the boats". Allow anyone in France wanting to claim asylum in the UK to take the ferry to Dover and apply for refugee status here. That would stop the boats straight away. Oh. Wait. You're not actually serious about stopping the boats then?? #politicslive

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6 months

Why is the BBC pushing this bullshit Rayner story? Really does feel like they're the propaganda wing of the Tory party. Which is hardly surprising given it's run by Tories. But they're hardly subtle about it. #r4today

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Brian Harris

1 year

Genius move from Musk because the one thing you want from your social media platform is to limit people's use of it. Advertisers will be thrilled. #riptwitter

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Brian Harris

4 years

Belligerent Tory gnome Nick Robinson trying to catch out @JonAshworth on calling for earlier lockdown "I've looked back on Twitter & can't find anything at the time" "You shouldn't just go off Twitter, Nick. I said it in the House of Commons..." #r4today journalism at its best

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Brian Harris

5 years

"Food banks have become more common for the same reason smartphones have become more common - because they didn't exist before." Daniel Hannan, everyone. #newsnight

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2 years

Gullis is a brilliant representative of the current Tory party. He's a boorish slug incapable of coherent argument other than bashing Labour with endless aggressively stupid slogans. #politicslive

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Brian Harris

5 years

Clive Lewis just hit the nail squarely on the head about what's really behind Brexit - a far right project of eroding workers' rights & environmental protections, paring back the state even further, selling off the NHS and opening us up to US imports. It's a con. #c4brexitdebate

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Brian Harris

7 months

Breathtaking incompetence from the government Breathtaking indifference from Johnson when it began Breathtaking greed from the likes of Mone Breathtaking corruption over PPE contracts Breathtaking uselessness from Harding Breathtaking dishonesty from Hancock #Breathtaking

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Brian Harris

8 months

Actually if you don't go via London it is a bit cheaper (but shittier trains).... £103 Even so. Madness. The Anytime Return via London is.... wait for it... £455

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Brian Harris

8 months

Not a single person from the Conservative OR Labour Party was willing to come on #c4news to talk about the #ICJRuling Let that sink in.

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Brian Harris

10 months

@fesshole A few months later: gently suggest she alters her will. Playing the long game. Classic.

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Brian Harris

4 years

@zatzi @HollieBorland @NatashaC Rummage around in neighbours' bins for thrown out potatoes to use as seed potatoes then plant them and hey presto 10 weeks later... *totally free* potatoes. To make chips with or something. Anyone can afford this even the lazy feckless fat poor.

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10 months

@gibbsy66 Does she read the Express or Mail? Common issue among friends with older parents. A whole generation radicalised over decades to hate all kinds of people. These papers are so damaging to our society.

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Brian Harris

8 months

If Stephen Bradshaw is representative of the sort of people the subpostmasters were having to deal with on being accused, then they were doomed from the start. #PostOfficeScandal #PostOfficeInquiry

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Brian Harris

8 months

Jeremy Hunt casually used the lie about new North Sea oil and gas developments being "domestic" and important for UK energy security when this has been debunked so many times, and @bbcnickrobinson let it pass and said nothing to challenge it. #r4today failing us all yet again.

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Brian Harris

8 months

Who can we interview next who is even more of a swivel-eyed fucknut than Rees-Mogg? "Now here's Miriam Cates" #C4News

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Brian Harris

6 years

I see what you did there, @guardian #royalwedding

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Brian Harris

3 years

@danbloom1 I've noticed Tory ministers have been using the "can't say anything about hypothetical situations" response to questions they can't answer an awful lot recently. Even when, as in this case, they aren't hypothetical at all.

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Brian Harris

4 years

@davidschneider @lewis_herbert Thing about the Tories is they always somehow manage to out-cunt themselves.

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2 years

@mariacaulfield @HarryScoffin @JakeBerry Hmm. Your voting record shows you have repeatedly shafted the working class, so it's a bit rich to suddenly start claiming some kind of conscience.

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5 years

The system is cruel, punitive and treats some of the most vulnerable people in society with utter contempt and disdain. Degrades them and pushes them into despair and poor health. It needs to be radically overhauled. That's going to inform my vote on Dec 12th.

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1 year

It's worth remembering that the vast majority of those who voted for, joined and participated in the worst atrocities of the Nazis were perfectly ordinary people who were persuaded by relentless propaganda to dehumanise a group of people. Let's learn from history #PoliticsLive

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@DavidLammy What's wonderful about this is the journalist was asking a snide question to not very subtly remind everyone that Eoin is Irish. Morgan, being a supremely sound and quick-witted guy, turned it on its head to make a beautiful point about the diversity of the team. Just lovely.

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2 months

Please, please can we have a break from the appalling Claire Fox on #politicslive for at least a year or so? An endless sewage pipe pumping out tiresome opinions, expressed with the unwavering certainty of someone who has failed upwards her whole life.

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3 years

Justin Webb suddenly very interested in where the money comes from for £20 a week to the poorest families. Never asks the same about the billions spent on fighter jets, Trident, HS2 or pandemic contracts. We see you. #r4today

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2 years

"You do seem to rely on The Telegraph a lot, Justin..." Mick Lynch calling out @JustinOnWeb on #r4today . Bit harsh. He also likes reading out bits of the Daily Mail when it suits.

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Brian Harris

6 years

@F1shyBob @simmop468 @justthevax @JohnnyMercerUK @BrianWoodMC OMG Paul, this isn't how Twitter works. You're supposed to continue arguing and then get steadily more abusive ;-)

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4 years

The Horizon scandal is horrifying. Not only was Paula Vennells never held to account but what's even more disgusting is she was made a CBE in the 2019 honours list. Deeply insulting to all those wrongfully accused. Private Eye were on the case for years. #panorama

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3 years

@JulianSmithUK And yet you voted for the Nationalities and Borders bill which further criminalises people coming to the UK to seek asylum. So tweets are all very well but your actions contradict every word of the above.

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5 years

@JewishChron Enough is enough. I feel compelled to respond to this utterly appalling smear campaign by actually joining the Labour party to support Jeremy Corbyn. Thanks for tipping me over the edge.

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Brian Harris

6 years

@damocrat Sometimes feels like Ken Clarke is the only MP actually awake at the moment.

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Brian Harris

4 years

@mrJamesGraham While govt has spaffed 11 million on a non-functional app and plans to spend 1 million on painting a plane.

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1 year

Christ, is there anything in this country not falling apart after 13 years of Tory government? #r4today

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Brian Harris

1 year

Fck off. There is *nothing* positive about Murdoch's contribution to this country. Division, hatred, sleaze, ruined lives, a culture of impunity and law breaking in the tabloid press... he's cheapened and debased our entire culture. #C4News

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1 year

Amol Rajan trying to justify his interview with Schofield as something important and philosophical when it's just that #r4today has gone full tabloid and is no longer a serious news programme.

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Brian Harris

2 years

Would swap any one of the people crossing the channel to make a new life in the UK with Oakeshott. In a heartbeat. #PoliticsLive

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Brian Harris

5 years

@MattHancock You've had three goes already. Take. The. Hint.

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2 months

Tetchy, angry shouty Rishi is such a truly horrible individual. His breathtaking hypocrisy over Hester is just staggering and shows who he really is. Vote these fuckers out. #bbclaurak

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Brian Harris

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@ellainlondon @MatthewSlyman Matthew.

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1 year

Every single cafe and restaurant in Cambridge has a notice on the door advertising for staff. My dad asked "where did all the workers go?" "A lot of them back to the EU." #Newsnight

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6 years

So if we pull out of Galileo, how long will it take to build our own system? "That isn't the point" And how much will it cost? "That doesn't matter" Peak Brexit. #r4today

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Brian Harris

5 years

Have any journalists followed up this credible story on Boris Johnson's lying about his own use of cocaine? @peston ? @bbclaurak ? @bbcnickrobinson ? @adamboultonSKY ?

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HOLD ON A SEC @BorisJohnson there is NO WAY that your ‘ encounter ‘ with Cocaine was in your University days, you were snorting the stuff up like Nobodies business at the Party in Knightsbridge where you racially abused me and that was early 90’s you absolute LIAR

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"Why are you even here?" Ha ha. Exactly. Fair play to the activist with the funky outfit... Kwarteng was chancellor for all of one month before being sacked by Liz Truss. His opinions are worthless and his presence an insult to the viewers. #Newsnight

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Brian Harris

5 years

Whatever your views on Anna Soubry at least she acted on her principles while the risible Nicky Morgan just shrugged and pretended she'd never even heard of the word. #toriesatwar

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4 years

After last night's heartbreaking #SittingInLimbo this is painful to watch. May was always a nasty piece of work and I remain undimmed in my loathing of her.

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In October 2013 @theresa_may proudly boasted that she would "deport first and hear appeals later". I opposed her then and I oppose her now. Theresa May must take responsibility for the Windrush crisis. It is because of her race to the bottom pandering to anti-immigrant sentiment.

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Rishi Sunak thinks the #PostOffceScandal "happened a very long time ago, in the nineties...." Holy fck this man is clueless. It's one of the biggest stories in the media in the past week and he can't even be bothered to check basic facts. #bbclaurak

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@bbclaurak @PippaCrerar He drove the entire length of the country while ill with coronavirus to stay with over 70s? Jesus, you couldn't get a more flagrant f-cking breach. Even you get that, right? Right?

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@heidiallen75 @DavidCleevely Actually, he does. That's the problem.

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@SamWhyte Says it all about the truly toxic nature of our press that Neil has not only never been held to account for any of this garbage but moreover is venerated as some kind of elder statesman who is beyond reproach. He's showing his true colours again though now.

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Brian Harris

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@IllyBocean @dandouglas Wait. This guy is now worried about name-calling?

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Elon Musk calls British diver in Thai cave rescue 'pedo' in baseless attack

Accusation directed on Twitter at Vern Unsworth, who called Tesla CEO’s offer of ‘mini-sub’ to help rescuers a ‘PR stunt’

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Tice is Richard Madeley cosplaying as Oswald Moseley. With an orangey Trumpish tint. Hoping the nation has regressed to 1930s style fascism again and will respond to his disgusting populist hate. Horrible shitstain of a human. #c4news

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Brian Harris

5 years

@RoryStewartUK Johnson 114 Stewart 19 "We can win this" Sure.

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Brian Harris

12 years

This is what happens if you give a cake shop a USB stick containing an image you want to appear on a cake: http://t.co/dXza7jy9

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Brian Harris

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Love Billy Bragg laughing his tits off at the ludicrous Calvin Robinson denouncing our Marxist footballers. #C4News

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Brian Harris

8 months

Not a single person in those focus groups mentioned immigration... no-one said anything about "the boats". Despite years of the most rabid propaganda demonising immigrants it looks like ordinary people know it's not the reason the country is fucked. #bbclaurak

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Brian Harris

6 years

Of course John Mann is invited on to #r4today to slate Corbyn's "absurd" decision to back a second referendum, even though it was party policy and majority of members, MPs and voters support it.

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Brian Harris

5 years

@bbclaurak So no punch. No scuffle. Nothing. Next time, maybe best not to tweet out things you've "heard" with zero evidence.

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Brian Harris

2 years

Mick Lynch is far too good for Kirsty Wark to lay a finger on. Takes no nonsense whatsoever and calls out every bullshit propaganda line from no. 10. #newsnight

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Brian Harris

7 years

Christ, Chris Leslie sounds more pissed off than most Tories. Literally cannot bring himself to credit Corbyn. #r4today

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Brian Harris

4 months

Are we *still* having this "is Netanyahu a corrupt, genocidal fucking maniac who couldn't give two shits about the hostages or human lives in general?" discussion? Most of us figured this out a long time ago. He's not exactly hiding it. #c4news

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Of course Jeremy Hunt feels wealthier. He owns seven flats in a development in Southampton... so the constant increase in rents benefits him personally quite a lot. #r4today

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We are building thousands of new homes each year and not one of them is required to have solar panels for electricity or hot water. Should have been mandated 20 years ago. Absolute fucking joke. #newsnight

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3 years

@paulwaugh @anandMenon1 @GNev2 @BorisJohnson He did write and say those things. And as far as I can recall has never actually apologised. So you can reject whatever you like but it doesn't rewrite history.

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5 years

Hands up who secretly records their friends during a private conversation and then sends the file to a notorious right wing website? Oh, just Tory activists is it? #bbcpm

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Brian Harris

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Fujitsu should be banned from ALL govt contracts. It's not just their disastrous failed IT projects... it's also that they spend millions on litigation that costs us a fortune. #r4today

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Wait till people find out that Fujitsu sued the NHS for £700 million in 2014 after its IT contract was cancelled due to it being a "train wreck" - money that could have gone on patient care. #r4today #PostOfficeScandal

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@maria_axente Thanks, Maria. Will donate. But this shouldn't be left to charities to pick up the pieces. It's government's responsibility, one they have singularly abdicated over many decades.

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1 year

FFS get these IEA shills off our TV. They represent a fringe group of anonymous neoliberal ultra free market lobbyists. Every f-cking week they sit there and spout their nonsense, invited by the BBC. #politicslive

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@theJeremyVine @bbclaurak Nah. Criticism has been entirely justified.

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4 years

@RobertaMetsola @nealerichmond On behalf of the entire UK, I can only apologise for the truly embarrassing Mr. Kawczynski. It shames us all that he is a member of parliament.

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@JournalistHelen Thank you for investigating this important topic. My son and his friends all now identify as dogs, and have also fallen into bad habits such as gambling and smoking cigars. Rather than take a photo I thought I'd send you a quick painting I did last night.

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@joepike @Rachael_Swindon This is how you name a #DowningStreetSource @bbclaurak

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@jonlis1 @chrisgerhard A conspicuous silence among all the Corbyn haters tonight.

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Nothing more predictable this morning than @bbcnickrobinson claiming that the Withdrawal Bill was passed last night and Philippe Lamberts having to correct him that 2nd reading doesn't mean that at all. It's a shame #r4today is so casual about misinforming the public these days.

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Brian Harris

6 years

@ben_machell "Down to Earth" Don't mention it. My commission fee is very small.

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7 months

The entire news agenda dominated by Charles's cancer diagnosis and our "flagship news programme" #r4today doesn't see fit for even a moment to mention cancer treatment wait times in the UK for the thousands of 'ordinary people' who are diagnosed each day. Genuinely pathetic.

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Brian Harris

5 years

@RoryStewartUK Very worthy. But major cognitive dissonance to have been a minister in a government that has presided over a 165% increase in homelessness (a conservative estimate according to charities) thanks to spiralling rents, a faulty benefits system and lack of social housing.

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1 year

RIP Paul O’Grady. In 2021 he gave an interview: Q. Which living person do you most despise, and why? A. Every single stinking member of this lying, self-serving government. Spot on, Paul. We’ll miss you, champ. 😔 #PaulOGrady

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@MarcusRashforrd @richiemerrett @KTHopkins I know it's not the real account (obviously) but don't care. The sentiment is perfect.

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@michaelgove Stay. Off. The. Coke.

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Brian Harris

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If you asked Jarnail Singh to paint your garden fence you'd come back an hour later to find he'd burned down your shed instead and was now sitting in a deckchair on your lawn claiming he'd never even met you. #PostOfficeInquiry

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5 years

The man is a contemptible arsehole.

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Brian Harris

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@bbcnickrobinson @duncanr2 More than a moment's thought? Are you f-cking kidding? I've been listening to #r4today for 20 years & heard with my own ears how you have morphed into a supine mouthpiece for the Tory govt, complicit with its agenda, echoing its attacks on the opposition, failing to challenge...

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3 years

It's the bin bag that's really getting me. Horrific and unforgiveable what happened in care homes. No one has been held accountable. No one. #help

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Brian Harris

6 years

@HousePriceMania @NeilCanham @IanDunt @daninava It's still you.

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Brian Harris

5 years

@MonarchyUK If you ever invite this man on again onto any BBC news show after saying this, @RobBurl you've seriously crossed a line. Need to issue a statement apologising for this right away.

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