Jonathan Ford
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Media maven. Likes trouble, cycling and regional crime drama. Doing @altifpodcast & also Business Adventures Substack https://t.co/AGud9IfmPf
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Joined July 2010
Of course! That's how you get growth. Establish a new ministry called the Department for Growth. Why did no one think of this before?š¤Ŗ
Lib Dems announce new policy to abolish the Treasury and replace it with 'Department for Growth' - based in Birmingham - and 'Department for Public Expenditure'
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One for railways buffs everywhere..
We're back with: THE DERAILMENT OF RAILTRACK, the track owning company that failed in 2001 after a series of train accidents. We talk to Gerald Corbett about privatisation, the accidents, his own very public firing, and what went right and wrong. https://t.co/C1MlpWb0G2
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Enjoying the opening pages of Christian Kracht's novel Eurotrash
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Surely this is a breach of the official Secrets act?
PETER MANDELSON, JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND THE 'DEAR GORDON' NOTE Lord Mandelson sent the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein a private email to Gordon Brown that contained highly sensitive market information on secret plans to sell off government assets As per @DanNeidle it is
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Not a v helpful way to think about Sino- U.K. relations, really. This is more about a divorced couple with a dominant partner, still keen to undermine and exploit. Itās nice to think Pangloss, but itās not the reality
ANALYSIS: Think about China & UK as an estranged couple meeting up again: youāre not going to jump back into bed after frosty few years, but PMās got to 1st base with a reset, small wins, & the promise to deepen ties. The challenge is to make it count back home where heās losing
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Of course we are still using manned aircraft today - only we buy many of them from abroad.
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From today's ā¦@thetimesā©. Hmm. Ministers appear to believe drone warfare changes everything. No more need for choppers. Suggest they look at the D Sandys defence review of 1957, which took the same view of rockets, thus binning much of the UK's military aviation industry
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All five great nonfiction titles shortlisted for @DuffCooperPrize are on sale via @bookshop_org_UK, which supports indy bookstores. ššš https://t.co/gtYF4VTYIY
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The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize is an annual book award for the best non-fiction in the UK. Its judges look for compelling narrative, imaginative insight, scholarshipĀ and good writing.Ā The winner of...
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Hats off to @TimPBouverie @PenguinUKBooks @TheBodleyHead for his @DuffCooperPrize shortlisting for Allies at War. https://t.co/ZDeltEF42K
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Our judges highly recommend A Scandal in Kƶnigsberg by @Clarkstopher and congratulate its publisher @AllenLaneBooks on its shortlisting for the 70th @DuffCooperPrize
https://t.co/Je4o4e7zk5
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The great biographer #RichardHolmes is shortlisted for his absolutely magnificent The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief. @HarperCollinsUK
https://t.co/gbByIsvb1c
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Shout out for @mrianleslie & the shortlisting of his captivating take on the relationship that powered the #Beatles John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs @FaberBooks
https://t.co/rsRxeigHmn
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And three cheers for wilderness, as explored by #AdamWeymouth in his tremendous Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe @HutchHeinemann @CWAgencyUK
https://t.co/zmqZb8RIrO
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It's that time of year again. Shortlist for the brilliant Duff Cooper prize is out!
Read the great non-fiction authors on our 70th anniversary shortlist. Heartiest congrats to @TimPBouverie @Clarkstopher @mrianleslie #AdamWeymouth #RichardHolmes š¾šš¾
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Amusing that Zahawi should choose to highlight in this interview the millions in taxes he's paid in Britain in light of his not-so-long-ago tussle with @DanNeidle
"A few years ago you tweeted: 'I'm not British born Mr Nigel Farage, I'm as British as you are. Your comments are offensive and racist "I would be frightened to live in a country run by you" Nadhim Zahawi is questioned on previous criticism of Farage after defecting to Reform
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How is this news? He has no troops to send.
Scottish First Minister John Swinney would send Scots troops to Ukraine if peace agreed
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Well yeah. Maybe because he's not burdened by the need to verify social media reports of events occurring in places that he hasn't personally witnessed.
One of the bizarre and telling peculiarities of the surging protests in Iran has been that the best coverage of the momentous bravery of the ordinary Iranians fighting Islamic dictatorship has been by a comedian @omid9 - and not our famous BBC.
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Coalition of the weaklings
European nations can't even muster 25,000 troops to collectively deploy into Ukraine. It's utterly pathetic. No European leader deserves any say on international affairs, let alone to keep banging on about the or the fanciful 'rules based international order,' or criticise
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