Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦
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Diary Editor and History Correspondent of @TheTimes. Political gossip, historical discoveries, variable jokes - [email protected]
London, UK
Joined February 2009
🚨 PERSONAL NEWS 🚨 Am formally taking over the @TimesDiary as Diary Editor & History Correspondent for @thetimes. I’ll be working from Westminster, and it’s a privilege to take on what Ed Balls recently described as “probably the most impactful national newspaper diary”.
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Only the other day I was thinking they hadn’t run a “Sex dwarf who likes like [insert political figure] dies in bizarre circumstance” story in quite some time Reassuring to see it again
Today's Sunday Sport - out now in all good newsagents (probably hidden on the shelf under something more wholesome - you may need to rummage)
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Not sure how to take this. My friends are watching #celebritytraitors and, upon noticing how Stephen Fry has appointed himself the foreman of the jury, they are all saying “Oh, he reminds me of you”.
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As promised on @timesradio, Jilly Cooper’s dirty joke
I have multiple Jilly stories, but one is her favourite joke. Three upper middle class women meet on a train, get chatting and then start boasting about their husbands…
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I have multiple Jilly stories, but one is her favourite joke. Three upper middle class women meet on a train, get chatting and then start boasting about their husbands…
Devastated to hear that Jilly Cooper has died. Even just meeting her in passing, she was just the most wonderful woman.
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The end of this week’s Slow Horses is so wonderfully, darkly funny
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I’ve had my ups and downs with the comments section, but every now and then they are so delightfully on brand
Wes Streeting “forgot” to include the Tories in his conference speech This and more in today’s @TimesDiary Including Jeremy King on dress codes and a campaign to get Bertie Wooster recognised at Oxford Wes Streeting forgets to sing the blues https://t.co/gpAWhNzNnO
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We may hope that Prince Andrew will give up his title voluntarily much in the same way that I hope that my infant son will stop asking for biscuits
EXCLUSIVE from @KateMansey The King is considering stripping Prince Andrew of his title as the Duke of York as the palace reaches “a tipping point” with him over a string of scandals Charles is “considering all options”, a royal source said. One option would be to remove the
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EXCLUSIVE from @KateMansey The King is considering stripping Prince Andrew of his title as the Duke of York as the palace reaches “a tipping point” with him over a string of scandals Charles is “considering all options”, a royal source said. One option would be to remove the
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Wes Streeting “forgot” to include the Tories in his conference speech This and more in today’s @TimesDiary Including Jeremy King on dress codes and a campaign to get Bertie Wooster recognised at Oxford Wes Streeting forgets to sing the blues https://t.co/gpAWhNzNnO
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Wes Streeting “forgot” to include the Tories in his conference speech This and more in today’s @TimesDiary Including Jeremy King on dress codes and a campaign to get Bertie Wooster recognised at Oxford Wes Streeting forgets to sing the blues https://t.co/gpAWhNzNnO
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EXC: Elections to seven councils covering 5m+ people could be delayed for second year amid fears Reform would stop Labour’s plans to overhaul local government. Ministers considering accepting private pleas from Tory leaders of county councils to cancel their elections this year
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The government wants to lead a revival of our industrial heritage, which has been "neglected" in favour of palaces and stately homes. As she announced that Ironbridge has been saved for the nation, @Lisanandy told me today: “Ironbridge is symbolically incredibly important to us
Our industrial heritage is the story of the ordinary, extraordinary people who built this country in places like Ironbridge Today, @lisanandy announced a £9 million government grant for @nationaltrust to protect museums in the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution
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