Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦
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History Correspondent & Deputy Diary Editor of @TheTimes. There’s an awful lot happening in the past. Also tweet film, food, sport [email protected]
London, UK
Joined February 2009
80 years ago today, it was the morning after the night before and the people of Britain and Europe were waking up to Victory in Europe day. Here is our coverage of that day in real time. #veday80.
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Small matter of an 800 mile round trip today. All in the line of duty. Hugely exciting history story coming up later this month.
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"New".
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer was elected as Prime Minister a year ago today.
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Always good to get the justice angle.
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RT @mikeysmith: Rachel Reeves said to have had an “altercation” with Speaker Lindsay Hoyle immediately prior to PMQs. “He ended up apologis….
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RT @nicholaswatt: Labour MP tells me after PMQs: There is a lot of movement outside the PM’s office [in the commons]. Something is going on.
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RT @PronouncedAlva: Bloomberg: *UK BONDS EXTEND DECLINES; 10-YEAR YIELD RISES 11BPS TO 4.56%.
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RT @reporterboy: @CarverEmily Genuinely told, and I do not mean this gleefully or smugly, (Tories have their own troubles to focus on) that….
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RT @mikeysmith: I don't normally buy into fuss about the PM not saying the Chancellor will be in post for x amount of time. But he really….
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Government is about tough choices latest.
Senior govt sources saying this morning that by forcing the govt to abandon its welfare reforms Labour MPs have likely killed off any hope of lifting the two child benefit cap. One says that’s a great shame for the govt’s child poverty ambitions. Starmer had wanted to lift it.
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RT @j_amesmarriott: This must have been what it felt like in late antiquity as the Roman empire fell apart and people gradually lost the ab….
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Always thought that we take this man too seriously. He had the life experience of a fridge magnet.
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I never got Sunday night dread. Not even when it was back to boarding school. But now it comes….
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If anyone has any tips on how to open a stuck car bonnet, please let me know urgently.
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RT @Torcuil: Haemochromatosis is a long word for too much iron in the blood. It’s a genetic condition affecting many Scottish islanders and….
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