Ian Fraser
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Journalist and author of Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain. ‘Read it & weep’ – @martinwolf_ . Comms lead @FutureEconScot .
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The biggest scandal to hit the British banking sector since the crisis of 2008, isn’t Libor, it's the one the Labour shadow business secretary
@labourlewis
Clive Lewis says ‘may be the largest theft anywhere, ever’.
#ICYMI
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Italian cyclist Michael Guerra uses his knowledge of physics and aerodynamics to adopt a “plank” position and overtake his competitors.
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It’s looking increasingly likely that Elon Musk will withdraw his $44 billion takeover offer for Twitter.
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Wow. Mark Thomas rips into Boris Johnson on receiving his honorary doctorate from
@UniKent
in Canterbury Cathedral. 🎥
@MrSplendiferous
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Eight Twitter accounts, over 6 days, with an average follower count of 28. Why did they all tweet exactly the same thing?
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But that's Paul Golding, leader of far-right white supremacist organisation Britain First, who was convicted under the terrorism act last month. Not just “one of the protestors”.
One of the protestors sharing his views while wearing a White Lives Matter t-shirt.
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This video speaks volumes about the oversupply in China's housing market. 15 tower blocks in Kunming 昆明, the capital of Yunnan province, were demolished last month after sitting unfinished for eight years.
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UK’s new chancellor of the exchequer Nadhim Zahawi used company in tax haven to buy his Warwickshire constituency home.
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Does anyone know why Boris Johnson made his former parliamentary assistant Charlotte Owen, 29, a life peer?
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Poland to award its highest national honours to Lukasz the chef who, brandishing a narwhal tusk, helped overcome a terrorist on London Bridge. Lukasz remains in hospital tonight where he's being treated for stab wounds
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Nigel Farage is an outrageous liar. On
#bbcqt
tonight, when
@Anna_Soubry
pointed out he'd advocated the Norway model in the build up to
#EUref
, he played dumb, saying "I never mentioned Norway". But he did, over and over again
As a primer for tonight’s
#bbcqt
, let us remember what Nigel “Everyone Voted For No Deal” Farage told voters before the referendum.
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Well done Ian Hislop for exposing the breathtaking inanity of the woman who is now the UK's Home Secretary
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It must be incredible being
@BorisJohnson
, having an adoring army of supporters tweeting identical billets doux, over and over, complete with the same identical misspellings, every time he tweets anything.
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Why does the BBC have this twerp from the Institute of Economic Affairs (
#IEALondon
) on, without even asking him who funds the “think tank”?
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Twitter analytics firm
@BotSentinel
has exposed a well-organised campaign against Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. 70% of hateful posts about her comes from just 83 Twitter accounts with a combined reach of 17m users.
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Reinstated:
Matt Binder
@MattBinder
Drew Harwell
@drewharwell
Steve Herman
@w7voa
Micah Lee
@micahflee
Ryan Mac
@RMac18
Donie O’Sullivan
@donie
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Tony Webster
@webster
Still suspended:
Linette Lopez
@lopezlinette
Keith Olbermann
@KeithOlbermann
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Nearly £29m was transferred to Keristal Trust, whose beneficiaries were Mone and her children. More than £700,000 was also transferred to the account of Mone’s eldest daughter Rebecca and £3m to an account Mone had with
@CouttsandCo
.
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A few of the reasons why Elon Musk can be expected to scrap plans to acquire Twitter.
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“£2.6 million for a couple of microphones! I mean no wonder Test and Trace cost £37 billion.“
Ian Hislop on the absurdity of spending £2.6m on a briefing room while giving NHS workers a one per cent pay rise.
#bbcqt
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After being handed a £120m PPE contract without a tender, ex-Tory councillor Steve Dechan bought this £1.5m home. But the face shields were of such dubious quality fewer than 1 in 400 have been used, meaning each shield cost £423. via
@Gabriel_Pogrund
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Liz Truss’s chief-of-staff, Mark Fullbrook, fails to travel to New York with the new PM after it emerged he is subject in an FBI probe of alleged bribery, corruption and subversion of democracy in the US
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It's strange how many European leaders sound more intelligent in their second language than British cabinet ministers do in their first.
This, by Spanish Foreign minister
@AranchaGlezLaya
, is absolutely superb. The clearest expression of the problem I've heard. The UK is trying to use a trade deal to do something it's not designed to do. This, fundamentally, is why negotiations have failed.
Well worth sharing.
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it must give Boris Johnson a warm glow to know he has so many admiring bots on Twitter.... all of which misspell "you're" twice.
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.
@afneil
"You had a plan to build 200,000 starter homes. How many did you build?"
Liz Truss: "There haven't been as many as we'd have liked... I don't have the exact number"
AN: "How many did you build? ... It's easy to remember. It's 0. You built none"
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Looking at his watch, and making these mocking head movements. Boris Johnson's behaviour while
@Ianblackford_MP
berates him over
#PartyGate
and lying to parliament unacceptable
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The Tories have turned Britain into an international laughing stock — and they have to go. Max Hastings was speaking to
@AndrewMarr9
@LBC
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Surely this is a resigning matter? Science secretary Michelle Donelan apologises and pays damages to
@HeriotWattUni
Professor Kate Sang after falsely accusing her of being a Hamas supporter.
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Kudos to the young woman who expressed surprise so many in
#bbcqt
audience are obsessed with genocide
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“I’ve tried to find out how to hold the prime minister to account when he lies – something he does repeatedly – and the trouble is he’s judge, jury and court,” says
@CarolineLucas
on
#bbcqt
@PeterStefanovi2
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Why did Boris Johnson's government channel £252m into the Mauritius-based "family office" of ex Kleinwort Benson banker Tim Horlick, ostensibly to buy "facemasks", when the outfit focuses on "currency trading, offshore property, private equity and trade financing"??
But wait, that is nothing.
The Government spent a cool quarter of a billion quid buying facemasks from a rather interesting outfit called Ayanda Capital Limited (again it was apparently the only tenderer). .
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Infosys supplies the tech Israel uses for the surveillance of Palestinians and has Israeli entrepreneur Uri Levine—a former member of the IDF’s special intelligence unit 8200—as a director. Rishi Sunak is conflicted as his wife owns a £590m Infosys stake
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Dom Cummings's cottage isn't his Dad's after all. He is named on the title deeds as the property's owner. If it's a second home, surely Classic Dom did break lockdown rules in moving there.
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Rishi Sunak tells Laura Kuenssberg the Post Office miscarriages of justice “all happened a long time ago, in the 1990s”. Eh?
The 700 wrongful convictions of subpostmasters prosecuted by the Post Office using flawed Horizon evidence were made between 1999 and *2015*
#bbclaurak
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Dave Morley, who ran a Post Office in Notts, reported issues with Horizon. After he disputed a £7,000 discrepancy, he was visited by officials from Post Office and
@fujitsu_uk
. A phantom transaction happened, in front of their eyes, while they were there.
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One of the scoops of the year in
@thetimes
— as foreign secretary, Boris Johnson tried to install his then lover Carrie Symonds as chief-of-staff on a £100,000+, salary before senior colleagues threatened to resign over the proposed appointment.
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Two of Rishi Sunak’s wife’s firms go under, owing the taxman £623,000. One of the companies owned by Akshata Murty borrowed £1.3 million from a government-backed fund her husband launched in 2020.
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Not a good look. Boris Johnson getting quite angry with Sky News’s political editor
@BethRigby
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frankly pathetic that
@BBCNews
is hounding the Speaker like this. Come on guys, there are other far more culpable people you could be 'doorstepping'
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How do you get rid of extremism? Shut down the Conservative party, says
@StephenFlynnSNP
#bbcqt
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Lawyers for Elton John, David Furnish, Hugh Grant, Liz Hurley, Prince Harry and Doreen Lawrence claim to have “compelling” evidence their clients are “victims of abhorrent criminal activity and gross breaches of privacy” by the Daily Mail over many years
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BBC News keeps telling us "a new hospital has been built in 9 days". That's false. The reality is an existing conference centre, built in 2000, has been lent to the NHS by the Abu Dhabi government and converted into a field hospital in 9 days.
#NHSNightingale
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@JeremyClarkson
This isn’t really an apology though, is it, Jeremy? To really do penance, you're going to have to be paraded, naked, through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant “shame!” and hurl excrement at you.
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Dossier alleges Dominic Cummings perverted the course of justice in his account of his Barnard Castle "eye test" trip. If such a charge were to be proven, the prime minister's chief adviser could face jail.
@nazirafzal
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That's at least 20 of these inane, cut-and-paste, identical, professions of undying love for Boris Johnson in the past hour,
@TwitterSupport
.
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Watch this video.
@GeorgeMonbiot
explains how Britain sits at the centre of a global network of corruption and how the Tories are unequivocally corrupt.
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Seen this? Just the splash from
#Varsity
of 5 May 2000, revealing that Cambridge University Conservative Association president Suella Fernandes was accused of vote-rigging in the elections that made her the society’s head. Her response? A reassuring “you can’t prove anything”.
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This footage from March 2020 completely blows apart Boris Johnson’s care homes scandal defence, so why wasn’t it shown on the Sunday morning shows? via
@PeterStefanovi2
Boris Johnson’s shameless care homes defence that he “didn’t know covid could be transmitted asymptomatically” has been blown apart by this new footage
Every UK news show should play this in the morning
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I struggle to understand why this is considered controversial. António Guterres is simply stating the facts.
#vacuum
António Guterres: "it is important to also recognise the attack by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of occupation.. their people displaced & their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution.. have been vanishing"
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She’s trying to undermine the credibility of
#covidinquiryUK
because it will expose the near-genocidal failures of her brother Boris, who was happy to “let the bodies pile high”. LBC should sack Rachel Johnson.
'Why are we wasting £100 million on buck passing and arse covering, instead of looking at the pandemic response?'
＠RachelSJohnson condemns the Covid inquiry for neglecting to ask the 'basic' questions.
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Statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II toppled by protestors in Winnipeg amid anger over the discovery of unmarked graves of indigenous children.
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.
@eddiemair
invited all 7 cabinet ministers who recently said they oppose any prorogation of parliament to deliver Brexit onto his
@LBC
show . . . and this happened
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Appalling chairing by Fiona Bruce on
#bbcqt
. When
@Anna_Soubry
raises the highly relevant subject of Nigel Farage's "Breaking Point" poster, widely considered to resemble Nazi propaganda, Bruce tries to shut her up.
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“Stop, for God’s sake, the denigration of science. Stop giving power to people who don’t believe in science.”
— Harrison Ford at
@GCAS2018
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We do care, Martine.
Alastair Campbell - “Peter Stefanovic’s video has had 12 million views. Every day he asks BBC why will you not play these clips of Johnson in Parliament lying at dispatch box. PM’s are meant to resign if they lie at dispatch box”
BBC interviewer “Do people care?”
YES
@BBCNews
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This is Andrew Bowie, Tory MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine. Today, he voted to rip up sleaze rules.
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It doesn't seem right that the BBC political editor is sharing this blatant propaganda (incidentally, it's one of the most xenophobic and disingenuous screeds I've read in years) with her 1.1 million followers
Was probably a matter of time.. Dominic Cummings back on his blog... - warns Brexiteers there is 'real possibility of a hung parliament' and a second referendum
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The extent to which the British media have misrepresented what Prince Harry wrote about his Afghan war experiences in ‘Spare’ is disquieting.
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This . is . a . surprise. Mark Littlewood, whose “think tank”, the Institute of Economic Affairs, has received funding from the fossil-fuel industry, opposes a windfall tax on the energy industry.
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Yesterday's Sunday Times revealed that Boris Johnson's government doctored a video in order to hide the fact that, on 2 March, the PM was urging Brits to go about "business as usual". Well, here's the part they cut out. via
@brexit_sham
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Prince Harry’s primary target in Spare isn’t the Royal family but the UK’s army of sad, self-important, bottom-feeding “royal correspondents”. That the target has been successfully hit is shown by the pathetic whining of the likes of Dan Wootton.
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BBC News editor: "We must play this down. Under no circumstances should we reveal how iniquitous and foolish the Home Office has been made to look".
#Pollokshields
Here's the entire thirty seconds of sanitised coverage that
#BBCNews
at Six dedicated to the protests at
#KenmureStreet
#Pollokshields
in
#Glasgow
today.
Watch it and see for yourself that the BBC is just a propaganda mouthpiece for the
#Tories
at Westminster.
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ex-Post Office CEO Paula Vennells was repeatedly warned a faulty IT system was criminalising hundreds of innocent subpostmasters. But she covered it up, leading to the biggest miscarriage of justice in legal history.
@nickwallis
’
#TheGreatPostOfficeScandal
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I suppose Rod Liddle and the Spectator editor
@FraserNelson
thought this was amusing. To me, it seems more like hate speech.
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As predicted Elon Musk’s decision to sell “blue ticks” to Twitter users has rapidly descended into chaos, after accounts “verified” as George W. Bush and Tony Blair say they “miss killing Iraqis”.
@xanderescribe
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This bloke is no random member of the public but Billy Mitchell, a failed UKIP candidate, who's reportedly also a loyalist drummer. He's been on
#bbcqt
at least three times & was seen chatting to the panel at start
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There have now been 5 straight days and nights of Loyalist violence in Northern Ireland, so why isn't this leading the news agenda in Britain? (There's obviously been some coverage, including this by the BBC's
@EmmaVardyTV
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Floods in China's Henan province and it's capital Zhengzhou seem worse even than what happened in Germany last week. Today Zhengzhou had 200mm of rain in one hour. In Germany, they had 154mm in 24 hours. See
@javihagen
for more.
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“The shelf-life of a lettuce.” Brutal
@TheEconomist
leader on why it’s over for Liz Truss.
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Why did Fiona Bruce slap down the woman who said UK will struggle to have a free+fair election as Vote Leave broke electoral law and Johnson adviser Dominic Cummings is in contempt of parliament? Both claims are 100% true. Bruce owes her an apology
#bbcqt
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Unreal. Now Tory MP
@SelaineSaxby
is claiming that any businesses giving free food to hungry kids should be ineligible for government support as they clearly don't need it
#FreeSchoolMeals
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He's worked for Cambridge Analytica and AIQ. He was Vote Leave's CTO. He's been placing Facebook ads pretending to be from the Green Party to divide the anti-Tory vote in swing seats and gather data on Green voters. Meet Thomas Borwick — who also seems close to Jennifer Arcuri
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R.I.P. Dr Abdul Chowdhury, 53, who warned Boris Johnson that frontline NHS staff urgently needed more Personal Protective Equipment. Dr Chowdhury died after being diagnosed with Covid-19.
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"Feral smear merchants" based in Number 10 are churning out fake news which is being lapped up by journalists including Laura Kuenssberg and Robert Peston. Hard-hitting from
@OborneTweets
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Just jaw-dropping corruption: the Queen's cousin, Prince Michael of Kent, filmed at business meeting where clients were told he could be hired for £10,000 a day to make representations to Putin's inner circle. via
@JCalvertST
@Arbuthnott
@tomhcalver
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In Dec 2019, Boris Johnson went to the country with an “oven-ready” Brexit deal which he knew would have to be torn apart. Why isn’t he being held accountable for this, asks
@PeterStefanovi2
As Boris Johnson threatens to break an international treaty he negotiated, signed & fought a general election on everyone needs to watch this shocking & damning compilation
It should be shown on every UK news channel
@SkyNews
@BBCNews
@Channel4News
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Boris Johnson made his brother a Lord, his 29-year-old SpAd a Dame, dozens of Tory donors and cronies Lords in a “carousel of cronyism” and wanted to make his father a Knight.
.
@BorisJohnson
: 'Without democracy governments will become corrupt and they will be run by an elite who will hand power to other members of that elite down the generations and that will have a terrible effect on the rule of law'
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Breathtakingly disingenuous answers from BBC deputy director-general Anne Bulford here. Three times she claims that the IEA, Taxpayers' Alliance & other dark money funded lobby groups are invited onto the BBC to be "challenged"
The BBC are being played by secretive ultra-right think tanks funded by shadowy corporate interests who want to privatise the NHS.
Following this exchange with BBC execs I've asked for further answers in writing.
Full exchange:
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Wrong. The IEA has never been a "think tank" (as in an objective, learned institute). It's always been a dark money funded lobbying outfit.
#bbcqt
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This won't do. Removing the laughter gave an utterly false impression of what happened. The laughter was the story.
@OborneTweets
This clip, which was played in full on the 10 o’clock news last night, was shortened for timing reasons in today’s lunchtime bulletin. We’ve fully covered Boris Johnson’s appearance on the BBC QT special, and the reaction to it, across our outlets.
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Iain Duncan Smith is knighted despite implementing policies described as systematic violations of human rights by UN Rapporteur
@Alston_UNSR
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And the reason it's been abandoned is because Paul Waugh asked a question about Jennifer Arcuri. Still, it's only £2.6 million down the drain.
BREAKING Boris Johnson axes plan for White House-style TV briefings after spending £2.6m on venue
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How to get a 60 metre wind-turbine blade round a 90-degree bend on the A87
#SuperWingCarrier
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WATCH: "Some countries initially talked about herd immunity as a strategy. In New Zealand we never, ever considered that. It would have meant tens of thousands of New Zealanders dying" — New Zealand Prime Minister
@jacindaardern
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The first language of Donald Trump’s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, was Gaelic and she was an economic migrant when she arrived in New York City on 11 May 1930. So, so horrible...
Trump on migrants: "They have languages that nobody in this country has ever heard of. It's a very horrible thing."
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@TheSun
This is frankly pathetic. What The Sun needs to do is: (a) fire Jeremy Clarkson and (b) apologise to Meghan Markle.
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Hours after it emerged Brits are being asked to pledge allegiance to King Charles on coronation day, Celtic fans at
@HampdenPark
made their views clear.
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Donald Trump sees riding in a gilded carriage as "essential ingredient" of UK state visit
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You’re 23 times more likely to be prosecuted for benefit fraud than tax crimes, even though tax fraud and error costs an estimated £20bn a year, compared to £2.2bn for benefit fraud and error. via
@taxwatch
h/t
@ProfTimBale
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Every single news channel should be showing this footage.
#BadFaith
#NorthernIreland
As Boris Johnson prepares to break his own Brexit deal, the one he agreed, signed & sold to the public & Parliament as a negotiating triumph less than a year ago, every UK News Channel should be playing this compilation. But just in case they don’t you know what to do..
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ex-Post Office chairman Henry Staunton, sacked by Kemi Badenoch in January, has gone down with all guns blazing. These are simply extraordinary revelations in the Sunday Times.
@olivershah
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"So far, we have fought two cases proving that UK government ministers broke the law. We have won both. There are many more cases to come," via
@JolyonMaugham
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Andrew Bowie MP resigns as Tory party vice-chairman apparently out of disgust with the way Boris Johnson’s government has behaved in recent days.
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