James Meikle
@James_Meikle
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Former Guardian journalist - four decades a hack - much longer a Spurs fan. Retweets not always support
Joined March 2011
And of course, the 2,500 Czech airmen who served in the RAF during WWII.
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Full article can be found here:
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Brighton should have been awarded a penalty in their 1-0 loss at home to Arsenal on 4 March, says the Premier League's KMI Panel.
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Rachel Reeves says that Brexit did 'deep damage' to the UK's economy, equivalent to an 8 per cent hit to GDP She says it has led to higher costs for businesses, higher prices in shops and shrinking markets for exporters 'Brexit did deep damage. Recent independent studies
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The Richard Tice affair @TiceRichard has opened my eyes to something I had never thought about - where MPs live. Apparently it’s perfectly legal for a UK citizen to be elected as an MP even if they don’t live in the UK or pay any tax here. This is ridiculous and must be stopped.
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Now do how Greater Manchester would be voting in the mayoral by-election
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Britain's biggest car park operator NCP set to enter administration risking 1,000 jobs
dailymail.co.uk
Britain's biggest car park firm is set to crash into administration, the Daily Mail can reveal.
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He has no idea how Cabinet government works. Starmer's not the head of state. When PMs act unilaterally it goes badly for them.
Trump: "The prime minster of UK told me 'I'm meeting with my team to make a determination.' I said, 'You don't need to meet with a team. You're the prime minster. You can make your own. Why do you need to meet with your team to find out if you're gonna send some mine sweepers or
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This shows class Sean Penn missed Oscars to see Zelensky
Sean Penn skipped the #Oscars last night after winning his third award for Best Supporting Actor to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian leader posted a photo of them together on X, thanking the actor: “Sean, thanks to you, we know what a true friend
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FULL TIME: Liverpool 1-1 Tottenham A huge point for Spurs!
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Back in 2003, Charles Kennedy, then leader of the Liberal Democrats stood against the US/UK war in Iraq. He initially faced intense vilification and ridicule for opposing the 2003 Iraq war, yet was later completely vindicated by the Chilcot Report. As the only major UK party
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Trump accuses Starmer of seeking to 'join wars after we've already won’ -Last week ‘Trump demands Starmer send ships to Strait of Hormuz’ -Today
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👀 Seen at St. Pancras station...
The loan of the Bayeux Tapestry is a historic cultural partnership between France and the United Kingdom, symbolising the strong ties between our two nations 🇫🇷🇬🇧
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Oh look ! It's ..... 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚 benefitting from Trump's war 👇
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Ministers warn petrol retailers against ‘unfair practices’
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband called in forecourt operators in response to the Middle East crisis.
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The first photograph of Jeffrey Epstein with both Lord Peter Mandelson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been discovered in the trove of millions of documents released in January by the US government. https://t.co/NGmo4BprDX
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Two years on and it is still not obvious for what Rishi Sunak will be remembered
“Folk memory is selective and cruel”, and PMs are remembered for just one thing... https://t.co/ac1I0OYa3b
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It’s ’THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE’ Nigel.
The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.
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Before I was an MP, I worked on the current series of polymer banknotes at the Bank of England. So I know how decisions about our currency are made, and why they matter. Nigel Farage clearly doesn’t. What he conveniently ignores is that central banks regularly issue new
The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.
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In 1856, a nineteen-year-old woman found herself responsible for a massive American merchant ship in one of the most dangerous waters on Earth. Her name was Mary Ann Brown Patten, and she was five months pregnant. Mary had sailed with her husband, Captain Joshua Patten, aboard
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