Martin Knight
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Author & plagiarist. All views probably other people's. Dwindling. Retired goalhanger. Preferred Sweep over Sooty. Nostalgist. Change not always for the better.
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Did the HGV crisis get solved or did the media decide to stir a new pot?
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1976: It’s roasting outside. Glorious. Get the kiddies pool out.
2022: “Level 3 Heat Alert.” Keep children indoors.
It’s nonsense.
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BBC News at 6 just showed Guy Verhofstadt slagging off U.K At the European Parliament, but not Nigel Farage's spirited defence of
#TheresaMay
. At this delicate time you'd have thought our state broadcaster would give equal billing to a patriotic point of view.
The UK is dealing with fanatics who are not prepared to be reasonable. Unelected bureaucrats like
@JunckerEU
and
@MichelBarnier
have been humiliating
@Theresa_May
and the British public do not like it.
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I’ve noticed a lot of people wearing masks alone in their cars, so thought I’d try this.
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Dear
#BBC
, police are fighting the Fire Brigade in Paris now. At what point does it become newsworthy for you?
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The
#BBC
is going all out to bring the Government down because they believe the Government intends to bring them down.
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BREAKING NEWS: Seven dinghies packed with refugees arrived on a beach at Weston-Super-Mare this morning. Government sources said they are being returned to Wales immediately.
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Sunday 1960s. Shops shut. Empty streets. Saucepans simmering. Dads snoozing. WW2 film on TV. Sunday newspaper broadsheets flapping. Family Favourites on radio. Budgies chirping. Dogs wagging tails. Bikes being cleaned in porch. Glorious.
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We live in a world where Robert Mugabe is considered "controversial", but
#BorisJohnsonPM
is a dictator.
Robert Mugabe was a controversial character in global politics before his ousting as Zimbabwe's president in 2017
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In the 1960s & 1970s it was against the law to set out on a long drive (more than 15m in those days) without a tin of these “driving sweets” in the centre consul.
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Sad to see Nick Hitchon has died. He was one of Michael Apted’s 7 Up children. Nick is the second of the subjects to die. The documentary revisits the “kids” every seven years and is fascinating & poignant as they age before our eyes.
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Anyone else think X Factor, I’m A Celeb, The Apprentice, Gogglebox, Britain’s Got Talent have all reached or exceeded their sell-by date? Some innovation needed.
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Maggie Oliver fought for child victims of gang rape crime over many years.
Paula Vennells oversaw the criminal persecution of postmasters & postmistresses over many years.
Which one was awarded an CBE?
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Fall in, Pike. ❤️
The Walmington-on-sea Home Guard platoon has now fully disbanded & that group of great friends, actors, characters & soldiers are now all reunited in the next life.
R.I P. Ian Lavender, aged 77.
#DadsArmy
.
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The depth of feeling seen here in response to the death of
#IanLavender
is because he was the last link to a beloved sitcom for many of us &
#DadsArmy
was a last link to WW2 for our departed parents. Today many are thinking of family sat in front of TV in a simpler, kinder times.
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#Marr
interview with
#NigelFarage
showed two men. One hopelessly out of touch with the public mood, slavishly trying to catch the other out with a catalogue of tired old questions that nobody falls for. The other a fluent man, shot through with conviction at the top of his game.
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Why
@BBC
is a man that shouts at a passing PM your top news story yet tanks, water cannon & tear gas deployed against civilians across the Channel does not merit a mention on your website, let alone broadcast news? Reuters are running with it.
Shocking scenes from France today, with police flooding central Nantes with tear gas and blasting anti-Macron protesters with water cannon:
#GiletsJaunes
#Acte44
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I grew up in an era when if you were poorly your GP came to see YOU. House calls they were called. Now you can’t go and see him/her. Apparently we were a poorer country then.
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I’ve sent my letter to the PM. It says “don’t let the b******s grind you down”.
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Now that it has been announced that Omicron symptoms are the same as that of the common cold how do we know these tests are not picking up the cold? They are both coronaviruses. And how are the LFTs picking up whether it is
#Omicron
?
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Kenny Lynch
First British black man to write a top 3 hit. ✔️
First singer to cover a Lennon/McCartney composition. ✔️
Toured with The Beatles. ✔️
Shared a flat with George Best✔️
Appeared in a Carry On film✔️
Appeared in Til Death Us Do Part✔️
Resident songwriter at Brill
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Do you still attend burglaries?
Today is the start of LGBT+ History Month 🌈 Did you know we have specially trained LGBT+ Liaison Officers? They provide support to the LGBT+ community. You can request their support when you make a report to us.
More info:
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I honestly believe that the social media interventions today from Bishop, Lineker, Grant, Elton, Kemp, Freeman & Coogan made up a lot of people’s minds, but not in the way intended. The British do not appreciate being preached to by caked up
#BBC
luvvies
#GeneralElection2019
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I grew up with the
#BBC
. It was our companion, teacher, informer, entertainer & trusted friend in the corner of the room. Most the country felt the same. I still love the BBC, but I detest the activists who have hijacked it & turned it into a soup of unwatchable propaganda.
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I don’t look at pornography myself, but does anyone know if the MP caught looking at these disgusting clips in the Commons was on XHamster, Pornhub, MilfHunter, RedTube, Lady Sonia or Spankbang?
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He depends on
#BBC
for his income yet he concluded "BBC is like a polar bear on a receding ice cap". Fiona Bruce did everything she could to muddy his waters. Watershed moment. Integrity.
#Portillo
“The BBC is losing its audience’
Michael Portillo says he does not believe the licence fee can ‘survive’.
#bbcqt
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Once perfectly decent programmes ruined by
#BBC
Woke department:
• Question Time
• Countryfile
• Dr Who
• The One Show
• EastEnders
• Newsnight
• Have I Got News For You
• BBC News
• Blue Peter
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Whose Dad had one of these in the shed? And who experimented by tightening it up on your thumb?
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Just said goodbye to our faithful old Tia. A more loving, placid dog you could not wish for. She was 14. 💔
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At last! Someone’s going to fill that yawning gap in the market.
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The average person refrains from losing rag over Parliament because they have a long-held instinct that right will prevail. That democracy will win thru. If it becomes clear it won’t & GE is still denied & 2nd vote forced then hell hath no fury like millions of average people.
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People are being encouraged to go back to the office next week, but not all at the same time. Can we start then with MPs on Monday and GPs on Tuesday?
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BBC News at 6 played clip of
#BorisJohnson
buoyantly talking country up & rallying Parliament,
@bbclaurak
interjects with “much of the country may not agree”. Sums up pessimism & unpatriotic narrative of
#BBC
. The people want to change direction. BBC does not. Who will prevail?
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My first granddaughter. Welcome to the world Nyla Blue.
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Barry Gardiner is highly unlikely to be the only one. How many more & what were the Chinese getting for their money? Has Starmer launched an enquiry?
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Dear
@BBCNews
I was delivering a pizza to Downing Street earlier and ran into this huge crowd stretching back all the way up Whitehall and beyond. Yet, nothing on news. Any idea what it was all about?
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Andrew Neil has just thrown a lifeline to the despairing viewing public. An inspiring introduction promising much.
#GBNews
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#BorisJohnsonPM
refusal to bow to
#EU
’s insistence that he held a joint press conference in front of jeering protesters/actors has just won him a whole new swathe of supporters. These stunts are hostile, childish & pathetic.
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Anyone else get this for a present? I did. There was ink involved if I remember correctly.
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Remember? My Dad would spread the newspaper on the kitchen lino & get us cleaning shoes with Kiwi & Cherry Blossom.
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This how detached from the public mood the MSM is. They think the fact that this man earns £90k a year is going to spark outrage. Most normal people's reaction would be - is that all?
PM’s chief aide Dominic Cummings paid three times average UK salary
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In last major crisis (WW2) media didn’t release a relentless diet of demoralising news. Did not exaggerate the bad & ignore & suppress the good. The opposite in fact. It strived to uphold morale & was mindful of frightening & depressing people. MSM today will not be forgiven.
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#BBC
impartiality laid bare.
@maitlis
asks
@nadhimzahawi
on
#Newsnight
“Are you going to vote for taking No Deal off the table?”
“No, I’m not”
“That’s utterly mad!”
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Settle an argument, please. Did children celebrate Halloween in the 1960s?
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Kay Burley opens with “if Boris is frightened of little old me ...”
No, Kay, he’s not frightened of you. An invite to appear with you is as useful to Boris as an invite to appear on The Sky At Night. You’re irrelevant.
B R U T A L takedown, from
@ajcdeane
“Whilst the British Media is more obsessed with itself than any other media in the world, that is not what’s on the mind of the electorate”
Spot on!
#BackBoris
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Bobby Moore doesn’t have a knighthood. Oliver Letwin does. Who has done more for his country?
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It’s a depressing thought but there will never again be another sitcom like OFAH, Steptoe, Fawlty Towers, Royle Family, Inbetweeners, On The Buses, Hancock, Dad’s Army, ‘Orrible, Minder, The Office etc that united millions in laughter & pleasure & was the talking point next day.
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Every one of you that can remember Clive Dunn singing Granddad on Top Of The Pops is older now than he was then.
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Good news! John Alderton, for a while everyone’s favourite teacher, is still alive at 83 & still married to Pauline Collins, also 83.
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Dear Oliver.
Sorry my name's not Oliver. Sorry I didn't go Eton & Cambridge. Sorry I've had real jobs. Sorry I had the temerity to vote wrongly in referendum. Sorry I don't have a pink tie. Sorry for not realising your vote counts & mine doesn't.
Regards, Martin
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Good news! Ray Reardon, the Welsh Wizard of the green baize, & occasional vampire, is going strong at 91. He was World Snooker champion six times and won and lost finals against Hurricane Higgins.
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A big thank you to Guy, Femi, Alastair, Yvette, Hillary, Bercow, Adonis, Hugh, Coogan, Meaden, Lineker &
#BBC
who by their sterling teamwork & extraordinary effort did more than anything to steel the British public’s determination to ensure their democratic mandate was honoured.
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Why would they meet you? You are a nobody. You have no power or influence. A laughing stock, using the borrowed time you are living on to waste ours.
I’ve met with food industry reps in the last few weeks. Be in no doubt: a ‘no deal’ Brexit could not come at a worse time for them. Warehouses are already full ahead of Xmas and,given the season,there is little room to stock pile for ‘no deal’
#StopBrexit
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Anyone left who paid for something with one of these?
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Good news! Stanley Baxter, multi-talented, clever comedian, will be 98 shortly. Baxter’s rare one-hour shows were much anticipated in our home in the 1960s & 70s. Liked dressing up as a woman, especially the Queen.
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When history is written up as to why the
#Remain
movement failed to win over the country following the referendum much blame will be put at the door of whoever created & funded these characters. More annoying, trivial & cartoonish emblems would be hard to find.
#GoAwayFemiAndBray
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This is not a journalist interviewing a politician. It's a Remain activist arguing with a politician. There is no pretence otherwise.
Is revoking Article 50 now an option or would it defy the will of the people?
Former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith and
@adamboultonsky
debate.
For the latest on the Brexit crisis:
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GONE NOW - Mike Pinder the last surviving of the original five Moody Blues has died. R.I.P.
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A society that does not allow its children to have a carefree childhood before the adult world comes crashing in has lost its way.
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Astonishing from Fiona Bruce. When audience member was applauded for saying he'd like to go WTO.
"That sounded like a lot of applause, but it wasn't that many people"
Since when does the
#bbcqt
host qualify the applause?
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Good news! Patricia Routledge is alive & kicking at 95. She has enjoyed a 60 year career on stage, TV & film but is fondly remembered as suburban snob Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances & later Hetty Wainthrop. Also in To Sir With Love & Steptoe. Beloved by Alan Bennett.
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I must have imagined 1976 then.
The UK has recorded temperatures above 30C for five consecutive days - the first time this has ever happened in September, the Met Office has said
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#Marr
was furious at end. He shuffled his papers & did not indulge in small talk with
#BorisJohnson
as credits rolled. Meanwhile, the PM was as happy as Larry. That tells you everything about the whole interview went.
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Parliament have been recalled to debate Afghanistan. They might as well discuss Germany’s 1939 invasion of Poland at the same time.
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If it wasn't for Twitter millions of people would not know about the serious civil unrest in France. Millions still don't. Astonishing that
#BBC
hasn't seen fit to investigate what is happening and why. It's been going on half a year, so not being newsworthy doesn't wash.
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Issues that won’t be raised on
#bbcqt
tonight:
• Alastair Stewart
• French civil unrest
• Grooming gangs
Issues that British public would like raised.
• Alastair Stewart
• French civil unrest
• Grooming gangs
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I think a penny has dropped, is dropping or will drop across the land: Parliament is there to give an illusion of people power via “democracy”, but in reality is ultimately a device to ensure there is no genuine people power. All eyes now on how the penny lands.
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Who remembers the Contrast & Brightness knobs on your old black & white TV?
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When you got one of these contraptions & thought you’d entered a new era of luxury.
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What possesses you to think anybody is remotely interested?
2020 is a new decade and a new path in my journey. Last year I fell in love with a wonderful woman. Something I’d never even considered before. Now I am just happy
#Pansexual
#OutAndProud
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Jumps before being pushed. It really was a cesspit, wasn’t it?
The President of the Supreme Court, Lady Hale, will officially retire on 10 January 2020. Her valedictory will take place tomorrow at 9.30am in the Supreme Court. Whilst the ceremony is not a public event, it can be watched live via our website at:
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Two men loved by the people, but under appreciated by the state. Not a knighthood between them yet they thrilled & made English chests swell with pride. The country is rooting for you tonight, Jimmy.
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Sadly, I don’t believe a soap will ever produce a couple so real, so funny & so nuanced as Stan & Hilda Ogden again. Nowhere near it.
“Woman, Stanley, all woman”.
#Corrie
#CoronationStreet
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Remember when entire MSM gave impression that every right thinking person wanted to Remain in EU? That’s what’s happening now with
#PritiPatel
. If public voted it would show landslide support for her, but media united in presenting an inaccurate picture of widespread disgust.
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Who had one of these? There was too many of us kids to all have a chair in the sitting room so we sat on these. We called them pouffes. I imagine they’ve been rebranded.
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Proud to sell our country down the river you mean. Although
#BBC
&
#Sky
magnify your relevance never underestimate the deep contempt you are held in by most of the British public. Real people. Proper. Good luck with that.
A huge victory for democracy. All 3 judges in Scotland’s Court of Sessions say proroguing Parliament is unlawful
Proud to have been part of this legal action
MPs and the courts will continue to hold the Government to account
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Watching
#Zulu
& wonder how those heroic Welshmen among the brave soldiers who defended Rorke’s Drift would view Mark Drakeford?
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Two party leaders - Swinson & Lucas - have now said on live TV they would not abide by the result of a 2nd referendum if Remain lost.
At least they are honest but it makes a nonsense of the
#PeoplesVote
notion.
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MPs in a daze over
#Prorogation
. They wander around the corridors bumping into one another as they mentally compute what they will lose in expenses claims & having to pay full price for food & alcohol.
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If you do see him, please give him food, not money.
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#BBC
on UK leaving EU. "It's au revoir, not goodbye."
The language of an institution determined to be on the wrong side of history. The language of an institution divorced from the British people.
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Good news! Gerald Harper, suave actor & elegant man about town, has recently turned 93. Best known on TV as Hadleigh & before that was Adam Adamant, a sort of Dr Who for normal people. He was also an early easy listening DJ on Capital Radio.
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