Nico Hines
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News Director, The Daily Beast. Previously London for Newsweek and Washington, D.C. for The Times. TV/Podcast: The World This Week [email protected]
Joined March 2009
Prince George has time for a quick meet and greet, but he's not getting changed
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Mural appeared this weekend in the conservative Norfolk village of Helhoughton
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Little bit of rain won't put these athletes off the huge snaking McDonald's line. True Olympians
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Jason Puddlefoot, a window cleaner from Woolwich, said he would defend Britain to the death against Muslims http://t.co/LfoKchn6QY.
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Dan Jarvis puts family before politics. Instantly demonstrates what a great leader he could have been.
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Trump fan sucker-punches black protestor in the face. Can you guess what the cops did? Video:
Wow: Trump Supporter Punches Protester In Face At North Carolina Rally
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Millionaire composer flies 3,000 miles to ensure brickies, nurses and bakers lose £2k a year. Any Dream Will Do!
I hear Tory whips even persuaded Lord Lloyd Webber to fly back from New York for tonight's #taxcredits vote. Desperate, a touch.
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Here it is. A single tear rolls down President Obama's cheek during the last campaign speech of his political career http://t.co/qA4ylQjy.
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Watching the fencing with Ibtihaj Muhammad's dad. New favourite sport
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Not just any tangle of rusted metal--it's the beach volley ball arena (. still being built) #RioProblems
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Alexander Litvinenko Was Killed 'For Calling Putin a Pedophile.’ Full story:
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Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) nails the anti-Daily Mail sound bite rant: http://t.co/RIaVauifcP.
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Obama's Britain "would go to the back of the queue" soundbite must have been written by No. 10? No way he'd say queue instead of 'the line'.
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The Telegraph has lost its mind: "We will take no lectures. from the likes of the BBC, the Guardian or the Times." http://t.co/dU4t4c6Z5q.
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10,000 volunteers in Iceland say Syrian refugees can come and live in their houses http://t.co/GnywfnVpD6.
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Rupert Murdoch has resigned as director of News International and The Times.
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The legendary Olympic condoms. Free dispenser for anyone not getting enough exercise on the track
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At least 100 people now chanting Rule Britannia in Woolwich's main square http://t.co/lsq9IXO8Fd.
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Complete strangers allocated seats next to one another on a plane.
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The booing Brazilians don't give a shit about your 'Olympic spirit' and it's wonderful!
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End of the gymnastics, even the stadium announcer said: "The gold medal wasn't much of a surprise, let's be honest."
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So, Gordon Brown is re-writing Britain's entire political system before lunch on a Saturday. He's a backbench MP.
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Anti-extremist @QuilliamF calls on media to treat suspected killer of Jo Cox as it would any other "terrorist"
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Olympic bosses claim 84% of tickets sold. At least 84% of seats empty at the incredible fencing right now
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Michael Johnson let's rip at Olympic bosses who pay 'lip-service' to stamping out drug cheats
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About 100 people at the pro-Donbass rally in North London. @GrahamWP_UK got in a fight but he's still smiling http://t.co/3bMUI59S6e.
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BBC reports from the counts in Sunderland and Newcastle don't quite seem to tally with these big Remain poll leads. .
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Rio's cowardly Opening Ceremony You can run, but you can't hide Mr. President
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Asked Michael Johnson if Usain Bolt is a better athlete than he was: "Absolutely not! No — He comes close. "
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#RomneyShambles British government quotes include: What a total shocker / We are speechless / Worse than Palin / Total car crash.
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Camouflage in one of the world's most crime-riddled cities? Or a target on your back? #RioOlympics
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Farage's face as he's booed, cheered and laughed at after asking the EU for a tariff free trade deal
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Holy Shit! The World Really Hates Donald Trump. Great work from the Daily Beast's team in 10 countries.
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Kendall, Hunt and Ummuna's childish act of leaving conference early shown up by Corbyn's genuine and warm words of thanks to Kendall.
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EXCLUSIVE: Britain told Obama where ISIS hostages were. He hesitated – the U.S. captives died http://t.co/4YD1YwEc21
http://t.co/hAjseHheGD.
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SPOILER: This is what happens in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Contains entire plot
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Does Breitbart think Mair accidentally spent hundreds of dollars on far-right, racist materials? Utterly shameless
Brothers of Jo Cox Killing Suspect Speak Out: 'Never Expressed Any Racist Views'
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Defence Secretary confirms that Britain will not take any part in military strikes against Syria. US on their own for 1st time since Vietnam.
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Some of the really expensive hotels have installed their open security scanners. Some U.S athletes staying here
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London has conquered New York as the world's greatest city http://t.co/vYk6We3kXN (for rich people, anyway).
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The cat café craze has landed in London (@LadyDinahsCats). Next stop San Francisco (@KitTea_SF) http://t.co/Shyp5v7GaH.
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What kind of comments does the Guardian delete? Sick burns like this, apparently
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Went to the @GrahamWP_UK pro Ukraine rebels event in London. He ended up fighting a heckler. http://t.co/Kjf1xqcjkt
http://t.co/AmwJ0XWQAf.
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Scotland Yard is under investigation for protecting VIP pedophiles http://t.co/dAlmXCoh7E
http://t.co/Dzhd5g0UEw.
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Brexit leader Boris Johnson disembowelled in blood-spattered Shakespearean epic
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Well, Ed Balls was expecting unemployment to be his biggest challenge this morning. .
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Cameron's finally luck ran out; condemning him to the ranks of Britain's worst PMs
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The Pentagon denies it, but it looks as though U.S. troops are already on the front line fighting ISIS in Iraq http://t.co/g5ZLwaMmhW.
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All US newspaper subs should be forced to do six months in Fleet St RT @ron_fournier: How not to write a headline: http://t.co/LdblBsJkbJ.
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One of these five people will be Britain's new prime minister. Who the hell are they?
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I went to the Victoria's Secret Show. They really didn't like my ‘deep’ underwear questions http://t.co/iSf6uO55yQ.
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First week as London Editor of the Daily Beast and I'm in New York. Think I might be doing this wrong. .
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Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, mocking Romney before tens of thousands in Hyde Park (Video) http://t.co/dzlKStc2.
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Seems not everyone at The Times is happy that the paper of record is leaving Hillsborough off the front page.
Unbelievable.
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Wow RT @rafsanchez Peter King (R): anyone from NY who donates to the GOP "needs their head examined" after the delay on #Sandy relief.
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Inquiry even republishes the allegations that Putin had destroyed videos of himself with young boys
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Hugh Bonneville explains why he doesn't do newspaper interviews.
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Staff at the beach volleyball when they thought no one was looking. (Crowd about to re-enter) #Rio2016
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Monty Python are back! -- but they can't remember their lines. First night review: http://t.co/FTlSFoCBvN.
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@NicoHines it was Aly Raisman's team gymnastics gold medal, which she gave to her coach Mihai Brestyan
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British swimmer takes world record: "AMAZING." Eastern European swimmer takes world record: "HMMMMM" #RioProblems
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Five soldiers with machine guns guarding the ATMs at Rio airport. Welcome to the Olympics!.
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Owen clearly struck by the personal motivation of Putin to want Litvinenko dead after he called him a paedophile
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Brilliant image from The Spectator sums up today's events in Parliament http://t.co/2mT4XtgvNr
http://t.co/u6zF7zSevk.
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In new edition, Charlie Hebdo mocks the Guardian for blurring their cartoons despite the paper's £100,000 donation http://t.co/4PZQysYZ1J.
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JK Rowling has written a new Harry Potter story - here's what happens in the Cursed Child
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Debating the rowdy crowds at #Rio2016 with lots of local people on the BBC World Service in about 10 minutes
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Begging to Be Executed Saved Him from Death Row The most inspirational man I've interviewed (edging out the Fonz).
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Death in an American family. The tragedy of Joe Biden. Beautiful from @JohnAvlon
http://t.co/NVNqf7ugLd.
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Excellent. Watch Pulp Fiction while you're served a five-dollar-shake, Big Kahuna burger, and steak - bloody as hell http://t.co/An9lhuzDAC.
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Clash now on Woolwich New Road. EDL throwing glass missiles at the police.
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Be Your Stubborn Best
BREAKING Michael Gove announces he will run for the Conservative Party leadership. Says Boris 'cannot provide leadership for task ahead.
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What's it like to be Russia's first stand up comedian? Pretty weird http://t.co/Oi3IzxVU8n
http://t.co/yGcis8KhQ2.
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Conservative Party quietly cancels one of its main manifesto pledges. Surely there must be an election.
As #Gove speaks,the real story-Chancellor Osborne says UK will no longer hit a surplus in public finances by 2020: "We have to be realistic".
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All bridges and tunnels are now closed. You cannot escape from New York. Governor Cuomo confirms cars are floating in Lower Manhattan.
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Ben Bradlee had a strict "cake alert" policy at the Washington Post. He would appear for a slice at every celebration http://t.co/ZH2YkMG4RQ.
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Anthony Weiner does bad British accent, weather report and Monty Python joke in mental British TV interview.
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What British diplomats REALLY thought of President Reagan http://t.co/iXdLIoi8XN (Clue: "Bozo").
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Malala is at school today. She's going to make a short speech about her historic achievement at home time. http://t.co/NrLWDI1ZMp.
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The Times verdict on Cameron's parliamentary gamble: CAMERON HUMILIATED http://t.co/vvzglBCE7A via @DJack_Journo.
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The F.B.I. has 80,000 (not deleted!) News Corp emails. What next for Murdoch? (@peterjukes) http://t.co/xhSY01XkWW.
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Here Are the Comments The Guardian Doesn’t Want You to See Someone's made a live page of comments being deleted.
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The man who wrote Tony Blair's Iraq War legal justification, Lord Goldsmith, is now working with the Russian Mafia
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If there's a pol who really would concede the most important vote in a generation to a randomer on the Tube home.
Just been asked on tube by @BorisJohnson if I voted leave. I say no. He concedes He's lost anyway. Awkward #EUref
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