Rupert Myers
@RupertMyers
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barrister, political commentator, husband, father, owned by 🐶 Scout. 🇬🇧🇦🇺
Joined February 2009
I firmly believe that Donald Trump has to pay Melania money to literally just spend time with him
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In which James Corden basically does a Ricky Gervais joke word for word
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If you’re being booed by the sort of people who turn up to watch people go into a royal church service, and you’re a *conservative* PM, you’re in trouble.
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Nothing has become Rishi Sunak like his defeat: a study in grace, class, and charm
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A reminder that a tax cut that lasted a week forced the Bank of England to spend £65 billion to buy gilts.
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I would drive to Poland, pick up a Ukranian refugee, and happily bring them back to the UK and provide them with food and shelter. I expect thousands of us would. The only thing stopping us is the Home Office.
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3 professional football players take on 100 children ⚽️
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Clapham is heaving, no distancing. It’s over. my mate who had followed rules like a saint up until yesterday & isn’t political at all said the Barnard Castle thing was it for him, he didn’t care anymore -he reckoned Cummings had seen all the science & it clearly wasn’t that risky.
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The most prophetic sketch about Brexit you’ll ever see. Bremner, Bird, and Fortune, 1996
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Camilla’s wink is probably the best thing about this visit so far
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Our darling little dog Toast ran onto a road and died this morning, my god it hurts. Cherish the beautiful animals in your lives.
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Imane Khelif is suing @jk_rowling and @elonmusk and is probably about to discover what it’s like to go into a fight with an opponent who enjoys a massive advantage.
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This is what a good, true, decent man does when confronted with a racist. Well done, John McCain.
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Let’s be clear about this: there are Westminster “journalists” who attended the Downing Street Christmas parties and helped cover them up, who deserve to never work in journalism again.
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I love my family- we fall out, we get cross, we have disputes, but never in a million years would I make a multi-part documentary slagging them off for cash. Harry & Meghan are truly cheap.
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I like to believe that this woman was from the Russian embassy
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This made me cry. Historic, powerful, eloquent and measured
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Not a single clap and the man in front mouths what the audience is thinking
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Keir Starmer just made it more attractive to your employer to import an Indian to do your job. An absolute gift to Reform.
🚨 NEW: The UK-India trade deal means Indian workers temporarily in the UK will be exempt from paying National Insurance for three years
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Boris on good form at the 8am meeting with MPs. Fly was done up, only asked four people for cash, ok he spent the first half of the meeting talking about that treehouse, but the rest was a rousing story about Caligula. Has 2000 MPs backing him now ✅🇬🇧.
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"Piers Morgan is such a baby. someone at Buckingham Palace just asked what color he's going to be." @StephenAtHome.
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How does absolutely anyone square “got the big calls right” with skipping five COBRA meetings, sending untested patients into care homes when we knew about asymptomatic transmission, and partying while >150,000 died? His Brexit deal isn’t working -we are trying to renegotiate it!.
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Farage in the words of the most heroic politician on the planet right now
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Bloody hell - this account of Lukasz the narwhal tusk-wielding hero of London Bridge is epic
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Congratulations Rashid Sanook, Prime Minister of Good Britland
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Chris O'Dowd says Graham Linehan is 'the best comedy writer I've worked with' as he becomes latest star to back 'cancelled' IT Crowd and Father Ted creator
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Keir Starmer's speech is brilliant and true. Moving, accurate, powerful.
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The BBC has done tremendous work today. This from Kirsty Young was particularly moving.
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Backed Brexit, sodded off to Singapore, now Dyson to cut around 1,000 UK jobs - I stopped buying them years ago and I’d never buy a Dyson again.
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This Paul Merton joke to @amolrajan on @haveigotnews might be the funniest spontaneous joke I’ve ever seen
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Dear America,.We’ve stood with you through thick & thin, through the last century’s darkest hours, through your own times of national pain & acute embarrassment. We have a saying you might consider: if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. cc @nytimes.
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I’d forgotten Brown did this, but as the times reports “[LizTruss] is entitled to issue a resignation honours list, which means allies could be given peerages and knighthoods. Gordon Brown, who served for two years and 318 days, declined to issue such a list.”.
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Conservative Peer Michelle Mone's has been raided by police, it's covered everywhere from the Mail to the FT, and there isn't a single article about it I can find anywhere on the BBC - why?
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What is Dominic Raab keeping out with the broom? Wrong answers only.
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Labour didn't put handing away the Chagos Islands in their manifesto, they didn't mention it during the campaign, this is Jeremy-Corbyn level governance, and it should not be allowed to stand without scrutiny or debate.
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You see we’re talking about whether to leave the ECHR we signed up to in 1950 and whether to disestablish the Church of England, we aren’t talking about the PM lying, breaking the law, or losing the support of 148 of his MPs. Deflection, distraction, division.
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What law is Keir Starmer said to have broken? I haven’t seen a single credible lawyer claiming he has, just a lot of commentators talking about curry.
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So there’s a film of Prince William shouting at some photographer for trying to film his kids, the guy denies that’s what he’s doing, but films the whole thing and puts it on the internet? 🤷♂️ Team @KensingtonRoyal all the way. What a piece of work.
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“Please, be gentle on yourself. Please, be gentle on others. Don’t forget that the dithering person in front of you in the queue for the hospital car park machine may be having the worst day of his life.” Exceptional piece from @RevRichardColes
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Bit of a PR nightmare for Starbucks, this. A company that every day asks for thousands of customer names and gets them wrong, about which we politely say nothing!.
Transgender Starbucks Employee screams at woman for misgendering him, then proceeds to violently assault a man filming the altercation. Is this an acceptable way for staff to behave @StarbucksUK ? ☕️
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In the dark, freezing cold, running out of oxygen 4km below sea level is a 19yr old whose plight is the subject of hot takes
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It’s amazing to me that the same people who call for the incarceration of those who disrupt traffic in protest are now saying we need to listen to the concerns of people who torch a police station to the ground. You’re not serious people, your analytical skills are sorely lacking.
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The Duke of Edinburgh would make a good permanent fixture on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
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Durham vaccine 50% effective but had a much better social life.
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Welcome to the UK, where you need to write a risk assessment just to take a class of children to visit a petting zoo but can cut the money that helps hundreds of thousands of old people not freeze to death in winter without any sort of impact assessment.
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The Prince's Trust helps 60,000 young people a year.The Prince of Wales runs four educational charities.What've you done, James?.
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Former minister Penny Mordaunt joins British American Tobacco .
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Shaun Bailey, who was at this party, is now a Lord. What a country
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When someone tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan, the President said to the doctors: “I just hope you're Republicans." To which one doctor replied, "Today Mr. President we're all Republicans.". Tonight we are all on Boris Johnson’s side.
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San Diego accidentally set off all their July 4th fireworks at once
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Lady Gaga in House of Gucci was basically perfect. An incredible actress who deserves awards.
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Breaking: government hints Durham is to receive funding for an extra 20,000 police officers and a cable car to Hamburg.
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A man who has served 38 years in prison for the murder of a woman has had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal after new DNA evidence emerged. Poor bastard. And there are still idiots who call for the death penalty.
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I swear this isn’t a contrarian take, but it looked way cooler & understated before. Now it looks like a budget airline.
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Something that seems to have been missed in this: if Suella Braverman needs to run her department via regular insecure email advice from backbench MP Sir John Hayes, doesn’t that show not just that she’s a security risk, but that she isn’t up to the job?.
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How the media around the world should deal with liars in politics
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Scotland’s chief medical officer was forced to resign for travelling to her second home. I wish Boris the very best of health, but is this not something of a mixed message?.
Boris Johnson arrived at Chequers on Sunday to complete his recovery from coronavirus
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King Charles III:. 🌍 right on climate change ✅.🚜 right on agriculture ✅.🌳 right on conservation ✅.🏠 right on much modern .architecture ✅. A good, sometimes visionary monarch I think for the times we are in
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