Tim Shipman
@ShippersUnbound
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Political Editor, The @spectator. Ex-Sunday Times, Mail, Sun Tel, Express. Author of the Brexit quartet. Order No Way Out and Out here: https://t.co/nAm0rtHga4
In the thick of it
Joined September 2008
If today has made you nostalgic for the rolling shitshow of the previous govt, my fourth book OUT is released in paperback on Nov 6. And this time it has an INDEX! 900 pages, three PMs and more chaos than you care to recall. Pre-order here
amazon.co.uk
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Was Jimmy Savile busy? Time for Andrew to disappear for good
"We've now been able to confirm that this image was in the back garden of Royal Lodge" BBC's Joe Pike says Prince Andrew hosted Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Royal Lodge. #Newsnight
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On Coffee House Shots: With the news the Home Office has spent billions of pounds on asylum hotels, and following the release of the Epping sex offender, is the department fit for purpose? @ShippersUnbound @JAHeale
https://t.co/z8YL2JjvJs
spectator.co.uk
With the news that the Home Office has spent billions of taxpayers' money on asylum hotels – and following the accidental release of the Epping sex offender – Tim Shipman and James Heale discuss this...
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Powell’s election is a sign of the disillusionment of Labour members - but there is a much much bigger and more worrying sign. Turn out was just 16%
BREAKING: Lucy Powell is elected Labour’s deputy leader
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If today has made you nostalgic for the rolling shitshow of the previous govt, my fourth book OUT is released in paperback on Nov 6. And this time it has an INDEX! 900 pages, three PMs and more chaos than you care to recall. Pre-order here
amazon.co.uk
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On a day of must reads, here’s another
Exclusive: No10 chief of staff Morgan McSweeney addressed a meeting of Labour peers on Wednesday night. It did not go well, for him or Keir Starmer. The HuffPost UK weekend political read 👇 https://t.co/jKmcUKoPB8
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Noa broke the story which broke Boris Johnson. Has she done it again?
🚨🚨🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨🚨🚨 A police manhunt is underway to find the Epping hotel migrant sex attacker after he was accidentally released from jail. Hadush Kebatu was meant to be sent to an immigration detention centre but was mistakenly freed https://t.co/2reOVN6RMU
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Rats/sack interface latest
Slightly beside the point but it is extraordinary for the director of public prosecutions to publicly attack a senior national security official with decades of service, who cannot respond, whose integrity and ability has been backed on the record by the PM and head of MI5
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Sometimes the news gods just seek their revenge on certain govts
This week the Government's failure to find a solution to the Maccabi ban was then overshadowed by the revelation a small boat migrant had returned after less than a month, which in turn was overshadowed by the collapse of the rape gang inquiry, which in turn was overshadowed by
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“They’ll have to release the Manchester bomber to get through the budget I imagine…”
Speculation by former No 10 aides in one of my WhatsApp groups about the “dead cat” needed to drown out coverage of the release of a sex offender due for deportation. One suggests: “Announce that Prince Andrew is the new ambassador to Washington”. Not sure even that would cut it
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Speculation by former No 10 aides in one of my WhatsApp groups about the “dead cat” needed to drown out coverage of the release of a sex offender due for deportation. One suggests: “Announce that Prince Andrew is the new ambassador to Washington”. Not sure even that would cut it
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EXCL: Deputy national security adviser Matthew Collins is understood to believe there are "inaccuracies" in the DPP Stephen Parkinson's statements about the China spy trial earlier. He will look to correct the record at the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy on
💥 Director of Public Prosecutions: "The deputy national security adviser told counsel that he would *not* state in evidence, if asked, that China posed a risk to our national security at the material time, either in open Court or in a private session." "He would also not accept
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Speculation by former No 10 aides in one of my WhatsApp groups about the “dead cat” needed to drown out coverage of the release of a sex offender due for deportation. One suggests: “Announce that Prince Andrew is the new ambassador to Washington”. Not sure even that would cut it
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Quite staggering
🚨🚨🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨🚨🚨 A police manhunt is underway to find the Epping hotel migrant sex attacker after he was accidentally released from jail. Hadush Kebatu was meant to be sent to an immigration detention centre but was mistakenly freed https://t.co/2reOVN6RMU
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Had a lot of fun talking politics, China and Prince Andrew with the great @Aiannucci and my old PMQs mate @rialinacom on the Strong Message Here podcast
podcasts.apple.com
Podcast Episode · Strong Message Here · 23/10/2025 · 34m
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The Director of Public Prosecutions has now directly contradicted Sir Keir Starmer over the collapse of the China spy trial. He's rebuked him in the process Starmer has repeatedly told the Commons that Matt Collins, the Deputy National Security Adviser, declined to describe
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Breaking: The Deputy National Security Adviser Matt Collins elected to remove a reference to China as an 'enemy' in his evidence to prosecutors ahead of the China spy trial, ultimately resulting in its collapse Officials referred to China as an enemy in the draft of his
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Had a lot of fun talking politics, China and Prince Andrew with the great @Aiannucci and my old PMQs mate @rialinacom on the Strong Message Here podcast
podcasts.apple.com
Podcast Episode · Strong Message Here · 23/10/2025 · 34m
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On today's Coffee House Shots: The Caerphilly by-election result suggests Labour will surrender a boatload of seats at the 2029 general election. But is there good news for the PM beyond the headlines? @ShippersUnbound @lucyidunn @JAHeale
https://t.co/Uy1kM3yGAJ
spectator.co.uk
On the face of it, the Caerphilly by-election result is a disaster, a drubbing and a humiliation for Keir Starmer’s Labour party. A once secure bastion of the Welsh Labour heartlands fell without a...
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