Stig Abell
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Co-presenting breakfast @timesradio. The Burial Place, the 3rd Jake Jackson book, out now: https://t.co/Ew5nmEBfgl
London, England
Joined February 2012
New year: two new books from me in 2025. The paperback of Death in a Lonely Place: Jake tackles a criminal conspiracy in the depths of winter. And the next in the series: The Burial Place. Jake and Livia, murder at an archaeological dig. Coming very soon: https://t.co/SjZjkxzdCR
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First sight of A Twist in the River, the new Jake Jackson book, out next year. This is the most-action packed of the series, as the gang gets back together to work out why people are going missing by the river. I hope people will like reading it as much as I liked writing it.
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“I have defied the forecasts this year…I’m going to defy those forecasts next year and the year after that.” @RachelReevesMP defends her budget to #TimesRadio after the OBR signalled her measures wouldn’t lead to economic growth. @StigAbell | @KateEMcCann
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“Your legacy to the country will be a giant, engorged welfare system.” “You’re not going to write my obituary today.” @RachelReevesMP says she won’t be written off. @StigAbell | @KateEMcCann | #TimesRadio
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“Lots of people have tried to write me off and you’re not going to write my obituary today” Reeves tells @StigAbell and she says she will not apologise for removing the two child benefit cap. Asked about Kemi Badenoch warning criticism is not about her gender Reeves says “I take
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Coming up on @TimesRadio Breakfast: we’ll talk to the Chancellor about the Budget, and bring you all the analysis on tax rises and welfare spending and what it says about the future of the country and the philosophy of the government. Plus, keeping an eye on Witkoff, letters etc
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Coming up on @TimesRadio Breakfast: it’s the long-awaited, much-debated, over-briefed, gushingly-leaked, chaotically-assembled, politically-crucial, era-defining, tax-heavy, welfare-friendly, smorgasbord-laden, OBR-needy, please-don't-mention-the-gender-of-the-Chancellor BUDGET!
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Lots of people got in touch today. Those (most often men) in their middle age who confess to losing a sense of purpose, feeling like their precarious job was their only identity. The message is talk to others, realise you’re not alone and we can get through it together.
Former England cricketer would still be alive today if he had received more support from the ECB, believes his widow Amanda Thorpe. @StigAbell says he thinks about the tragedy all the time. @HobbsworldXI | #TimesRadio
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Coming up on @TimesRadio Breakfast: it’s Budget Eve, one of the best days of Budget season, just thinking about all our little faces when Rachel Reeves visits our homes tomorrow with promises and tax rises. All that plus AI after our jobs, Ukraine latest, goddamn Black Friday etc
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Times Radio is the place to be on Wednesday as we navigate you through the budget 📻 @Jo_Coburn and @afneil are on from 1pm 💷 And @JPonpolitics is on from 4pm 🎧 https://t.co/ElNHhIYKul
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Coming up on @TimesRadio Breakfast: Happy Budget Week! As Rachel Reeves told the Sunday Times, it’s not our job to spend time gazing in the rear-view mirror, so we’ll look ahead. Plus is Trump selling out Ukraine, prostate cancer screening, return of Cosmopolitan, Andrew Neil etc
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Just did my regular Sunday evening chat with @ayeshahazarika on @TimesRadio. And apparently this is an unacceptable, indeed anti-attractive, look to be sporting. (In my partial defence, my heating isn’t working).
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Excl: Trans people can be questioned over their biological sex and ultimately banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look, statutory guidance submitted to ministers says. The Times has been leaked the final EHRC guidance submitted to the govt almost three months ago.
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Coming up on @TimesRadio Breakfast: why is the government is sitting on gender guidance, and how will it work in practice? Plus, is Ukraine about to be sold out by the US, cheap energy vs higher bills, taxi tax, no to duvet days, Ashes preview, Covid inquiry preview, letters etc
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Coming up on @TimesRadio Breakfast: emigration, for once - are more people leaving the country than ever before? Plus Scottish football joy, the BMA on strikes, Chinese (pretty lame) spying, West End vigilantes, Farage’s school days, early retirement plans, singletons in bars etc
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Coming up on @TimesRadio Breakfast: we now know the new migration rules: are they fair, will they work, what do they say about Britain? Plus, Trump and MBS, heat pump air con, successful middle-age divorce, Gen Z’s financial nous, the rise of climate scepticism, no drones etc
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Coming up on @TimesRadio Breakfast: is there now a left-right consensus on migration, and what does that mean for the country? Plus, how much do you need to earn to be rich, French budget, child skincare, Trump’s Venezuela invasion, doctors not striking, tourism tax rises etc
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Coming up on @TimesRadio Breakfast: latest from the “united party” as No. 10 spins itself out of control. We’ll talk to Ed Miliband - is he faithful or traitor? Plus, the Epstein files and who they condemn the most, what Britain thinks of itself, Hitler’s tiny penis, letters etc
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Coming up on @TimesRadio Breakfast: Starmer’s leadership crisis. Who is briefing and why? What on earth is going on? We’ll have the inside story. Plus welfare by numbers, extra-judicial killing and intelligence sharing with US, doctors strikes, Panorama editing, quiz cheating etc
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Coming up on @TimesRadio Breakfast: we’re going to prosecute and defend Trump’s case against the BBC. What’s a good number to settle with? Plus, generals against lawfare, blokey Booker winner, porch piracy, insidious fitness apps, children in custody, Andrew’s missing hyphen etc
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Coming up on @TimesRadio Breakfast: BBC resignations, what happens next, is this a symptom of old media struggling in the new world, the impossibility of impartiality or something else? Plus, the problem of increasing income tax, being nice to your kids, book plans, boozing etc
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