Neil Gibbons
@neilgibbons
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Writer of comedy. Mainly Alan Partridge, let's face it.
Joined April 2009
Don't forget to paint over the murals
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has told ITV News she makes "no apology" for her sweeping reforms of the asylum system https://t.co/VgYpd2bpRQ
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In the 1987 Bond film 'Robocop', Bond is working undercover in the Detroit police when he is shot dead. He is then rebuilt by Q as a cyborg, meaning we've established the character of 007 is able to withstand fatal injuries and return to work. It's really not that difficult.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.” Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says: “You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
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Aha! The comedy writers Rob and Neil Gibbons on being born one minute apart, never falling out and having your scripts torn apart by a national institution
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Aha! The comedy writers Rob and Neil Gibbons on being born one minute apart, never falling out and having your scripts torn apart by a national institution
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Andrew will still receive a pension from the Royal Navy but it will now just be called the Navy or Mr Navy
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Weird that Andrew, who is a prince, isn't allowed to call himself Prince Andrew. But the king, who isn't a prince, is still Prince Charles
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All charges have been dropped against Kneecap’s Mo Chara. I strongly welcome this decision. These charges were part of a calculated attempt to silence those who stand up and speak out against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Kneecap have used their platform on stages across the
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This is me, making notes at the site of POW Camp 65 Gravina in Puglia. A deserted place of wartime ghosts and memories, it’s brought back to life in my new book, The Glass Mountain, which is out this week: https://t.co/IyrsEkcJx4
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Nothing new obv but the sunday times comment pages are an absolute bin fire
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Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
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JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a...
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I see you're drinking 1 percent. Does that mean you think you're fat? 'Cause you're not. You could be drinking whole if you wanted to.
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The entire vibe of the Laura Kuenssberg show is 'don't worry, we know you don't want to see aggro on a Sunday' which is the exact opposite of what you want from it
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Mason is fascinated by politics as theatre and drama. He would report the rise of a dictator just as breathlessly. His growing ambition .. the vibe of insurgency etc etc. but the menace? Above his pay grade
What a naive, gullible assessment.. but his bosses- in the unlikely event they bother to read it- will approve: Chris Mason: Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before - BBC News
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This is like the fire drill bit from Fawlty Towers. 'This is the alarm, the other was a drill' 'What drill? We didn't hear a drill'
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This is just embarrassing. This is a performance. Everybody knows it. It screams inauthenticity, imitation, and trying to say things they think a certain type of voter wants to hear. Which is what it is. It won’t win anyone over, and it just makes voters respect them less.
Asked if she's got a flag on display in her home, the Home Secretary says she has Union Jack bunting, St Georges flags, St Georges bunting, and Union Jack flags and tablecloths.
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At 16 I was offered a place on a crack commando unit which had been sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. They'd escaped from a max. security stockade and still wanted by the govt survived as soldiers of fortune. But in the end I stayed on at 6th form
Kemi Badenoch has told multiple interviews she gained a place at Stanford medical school - or pre-med - aged 16, but her parents couldn’t afford it even with a partial scholarship. I’ve spoken to Stanford admissions officers who say this is impossible https://t.co/7YLtKsyBOP
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