Cory Hazlehurst
@paperbackrioter
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'Interesting, but hardly informative'. A Croslandite, not a Blairite. Likes cricket, Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe. OAFC fan. One half of Not Enough Champagne.
Birmingham
Joined January 2009
"A lot of people doubt as a legitimate philosophical position. They think of themselves as the middle, whereas, of course, really they're nowhere. No battle was ever won by spectators, was it?" George Smiley, The Honourable Schoolboy.
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I haven’t had time to digest and write about Suella Braverman’s defection to Reform, but I have compared Robert Jenrick to Tony Benn.
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It’s time to win Britain’s future back. Vote for change today. #VoteLabour 🌹🗳️
Do you want five more years of Tory chaos, or change with Labour? Polls are open until 10pm.
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Why not both?
NEW: Nigel Farage counters Boris Johnson's criticism of his Putin Ukraine comments by unveiling a huge i front page suggesting Boris made a similar argument back in 2016. Farage: "Perhaps it’s Boris Johnson who is morally repugnant, not me" https://t.co/PUzsUbh17G
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The most politically disastrous retreat from Normandy by an English leader since 1203.
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Perhaps three Americans will be aware of the fact that USA just beat Pakistan in cricket - biggest upset in the game in quite a while.
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The national service nonsense does give me the opportunity to tweet one of my favourite recent bits of polling when Ipsos actually ran the famous "Yes Minister" questions as a randomised experiment, and showed that it worked.
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It took something pretty special to bring @NoChampagnePod. Rishi Sunak had to call an election and make a complete dog's breakfast of the whole affair. I talk with @AcousticRadical about that. https://t.co/RIwojVzD0u
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The deluge launch drowned out by D:Ream. A brewery visit with a teetotal PM, so no chance of a piss up. Now a site visit to something famous for sinking. Is there a double agent in CCHQ, and were they a headline writer in a previous life? 🤦♀️ Our candidates deserve better.
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This is going to be a very long election campaign.
🚨 NEW: Rishi Sunak asks Welsh voters if they are looking forward to "all the football" before being quickly told Wales haven't qualified for the Euros [@TomLarkinSky]
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Fundamentally, Joe Biden is a good man. Fundamentally, Donald Trump is not. Now, you can disagree with policy positions if you want, but in terms of the nature of the two men? It’s obvious. It couldn’t be more obvious. https://t.co/5gIOW9khg8
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My god, Denis Healey has been reincarnated as a bird!
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Far too much drama at Tata Steel today.
And the final twist! Gukesh, with little time, repeats moves and Pragg successfully claims threefold repetition in a position where he's absolutely lost! DRAW! #TataSteelChess
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25 years! Mixed feelings about having great Wijk an Zee games older than some of this year's #TataSteelChess players! 😂 But I appreciate their thoughts and this tribute very much. Special tournaments inspire special games!
Before this year’s #TataSteelChess Tournament we asked the Masters about their favorite chess game of all time. We noticed several players naming a certain game played in this very tournament! 🤔 25 years ago today, @Kasparov63 played his immortal game against Veselin Topalov in
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Very "Henry II in around 1164" vibes here.
EXCL - Bishops in the House of Lords voted with the government in just five votes in an entire year. They voted against the government whip 276 times. Bishops are expected to mount a new war on Rishi Sunak's Rwanda Bill when it returns to the Lords https://t.co/ymrEjoJKOo
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Sunak is like someone with a computer that isn't working, manically jabbing all of the buttons in the hope that this might magically bring it back to life again.
NEW: Sunak resets election strategy from change to continuity — Conservative source confirms there has been an “evolution” in approach, from the change candidate speech at conference to “stick with the plan” now https://t.co/ZVj3fhHEUI
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#OTD 2003. Death of Roy Jenkins. In the 1970s he was a key figure in the 1975 UK referendum campaign to remain in the Common Market: “I think we are in danger of getting bogged down in a debate about theoretical paper sovereignty”.
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If this doesn’t stir your heart, consult a cardiologist immediately. A songwriter so wonderful as to inspire dancing at his funeral, that’s something else.
Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neill performed "Fairytale of New York" to close Shane MacGowan's funeral today. https://t.co/bG7mCSusmC
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🚨 Uganda create history 🚨 They have qualified for the #T20WorldCup 2024 and will become only the fifth African nation to feature in the tournament 🔥 📸: @CricketUganda Details 👉 https://t.co/TgLrh9MBxw
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