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The Times and The Sunday Times
8 months
Read The Times and Sunday Times for free this weekend at https://t.co/BamGI1zUQM
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@thetimes
The Times and The Sunday Times
3 years
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Labour has surged to a 33-point poll lead over the Conservatives after a week of market turmoil triggered by Liz Truss��s tax-cutting budget
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Truss and Kwarteng in emergency talks with watchdog after financial turmoil
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@henrywinter
Henry Winter
3 years
Mark Harrison and his staff at the #AVFC academy are doing remarkable work, and strongly backed by board. They profile players “technically, tactically, physically and socially” and they’re delivering. FA Youth Cup 2021. Three on the pitch as #ENG win #U19EURO. Great for future.
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@MattChorley
Matt Chorley
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Extraordinary reporting by @A_Loyd_Times and photography by @jackhillphoto on the frontline
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@jeromestarkey
Jerome Starkey
4 years
PLEASE retweet: Dear Boris, Please ask Kenya’s President Kenyatta (in London today) why he detained and expelled a @thetimes corespondent without due process in 2016. HMG says it champions free press and shared democratic values. #JournalismIsNotACrime - even mine #GES2021
@10DowningStreet
UK Prime Minister
4 years
The Prime Minister welcomed President Kenyatta to Chequers for talks on trade, defence, development and climate change. Find our more about their discussions ➤ https://t.co/A0EHCGQr2I 🇬🇧🇰🇪
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@MJGold
Michael Johnson
4 years
Check out my column today in @TimesSport for a look at the state of the sport of track and field and a preview of the start of track in Tokyo. #Tokyo2020 #TokyoOlympics #OlympicGames
@TimesSport
Times Sport
4 years
I would like to see these young athletes win Olympic titles and go on to dominate for a decade. Maybe none of them will be “The New Bolt”, but together they could be better | Michael Johnson (@MJGold)
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@NewsUK
News UK
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Have a passion for learning and an inquisitive mind? We’ve launched 28 apprenticeships at @thetimes, @TheTLS, @ScottishSun, @talkSPORT, @talkRADIO, our commercial team and more. You'll get: -NCTJ training -Mentoring -Competitive salary Apply by May 2 👇 https://t.co/qjGKoYA9gn
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@olivernmoody
Oliver Moody
5 years
My long read on Hans Globke, the man who helped to shape the Nuremberg race laws and then rebuilt the modern German state. Features: an illegal spy agency, skulduggery in the Eichmann trial, and the origins of the Israeli nuclear weapons programme
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In the autumn of 1945 the British and American officers at a German holding camp for the Nazi regime’s senior functionaries were faced with an apparently intra
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@janinemas0n
janine
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i’ve never missed in person meetings more than i did watching this parish council meeting descend into chaos
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@thetimes
The Times and The Sunday Times
5 years
The Times is looking for an assistant foreign news editor who has worked in a national newsroom, preferably with experience of reporting abroad and working on a news desk. #journojobs Find out more: https://t.co/k4Gv6MNHVh
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@rwilliams1947
Richard Williams
5 years
The days when international footballers went on caravan holidays... (from today’s Times obit page)
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@marcbennetts1
Marc Bennetts
5 years
Protest today in Yakutsk, northeastern Siberia. Temperature minus 52C (-62 Fahrenheit)
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@patrickkmaguire
Patrick Maguire
5 years
Before Christmas @timesredbox asked colleagues for predictions for 2021. @hzeffman went for: "Twitter will suspend @realdonaldtrump." We have a winner.
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@MarcusRashford
MR14
5 years
Here’s the piece...♥️
@thetimes
The Times and The Sunday Times
5 years
Sir Alex Ferguson and @MarcusRashford are supporting the #TimesChristmasAppeal which is raising money for the charity @FareShareUK. @RSylvesterTimes & @aliceTTimes talked to the star striker and legendary former manager about growing up in poverty https://t.co/WwjVFDOHBZ
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The Times and The Sunday Times
5 years
#WorldatFive: Surveys suggest that substantial numbers of people in many countries are reluctant or even determined not to have themselves inoculated
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The scientists have done their bit, developing at least three highly plausible coronavirus vaccines in nine months, where once the work would have taken a decad
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@rolandwatson66
roland watson
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‘She has an incredible mind, she could easily have been a scientist’ - Why Dolly Parton funded a COVID vaccine https://t.co/TSxsw4uIMJ
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roland watson
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‘With Di Matteo, we’d work on defensive stuff for hours and then concede in games, with Brucey, we’d work on defending set pieces and then concede from set pieces. With Dean Smith....we were finally playing attacking football.’ #utv
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@thetimes
The Times and The Sunday Times
5 years
The prime minister has privately indicated to MPs that they should rally around the Home Secretary
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