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Duncan Steer. Journalism, cultural arbitration, chanson. Live events: talk shows not 'talks'. Pre-show playlist: https://t.co/GefboK8EEC

Streatham SW16
Joined December 2009
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@thethirdumpire
Third Umpire
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My autumn talk shows, coming to everywhere from #Aberdeen to #EastGrinstead. More tbc. https://t.co/QJXVWq27vt
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@monstroso
charlie higson
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Out in London nearly every night the last week. 4 music events, a pub quiz, Xmas drinks, birthday party. Stratford, the O2, Kentish Town, Holloway, Soho, Camden, Green Lanes. Never seen the city so busy, people lovely, public transport clean & efficient & I wasn’t murdered once
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@spectatorindex
The Spectator Index
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World's best cities to live in. 1. 🇬🇧 London 2. 🇯🇵 Tokyo 3. 🇨🇳 Shanghai 4. 🇸🇬 Singapore 5. 🇦🇺 Melbourne 6. 🇦🇺 Sydney 7. 🇫🇷 Paris 8. 🇨🇳 Beijing 9. 🇺🇸 New York 10. 🇳🇱 Amsterdam (Global Finance Magazine)
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@HarryScoffin
Harry Scoffin
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Powerful forces want me out of the picture. But I keep going to the media, fighting for myself, my family, my neighbours, and millions of leaseholders as if it’s the last time I ever can. Next week, @UKLabour must choose the people over the leasehold grifters.
@FreeLeasehlders
Free Leaseholders
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Imagine this: the last Tory government was more progressive than a self-styled insurgent @UKLabour. @Keir_Starmer has a choice next week: back working people in the Draft Commonhold Bill or give thin gruel, hiding behind a captured Treasury and Lord Hermer’s weird ECHR legalism.
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@_PaulHayward
Paul Hayward
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This 2026 World Cup ticket price scandal is the end point we've been heading to: football as a corporate assault on its own fans, who have a painful choice. Pay up - or walk away.
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@carolecadwalla
Carole Cadwalladr
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So, today @tedtalks announced that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was their most watched talk of the year. It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
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@ChrisMurphyCT
Chris Murphy 🟧
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Neither Netflix nor the Paramount/Trump/Saudi Arabia group should own Warner Bros. Both deals are absurd - terrible for consumers and democracy. This is a story about corruption - Trump using government power to screw consumers and gain control of the media. A red alert moment.
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@gdfellows
Graham Fellows
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The most dramatic view from a dressing room window in any UK theatre is surely this one @marinetheatre in Lyme Regis.
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@thethirdumpire
Third Umpire
19 days
Tomorrow, 2pm, at #Wolverhampton Arts Centre: Norman Cook aka #FatboySlim, launches his lush, illustrated memoir, 'It Ain't Over Til the Fatboy Sings' with signing event, ahead of sold-out evening show at #WulfrunHall. Very limited spaces. @visit_bham https://t.co/dApZjad8iP
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@sheffieldtrib
The Tribune
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Ever since we started covering Andrew Milne, the solicitor who's been asking Sheffield leaseholders for thousands of pounds, we've been building up a list of questions. Unfortunately, he's not been keen to answer them. So we eventually tracked him down to a Costa in east London.
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@Victoria_Spratt
Vicky Spratt
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EXCLUSIVE from me @theipaper - Labour's leasehold reform could be watered down due to Treasury nervousness So, why does it matter? This is about whether or not to cap ground rents It affects nearly 5 million leasehold homeowners And the housing market in a BIG way
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@thethirdumpire
Third Umpire
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New on sale! Come and see Carlton Kirby, the Voice of Cycling, in #Gloucester, #Folkestone, #Leicester, #Settle or #Stoke on the eve of the 2026 Tour de France! @carltonkirby #TDF2026 https://t.co/4BiXs2CiL2
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@fraveris
Francisco Ribeiro
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Mark Edwards (British Painter, b. 1951) Snowing, 2018. Acrylic on Canvas
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@thethirdumpire
Third Umpire
22 days
Pep's right. Look at the kid with the big glasses with THOUSANDS of items he (or his dad) wants signing. Flagrant.
@FootballTalkHQ
Football Talk
22 days
🗣️ Guardiola: "Don't come again, I will not sign again, I know your faces. Go to school and prepare yourselves. You are young, so don't be here wasting your time. Do you want to live your life doing this? Honestly?
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@thethirdumpire
Third Umpire
23 days
This Saturday in #Wolverhampton! Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim signs his lush new @rocket88books memoir 'It Ain't Over Til The Fatboy Sings'. Strictly limited places. Pre-order at https://t.co/dApZjacAth
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@katiewaissel24
Katie Waissel
27 days
I’ve spent years living inside the machine Simon Cowell built — first as a contestant, then as a survivor, and now as a legal professional holding that system to account. Today, as Cowell launches his new Netflix series The Next Act, I’m publishing what the PR headlines won’t
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There is a particular kind of silence that takes shape in the wake of an industry that has, for decades, operated with near-total impunity, a silence constructed not through absence of noise but...
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@katiewaissel24
Katie Waissel
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MY REBUTTAL TO SIMON COWELL’S ROLLING STONE STATEMENT I am writing in response to Simon Cowell’s recent remarks in Rolling Stone, in which he references the tragic loss of my friend and fellow 2010 XFactor contestant Liam Payne and reflects on his time overseeing the management
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@thethirdumpire
Third Umpire
28 days
My last proper show of the year tomorrow, at the Quarterhouse in #Folkestone . ITV Tour de France commentator Matt Rendell @mrendell is my guest and we have, precisely 18 tickets left! So, if you're keen say now:
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creativefolkestone.org.uk
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@thethirdumpire
Third Umpire
29 days
Tonight! I'm at the Maltings in #Ely, hosting a screening of classic Paris-Roubaix #cycling documentary A Sunday in Hell, w/ The Guardian's @willfoth (who has seen it at least 50 times & written a book on how it was made) Handful of seats left. https://t.co/4PPLAkWl1G
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@beckytaylorgill
Becky Taylor-Gill
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all a plan to slowly defund Australian cricket and be rid of them forever
@Sportskeeda
Sportskeeda
1 month
🚨 𝑹𝑬𝑷𝑶𝑹𝑻𝑺 🚨 Australia’s victory in the Perth Test has put the Ashes firmly in their favour, but the two-day finish comes with a financial setback for Cricket Australia. 😳 With no play on days three and four, the missed ticket revenue at Perth Stadium is expected to
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@thethirdumpire
Third Umpire
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I had a great couple of days w/ the @FatboySlim community, events for his @rocket88books illustrated memoir @mbro_townhall (Fri) &, I'm calling it, a real happening at Warrington's @lizardincrcrds (Saturday). Next: Wolverhampton, Sat 6 December - pre-book: https://t.co/PcZ8sxtmGx
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