Andrew Brightwell

Communications consultant and writer. Passionate about politics, democratic involvement, and bad puns

[Andrew Brightwell @Andbwell]

@elliottengage Speaking as someone with a father in law in a care home, the best-case scenario is that it gets worn down by a variety of carve outs. As a person who worries about trust in politicians this is also the worst-case scenario, but there we are

[Adam Payne @adampayne26]

Is Josh Babarinde a future Lib Dem leader?

Some people think so...

He speaks to @harriet_symonds about arguing with xenophobes, employing ex-offenders with James Timpson's help, and being the ultimate yimby (a house is being built in his back garden)
https://t.co/adQaiPNYjT

[Andrew Brightwell @Andbwell]

@Samfr I think there should be a carriage for people who do this. So they can all sit together and see how they like it

[Andrew Brightwell @Andbwell]

@SophWarnes Massive congratulations!!!

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@AdamBienkov This itself is a regulation. What are the two regulations he’s getting rid of to impose this regulation?

[Andrew Brightwell @Andbwell]

So Badenoch joins Starmer in standing up for straight talking. All well and good but there’s a danger this a) treats politics as bad (it isn’t) and b) means you get caught out when you inevitably end up doing quite a lot of it

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Badenoch railing against a political spin culture: "For too long politics has just been about what voters want to hear and saying it back to them. It's the triumph of words over deeds. That has to change."

[Megan Merino @megmerino]

Looking to commission a Scotland-based travel writer to write a 450 word column on Shetland (for The List magazine). Get in touch at [email protected] ✒️

[TV Football 1968-92 @1968Tv]

Total Mud!
Highfield Road March 1988
Reporter @CliveTyldesley

[Andrew Brightwell @Andbwell]

One thing us journos will need to get used to imv is that this government will be much more cautious about what it rules both out and in when it comes to the EU. Quotes with 'it's not in our negotiating position' therefore mean something more nuanced than 'this is a red line'.

[Andrew Brightwell @Andbwell]

I've been saying this (mostly to the wall) for a bit despite all the write ups saying that the door was closed. https://t.co/2FHBwd6hv7

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@mikeysmith Football can only stay in its second home for 90 days - and then must either apply for a visa or return home, sorry I don’t make the rules

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How to make friends and influenza people

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@FreyaBarnes Ah v nice! Hope you’re having a good break

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@OzKaterji Eek. This is so easy to check

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@mcslaven Rayner for 2029! Starmer will be 66 that year so he’ll be getting his pension, unless Rachel Reeves sees to that of course

[Andrew Brightwell @Andbwell]

@mcslaven Tbf the lab quotes are more in line with that. Ashworth: "It's my job to think through how Labour win a historic second term... That's why I want to learn from campaigns across the world and will be travelling regularly meeting our sister parties fighting elections..."

[Andrew Brightwell @Andbwell]

@StefanFSchubert @jburnmurdoch On the Brits thinking ‘I eat healthier food’ thing - I do wonder if that is in any way true, at a population level

[Andrew Brightwell @Andbwell]

Read the room

[Andrew Brightwell @Andbwell]

I know it really isn’t important because this writer is dressing up bigotry, but I loathe the self importance of the prose. Its fussiness, to me, reveals a preference for the artifice of thinking over the actual hard job of doing it

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

As Jim says the graph below shows what we found in our own polling - many will still think 8% a worryingly high figure for those willing to say violent protests outside refugee accommodation are justified, but it is some magnitude lower than a third.