"Relations between journalists, journalism, media and government should always be bad. And never, on any account, allowed to get better," pronounced Spectator chairman Andrew Neil last month.
But anyone who has been to a Spectator summer party – which Conservative prime ministers and most of their cabinets attend every year – or spent an evening at the mag's backslapping "Parliamentarian of the Year" awards will have seen some textbook good relations between the media and the Tory party in particular.
Full story online and in the latest issue: https://t.co/Q7ucsmu6yc
Alan Bates has vowed to raise funds to prosecute Post Offices bosses if inquiry doesn't produce results.
Like if you support him
RT if you want to see them jailed
THIS DAY in 1933, a refugee arrived at #Dover with a patchy work history and no ties to this country.
He was fleeing oppression from the #Nazi regime who had burned his books - and turned his home into a #Nazi Youth Centre.
I have clearly angered the Twitter gods. An algorithm seems to be kicking out my followers without them knowing. If you can help me reach them again by RTing that would be wonderful.
Breakfast is go @BBCRadio3 Today Brendel plays Beethoven, Ethel Smyth offers a symphonic serenade, poet Lynn Peters asks why Dorothy Wordsworth is not as famous as her brother, and Elgar (& Dame Janet Baker) search for coral. The perfect end-of-the-week mix - live until 0930
Breakfast is live @BBCRadio3 Today the great Australian horn player Barry Tuckwell plays Robert Schumann, Salieri tells tales from a village inn, Jenny McLeod at a rural NZ fair offering agricultural pleasure and Felicity Lott crosses shimmering waves with Schubert. Come join us.
The newly extended @BBCRadio3 Breakfast is live. Tchaikovsky and Berlioz as we mark the bicentenary of Byron's death, Jennifer Higdon sets O magnum mysterium, Peter Donohoe and the @sacconiquartet record Sergei Taneyev, and Doreen Carwithen bemoans one damn thing after another.
Water companies are demanding bill payers fund mistakes caused by nothing more than their greed and the regulators incompetence.
No we say, no and a thousand times no!
Teesside Freeport has been a gift to 2 private businessmen.....receiving over £100m of the £500m+ of Taxpayers money handed to them to control by Ben Houchen.
If this outrage concerns you....THERE ARE 85 MORE FREEPORTS AND SEZs already formed by the Tories
Vote Tory & you vote for private countries within the UK WITH their own tax system, employment laws, justice and compulsory purchase of land and residential buildings....
So outrageous it's almost unbelievable but it's all true and media isn't talking about it 😡
Monday's Breakfast is live @BBCRadio3. Today Augusta Holmes suggests an interlude during a night of love, a nonet by Munich organist, composer and teacher Josef Rheinberger & Debussy, Bach, Chopin and Beethoven as we celebrate the life of the great pianist Maurizio Pollini.
Chris Patten has just murdered the party of which he was Chairman. It’s all in here - the bilge of Brexit, the worst foreign policy error ever made, and the insanity of the right wing cult’s grip on this once great political machine. Pure gold, spread it.
Thank you to @thisisyo1 Radio for enabling me to record a Community ad promoting the fact that @HearingDogsYork are currently recruiting new Volunteer puppy trainers .
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Jon Moynihan donated over £700,000, Liz Truss nominated him to the Lords and today is his first day. If that makes your blood boil, you can sign the petition here: https://t.co/1tbiPaU9MO