Alexandra Topping

Political correspondent at the Guardian. Northerner stranded in the South. Long-suffering Evertonian. Also at: @lexytopping.bsky.social, lexytopping_theguardian

[Alexandra Topping @LexyTopping]

Imagine not loving football 💛 💙

[Alexandra Topping @LexyTopping]

Wow 💛

[Alexandra Topping @LexyTopping]

We’re definitely on our way @BVB !!! Echte Liebe!! 💛 🖤 ( 💙)

[Alexander Brown @AlexofBrown]

EXC: Reform's new "newspaper" sent to homes across the country features a councillor who said Muslims shouldn't hold public office and that all mosques should be shut. Councillor Phil Tierney described himself as Islamophobic and signed a petition urging the Government to "halt the political persecution of Tommy Robinson".
https://t.co/onZYrRJWWF

[Alexandra Topping @LexyTopping]

@StefanRousseau @MayorofLondon @SadiqKhan This is such a great photo Stefan ❤️

[Alexandra Topping @LexyTopping]

I feel so sad for good colleagues losing jobs @Telegraph. It says it will focus on new revenue streams including “video, audio, puzzles, events, B2B, licensing, commerce and new products”. These people seem to forget that without covering news and sport there IS no product 💔

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

NEW

Britain’s missing sovereign wealth fund… Treasury officials have modelled that had the UK done what Norway did with North Sea revenues, there would be a £1 trillion fund…

As Chancellor sets up Energy Wealth Fund, a look at the long historical argument about where the oil windfall went, including from interviews with those who have run Norways $2.4 trillion fund, now the biggest in the world, filled from the proceeds of the same North Sea.

https://t.co/VcuA0DDWT1

[Alexandra Topping @LexyTopping]

Loved doing Politics Weekly with @jessicaelgot today. Much of this sounds like our daily stream of politics chat and gags- so it’s definitely worth listening to, if only to discover exactly who is leaking from the chancellor’s top secret budget preparations .. 🧐

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

We’re on the Guardian podcast this week!

Is Andy Burnham a “climate guy”?

And John Healey’s “un-leakable Budget” with its “military style security”?

Um, well, it turns out quite a lot of it has made its way out into our pages…

With @LexyTopping

https://t.co/vrpC6hLvIt

[George Eaton @georgeeaton]

The list sent by Harold Wilson to his cabinet of “little things that mean a lot”, including the protection of pubs, concessionary fares for the elderly, empty office blocks and “the future of the pint”.

Echoes of this in Burnham’s small but popular policies today.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

Striking how fast Reform went from free-press defenders to calling for the arrest of journalists who investigate it.

Its move to the populist-authoritarian model is unlikely to do much for its poll rating.

[Alexandra Topping @LexyTopping]

Yes. This >> https://t.co/j5ToOoc7jG

[Alexandra Topping @LexyTopping]

@alfiehincks52 If he could cure me of that Alfie, I'd sign up tomorrow!

[Alexandra Topping @LexyTopping]

Inject it into my veins

[Alexandra Topping @LexyTopping]

@JohnBrewin_ My dream would be for Big Sir Jim Ratcliffe to give me, a busy successful woman, advice on why my the traits that built my career are costing my love life while Laura K looked on shaking her head

[Alexandra Topping @LexyTopping]

This is superb. A - the average cost of having a baby in the US is $20,000 B - why didn't she just buy a dishwasher?

[WIRED @WIRED]

The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean. https://t.co/Hs4uzWMxxO

[Alexandra Topping @LexyTopping]

Now this is absolute class from @danbloom1, who has been very gracious this morning about being bombarded with repeated pictures of timestamps ... Here's our version >> https://t.co/t1Lmv7BYZj

[Dan Bloom @danbloom1]

It has been brought to my attention that @LexyTopping also filed this story last night and also had it published this morning, an hour before Playbook. Fair play. Great minds and all that 😉

https://t.co/gHGUYn9Afg

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

A landmark new legal advice service for survivors of rape and sexual assault is launching in 2027 — and we’re recruiting civil and criminal lawyers to help build it.

Read the @lawsocgazette article: https://t.co/VeSzYuYxs3

[Dave Penman @FDAGenSec]

FDA statement on settlement agreement for Sir Oliver Robbins.

[Alexandra Topping @LexyTopping]

Another victory for a @centreWJ super-complaint>>Police force alleged to have promoted and protected male officers despite knowing they were accused of domestic abuse has formally apologised and paid compensation to nine women >>

https://t.co/twRiL0lejJ

[Alexandra Topping @LexyTopping]

@JAHeale It's just people at their desks singing The Land all day, every day (and I would watch every second)