Possibly the beefiest tweet ever sent by a member of the House of Lords.
Make sure you read up on the background - via @_TheLondoner (NOT a rival of the Standard)
https://t.co/6PHC5griuy
No surprise that little shit Janos Eichmer @joshi doth protest too much to clear his name of leaked budget stain, while denigrating what in his warped vision is a rival. Hate to break it to you - you’re not in our league mate. I’d say 50% accurate; wait for my memoir for other 50
Catch up on your news briefing
💋 Spearmint Rhino uses shell company to take over the lease of The Windmill
🔍 Worrying news from homeless charity St Mungo’s
🇯🇵 The Royal Albert Hall has been selected as host for one of the only professional sumo contests to ever happen outside of Japan
ALSO
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🍴 From dawn till dusk
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🚨 Major story from our new title @_TheLondoner: The Labour MP Jas Athwal is the landlord of an appalling private care home where children have gone missing and been left at risk of criminal exploitation. Stunning reporting by @AndrewKersley.
https://t.co/ZcDqPCgcMm
🚨Some GOOD media news: We're using the money we raised last year to double the size of our team by the end of 2024, hiring journalists in Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool and... London.
Yes, the time has come - as reported by today's @FT.
🚨"A disaster for democracy"🚨
Yesterday @SenSanders visited the @ManchesterMill office and told me about the "huge problem" created by the collapse of local news.
The strongest, clearest words I've heard from a political leader on this topic. He gets it.
At the age of 24, a property agent in Wolverhampton had an awakening at a Buddhist retreat and decided to end homelessness. This year, his companies collapsed owing £13m. What went wrong?
My investigation for @brumdispatch.
https://t.co/b7YwHwjG70
“Plymouth in the top 6 by 2028?” 🤔
“They can do it before then”👀
“I wouldn’t rule out Premier League by 2030” 🤩
Plymouth’s owner wants them in the Play-offs in the next 4 seasons!
@RyanDilks1 & @JustinPeach27 are confident they’ll do it👇
🔗 https://t.co/3vX06CB4So
#PAFC
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Since 1980, the world population has grown 79.4%.
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If it hadn't been for the British Empire there could have been a flourishing Weimaresque gay scene in 1930s Gaza.
Noel Coward, Christopher Isherwood rubbing shoulders while watching a man in lipstick do Cabaret sending up everyone from the local imam to the colonial governor
HS2: “It’s one certain thing taken away, and a load of highly uncertain things put in its place,” says @ChristianSpence, while Manchester's stations remain chronically congested
Will we ever come closer to getting serious rail investment in the North? https://t.co/94ncTy7Dqx
🚨 Little scoop in my @unherd piece on Manchester and HS2 today, one that helps to explain the chaos-politics we're seeing:
Rishi Sunak has been taking advice from Dominic Cummings.
https://t.co/rZGbpGPPCn
Some very exciting news...🚨 We've raised money from a group of readers and supporters, including ex-NYT CEO Mark Thompson and longtime Mill members like @turi and @DianeCoyle1859.
It means this model can now expand - more journalists, more cities.
https://t.co/WQ4MIt0Unk
2020-2030 , the decade of #Shipping?
2000-2010 shipbuilding boom means a lot of vessels are going to be needed to be replaced. Especially with environmental regulation kicking in...
Shipyard capacity the bottleneck creating great profits for shipping companies?
"The government decided to amplify the failure of the private sector by contracting the public sector"—@AnnPettifor on the folly of George Osborne's austerity https://t.co/CaGSVoQLVC
Latest @ManchesterMill: me and @SophEAtkinson on the surging popularity of Manchester’s signature spicy chicken burgers, and the secret sauces that make them so valuable. Like, hundreds-of-thousands-of-pounds valuable.
https://t.co/Hyp4Gjk4HP