Author, Political Animals & The Secret Life of Special Advisers. @TalkTV presenter 7pm-10pm weekdays & sometimes @timesradio. Was SpAd to four Cabinet ministers
First the kick off was 1am. Then it was 7pm. Then it was 1am. Now it is 2am. It may change again shortly.
Who’s organising this World Cup? Avanti West Coast?
Kneecap are calling for the “trumped up charges” to be dropped against convicted terrorist Marwan Barghouti. He was a LEADER of the Second Intifada and found guilty of five murders of civilians. This is a coordinated and well financed campaign to whitewash a brutal killer.
Turkey just banned a cruise ship carrying nearly 2,000 gay travelers, including Broadway legend Patti LuPone, from docking in Kuşadası and Istanbul.
Officials called the passengers a threat to their "moral values."
Istanbul police then raided a gay nightclub that had operated for 18 years, because it planned to welcome the cruise's passengers.
A state punishing people for existing. If a different, specific Middle Eastern country did this, it would lead every front page for a week. Turkey, a NATO country does it and the human rights industry looks away.
🚨BREAKING: Turn off the alarm clocks - FIFA is considering moving the England - Mexico match to 7PM Sunday UK time due to a storm threat!
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- What are Burnham's plans for tax?
- Germany cracks down on sick notes - should we do the same?
- Should the NHS pay people to walk more?
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Congratulations to @BBCArabic on its remarkable consistency. Its journalists managed to publish stories about Gaza requiring 215 corrections in two years. Twice a week, every week, the errors somehow ran in the same direction.
That suggests a newsroom working under very difficult conditions. Chief among them, apparently, the facts.
At that volume the corrections column becomes the most reliable section of the service. Readers seeking accuracy are advised to start there.
For years, the media called Israel paranoid.
But today, UNRWA just quietly fired 70 of its employees in Gaza because they were linked to terror organizations.
Israel was right all along. Why is the world still funding an agency that employs terrorists? It is time to defund UNRWA permanently.
It’s a great question. Easy answer: it took my understanding of antisemitism from being about off-colour jokes about tailors and shekels, to realising that people genuinely want Jews dead, and that a lot of those people live in my country. A seismic change in how I saw the world.
Next on Talk 7-10pm with @petercardwell - watch here: https://t.co/UaClCASRDG
- Was Peter Mandelson a Russian spy for 30 years?
- Bob Vylan sues BBC for defamation
- Pressure grows on Farage over property portfolio
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'We need governors. We've had good campaigners, like Boris Johnson who connect, but we haven't had good governors'
Peter Cardwell (@petercardwell) Femi Oluwole (@Femi_sorry) and Jonathan Lis (@jonlis1) hash it out on #GlobalEye
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Nigel Farage is currently the man most likely to be PM after the election. Scrutiny is not "hounding"; the public have a right to know who's been paying politicians - and why.
If Farage had declared his £5m or five-house property portfolio, there would be nothing to disclose...
“I am aware that journalists have tried to reach out to the victims. That must stop. They do not wish to speak to the media, and everyone must respect the authority of the ongoing court process.”
- Firm guidance from PSNI Chief Constable, Jon Boutcher.
One of the greatest lies of the Gaza war is unravelling. There’s no evidence that Israel targets ‘journalists’, but there’s now tonnes of evidence that Hamas jihadis posed as journalists. Why did the West buy this obvious BS?, asks Jake Wallis Simons
https://t.co/tKfKuCvGdD
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- Officers who arrested Henry Nowak under investigation for misconduct.
- Starmer’s defence plan leaves Burnham with a financial black hole.
- A man fined £1,000 for leaving a cardboard box next to a bin.
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"I've never in 25 years as an MP having read a lot of MOD documents seen a disclaimer like that. That in pub English means you can't trust anything that's in this report.
Shadow Defence Minister, Mark Francois breaks down disclaimer buried in spending plan.
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