Tim Tate

Best-selling Author, Investigative Journalist, Award-winning Film Maker. All views expressed my own.

[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

Very sad indeed at the news of Donal Lunny's death. A wonderful musician at the heart of so much brilliant Irish music. If you've never heard The Bothy Band, check them out ASAP.
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[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

@james_e_b_ @ljmontello I reported on this disgraceful 10-year madness (which had incalculably terrible results) in a 1987 network documentary & my 1990 investigative book on CP: the only positive was that we got the UK govt to make possession of it illegal.

[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

I travelled from the UK to see @thechicks at Hershey this summer (as well as the wonderful @ladya) . The Chicks were utterly brilliant: if you can get tickets to this tour, go !

[The Chicks @thechicks]

This will be a tour like no other we've ever done! Playing the full album, lots of memories and no opener so show up on time! xo

[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

Finally ... a PM willing to acknowledge that Britain needs a formal, written constitution to set in stone the relationship between the State & its citizens. Now get on with it.
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[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

I rarely share Amazon reviews of my work, but I'm v grateful for this of my @iconbooks Spycatcher title

"I was absolutely gripped by this book, I've never read a book so quickly! Very detailed & thoroughly researched ... this could definitely be made into a film or mini series."

[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

@ladya So much looking forward to the @ladya gig at Hershey Park on Saturday !

[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

At what point will @RFU wake up and realise that Borthwick is hopelessly out of his depth as @EnglandRugby head coach ? It's long, long past time to get rid.

[Will Kelleher @willgkelleher]

Eight yellow cards and one red in the Six Nations, now England conceded two more yellows in a couple of minutes to kill off any hope of their revival here.

Fought well from 17-0 down but ultimately now losing by a healthy margin. Run out of steam!

[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

Freeman is horribly overrated.

[Tight Five Rugby @TightFive_Rugby]

That’s a killer from Tommy Freeman.

Absolutely no need to go in that high.

[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

@TightFive_Rugby The answer ? Borthwick andWigglesworth tells their teams not to run with the ball, just kick it. Dull, unimaginative & stereotypically mediocre.

[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

Utterly pitiful from @EnglandRugby v France. Not the team's fault: Borthwick's (lack of) tactics once again the problem. No offloads, no disguised runners, no speed, no intelligence. Sack him.

[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

All the replacements in the world won't fix the fundamental problem. @EnglandRugby are slow & utterly lacking in any form of attacking coherence. Yet another example of Steve Borthwick not being up to the job.

[England Rugby @EnglandRugby]

51' | Replacements:

Raffi Quirke, Benhard Janse van Rensburg, Jack Kenningham, Jamie Blamire, Nick Isiekwe, Vilikesa Sela, Beno Obano and Adam Radwan come on for Harry Randall, Seb Atkinson, Tom Curry, Theo Dan, George Martin, George Kloska, Asher Opoku-Fordjour and Cadan Murley.

[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

Since Lord Grade has crawled out once again from under his stone, blessing @GBNEWS with his admiration, it's worth recalling that Grade was utterly useless in every senior role he occupied with broadcasters (I had direct experience). Best to ignore him.
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[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

@SpiesVespers Ermmm ... no. It wasn't "full of factual inaccuracies". There were a few, but as my book on the Spycatcher affair revealed, Wright's evidence was largely good & the British Government's case was farcical.

[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

@thechicks Can't wait to see you in Hershey in July !

[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

@DAaronovitch Not archaic at all ! A truly vile production - and sadly typical of what Channel 4 has become.

[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

I have a copy of the only extant PIE membership list. There are no recognisable BBC names - management or otherwise - on it. The reason the list has not been released is simple: to do so would be a breach of privacy (PIE was vile but not illegal - though it should have been.)

[Jonny Bell @Jonnywsbell]

Why has the BBC never released the list of 300 PIE members, and every organisation, charity, school, university, civil service or government position they held?

The BBC are happy to name-and-shame when it suits them, but pedo's always get a free pass..🧵
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[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

@SpiesVespers @Barthsnotes It wasn't. It was a bit of PR created for the main Australian Spycatcher trial. My book on the extraordinary saga has more on this (& much, much more !)

[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

@AndrewPRLevi If nothing else, this wretched business exposes (once again) the absence of a written constitution which would spell out requirements precisely. Without one, we rely on 'tradition', 'precedent' & the good chap theory of government. Woefully outdated & not fit for purpose.

[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

Yet again @carolecadwalla is absolutely spot on correct. Brittin should be nowhere near the BBC - and companies using illegally scraped content to power their AI must be stopped. (Declaration of interest: 18 of my books have been stolen for or by AI LLMs.)

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: Will Google's AI hype man kill the BBC?

I've written about Matt Brittin because the coverage of his time at Google is shockingly naive.

The BBC's next DG made his career as a yes man at a rapacious AI monopoly that preys on news journalism in order to destroy it.
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[Tim Tate @TimTateBooks]

A fine and important piece from @arusbridger. But I'd add the context that @Ofcom has been a non-regulating regulator for many years before the advent of @GBNEWS. That's why all British Public Service Broadcasters have been allowed to reduce drastically their PSB content.

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

Since @Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalist from a wide range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of @GBNEWS . Their conclusion: the supposedly regulated channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen? https://t.co/LeWNX79g1y