Ed Mitchell

Journalist/broadcaster. Author ‘From Headlines to Hard Times’ (Blake, 2010).
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.

[Ed Mitchell @ed19mitch]

Lammy: squirmingly embarrassing. Holding an office of state so far beyond his abilities.

[Ed Mitchell @ed19mitch]

An absolute must-watch. Broadcasting at its very best. Completely correct in its analysis and conclusions.

[spiked @spikedonline]

After the Manchester Arena bombing they said ‘Don’t look back in anger’. During the rape-gang scandal they said ‘Don’t use inflammatory language’. Now they’re saying ‘Don’t rage over Henry Nowak. They really want to crush our spirit, says Brendan O’Neill
https://t.co/admIZobKmS

[Ed Mitchell @ed19mitch]

@UKLabour It’s a tax-payers’ breakfast and it’s probably nutritionally rubbish.

[Jason | 🇬🇧 🇿🇦 🇮🇱🇺🇲 @Ajaon_of_All]

Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.

I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.

Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.

I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"

You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.

[Ed Mitchell @ed19mitch]

@MattChorley @SelenaSmartArse Text book Freudian slip; your subconscious feelings slipping through to your conscious language.

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Sainsbury. Eggs. White/Brown. This inane, puerile, ridiculous decision will backfire. You must surely know that.

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Lucy Rigby, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, on tv this morning instantly turns her answer round to Farage and then refers to him four more times. Obsessive…and politicising an issue that they claim should not be politicised.

[Ed Mitchell @ed19mitch]

#PMQs The Prime Minister desperately delusional.

[Ed Mitchell @ed19mitch]

True. None of this would’ve surfaced and become a huge issue without this platform.

[John Jones @ThatJohnJones]

The murder of Henry Nowak shows us one thing. The establishment hate X because X lets us see the truth.

Do you believe for one single moment that without X, we'd know anything like what we do now about this appalling case?

They don't want to close down X to protect us from extremism – they want to close it down to protect themselves from scrutiny.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

My monologue on today’s The Times at One with
ANDREW NEIL on our political leadership deficit @TimesRadio

I think we can pretty much all agree this is not exactly a golden age for British political leadership. 

The UK Prime Minister is such a lame duck he virtually quacks. 

The former First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, once feared by Scottish journalists and feted by the London media, is now held in such low regard north of the border that she’s moving to London. At least she’ll avoid the higher taxes she imposed on her fellow Scots. 

And the glitzy capital is probably a more fitting habitation for the Imelda McMarcos de nos jours than the grime of Glasgow or the grey of Auld Reekie (aka Edinburgh). 

But it does leave the current First Minister, John ‘Jobsworth’ Swinney, to deal with the fallout of the biggest scandal to hit Scottish politics since — well maybe since forever. 

In other leadership news, the Lib Dems are led by a man whose main claim to public recognition is falling in the water, the Greens by a man who seems to have more skeletons in his closet than Davy Jones’s locker. 

Nigel Farage has his followers but so far his political abilities have been as an insurgent rather than somebody who could run a country. 

In a dispiriting field, Kemi Badenoch is just about the only political leader to shine. But she leads a brand which could be tarnished beyond repair. 

Keir Starmer clings to power, perhaps emboldened by the lacklustre efforts of those who would unseat him. 

Wes Streeting, who resigned as Health Secretary to challenge Starmer, had second thoughts and now strikes a somewhat forlorn figure, launching a battle of ideas without a single new idea to offer. 

Andy Burnham, fighting the Makerfield by election as the springboard to his own challenge to Starmer, has hardly set the heather on fire with his campaign. That could be because he’s so dizzy from all the policy U-turns he’s executing. 

The Starmer-Streeting-Burnham performance is emboldening others even less talented to think they might be in with a chance of the big job. 

The Times reports that Darren Jones, barely a household name in his own household, is thinking of throwing his hat in the ring. 

What we’ve done to deserve all this isn’t clear. Perhaps electing them is the first clue. In other words we reap what we sow. 

Makerfield might be par for the course. Burnham is favourite to win, even if not runaway favourite. 

The British, of course, can be, every now and then,  notoriously curmudgeonly and contrarian. Perhaps the good people of Makerfield will decide it’s time to display such characteristics once more. 

If Burnham does go down to defeat on June 18 it could be because voters have had enough of being taken for granted. But what happens to Labour after that is anybody’s guess.

[Ed Mitchell @ed19mitch]

@henrynowaksol @HantsPolice Release the footage. Then we’ll know. At the heart of this…what were the first instincts of the officers on the scene? What were their already adopted perceptions and expectations? Fundamentally, why did they get it so terribly wrong?

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@delbigtree @chikaching The tv pictures of what was supposedly happening in northern Italy triggered the absurd panicky Covid reaction in the UK. It was grossly exaggerated and much of it faked. There was also the area’s intriguing, long-standing relationship with China.

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@TheNewsAgents @jonsopel Net zero is national economic suicide.

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Great message, great broadcaster.

[Matt Cartoons @MattCartoonist]

My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph

Buy a print of my cartoons at https://t.co/ILFJjPmckx

Original artwork from https://t.co/bVPAkgE34y

[Ed Mitchell @ed19mitch]

What a completely silly front page from the Daily Mirror today. Wrong and simplistic on so many levels.

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Agreed. Absurd otherworldly figure. Completely detached from what’s really going on.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Apparently food inflation has “eased” to 3 per cent.
Seriously?
I’m talking to families who are worried sick as they lurch from bill to bill. Things are dire.
The British people are being gaslit by these stats.

[Ed Mitchell @ed19mitch]

UK rate of price increases falls to 2.8%. That’s a figure utterly detached from what’s really going on in shops, garages, restaurants and pubs. Where on earth does this fiction come from?

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@SamaHoole I was milk monitor in the mid-sixties. A big perk of the job was drinking the left overs. A huge boost to my protein intake, although I had no clue then what protein was.