Harold Raitt

Sharing ideas about building communities and improving communication💡🎥💬. Education tweets @mr_raitt 🎓. Music, drama and poetry @halraitt 🎥🎭🎵📚💬.

[Harold Raitt @haroldraitt]

@BBCRadio4 @Sarah_Montague @Evandavis @mariannaspring @BBCr4today @Marthakearney @BBCWorldatOne @BBCPM @bbcpaddy > I don’t think early mornings are justifiable reason for £30k+ salary boost: there are *two* £300k+ presenters covering sub-par show (and sidegigs). IMHO, all @BBCr4today team should take cut until they match standard of solo peers (who might consider further equal pay claims?)

[Harold Raitt @haroldraitt]

Disappointed @JustinOnWeb’s interview with EJ Antoni (who was OK) on #Americast (https://t.co/96Z4wJCSOI)
• no challenge to misleading 270% Canadian dairy claim (https://t.co/kw8ofoe7kf)
• how can you have Heritage Foundation on now and not even mention (afaich) Project 2025?

[Harold Raitt @haroldraitt]

@BBCRadio4 @Sarah_Montague @Evandavis @mariannaspring @BBCr4today @Marthakearney @BBCWorldatOne @BBCPM @bbcpaddy > to be frank, if you can’t be bothered to sweat details, be rigorous & always prep properly, use some of this salary to hire one of many harder working, more diligent journos out there who will do that for you. I expect sloppy podcasting from amateurs, but this is a big salary!

[Harold Raitt @haroldraitt]

Thanks @BBCsarahsmith for noting UK requiring accountants to be chartered by a UK body is counted in Trump’s tariff rationale as a trade distortion. After 15 minutes on Google, I can’t find this breakdown (or any mention of it) anywhere #infodeficit: help! https://t.co/EfYXlRNked

[Harold Raitt @haroldraitt]

@LNER Whether it’s your company policy to state on your website that “service is good” (and post links here to that page, saying that’s where we should check for further info) when it clearly isn’t … delays happen in 2025; (deliberately?) poor info shouldn’t. @RailOmbudsman

[Harold Raitt @haroldraitt]

@LNER: if @nationalrailenq can provide at least partial data on trains running at least 1 hour late north of Grantham, why do you claim your service is “normal” on the links you provide on your tweet?

[Harold Raitt @haroldraitt]

@LNER Yep. Providing proper service updates, as
per my OP!

[Harold Raitt @haroldraitt]

@John2Win @BBCPolitics There’s 44 mins of interesting debate here. I hope you also post your useful comments on GP recruitment at 28:50 later. @John2Win & @JakeBenRichards are both quite new to media spotlight: I encourage all constituents in BRS & Rother Valley to watch in full https://t.co/fISzLBp9kb

[Harold Raitt @haroldraitt]

@John2Win I’d also recommend hearing fuller version of Starmer’s reply on R4 WATO. Given its decision to quote Musk’s allegations re Starmer’s record at CPS, @BBCPolitics needs to review whether it should at least have quoted his direct rebuttal to that, as well as his defence of Philips.

[Harold Raitt @haroldraitt]

Shout out @BBCWorldatOne, Sarah Montague & @ChrisMasonBBC for good coverage of @Keir_Starmer’s response to Jess Phillips attacks. Inc unedited full response by Sir Keir, coverage of @Conservatives reply, and context re Jay Enquiry. Listen at top of show: https://t.co/WU8JgV5Wob

[Harold Raitt @haroldraitt]

Shout out @BBCWorldatOne, Sarah Montague & @ChrisMasonBBC for good coverage of @Keir_Starmer’s response to Jess Phillips attacks. Inc unedited full response by Sir Keir, coverage of @Conservatives reply, and context re Jay Enquiry. Listen at top of show: https://t.co/WU8JgV5Wob

[Bilal Mahmood @bilal_labour]

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[Harold Raitt @haroldraitt]

@SueScarrott No: see paragraph 2.10 in the attached photo. The additional “PR” mark does not invalidate vote. But some returning officers do list reasons ballots were either spoiled or had to be adjudicated to be included, so it’s not unnoticed. #winwin afaic 🙂

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

Okay - I know we’re not supposed to be betting in this election - but I would - in another universe - be prepared to lay a lot that both leaders will use the words “clear” or “clearly” more than forty times in the next 90 minutes @RestIsPolitics

[Harold Raitt @haroldraitt]

@CraigWHoy1 @ScotTories @DavidMundellDCT Genuine question: does @DavidMundellDCT attend his own hustings in DCTweedsdale, or do you do that for him as you did for @John2Win on Tues in Kelso? I ask, because you tweet proudly re doorsteps, but didn’t tweet re covering John’s dodgy absence on Tues! https://t.co/21jGEUX6Bs

[Harold Raitt @haroldraitt]

@John2Win Can you explain why you attended this to “learn more” instead of joining the candidates from other parties who spoke to voters at the @ScotBordersCC hustings in Kelso? @CraigWHoy1 attended for you, but we’re not voting for him. Why couldn’t he attend 💨farm meet & fill you in?

[Harold Raitt @haroldraitt]

@SueScarrott @John2Win @ScotTories @SueJWebber @leaghdouglas @jenny_linehan @CaitlinStottBRS @ScottishLabour @DavidWilsonSNP Margin of error on @YouGov MRP poll shows @John2Win likely to beat @DavidWilsonSNP, but either outcome is possible:
• want John to lose? vote David
• want SNP to lose? vote John
Or spoil ballot. I always fill mine in “1, 2, 3” & write “PR” on it, which counts @ElectoralCommUK!

[Harold Raitt @haroldraitt]

@SueScarrott @John2Win @ScotTories @SueJWebber @leaghdouglas @jenny_linehan @CaitlinStottBRS @ScottishLabour @DavidWilsonSNP Margin of error on @YouGov MRP poll shows @John2Win likely to beat @DavidWilsonSNP, but either outcome is possible:
• want John to lose? vote David
• want SNP to lose? vote John
Or spoil ballot. I always fill mine in “1, 2, 3” & write “PR” on it, which counts @ElectoralCommUK!

[Harold Raitt @haroldraitt]

@SueScarrott @John2Win @ScotTories @SueJWebber @leaghdouglas @jenny_linehan In all fairness, that’s a bad poll. There’s no way @CaitlinStottBRS @ScottishLabour will beat @John2Win in BRS. They also fail to detail methodology. YouGov MRP poll (https://t.co/mRdTk58RWO) is best 2024 constituency-based poll & has John clearly head-to-head v @DavidWilsonSNP

[Harold Raitt @haroldraitt]

@SueScarrott @John2Win @ScotTories @SueJWebber @leaghdouglas @jenny_linehan In all fairness, that’s a bad poll. There’s no way @CaitlinStottBRS @ScottishLabour will beat @John2Win in BRS. They also fail to detail methodology. YouGov MRP poll (https://t.co/mRdTk58RWO) is best 2024 constituency-based poll & has John clearly head-to-head v @DavidWilsonSNP