Patrick Smith

Digital editor for @business in London. On Twitter since 2007. It's been fun. Find me on BlueSky:

[Patrick Smith @psmith]

Breaking my long and intentional twitter ban to say Up the Owls today #swfc

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@Champchatpod24 He's magic u know

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Totally real Twitter account/name of the day

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I'll even come back to Twitter to say good luck to Jim

[Jim Waterson @jimwaterson]

Some news: I've quit my job at the Guardian to launch London Centric, a modern news outlet for the capital doing journalism in the old-fashioned way.

I saw the response on here to the Evening Standard's print closure and it felt like time to step up: https://t.co/yL5Ad84XYH

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Getting real "Todd Bonzalez" vibes from the p0rnbots clogging up my Twitter mentions

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I come back to twitter occasionally to see who is still here

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@cr3 it's a sign!

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Surprised there haven't been many

"Just turned up for my first day as Crowdstrike's PR, can't wait to see what the day holds."

jokes

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@netmnp Hoping for a good deal more sense in our dealings with neighbours now

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This is happening now, but feels like it could be from any point from 2020 to present day

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@david_osborn @jimwaterson let's be real, the only way Davey is going into No 10 is on a pogo stick

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Was a good first speech from Starmer but I don't think "infrastructure of opportunity" is going to echo through the ages.

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@david_osborn @jimwaterson The log flume of opportunity

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@david_osborn @jimwaterson much better

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@GeorgeOsborn this won't happen overnight - we must nurse the mewling kitten of opportunity

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@jimwaterson always

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Was also a very generous and public-spirited speech from Sunak

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Sunak jeered and booed by crowds as he is driven away from Downing Street having resigned as prime minister.

They were not shouting "Boo-urns."

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@ChrisSm56435413 Gbeebies!

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Looking forward to reading in British newspapers about how the election result is good for the Tories, actually