Richard Killip

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[Richard Killip @richardkillip]

When did it become national policy to deny any of the oxygen of infrastructure to #Bradford and allow it to die a slow, painful unconnected death? Certainly before my birth. Death by a thousand snubs — and from governments of all political stripes.

[Richard Killip @richardkillip]

@AsdaServiceTeam You don't need my personal data to progress this. I tweeted at the time I passed the vehicle so you surely know its location and who was driving it from that.

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Never mind if someone wants to get through with a pram or a wheelchair hey @asda

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I'm now on @bluesky as https://t.co/hEzADOOwpJ

See you there!

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Still got it

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@McnuggetsCalvin @fesshole Given a "background in law" I'm somewhat concerned that you're only "fairly sure" that's fraud.

[Richard Killip @richardkillip]

Well at least you're not being dramatic.

[Katie Philips-Hunt @KatieCPhilips]

My husband has a small business that’s not going to survive this budget. We have 2 small children who aren’t in schools yet but the changes are going to impact us within 2 years. My husband is Canadian & wants us to move to Canada where he thinks we’ll still have a chance at some prosperity. I’m so angry this government has done this to me, brought in such destructive policies that have destroyed my life in this way. I don’t want to leave my country, my home, my family but it looks like I’m left with no choice. Thanks Labour, thanks Starmer. My heart will always be in Britain 🇬🇧.

[Richard Killip @richardkillip]

@sicunninghamBD I'd repost this but (1) paywall and (2) Daily Telegraph

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When you see it

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@RetiredBroker @fesshole I hope your remuneration was appropriately pegged to the uplift.

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@WestEndAggro @fesshole Cambridge University Musical Society had an interesting banner.

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@anon_opin That's not an opinion. It's a memory.

[Richard Killip @richardkillip]

@WorldByWolf @Ofcom For saying "batshit", after the watershed, about the evidentially unsupported allegation that Trump made about eating cats and dogs, and immediately censuring her for it? Yeah, clearly they were bang out of line 🙄

#istandwithemily

@maitlis @krishgm @Channel4News @Channel4

[Richard Killip @richardkillip]

“The employment decisions about the person concerned are a matter for his employer.”

You don't think that your veiled threat to remove @SYSTRA_UKIRL from @networkrail contracts might have influenced their decision about @GarethDennis's employment in any way, @LordPeterHendy?

[London Live @LondonLive]

The rail minister has apologised for suggesting Network Rail may withhold contracts from a company employing an engineer who described Euston station as “unsafe”.

Lord Hendy said the tone of his letter to consultancy Systra UK “fell well short of what should be expected”.

In his previous role as Network Rail chairman, he wrote to the company’s chief executive Nick Salt in May in relation to a media interview by railway engineer Gareth Dennis.

He asked Mr Salt “what action are you taking?” in relation to Mr Dennis, who claimed Euston is sometimes “unsafe” because of overcrowding.

The penultimate sentence of his letter stated: “Finding a potential supplier criticising a possible client reflects adversely on your likelihood of doing business with us or our supply chain.”

Mr Dennis was subsequently sacked by Systra UK.

In his first public comments on the issue since it emerged in August, Lord Hendy told the Railway Industry Association’s annual conference in central London: “There was a sentence at the end (of the letter) where the tone of it fell well short of what should be expected, and for that I apologise.

“And what I would say is that no contractor has or will be penalised for employees raising concerns about safety, whether they raise them through NR (Network Rail), ORR (Office of Rail and Road) or DfT (Department for Transport) for that matter, or confidentially through Ciras (a confidential safety hotline for transport) if that’s what they want to do.

“The employment decisions about the person concerned are a matter for his employer.”

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[Richard Killip @richardkillip]

America. You had one job.

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Good morning America.

You know what to do.

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Didn't know Jeremy Clarkson presented Tractor Ted.

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@Caerlynydd @kimmichelleBro4 @darrengrimes 'Mass' 🤣

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Morecambe! #bcafc

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@LeeAndersonMP_ The people's what?