Simon Thorogood

Data Scientist. Formerly Software Engineer/Architect @Skyscanner

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

NO WHERE in this comment do I talk about taxes. And the policy that I discussed (i will keep private as it was private) was NOT about taxes, or tax rises, it was about something that would be a positive change.

[Poppy Wood @poppyeh]

Want to know why Michelle Donelan was forced to make an extraordinary apology to two academics earlier today?

It's a bizarre tale involving Policy Exchange, a secret government dossier and a libel case paid for by the taxpayer

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[Nick Lowles @lowles_nick]

"Children eat rotten food, adults hunt cats. Famine is coming for Gaza". The horrific reality facing 40% of people in Gaza who are now literally starving to death. Enough is enough. Refusal to end this unfolding disaster is now complicity https://t.co/q2amq0mF8d

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

Fast moving claims and counter claims, and @elonmusk has removed all the core features that made it even remotely possible to tell real journalists from fakes.

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

THREAD: This is harrowing. Saudi Arabia wanted the names of 6000 anonymous Arab Spring dissidents from Twitter. At first, MBS tried to get their names using EDRs - requests under emergency circumstances. When that proved cumbersome, KSA basically bought Twitter. 1/

[John Higgs @johnhiggs]

OUT TODAY! The new hardback 10th anniversary edition of THE KLF, complete with new author's commentary - and @wnbooks have a couple of copies to giveaway, just RT to enter. #KLF

[Simon Jack @BBCSimonJack]

Nigel Farage fell below the financial threshold required to hold an account at Coutts, the prestigious private bank for wealthy customers the BBC has been told.

It also understood that he was offered a normal account at Natwest which owns Coutts.

People familiar....

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

🚨🚨🚨 Exclusive report: the scheme that ripped off £50m in tax incentives, the people responsible, and the eminent tax KC who said it was just fine. 🚨🚨🚨

https://t.co/RX4zVpfpSh

[Simon Thorogood @simonthorogood]

@EdinburghTrams @dhalllawrence Is this the long-term plan? It seems rather clunky compared to 'tap and go' on the bus.

[Simon Thorogood @simonthorogood]

@EdinburghTrams some teething issues at Newhaven? Tried 2 different payment cards

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

I’m now out of the police station. Still waiting for my colleagues.

Make no mistake. There is no longer a right to peaceful protest in the UK.

I have been told many times the monarch is there to defend our freedoms. Now our freedoms are under attack in his name.

[Patrick Thelwell @PatrickEggsKing]

Today I was arrested at the #Coronation on suspicion of carrying eggs. I was identified by facial recognition cameras, and snatched from the protest in handcuffs so tight they cut my skin. For the second time I was dragged through a crowd of monarchists baying for my blood....1

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

“Bullying inquiry sets a precedent for bullies to be held to account,” complains bully.

The man can’t even resign in disgrace properly.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

🚨BREAKING: An arbitration panel has ordered Mike Lindell to pay $5 million to a cybersecurity expert who debunked his election data and won his “Prove Mike Wrong” election-fraud challenge.

Mike is NOT happy about that.

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

Back of my Polling Card for local elections. For 1st time, photo ID is required. Card gives many options for elderly or those with disability. None, NONE, for younger or student voters. The policy is simply biased against younger voters, designed to suppress their vote.

[Jake Humphrey @mrjakehumphrey]

Perhaps because we’ve all been advised to avoid 83 beaches right across the UK dues the raw sewage dumped into the sea?
@sascampaigns

[Robert Peston @Peston]

Many have remarked on the seeming contradiction between Lord Sugar’s continuing role as Apprentice host and Lineker’s suspension, despite Sugar’s public attacks on Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour between 2017-19. For what it’s worth, the BBC regards Lineker as somehow “representing” it…

[🅰🅽🅳🆈 @SpinarelloDogma]

Worth bearing in mind, this is what the BBC said to me in 2020 when Andrew Neil was being a shouty, right-wing pile on orchestrator on Twitter.

Compare and contrast.

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

Never ceases to amaze me that, long before current brouhaha, Andrew Neil @afneil was somehow able to present political programmes on the BBC while chairing the frequently far right-adjacent Spectator magazine. Lucky for him that he didn’t front the footie…