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Good evening. Apologies for my absence lately - 'er indoors hasn't been so good and instead of going back to doing 5 hours a day part-time working from home, she now thinks it's best to go for retirement due to ill-health. Sad but rather inevitable. Anyway, why did they simply not require people to ...

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Good afternoon. It's worth - no, really it is - having a look at Spiked right now. Having gone down the route of edgy populist contrarian stuff and attracted a lot of right wing cranks, they've taken a potshot at Andrew Bridgen...and oh dear, they're getting the push-back from the people they courte...

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For today's breathtaking hypocrisy, this takes some beating...look at when she was allowed to stay in the UK...

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Bye bye Andrew Bridgen...apparently this was on April 12th.

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Good morning.

Oh look...simple c&p error or deliberate?

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I note that Tucker Carlson seems to have fallen on a sword that Fox positioned right in front of him...I'm assuming this is to do with that rather whopping payout last week.

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Good afternoon.

What on earth is this? Bizarre.

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And while I'm here...well, we got promoted to League 1 tonight.

Utterly bizarre - we were 2-0 at Gillingham and there was a power cut. So the players were taken off, and just after they came back on, it was clear from a match being played elsewhere that we were certain to be promoted.

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And while we're on media orgs, some from the UK...

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Good evening. Shocked I was really... She also denies that the word ‘wog’ is racist. She said: “I won’t use that word because I’ve been told not to. But I don’t find that offensive. ” Well, you wouldn't, would you? Jeez, you'd have to be really dim not to know this. https://twitter.com/Otto_English/...

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Good afternoon.

According to the these days very-crankish Matt Goodwin, apparently there is a 'New Elite'. I notice that Goodwin, railing against universities was careful not to disclose where he works these days...

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Good afternoon. I see that the SNP's auditors have now decided to quit - the Party imploding nicely...I also note there are calls from the person that lost that they should, therefore, have the leadership election re-run. Not sure I follow the logic but all adds to the feeling that they are in a bit...

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Good afternoon.

Oops. No wonder they supressed the report...

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In amongst all of the "Oh, wasn't he just brilliant" there have been a few "Er...hang on..." Lawson was incredibly lucky (like Howe) in having the income from North Sea oil coming in, and incredibly risky - Big Bang and the late 80s boom. https://twitter.com/philipstephens/status...

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Good afternoon.

Out all day yesterday at an event where I gave a talk which seemed to be well-received.

A former Home Office official writes...Braverman is just a front for the EFG isn't she?

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Good morning.

More on that Policy Exchange report.

Quite why a Labour MP is putting their name to this given PE's rightward drift* over the past couple of years is quite beyond me.

* they were quite socially liberal at one time.

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Good evening.

"Oh, hang on. I didn't mean them..."

Wonder whether it's examples that this that will sink the Bill?

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"Well, I didn't mean Simon Case...I was talking about the other ones...whose names I forget now"

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Good morning.

Oh dear...

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Oh look.

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Good evening.

I note that ex-BBC man John Ware is giving Gary Linekar lectures in how he should keep his mouth shut as he is passionate about BBC impartiality.

In other news, John Ware was part of a consortium that bought the JC led by one Robbie Gibb.

Anyone know what Gibb is up to these days?

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One of interest probably only to me but... Ofsted wants experienced school leader to take over from Spielman https://schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-wants-experienced-school-leader-to-take-over-from-spielman/ An advisory assessment panel will carry out interviews and recommend candidates to the education s...

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Good evening.

And no, he didn't get a satisfactory answer. If they are a news channel, doesn't that make every programme a "news programme"?

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This letter relating to the decision to axe the BBC Singers is worth reading...I'd say they need a complete clear-out of BBC management - some of this is just amazing. https://slippedisc.com/2023/03/leaked-letter-a-toxic-culture-of-fear-and-paranoia-at-the-bbc-from-the-d-g-down/ We have recently dis...

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Interesting - no, really it is... - article from Nick Timothy (read using the ladder). https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2F2023%2F03%2F12%2Fbbc-faces-collapse-needs-royal-commission-reshape%2F Some counterpoints are valid but still do not exonerate Lineker. The rules a...

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Good morning.

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"The thing about Arsenal is that they'll always try and walk it in"

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Interesting - how many other people who present for BBC write or opine elsewhere?

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Dearie me...as has been pointed out a fair number of times the very first line of "f First They Came by Pastor Martin Niemöller is...

First they came for the Communists

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Good morning.

Interesting comments given Wheatcroft's background...

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And no commentary either...

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RogerOThornhill wrote: ↑Fri 10 Mar, 2023 6:45 pm MOTD might be fun to watch tomorrow just to see who decides to turn up.

Having made Linekar 'step back' Ian Wright and Alan Shearer have said they won't do it.

Edit - neither will Alex Scott. Or Mark Chapman.

Add Jermaine Jenas who wasn't down to present but would say no now.

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BBC management playing a blinder this week...plus axing the BBC Singers.

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MOTD might be fun to watch tomorrow just to see who decides to turn up.

Having made Linekar 'step back' Ian Wright and Alan Shearer have said they won't do it.

Edit - neither will Alex Scott. Or Mark Chapman.

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He shoots! He Scores!

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Sigh Sex education review is ‘politically motivated’, say teaching unions https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/mar/08/sex-education-review-is-politically-motivated-say-teaching-unions James Bowen, director of policy for the National Association of Head Teachers, said: “It is hard to be anythin...

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Oops.

It's the Tory way - blame the servants.

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What's the betting nothing will happen about this?

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From me yesterday:

Why anyone would want to work in the Home office at the moment is beyond me.

Today.

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Why anyone would want to work in the Home office at the moment is beyond me.

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Graham Brady stepping down at the next election.

Also, I see that 30p Lee is joining GB news as well - securing a job when the inevitable happens?

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After what I said the other day about her, I present this gem.

She is a menace.

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Birbalsingh's attitude is and always has been "My school is fantastic. Everyone else's is terrible. Some might be good but I'm not intellectually curious to know what they are doing...because I can't learn anything" She is a terrible advert for state education...not because of her own scho...

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Good evening.

Some of this is pretty hilarious. Wait. No all of it is. They're so incredibly dim.

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'Eat out to help the virus get about'?

Oh dear...

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Good evening.

If this is true, then it is pretty funny...

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As people who follow the football well know, there are matches where you want both sides to lose...

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Ha!

Oakeshott appears - and I know this is old news - to be a remarkably horrible person.

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Well quite. Both need chasing into the sea with this "poor me" nonsense.

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Good morning. 'Er indoors has her first radiotherapy session this afternoon, so we'll keep fingers crossed that this (and subsequent ones) do the trick. Interesting that the Telegraph has splashed with this. Cui bono as the Romans said... https://twitter.com/hackinginquiry/status/1630855044382769152

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