Ady M-B

@whingewine 🥶🔥

@rootsmanuva @ninjatune @TCO_Official Ah. I thought they were in the good guys list. Sad to hear otherwise.

Shall I talk about my last royalty statement where 40k was made by @ninjatune for a single that I did with @TCO_Official 20yrs ago. You know it. All things to All Men. Guess how much they paid me? And guess why.

To celebrate the start of December, please join me in celebrating the greatest Christmas tweet ever written.

Whilst Matt Hancock is on the COVID enquiry it is worth remembering this one point. The £37b allocated to Test & Trace was a political decision. Imagine if they had given all 8,145 GP surgeries in the UK £1million each they would still have £28.9b left. Think about the waste

@Moor3_D @DavidHeadViews @JohnRentoul & no amount of pesky kids would stop him getting away with it.

This is gracious by George Osborne on Alistair Darling

When I started at Newsnight, the interview was like a PhD viva, if your PhD was about every random aspect of business and economics. They asked me to bring 10x original story ideas and ruthlessly ripped every one of them to shreds - and then said: give us another one. I had a permanent job as an editorial manager at Reed Elsevier and they offered me a 3 month contract on less money. I took it because I knew I was joining the most accomplished team of broadcast journalists in Britain, and possibly the world. I am talking levels of excellence associated with the Berlin Phil in music, or certain Oxbridge/Imperial teams in science. But the war on Newsnight's kind of journalism was already under way. And so was the technological change that ultimately allowed the disaggregation of what we were geared up to do. The big divide at the BBC was between "programmes" tailored to a specific audience, making their own editorial calls and competing on stories, versus "newsgathering", which had been designed as a sausage machine of information into the programmes. Once they decided to empower Newsgathering and disempower Programmes, which was logical in a resource strained environment, the happy upside for the top management was that they could control the news agenda, and there were fewer alternative power centres to push back. This was never a left/right split: it was a "rocking the boat versus not rocking it" split. It wasn't just NN that suffered - so did Today, so did the Ten. But NN survived because we had strong editors - and then came the Savile fiasco... there was a time, after the subsequent McAlpine disaster, when the bosses wanted to get rid of Newsnight - it survived, but only at the cost of further erosion of its autonomy and money. I left because I could feel the management tentacles gripping tighter, whatever the team did to go on knocking it out of the park. Only when I joined C4 did I finally get to see what an adequately resourced news operation should look like, and what happens when there is no invisible presence above the editor trying to shape the output, and where they don't complain about having too many reporters. But NN's demise is partly also to do with audience and technology. Once you don't have an appointment to view, there's no call for the 10-15minute reportage film; and as the rest of broadcasting has become a screaming match between extreme views, actual reason- and fact-based discussions look tame, and it suits politicians to avoid them - see their effective boycott of C4N. Also, people in the AB social bracket kept telling us: it's on too late. Professionals go to bed earlier, and the news cycle wraps earlier, so the value of a 22:30 programme diminished. Ditto because Gen Z are simply not interested in TV News. Apart from the demise of a single still excellent but struggling programme, the BBC is basically getting out of long form daily current affairs. There will be no market equivalent of NN because the market won't produce a programme like this - which was copied and emulated by every other major broadcaster. I suppose the challenge now for BBC/ITN/Sky is to resist the final erosion of OFCOM standards to the point where broadcast news becomes a far right dominated blood sport. I cannot see how moving to a late night discussion programme is going to help, especially as the open secret about far right TV is that they are paying people to turn up and be performatively outraged. At the very least they should institute a "no grifters" rule.

@djmarkfarina @SheafStreet @Dukestudioleeds

@sportmarketing1 You're a government minister. Be competent or fuck off. I can't see how that is overly harsh.

Hancock has not submitted a phone call he made to the #CovidInquiry when asked where is the record he says he hasn't got one he is now in serious trouble #CovidInquiry uses hindsight again as defence 85th time

@jessphillips Isn't that the alleged rapist?

Screams in to the void!

@heidisaint Easing yourself in!

haven’t been to a club all year due to cancer so glad I’m easing myself in gently with PANORAMA BAR/BERGHAIN tomorrow night 👍🏼😬

@Ginger_Tucci You've been spiked!

@Ginger_Tucci Oh my god! I'd be fucking raging!

Don’t mean to be dramatic, but this was possibly the worst day of my life. I quickly grabbed this on my way to an event thinking ‘mmm, salt beef & emmental’ wasn’t I in for a nasty surprise? I now have serious beef with Waitrose, which is ironic as my sandwich certainly lacked it

@SecretDJBook Fimo? New hobby?

@SecretDJBook Always feel so privileged on the 40 down Selby road.

Today on Perfectly Normal Island...

@RiseorFall1 @carolvorders @ACunninghamMP When did you last see honesty or transparency from a tory minister? I think the point is, whether you agreed with their politics and policies, they previously didn't just stand up in HoC and blatantly lie beyond any doubt.

@carolvorders @ACunninghamMP Do you think that asking everyone to resign for every act you disagree with helps with honesty and transparency from our politicians?

UPDATE James Cleverly called Stockton "a sh*thole" during PMQs last wk. Then, lied about doing so, ridiculously claiming that he'd said "a sh*t MP" instead. He should have resigned but hasn't. Now @ACunninghamMP has gone back to the Commons to challenge Cleverly. Go Alex 👏🏼👏🏼

@tom_wainwright Mr Scruff in the frame?

New player on Didsbury’s edgy graffiti scene

@SecretDJBook Clearly you've not had enough near death experiences in the last 12 months!

can someone lend me ten grand? ebay.co.uk/itm/2855461260…

@VeeBrien @GeorgeAylett Also my MP and I totally agree that there is a ticking clock for him.

@GeorgeAylett Bang on George. Exactly my view. There’s so many ex LP members like myself who would be happy to canvass as we did in 2017/19. My MP is Richard Burgon and I’m sure Starmer will do everything in his power to deselect him.

A hypothetical future for the pro-electoralism non-Labour left: Jeremy Corbyn sets up a new left party (Soon to be deselected) MPs such as Diane Abbott, Andy McDonald, and Sam Tarry join alongside the independent councillors who have left Labour, giving party a power base 1/2

@sydyid2 @DaleVince It was happening way before Blair.

@DaleVince I’m a plasterer and I’m not!!! I’m living the dream

The Tories have a new record to add to the list (and they are all bad). For the first time ever, British households will be worse off at the end of this term of government than they were at the start. By nearly £2k per year each. Let that sink in. This is the cost of their ‘game of thrones’ approach to running our country.

@CasualChaps 🔔🔚s

England in Skopje this afternoon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧