Benjamin Butterworth

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Benjamin Butterworth

@benjaminbutter

Journalist and broadcaster. Senior Reporter for @theipaper. Also written for @WashingtonPost and @guardian. Indefatigable 🙌

[email protected] Katılım Mart 2009
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Tuvalu@poiuplop·
@benjaminbutter @MattSaysFingz But, they paid in 30 years ago, and worked the required number of contribution years, with the promise that they’d be eligible for a pension when they retired.
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Benjamin Butterworth@benjaminbutter·
@MattSaysFingz Exactly my point - pensioners did not pay in and now collecting their money. It is current workers funding them and being crippled
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Matt P@MattSaysFingz·
@benjaminbutter No it doesn't. Tax isn't collected in a bank account then paid out on things.
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Benjamin Butterworth@benjaminbutter·
@Edwina_Currie He made his money leasing helicopters and flogging fine wines Like every lad you meet at Spoons, right
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Benjamin Butterworth@benjaminbutter·
@afneil Well, it’s the most popular show in Britain, unlike Al of the commercial radio
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Andrew Neil
Andrew Neil@afneil·
What is the rationale for a public service broadcaster like the BBC paying a DJ (Scott Mills) £750,000 a year to present the breakfast show on Radio 2 playing soft rock music which commercial radio already provides in abundance?
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Benjamin Butterworth@benjaminbutter·
@noahvickers14 That’s fine - any MP who doesn’t think one of the worlds busiest airports in one of the worlds most global cities doesn’t need a *third* runway can cycle to their Mykonos holiday. See how they get on without airports then.
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Noah Vickers
Noah Vickers@noahvickers14·
✈️ London Labour MPs are privately hopeful that Andy Burnham will cancel Heathrow expansion One tells me: "Manchester Airport loses out, currently Birmingham Airport loses out even more... I wouldn’t put any money on runway three getting any further." politicshome.com/news/article/l…
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Benjamin Butterworth@benjaminbutter·
Any MP that hopes one of the world’s busiest airports in one of the world’s richest and most global cities should not have a *third* runway is a cast iron idiot and should be nowhere near the levers of power
Noah Vickers@noahvickers14

✈️ London Labour MPs are privately hopeful that Andy Burnham will cancel Heathrow expansion One tells me: "Manchester Airport loses out, currently Birmingham Airport loses out even more... I wouldn’t put any money on runway three getting any further." politicshome.com/news/article/l…

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Benjamin Butterworth
Benjamin Butterworth@benjaminbutter·
Ordinarily I do not care jot about football, but I totally love the World Cup. I can think of nothing else that gives such shared team spirit, sense of unity, sheer humanity in joy and stress, like it. Every bar and pub and back garden and front room filled with people cheering. The World Cup is absolutely beautiful.
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Iain Dale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 ⚒️
Tomorrow is a big day... 1. It's my 64th birthday 2. HAVE I SAID TOO MUCH is published 3. I'll be talking about it on LBC at 8.20pm 4. At 10am I'm a guest on Zack Polanski's 'Bold' Podcast 5. 12.30-3pm it's my booklaunch 6. 4.15pm Guest on Radio 4's Media Show 7. 7pm LBC show
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Adam Leigh
Adam Leigh@adamleigh25·
@benjaminbutter And Madonna is doing the half time show at the final - something for everyone! 😂🕺🏼🪩 💅🏻
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(((Dan Hodges)))
(((Dan Hodges)))@DPJHodges·
"All the ‘journalists’ and MPs who attack him for accepting a gift to fund his security should hang their heads in shame". There we go. The most blatant example yet of Reform's attempts to use the death of Ann Widdecombe to try and deflect from legitimate scrutiny of Farage.
Zia Yusuf@ZiaYusufUK

As we learn Ann’s murder WAS politically motivated, The Times has revealed the scale of the threat to Nigel’s life. Nigel has received 1,577 threats since February this year. Including 597 death threats. The most persistent individual targeting Farage sent 6 directed threats to him on Facebook between June 24 and July 6, including a message telling him to “get the f*** out of Wales before I just kill Nigel Farage … you can die at any f***ing moment.” Another individual posted on X last month saying: “Execute the striking Traitor Nigel Farage. TODAY,” followed by two further escalating posts within eight hours. A third individual wrote on X: “Can someone shoot Nigel Farage? Make him a self-fulfilling prophecy?” All the ‘journalists’ and MPs who attack him for accepting a gift to fund his security should hang their heads in shame. The government still provides him with no security. They did for a short while after the general election. Then - astonishingly - they cut it by 75% within weeks of the assassination of Charlie Kirk and sent David Lammy out to say Nigel “flirted with the Hitler Youth”. Reform stepped in to provide him with a detail of the original size, appropriate to the enormous threat. The establishment doesn’t want Nigel to have the required security for a reason. They incite violence against him for a reason. It’s exactly what it looks like.

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Craig James
Craig James@CraigSJames·
@GuidoFawkes Based on that income if Mills wins a tribunal it’s going to cost the BBC dearly.
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Pippa Crerar@PippaCrerar·
EXCL: Keir Starmer has become first UK PM to be presented with Légion d’honneur by French president, in recognition of his work on security of Europe. Emmanuel Macron awarded the historic honour to Starmer for his l'ship in setting up coalition of the willing at a critical moment for the continent in early 2025. Only other British PM to receive a similar award – at a higher level, the Grand-Croix of the Légion d’honneur – was Winston Churchill in 1958 in recognition of his leadership during the second world war. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…
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GB News@GBNEWS·
‘I have never heard so much tosh.’ Benjamin Butterworth, Nile Gardiner, Laurie Watkins and David Moore clash over Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson’s VAT on private school fees.
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Benjamin Butterworth@benjaminbutter·
Today is one year since my dad’s sudden death. He would have celebrated his 63rd birthday tomorrow.
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