Matt Quinton

@ClemCowton @whippletom @RossMcCaff Really?!

@RossMcCaff I used to work for Shipman’s local MP and he had a stack of letters written from prison complaining about this very topic.

GP system is a mess, says Shipman

"In the 2016 election... Jeffrey told me that if he said what he knew about the candidates they'd have to cancel the election." Mark Epstein tells Newsnight that his brother, paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, "had dirt on people".  #Newsnight

“When I first walked into the Oval Office he said ‘God, you’re a good-looking fellow aren’t you’…” Lord Mandelson, the UK’s Ambassador to the US, discusses his relationship with Donald Trump, adding that the President is a “people person, he takes people as they are at face value.” #Newsnight

“We were very surprised..." Microsoft billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates reacts to the UK’s decision to cut its international aid budget from 0.5% to 0.3%. #Newsnight

Linkin Park a good choice for #UCL final at the Allianz, iconic band (obviously missing the late great Chester Bennington). But always concern about pre-match acts getting in the way of fans building atmosphere. Can’t go on earlier as teams warming up. Will it be numb or encore?

Meanwhile at Dortmund in the Piszczek and Błaszczykowski farewell match! 😆

THEY DID IT. THE FIRST EVER COMPETITIVE WIN, NO ONE CAN TAKE THAT AWAY FOR SAN MARINO. TODAY SAN MARINO WROTE FOOTBALL HISTORY. THANK YOU SENSOLI, THANK YOU SAN MARINO. FORZA TITANI.

What don’t you understand? He was correctly booked. It’s simple. He let himself and his team down. 🤷‍♂️

@DBanksy At least with the nib you know more than your reader and are boiling it all down. With the meme you are looking at the same source material as the reader and trying to find endless ways of describing what anyone can see for themselves by looking at the meme.

But I am relieved not to be a hack today, where the equivalent must be delivering copy on the latest meme. Writing something sensible about something your target market already knows about, given that it’s a meme, must be soul-destroying. At least the nibs actually mattered.

Back when I started as a reporter - a long, long time ago - the bane of our lives were the nibs. News in brief, little one-paragraph stories that would run as a column down the side of a page. Editors wanted them, but glory-hunters like me who wanted splashes spurned them…

@MEslamdoust Hi Maryam, Matt Quinton here from BBC Newsnight - could you follow me back so I can DM you please? Thanks very much, Matt Q

thinking about u Chris

I've just come across a suggestion that ghosts declined in the 20th century because improved detection techniques and scientific breakthroughs meant more murders were solved and perpetrators punished, reducing the need for the dead to return and seek justice

@MayWongCNA Hi May, hope you are well. I'm a BBC journalist hoping we could interview you as part of our programme today - could you follow me back so I can DM you please? Thanks again, Matt Q

@RJMGibbons @WalkerMarcus Really interesting

Can anyone explain why the cost of academia has gone up so much over the last few decades?

25 years ago, I composed the @BBCNews Theme Tune, which is broadcast around the world everyday. From the precise beeps of time to the powerful bass and dramatic drums for the headlines. This how I did it… #BBC #BBCNewsThemeTune #MusicProduction #Composer #SoundDesign #25Years

@hkatewilliams Have messaged you but in short, same thing happened to my partner and The Property Ombudsman are your best port of call. I wrote this article about it: thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/art…

Sending my best wishes and congratulations to Witham's most famous resident @ollymurs and his wife on the joyous birth of their baby daughter. I am sure she won't be a 'troublemaker' like her dad!

@yphilippin M Philippin, I hope you are well. I'm a journalist based in the UK, hoping to speak to you about a story you previously worked on. Could you follow me back so I can DM you? Thanks again, Matt Q

@JARING_ Hi - I'm a journalist in the UK. Can you follow me back so I can DM you please? Thank you, Matt q

So just how much should @joelycett have paid @jonsopel to 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 get in the bath? 🛁 🧼 🫧 @maitlis | @lewis_goodall Listen on @GlobalPlayer👇 global-player.onelink.me/Br0x/TNANewEpi…