Simon Wright
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Simon Wright
@Simon01476
Night owl. Taxi driver. Radio geek. Occasional DJ. Wannabe politician. Antitheist. Butch gay (stop laughing). Cat lover.
United Kingdom Katılım Mart 2009
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Prince Harry's stalker attended his High Court trial sitting meters behind him
gbnews.com/royal/prince-h…
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@DaveGorman Ahhhh.... is this the punchline to the.... you know?
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I set today’s Guardian cryptic:
theguardian.com/crosswords/cry…
Clues include:
Yogi Bear ultimately stops Boo-Boo becoming zoo attraction? (7)
Evasive action leads to swearing if Dawn French is recording (8)
Puzzle annoys over one thousand (eg 1331) (6,4)
No spoilers, ta!
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This still feels strange, remembering HRH Queen Elizabeth 2nd who died this day 3 years ago. I saw By Royal Appointment with @DreyfusJames it was brilliant. The audience cried when Anne Reid appeared in the Queen's last outfit.
#QueenElizabethII
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@DaveGorman Oh the Jimmy Carr one is BRILLIANT. But now I'm going to have to start reading clues and thinking, "Is Is is, or is Is Is?" - so thanks for that 🤣
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I forgot that I’d set today’s Telegraph Toughie
#crossword/toughie-crossword/toughie-crossword-66439" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzzle…
Is getting out of cab more dangerous for Jimmy Carr, once?(3,6)
Oddly Anthea Turner regularly starts day without standing (7)
See WC Fields finally getting on top - unsteadily (7)
No spoilers, ta!
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@Homeland_Party I'd have voted for you but you didn't stand a candidate in my division in the County Council elections. Did you stand candidates anywhere?
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People need a homeland. Britain needs remigration.
The Green Party@TheGreenParty
Migrants enrich our culture, contribute to our economy, and become our friends and neighbours. And cutting NHS waiting times, fixing our social care system and building 1.5 million homes cannot be done without overseas recruitment. People need people. Britain needs migrants.
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GB News doubled total revenues to £16m in financial year ending May 31, 2024. But still lost another £33m.
Total losses after three years operating = £109m (£3m pre-launch start up costs, £31m 2021/2, £42m 2022/23, £33m 2023/24). So still lost more in year three — when break even originally predicted — than year one.
By May of this year accumulated losses will be between £135m-£140m. Maybe more.
GB News aims to become biggest UK news channel by 2028. No public target date for profitability.
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@IainDale @RachelSJohnson I only said 10 minutes before you tweeted this "I bet Iain Dale wishes he still did Fridays"! I'm listening to Geoff Norcott who I have to say is doing an absolutely stellar job at the leap from comedy to serious-news-reaction radio.
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God I wish I was on air tonight. Evenings like this are why we all do it. @rachelsjohnson is doing a fabulous job. #totallyenvious
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@Luis_MR18 Someone said the other week that Rayner "always looks like she's been dipped in glue and thrown through an Oxfam window" and I still keep laughing 🤣
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I have to say @GeoffNorcott's new radio show is promising some unexpected content...
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In a village of village idiots the village idiot would be Richard Burgon.
Richard Burgon MP@RichardBurgon
The Conservatives just blocked my Bill to give the public the power to call a General Election when the majority have lost faith in the Government, as they have now. We should modernise our democracy to stop failing Governments from clinging on when the people have had enough.
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@Ryanair For his final flight you could have sent him somewhere nicer than bloody Birmingham.
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Gregg Wallace 'digging his grave for any future in television' after dismissing accusers as 'women of a certain age': 'It's grotesque!'
gbnews.com/celebrity/greg…
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@DaveGorman Either that's one of your gentler offerings or I'm improving, 31 minutes where my par for a Bluth puzzle is 45-50. Excellent throughout but the Falco clue was particularly lovely.
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I set today’s Indy cryptic:
puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/cryptic-…
Clues include:
Rock Me Amadeus regularly sung as Falco, for instance (7,4)
Weariness in last bit of The News Quiz essentially (5)
Require light like a Christmas tree? (7)
No spoilers, ta!
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You get to ban ONE thing from the World. What do you choose?
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@IainDale That's brilliant. I can't for the life of me fathom why it exists, but it's brilliant.
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Clearing out the garage in Norfolk before we move out, and look what Simon has uncovered! Woody is fascinated by Prezza!
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@tomhfh Yes but do they get good services in return for the bribes?
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Ageing low growth post-imperial island parliamentary monarchies FTW 🇯🇵🇬🇧
Richard Hanania@RichardHanania
Percentage of people who report having paid a bribe for government services in the last year. UK: 0% Japan: 0% Sweden: 1% France: 2% Australia: 4% China: 26% Russia: 34% Mexico: 51% India: 69% Yemen: 77%
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