Duncan Geddes

@thetimes is free to read for the next two days, if you’re scratching your head

The NHS will pay the King’s duchy £11m over 15 years to rent a warehouse for ambulances...it is being charged 67% more than the previous tenants paid. Great reporting from Sunday Times Insight team @Arbuthnott @JCalvertST @KatieTarrant_ @thetimes

How many people know or care what a “rabbit” is on budget day? I’d be interested in the polling. As far as I can tell only markets, journalists and Lindsay Hoyle judge budgets by the number of surprises

@eugenemsmith @thetimes @timestravel Class, from a Duncan South Dakota fan

When I moved to America for @thetimes, I wasn’t sure where to explore first. Then I realised a town in Oregon had my name written all over it… Pleased to make my debut for @timestravel thetimes.com/article/a906b6…

@HarryTaylr Top man!

Yesterday was my final day at the Times after a great two years working with some of the best journalists in the business. Delighted to say I'm returning to reporting full time, as I'm joining PA Media as a Parliamentary Reporter. Exciting times ahead.

Anyone who puts Goodwin on their TV or radio show is now a supporter of explicit racism. There is no excuse anymore, it's not even slightly hidden.

WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich is free. This is a day of great joy and relief for Evan, his family, WSJ colleagues, and all those who campaigned so hard for his release. It is also a great day for press freedom. Follow the story here (no paywall) wsj.com/articles/evan-…

@yngvlgrn Where were they tonight. Where

Time for the policy specialists to step up and the political correspondents to retreat. We need to understand what’s being proposed and whether it’ll work, not endlessly opine on whether Labour will face threats in 2029

Children in Glasgow protest in February 1971 after the BBC announced they would be pulling Scooby-Doo from their schedule.

This story, man. Free to read today and tomorrow, just like everything on @thetimes “The dead teenager, the lying suspect and the black box that proves it” thetimes.co.uk/article/95eafd…

This weekend The Times and The Sunday Times will be free to read for all. Discover the best of our journalism here: thetimes.com

@TheGlastoThingy Ah! Nice

@geddesduncan Although Glastonbury have retweeted the BBC Introducing line-up, they have not as yet officially announced it on their site. Still potential for the full thing, particularly with the BBC leaking names.

Apropos of nothing. Times of the full line-up drop for the last 4 festivals. 2017: 10:00 2019: 12:00 2022: 10:55 2023: 12:02 #Glastonbury

‘WhaT doeS tHe ElecTIoN meaN for the FTSE?’ on.ft.com/3wPnwsZ

@secondtierpod @TotalSaintsPod There have been no reports - just a casual suggestion by one writer that was overdone by aggregator sites

“Anyone with a bit of perspective…” 🤔 “Should see he’s done a good job” 👏 “He shouldn’t be under any pressure” 😠 Southampton could reportedly sack Russell Martin if they don’t go up! Glen from @TotalSaintsPod thinks it’s rubbish👇 🔗 lnk.to/secondtier #SaintsFC

Sally Rooney books but they're Wayne Rooney tweets. (2024 Edition)

Natalie Elphicke, who has just been welcomed to the Labour Party by Sir Keir Starmer, cruelly and publicly tormented the victims of her sex offender ex-husband Charlie. She claimed ***after his conviction*** that he had merely been punished for being "attractive and attracted" to women. She also pressured a judge in an improper attempt to influence his trial. And she was gifted his seat behind-closed-doors and has never apologised. There are other things I cannot report. But here you can read our investigation into the appalling protection racket of which she was part - as Elphicke sued the Sunday Times for reporting the truth: that he was accused of rape and sexual offences. thetimes.co.uk/article/charli…

I dug into the budget sheets to have a look at the realities of modern day touring costs for a bunch of artists. Such is the struggle for many established acts to tour profitably, it’s been declared a cost of touring crisis. theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…

Domestic violence is a kind of small-scale terrorism. What OJ Simpson did to Nicole Brown Simpson was not the event of one night—it was a years long campaign that thousands of women suffer at other men’s hands. Read Andrea Dworkin’s memorial to Nicole: evergreenreview.com/read/in-memory…