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John Fitzpatrick
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John Fitzpatrick
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Born in Yorkshire to Irish & Welsh parents. Supports Ireland @ Rugby and Football. Interested music 🎶 , sports 🏉 politics & drama 🎭
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Hang on, so @Nigel_Farage keeps jumping on the bandwagon of scrapping 20mph limits in Wales, but his flagship council in Kent is introducing it and even say it reduces casualties and saves lives. They even link the Welsh 20mph policy. Absolute hypocrisy from @reformparty_uk kent.gov.uk/roads-and-trav…
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Why has Laura Kuenssberg repeatedly invited Palantir’s UK CEO, Louis Mosley, onto her programme? Not to ask him hard qs but as a political pundit?
Well here’s a clue. Palantir UK’s head of comms was previously Theresa May’s chief spin doctor & then Sunak’s.
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A brilliant piece by @BEERG on shifting employment patterns as AI makes itself felt in the business world.
Lots of great data to ponder.
hayest.substack.com/p/scribblings-…
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What does Chris Harborne want in return for his £22 million donation to Reform?
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Cherry@Cherryopenmind
The Guardian has just dropped a massive deep dive into Christopher Harborne, the billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage. If you care about where political power really comes from, you need to see this⬇️ Harborne has handed over more than £22m to Reform UK. That is two-thirds of their entire budget. One man is effectively keeping the lights on for Farage’s political alternative. Experts are calling this a massive 'red flag'. We have a major British party dependent on a tycoon living in Thailand, whose business is linked to the 'wild west' of finance. Protecting a crypto empire? #ReformUK #NigelFarage #Politics #Tether #UKPolitics
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Can't get my head around this, I worked in Tesco, Manufacturing, the Health Service & Construction- guess what? We all worked long hours, mostly on low pay and we had considerable levels of pressure. MPs drinking during work in Parliament? The place we make laws for all the other workers? And it's ok for us to drink during work? Don't thinkso. This completely out of touch attitude sums up perfectly why this entitled govt are so unpopular. If an NHS worker drank on shift they'd be sacked. It's clear so many of them have never worked an ordinary job in their lives.
Luke Charters MP@lukejcr
🚨Breaking news: MPs are human and sometimes have a drink. Classic clickbait farming 👎 MPs work long days for constituents, and yes, sometimes share a drink in the evening with colleagues. Last week I was scandalously spotted with… an alcohol-free pint or two between votes 😱 But sure, let’s talk about that instead of the Greens’ wacky policies. Trying to distract us, maybe? 🙄
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@DPJHodges @wayneburnett10 Yet we had daily tweets about Rayner from you. But Tice gets a free pass! Umm 🤔 double standards
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@wayneburnett10 No. Because the Third World War is more important than Richard Tice's tax.
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We were told last week "Iran has begged for a deal. They have agreed to open the Strait. They have agreed to hand over the Uranium". As I said, none of it was true.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
JD Vance: "The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement. And I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the US. So, we go back to the US having not come to an agreement ... they have chosen not to accept our terms"
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I am doing some part-time media teaching at uni. This Laura Kuenssberg ‘in depth’ piece on the BBC website includes 6 quotes to back up the tone of the headline. All 6 are from anonymous sources. Is this sound journalism?
Paul Nettleton@PaulANettleton
The BBC website is leading on an opinion piece. I’m not a Labour supporter, just a retired journalist. This is a contentious decision given the privileged position of our national broadcaster during an election campaign.
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A mystery moneyman's donations could carry Nigel Farage to power. He lives in Thailand and is “intensely private”. I’ve spent months investigating who he is, what he wants and his crypto fortune. Here, for the first time, is the story of Chris Harborne theguardian.com/politics/2026/…
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‘Nigel is mad to accept his money’: who is Christopher Harborne, the mystery billionaire bankrolling Reform? - important investigation from the great @tomburgis
Tom Burgis@tomburgis
A mystery moneyman's donations could carry Nigel Farage to power. He lives in Thailand and is “intensely private”. I’ve spent months investigating who he is, what he wants and his crypto fortune. Here, for the first time, is the story of Chris Harborne theguardian.com/politics/2026/…
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Got round London Marathon in 4.45hrs, progress on 2025. The crowds were incredible, the experience exhilarating & humbling. I ran in memory of Laura for @NLondonHospice. I’ve raised £24k over 2 years, thanks to all you wonderful people for sponsoring me 🙏🏻
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Sky News@SkyNews
Sky News political editor @BethRigby has completed the London Marathon for a second time in honour of one of her childhood friends - and to raise money for the North London Hospice. Rigby says running the marathon has been 'quite satisfying'.
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@rorysutherland A quick search now. Like any 7yr old was triggered by the BBC changing the title card or the announcer introducing the cartoon as Boss Cat 🐈⬛ nobody was bothered. The only people bothered now are the grifters at the spectator who write performative garbage
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@johnmfitzp There was no internet when I was seven. It was 1972. A quick search of what? The Bodleian Library?
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Ridiculous article from @rorysutherland sellotape was not called “sticky backed plastic” It was the name given to “vinyl wrap” brand name fablon. Sellotape was called sticky tape…. 1/
The Spectator@spectator
I know that from watching the BBC as a child, when two linguistic absurdities drove the seven-year-old me practically insane. One was the Blue Peter habit of referring to Sellotape as ‘sticky-backed plastic’, a phrase unspoken by anyone else in any other circumstances, except in parodies of BBC children’s programmes. Worse still was the practice of BBC continuity announcers maintaining the pretence that a cartoon which was obviously called Top Cat, which featured a theme song which made repeated reference to its protagonist as Top Cat…was somehow called Boss Cat. ✍️ Rory Sutherland Article | spectator.com/article/the-bb…
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EXCLUSIVE: Huge blow for Farage as THREE Reform election candidates appear on leaked BNP list mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/h…
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Nigel Farage’s latest grift - plugging high risk crypto investments - has been lifted directly from Donald Trump’s venal presidency.
If Reform UK’s leader is left unchecked his behaviour will prove nothing short of a threat to democracy.
My column for @thenerve_news 👇🏽
THE NERVE@thenerve_news
Should Bitcoin investor Nigel Farage be promising to pass laws boosting crypto? Of course not, writes @SangitaMyska
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@DrMatthewSweet @spectator A quick search 👀 would have informed Rory that there was a cat food 🐈⬛ brand called Top Cat! So the BBC changed the title card. Later repeats after 1989 would use the original US title card… it’s not difficult to understand
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Come on, @spectator - “sticky backed plastic” was a euphemism for FABLON. They called Sellotape “sticky-tape” - as did lots of people.
The Spectator@spectator
I know that from watching the BBC as a child, when two linguistic absurdities drove the seven-year-old me practically insane. One was the Blue Peter habit of referring to Sellotape as ‘sticky-backed plastic’, a phrase unspoken by anyone else in any other circumstances, except in parodies of BBC children’s programmes. Worse still was the practice of BBC continuity announcers maintaining the pretence that a cartoon which was obviously called Top Cat, which featured a theme song which made repeated reference to its protagonist as Top Cat…was somehow called Boss Cat. ✍️ Rory Sutherland Article | spectator.com/article/the-bb…
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A tiresomely obvious explanation is they may not want to associate with a channel where presenters say the government is "evil", that Covid was a hoax, vaccines were a bioweapon programmed to spare Jews. If you join the freak show don't expect to be treated like Dame Judi Dench.
Camilla Tominey@CamillaTominey
For the second week running, no cabinet minister will be appearing on my @GBNEWS show. We’ve been told @darrenpjones is “unavailable” despite him doing every other channel and radio station on the broadcast round. No explanation given. The people running the country appear to be running scared of a journalist 🤦♀️🤯 We are grateful backbencher @Perran4CRH has the spine for it! See you tomorrow! Tune in from 930am 💃
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Whatever the rights and wrongs of this story. Royal Mail should not be used to deliver party political election literature.
Nigel Farage MP@Nigel_Farage
It is right that @RoyalMail have launched a full investigation into this allegation. If found to be true, it would be very disturbing and an attack on the democratic process itself. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/2…
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@CamillaTominey @GBNEWS @darrenpjones GBnews is trash TV full of talentless grifters cosplaying as journalists. Plus ten a penny shock jocks who do nothing but whip up hate, division, fear and anger! It’s a reform propaganda channel
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For the second week running, no cabinet minister will be appearing on my @GBNEWS show. We’ve been told @darrenpjones is “unavailable” despite him doing every other channel and radio station on the broadcast round. No explanation given.
The people running the country appear to be running scared of a journalist 🤦♀️🤯
We are grateful backbencher @Perran4CRH has the spine for it! See you tomorrow! Tune in from 930am 💃
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The only way to claim asylum is to enter the country & set foot on UK soil. Unless you open up safe routes. Then the only way to enter the country & claim asylum is through irregular means! Where are you going to deport people to? You need returns agreements with countries 🙄
Nigel Farage MP@Nigel_Farage
The ‘deal’ with France cost taxpayers £662m and yet we are still being invaded every week by migrants. Only Reform will detain and deport anyone who enters our country illegally.
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