Colin Brazier
@ColinBrazierTV
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40 years after my first article (for the Bradford Star), I’m pursuing a dream friends & family have grown tired of me yapping about. Next month I join other farming students at the Royal Agricultural University. It’s been a joy and a privilege to end my time in broadcasting @LBC
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Whatever you think of Braverman, for her to warn that the UK could be run by Islamists 20 years from now, is extraordinary. As a former Home Secretary she had access to briefings and operational data denied to the rest of us. This ought to be headline news
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My employment at Sky News officially ends today. I’ve quit to join @GBNEWS - a channel dedicated to diverse opinion.
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‘We will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again.’
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Jo Brazier. Wife. Mother. Friend. Died peacefully July 6th 2018, aged 55.
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He has lost a parent, and gained a kingdom. It's the oldest story in royal history. Stand with King Charles III. Mourn the passing of his glorious mother. God Save The King.
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There’s nothing so private as a marriage. But, honestly, how does Harry reconcile the values he once espoused - including an Army officer’s oath to defend the Queen - with his wife’s not-so-thinly-veiled contempt for the things our late monarch stood for.
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My darling eldest daughter, Edith, finished her final exam at university today. Her studies had to be deferred when her mother died and she helped me bring her siblings through the worst times. Thank you Edie B, well done and enjoy a glass of something lovely.
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I walk around London and feel assailed by the ghosts of the city past. What have we done to one of civilisation’s great ornaments? Our capital feels hollowed-out, decayed, repopulated and yet strangely trivial. As a young man London felt vital. Now, increasingly, it is hostile.
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I fear we are becoming de-sensitised to extreme violence. The murder of an 87-year-old man on a mobility scooter is a horrible landmark that would've caused a national moment of reflection, even 20 years ago.
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The greatest act of love we can show for the Queen is to support the institution she spent her life defending. Her son has many enemies, who have bided their time. For her sake, and ours, don't let them win.
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I’ve never understood begrudging a PM a holiday, or expecting the UK’s elected leader to do budget travel. But jumping a 3-hour queue with your kids at a holiday resort is completely different. Starmer either doesn’t get, or doesn’t care, how this looks.
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Nobody in the world has been taken so seriously, for so long. And nobody has been happier not taking herself seriously.
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She stood for duty, sacrifice, humility & stoicism. In his latest act of self-indulgence, Harry epitomises the opposite of all those things. He stands for cupidity, arrogance, entitlement and emotional incontinence. I'm almost glad she's not around to see what he's become.
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Duty. Self-sacrifice. Deeds not words. Continuity.
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Trump is set to block Britain’s inane plan to cede the militarily-vital Chagos Islands. The deal is one of the most inane acts of statecraft in modern times. We live in a nation whose strategic interests are better served by The White House than Downing St
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After 24 years at Sky, I'm off to @GBNEWS.
We're delighted to announce that @colinbraziersky will be joining the GB News team – welcome, Colin!
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Rod Liddle not holding back in the Sunday Times this morning.
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We are rejoicing in our history, in a 1,000-year-old hall built before most nations existed. Because we probably could do it all in flip-flops and t-shirts…on Teams. But we’ve learned, over centuries, that ceremony tells stories about people and places we prefer not to forget.
Sorry but this is the 21st Century FFS. What the hell are we doing?
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This week I married for a 2nd time, almost 6 years since the death of my late wife, Jo. Olivia and I want to thank all who have sent their best wishes. To the recent widowers who, like me, believed it hard to find love again, I say: .there is a way out from the vale of tears.
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When Raheem Sterling shook hands with young Jamaicans through a wire fence yesterday, nobody - rightly - batted an eyelid. But when Wills&Kate did, it was an act of tin-eared post-colonial oppression. Has there been a royal tour more willfully misreported by enemies of monarchy?
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I worked in TV news for decades and still think ITV's decision to allow Ed Balls to interview his wife about an important matter of State simply astonishing. Did nobody; him, her, the producers, think it corrosive of trust? Ofcom's subsequent punishment of GBNews seems demented.
Ofcom has been accused of double standards after fining GB News £100,000 for "partiality" in an interview with Rishi Sunak, while ITV is yet to be penalised for allowing Ed Balls to interview his wife, the Home Secretary.
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I think, perhaps, folk just don’t like her all that much.
So this is Meghan Markle trying to shake hands with the British public. She gets ignored, laughed at and humiliated. This country has a rotten racism problem… & notice how they’re all middle aged white women?.Daily Mail reading, racist Karens. Absolutely abhorrent behaviour.
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The reality versus. the fiction. I understand why TV creatives tinker with our island story to render it more 'inclusive'. But, by any rational measure, it seeds a lie that Britain was saved by people who weren't white. It is historically illiterate and tediously corrosive.
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We have a Chancellor of the Exchequer who seems to feel her biggest contribution to British public life is being the first woman in the job, and a Foreign Secretary who seems to think it’s being a black man. Can we just stop with the identity politics and judge success by actions.
Lammy is at the UN to defend Ukraine's identity, not his. He is an atomic mushroom cloud of embarrassment.
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And so, a TV show which did more to introduce Britons to the earthy reality of farming than the BBC ever did, is going the way of the horse-drawn plough. And all because Jeremy Clarkson, he of the eponymous farm, told a joke. Predictably disproportionate .
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While we still can. today, let's celebrate the birthday of Winston Churchill. A man who mobilised the English language to defeat the darkest tyranny the world had ever known. #Churchill
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I don’t watch BBC Question Time, but I might start if @LiamHalligan is a regular pundit. His judgement is always spot on and he won’t be deterred by a hostile audience from making points that need to be heard.
'Why won't Labour have a national inquiry? Is it because Keir Starmer was DPP during this period?'. 'I personally hope @elonmusk keeps pushing for a national inquiry.'. 'This is one of the biggest scandals in British history'. Utterly superb from @LiamHalligan 🔥
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It's a measure of how far Western culture has fallen that a reality taken as fact since the dawn of human history, now amounts to breaking news.
BREAKING: Donald Trump's government is set to recognise only two genders, male and female
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108 years ago, British casualties on the first day of the Battle of the Somme reached 58,000 men. That was ‘traumatic’. This was a flag painted on the road. We live in frivolous times.
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"If, as I expect, GB News is successful. the BBC, ITV and Sky will only have themselves to blame. They have proved singularly unable to understand modern Britain or to address the big issues of our day with an open mind." .
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Liz Truss deserves credit for copping a lot of flak, waiting a beat, watching how hard her successors found economics, then pointing out that she was - fundamentally- right.
Labour, the @bankofengland and the media establishment smeared my budget and forced a reversal. Now, they've plunged the country into economic crisis.
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They didn’t just “lose their lives”, they were murdered by Islamists on their way to work, school, to see friends. Euphemisms like this - in which an atrocity is dehumanised, as if it were a severe weather event - aren’t accidental. As a lawyer, he chooses his words with care.
Today marks 19 years since the horrific 7/7 terror attacks where 52 people lost their lives and many more were injured. Today we remember them, their families and the efforts of our emergency services. We will always stand united against those who attempt to divide us.
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How about this plan for reconciliation. Gary gets his Saturday night gig back and keeps on tweeting. The rest of us stop paying the BBC license fee, without being prosecuted.
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There is an inverse relationship between the volume of Labour heckling directed at Nigel Farage, and the validity of his interventions. It’s increasingly obvious he’s there to ask the awkward questions our political establishment would rather stayed unput.
Establishment MPs can heckle me all they like, but the British people are angry that we are living through a two-tier policing and justice system.
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Amid all the sound and fury about the launch of GB News one still, small voice last night. My young son: “Dad, do your best”. My boy, I will. #GBNews.
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I grew up believing the sacred duty of our police was to keep, not manipulate the peace. If it were to be proven that information was deliberately held from the public, to make that public more pliant, it would forever alter how many us see our police.
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In less than a fortnight many Englishmen and women, who had forgotten why our wonderful union mattered so much, have had cause to remember things they were in danger of forgetting. God bless our magnificent United Kingdom. God Save the King.
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How about one to the thousands of Royal Navy sailors who perished at sea, prosecuting the global ban on slavery inaugurated by Britain but resisted by almost every other nation on earth?.
London’s streets, statues and memorials need to reflect our shared history. This memorial will help to educate Londoners on the capital’s role in the terrible treatment of human beings during transatlantic slavery. It will also honour the achievements of descendant communities.
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In coming days some will struggle to recognise Britain. The elites who sneer at patriotism; who find monarchism embarrassing; who recoil from flag and faith; who find history an inconvenience. They will dismiss queues to see the Queen's coffin as hysteria. They can't understand.
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An England manager who won’t sing God Save The King, and now the Saudi national anthem given precedence at Wembley. As society grows more fractured, the ties that bind us should be made stronger, not thinner. Globally, nowhere else would submit to this.
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I remain genuinely bewildered. Why would taking dogs for a walk be thought racist?.By a study funded by taxpayers.
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John Major's intervention today about the importance of prime ministerial probity put me in mind of how much I miss the News of the World.
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Skipped the show for my gorgeous daughter Edith’s graduation.
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Killings which two decades ago would’ve stopped the country in its tracks and led to a bout of national soul-searching, now feel almost routinely horrific.
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Talking on holiday to Eastern European friends, they seem united in the view that the UK’s future is bleak. One said the British appetite for authoritarianism now matched that of the old communist bloc. Another described our immigration policy as a ‘civilisation suicide note’.
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To fill the average car's fuel tank with diesel now costs £100. Of that, £44 is taken in tax. Worth remembering, the next time you hear someone talking about the 'government's money' or 'public money'. There's no such thing. It's yours. And government is getting greedier.
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I feel close to despair that, in say 30 years, parts of Britain may become essentially ungovernable. Politicians of all stripes have enabled unprecedented demographic change, creeping lawlessness, and a self-loathing culture. The question is existential. Is Reform the answer?.
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Tonight’s tipple in the garden. I fancied a Grolsch, but I seem to have accidentally tipped it down the sink.
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The rise and fall of Sky News is a media parable. It spent a decade not being the BBC, and viewers lapped it up. It then spent the next decade apeing the BBC, and its most loyal viewers left in droves.
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If you're going to be a victim, make sure you've never victimised.
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Remembering my late-wife Jo, whose birthday falls today.
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This morning the mainstream media in the UK is clearly struggling to hide its disdain for tens of millions of Trump voters, just as they did for the millions of Britons who backed Brexit.
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Ordering tickets for an England cricket match, in England, Why am I being asked to declare my ethnicity? What possible business is it of the ticket sellers? Why do we persist with this mania for defining people - for no obvious reason - by skin colour?
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One ex-military man - Philip - accepted playing 2nd fiddle. Another ex-military man - Harry - chose not to. Invictus allowed the Duke of Sussex to do good without gobbing off, just as the DofE award did for his grand-dad. But that wasn’t enough for Harry.
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As a Christian, I find this a puerile and gratuitous comparison. Yet I understand the right of those organising the Olympic Opening Ceremony in Paris to ridicule my faith if they want to. I merely wonder, given France’s trouble with Islamism, why that religion was spared.
Just the French lampooning the Last Supper. Jesus an obese woman, his disciples transvestites. That’s all.
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Five years ago today 17,410,742 Britons voted to leave the EU.
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For a century the idea that the Cenotaph would need a police guard to protect it from British citizens - as it did again today - would have been utterly unconscionable. Generations saw our sacred places as inviolable.
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Denmark publishes crime statistics recording where a perpetrator is from. This year the Danes found migrants were 40x more likely to commit violent crime than those born in the country. For the sake of a growing number of victims, we need transparency too.
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If it is true that the Second Elizabethan Age is drawing to a close, then it’s time to remind ourselves of what HM cherished most: her children; her foundational Christian faith, and her late-husband.
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For Britons thinking a MAGA revolution can’t happen here, consider this parliamentary intervention today, simultaneously slaying several liberal sacred cows. And then consider how our polity would be upended if, instead of 5 MPs, Reform (as per its polling) had scores of seats.
Housing thousands and thousands of illegal migrants in hotel accommodation is PURE insanity. It costs a fortune, endangers local residents and sends an appalling message. The answer? Detain, deport. This is the only way. My speech in Westminster on the relentless madness.
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Our people did not toil, suffer and perish to defend this nation, only to see it - a century later - reduced to its current ruin.
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Still no mention from the BBC that a man sought by police in connection with a stabbing in Bradford, was a student from Bangladesh. By insisting he is ‘from Oldham’, the BBC tells only half a story and leaves a license-fee paying public wondering why.
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That’s sweet of you. After 24-years at Sky I left a ‘proper TV station’ because it seemed more interested in social engineering than understanding its customers.
@colinbrazierGBN @danwootton You do realise, Colin, that when GB News goes down the drain, you may find it difficult to get a job with a proper TV station. Just pointing this out for your own good.
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This clip deserves to be inducted into the Media Studies Hall of Fame. A reminder of how a fatuous question, based on a wilful misunderstanding, is best met - not by open contempt - but with logical derision. As revealing as it is funny.
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What’s the point of a Christmas market if the police have to issue a statement, replete with a picture of cops armed with semi-automatic weapons, and an undertaking to keep visitors “safe”. Safe from whom? .Shoplifters? .Cold weather?.The evasions of officialdom will backfire.
Today we welcome the return of Manchester Christmas Markets. You will likely see a heightened police presence who will be acting to keep you all safe. If you see something suspicious, please report it by speaking to them or calling 101. Always call 999 in an emergency.
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Some reflections on today’s farmer’s rally. - astonishing numbers.- everyone I saw was unfailingly polite.- Clarkson got the biggest cheer.- lots of children and buggies.- simmering anger & frustration.Sense that these demonstrators will keep protesting until something gives.
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BACKGROUND: On Monday I pointed out that Jeremy Vine is paid twice more than our PM - wages we are legally forced to pay via the BBC license fee. I think publicly-funded broadcasters need to be careful how they express personal opinions. Read more: .
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A lot's been written about the Sussexes ability to deftly manage their own PR. But it's not a good look is it, s***bagging your family while Grandad lies in hospital?.
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Given his undermining of the Succession; his neglect of the late Queen, and contempt for the new one; his disdain for his brother and scorn for his father; .his repudiation of duty and self-imposed exile;.Given all that: surely he will not accept an invitation to the Coronation?
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Our future head of state using words like “deceitful” to describe our state broadcaster. Without precedent. Newspapers have been closed down for less.
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A union official representing asylum guards just told the BBC how her members feel threatened by migrants who are carrying concealed weapons. And yet the vast bulk of the Corporation’s coverage persistently presents migrants as benign victims.
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The BBC seemed reluctant to acknowledge a jury’s decision to acquit a policeman who shot a suspect. Its coverage betrayed a sense the BBC is more influenced by the diktats of unconscious bias training than it is by a legal system centuries in the making.
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My sister works behind the till of a supermarket chain in Bradford. For decades she’s lamented the passing of a culture she recognised, supplanted by one she doesn’t. She feels a mixture of nostalgia, sadness and anger. None of which were stoked by ‘right-wing intellectuals’.
"The riots were decades in the making. Their roots lie in a network of politicians, think tanks, journalists and 'public intellectuals', all of whom stand to gain from legitimising and spreading far-right tropes. By @SamFowles
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Why are British taxpayers sending a 1/4 of a billion £ in foreign aid to prop-up a Pakistani regime that happily trades with a global pariah?.
BREAKING: Pakistan announces it will import 2 million tons of wheat and natural gas from Russia.
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Still hankering for the quiet life.
Meghan Markle 'considering running for president in 2024', claims source
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Today is the anniversary of the death of Winston Churchill. For 5 decades his name was venerated in Britain - emblematic of a national character which, though imperfect, stood for dogged resistance against the odds. Cultural Marxists seek to replace that gratitude with contempt.
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If a highly-paid former footballer wants to compare government immigration policies to those pursued by the Nazis, he's free to take a stand. But I'm not sure he's free to take money BBC license-fee payers are forced to hand over on pain of prosecution.
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In a year we'll remember the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War. Can we ask Eastwood or Spielberg to do an unashamedly patriotic film? The sort of blockbuster our arts sector is embarrassed by, even as it trousers £1.5bn of taxpayers's covid cash.
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Wonderful that the police are investigating whether cake was served at Number Ten. Could they turn their attention to the covid loan fraudsters who stole £4.3 billion of taxpayer's money during the pandemic and for which a minister honorably resigned in exasperation yesterday.
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Remembering the third anniversary of the death of the ever wonderful Jo Brazier today.
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Over the years, few statues have consistently moved me like this one. The artilleryman symbolises unsleeping fortitude; whenever I passed it, I felt a pulse of pride. I don’t expect all my countrymen to share its veneration. But I object to its use as a piece of Hamas agitprop.
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Why take an MP’s salary, if you’re not prepared to accept the obligations of history and office? .This isn’t taking a stand, it’s taking a dump on centuries of tradition around which generations have agreed to bury their differences. Performative and puerile.
To be sworn in as an MP, you have to make an oath to the King. This is what I decided to say, in protest.
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Imagine having to live life like this. Every health scare the subject of global speculation. Any attempt to keep a scrap of your life private denied. I wish our future Queen didn't face these choices but, as a monarchist, I salute the sacrifices she makes.
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A soldier at today's Trooping of the Colour was the 13th consecutive member of his family to serve in the same regiment. The UK can often seem set to Year Zero. But largely hidden, there remains a Britannia Profound. It values history, duty and avoids change for change's sake.
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I wonder if it might be time to de-fund some Oxford colleges?.
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This is gratuitous class-baiting. There are plenty of working class folk who were taught the value of good grammar. I'm one of them. Find another stick to beat Boris with.
I've been on the media this morning so my accent and grammar are being critiqued. I wasn't Eton educated, but growing up in Stockport I was taught integrity, honesty and decency. Doesn't mater how you say it. Boris Johnson is unfit to lead.
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Sitting outside cafe today. Man approaches: "I just wanted to say I think your show's great." .Assuming he didn't mistake me for Dermot Murnaghan, that was a @GBNEWS first for me. And - given what it's taken to get here - worth more than every industry bauble I've ever had.
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I think, perhaps, the child’s parents bear an iota of responsibility for their pre-school child having virtually no teeth left by the age of four.
18 teeth removed from a 4-year old! That is a shocking indictment of how badly the Tories broke NHS dentistry. Labour will introduce supervised tooth brushing for 3 to 5 year olds in primary schools to prevent decay. #Panorama.
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Stir your ice cream. Rake up profits. If unhappy. Stand for election. Otherwise, take your sweet-tooth-funded platform and stick it where the sun don’t shine.
Listen up folks ‘cos we need to talk about Priti Patel’s ‘ugly’ Rwanda plan and what this means.🧵.
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Rwanda is now a peaceful, stable and relatively prosperous nation. If someone is in fear for their life - and seeking a safe haven from persecution - what’s wrong with Rwanda?.
We’re sending people who try to seek a safe life here in the UK to Rwanda? Is that what we’re doing? Lower than low we are at the top!.
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I’m loathe to slag off an outfit which stood by me during times of woe. But the speed with which Sky embraced journalism as activism is shocking. The Sky I joined in ‘97 offered an alternative to the BBC’s baked-in bias. Now it feels like the paramilitary wing of Channel 4 News.
Sky News needs to get a grip. It’s now clearly more partisan than the BBC or C4. Why? When I was Chairman of Sky News it was generally regarded as the most impartial and unbiased of all the UK’s broadcast news services.
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Parts of Britain have been reduced to a state of barely governable medievalism. The rot runs deep. Basic levels of politeness, civility and neighbourliness have withered. Police officers are no longer willing or able to uphold the law. The Silent Majority is quietly despairing.
While we’re all busy watching what’s going on in Southport this is what’s going down in Southend this evening
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Sat in on a Zoom call after tonight’s show with a dozen British farmers who are fearful that the UK faces a future existential threat because of our inability to feed all our own people. We currently produce about half our own food and that number is falling fast.
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John, a couple of years ago I was watching my wife die, and working out how to bring up our kids up as a single-parent. It's given me quite a tough skin. So the question you need to ask is not whether I'm a vile bigot, but whether ad hominen insults will advance your cause.
A Philosophical Question . Were soon-to-be @GBNEWS presenters @colinbrazierGBN and @thecoastguy *always* racist dogwhistlers and supporters of White Supremacy, or did they just become so for the @GBNEWS gig ?
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