Ethan Croft
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Nadine Dorries has gone full Partridge with the Bond-themed chapter titles in her new book
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I’m pleased to be joining the Telegraph in a few weeks as a Political Correspondent, working on the Sunday Tel
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Suella Braverman just got an acid reception at the political cartoon of the year awards. She invited one persistent heckler, a woman from the Guardian, up on stage to have it out. The compere had to step in and asked them to save the boxing match for later
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@dieworkwear
FYI Britain is currently in the throes of an annual event called "silly season" in which there is literally no news. It's an August tradition dating back to the 19th century
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@johnmcternan
Edward Leigh was twenty places ahead of Corbyn in the swearing in queue on 16th June 1983, so he gets the Father of the House title
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Heckler is Rebecca Hendin, a cartoonist who freelances for the Guardian. She told me she doesn’t regret confronting Braverman and admires her willingness “to pick fights with other short women”
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@RMCunliffe
Actually a very strong effort from them imo, although Tice looks like Tom Tugendhat
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Some recollections of Keir Mather MP, the new Baby of the House, when he was at university
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For
@unherd
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How come the BBC is happy blow money on brain-melting game shows but won't pay tuppence to keep important archive films like this available?
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@christiancalgie
Yoof parliament just seems like classic Blairite cringe/constitutional degradation until you find out it's outsourced with a DCMS grant of... £750,000 a session
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"What was once a birthright is now sold as luxury" - some thoughts on ex-council flats being sold for £700k+
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Exclusive: Boris Johnson planning to visit Zelensky in Ukraine (without telling No 10)
Nice to work on this with
@PippaCrerar
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Charlotte Nichols was Brianna Ghey’s MP. She was expressing the sincere wishes of bereaved constituents
Nice of the Mail to twist into “woke madness” click bait. Hope those page views were worth it
'Dead people should be able to change their gender', says Labour MP Charlotte Nichols as growth of gender ideology is slammed as 'patently absurd'
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Thanks
@PoliticsJOE_UK
gang for mentioning my piece on Keir Mather MP and weird student politics
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A longer bit of reporting from Liverpool that I've lately been working on - about the oldest Chinatown in Europe and its uncertain fate. Great to be in the
@liverpoolpost
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Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
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It's time to crack down hard on this behaviour. The bar is the queue, hence the shape.
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Listening to Radio 4 Any Answers episode on housing crisis: “the young are a cafe latte generation”, “eat pilchards and tinned potatoes to save money”, “my generation never went travelling”
How can we overcome the impenetrable stupidity of the average English pensioner?
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Pleased to say I recently started on the Evening Standard diary and that this morning was my first in the saddle editing the page. DMs open for tips, etc.
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Recently liked a poem I read by someone called Sidney Keyes. Ordered a copy of his collected work and the book came through the letterbox today, thin as a pamphlet. Keyes was killed in action in Tunisia on 29th April 1943, a month before his 21st birthday. This is the poem.
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Hello! As those who have seen me at parties recently will know, I’m currently working on the diary at the Mail On Sunday. Do please get in touch with gossip, tidbits and opportunities for coffee. DMs open
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The Mark Wahlberg daily routine but it's your centrist dad trying to listen to every "The Rest Is..." podcast with strict meal breaks
A sneak peek at an exciting new project with
@MarinaHyde
which will be launching TOMORROW. More details to come!
#TheRestIsEntertainment
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So Labour replaced a trade unionist, who stood on Mick Lynch’s picket lines, with a professional landlord
Who is now the biggest landlord in the House of Commons
Good digging from the FT 👇
three of the top five landlords in parliament are now Labour MPs, reflecting the shifting make-up of the ruling party
the biggest landlord in the House of Commons is new Labour MP Jas Athwal, who owns 18 rental properties, according to an
@ft
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For a long time I have listened to my friend Daniel theorise about the combat capabilities of swans. Today
@bbc5live
let him say his piece
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Pleased to be in today's Times writing about conspiracy theories, a subject that never, ever gets old... The new book about them by
@flashboy
and
@JonnElledge
is excellent!
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"You can judge how close the Labour Party is to government by the quality of the wine. None of that warm yellow shit this year - we’re on to vintage.”
My bit on Labour conference in the Standard
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An afternoon in the archives. It really is chip-paper tomorrow, but that's half the fun. Check out the no-hoper in the top-right corner
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Jeremy Corbyn wins big with 24,120 votes in Islington North to Labour’s Pragul Nargund with 16,873
“Unlucky mate” heckles a Corbyn supporter as Nargund’s result is read. “What’s wrong with you,” responds a Labour activist
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Mm, nothing tastes better than that first sip of utilities and business rates.
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Best buds Nigella and Salman in today's diary, along with Jeremy King, Tracey Emin, and Boris's "Brexit jet"
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A very interesting (and at times sinister) look at Alastair Campbell's press operation in Number 10. Struck by the pin-drop silence of meetings when he is in the chair
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For a start I'd suggest: the persistence of poverty, the soaring cost of childcare, and the life-chance-destroying effects of lockdowns (that we are only beginning to understand)
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The prettiest Harvester in Britain (with bonus views of the Irish Sea)
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After being ground down for so long by the pubs of Notting Hill, last night we found a windowless working men's club serving £3 pints. Life is good.
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In 1935 George Orwell wrote about a struggling London poet who realises only his rich friends can enjoy true creative freedom.
In a time of tuition fees, dwindling arts grants and high rent, it feels more resonant than ever. My rereading for The Times:
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Proud to be referred to as a "bibulous hack" in The Times of London
Nothing says Christmas likes a sex spread.
@johnmaier_
and I in today's Times, fearlessly striding in the footsteps of
@EthanCroft98
's campaign to bring back the Back Sex Award
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Sharing a double page spread with London Mayor Sadiq Khan in today's
@EveningStandard
- I review the big novel of the week, he defends ULEZ. Could this be the start of a double act?
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Catch me reviewing some new history in today's Times - on delusions and why they are quite difficult to write about well
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Had an interesting phone call with Crispin Odey last night...
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I was served a tulip for dinner tonight. We must turn back. We have gone too far
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So in the end David Cameron, not Boris, was the Tory Cincinnatus
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Very pleased that, since we broke the story of their forced closure in the Londoner's Diary last week, Simpson's has raised £80k. Chops and cheese should be on the menu again soon!
🚨£80,000 RAISED🚨 through
@crowdfunderuk
and the love, support and generosity from all of you, you have made this happen. From all of us at Simpson's Tavern THANK YOU
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Counterpoint: Wetherspoons is not actually a very good bargain where it counts (cheap non-foul pints in city centres) and people have invented an idealised version of it in their own heads based on vibes
The radical message of Wetherspoons is that, through sheer force of corporate will, many boring industries can have their prices halved with no discernible drop in quality
So many things can be so much better
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Looking out from the magnificent Acropolis Museum in Athens thinking: why is the main exhibit still sitting hundreds of miles away in Bloomsbury?
@George_Osborne
it's time to lose your marbles!
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Why are these crisp packets designed like The Smiths’ contractually obliged post-breakup compilation albums
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BBC now reporting that Imran Khan has applied to be Chancellor of Oxford, as first mooted by yours truly back in February
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Zone Two-ers (& regional city equivalents) simply don’t realise how much of this country is vast motor-towns approaching American Midwest levels of unwalkable grimness
In the deep suburbs and new towns average mobility of healthy adults barely exceeds that of Wall-E characters
This has blown my mind. How can you even avoid walking 5000 steps a day?! 🤯 that’s like to my local Tesco and back for milk
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Sharing the SPARE spread with Mr
@j_amesmarriott
's famous review in today's Times. The royal memoir I write about is much older but no less self pitying
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My friend was seriously assaulted outside a police station yesterday in broad daylight. She has just received this message, 22 hours after reporting the crime.
Britain's default setting is failure and decline
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"Jamie Driscoll is the only man in England who believes he was actually purged for sitting next to Ken Loach, something Starmer has also done."
My take on Starmer's war against the left reaching the banks of the Tyne
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"And then something strange happened. The technocrats realised that instead of attempting to reverse decline in their societies, they could simply punish and intimidate those who complained. This powerful new idea had a name: anarcho-tyranny." *cue ominous Brian Eno track*
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@i_am_mill_i_am
Euston always felt dicey in the Christmas rush etc, but now it very frequently seems to be a dangerous place - I fear if something is not done there will be a serious accident
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Most gratified to see my reporting linked in Off The Fence, the newsletter of the UK's only magazine
@The_Fence_Mag
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@RhonddaBryant
There’s an argument from the Clarendonites et al that Star Chamber was actually a rare bulwark of fairplay for the lower orders when they sought protection from predacious gentry and their conniving lawyers. So it was a tool of enlightened despotism, at best
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Another strong entry in the canon of Barry Gardiner promos
Hoping to gain MPs support to Chair the Environmental Audit Select Committee in parliament.
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Quite the find in this Hackney charity shop - get your SDP conference tie for the low low price of £3
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Dusting off my Google doc titled "emigration plan"
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Important to hear from Blunt expert Miranda Carter - I think the article, while interesting, mistakes absences of evidence for proof - “who else could Josephine have been / must be Blunt because of circumstances” Not really convinced, though ofc full book might tell
A thread: I have only read this article and NOT the book from which it derives, but as the author of the standard biography of Anthony Blunt, I feel inclined to comment. The main contention is that not only was Blunt spying for the Soviets, but that he was/
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What a cosy little world North West politics is at the moment! (From the excellent
@liverpoolpost
newsletter)
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"Most novels are bad. They were when the chaps ran the show and they are now."
In The Times writing about new fiction by men
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Made a rare visit to Facebook and found the Boomer Articles of Confederation
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Elizabeth II was also queen of the gossip column. Here's a little history of her appearances in our Diary over the years
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Pleased to make my debut in the
@NewStatesman
- have wanted to write for it since my English teacher preferred a copy of the mag ten years ago...
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You ask me what my "inner life" is. I say: competing in a pub quiz with a man who worked in Buckingham Palace for 3 years and kipped in the Queen's bed "for fun" (we came fourth)
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Late to this novel, set in 1950s Hull. It's excellent and you should read it.
"A train stood on the stilts of an absurd pier. For a moment he was tempted to catch it and throw himself at the unknown miles of fen and wold beyond, but he had work tomorrow."
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@SadiqKhan
Since you have a lot of time on your hands: the bottom escalators at Notting Hill Gate have been broken for over a week, making life difficult for elderly and infirm passengers trying to reach the platform. Is there anything you can do about that?
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It seems "Jayden" made quite an impression on the candlestick maker
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Intelligent, historically-informed analysis of Starmer by
@patrickkmaguire
in The Times. Makes a nice change from the might-is-right babble about him that's been washing around lately
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"If Nuneaton lives at all in the public imagination today, it is as the place where George Eliot was born and Ed Miliband died"
Fun dispatch from Middlest England by
@felixpope_
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SAVE OUR BIRDS! In the Times today twittering about our endangered wingèd friends
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In today's Times I have written about an unsettling book from deepest darkest.... Wythenshawe!
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Spent my Thursday evening at an election count - no taxis home so read about it
Our weekend read just dropped: the remarkable rise of the Greens on the Wirral, and Labour's weakening position in St Helens. By
@EthanCroft98
and
@jlaverick99
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Nutritionist weighs in on Keir Starmer's disgusting lunch
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Beautiful skylight of The Lion pub, Liverpool (CAMRA best pub two years in a row)
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When did you realise every reviewer's struggle against cliché is essentially doomed? The day I found out Larkin used the 'word' "unputdownable" 🙃🙃🙃
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And the least surprising news story of the year has dropped on Christmas Eve
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'With a paywall The Guardian could become the New York Times of Europe' - interesting thoughts on the future of the Guardian here
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Really humiliating to find out that the coolest people in London are... young tories.
🚨EXCLUSIVE
Number 10 held two boozy parties the night before the Queen mourned Prince Philip alone.
Staff drank and at points danced until the early hours of the night of April 16.
Hours later, the Queen went to a socially-distanced funeral for Philip.
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My article in this week's Economist about what I think they call a "problematic fave"
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After he moved to America WH Auden gave a series of weekly lectures on each of Shakespeare’s plays, in chronological order. His extensive, brilliant lecture notes luckily survive - but this was the limit of his engagement with Merry Wives of Windsor (he played the whole record)
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I’ve just spent two years doing one of the funnest jobs in journalism as a diarist at the Evening Standard.
Obvs there are big changes at Standard towers but I wish colleagues who are sticking around all the best at the new London Standard, and all good luck to those moving on
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Tourists don't know this but getting a London bus driver who just can't drive is one of life's thrills. Coffee going everywhere, detritus rolling in the aisle, anxious moans as we turn each corner, is he letting anyone on at this stop? No, we're powering through
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Best part of £20 for a cinema ticket and you can't have a wee. Passionately love my country
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Also pleased that the historic Londoner’s Diary column I worked on (once edited for a week by Churchill) will continue in a new look format, with a fresh face taking over. They will be revealed soon…
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Interesting match. Good effort from Everton. Arsenal fans crawling all over the shop. Ended up in the same pub as Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting 🙃
#ARSEVE
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