Harry Robertson
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Homepage & app editor for @theipaper. not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Joined July 2014
yeah ok election done it's probably time to go. i'll start spamming donkey content on there imminently so dont miss out on that
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My favourite bit is the bend between bethnal green and liverpool street where you get a ten second simulation of what it will sound like when the souls of the damned are set loose from tartarus.
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Wonder if the notorious gen z puritanism thing is less an organic social shift and more them being priced out of hedonism. Four pints and a pack of cigarettes is £50 now.
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Am I being a nostalgia boomer or is phone signal just . awful now? A significant number of places in London where such strenuous tasks as "searching google" will take a good 30 seconds on 4g.
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Whenever Captain Tom is in the news I remember the interview his daughter did about her financial habits, which contains this hilariously suspicious passage
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this article makes me feel quite literally sick with rage .
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media ethics classes are going to be taught on the atrocious handling of this story.
Kay Burley’s broadcasting live from a graveyard in St Michael’s on Wyre.
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"just have house parties" yup good luck in your 25 sq ft living room that you have to share with a bodybuilder who demands 18 hours of sleep a night, a man who marinates chicken on the sofa overnight, and Fergus (landlord's son).
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no contest. four seasons of building up this towering, tragic hero and the entire character crumples in a single puerile screech.
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It’s an exceptionally rare thing – in life or in business – that you get a second chance to make another big impression. Twitter made one massive impression and changed the way we communicate. Now, X will go further, transforming the global town square.
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The cost of living crisis has made my brother into a certified lunatic
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Having a chaotic early-20s in London is one of the best life experiences the UK offers, and we've priced a generation out of it. criminal.
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I've been thinking about this for approx 24 hours straight and I like it more with every passing minute. If we're gonna have a monarchy it should be weird and esoteric and magical. not just a random state subsidized family of countryside poshos.
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desperate times poignantly recorded in the google search history last night
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@Drew_Hyndman Yup or the other way round - get priced out of something habitually, slowly persuade yourself it's probably crap and not for you anyway (maybe incorrectly)(I am like this with theatre tickets).
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@PhilippaDunjay Nothing like the realization that your next round will cost more than your weekly food shop to suck the joy out of an evening.
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he's gone and bought the exact green Percival suit I have been saving up for all spring. I am furious.
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fellas are you serious. i work in the same building as you.
Social media users claim rampaging Household Cavalry horses are an 'omen'
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Every overnight journalist I've spoken to today has a really specific look on their faces and I've just realised where I recognise it from
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this tweet brought to you by High Street Kensington, London's worst street (for phone signal)(and everything else as well).
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I'm not a superstitious person but this is absolutely the sort of omen which ushers in 500 years of darkness suffering and strife.
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yes brilliant strategy. keep pumping out larger and larger quantities of increasingly low-quality writing until your entire output is indistinguishable from AI, at which point you can replace everyone with AI. a bright future for uk journalism ahead.
Regional press giant Reach has launched a drive to increase story counts across its titles, Holdthefrontpage reports. It reports on an email, sent by a senior Reach editor, suggests reporters should be writing EIGHT stories per shift
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"Soho isn't a playground" ? it is literally London's historic entertainment and red light district.
What people forget is this is a residential street. The noise & crowds were intolerable & not well controlled. Soho isn’t a playground.
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@mattbrady You can very easily get a monthly gym membership in London for less than the cost of three pints.
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It's probably good to experience this twice a day right. Kinda like going to the gym for your ears.
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If you think about it,, people who like these tweets but don't also follow me are on the side of the landlords.
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very funny that the US version of this account, "crazy ass moments in american politics" is all "in 1880 a town in ohio elected a boot to be mayor" while the british one is just a rolling feed of THIRTY SECONDS AGO AN MP . .
Grant Shapps MP posts this TikTok after the government announced that TikTok can no longer be used on government devices (2023)
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i should note that this great/enraging piece is from @PMGallagher1 and you should be following him, not me.
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@DCanUU Think we're more likely to see an absolute bacchanal of debauchery when the millennials receive the boomer inheritance windfall tbh.
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@PMGallagher1 also this, from @AlannahFrancis1 , is another bleak portrayal of the state of our NHS that is up at the top of the i newspaper homepage today (which, incidentally, you should read, because it is the best newspaper).
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I'm so heavily conditioned into doing the awkward little wave at the end of zoom calls that I just did one while closing a youtube video.
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@Liv_Boeree yeah i'm terrified of this massively plausible scenario which is definitely a real thing that we should 100% be worried about.
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In the legends of my homeland, it is said that the elves (americans) visit hobbiton (london) once a year, and if it pleases them they choose a lucky hobbit (journalist) to receive a precious magical gift (an average new york salary).
Breaking-News Reporter (London) - The Washington Post - London, England - Salary: £70k-£85k, DoE #journalismjobs #journojobs.
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yknow when you're at a party and someone says "what do you do" so you say "i'm a journalist" and they reply "wow that's cool"? Some of you lot actually believe them and it shows.
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i'm sure everyone is having a difficult morning but i just clicked ctrl+v instead of ctrl+b on a group work doc, resulting in a gigantic photo of a shiba inu materialising on the flatplan, in a meeting, during the exact 10 seconds when people are actually looking at the doc.
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imagine living in a country where it was possible to call an ambulance.
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living in london on a budget is easy as long as you cut out unnecessary luxuries like going for a drink with your friends, owning a home, having children.
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a warning to the rubes following me: most of this account is me being angry about trains. but I do have a good cat.
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The UK's housing crisis has got so bad that I genuinely think describing it as "dickensian" is doing a disservice to the victorians. Incredible scoop by @luciemheath.
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Swifties if you liked this review you're gonna absolutely *love* our lengthy explainer on the Rwanda Bill currently featured on our homepage. subscribe to the i newspaper today.
🤍I feel like laughing in the middle of practice 🤍. ✍️: Ed Power / @theipaper.
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I don't want to alarm any of you but this man's job is literally building rockets.
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I'm sure it's been said before but it's striking that the main lottery thing I see is those awful Omaze draws, because the aspirational fantasy for people in the UK is no longer "becoming a millionaire" but simply "having a house".
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@justinc21 @Liv_Boeree 'the chatbot won't say a slur to defuse the racist nuke' i whimper, as i move the doomsday clock hands one minute closer to midnight.
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@Tweet_Dec the series also had the queen's death and a russian invasion of ukraine in 2022 so yup good great I love to be inside a TV show.
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@elonmusk @CommunityNotes could you maybe hold off from posting literal misinformation until community notes is actually available.
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@0ldoini omg yes it's awful, I had to take the cat to epping earlier this year and genuinely worried that I might be doing animal cruelty during the stratford/leyton leg.
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oh dear oh whoopsy oh blimey oh fiddlesticks i appear to have done something revoltingly misogynistic and creepy. i am shocked. how could this have happened to such a lovable curmudgeon.
Oh dear. I’ve rather put my foot in it. In a column I wrote about Meghan, I made a clumsy reference to a scene in Game of Thrones and this has gone down badly with a great many people. I’m horrified to have caused so much hurt and I shall be more careful in future.
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major kudos to GB News for going full steam ahead and airing this despite their presenter coming across as a belligerent oaf while greenpeace looks calm and reasoned.
'It's disgusting!'. EXCLUSIVE: GB News' @benleo444 turns up at Greenpeace's London HQ to quiz them about their stunt at Rishi Sunak's family home in Yorkshire.
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every time i see a tech person smugly post about chatGPT replacing journalists I wonder what these people think journalism actually involves. writing up the article is a v small percentage of the workload!.
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this is going to make twitter borderline unusable for newsgathering. can't wait to have to trawl through 800 posts to make sure that, say, Gordon Brown's account is actually his account.
On April 1st, we will begin winding down our legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks. To keep your blue checkmark on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue here: . Organizations can sign up for
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these are cute but I fundamentally don't know if you could use them for london food deliveries. Because if I wandered out of the pub at 11pm and saw one of these little lads trundling past I would absolutely tackle him, crack him open and help myself to his delicious cargo.
I just passed a malfunctioning robot from the @StarshipRobots fleet. It asked me to help it by unblocking it’s way. I said ‘no problem’ and lifted it onto the pavement. It courteously thanked me and set off down the road…
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@LozzaFox imagine if you could take this embarrassing experience on board and learn+grow from it eh.
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@tomhfh Tom if someone says "how much are you on" do you add up the value of all your potential sick days and annual leave and then add it to your salary.
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@elonmusk @JTLonsdale the allegation is that he was trying to deprive people of their right to vote. so while yes it could be described as 'just posting memes' it's kinda the content of them that matters, right.
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Once a week every politician should be asked how they would budget living in London on a 25k salary and if they say the word "netflix" it should trigger an immediate by election
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see also .
'At the time, I can categorically say, there was no body in the river.'. Peter Faulding, who helped search the River Wyre, says he now believes 'Nicola walked off somewhere & has gone in the river some other way'. Police have recovered a body near where Nicola Bulley went missing
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@getongab fukkin lol I thought it was left-wingers who were supposed to have victim complexes.
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@justinc21 @Liv_Boeree there's a legitimate discussion to be had about the values we impart to AI but "chat gpt won't let me say the bad word to stop Armageddon" is not part of it. It should be very obvious that chatgpt is hardcoded to avoid another Tay situation. It's not some woke conspiracy.
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Dont want to overly nostalgise because it was, obvsly, a shithole. My flatmates were evil. JWs visited daily. Bedbugs. But I was on £16k and I could afford to live there, buy a coffee most days, and 1x a week drink 8 pints of lager in a pub for £18. This London has gone now.
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I've known several people who avoided taking mental health leave because they worried it would be perceived as 'skiving' and it had universally dire consequences for them. rancid way to frame this article.
Whitehall Civil Servants Took 2,100 Man-Years of Stress-Related Sick Days Off Last Year .
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the "donkey is not allowed on the bed" rule did not last long
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approximately 50% of my friends are planning to move to New York. the ones that aren't are already in australia.
There is so little incentive for young people to stay in the UK . Unaffordable houses, huge tax burden, and low wages
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i know it's extremely Film Bro to point at a bloke shouting and call it amazing delivery but I'm justifying this one because he's just utterly pathetic. there's nothing powerful or intimidating about this.
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@SingleAspect I'm sure this is good advice but I'm afraid I don't think it says brilliant things about the state of the UK that "run away to sea" is a reasonable suggestion for 21 year olds facing prohibitively high rents.
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This is what you'll encounter if you're foolish enough to walk down the back alleys of bethnal green
@CharlotteCGill None of these clowns would walk through Tottenham high road unscathed, let alone the back alleys of Bethnal Green. Say nothing of an evening visit to Brixton.
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Butterflies spend ages as an egg, caterpillar and pupa. Then they finally emerge as a butterfly and live for like, a week. Huh,.
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when you definitely haven't been publicly embarrassed by a teenager.
@GretaThunberg How dare you?!.
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"citizen journalism" just means journalism without editors, subeditors, legal teams, etc. in general this is not a recipe for better journalism.
As Twitter pursues the goal of elevating citizen journalism, media elite will try everything to stop that from happening.
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starting to feel that "pestminster", while obviously a very good pun, is an increasingly inappropriate epithet for "there is an massive problem with sexual misconduct, harassment and abuse at the highest level of UK politics".
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Every single one of my friends who rents would have to move back in with their parents or a family member if they lost their job. I'm 30 years old.
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imagine living in a country where it was possible to call an ambulance.
imagine living in a country where it was possible to build a house.
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I know it's easy to lose sight of it in the midst of the chaos, but I think it's crucial to remember there's a truly deep importance - of an almost magical quality - to reporting The News
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more thoughtful and less snarky assessment here.
The Nicola Bulley case is so much more than either blaming 'The Tiktokers' or the police. Failure to adapt to a changing online landscape - not just TikTok but social media as a whole - by police AND the government is huge.
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15k likes. Are you joking. This algorithm is utterly cooked.
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being in journalism is great because when something is like a petty annoyance to you you can get someone vastly more qualified qualified to explain it to you over the course of 1200 words.
Am I being a nostalgia boomer or is phone signal just . awful now? A significant number of places in London where such strenuous tasks as "searching google" will take a good 30 seconds on 4g.
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The butterfly 🥹 on his shoulder 🥲 I am a monarchist now
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meanwhile, on the daily telegraph
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At the polling station. My son (8 years old) in a very loud voice said "dad, which box to bring back the XL bullies?" A cheer went up from the waiting voters.
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can i at least get a link to my profile in there. i desperately need the followers.
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