Alastair Jamieson
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Six weeks ago I was excited to find a
@Tesco
delivery slot so I immediately booked it with a £40 'placeholder' minimum order.
Forgot to amend it and now they're delivering one £40 bottle of single malt whisky between 2pm and 3pm 🤦♂️
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Our front page tomorrow
@Independent
‘The moment has come to do whatever it takes to force Israel to end its war. It has to stop.’
#TomorrowsPapersToday
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Intervened in a nasty robbery and assault in Mile End Park and got a good shoeing for my troubles. Victim was rescued and is safe. Suspects at large but we have pictures. Other victims also ok. I’m getting checked out at A&E. I was the only 999 caller among crowd of gawpers.
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Presents unwrapped ✅
Christmas lunch prepared ✅
Got engaged to
@TimmyLDN
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(I had to hurry him for an answer as I had one knee in the mud… fortunately it was ‘yes’ 🤩)
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Kellyann Conway tells
@chucktodd
Sean Spicer was offering "alternative facts" not falsehoods
#alternativefacts
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Sorry, their names are what?
'
@KirstieMAllsopp
and
@PhilSpencerTV
pay a return visit to Jamie Lea and Curtis who were torn over whether to Love or List their terrace back in 2019. Catch
#LoveItOrListIt
tonight at 8pm on
@Channel4
to find out
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Adrian Chiles to voter on 5 Live: “Where you voted, was it close?”
Voter: “It was just down the road.”
🤦♂️
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My incredibly talented, kind and generous dad, Bill Jamieson, has died in hospital after a battle with cancer. Mum and I are heartbroken. He was a lifelong and respected journalist. /1
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The Finsbury Park attacker probably owes his life to this imam, Mohammed Mahmoud, for calmly intervening and upholding the law
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Nobody is stranded. They will get home. Far too much drama about people’s cheap holidays, not enough focus on lost jobs and livelihoods.
Thomas Cook's collapse strands about 50,000 in Greece, official says
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@Independent
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‘Stop selling arms to Israel NOW’
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This experience
@natsecwatson
echoes my own when I was detained for hours by CBP and verbally abused for being "fake news" because I worked for
@nbcnews
. Wildly inappropriate. Complaint was waved off. I haven't returned to the US since.
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This is entirely my fault, because 3 hours ago I changed my booking from Portugal to Greece.
Having previously changed it from Croatia to Portugal.
After previously changing it from Spain to Croatia.
🤦♂️
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Editorial: It's time to stop.
The least that can be asked is that Israel, as a member of the United Nations, complies with the resolutions of the security council and the instructions of the International Court of Justice.
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The very middle class street behind is organising a Jubilee party and the Whatsapp group is an absolute and utter horror show
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They were banned from marching for Pride in Istanbul, and faced riot police, tear gas and the far-right. They marched anyway.
#Pride2017
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I can’t believe how many times I had to shout “call the police” before anyone did. A driver tooted me in traffic in the road! I was kicked repeatedly in front of a large crowd of witnesses, nobody intervened. The original victim was also kicked. Please call 999 if nothing else!
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Naturally, Scotland has smashed it with the banners at today’s Edinburgh protest
#TrumpVisit
#TrumpProtest
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Our front page tomorrow
@Independent
#TomorrowsPapersToday
Coverage and analysis from
@JohnRentoul
@AndyWoodcock
@HamishMcRae5
and
@_SeanOGrady
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The daily death toll when we entered lockdown was 56.
Today as lockdown lift tests are met it's 377.
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Oh, and I had piss thrown at me by one of their mates (not acid, so could have been worse) and their other mates turned up at the scene to taunt the police and the victims. Not very pleasant but ... nobody died. Nearly the weekend 👍🏻😊
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They banned us from marching in the streets of Istanbul so we're making a noise out on the Bosphorus
#Pride2016
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Daily Mail clears up the issue of 'acceptable' Olympic celebrations
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|-----------|
| PERSONAL |
| NEWS |
|-----------|
(\__/) ||
(•ㅅ•) ||
/ づ
Starting this morning as Deputy News Editor at
@Independent
. Trying not to get my lunch money stolen.
Merci et au revoir,
@euronews
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Dad wore his red socks for the final time today, to the sounds of White Rose (Treverva) and Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold. He would have guffawed at making everyone hear Wagner one last time ❤️
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There’s a smart casual dress code, according to the Google Doc.
I’m going to crash it in a vest and shorts with a six-pack of Stella.
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Most importantly to me, he was a forgiving father who never talked me out of following him into the exciting if impecunious world of journalism. His study still smells of tobacco and deadlines and he is missed so very, very much. /5
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So many thousands in London Trafalgar Square that the stage is out of earshot from the back so they’re just having a party. St Martin-in-the-Fields church has seen big days down the centuries, this is one of them
#trumpprotest
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Coronavirus is such a curse. We got the (expected) news today that dad’s cancer is now untreatable. In a phonecall. We can’t visit. He’s been in Treliske A&E for days, alone, frightened and confused and has no idea how much he’s missed and loved.
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When they arrived, police were brilliant. A lot of people don’t intervene for fear of knives apparently. Makes sense, I realise how stupid I was to step in tbh 🤷♂️
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@JamieOGrady
@jamescdyer
Sadly it’s not unusual. It was stopped in Dec 2017 even as a Global Entry/TSA Pre frequent flyer working for NBC and was given two hours of shit in an open room. “You’re a journalist, you’re the worst” and “Why did you go to Turkey? Did you have sex there?” etc
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@CamVargas8
I was just feeling good that I’d closed my rings on Apple Watch then I saw this 😳 Well done!
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It’s sad that
@British_Airways
is completely retiring the 747 but I care leas about aircraft than the despicable treatment of the crew who work on them.
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@Independent
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Sunak’s wife avoids tax through non-dom status - exclusive by
@Annaisaac
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@alstewitn
Gales of laughter upstairs in the newsroom as nobody knew which direction she was going in next
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Not only was Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean delivering news of the killing of his friend and colleague, he was doing so on his last day in the job prior to retirement. He went to the scene from his own retirement dinner.
#ThousandOaks
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Bilbao cat on the loose inside a pottery craft store overnight. 2/10 for ignoring window-shoppers, 10/10 for somehow not smashing everything inside to pieces
@thecatreviewer
#caturday
#gato
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Palestinian singer wins Arab Idol
انا ابن هذه الارض ورائحة ترابها الندي ،انا ابن الحلم وصوتكم الذي لا ينتهي،
شكرا لقلوبكم ومن هنا نبدأ.
#الاسمراني #يعقوب_شاهين
#ArabIdol
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@darrenadam
@iainpope73
@edinburghpaper
@TheScotsman
Ridiculous word, but beautifully short for headlines.
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The even larger Stop Trump Coalition march is ready to start in Langham Place. It’s already ferociously noisy and full of Dump Trump banners
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British Airways suffering another complete systemwide outage for the second time in a week. All BA fights grounded at Heathrow, indefinite delays. On top of the massive baggage snafu earlier in the week and the looming catering strike.
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Boris statement: No date for departure, blamed everyone else but himself (his colleagues, 'the herd', the 'Darwinian system') and didn't even explicitly say he's stepping down - just that the leadership process will begin next week. An anti-resignation statement.
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Seems I grabbed the wrong towel on my way to the gym 🤦♂️
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Calling Sadiq Khan 'Genghis' with an accompanying cartoon is next-level
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I would give anything to be in the room when somebody has to translate these banners for the White House press corps
#TrumpProtests
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While Trump relaxes at his Turnberry golf resort in Scotland, thousands are gathering in Edinburgh to protest. The crowd is between the Scottish Parliament and the queen’s palace at Holyrood
Trump arrives in Scotland for golf, quiet after tumultuous week on world stage
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I did not endure 2020 so that we could be forced to use the word ‘shacket’
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White House adviser Gorka's mother was a translator for discredited Nazi holocaust historian David Irving
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"Hello, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn"
http://t.co/DgGzKoW5rZ
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The bleakest thing I’ve seen this Christmas: the tree at Paddington station is sponsored by ‘buy now pay later’ giant Klarna
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Well this was an unexpected turn of events for a Sunday … in A&E recovering from an appendectomy. Whatever they gave me for the surgery it was fabulous, I’m flying.
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@thecatreviewer
Caught in the act: naughty cat ripping down net curtains behind frosted glass. 1/10 for behaviour, 10/10 for freezing and trying to style it out as an ornament
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Scotland imposes localised lockdown in Aberdeen amid fears of 'significant outbreak'
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Lol at my Apple Watch forlornly congratulating me on standing up as some kind of achievement.
I stood up to get a flapjack from the kitchen.
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Covid is ripping through London - get the booster if you can, get a PCR test if you can, and I would add stay at home if you can. Even mild symptoms are unpleasant.
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George W Bush tells
@TODAYshow
: It's hard to tell other countries to have an Independent media if we're against it ourselves
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Haunting pictures of Ukrainians sheltering in the Kyiv metro this morning from Daniel Leal
@lealolivas
via
@AFPphoto
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@waltshaub
@natsecwatson
@NBCNews
@DHSOIG
Totally. I couldn't believe the venom of these particular officers. They also read the list of my Facebook friends out loud in the waiting/holding area and asked me to confirm which ones I had slept with. The rules allow it...
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First up is the women-led
#BringTheNoise
march heading for Parliament Square. There are a lot of orange and pink banners and balloons
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Bursting with pride that dad is
@AICPRESS
Best Scottish Journalist (again) ... all the more remarkable given how much of the previous year he was very poorly ❤️
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He broke the story of the collapse of Barings Bank in 1995. On top of a Fleet Street career, he was an author, speaker and columnist who wrote as elegantly and entertainingly about his garden as finance and politics. /4
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'We need chain saws...we need everything': Scramble for Italy quake survivors, 21 dead
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Call me cynical but the demise of Jeremy Kyle feels like the closure of the News of the World, an act of corporate convenience on a struggling product. Look for what replaces it. Not to mention This Morning’s exploitation of ‘unusual’ guests.
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*gasp in newsroom*
News ed 1: "Oh my god, look!"
News ed 2, rushing over: "What?"
News ed 1: "It's a panda doing sit-ups"
@OHnewsroom
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@Peston
Why does everything have to be likened to WW2? It’s a public health precaution, not Dunkirk
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6.000 lightning strikes in just 15 mins over
#Pensacola
per
@twcMariaLaRosa
- many residents trapped in homes now
http://t.co/Gy26kNTQks
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BREAKING Sports Direct received a tax demand from Belgium authorities on Thursday for €674 million
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Me, a week ago:
French border agent: <super-sarcastically> “Bonjour!”
Me, today: “Bon soir”
Passport agent:
Me:
Passport agent:
Me: “Bon soir”
Passport agent: “Next time you will be arrested”
What a country 🇫🇷
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I don't know what
@campbellclaret
had for breakfast but based on this performance with
@BBCSimonMcCoy
on BBC News right now I definitely want some.
Plug it into my veins.
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Covid cruelly stole our final days with him. We were only allowed to visit him, for the first time in two weeks, on Friday and he died, alone, in the early hours of Saturday. Like so many, he did not die from coronavirus but it caused a lot of pain. /2
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#keepingfaith
is not just a brilliant piece of emotional drama but
@TeamEveMyles
has created the ultimate female character, not afraid to be complicated. The most enjoyable series in AGES 🏴
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EasyJet flight to France bingo
✅ Furthest possible gate
✅ Unannounced delay
✅ French scout group onboard
✅ Boarding like fire drill in asylum
✅ Acrid, nauseating stench of BO
✅ Seated in middle of family of 5
✅ Specifically, next to the toddler
✅ Various fights about bags
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On Father’s Day, we finally scattered dad’s ashes in the burn between Glen Ogle and Loch Earn at the bottom of the garden he loved in Lochearnhead. Sad to be leaving the village, too. RIP Bill x
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✅ Home > Work 6.30am
✅Work
✅Bus, Tube to Tottenham Hale
✅Train to
@STN_Airport
✅
@easyjet
to
@GLA_Airport
🏴
✅ScotRail to Wemyss Bay
✅
@calmacferries
to Rothesay 9pm
✅Dad’s bday weekend on Bute
🍺
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