Tom Sutcliffe
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Writer for rent, talker for hire. I reserve the right to offend but I'll try to do it politely.
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Terrible day. Parked my red Tesla convertible outside Cape Canaveral Space Center and I’m pretty sure it’s been towed.
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Do we really need our Track and Trace programme to be “world-beating”? Wouldn’t “actually functioning” do?
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The question I have about the Post Office scandal is that no one seems to have said “This is VERY odd. There seems to have been an explosion of fraud. Among previously unimpeachable postmasters”. Didn’t the statistics alone howl at them that something was wrong?
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This, from an interview with Sam Bankman-Fried (whose crypto exchange has just imploded) is very funny. That loser Tolstoy. Think of the time he could have saved.
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The Michael Mosley thing is so sad. I keep on thinking “But he simply went for a walk”. And I’m pretty sure I might have done the same thing. “I wonder what the view’s like from up there? It won’t take more than twenty minutes.”
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It is not for me
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I ate the plums
that were in the icebox.
As you know
Sue Grey
is investigating
this matter
We await
her conclusions
so sweet
and so cold
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I defy you not to feel better after viewing this picture of Cristiano Ronaldo alongside his portrait bust.
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Other major retailers scramble to match Sainsburys new "You Won't Bump Into Laurence Fox" promise.
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You won't want to read this. It's long, it's complicated, it has a scary diagram. But it's REALLY significant.
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That Rees-Mogg gaffe was so interesting. Most people think of the police and fire service as authorities and/or experts, whose advice should be heeded in an emergency. At some level Rees-Mogg thinks of them as servants, whose advice can be ignored if he believes he knows better
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I don’t know about this. I think it might be better to let them sleep…
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I have to say they seem to be letting absolutely ANYONE into the metropolitan elite these days....
The front of the
#PeoplesVoteMarch
now entering Trafalgar Square with people still entering Park Lane from Hyde Park and Marble Arch at the back
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Funnily enough I learned about the ”impact on ordinary people“ when I did a speed awareness course. You’re five times more likely to die if you’re hit by a car going at 30mph than one going at 20mph, for example.
I’m slamming the brakes on the war on motorists - it's as simple as that.
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I honestly think the house is a bit of a clue here.
Blankets, boot rooms and silver mustard pots: the telltale signs that you are staying in a posh house
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Bizarrely I find myself thinking I should tell my Mum (long gone now) about the Queen…
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Last night alone, on BBC TV alone, you could have watched Confronting Holocaust Denial (BBC2), then Inside No 9 (BBC2), then switched over for series 3 of This Country (BBC1), all of them superb. You can still watch them on iPlayer. Cost per week £2.97. Other perks available.
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I beseech thee in the bowels of Christ, BBC News....STOP DOING VOX POPS!
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Always after attacks like these some rush to help and some rush to hate. The helpers try to contain the blast, the haters help to spread it.
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We're talking about The Simpsons on Front Row tonight as it starts its 31st season. Favourite lines? I think mine is "To alcohol! The cause of and solution to all of life's problems". Though I also think "Doh!" may be the greatest, and shortest, running gag ever written.
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@giles_fraser
Many, many people put what they believed was best for *their* families second to what was best for *everyone’s* family. That’s why they — not just the press — are angry.
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The Bashir story IS dismaying. Thank goodness we have this country’s tabloid press to offer the BBC a model of unfailing journalistic probity and transparent self-criticism.
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These attacks are awful. But only defeatists treat them as evidence of our society's weakness. It's an honour to be such people's enemy.
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If the moths got a bit organised they could win this. But they're all over the place.
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Every journalist who asks a three part question in these Covid press conferences is essentially saying "Ignore whichever of my questions you find most inconvenient". The forensic skills are dreadful.
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Since it seems to be necessary,
@suzanne_moore
is a thoughtful, *always* thought-provoking columnist. And she has a perfect right to disagree with people who seem to believe that disagreement with them, however courteous, is a hate crime.
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I’ll be candid with you. My not-drinking-on-week-nights thing has taken a bit of a knock.
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Defending free speech as long as it doesn't offend anyone isn't defending free speech. It's surrendering it.
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I hereby pledge NEVER to watch a programme in which two celebrities who can afford to pay for their own holidays are paid to go in holiday together. Join our temperance movement. We can stamp out the scourge of Proxy Celeb Holiday Telly.
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It's very mischievous of the electorate to tell the main parties to "get on with Brexit" by voting for anti-Brexit parties. Less experienced politicians might easily assume that they don't want to "get on with Brexit".
Wow Tories lose Folkstone with 6 new seats going to the Greens
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The naked contempt embedded in the phrase “trickle-down economics” always astonishes me.
“Shut up. You’ll be able to lick condensation off the wall. In time.”
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Great from
@JohnWilson14
: Bowie wasn't "a chameleon". Chameleons take on the colour of their surroundings. He made the world change colour.
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@RevRichardColes
Good King Wensleydale spread out.
On the crackers wheaten
Then the vicar came around
And all the cheese was eaten.
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The dog’s hairstyle and mine have been steadily converging during lockdown. We’re close to singularity.
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It's clearer to me now. It's not that they *can't* run a piss-up in a brewery. It's just that they're much more interested in taking control of the Piss-Up Planning Committee's Interim Steering Group than they are in actually getting pissed.
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Lucian Freud writes to his brother Clement after a falling out. (Not Safe For Siblings)
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I love the way people say a Second Referendum would damage public faith in politicians. Because obviously we’re all in awe of their statesmanlike command of the situation right now.
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I see Quince has gone. Snug, Flute, Starveling and Bottom said to be considering their positions.
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I am reading about how our sun will turn into a white dwarf in approximately 6 billion years time. The writer doesn’t say how this will affect Brexit, which is just sloppy frankly.
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The Deposition of the Bloke:
Scholars believe that the figure in the background holding the policeman’s helmet is most likely a portrait of the wealthy trader who commissioned the altarpiece.
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At every newspaper’s Picture Desk right now: “No…I think he looks wettest in this one. You can see drips and everything…”
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My family are all addicted to Bridgerton. It’s like a bowl of Quality Street have come to life and decided to do their own version of Hollyoaks.
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This story is a minor masterpiece of comic escalation. Actually, scrub that. It’s a masterpiece.
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“Like any journalist would be, I was excited and proud that my story was about to get such prominence.” But he was absolutely fine with having someone else’s byline on it. Like any journalist.
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This "Back to Work" push is interesting. The challenge: to persuade people to spend hundreds of pounds a month of their disposable income to cram into a railway carriage and wipe out 2 or 3 hours of their non-working day. In the knowledge they don't *have* to. Best of luck guys.
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@helenlewis
Listened to Greta Gerwig talking about exactly this on Adam Buxton's podcast this morning. But it must now be possible to say "no", surely?
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In order to save the village it was necessary to destroy it…
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For some reason I keep thinking of the Dad’s Army 50th anniversary commemorative stamps.
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Took my Dad to have his hair cut today. I was in the chair, he was in the mirror.
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People’s complacency about peace is astonishing. They have it for fifty years and they think “Oh, that’s just how the world is.”
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Extraordinary. First time authors complaining that publishers are stressing them out by publishing their books. I feel very old some days.
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I've given money to the RNLI in the past. I had no idea they didn't check people's passports before they saved their lives. Absolutely livid.
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Lifting a glass to my lovely daughter, who got a First today.
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Typical. The neighbours always call round just when the place is an absolutely shameful mess.
A radio signal is coming from a nearby galaxy, scientists announce
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I had a bit of a moment with this Hans Memling this morning. Partly because of the pathos of the look and the hand on the picture frame. But also because you can get *extraordinarily* close to the pictures at the Accademia. And the background is so beautiful…
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Emily Maitlis is basically running an open air clinic for the incurably delusional.
#Newsnight
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Delighted by this obviously. And very grateful to Radio Four for rethinking.
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If a few tens of shivering, desperate people heading towards us in dinghies constitutes a “crisis” then you have to wonder if we’re quite ready for the challenges of Brexit.
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I would ask people making this argument one question, politely. "Do you want it put back up then?"
Home Secretary Priti Patel says the toppling of a statue of slaver Edward Colston in Bristol is "utterly disgraceful" and 'undermines' anti-racism protests.
Follow live updates:
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Please don’t describe this morning as a farce. It’s really unfair. For a farce to work everyone on stage must know EXACTLY what they’re doing and steer well clear of wild improvisation.
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I’m not feeling low this morning because we lost. I’m feeling low because the loss lifted a stone and showed us what was underneath.
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Priti Patel is very clear that Theresa May was very clear, but it's still not clear what she was clear about.
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I think this may be the funniest yet. It's something to do with the comma. Which gives you space to imagine his bottom lip quivering.
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From Anthony Trollope’s autobiography, explaining what moved him to write The Way We Live Now.
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“We sent a Rich Tea biscuit to battle a Hob Nob. A Hob Nob is the tough one of biscuits. If we’d sent a Hob Nob with chocolate on to battle a Hob Nob we’d have won.” A member of the public cuts through the Brexit confusion on the Today programme.
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“Sources close to Sir Toby Belch say he now plans to get a grip on the ‘cakes and ale’ culture that has prevailed in Lady Olivia’s household. Top aide Andrew Aguecheek is likely to be asked to resign.”
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@giles_fraser
Don't exaggerate Giles. It means that religious people are likely to be asked how their beliefs might affect their conduct in public life. Which is surely reasonable.
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We can’t decide whether to take the dog on the boring walk, the tedious walk, the dreary walk or the grimly familiar walk. Choices, choices, choices.
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I am ashamed to say I don't even know which is my wife's favourite cow.
A man has proposed to his girlfriend by writing on the side of her favourite cow
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When I first saw this I thought “That’s just *got* to be a spoof”. So I followed her own link to the Telegraph website. And I still can’t believe it’s real…
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Brace, brace, brace. Really dreadful biography of Shakespeare incoming.
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Embarrassed to admit that I’ve only just grasped that they’re called hummingbirds because they hum. (Sound on.)
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Roughly 0.0007% of the British electorate are in the process of choosing our new Prime Minister. The current front runner is a man that many of them believe to be unsuitable for high office. This is being done in the name of “democracy”. Entirely normal for 2019.
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But also it's a classic, patrician failure of imagination. He doesn't imagine peering out into a corridor filled with choking smoke; he doesn't imagine wondering how you're going to get a sick relative down 15 flights of stairs; he doesn't imagine uncertainty and hope and fear.
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Shocking piece of journalism. No mention of which college. Or whether he was a member of the Bullingdon.
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My son found out that he was being made redundant from his first ever job last week. Lockdown cut-backs. Can't wait to tell him about the red, white and blue plane. That'll REALLY cheer him up.
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The Best Picture Oscar has gone to the wrong film LOADS of times before. This was just the first time they actually noticed in time.
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Genuinely impressed that UKIP, a party with only one MP, has already managed a backbench rebellion. Respect.
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The thing about that Clarkson article is that it’s so obviously not true. Of course he’s not unable to sleep because he’s grinding his teeth over Meghan. He’s NOT actually gone mad. He’s just calculatingly performing hatred for the likes. Which is even more disgusting.
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I arrive in the Front Row studio to find this. Compulsory in all BBC Studios in case of sudden Bloomsbury entanglement brain fog.
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