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Retired lobby correspondent (Yorkshire Post, NOW! Magazine) and former Head of Communications at British Medical Association and World Medical Association (and lifetime Spurs supporter)
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The Telegraph has become nothing more than a national embarrassment

submitted 6 days ago • 54 comments

Sad to hear Joe Haines has died. One of the most revealing insiders into Harold Wilson's governments, his books and interviews are compelling historical sources - despite omitting at least one secret (Wilson's affair) which he only revealed last year. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Final thought on #PMQs: When Badenoch said to Starmer, “He’s not listening, he is too busy defending the international law framework” - I genuinely burst out laughing What on earth does that mean? www.politics.co.uk/politicslunc...

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Turn on BBC news to hear a top story about how Rachel Reeves left the Bank of England in March 2006 rather than December 2006. Turn off BBC news.

submitted 13 days ago • 43 comments

Guglielmo Vicario, Destiny Udogie, James Maddison, Brennan Johnson and Timo Werner are all pushing to return to training for Tottenham this week, as the club's chronic injury crisis finally begins to ease. Story: www.standard.co.uk/sport/footba...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

this Times headline is very misleading as the following pars - in the same article - explains more fair to say “a handful of packed state schools have no room for private pupils says 2022/23 data”

submitted 16 days ago • 43 comments

Woke up with a terrible dread, realised that it’s match day. Timidly crying out #COYS

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Trump making America “normal” again?! Oh. Bugger off Murdoch. (And Justin Webb). And @thetimes.com

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

Doesn't the morning after a win feel lovely? Even when the rain is coming sideways in the wind

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

What an extraordinary man Attlee was - ex-Haileybury, Army Major, clipped accent, Home Counties, married to a Conservative, practicing Christian, but a lifelong socialist. He’d be drummed out of the Labour Party today!

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Badenoch was Minister for Children and Families. She never once raised the issue of grooming gangs or met any survivors. But now she implies that Labour MPs are complicit, refuses to defend Jess Phillips and hopes to wreck the child safety bill. All to please Musk. Utterly… unforgivably detestable.

submitted 49 days ago • 56 comments

I don't understand the political timidity when it comes to regulating social media. These are companies that have decimated the free press, fuelled race riots on our streets, undermined the mental health of our children, paid little tax and are now undermining liberal democracy itself.

submitted 50 days ago • 177 comments

Holy shit 2025 has got off to a galloping start hasn’t it? Just everything in the news is completely unhinged.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

This Spurs side needs therapy

submitted 87 days ago • 13 comments

What a grievous loss for the BBC and us the audience. Brilliant journalist, and such a fine person and role model www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

submitted 91 days ago • 79 comments

even as a cry for attention this is a little desperate

submitted 92 days ago • 317 comments

I’m sorry, right, but the petition thing is actually really quite funny.

submitted 93 days ago • 60 comments

Please help the Bylines Network get over 50K! Follow @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social … and share. Thank you. 🙏🏻

submitted 93 days ago • 26 comments

Netflix - please stop minimising the end credits of movies to suggest something else. Let viewers enjoy the soundtrack and see the cast and crew that worked on the film. We'll exit it ourselves when ready to. #film #filmsky #movies #moviesky

submitted 93 days ago • 1801 comments

Feel very good about Tottenham and Dom Solanke. Big money, as always for an English player, but there’s such range and selflessness to his game. Goals and awareness of the team around him, with and without the ball.

submitted 94 days ago • 23 comments

So. Who’s still buzzing after yesterday?

submitted 94 days ago • 6 comments

I was lucky enough to meet Ben Davies recently and to be able to thank him for all he does for our Club. He’s such a loyal, lovely, unassuming guy who’ll do anything asked of him. We shouldn’t take him for granted.

submitted 94 days ago • 4 comments

Wasn’t it men who led us into WW1, men who took us into WW2 and it’s men who are leading us into WW3. Isn’t it time to give women a chance?

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Trump and Musk - buddies no more?

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

"Physician associates are putting patients’ lives at risk - the government is right to reconsider the role." @johnnyjenkins.bsky.social writes for LBC views. 📰 lbc.co.uk/opinion/views/fake-doctors-have-flooded-our-nhs-its-time-to-get-rid-of-physician-associates

submitted 98 days ago • 9 comments

We need a coalition of the willing. An open letter: bylinetimes.com/2024/11/19/e...

submitted 99 days ago • 59 comments

🔴Amid the Media Noise About ‘Cronyism’, Keir Starmer Is Quietly Reforming Political Standards for the Better The spectre of Boris Johnson’s assault on standards in public life is slowly retreating, argues @josiah.writes.news bylinetimes.com/2024/11/19/a...

submitted 99 days ago • 9 comments

Spurs interested in bringing Harry Winks back. Really?

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

First spurs game for the Bluesky next weekend will be interesting...

submitted 101 days ago • 5 comments

Five years since Levy sacked Pochettino led to give wasted years at Spurs

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Victoria Derbyshire nails Jeremy Clarkson over his Inheritance Tax scam. Hilarious to watch him squirm.

submitted 99 days ago • 751 comments

Man who told The Times in 2021 that he’d only bought his £4.25m farm to avoid paying inheritance tax to lead protest against inheritance tax 😂🤣😂 www.thesun.co.uk/news/3179317...

submitted 99 days ago • 188 comments

A really good article by Will Hutton that sets things into perspective. 👇

submitted 101 days ago • 11 comments

#r4today already getting it wrong in its coverage from Turkey: 1) Turkey has never been "welcoming" to refugees. The EU paid it, a lot, to prevent people reaching its borders, and Turkey has been shown to repeatedly abuse them. 2) Refugees are not "illegal". Nothing about what they do is illegal.

submitted 100 days ago • 21 comments

I find this hilarious.

submitted 100 days ago • 1293 comments

Guardian Essential poll: almost half of Australian voters want Aukus reviewed after Donald Trump’s election win www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 100 days ago • 8 comments

"Vaccination has probably saved more lives & is better researched than most, if not all, aspects of healthcare. RFK Jr could set this back & be responsible for the death & disability of myriads of people, particularly children.” Outstanding BBC fact check on RFK 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 100 days ago • 55 comments

Caroline Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador to Australia, said on Monday that her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ideas about vaccination were “dangerous” and out of the mainstream.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Caroline Lucas and Dominic Grieve join forces as new European Movement Co-Presidents 👏 www.europeanmovement.co.uk/new-european...

submitted 100 days ago • 16 comments

Politicians, MPs, and Parliamentarians alike have tried their best to avoid the elephant in the room in recent months. But the spectre of Brexit is simply becoming too big to ignore www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/kei...

submitted 101 days ago • 37 comments

After Odobert needing surgery this is really turning out to be an awful international break. 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘫𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺. (𝘎𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘌𝘥𝘶𝘭)

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments