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I got a commendation in a major journalism award and was chuffed to bits about it. I had a rough couple of years before trying to get back in the game and do what I love the most.
The faith that @BusinessDesk_NW .com have shown in me has been awesome.
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Michael Taylor retweeted
Simon Heffer’s final pars in his review of Liz Truss’ new book.
Of all the best examples of the Westminster unreality machine, where parts of the illiberal metropolitan elite and press build someone up clearly beyond their abilities, she was by far the worst. Zero accountability, of course.
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Michael Taylor retweeted
‘Of all the books I have ever reviewed that purported to offer a serious thesis, this is without question the most deranged.’
Simon Heffer gives zero stars to a ‘preposterous’ rant by a crank conspiracy theorist who for a few days was once PM, @trussliz. telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi…
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Michael Taylor retweeted
I'm about to talk to BBC Radio 4. Not quite sure what I can add...
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Mix of opinion when we asked Manchester City fans in business what they thought.
Including: “a con job by the ruling powers of Abu Dhabi/ UAE to use City and football as their sports washing weapon. The fans of City have been collectively gas-lit."
thebusinessdesk.com/northwes…
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Michael Taylor retweeted
Not true. Fiona Bruce and the team have always made clear that Question Time has robust vetting procedures in place. Everyone who applies to be in the audience is interviewed and has to provide links to their social media accounts. If they don't - they don't get in.
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Michael Taylor retweeted
Paying our respects to Luděk Mikloško.
A true Blackburn Rovers hero.
Delivered to West Ham United on behalf of the BRFCS.com community this morning.
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So.... £2,485 on glasses for a PM was "sleaze rotting our politics to the core" but £72,000,000 in a single day for Nigel Farage is celebrated as hitting "the jackpot" and a "war chest..."
Whatever is happening here is happening in plain sight. You decide!
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Michael Taylor retweeted
If Channel 4 is successful in bringing down both Reform UK and Tommy Robinson, we're going to have to ask some very difficult questions about the BBC, and why its news team failed to use its resources to investigate, scrutinise and challenge the far right, in the way Channel 4 has.
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Mail. Telegraph. Express … a political leader they have been campaigning to get in power is to be interviewed by police over corruption allegations. Not a word on their front pages. (Sun not on display at local shop so don’t know about them!) This is the real two tier Britain, the media double standards
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Michael Taylor retweeted
Just donated to the RNLI. Here's the link
rnli.org/support-us/give-mon…
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With the heroes of the @RNLI under attack again, I’m reminded of this passage from Bill Bryson.
ALT I had never really stopped to consider what an extraordinary thing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is. Think about it. A troubled ship calls for help, and eight people - teachers, plumbers, the guy who runs the pub - drop everything and put to sea, whatever the weather, asking no questions, imperilling their own lives, to try to help strangers. Is there anything more brave and noble than that? The RNLI - I looked this up later - is an organization run by volunteers, supported entirely by public donations. It maintains 233 stations around the coast of Britain and averages twenty-two call-outs per day. It saves 350 lives a year on average.
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“I wasn’t listening…” as a PR defence is right up with “I didn’t read the e-mail I opened…” defence which was the new “I have no recollection…” defence; All these strategies work within the perpetrator’s tribe, but nowhere else.
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Good timing for the @FT to profile the important role James Orr plays in Reform. Not just “a contractor”
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One thing I didn’t fully appreciate. The footage with Farage was filmed during the Clacton by-election. The by-election that was literally called in an effort to draw a line under the Reform cash and sleaze narrative.
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I, Kevin Rowland (the son of Irish immigrants) and the main songwriter of ‘Come On Eileen,’ am disgusted to learn that Nigel Farage has used our song to make his entrance for his party conference. Myself, and all of Dexys are passionately against Farage’s politics.
@ByDonkeys .
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RT @EmilyThornberry: I’m not usually one to defend Zack Polanski, but the idea he doesn’t have at least one single connection to Camden is…
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