Ex-journalist, author, pension trustee and The Krankies official biographer (new edition https://teapaw.org/t.co/f6yslEPBAs)
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Matt Bendoris retweeted
The thing I find strangest about the Brand case is that from the moment he was exposed he knew he was done. The fake religious conversion. The embrace of MAGA. The great conspiracy theories. They were his last desperate defence. And there are still people on the Right falling for his bullshit.
Matt Bendoris retweeted
Katherine Ryan didn't need a jury. She revealed Russell Brand's true nature a while ago.
Matt Bendoris retweeted
I’ve worked with some fantastic journalists in my 29 years on the job. My pride at @Gabriel_Pogrund knows no bounds for example. But what @RosamundUrwin had to go through to get the Brand allegations past the lawyers and over the line is of a different order from anything I’ve ever achieved in this job. She is brave, principled, a great reporter, a beautiful writer and a gutsy human being. I am frankly proud to know her let alone call her a friend. The KC who lost his rag earlier should rot in hell
Matt Bendoris retweeted
Fleet Street columnists were frequently acidic about Brand. We rang the alarms as loudly as was legally possible. Yet broadcasting bosses, normally so sensitive to bad publicity, ignnored us, I suppose because we were Rightwing.
Matt Bendoris retweeted
Not the first time @jamesmatthewsky has had a tough time. I remember years ago outside Balmoral as he tried to explain to a Highland policeman that Sky News needed to stand in front of the gate. The officer huffed: ‘Skye News you say? Well f…* off back to Portree.’
Michigan's Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed confronted @jamesmatthewsky, telling him he wouldn't answer his questions as he wants "zero" votes in the UK.
Watch the heated exchange between the two.
Watch our live coverage of the US midterms➡️ trib.al/BikRSb2
Matt Bendoris retweeted
Witnesses to Parliamentary Committees have absolute parliamentary immunity.
If the House of Women and Equalities Committee called Ms Berki as a witness then she'd be unconstrained by the injunction.
And, for the first time in eleven years, we could hear her side of the story.
Matt Bendoris retweeted
So what precisely did Ms Berki allege? There's little in the UK press. But there was extensive coverage in the Hungarian press: 24.hu/szorakozas/2014/08/04/…
Matt Bendoris retweeted
Now Russell Brand's been convicted of rape, we need to talk about Sylvie Berki. Because she can't speak for herself.
In 2014, Ms Berki said she'd been assaulted by Russell Brand.
But if she talks about it, even now, she risks jail.
Matt Bendoris retweeted
The Big Yin 👏👏👏🤣
#billyconnolly
Matt Bendoris retweeted
To take the most egregious example, the claim that if a woman hasn't physically fought back or screamed, then it is unlikely to have been rape
Matt Bendoris retweeted
So now we can say the thing that we couldn't say before: that Russell Brand's barrister's arguments on his client's behalf were utterly disgraceful and seemed rooted in the misogynistic past
Well done for keeping the heid @jamesmatthewsky
Michigan's Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed confronted @jamesmatthewsky, telling him he wouldn't answer his questions as he wants "zero" votes in the UK.
Watch the heated exchange between the two.
Watch our live coverage of the US midterms➡️ trib.al/BikRSb2
Matt Bendoris retweeted
£100 cost-of-living payment (for some).. but typical energy bills up by by nearly £500.
My column this week about the art of the gimmick and distractions from the grim big picture (also featuring crappy "free" school bags in Scotland)
thescottishsun.co.uk/news/17…
The latest predictions for the January Price Cap - AWFUL, up 28.8%! This is our internal MSE document where we average three forecasts and how its changed over the past few weeks as wholesale rates have continued to rocket.
PS Jan prediction is getting much more locked in as we're 85% through the 19 August to 17 November 2026 assessment period. April & July predictions are much more crystal ballgazing.
ALT Week-by-week predictions for how much the January 2027 energy price cap will rise from the current cap, averaged from British Gas, E.ON and EDF forecasts: 15 Sep: up 24.9% 22 Sep: up 22.9% 29 Sep: up 21.0% 6 Oct: up 20.9%, the low point 13 Oct: up 25.0% 20 Oct: up 25.7% 27 Oct: up 27.0% 3 Nov: up 28.8%, the highest yet The predicted rise eased through September, then has grown every week since early October.
Matt Bendoris retweeted
Making content from other peoples misery,
Let me provide some clarification,
I wrote a poem about her brother in law,
And his consequential incarceration,
I also wrote about her sister, Nicola,
And how her eyes must be painted oan,
And the campervan that was parked,
In a completely visible zone….
And then this unhinged crackpot,
Reported me to the police,
Aw for a some words that happened to rhyme,
About Pedro the SNP thief!
Matt Bendoris retweeted
In the hardback edition of Sturgeon's memoir, this anecdote about the day after the 2015 appeared. It was false: I didn't go down to London that day. In the paperback version it has been corrected. It was Jimmy Hood who was aboard that plane, not me. But why include such a nasty, spiteful story in the first place?
Matt Bendoris retweeted
Tend to agree. Always found Alyn Smith to be knowledgeable and pragmatic. He's the Innovation Minister, not an anti-AI activist
