Born in Yorkshire to Irish & Welsh parents. Supports Ireland @ Rugby and Football. Interested music 🎶 , sports 🏉 politics & drama 🎭
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What an outrageous tweet! This is the tweet of someone unfit to sit in Parliament. A pointless talentless grifting nonentity! Absolutely clueless
Pity the French did not show the same resolve in defending their sovereignty in June 1940.
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About 90,000–100,000 French soldiers were killed during the Battle of France (May–June 1940), when Germany invaded. Around 92,000 is the figure most commonly cited.
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News of cuts at UTV - gutting what remains of local programming - are devastating.
Thoughts first with affected staff @NUJofficial but also deep concern about what will be left of local broadcasting as BBC NI cuts widely and without any accountability.
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General view is that the UK-EU deal is done whatever the Prime Minister says about tough days ahead. Half-hearted performative toughness because old habits die hard.
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Good Lord.🙄🙄 He has done enough damage and should really not be given any platform to spout his sanctimonious bullshit.
What part of the fact that the ECHR explicitly entwined in & underpins the GFA. And leaving the ECHR would be a breach of & break the GFA. Does @David_Cameron fail to understand. The man who inflicted a needless divisive referendum on the country should keep quiet. He's clueless
Full episode with David Cameron is out - he now believes UK should leave the ECHR
Listen ⬇️
link.podtrac.com/t6kcc20c
Read @ChaplainChloe ⬇️
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Claims of huge costs to the UK from an EU SPS deal are pure invention, bear no resemblance to economics, have never been peer reviewed, aren't shared by industry, and should not be transmitted by anyone serious.
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🚨 I cannot keep quiet any longer.
This week has been deeply distressing as horrific claims of sexual abuse in entertainment and comedy surfaced.
The media has been in a tailspin to claim shock at these allegations.
I have tried to stop myself, but I cannot say nothing as I watch highly paid, powerful national journalists opine on the wrongs of sexual abusers, while doing absolutely nothing about the abuser in their own backyard.
One of the most prolific sexual abusers in British public life is hiding in plain sight among the media.
I have heard allegations of this man’s sexual abuse going back 25 years.
Tens of men have come forward to me to allege how he abused them.
Stories like being forced to sign an NDA after this man demanded they expose his penis when asking for a promotion.
The man who rang me in tears, holding his wife’s hand, as he described being groped at a party conference and later sexually harassed.
The man who said he tried to force them to perform oral sex after he stripped all his clothes off unrequested when they went for a drink in a hotel.
The man who was in his first graduate job and was asked, out of nowhere, by this old man: “how will my spunk taste on the back of your throat?”
Tomorrow, this man will walk into his workplace, his colleagues knowing exactly what type of behaviour he is accused of. They will do absolutely nothing to stop him, while telling each other how terrible these stories of abuse are.
Some of the best known faces in British news - BBC and commercial broadcasters, national newspaper columnists and editors - will continue to sit with him at book tours, on TV shows and invite him to their Christmas parties.
Then they will turn up at work and claim to you, the viewers and readers, that they cannot understand why people do not speak out in their industry and how such abuse happens.
My industry, the media, is dominated by the vacuous and weak willed who want all the ego and profit of national profile, but take none of the responsibilities of their positions when it involves someone they know.
That is why this keeps happening. And it has not changed.
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MUST: “It is time for the owners to explain themselves and show some accountability." bbc.co.uk/sport/football/liv…
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"stupidity"? Ironic. Again we have the gross stupidity of using specific selected EU countries to compare UK growth against. It's not relevant how much other EU countries have (27 variable, some better than others) growth into countries outside the EU, the UK rejoining the EU would *guarantee* greater UK growth ...*into the EU27*
By again removing the hardest of barriers to trade & growth against the EU27, we resurrected against them by leaving the EU.. Barriers to trade & growth we have not removed equally into any other country (where here it's not in the UK's gift to).
Since the date that Britain left the European Union (the single market and the customs union), the economies in the United States and the United Kingdom have grown by 19.2% and 15.7% respectively.
The two biggest EU economies — Germany and France — have grown by 4.5% and 10.5%.
Why would the Burnham Labour government want to tie us more closely again to the single market and the customs union? Britain’s exports to non-EU countries have risen to almost 60% of the total in the same period.
Before they crow about today’s growth figures, they might want to consider the utter stupidity of their own EU policy.
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Devastating to read this testimony at the Omagh Bombing Inquiry.
The former head of the investigation now believes one of those who brought the bomb into town was a state agent.
The families who lost 31 loved ones deserve the full, unvarnished truth. #Omagh
The former head of the Omagh Bomb investigation said he believes one of the people who brought the bomb to the town on the day of the attack was an agent itv.com/news/utv/2026-11-12/…
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Please take a moment to look at Zelenskyy’s face here.
Zelensky welcomes US bringing Europe into Russia-Ukraine peace talks bbc.in/4C0RbvZ
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But his supporters told us he was innocent…
'Danny Tommo' pleads guilty to criminal damage after slashing migrant boat with knife in English Channel trib.al/XQQsCJR
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You've ever so conveniently left out UK's 2020 Covid slump but included its 2021/22 Covid rebound.
G7 growth since 2019-Q4:
🇺🇸 17.3%
🇨🇦 12.3%
🇪🇺 9.1%
🇮🇹 8.7%
🇬🇧 6.9% (including 2026-Q3)
🇫🇷 6.1%
🇯🇵 5.6% (to 2026-Q2)
🇩🇪 2.1%
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United statement reflecting how Carrick protected the ownership by not calling them out as his reign unravelled - but the praise of his conduct not attributed to any club leader but the communications department
"It's very much quite a cold statement."
Sky's @RobHarris analyses Manchester United's statement after the Red Devils sacked head coach Michael Carrick, with the club sitting in the Premier League relegation zone.
trib.al/1Jyq2p6
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602
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"It's very much quite a cold statement."
Sky's @RobHarris analyses Manchester United's statement after the Red Devils sacked head coach Michael Carrick, with the club sitting in the Premier League relegation zone.
trib.al/1Jyq2p6
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602
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The importance of @DanJohnsonNews and @BBCWorld team bringing the truth about Russia's war on Ukraine's energy system to audiences.
Today the BBC is showing what russia’s war on Ukraine’s energy system really looks like.
At one of DTEK’s thermal power plants, they witnessed destruction on a scale we have rarely seen during five years of war.
And they saw the consequences: ordinary Ukrainian families facing long hours in apartments without heat and electricity as winter approaches.
Our energy workers are fighting to restore what russia destroys. But resilience is not a substitute for protection.
That is why our message to Ukraine’s partners is so simple: give us the air defence to protect our energy system, and you protect the everyday lives of millions of people.
My thanks to @DanJohnsonNews and the @BBCWorld News team for telling this story.
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Welcome opportunity to meet Prime Minister @MarkJCarney at the EPC in Dublin.
We discussed the ever stronger personal, historical and economic ties between Ireland, Europe and Canada.
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‘I wouldn’t say it’s an experimental team’ – Andy Farrell calls on Ireland to build on strong start against Fiji
independent.ie/sport/rugby/i…
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Tadhg Beirne captains an Ireland team that shows seven personnel changes from the side that beat Argentina ☘️ 🇫🇯
Mack Hansen fullback, with Tommy O'Brien getting a chance on the left wing.
James McNabney set for his full @IrishRugby debut, off the bench 👏
