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Fleet Street hack and author. Often sarcastic, occasionally right. Fox (n) carnivore of genus vulpes; crafty person; scavenger; (vb) to confuse; to be drunk

Jul 28, 2021, 6 tweets

30 years ago, the government felt there was no need to invest in the internet, as people only needed telecoms for things like phone calls and Teletext.

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Scroll forward a few years, and the Tory ideology that the marketplace could be left to its own devices has been proven utterly false.

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Britain has the worst broadband speeds in Europe, and 97% of us get online using Victorian tech that has barely changed since it was first invented to carry Morse code.

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Find out who broke Britain's broadband, why, and what you can do about it, in a special @dailymirror investigation tomorrow: #REBOOT

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Why do I get the feeling I'll be using that gif until the end times.

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