Thread by @pmdfoster

So @telegraph telegraph.co.uk turns 25 today - and the paywall is down for 25 hours to celebrate.

I often send people articles and they say "was that really in the Tel?" - so here's a selection of my stuff that really was...free to view til tom AM. 1/

@Telegraph So here is the inside story of the 10 helter-skelter days when @BorisJohnson clinched his #brexit deal by agreeing to a Northern Ireland only backstop, with figleaves. /2

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…

@Telegraph @BorisJohnson Here's an interview with @PhilipHammondUK on why all these trade deals that @BorisJohnson
wants to sigh will have "very limited" economic value - but huge costs for EU-UK trade /3

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…

@Telegraph @BorisJohnson @PhilipHammondUK Inside @BorisJohnson war cabinet - the early "sham" (D. Cummings) days, before he got boxed in by the Benn Act and the penny dropped that @ShankerASingham alternative arrangements wouldn't fly as a NI border fix /4

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…

@Telegraph @BorisJohnson @PhilipHammondUK @ShankerASingham And a trip to the Polish-Ukraine border to see how a 'de minimis' border operates (tl;dr, there's a lot of paperwork!) /5

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…

@Telegraph @BorisJohnson @PhilipHammondUK @ShankerASingham BUT it's NOT ALL BREXIT! (I hear you sigh with relief at this point)....

So here's a long read from Hungary, inside a dying democracy /6

telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/2…

@Telegraph @BorisJohnson @PhilipHammondUK @ShankerASingham Here's a piece on how Poland's ruling Law and Justice party is whipping up hatred against the LGBTQ community by declaring LGBTQ-Free zones. /7

telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/0…

@Telegraph @BorisJohnson @PhilipHammondUK @ShankerASingham And a more recent one, with @jpfbadcock from the Catalan village/town where a 'referendum' 10 years ago lit the touchpaper for the Oct 2017 referendum that has paralysed Spanish politics /8

telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/0…

@Telegraph @BorisJohnson @PhilipHammondUK @ShankerASingham @jpfbadcock Anyway. That's just me....acres of top quality reporting from the likes of @JamesCrisp6 @JamesERothwell @harrydq @sophia_yan @RolandOliphant @benrileysmith @rafsanchez @Josiensor @nickallen789 @NickSquires1 @H_E_Samuel @justinhuggler /9

@Telegraph @BorisJohnson @PhilipHammondUK @ShankerASingham @jpfbadcock @JamesCrisp6 @JamesERothwell @harrydq @sophia_yan @RolandOliphant @benrileysmith @rafsanchez @Josiensor @nickallen789 @NickSquires1 @H_E_Samuel @justinhuggler So surprise yourself. It's free-to-air for next 24 hours or so...and since we're in the giveaway mood, here's a link to a '50% off' subscription offer...25 quid for first six months. It breaks my heart, really it does, to give it away so cheap :)

telegraph.co.uk/customer/subsc… 10/ENDS