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Jan 11 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
A #THREAD of quotes from #Spare NOT on the front pages of the tax-avoiding non-dom billionaire-owned toxic UK press.

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"I couldn’t think of a single human being in the 300,000-year history of the species who’d done more damage to our collective sense of reality." - Harry on Rupert Murdoch.

#Spare
"Everyone who knew her was in full agreement that she was an infected pustule on the arse of humanity, plus a shit excuse for a journalist." - Harry on News UK’s CEO, Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of The Sun and News of the World.

#Spare
“The Dickensian-sounding Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere”. - Harry on the proprietor of the Mail titles.

#Spare
"The Sun was about to run a story saying the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were stepping away from their royal duties to spend more time in Canada... A sad little man, the newspaper’s showbiz editor, was said to be the lead reporter on the story." - Harry on Dan Wootton.
#Spare
“I didn’t care for Rupert Murdoch’s politics, which were just to the right of the Taliban’s.” - Harry.
#Spare
“I didn’t care for Rupert Murdoch’s politics, which were just to the right of the Taliban’s.” - Harry.
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