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Journalist, formerly BBC News for many years, now writer/producer for hire. Chelsea fan, reluctant runner (see blog below), celebrity queue-er. Went viral once
Aug 4 6 tweets 2 min read
I’m sick of all this shit. My generation gets blamed for a lot of things but one thing we did do was mobilise against the racist fascist cunts of the NF and the BNP to drive them out of our culture - out of our music, out of our sport, out of our football grounds (after a.. ..huge and lengthy struggle, not always completely successful), off our TV, out of our mainstream. True, we couldn’t end racist violence and bigotry but we made it something unacceptable, something society stopped turning a blind eye to, something to be unequivocally..
Sep 15, 2022 10 tweets 2 min read
So that was a night of my life I won’t get back. I never really intended to queue up for so long, but hey, you do the first hour and it’s all quite fun, and the second isn’t so bad, because you’re chatting to all the people around you and stuffing your face with sweets. And then ..by the time the third hour rolls around, you’ve already invested your time in the queue, and it’s moving and you think, well, it’s probably only an hour or two more, look, there’s the London Eye, we’re not that far away now. And then by the end of the fourth hour, something..
Sep 10, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
@shinydh @back_the_BBC No, that would just have been either an error on my part (I was producing the text) or for an operational reason (because we were about to put up a graphic that would have been obscured by the story aston/super for example). @shinydh @back_the_BBC Although we had a pretty clear idea of the direction in which the news was heading (not difficult to work out from the tenor of the statements and the actions of the family), the first moment we knew for certain that the Queen had died was at 6.30 when it was tweeted by the..
Sep 4, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
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Feb 12, 2020 15 tweets 4 min read
Ok so this is weird, and only appears to be happening on my screen in the newsroom, and no-one else’s. The BBC News Channel with subtitles from what appears to be the crime drama currently on BBC2.... Gets better