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Fred Sculthorp

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  1. Fred Sculthorp@skulthorp
    An anthropologist recently told me that the places and people that used to send the rank and file to the British army "no longer seemed to exist." For @dispatch__media I went to look for them...
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    Once upon a time, Sunderland sent hundreds of young men into the Army. Last year, it sent just 10. What's behind Britain's recruitment crisis? @skulthorp reports:
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    Once upon a time, Sunderland sent hundreds of young men into the Army. Last year, it sent just 10. What's behind Britain's recruitment crisis? @skulthorp reports:
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    RT @samkarlharrison: @skulthorp Sadly most of the material on Brand in the early drafts of that book ended up being cut (purely for reasons of word count & relevance) Alwyn did publish a little of it here👇 "‘He fucked your granddaughter,’ was Jonathan Ross’s most pithy contribution"
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  5. Fred Sculthorp@skulthorp
    Alwyn Turner's "All In It Together" is a masterful but harrowing chronicle of all these sorts of moments in the lead up to Brexit. I don't think we've properly reckoned with the period
    Jamie Bowman @JamieBowman77
    Worth remembering that Russell Brand performed at the London Olympics closing ceremony dressed as Willy Wonka singing 'I Am The Walrus' on top of a Ken Kesey-style Magic Bus...
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    Worth remembering that Russell Brand performed at the London Olympics closing ceremony dressed as Willy Wonka singing 'I Am The Walrus' on top of a Ken Kesey-style Magic Bus...
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  7. Fred Sculthorp@skulthorp
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    It's easy to forget how completely suffocated public life was by things like Nick Clegg and Britain's Got Talent. This is why I'm sceptical of how long Burnham's Gogglebox interregnum will last
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    The moment at 0.08 where Hitchens refuses to giggle along on the Telly Box and just lays bare his sheer contempt is heroic. You can tell Brand wasn't used to being stood up to like that hence his petty nastiness
    Tom Flanagan @TomBFlanagan
    Stuffy conservatism wins again
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    I remember watching this as a teenager. What a stupid, barbaric world. It's probably healthier for children to grow up watching Young Bob debate the authorship of the Gospels with Muslims at Speakers Corner
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  11. Fred Sculthorp@skulthorp
    The Marsh Family of lockdown fame are still going strong. Now the de facto house band of Lib Dem England, I went to watch them peform in Kent and wrote about the curious people who turned out to see them for @TheCriticMag
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    This is like something out of a Barbara Pym novel
    Emily Lawford @emilylawford
    I wrote about Restore and the ever-splintering radical right for this week's @NewStatesman cover story
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    A montage of Baby P during the 2009 Britain's Got Talent interval, Angels by Robbie Williams starts playing. Piers Morgan sheds a tear
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    RT @arisroussinos: For Halloween, an essay about doubt and belief, that may, or may not be, an Irish ghost story:
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  17. Fred Sculthorp@skulthorp
    I watched the Curtis doc on Nick "the rogue trader" Leeson recently, and when asked how he got away with it for so long, he says because the management at Barings (preusmably also Lowe who hired him) were a load of clueless old duffers
    Jack Davey @jacques_davey
    Cummings says Farage is "knackered" and is sympathetic to Restore and the "honest" Lowe
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    Cummings says Farage is "knackered" and is sympathetic to Restore and the "honest" Lowe
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  19. Fred Sculthorp@skulthorp
    Which "drinkers" film does/did Alistair Campbell's life resemble? Is it "Leaving Las Vegas", waking up for orange juice and vodka to abate the night terrors. Or is it "Wake in Fright", getting buggered by Donald Pleasance in the Australian outback? Or perhaps a mixture of both
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    RT @LemanWalters: Obscene, gauche, tasteless. But that's what contemporary Britain is all about.
    Rikki Doolan @realrikkidoolan
    King’s Cross Train station in London honouring our heroes. Love it!
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    King’s Cross Train station in London honouring our heroes. Love it!
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  22. Fred Sculthorp@skulthorp
    If Sweeney started routinely walking around having prophetic conversations with the Nigel Farage Dog Toy (on stage at literary festivals, alone on the train etc) I don't think Reform would actually know what to do. A full blown Comms nightmare
    John Sweeney @johnsweeneyroar
    Exclusive interview with @Nigel_Farage! The Parliamentary Standards Commission is likely to suspend him. That will trigger a recall petition. Will he stand in a second by-election? I don’t think so. I’m talking about this tonight at the @stratfest lit festival.
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    Exclusive interview with @Nigel_Farage! The Parliamentary Standards Commission is likely to suspend him. That will trigger a recall petition. Will he stand in a second by-election? I don’t think so. I’m talking about this tonight at the @stratfest lit festival.
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    CourtNewsUK @CourtNewsUK
    Nine Afghan asylum seekers 'ran East Anglia grooming gang'
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    Nine Afghan asylum seekers 'ran East Anglia grooming gang'
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  26. Fred Sculthorp@skulthorp
    "what did you do at school today" "John Sweeney and his partner put on a show trial of Nigel Farage during assembly"
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  28. Fred Sculthorp@skulthorp
    Rule by Gogglebox Surrealism: "Import tariffs removed... on baked beans, chocolates and gherkins"
    Politics UK @PolitlcsUK
    🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has announced five "everyday fixes" ahead of the Budget 1. Carer's Allowance will be changed so carers no longer lose their entire benefit when they earn over the limit - instead, their support will reduce by £1 for every extra £1 they earn 2. Import tariffs will be removed on more than 100 products, including baked beans, chocolate and gherkins, to save households up to £21 on their food shop a year 3. Tax-free mileage rates for workers using their own cars will be made permanent at 55p per mile for the first 10,000 miles, with the rate for additional miles rising from 25p to 35p 4. Parental pay will be extended to over 150,000 more parents a year, including self-employed fathers and partners 5. Hundreds more Post Office drop boxes will be rolled out to save people queueing at branches
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    🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has announced five "everyday fixes" ahead of the Budget 1. Carer's Allowance will be changed so carers no longer lose their entire benefit when they earn over the limit - instead, their support will reduce by £1 for every extra £1 they earn 2. Import tariffs will be removed on more than 100 products, including baked beans, chocolate and gherkins, to save households up to £21 on their food shop a year 3. Tax-free mileage rates for workers using their own cars will be made permanent at 55p per mile for the first 10,000 miles, with the rate for additional miles rising from 25p to 35p 4. Parental pay will be extended to over 150,000 more parents a year, including self-employed fathers and partners 5. Hundreds more Post Office drop boxes will be rolled out to save people queueing at branches
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  30. Fred Sculthorp@skulthorp
    These people do not read The Telegraph
    𝔊𝔬𝔬𝔰𝔢 ✝️🇫🇰 @BibleBaggins46
    How it feels to read the The Telegraph in public
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    The new powers of the Mate Mate State empowered by a generation of nasty thickos using AI is going to unleash cultural revolution levels of petty malovelence
    Politics UK @PolitlcsUK
    From today, police, councils, social landlords and transport networks can apply to a court for a Respect Order, which can also include drug or alcohol rehabilitation, curfews or unpaid community work They will be logged on the Police National Computer so officers can identify breaches and make arrests As breaching an Order will be a criminal offence, the Government says they will only apply to adults to avoid giving children criminal records unnecessarily
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    From today, police, councils, social landlords and transport networks can apply to a court for a Respect Order, which can also include drug or alcohol rehabilitation, curfews or unpaid community work They will be logged on the Police National Computer so officers can identify breaches and make arrests As breaching an Order will be a criminal offence, the Government says they will only apply to adults to avoid giving children criminal records unnecessarily
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