Thatcher Cosplay - Can't Truss It

[Nefertiti2]

however bad you thought it is, it's worse

https://twitter.com/nataliesedacca/status/1576473274175082496?s=20&t=f6RsN66IHwojbPfpodKX0g

https://twitter.com/Feargal_Sharkey/status/1576462923085799424?s=20&t=f6RsN66IHwojbPfpodKX0g

[Ray de Galles]

I am almost certain that this was leaked by Charles and am excited to see if it turns out to be the first salvo of a campaign

That's all this binfire of a country needs, a more politically interventionist monarch.

[Sean of the Shed]

https://twitter.com/Feargal_Sharkey/status/1576462923085799424?s=20&t=f6RsN66IHwojbPfpodKX0g

Sadly for the people who live on the NE Lincs coast, they chose to elect absolute arseholes as their MPs who despite representing coastal towns were perfectly happy to vote for water companies to flood the coastline with shit and piss.
Cleethorpes is represented by Martin Vickers who appears to have the same politics and beliefs of Rees-Mogg but comes in a shape closer to that of a human being, whilst Grimsby has Nia Lici, who throughout his tenure, even at the end when his closest allies were turning on him, continued to hold a ladyboner for Johnson that was strong and hard enough to have Nadine Dorries consider her a threat.

[Balderdasha]

however bad you thought it is, it's worse

https://twitter.com/nataliesedacca/status/1576473274175082496?s=20&t=f6RsN66IHwojbPfpodKX0g

I was at university with her (Natalie Sedacca). She's brilliant. She always analysed everything from a Marxist perspective during our supervisions right from the outset when she was about 19/20. She trained as a human rights lawyer afterwards.

[Satchmo Distel]

Is Kuennsberg's style today a "BBC skill" or just incompetence?

https://twitter.com/BriefcaseMike/status/1576527343643787266

[Tony C]

It’s neither a key skill or incompetence.

It’s deference.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Meritocracy / broad church latest:

https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1576534559985909760?t=6BKOckoqkA5BPnNQHkmSEA&s=19

[jwdd27]

https://twitter.com/Feargal_Sharkey/status/1576462923085799424?s=20&t=f6RsN66IHwojbPfpodKX0g

Unfortunate/appropriate typo in the spelling of Ingoldmells in the BBC article.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Oh that is superb. Wonder if it’s what we used to call “accidentally on purpose” at my old school.

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/danbloom1/status/1576542321126039555?s=21&t=mxH6X8bQS2TyGwm6ytEmAQ

[Satchmo Distel]

If only she'd taken Feargal's advice: 'Listen To Your Father'.

[Sean of the Shed]

https://twitter.com/liztrussdad/status/1575200680264208385?t=kZvrsIwynowtK9pnTfUWWQ&s=19

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/chakrabortty/status/1576607435435147265?s=20&t=1bfyfmjsfZ2rP491CzpuKQ

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/doctor_oxford/status/1576524637684436992?t=kkU0VxSj3EGOcl4L0yOTZw&s=19

[Sean of the Shed]

https://twitter.com/danbloom1/status/1576542321126039555?s=21&t=mxH6X8bQS2TyGwm6ytEmAQ

Gove isn't alone.

https://twitter.com/JulianSmithUK/status/1576484558677032960?t=SzY5J4YSeOtQOosa06cKQA&s=19

[Tony C]

In an increasingly rare example of journalistic integrity - that would be journalists being appropriately rigorous and doing their job - Andrew Neil had just decimated Tory Chairman Jake Berry on his C4 show. No wonder Truss avoided Neil like the plague during the Tory leadership battle.

[Nefertiti2]

Andrew Neil and journalistic integrity don't belong in the same sentence- sorry

From his claim that HIV didn't cause AIDS to his readiness to employ David irving he is utterly without scruples.

If he's going in hard on the Tories its only because its Ok with Murdoch and co

[Nocturnal Submission]

In an increasingly rare example of journalistic integrity - that would be journalists being appropriately rigorous and doing their job - Andrew Neil had just decimated Tory Chairman Jake Berry on his C4 show. No wonder Truss avoided Neil like the plague during the Tory leadership battle.

Wasn't it Johnson avoiding Neil during the leadership election he won or the subsequent GE?

But anyway, Neil is an excellent interviewer who savages without fear or favour and does so despite his strong political views, the latter often blinding people to the former.

[Nefertiti2]

Neil is a phony who is good at performing the tough journalist but in reality being nothing of the kind, Unsurprising that some are impressed

[Tony C]

Neil is a phony who is good at performing the tough journalist but in reality being nothing of the kind, Unsurprising that some are impressed

He performed it well enough tonight, which is what I commented about. Not his entire career.

Your final sentence is as condescending and arrogant as only you can be.

[Felicity, I guess so]

I'm fully with Nef on this one

[Etienne]

I disagree with Nef about Neill's skills as an interviewer, which are considerable. I agree entirely with him that he employs those skills entirely in line with his political views rather than some higher journalistic calling.

[DCI Harry Batt]

He can do an interview now and again. He's an utterly dreadful person, of course, and quite obviously his politics shine through in his interview work. Though maybe a bit less there than in other parts of his work.

[Tony C]

He can do an interview now and again. He's an utterly dreadful person, of course, and quite obviously his politics shine through in his interview work. Though maybe a bit less there than in other parts of his work.

He’s a former editor of The Spectator. He fronted the appalling GB News. His political leanings are well known.

I’m just saying that tonight, in contrast to so many political interviews I’ve heard this week, Neil appropriately challenged a high ranking Tory on the current economic crisis.

[Snake Plissken]

Neil can, when he chooses to, be a very effective interviewer.

The key is that he makes it obvious when he is choosing to be.