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Aaron Sharp @AaronSharp

Assistant national editor @guardian

Joined July 2008
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Aaron Sharp@AaronSharp
8 Sep 2022
Tomorrow’s @guardian front page.
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It's a shakedown!
Politics UK
@PolitlcsUK
24 Nov 2025
🚨 NEW: Health Secretary Wes Streeting will tomorrow announce that lattes and milkshakes will be hit with a sugar tax in a bid to tackle obesity [@thetimes]
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I'm biased but this is a very, very good piece of writing. @LexyTopping's farewell letter to Goodison Park.
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I wrote about football, family, memory and loss. About going to watch Everton with my dad, taking my son to Goodison for a final pilgrimage and why that place means so much to so many of us 💙>> theguardian.com/football/202…
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Reading @AHunterGuardian on Moyes’ Everton feels like pure nostalgia (I was a 20-something reporter watching him work from the corner of the press room last time!) But just like back then, it’s the good gear. theguardian.com/football/202…

Friedkin Group believes Moyes can stabilise Everton and restore lost values | Andy Hunter

Scot has the experience new owners see as vital to avoid relegation before move to stadium at Bramley-Moore dock

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It's how you tell 'em, I guess...
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Liverpool unites in bid to save Zoe's Place. In today's @guardian by @RobynVinter. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…

‘The stuff of dreams’: Liverpool unites in bid to save children’s hospice

Supporters raise half amount needed for Zoe’s Place in weeks, with local celebrities including Steven Gerrard matching pledges

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"In 1978, Geoff threw a standard 2.27 kg building brick 44.54 m... his record has never been broken." theguardian.com/sport/2024/o…

Geoff Capes, Britain’s greatest shot putter and two-time World’s Strongest Man, dies aged 75

Geoff Capes, Britain’s greatest shot putter, has died aged 75

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Big up to the @guardian team who laid bare the injustice of the Carer’s Allowance scandal: @patrickjbutler, @JoshHalliday & @JohnDomokos. This story was always about righting a longstanding wrong. The newly announced review is the first step.. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…

Minister vows to end scandal that left thousands of UK carers in debt

Exclusive: Overhaul of system that imposed draconian penalties for innocent errors in benefit claims is expected

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Thanks also to @CarersUK and all the people who have shared their stories with us. The carers affected by this scandal tell the story better than we ever could. Here they told us their stories: theguardian.com/society/vide…

I'm under attack and fighting back: the scandal trapping carers - video

Debbie cares full-time for her elderly mother, works part-time as a cleaner, and claims carer's allowance of £81.90 a week. But she was one of hundreds of thousands of carers to receive a demand from...

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Josh Halliday@JoshHalliday
25 Sep 2024
So humbled to be nominated for Campaign of the Year for mine and @patrickjbutler’s work on the Carer’s Allowance scandal. Main thanks to all those unpaid carers (“unsung heroes” - DWP) who found the time to speak to us. Congratulations to all those on the shortlist.
Society of Editors UK@EditorsUK
25 Sep 2024
A shortlist has today been announced for the @EditorsUK Media Freedom Awards 2024. Congratulations to all and we look forward to celebrating your achievements on Tuesday 12 November 2024 societyofeditors.org/events/…
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The Moshiri era has been one of the most abject examples of club stewardship in the modern game. There are no guarantees in football, but his tenure coming to an end might be the best news Evertonians get all season.
Guardian sport
@guardian_sport
23 Sep 2024
Friedkin Group agrees deal to buy Everton from Farhad Moshiri dlvr.it/TDZks2
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Jasmine Dotiwala OBE@jasminedotiwala
22 Aug 2024
Delivering the annual McTaggart Lecture, Playwright and screenwriter @mrJamesGraham has called for more opportunities for working-class people in the TV industry. "only 8% of people currently working in television are from a working-class background". bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8x…

James Graham calls for more working-class people in TV industry

He says class should be considered as a diversity metric as much as other forms of representation.

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Sunak at the start of the campaign: 'The world has never been more dangerous' Sunak one week in: 'I'm conscripting your teenagers' I'm not saying this campaign is lacking strategy, but...
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I'll just leave this handy @guardian quiz here: theguardian.com/uk-news/arti…

Are you better with apostrophes than a Yorkshire database? – quiz

Possession, contractions, plurals – test your ability to use an apostrophe in our fun and completely pedantic quiz

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Lord Ed Vaizey
@edvaizey
9 May 2024
Amazing. Read to the end to see why I’ve posted this 🙄
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insane moments in british politics@PoliticsMoments
2 May 2024
Boris Johnson, who made the law requiring ID to vote in elections, gets turned away from his polling station for not bringing ID (2024)
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We need more club admins tweeting from the back seat of the coach home. Someone pass him another warm stella.
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Keir Starmer wants to be seen as a working-class PM. Is anyone buying it? theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Keir Starmer wants to be seen as a working-class PM. Deeds, not warm words, will determine that |...

People in my home city of Liverpool still see Labour as a ‘hold your nose’ option. That should worry the leadership, says the Guardian’s assistant national news editor, Aaron Sharp

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Pippa Crerar
@PippaCrerar
11 Mar 2024
EXCL: The Conservative party’s biggest donor said looking at Diane Abbott makes you “want to hate all black women” and the MP “should be shot” - by ⁦@rowenamason⁩ ⁦@matthew_weaver⁩ ⁦@Direthoughts⁩ theguardian.com/politics/202…

Biggest Tory donor said looking at Diane Abbott makes you ‘want to hate all black women’

Exclusive: Remarks by Frank Hester, who has given £10m to the party in the past year, raise questions over his workplace behaviour

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Alexandra Topping@LexyTopping
8 Mar 2024
In recent years, a woman has been killed by a man every 3 days in the UK on average, and yet most of their stories have gone unheard. The @guardian Killed Women Count project wants to help change that. Huge thanks to @CountDeadWomen for their vital work > theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i…

Killed women count: 80 women allegedly killed by men in UK in 2024

Throughout the year the Guardian aimed to report on every woman whose death has led to a man being charged

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It's good news for the Blues. 10 point deduction down to six: evertonfc.com/news/3912657/c…
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Tribune
@tribunemagazine
2 Feb 2024
James Joyce was born #OnThisDay in 1882. His writing was impacted by the great political intrigues of his time — from nationalism to religion, and his own sympathies for socialism. tribunemag.co.uk/2021/01/the…

The Political James Joyce

Today marks the 80th anniversary of James Joyce's death. His writing was impacted by the great political intrigues of his time — from nationalism to religion, and his own sympathies for socialism.

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