Communications consultant and writer. Passionate about politics, democratic involvement, and bad puns
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Andrew Brightwell retweeted
7 Sep 2024
Is Josh Babarinde a future Lib Dem leader?
Some people think so...
He speaks to @harriet_symonds about arguing with xenophobes, employing ex-offenders with James Timpson's help, and being the ultimate yimby (a house is being built in his back garden)
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2 Sep 2024
So Badenoch joins Starmer in standing up for straight talking. All well and good but there’s a danger this a) treats politics as bad (it isn’t) and b) means you get caught out when you inevitably end up doing quite a lot of it
2 Sep 2024
Badenoch railing against a political spin culture: "For too long politics has just been about what voters want to hear and saying it back to them. It's the triumph of words over deeds. That has to change."
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Andrew Brightwell retweeted
2 Sep 2024
Looking to commission a Scotland-based travel writer to write a 450 word column on Shetland (for The List magazine). Get in touch at megan@list.co.uk ✒️
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Andrew Brightwell retweeted
29 Aug 2024
Total Mud!
Highfield Road March 1988
Reporter @CliveTyldesley
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28 Aug 2024
I've been saying this (mostly to the wall) for a bit despite all the write ups saying that the door was closed. theguardian.com/politics/art…
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28 Aug 2024
One thing us journos will need to get used to imv is that this government will be much more cautious about what it rules both out and in when it comes to the EU. Quotes with 'it's not in our negotiating position' therefore mean something more nuanced than 'this is a red line'.
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26 Aug 2024
How to make friends and influenza people
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14 Aug 2024
Read the room
ALT Twitter ad: x is the world’s town square
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14 Aug 2024
I know it really isn’t important because this writer is dressing up bigotry, but I loathe the self importance of the prose. Its fussiness, to me, reveals a preference for the artifice of thinking over the actual hard job of doing it
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As Jim says the graph below shows what we found in our own polling - many will still think 8% a worryingly high figure for those willing to say violent protests outside refugee accommodation are justified, but it is some magnitude lower than a third.
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13 Aug 2024
Well explained - vital that journalists can pursue their work without fear or favour from authority. Police really should know that treating photo journalists as evidence gatherers puts them in an invidious position
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10 Aug 2024
Amazing
Just to put this win into context: Arshad Nadeem didn't even have enough money to buy a new javelin. He didn't have proper coaching or a training facility. His village banded together to raise money to send him to the Olympics.
Arshad’s win is cinematic.
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7 Aug 2024
I think we sometimes confuse confidence with excellence in political communication. Farage has bags of the former but there is little evidence he has much of the latter
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Andrew Brightwell retweeted
7 Aug 2024
🎂 Happy Birthday to our former captain, Paul Lambert 🏴
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Andrew Brightwell retweeted
6 Aug 2024
I think @elonmusk has a Pots and Kettles problem.
You could even call him #TwoTierMusk
This is racial hatred against myself and @HumzaYousaf yesterday that X says #doesnotviolate platform rules on Hateful Conduct
Yet political debate like the other tweet is Hateful Conduct!!
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Andrew Brightwell retweeted
26 Jul 2024
Christ you don’t usually have to wait this long for the French to set fire to something
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26 Jul 2024
There’s a flask under that seat, guaranteed
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25 Jul 2024
There needs to be a cognitive dissonance razor: if a group of defeated people retains consensus then that is the source of their defeat
24 Jul 2024
Tom Tugendhat writes that "there's a long list of things this election isn't about: the ECHR, gender, tax rates, defence spending, net zero" (on the grounds that Conservatives agree on these issues)
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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13 Jul 2024
I feel a bit sorry for Jimmy Anderson that this is happened yesterday when the back pages are full of Euros final speculation - and it means he doesn’t get the coverage he deserves. (Of course, he might be relieved)
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