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Tom Larkin @TomLarkinObs

Head of @ObserverUK TV, making all things video. Ex Sky News.

Joined April 2009
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This is embarrassing. It's the only broadcast interview Kenyon has done all campaign (weird) and @GBNEWS choose to not ask about his attacks on women, self-declared sexism or equating abortion with murder. Softball, pro-Reform propaganda.
GB News
@GBNEWS
May 27
'They've been taken for granted that they're just going to vote for Labour. That tide is changing now.' Reform UK candidate in the Makerfield by-election Robert Kenyon, says residents have been 'ignored for the last 40 years'. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604
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Gabriel Pogrund
@Gabriel_Pogrund
Jan 31
EXCL: A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works for family of ultra-secretive Kazakhstan-born billionaire is man behind £200K of donations to Reform UK John “Bill” Simpson would not discuss the source of funds when reached by phone last week thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…

Churchwarden linked to foreign-born billionaire is behind £200k Reform gift

The man whose firm made the donations will not discuss where the money came from, nor his ties to wealthy Farage allies who may not hold citizenship

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A truly insane twist in the Salt Path story. Raynor Winn seemingly wrote a confession letter admitting to stealing tens of thousands of pounds from her own mother and her in-laws. It left them struggling to pay their rent. Winn said she was 'addicted' to theft.
The Observer
@ObserverUK
14 Dec 2025
Don't look for the money, I've taken it all' @chloehadj on Raynor Winn's alleged confession that she stole from her family. Watch more revelations in The Salt Path Scandal on @skytv, Monday 9pm, and read the full story on our website: bit.ly/4rWQ0IX
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Me at 1am after 5 beers
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Gabriel Pogrund
@Gabriel_Pogrund
27 Sep 2025
Did Keir Starmer give land to his parents via a trust, guaranteeing their estate, of which he was beneficiary, would never pay inheritance tax on its eventual value? Legal experts say yes.  Curiously No10 will not answer - despite having a list of straightforward questions for weeks and Starmer retaining a leading tax KC following our original approach. @DanNeidle, @manumidolo, @venetiamenzies and I have done our detective work regardless. Read the Sunday Times and Tax Policy Associates tomorrow to find out more!
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Can't wait to get to party conference so I can buy my 'choosing a path of renewal towards a fairer country' merch.
Keir Starmer
@Keir_Starmer
27 Sep 2025
Together, we are choosing a path of renewal towards a fairer country.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives at Labour Party conference in Liverpool with his wife Victoria Starmer.

ALT Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives at Labour Party conference in Liverpool with his wife Victoria Starmer.
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Sam Coates Sky
@SamCoatesSky
26 Sep 2025
EXC: Sky News / Times YouGov polling projection Reform UK 15 seats short of an overall majority WATCH:
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Jason Groves@JasonGroves1
26 Sep 2025
NEW: Morgan McSweeney received a £50k donation for Labour Together on the *same day* he was warned he had a legal duty to declare his funding. He never declared it and years later the think tank later claimed it was an ‘admin error’ mol.im/a/15135739

Starmer's top aide and a £50,000 secret

Documents reveal Morgan McSweeney's Labour Together think-tank received the cash injection on the day the Electoral Commission confirmed he was required to report all donations over £7,500.

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Tom Larkin@TomLarkinObs
23 Sep 2025
Are you smart, creative and racked with dread that your employer's strategic errors could leave you unemployed? Or maybe just fancy a new challenge? Come join the new Observer video team! We're looking for a video producer and a motion gfx designer: observer.co.uk/careers

Careers | The Observer

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Are you smart, creative and racked with dread that your employer's strategic errors could leave you unemployed? Or maybe just fancy a new challenge? Come join the new Observer video team! We're looking for a video producer and a motion gfx designer: observer.co.uk/careers

Careers | The Observer

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My DMs are open for legitimate enquiries from anyone not mad/shilling crypto
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mary beard@wmarybeard
14 Sep 2025
Confession. I publicly opposed @ObserverUK leaving the Guardian stable. I now think I was wrong. It’s done really well. Today I have especially enjoyed Rachel Sylvester on ECHR and @kenanmalik on violence weaponised in the culture wars. And more to come.
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Scott Bryan@scottygb
14 Sep 2025
Letter in The Observer today. “I am a refugee. The UK made me a surgeon.”
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Incredible @SamCoatesSky scoop. To appoint Mandelson, Starmer ignored: - 2 previous resignations for financial impropriety - A well-publicised friendship with the world's most notorious paedophile - AND warnings from his own security services
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76% of extremist-related killings in the last decade have been committed by right-wingers. 4% by leftists. Trump, Musk and co are trying to paint political violence as just a left issue. It's not even close to true.
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(obviously all political violence is bad)
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issuing correction on a previous post of mine. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
Tom Larkin@TomLarkinObs
10 Sep 2025
Growing evidence that Starmer's only savvy political appointment has been making his US Ambassador the one guy in the world who wrote creepier stuff to Epstein than Trump.
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Growing evidence that Starmer's only savvy political appointment has been making his US Ambassador the one guy in the world who wrote creepier stuff to Epstein than Trump.
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Wild to have a 4 point swing against you off the back of a conference that was definitely a triumph with no massive glaring fuck-ups
Stefan Boscia
@Stefan_Boscia
9 Sep 2025
NEW: Weekly YouGov voting intention poll for The Times/Sky News Reform goes backward after party conference RFM 27% (-2) LAB 22% ( 2) CON 17% (=) LDEM 15% (=) GRN 10% ( 2)
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If the aim of Reform conference was to look like a 'normal' electable party, it was surely a total disaster. - Anti-vax quack on main stage linking King's cancer to covid jab - Lucy Connolly, guilty of stirring racial hatred, hailed as a hero - Climate change deniers sponsoring events - Andrea Jenkyns doing Stars in Their Eyes (less bad, just mad) This stuff is popular with a niche on X but not with the public. Can Farage win an election if it looks like he's leading a party of cranks?
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To the swarm of conspiracy theorists still replying to this, I accept that trying to argue with you using evidence might be a little optimistic. But you are simply wrong if you think the views of your echo chamber represent the UK - x.com/TomLarkinObs/status/19…

Tom Larkin@TomLarkinObs
8 Sep 2025
Big support on crank Twitter for me being an out-of-touch 'libtard' because I said the positions on vaccines, climate change and Lucy Connolly promoted at Reform conference are wildly unpopular with the public. So are they right? Short answer: no. Long answer below 🧵
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