Former MP & Minister for London, Small Business & Technology. Back to the real world of work
Joined November 2008
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Jun 9
London Tech week is on; the shop window for the UK. Day 1, the PM bollocks the social media giants; day 2, the Tech SoS fuels talk against Palantir. Important issues but where's the call as to why bother with the UK? A UK Playbook for tech investment is needed now more than ever
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Jun 8
There's a saying in politics, "Never ask a question for which you don't already know the answer." This is "Never threaten US tech companies with deep pockets, unless you know they're already launching an answer to your demands."
Jun 8
NEW: Apple is currently announcing many of the child-safety features the Prime Minister asked tech companies to implement *this morning.*
Apple’s WWDC keynote is pre-recorded, in California.
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Jun 5
x.com/i/status/2062525120808… selective quotes have even been outlawed for theatre reviews. Reform don't like it when they are quoted selectively but double down when they twist something for their own benefit. There's plenty of real debating points. Just be better.
Jun 2
Kemi Badenoch: “I don’t want to hear” white lives matter.
Keir Starmer: “There’s no such thing as two-tier policing”.
Never have politicians been so out of touch with the people they’re paid to represent.
Community note
This post selectively quotes Kemi Badenoch. Her full statement criticized identity politics from all sides, stating: "I don’t want to hear about Black Lives Matter. I don’t want to hear about White Lives Matter. We all matter." telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/0…
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Paul Scully retweeted
Jun 3
Just remember a story he told about his wife. Before they married she knew he was a spy, she told him that she couldn't marry a man who could be so secretive with his own mother and that he had to tell her that her son was a spy. So he did, and his mother said, so was I.
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Jun 3
So basically a local hustings on national television based on national vote share and ignoring a major local issue: the constituency polls. Just pull the programme. It's a ridiculous premise and another self-inflicted wound for the BBC.
Jun 3
A BBC spokesperson said: "There are 14 candidates in the Makerfield by-election on the 18 June. Question Time has invited five parties to take part in our debate in the constituency based - as is always the case - on their past and current electoral support. The programme will ensure there are appropriate references to all the candidates standing"
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Jun 3
BBC are either putting a local hustings onto national TV, or giving Andy Burnham a boost as the only currently nationally recognised politician on the panel and are leaving themselves open again, given they've forgotten about the candidate currently polling 3rd
Join Question Time for a Makerfield By-Election Special
On the panel: Andy Burnham, Michael Winstanley, Jake Austin, Sarah Wakefield, and Robert Kenyon
Thurs 4th June at 9pm on @BBCiPlayer, @BBCSounds, and the @BBCNews channel
Apply now: eu.castitreach.com/ag/mentor…
#bbcqt
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Jun 3
and of course the Restore candidate isn't the only one left out. We demand @CountBinface
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May 27
Amazing news about Crystal Palace. It's been a while since I was told as a young fan that they'd be the Team of the 80s. Now, European success to add to the FA cup and Community Shield.
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May 26
Labour government celebrating anniversary of @SW_Help trains being under state ownership. Actual paying passengers noting this anniversary in a different way on concourse at Waterloo after another afternoon of chaos
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May 26
Subjectively it feels like the service on @SW_Help has been worse over the last year between Surbiton and Waterloo. 4 months until I'm moving to complain about the Elizabeth Line instead
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May 26
Turfed off that train as it was cancelled last minute. Back to the nationalisation celebrants. Basically instead of faceless managers via @SW_Help , it's now the job of @Heidi_Labour to give some overheating commuters some meaningless excuses.
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May 21
Reports of Labour in Westminster following SNP on price controls on staple foods; now this. Literally Bread & circuses. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7p…
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Paul Scully retweeted
May 21
🟠SUTTON & CHEAM: I should have included this last month: London County Court decided David Campanale suffered 5 counts of "unlawful religious discrimination" when Lib Dems deselected him as candidate & replaced him with Luke Taylor: insidecroydon.com/2026/04/30…
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May 19
Totally revisionist claptrap. When Nadine left the Bill was anything but solely a child protection bill. The 'legal but harmful' drive would have meant perpetual interpretation by government overriding free speech...
May 19
NADINE DORRIES: Why we must scrap the Online Safety Act I helped bring to life trib.al/zhxUhvj
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May 19
Tech companies are finding the boundaries at the moment, hence harmless material being removed then reinstated. That's partly teething problems of implementation, partly the chilling of innovation by such government intervention. But a free-for-all won't cut it in this day & age
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May 17
In London yesterday at @ConsrvTogethr & found myself in the middle of two lands. First I looked down at the Nakba march whilst I happened to be talking to a Jewish woman 1/7
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May 17
I felt safe here too though. My overriding emotion at both was sadness. So much naivety. People being pushed into corners they don't really understand by populists who fully understand manipulation. The country is poorer for having both groups played like this. 6/7
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May 17
Just before I peeled away from Whitehall to catch my train home from Waterloo, the main draw for this particular crowd took to the big screen. The rest of London was also less safe whilst 4,000 police officers allowed both groups to indulge in this. /END
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