Senior journalist, editor and creative | Content Director @RedwoodBBDO | Editor, Virgin TV Edit šŗ | Freelance writer @BigIssue et al | wordsbysimon@gmail.com
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30 Apr 2023
Still not over the @LondonMarathon this time last week š«¶ An incredible day. Thank you to everyone who helped me raise almost Ā£3,400 for @StElizabethHosp (will be much more with Gift Aid). I finished in a sub-4hr time in my first ever marathon/running event. Bring on the next one
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A rare return to this place to say that I really enjoyed #snluk. Sketch comedy should always be about play. Some things work, some things donāt, but if you hit more than you miss, you win the game - and thatās always been the secret sauce of the original. Well done to everyone
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Simon Ward retweeted
Jan 12
This trend of using made-up first-person quotes (explaining the whole interview in one sentence - "I worked on the farm with my dad and now I've notched 14 goals in League One") as a headline is just completely unreasonable. It's simply not how it works.
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Jan 12
And we wonder why people in football donāt trust journalists / are reluctant to speakā¦
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12 Jun 2025
Looks like KDB is signing for Logan Roy as the new head of Waystar Royco
12 Jun 2025
šØš£ BREAKING: Kevin De Bruyne signs in as new Napoli player! šµš§šŖ
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25 Mar 2025
Itās gutting when players you like leave - especially ones so tied to a club. But telling a guy from Crosby who has played for Liverpool since the age of 6 that he doesnāt understand the club, the city or what heās giving up is an extraordinary level of social media hubris.
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11 Mar 2025
The āclowns in charge of the circusā metaphor now feels like itās at breaking point as Manchester United announce theyāre building a big top
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14 Dec 2024
Just a ridiculously good final. Never thought the Danny Mac v Ore Oduba final would be topped, but this #StrictlyComeDancing final might be the best theyāve ever had #StrictlyFinal
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2 Nov 2024
RIP @JaneyGodley. What a brilliant, funny, outrageous, authentic, warm and kind person. This world feels a little bit colder without her.
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Simon Ward retweeted
22 Oct 2024
Nah sorry this is all I can think of and I canāt stop laughing
22 Oct 2024
Pedro Pascal and Paul Mescal in the cover of Entertainment Weekly
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17 Oct 2024
There is a clear and important different between "in the public interest" and "what interests the public." When somebody dies, no matter who and how, we should all treat reporting it and talking about it with far more care. At its heart remains a person and a grieving family.
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17 Oct 2024
Few things shock me, but the wild abandonment and frankly carelessness in reporting every detail - live blogs, 911 transcripts, witness interviews, speculation, even photos on one site - is inhumane. It serves only clicks and algorithms. Everyone should take a beat.
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17 Oct 2024
Few things shock me, but the wild abandonment and frankly carelessness in reporting every detail - live blogs, 911 transcripts, witness interviews, speculation, even photos on one site - is inhumane. It serves only clicks and algorithms. Everyone should take a beat.
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13 Oct 2024
Did AI both write this madness and create that haunting image?
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10 Oct 2024
Such a good article. I also write about film and TV and Iām similarly behind on so much. One of the most galling things about #KAOS is that I was purposely watching it slow to savour it, rather than greedily rushing through it. I watched episode 8 the day before it was cancelled
9 Oct 2024
"Streamers are over-feeding and starving their audiences at the same time ā thereās way too much to watch, but none of it lasts."
As #KAOS joins The Acolyte and Lockwood on the streaming scrapheap, audiences are losing out, writes @BenSTravis.
READ MORE: empireonline.com/tv/featuresā¦
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Simon Ward retweeted
8 Oct 2024
With Netflix potentially cancelling ANOTHER show after 1 series, Bill Hader totally hit the nail on the head with this scene in Barry. If it's true about Kaos, then it's so disappointing as streamers aren't giving shows any time to develop an audience.
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8 Oct 2024
If Kaos really has been cancelled (kancelled?) - as Variety are reporting - then it emphasises how Netflix's business model has shifted. One of the most brilliant and original TV shows of the year, and yet has been seemingly discarded. Is Netflix no longer a home for bold TV? ā¹ļø
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25 Sep 2024
I miss verified Twitter when you knew a news source was a news source or a journalist was a journalist.
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