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andymcsmith

  1. I'm grateful to @gleet_tweet for half explaining what @louisemensch was on about here. independent.co.uk/news/people/di… via @Independent about 8 hours ago via Tweet Button
  2. @MarkSeddon1962 Mark, I think your account has been hacked - or did you mean to send me a strange direct message? 10:18 AM May 24th via web
  3. @DuncanGale Andy, are you now reading a torrent of tweets calling him a nasty vacuous cynical souless toryboy pieface twat?>>No Should I be? 8:15 AM May 24th via web in reply to DuncanGale
  4. @eddiehaydock @MattChorley Our car once broke down in Chorley, and by our front door there's a mat. Staggering coincidence! 4:46 AM May 24th via web in reply to eddiehaydock
  5. ..."Ms Trimingham’s sexuality was a characteristic which she herself had made public." 2:57 AM May 24th via web
  6. The Trimingham judgement says that repeatedly mocking someone's sexual orientation will"almost inevitably" amount to harassment but... 2:57 AM May 24th via web
  7. Carina Trimingham claiming that coverage by the Daily Mail was "s oppressive as to amount to harassment....I have been wronged." 2:36 AM May 24th via web
  8. Cameron being ticked off by Bercow for describing Ed Balls as a "muttering idiot" #pmqs 4:28 AM May 23rd via web
  9. @adrianmcmenamin at the time that is exactly what I thought! As did more than a few leading UK political journalists...>> Perils of Twitter 2:27 AM May 23rd via web in reply to adrianmcmenamin
  10. @adrianmcmenamin Gorbachev surely one of the greatest men of the last century. A sad day >> why sad? Would you be happy if he was dead? 9:55 AM May 22nd via web in reply to adrianmcmenamin
  11. @memtitued @markdaventry The quote is in the report, though the TPA point out that it's in a bylined article that a small part of the whole. 11:15 AM May 21st via web in reply to memtitued
  12. @mjhsinclair @AllisterHeath @JohnRentoul Are you seriously saying Christian perspective isn't a legit part of discussion of tax ethics?>> No 10:55 AM May 21st via web in reply to mjhsinclair
  13. @AllisterHeath Yr report doesn't "look at what religions have to say" it selects opinions of people with a religious objection to high taxes 10:42 AM May 21st via web in reply to AllisterHeath
  • Name Andy McSmith
  • Bio Senior writer on The Independent. Author of 'No Such Thing As Society: A History of Britain in the 1980s'
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