Rachel Wearmouth
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Journalist. Geordie. Your phone isn’t the real world.
Watching news programmes over the last couple of days, I’m really struck by the fact that the US isn’t putting people up & isn’t briefing us. Probably isn’t briefing anyone?
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BREAKING: Keir Starmer says the U.K. has given the US permission to use British bases to launch strikes on Iran
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Tim Ross
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The centrist establishment is dying in British politics & may be dead already. Labour’s collapse happened in entirely predictable ways. In fact
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& I warned Starmer would face this in our 2024 book, Landslide. It’s happening in France, US, Germany. Gorton is just the start.
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Polls were way out
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🚨 Green Party wins Gorton & Denton byelection after tightly contested race, with Labour slipping to third in significant blow to Keir Starmer. Green Party: 14,980 Reform UK: 10,578 Labour: 9,364
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Top British and German military chiefs press ‘moral’ case for rearmament
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Top British and German military chiefs press ‘moral’ case for rearmament
Defence leaders write joint appeal urging public on need to be prepared for war with Russia and resulting costs
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/15/top-british-and-german-military-chiefs-press-moral-case-for-rearmament
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Kevin Schofield
25 days ago
🔥🔥🔥Anas Sarwar: "The distraction needs to end and the leadership in Downing Street needs to change."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/hammer...
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Hammer Blow For Keir Starmer As Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar To Call On Him To Quit
The move comes as the party faces catastrophe at the Holyrood elections in May.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/hammer-blow-for-keir-starmer-as-scottish-labour-leader-anas-sarwar-to-call-on-him-to-quit_uk_6989de1de4b0959e2d9386c2
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I fly to Brisbane tomorrow, and given it is summer in Australia (yes, you’re right, it does suck to be you!) I’ve just spent a shedload of cash on clothes
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26 days ago
While we all get swept up in Westminster, take a moment to think how fortunate we are
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This tells you that there’s really is no consensus in Labour about a way forward
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28 days ago
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Enjoyed this
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Is Your Social Life Missing Something? This Is For You.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/49CqJwwTClWIzWw1zJMpNn?si=o3uy4qRWRTCelM9x8KSGsA
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30 days ago
I'd echo this. The mood in the last couple of hours has got *extremely* dark.
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about 1 month ago
“Either MI6 and the UK’s intelligence agencies managed to miss everything that has now come to light, or else they found it and No 10 made the decision to ignore it. People will surely want answers on that front.”
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-m...
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Mandelson is finished. Who else is going with him?
As more disturbing details emerge from the Epstein files, the scandal is returning to the door of No 10
https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-mandelson-is-finished-who-else-is-going-with-him/
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Jim Waterson
about 1 month ago
the pitch is being rolled for a BBC/Channel 4 merger ahead of the next director general’s arrival
www.thetimes.com/article/6c44...
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Jessica Elgot
about 1 month ago
🚨BREAKING - Gordon Brown says he has asked the Cabinet Secretary "to investigate the disclosure of confidential and market sensitive information" allegedly from Mandelson Says he asked the cabinet office to investigate this in September and department found no record.
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Great read
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Baltic
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about 1 month ago
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Great exclusive. Alarming story. ‘UK-based pair behind messaging app accused of giving data to Iranian regime’
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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UK-based pair behind messaging app accused of giving data to Iranian regime
Exclusive: Branch of Iranian software company TSIT, which makes Gap Messenger, is registered in Sussex
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/29/iran-app-gap-messenger-tsit-user-data-uk-sussex
about 1 month ago
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Panic on the streets of London? I am the resurrection? Love will tear us apart? So this is how it feels to be lonely? So many missed opportunities by political journalists this week
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I find it pretty mental that we have spent the week talking about the NEC, given everything going on internationally
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about 1 month ago
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This is quite something
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Iconic is an overused word Rachel’s bow is iconic
#traitors
about 1 month ago
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“I’m just a wee boy from the Isle of Lewis.” Awwww ❤️
#Traitors
about 1 month ago
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Also, Faraaz … how can you be twice so late to the party, mate? You deserved to lose
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So happy for Rachel & Stephen. Who wouldn’t want them on their team?
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I remember covering the 3 Rifles homecoming parade in Edinburgh in 2010. The soldiers were emotional, exhausted and relieved to be back home after their tour in Helmand. Not all of them came home, of course.
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Marching home to cheers... and tears
Thousands of people turned out to welcome 3 Rifles home from Afghanistan on Saturday. Rachel Wearmouth watched the parade, and spoke to some…
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/8156048.marching-home-cheers-tears/
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Matthew Holehouse
about 1 month ago
The notion that Labour would use Trump as a stick to beat Farage with would be unthinkable 24hrs ago. Starmer would characterise it as reckless - subordinating the special relationship to narrow partisan advantage. A head-spinning change of approach.
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Faraaz hits the nail on the head. Up the Boro.
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about 1 month ago
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James Ball
about 1 month ago
The UK did this deal, btw, at significant political and financial cost, so that the US could keep operating a crucial regional military base at Diego Garcia. Donald Trump and Marco Rubio both welcomed the deal. There is nothing in it for the UK other than helping the US relationship. So: hmmmm.
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about 2 months ago
“Alliances endure because they are built on respect and partnership, not pressure”, says Starmer, repeating that Trump’s tariff threat is “wrong”. “A trade war is in nobody’s interest”.
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Utter horror
www.thetimes.com/world/middle...
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Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests
https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/iran-young-protesters-news-nsdztp5t2?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqdjMzpcqfq7F0a3oXlLr4H8qspv0aRA3he0wwiDIl2W8QiVHyjjG5FHPR0UQZ8%3D&gaa_ts=696c2d09&gaa_sig=BLjd0wQeZ2JgRDZSgKvDpjYTUZ-tJWpypmRhItNgNEO8G0Y0qWprMPHBXFZBHCuy4dInGU40EhAnE5j5HLXENw%3D%3D
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about 2 months ago
Rare combative tone from Keir Starmer on the Trump tariffs tonight, as he stands up for Greenland/Denmark. "Applying tariffs on allies for pursuing the collective security of NATO allies is completely wrong. We will of course be pursuing this directly with the US administration."
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Actually looking forward to Ant & Dec having a podcast
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Ant and Dec: Why turning 50 made us think again
In a rare interview, Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly talk about growing up together on screen, their difficult forties — and why they’re trying something new with a podcast
https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/ant-dec-interview-weve-never-been-cool-pq7w0j0nd
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The i’s
@richardholmes.bsky.social
is a good reporter getting some really important defence & security exclusives
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Russian spies target £70-a-night hotel near Nato HQ
British staff working for Nato have been warned of increased attempts by suspected Russian spies to monitor the alliance's support for Ukraine in strategic locations
https://inews.co.uk/news/nato-warns-of-russian-spies-4145755
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about 2 months ago
Iranians opposing the regime are protesting all over the world today - big turnouts in Tokyo, Perth, Auckland and Budapest…
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about 2 months ago
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola: “The world is once again witnessing the brave people of Iran stand up. “Europe stands by their side.”
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about 2 months ago
BREAKING: UK and France sign formal declaration of intent to put boots on ground in Ukraine in event of peace deal with Russia. They would "operate on Ukrainian soil, securing Ukraine’s skies and seas and building an armed forces fit for the future".
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I am obsessed with this podcast called The Necessary Conversation, even though I find it almost unbearable. It is a US family chatting politics. The two kids are left-leaning and live in California & the parents are MAGA ultras living in Texas.
open.spotify.com/show/3hkMl04...
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Oil Wars
https://open.spotify.com/show/3hkMl04iMcdayIhxFbL9WT?si=NDTfiE2TSSiwaKr5S0I9MQ
about 2 months ago
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Merry Christmas 🎄
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‘We refuse to be afraid’: solidarity and vigilance in British Jewish community targeted by IS plot
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
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‘We refuse to be afraid’: solidarity and vigilance in British Jewish community targeted by IS plot
Life goes on in a vibrant Greater Manchester neighbourhood after a plan for an attack was thwarted
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/24/solidarity-and-vigilance-in-british-jewish-community-targeted-by-islamic-state-plot
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2 months ago
Thousands of young people leaving care will receive free prescriptions, dental and eyecare services until their 25th birthday, Wes Streeting has announced.
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Care leavers to get free prescriptions, dental and eyecare services up until 25
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/care-leavers-free-prescriptions-dental-36441604?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1766540713
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Has Reform ever polled above 35%? (I think it’s only hit 35% once, maybe twice?) They’re winning lots of council seats when it comes to actual votes, though
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As you’d expect from Kathryn Bigelow, this is outstanding
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_wpw2QHJNco
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Two arrested after police say they will act against intifada chants
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Two arrested after police say they will act against intifada chants - BBC News
The Metropolitan and Greater Manchester forces earlier said they would make arrests over "globalise the intifada" chants.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cde65de81jgo.amp
3 months ago
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Parents of sextortion victim sue Meta for alleged wrongful death
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Parents of sextortion victim sue Meta for alleged wrongful death
Exclusive: Lawsuit is the first UK case of its kind, with Ros and Mark Dowey accusing Meta of ‘putting profit before our young people’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/17/parents-of-sextortion-victim-sue-meta-for-alleged-wrongful-death
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Live blog on the Bondi Beach shooting 👇🏻
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Live: Multiple fatalities, two in custody after shooting at Bondi Beach
Police say there have been multiple fatalities following a shooting near a Jewish gathering at Sydney's Bondi Beach. Follow live.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-14/active-shooter-bondi-beach-sydney-nsw/106141580
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