Alexander Brown
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Assistant Political Editor at The Mirror. COYS enthusiast. You can get me at
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*Professional news* Delighted to announce I'm joining The Mirror as Assistant Political Editor. I start in August, but am keen to line up coffees, intros, and gossip immediately. My DMs are open, why not say hi X
4 months ago
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A Lily Allen style album on betrayal and heartbreak but it's about Nick Mohammed at the end of Celebrity Traitors
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Same vibe
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2 days ago
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Vince Cable and George Osborne are in Westminster answering questions from MPs about the Budget
3 days ago
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While many will be celebrating Zohran Mamdani winning, do also consider how hard today will be for racists and sex pest apologists
3 days ago
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This Rachel Reeves speech is basically her saying everyone should be worried then refusing to elaborate
4 days ago
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Speeches before the Budget are so funny, just 20 minutes of bad vibes then a Q&A with all questions about specifics dismissed as itās not the Budget yet. Great use of time
4 days ago
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Oh so hate clicks are actually what theyāre after
7 days ago
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Sir John Curtice: "People are getting to know her more, but for every person who goes āoh ok not too badā, thereās another one who goes āoh my God, surely notā"
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Inside Kemi Badenoch's first year - 'she's got to hope for a Farage implosion'
A year ago on Sunday Kemi Badenoch was named Tory leader after members ignored James Cleverley's plea to 'be more normal' - and 12 months on Nigel Farage has stolen the initiative
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/inside-kemi-badenochs-first-year-36168559
7 days ago
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All estate agents should apologise, not just those working for Rachel Reeves
8 days ago
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The quotes in this are so fucking bad I had to check several times it wasnāt a deep fake
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Reform UK MP says seeing adverts 'full of Black people' drives her 'mad'
Sarah Pochin was responding to a question about whether her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts', and claimed white people were 'demonised'
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/reform-uk-mp-says-seeing-36133010
14 days ago
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David Harbour do not show your face in London again (new Lily Allen album is devastating and brilliant)
15 days ago
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Great story from one of the best journalists in the lobby
add a skeleton here at some point
16 days ago
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Robert Jenrick should apologise for his repeated attacks on judges, David Lammy has said. The Justice Secretary was speaking after warnings from the profession that they are facing death and rape threats
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Robert Jenrick 'should apologise' for attacks on judges, David Lammy says
David Lammy spoke out after warnings from the profession that they are facing death and rape threats amid an increasingly toxic atmosphere instigated by political attacks
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/robert-jenrick-should-apologise-attacks-36120582
16 days ago
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At a David Lammy speech and they walked us to our press seats through the kitchen
16 days ago
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EXC: Labour plans to ramp up its attacks on Farage, making more of his praise for Putin, and the conviction of Nathan Gill. Internal polling shows 57% of voters believe Farage's "sympathy" for Putin is a risk to national security, and party reckons that can go higher
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Labour to ramp up attacks on Nigel Farage over Putin praise
The party plans to do more to call out the Reform UK leader, with internal polling showing 57% of all voters saying Mr Farage's sympathy for Putin is a risk to national security
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/labour-ramp-up-attacks-nigel-36114108
17 days ago
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Posting about student politics as an adult is one of the most embarrassing, vibeless, and small time things you can do. Universities are struggling to stay afloat, and these losers are obsessing over students chatting shit
18 days ago
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Exc: The Attorney general has warned Tory attacks on the legal profession could force judges and lawyers out, delaying or denying access to justice
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Attorney General warns Tory attacks on justice could see trials delayed
Richard Hermer hit out at the 'toxic' atmosphere being directed to legal professionals and claimed it left many used to fighting for justice not reconsidering their careers
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/attorney-general-warns-tory-attacks-36087812
20 days ago
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Exc: Ed Miliband has accused net zero critics of being anti-worker and anti-business. The energy sec also claimed Reform and the Tories had imported a culture war from the US
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Ed Miliband says net zero critics are 'anti-worker' as he unveils jobs bonanza
The Energy and Net-zero Secretary tore into the Tories and Reform, accusing them of importing a culture war from the US instead of offering a credible plan to bring bills down
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband-says-tory-reform-36089763
20 days ago
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There'll be no Ange celebration at Spurs then. I'll tell the children
21 days ago
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Great piece from Man City player Kerstin Casparij on standing up for trans women
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Reaction when I stood up for trans women made me realise I had to do more
Manchester City and Netherlands player explains why she has become an LGBT Foundation patron and the importance of keeping football free of hate
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/16/kerstin-casparij-moving-the-goalposts?CMP=share_btn_url
22 days ago
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Going onto my doorstep to clap for everyone involved in The Pitt, hoping it will get a UK broadcaster to help the less online watch it. Show of the year, and it's not even close
22 days ago
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Please won't someone think of the households with incomes over £100,000
23 days ago
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FFS another nepo baby in journalism
27 days ago
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EXC: Lawyers warn they're receiving death and rape threats after Reform and Tory 'two-tier' claims. In an unprecedented intervention, six legal bodies representing 250,000 lawyers expressed āgrave concernā over political attacks
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Lawyers warn of death threats after Reform and Tories' 'two-tier' claims
In an unprecedented intervention, six legal bodies, representing 250,000 lawyers, expressed āgrave concernā over the language being used toward legal professionals
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/lawyers-warn-death-rape-threats-36051819
28 days ago
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Interviewed Gordon Brown about child poverty, Reform, and how to stop both
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Gordon Brownās chilling warning about what Farage as PM would mean for children
The former Prime Minister hit out at the cruel cuts pledged by Reform UK and explained this would be the equivalent of shutting down the NHS while closing schools
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/gordon-browns-chilling-warning-what-36051679
28 days ago
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I left my house at 6:15 am to interview Bridget Phillipson in Scotland, please give me traffic
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Labour deputy leadership hopeful vows urgent child poverty action
The Education Secretary shared how her own experiences motivated her to end child poverty, and reaffirmed her commitment to ending the cruel two-child benefit cap.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/bridget-phillipson-says-tackling-child-36049804
29 days ago
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Trying to answer the most important question of Tory conference: How many Margaret Thatchers can you find in 90 seconds?
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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about 1 month ago
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Date idea: Doing literally anything else
about 1 month ago
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Asked by a Telegraph journalist to give Keir Starmer and the Labour Government a score out of ten so far, Andy Burnham says he's had a lot of "perfectly innocent questions" like that from the Telegraph lately, declines to give a score, but adds there are "lots of good things going on""
about 1 month ago
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Speaking at a fringe event at Tory conference, Andy Burnham says Manchester was the place for ā24 hour party people until Downing Street took that crown off us during the pandemicā
about 1 month ago
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Overheard lots of Tories sad at how dead the conference is this year. āThereās not even protests, thatās how bad it is. I saw one protestor but itās not the sameā
about 1 month ago
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Not very Bluesky, but if you're at Tory conference and have an event I should be covering or fancy a coffee, hit me up
about 1 month ago
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En route to Tory conference
about 1 month ago
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EXC: Sir John Curtice says a key problem for Kemi Badenoch is that "nobody knows who she is"
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Kemi Badenoch 'unknown' by public who 'don't trust her' says top pollster
The polling guru said the public turned on the Conservatives over partygate and Liz Trussās mini-budget, and that Kemi Badenoch had been unable to stop support collapsing
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/kemi-badenoch-unknown-british-public-36009300
about 1 month ago
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A Hampstead ponds consultation on whether to stay trans-inclusive is being shared widely by those who donāt use the ponds, but oppose it being inclusive. It takes 5 mins tops, if anyone is inclined to fill it out x
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Public Consultation on Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds | Commonplace
https://hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/proposals/v3/consultation?step=step1
about 1 month ago
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Labour Party respond to Zack Polanski speech, accusing the Green Party leader of sowing ādivision and grievanceā
about 1 month ago
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reposted by
Alexander Brown
Ian Fraser
about 2 months ago
Daily Mirror on Trumpās UN speech "Deranged"
#tomorrowspaperstoday
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If you're ever in Vancouver, be sure to find me on the sauna wall
about 2 months ago
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As some pundits imply they're speaking for or on behalf of all Jews, just a reminder many in the community vehemently oppose Israel's genocide, support the creation of a Palestinian state, and recognise the clear distinction between Palestine and Hamas
about 2 months ago
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Your Party having factional beef when it was set up by just two people is very camp and fun, actually
about 2 months ago
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Trump to be kept away from protests during state visit. Theresa May's former chief of staff told me that was a key consideration for the last state visit, as well as going big on flattery
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Trump to swerve UK state visit protest with Keir Starmer Chequers reception
Former Tory MP Gavin Barwell, who worked in Downing Street during the previous state visit of the US president warned ministers should organise events away from protests
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/donald-trump-swerve-uk-state-35890156
about 2 months ago
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I love to encourage people to cycle in London but having seen how the casuals do it during a tube strike unfortunately I now have to gatekeep. Take your limes and WFH, you're a risk to yourself and others
about 2 months ago
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Was asked about the week in my German lesson today and described Angela Rayner as being "beleibt", rather than "beliebt", a difference I learned after my tutor stopped laughing that meant I hadn't called her popular, but instead, obese
2 months ago
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People love to talk about cancel culture, but Mila Kunis wrote a letter in support of a rapist and she's still somehow in the new Knives Out. You can literally defend rapists without consequence
2 months ago
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Reform here during the national anthem, looking like two Pointless teams asked to name an illness prevented by vaccines
2 months ago
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Hearing [insert minister your news company opposes] could be for the chop
2 months ago
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What a 24 hours for David Lammy, who not only becomes deputy prime minister, but more importantly, can celebrate Daniel Levy finally leaving Spurs
2 months ago
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Let me be the first to say, Angela Rayner has resigned
2 months ago
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Kemi Badenoch had such a bad
#PMQs
performance she's immediately gone into Central Lobby to do a Sky interview about Angela Rayner
2 months ago
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Born to enjoy novels by the sea, cursed to read about transphobia in an office
2 months ago
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