Tony Kent (@TonyKent

Tony Kent

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Tony Kent

@TonyKent_Writes

Thriller Writer. Dempsey/Devlin series, co-writer of the Odessa series w/Frederick Forsyth. Rep’d by MacRae LPA. Also a Criminal Barrister. Used to box a bit.

London, England

Joined January 2016

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Tony Kent
@TonyKent_Writes
May 27
In case I haven’t gone on & on about it enough in the last 24 hrs, here’s a link to yesterday’s @JeremyVineOn5 show that takes you directly to my segment, thanks to @theJeremyVine’s tech guru Ed (For those who didn’t want to scroll to 1hr14mins)
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Tony Kent
@TonyKent_Writes
Nov 7, 2024
This is the Shadow Justice Secretary. In his very first tweet in the role, he has chosen to lie to you. Keir Starmer did not let Jason Hoganson out early. Hoganson was serving for domestic violence. DV is specifically excluded from the ‘release on 40% of sentence’ scheme that
Robert Jenrick
@RobertJenrick
Nov 6, 2024
Meet Jason Hoganson. Jason was jailed for hitting his ex-girlfriend. Keir Starmer let him out early. Within hours of his release, the police got another call, saying he’d assaulted her yet again. Now he’s on the run. Who could have seen that coming?
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Jason Hoganson was released at the half way point of his sentence. Releasing prisoners at 50% of sentence served was Conservative Party policy. The early release scheme was brought in under the Conservative government due to lack of prison spaces bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… amp.theguardian.com/society/articl… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… amp.theguardian.com/society/articl…
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Tony Kent
@TonyKent_Writes
Aug 1, 2024
I love boxing. It’s been one of the biggest parts of my life since I first put on a pair of gloves at 3 years old. I would rather see my sport banned than see this again. @ioc, you are a fucking disgrace.
Sharron Davies HoL MBE
@sharrond62
Aug 1, 2024
I’m so angry at the IOC they learn nothing from history or science & women continually pay the price
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Tony Kent
@TonyKent_Writes
Aug 1, 2024
Replying to @DreyfusJames and @iocmedia
This is my sport, one in which I competed to a high level. So for once I have an opinion based on something close to expertise. And this is one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen. No woman, no matter how good for her sex she might be, should be anywhere near a boxing
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Tony Kent
@TonyKent_Writes
May 25, 2024
What a load of absolute bollocks. Who is this idiot? I am no fan of Starmer. Having studied his human rights text for my degree dissertation and having then encountered him professionally some years later - albeit it from the peripheral position of being a very junior junior in
Aditya Chakrabortty
@chakrabortty
May 25, 2024
Both feted and gilded, Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak are two sides of the same rotten politics My column theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Tony Kent
@TonyKent_Writes
Apr 9, 2024
Replying to @implausibleblog and @AldiUK
I have to be honest, I don’t blame them. The idea of a basket is they can see what’s in there. You can’t in a bag so they can’t tell if it’s full of stuff from their store or from elsewhere, and so they can’t be sure what you should be paying for. Shoplifting rates are at an all
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Tony Kent
@TonyKent_Writes
Mar 3, 2025
When I was at University I was Captain/Coach of our Boxing Club If I’d suggested then - between 1996 & 2000 - that one of our girls get in the ring with Gary, our lightweight gold medalist, I’d have been drummed out You know why? Because we weren’t FUCKING INSANE in the 90s
Beth Bourne
@bourne_beth2345
Mar 2, 2025
😂😂🤣 “There’s not enough science to claim that boys are stronger or faster. Scientists are now finding out that not only can we compete with men but we can dominate them.” — Micky Matson, WA girls’ varsity tennis coach and BIOLOGY major This is from Thursday’s Tumwater
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Tony Kent
@TonyKent_Writes
Mar 14, 2024
Replying to @jk_rowling and @rivkahbrown
Please do that. I am VERY fed up being accused of the same thing, just because I have had the temerity to state that a thing that did not happen - i.e. the suggestion that trans people were targeted for extermination based on their being trans - did not happen. I know that facts
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Tony Kent
@TonyKent_Writes
Jun 9, 2024
Replying to @GinnyHBall
And how do you feel about parents sending their kids to private school if they can’t afford to pay the VAT?
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Tony Kent
@TonyKent_Writes
Feb 20, 2024
I left the house at 7am this morning, so I could be in a court in Kent by 10am for an 11am hearing. The hearing was uncontested. It lasted 15mins. I left the court building at midday. I’ll be home by 3.30pm. An 8 and a half hour round trip for a hearing that could have been on
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Tony Kent
@TonyKent_Writes
Jan 7, 2023
Yesterday a crown court judge gave my client bail on compassionate grounds: his mother was gravely ill, not expected to last & wanted to see her son The court didn’t email the result to the prison so he was not released. His mother died last night This is NOT bloody acceptable
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Tony Kent
@TonyKent_Writes
Oct 14, 2022
This is the greatest tweet of all time. Twitter can stop now.
Tony Kent
@TonyKent_Writes
May 30, 2024
Replying to @danwootton
Or…or…and bear with me now…or, it could be a very entitled but very obvious criminal being held accountable for a very small number of his very obvious crimes? (I can understand why some wouldn’t like that particular idea, of course…)
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Tony Kent
@TonyKent_Writes
Nov 24, 2024
Replying to @MillaMahogany
(1) We HEAR those other names frequently. So we know how they are pronounced (2) Both names come from Indo-European languages, meaning there is a commonality which at least assists pronunciation; (3) Those names are both about a quarter to a third of the length to Cynthia’s.
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