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Jenni Russell
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Columnist, The Times; contributing writer, the New York Times; book reviewer, the Sunday Times. Winner of the Orwell Prize for political journalism 2011.
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    Jenni Russell
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    May 11, 2020
    The reason we're in deep trouble now: Boris was never up to the job of crisis leader. His role was figurehead. But his Cabinet can't fill the gap because they were chosen for Brexit loyalty, not competence. We're being led by bunch of inadequates. My col
    Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain on his first day back at work in London last month after contracting the coronavirus.
    Opinion | The U.K. Needs a Real Government, Not Boris Johnson’s Puppet Cabinet (Published 2020)
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    Jenni Russell
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    Jan 10, 2023
    Please read; the most important piece I've written. Mass poisoning has suddenly killed off most sea life for 30 miles by the Tees. The govt claims it's natural; ind scientists warn it's manmade. The govt is desperate not to inquire too deeply as its freeport policy is at stake.
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    Jenni Russell
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    May 27, 2020
    This is the complaint I've just sent the BBC about their cowardly suspension of @maitlis from @BBCNewsnight
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    Jenni Russell
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    Sep 2, 2018
    Remember the total panic on Boris’ face when his side won. He didn’t expect, want or know how to do Brexit - it was just a tactic to become PM. That’s why he bottled the leadership contest, & why he’s had no ideas, just slogans, ever since. A rotten, vacant, lazy, dangerous fraud
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    Carl Dinnen
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    Sep 2, 2018
    He’s going for it. #tomorrowspaperstoday
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    Jenni Russell
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    Sep 25, 2019
    Johnson is even nastier than we ever dared fear. He revealed tonight that he is the most dangerous, contemptible man in British politics. No Tory with humanity or morality should support him now.
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    Jenni Russell
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    Jun 24, 2016
    Saddest fact is that the people who voted 'stuff you' because their lives were tough will now get stuffed. By the people who led them on.
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    Jenni Russell
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    Jul 10, 2018
    Boris Johnson's resignation was an act of desperation. He knows the verdict of history is about to come down on him - and bury him. My column for @nytimes. Boris Johnson Has Ruined Britain nyti.ms/2NFhzDr
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    Jenni Russell
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    May 29, 2025
    What is your point, @BarristerSecret ? That daily lawbreaking doesn't matter? That young men should commit crimes with impunity? That no one should challenge them? That it's not Jenrick's business? That it's not cool to notice, or care? I'd like to know.
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    The Secret Barrister 🦋
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    May 29, 2025
    This is the most spectacularly Alan Partridge thing that has ever happened, and I include Alan Partridge.
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    Jenni Russell
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    Oct 19, 2019
    This is just a stunt by Johnson aimed at his base - but @Peston is acting as his megaphone by sending the message Johnson wants out there; that he’s defiant. The truth is: he isn’t. He complied with the law. Peston’s doing No 10’s job here rather than his own.
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    Robert Peston
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    Oct 19, 2019
    .@BorisJohnson will tonight stick two fingers up at the Benn Act by sending the letter to @eucopresident it stipulates asking for a three-month Brexit delay but refusing to sign it. He expects to see MPs in court.
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    Jenni Russell
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    Nov 5, 2019
    Wow, the MP Andrew Bridgen just making Rees Mogg Grenfell remarks worse; defends him by saying he’s a very clever authority figure who would not personally have accepted the advice to stay in a building on fire. Says Grenfell residents not authority, leadership figures. Appalling
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    Jenni Russell
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    Jan 30, 2020
    Alastair Stewart is a fine journalist, and a thoroughly decent, kind, generous man. None of us know exactly why he has lost his job, but I don't believe for a second that he's a racist. He has caused unintentional offence but nobody should be sacked for a single mistake.
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    Jenni Russell
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    Jan 10, 2023
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    What's at stake for the rest of us; the creation of sea deserts around Britain and the poisoning of the only sea we will ever have, unless we put pressure on MPs, Sunak, Coffey and the govt to transform the casual way we dig up and dump the toxic waste buried by our rivers
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    Jenni Russell
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    Jul 31, 2020
    1. Weeks after Russia report warned of Russia's dangerous, growing influence, Boris Johnson rewards his patron & newspaper editor, Lebedev, with a peerage giving him direct lifetime access to Britain's power networks. It's a gigantic stuff-you to the country.
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    Jenni Russell
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    Jun 3, 2020
    Great opening by @maitlis @esmewren - last week's govt bullying hasn't cowed them. Johnson boasts he's proud of the country's record on coronavirus. Maitlis points out Britain is world leader in excess deaths, & asks: Is that really something to be proud of?
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    BBC Newsnight
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    Jun 3, 2020
    We’re live now on @BBCTwo with Emily Maitlis – you can also watch online at bbc.in/2Ps915G #Newsnight | @maitlis
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