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Phil Craig

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Phil Craig

@philmcraig

Writer/producer ex BBC, Brook Lapping, Nutopia & ABC 🇦🇺. New book 1945 The Reckoning now available in 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿& 🇮🇳. Host of @MongersPodcast

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Joined September 2010

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Phil Craig
@philmcraig
Aug 15, 2019
When someone whose work you really admire cites you as an influence.... it makes you feel really bloody old! But thanks to the master wordsmith @James1940
James Holland
@James1940
Aug 15, 2019
Actually, the book that made me think, ‘yes, this is the way to write history,’ was Finest Hour by @philmcraig and Tim Clayton. Absolutely brilliant - and an amazing BBC TV series too for that matter. Came out back in 1999, I think, but still very much in print.
Phil Craig
@philmcraig
Nov 10, 2024
Thanks British Gas I guess
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Phil Craig
@philmcraig
Apr 18, 2024
Feels like a good day to share this again
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Phil Craig
@philmcraig
Nov 9, 2025
Replying to @adamboultonTABB
Crikey Adam, really? I worked alongside the likes of Fred Emery, Gavin Hewitt, John Ware, Jane Corbin on Panorama, under the editorships of Mark Thompson and Peter Horrocks. Whatever they might have thought of Trump or the events of January 2021 - not much I suspect - the idea
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Phil Craig
@philmcraig
Nov 16, 2023
Replying to @DovBenShimon and @JamesIKaplan1
Thanks you for bearing witness It must have been so terrible. But with so much denial and so much lying the world needs to know what Hamas is and why it must be destroyed.
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Phil Craig
@philmcraig
Nov 8, 2020
That’s nothing, just look at how New York celebrated Ben Stokes’ innings at the cricket World Cup last July.
Phil Craig
@philmcraig
Jan 6, 2024
Replying to @NoaMagid
How anyone could read stories like this and then march today in London chanting to save Hamas utterly bewilders me.
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Phil Craig
@philmcraig
Jun 4, 2017
Ethnically mixed gay couple help fight off a demented Jihadist and save a girls life. London Pride, 2017 version.
London attack: Romanian baker and Spanish banker among heroes
From bbc.com
Phil Craig
@philmcraig
Nov 10, 2024
Replying to @philmcraig
Update. The engineer was very nice and identified the fault in the dishwasher drainage system. He’s recommending a new valve, a one man totalitarian police state, rapid industrialization, the theory of socialism in one country, forced collectivization of agriculture,
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Phil Craig
@philmcraig
Nov 6, 2025
What started in late 2023 with the fear of confronting blatantly pro Hamas marches in London ends - no, sadly, doesn’t end but insidiously progresses- with this. The last two words heard by little girls at the Manchester Arena, and by so many others in so many other places,
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Phil Craig
@philmcraig
Jan 15, 2025
Replying to @DreyfusJames
Well said James and - for the record - I do apologise for that evening in 1988. But who knew you could do that standing on a bar stool?
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Phil Craig
@philmcraig
Mar 3, 2025
Replying to @BDSixsmith
The Luftwaffe looked invincible in those Leni Reifenstahl movies
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Phil Craig
@philmcraig
Aug 18, 2022
Replying to @JeremyClarkson
I didn't get the grades I'd expected either and I’m also currently holidaying.
Phil Craig
@philmcraig
May 5, 2020
Replying to @LDNYoungLabour
The heroes of this are those who fought for peace -the SDLP, Unionists like Trimble, socialist like Mo Mowlem and, yes, centrists like Blair & Major. The blood-soaked villains include Sands, fanatics from UVF and IRA & the terrorist fanboys who clustered around Corbyn then & now.