Jeremy Corbyn: ‘The rise of the far right is very serious. We've seen it because centrist parties have moved to the right... Let’s stop blaming minorities and starting looking out for fundamental inequalities in our society.'
Simon Hattenstone
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Simon Hattenstone
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Guardian features writer/interviewer. Ambassador. @encephalitis & proud Manc/Salfordian 🐝 Also @shattenstone.bsky.social
- Alex Scott and Ian Wright are such brilliant pundits – they understand football, its history and its politics. And they're bloody great people.
- Dear @trussliz, as a Jew I'd just like to say I don't have conservative values, have not set up a business and do not need protecting from wokedom. Please keep your stereotypes to your bigoted self.
- Dear @BorisJohnson, I am sat at home struggling to breathe, as too many people are. You've finally got the job you want, and within weeks you have created an NHS that tests for NOTHING & leaves us all gasping for air, helpless in the greatest crisis of our lives. Act now. TEST US
- Last month @jeremycorbyn suggested that rough sleeping should be recorded as a cause of death – it got hardly any pickup (I've only just discovered he said it) but it should have – cos it's important northamptonchron.co.uk/news/people/ro…
- Gary Lineker is right – this is an incredibly dangerous, deliberate and all too common use of inflammatory language by Tories. It's also a disgusting lie. Jonathan Gullis needs to apologise, as should Rishi Sunak on behalf of his government. Just vile.
- 'I don’t trust in people now. Especially men. That is probably why I’m single." My interview with 2-time Wimbledon champ Petra Kvitova on life after being stabbed. NO ONE is reading this, & she is one of most remarkable people I've met. Plse give it a go!
- This is my obituary of the bloody wonderful Paddy Roycroft, who operated the Guardian switchboard for 32 years and died last week. Any retweets hugely appreciated because for loads of us Paddy was the Guardian. theguardian.com/media/2020/nov…
- Boris Johnson has told the nation to wash its hands. He's even hosting a Cobra meeting next week. The great man's alive and leading from the front.
- This is my interview with Rylan Clark in which he talks about his outrageous new reality show, recovering from a breakdown that almost did for him and what really happened on the X Factor.
- Six-week suspension for repeatedly hitting, verbally abusing and sticking his genitals in member of staff's face. Bone should be facing time in jail, never mind the prospect of losing his seat.
- Bloody amazing. There we were struggling to do 10,000 tests a day, but as of 9am today we've managed 30 trillion, 34 million and 974,000 tests. Great work Priti.Reassured that there have been "three hundred thousand, thirty four, nine hundred and seventy four thousand" tests carried out so far. Far less reassured by Priti Patel's grasp of numbers
- Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. Turning BBC4 into an archive channel is a terrible decision. BBC4 is easily the best BBC station for people interested in culture, documentariess and history. And that's lots of us.
- If there is a man out there who was in @thelionunicorn in Kentish Town last night & Heimlich manoeuvred me when l when I was choking, thanks a million. I owe you one (life). And thanks so much to the staff for looking after me. Really sorry if I put anyone off their food/drink.
