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Tom Peck

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Tom Peck

@tompeck

Parliamentary Sketch Writer @thetimes

East, East, East London

Joined February 2009

Tom Peck
@tompeck
Apr 1, 2022
31 years since my dad sent me to the shop for a tin of red and white striped paint and the shopkeeper sent me back to ask him if he wanted horizontal or vertical, and i sussed out on the way home what was going on and then kicked the front door so hard it broke.
Tom Peck
@tompeck
Jan 18, 2019
To be fair to the guy, he did always say he was going to "lie in front of a bulldozer." And now he has, for forty straight minutes.
Tom Peck
@tompeck
Sep 1, 2024
Quite intrigued by the legal position around announcing the price of something, have people queue for 10 hours, then at the front, tell them it’s gone up by 300 per cent. I’m sure it’s fine but a ten million person class action against ticketmaster would cheer the nation right up
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Tom Peck
@tompeck
Oct 17, 2024
Robert Jenrick, is 42 years old. He's just said on GB News that he has "served in the government of the last five prime ministers." Just completely hilarious that that is actually true.
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Tom Peck
@tompeck
Aug 2, 2023
People aren’t keen on Elon’s Twitter but the “readers added context” feature is genuinely excellent. Here’s the actual prime minister of the United Kingdom being quite correctly called out for his massive lies.
Rishi Sunak
@RishiSunak
Aug 1, 2023
I want to protect the price of your pint at the pub. And now the UK has left the EU, we can do just that. So we’re bringing in one of the biggest shake ups to the alcohol duty system in the last 140 years. The plan 🧵👇
Readers added context
Alcohol duty in the EU is, on average, much lower than in the UK. These changes will still mean UK alcohol duty is much higher than the EU average taxfoundation.org/distilled-spir…
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Tom Peck
@tompeck
Sep 25, 2023
HS2 now feels very much at the point where Kevin McCloud reappears to find the wife gone.
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Tom Peck
@tompeck
Mar 20, 2023
Replying to @AvaSantina
I quite want to be there when his teenage daughter reads this and asks him ‘did you really leave mum because you couldn’t work out on your own what to give a five year old for lunch?’
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Tom Peck
@tompeck
Dec 4, 2023
So unless you earn £38K you can no longer marry anyone who doesn’t have their own right to live here. People keep saying that means 73 per cent of Brits can’t marry a foreigner - but it’s worse than that isn’t it? You get married when you’re young. Hardly anyone young earns that.
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Tom Peck
@tompeck
Oct 19, 2024
I’ve never forgotten Chris Hoy’s words after he won his sixth Olympic gold medal at London 2012. “I shut my eyes and I lunged and drove it all the way to the line. Then I heard this massive roar, and I hoped that it was for me." The sheer modesty of it. What awful news.
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Tom Peck
@tompeck
Jul 22, 2023
We built it. We spent almost a decade wondering what to do with it. And we still didn’t think to use it for cricket.
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Tom Peck
@tompeck
Oct 30, 2024
I don’t think I’ve listened to a single budget in the last ten years in which the price of a pint hasn’t been reduced in some way. And yet, for some reason, when I bought two of them last week it cost me £15.20.
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Tom Peck
@tompeck
Apr 8, 2024
I see that chap who’s run the length of Africa has raised £700,000 for charity. A top effort but can’t help noticing that sort of money won’t even build you your own commemorative spa complex.
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Tom Peck
@tompeck
Jul 21, 2024
Hyphens do matter - but they don’t always help.
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Tom Peck
@tompeck
Jul 18, 2023
Like, what is actually wrong with us as a country that we allow this to happen? Absolutely nowhere else does this.
John Stevens
@johnestevens
Jul 18, 2023
Lord Bailey of Partygate gets his peerage
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