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Tony McDonough
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Tony McDonough
@tonymc39
Award-winning business journalist with more than 30 years' experience in the media.
- This is brilliant... how to describe Twitter to someone who has never used it.
00:00 - I can take or leave Oasis. I liked some of their stuff. But if some people are excited by the reunion then who am I to argue? But you just knew some Puritan from the Guardian would come out with this kind of pompous, po-faced miserabalist nonsense.
- If you stand outside the hotel room shouting abuse at a 20-year-old singer, you are not the good guys.This is currently the situation outside of Eden Golan's hotel room. Because of her nationality, hundreds of people who hate her are screaming outside of her room. What happens if she goes outside? You hurt her so she quits? You kill her so she can't perform? If you are this
00:00 - A lot of discussion on here today about whether he ‘misspoke’ but what many seem to be missing is that when he did say ‘we must normalise massacres’ there was a massive cheer from the crowd. Did they mis-cheer?
- To those unaware of the history, Bobby Sands was a cold-blooded bastard who planted a bomb in a furniture shop in Belfast. He and his gang shot two coppers as they fled the scene. But he was a good socialist.
- They planted a bomb outside Boots in Warrington the day before Mother’s Day and murdered Tim Parry, 12, and Johnathan Ball who was just three. Always remember this next time some plastic radical on here romanticises the IRA.It is my son’s 45th birthday today. Another birthday he has not enjoyed with his family because of an indiscriminate IRA bomb. Tim has lived on through the charity and it’s peace building work and so his life has served 000’s of others. God bless you my son
- TV gold, here, from Emily Maitlis, who illustrates what must be a common reaction when Barry Gardiner opens his mouth.
00:00 - A UK General Election where the overwhelming focus is on UK issues… who’d have thought that, Owen, you absolute whopper.
- 25 passes for Liverpool’s second goal. Everyone touched it except Van Dijk. Graphic from the Telegraph
- Peter Sissons, who died today, on the far left of this pic, next to John Lennon and Jimmy Tarbuck in the Isle of Man in 1951. All three were pupils at Dovedale school in South Liverpool.
