@psmith

Digital editor for @business in London. On Twitter since 2007. It's been fun. Find me on BlueSky: https://xitter.cf/t.co/F4BrRbV6vJ

 Saint Albans, England
Joined April 2007
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Breaking my long and intentional twitter ban to say Up the Owls today #swfc
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Totally real Twitter account/name of the day
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I'll even come back to Twitter to say good luck to Jim
Jim Waterson
@jimwaterson18 Sep 2024
Some news: I've quit my job at the Guardian to launch London Centric, a modern news outlet for the capital doing journalism in the old-fashioned way. I saw the response on here to the Evening Standard's print closure and it felt like time to step up: londoncentric.media

London Centric | Jim Waterson | Substack

Proper local journalism about who really runs London - and what's actually going on in the city. Click to read London Centric, by Jim Waterson, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of...

londoncentric.media
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Getting real "Todd Bonzalez" vibes from the p0rnbots clogging up my Twitter mentions
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I come back to twitter occasionally to see who is still here
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Surprised there haven't been many "Just turned up for my first day as Crowdstrike's PR, can't wait to see what the day holds." jokes
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This is happening now, but feels like it could be from any point from 2020 to present day
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Was a good first speech from Starmer but I don't think "infrastructure of opportunity" is going to echo through the ages.
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Was also a very generous and public-spirited speech from Sunak
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Sunak jeered and booed by crowds as he is driven away from Downing Street having resigned as prime minister. They were not shouting "Boo-urns."
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Looking forward to reading in British newspapers about how the election result is good for the Tories, actually
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Driving license most popular option in my VERY scientific poll of 19 random people on daytime twitter
Patrick Smith@psmith4 Jul 2024
If you're voting today, do you have
16%a passport
63%a driving license
16%some other ID
5%what, I need ID??
19 votes • Final results
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The live show of this was ***** That means "five stars," rather than a five-letter swear word.
4th Estate Books@4thEstateBooks4 Jul 2024
Congratulations David @Baddiel - MY FAMILY is out today! 💚 The hilarious and honest new memoir from the bestselling author of Jews Don’t Count. 👏 'One of the funniest books I have ever read' @HadleyFreeman 👏 ‘A masterpiece’ @Sathnam 👏 'The read of the summer' @TheTimes
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If you're voting today, do you have
16%a passport
63%a driving license
16%some other ID
5%what, I need ID??
19 votes • Final results
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This rule that broadcasters shouldn't cover the election while people are voting on polling day is rubbish, a relic from the dinosaur age of the 1950s. People have been voting by post since Tuesday 11 June, at rate of about 400,000 a day on average. Why no broadcast ban then?
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Everyone saying "REMEMBER VOTER ID" should really be saying "remember your DRIVING LICENSE or PASSPORT." You can't bring any old photo ID, it's a very short and strict list. electoralcommission.org.uk/v…

Accepted forms of photo ID

You need to show photo ID when voting at polling stations in some UK elections. Find out about the different types of photo ID accepted.

electoralcommission.org.uk
Patrick Smith@psmith4 Jul 2024
I really hope the big story of today isn't voter ID and massive queues of people who have been turned away. For most people, all they can use is a passport of driving license, or a Voter Authority Certificate. Some will have none of these.
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8 million people, 13.5% of the UK population, do not have a passport (2021 Census) 26% of people in th UK don't have a driving license, as of 2019. This rises to 39% among Asian people and 50% for Black people (gov.uk).
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Important PSA: even an expired ID will do!
Patrick Smith@psmith4 Jul 2024
I really hope the big story of today isn't voter ID and massive queues of people who have been turned away. For most people, all they can use is a passport of driving license, or a Voter Authority Certificate. Some will have none of these.
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I really hope the big story of today isn't voter ID and massive queues of people who have been turned away. For most people, all they can use is a passport of driving license, or a Voter Authority Certificate. Some will have none of these.
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