Digital editor for @business in London. On Twitter since 2007. It's been fun. Find me on BlueSky: https://xitter.cf/t.co/F4BrRbV6vJ
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Patrick Smith retweeted
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?
Patrick Smith retweeted
Important PSA: even an expired ID will do!
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“thank you for what you do,” Rishi Sunak tells a woman who runs a jazz vinyl records business
Patrick Smith retweeted
I'm gonna explain to y'all why Britain considers 78°F/25°C hot. I know hot because I grew up in Texas and spent half my life in Las Vegas. So I am absolutely qualified to explain this to the rest of you who laugh at UK "heat waves".
Patrick Smith retweeted
Labour lead at *30 points* in this week's YouGov poll for The Times
That's the biggest Labour lead since Truss
CON 18 (=)
LAB 48 (+4)
LIB DEM 9 (-1)
REF UK 13 (-2)
GRN 7 (-1)
Fieldwork 7 - 8 May
Patrick Smith retweeted
IT'S HERE: Nimby Watch, my new column for @CapX, in which I celebrate the way our planning system is working to save the country from the blight of affordable housing or decent infrastructure.
First up - the story of the Bethnal Green mulberry tree.
capx.co/introducing-nimby-wa…
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Congrats to @taylorswift13 on winning Super Bowl 58 👏 a stunning performance
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The praise this @EvanHD interview has rightly received is a reminder of how rare such rigour was during the Brexit Referendum, when quite basic things, like what references to "access" to the single market meant, were not interrogated.
Patrick Smith retweeted
This is a wild chart. The number of American newspaper employees is down >50% since I started working in a newsroom, and I'm 32 years old.
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Twitter still full of deep fake ads of BBC presenters like @sophieraworth with BBC branding
