Journalist. Clown Ex @observeruk, @TheTimes. Not THE John Simpson Podcast: Who Killed CJ Davis 🔗 ⬇️
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Joined February 2011
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Currently doing the hard work of extricating myself from this platform and messaging contacts. One asked if me saying I quit to take up clowning was a scam. Not entirely sure what that scam would involve...
I'll be here and not many other internet places
theshinythings.substack.com/
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This substack piece is well worth a read, I'm sure many fellow journalists will find it strikes a chord.
I QUIT
The rumours are true. I quit the newsroom and I quit crime.
The plan is really silly, but @privateeyenews told it well
I'm leaving this site forever very soon, so find me on Substack to hear how the crime>clown thing is going...
theshinythings.substack.com/…
John Simpson retweeted
This is very good. Well worth a read 👇👇👇
I QUIT
The rumours are true. I quit the newsroom and I quit crime.
The plan is really silly, but @privateeyenews told it well
I'm leaving this site forever very soon, so find me on Substack to hear how the crime>clown thing is going...
theshinythings.substack.com/…
John Simpson retweeted
Comic timing: why I quit my life as a crime reporter to become a clown
A veteran journalist swaps the newsroom for clown school, tumbling into joy, humour and an optimism about humanity
✍️ @thejohnsimpson
bit.ly/4wQquX2
John Simpson retweeted
Comic timing: why I quit my life as a crime reporter to become a clown
A veteran journalist swaps the newsroom for clown school, tumbling into joy, humour and an optimism about humanity
✍️ @thejohnsimpson
bit.ly/4wQquX2
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Winner of Edinburgh fringe’s top comedy prize says he owes it all to Saturday Night Live
SNL writer Chris Cantrill walked off with the ‘Oscar of comedy’ – following in the footsteps of Frank Skinner, Steve Coogan and Jenny Eclair, writes @thejohnsimpson
bit.ly/3V20WJi
John Simpson retweeted
Comic timing: why I quit my life as a crime reporter to become a clown
A veteran journalist swaps the newsroom for clown school, tumbling into joy, humour and an optimism about humanity
✍️ @thejohnsimpson
bit.ly/4wQquX2
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Extreme clowning
Zach Zucker has turned his anarchic Stamptown cabaret into a cult hit and now a Netflix special
✍️ @thejohnsimpson
bit.ly/4A19dNZ
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The wisdom of hecklers
@thejohnsimpson asks comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe advice they’ve received from members of the public who just can’t help themselves
bit.ly/45ekhcg
John Simpson retweeted
'Who killed CJ Davis?' was an important and compelling podcast, going where few journos have gone in #CountylinesCCE.
All the best in your next ch🤡pter!
I QUIT
The rumours are true. I quit the newsroom and I quit crime.
The plan is really silly, but @privateeyenews told it well
I'm leaving this site forever very soon, so find me on Substack to hear how the crime>clown thing is going...
theshinythings.substack.com/…
John Simpson retweeted
Former police officer ran county lines drug ring ‘worth hundreds of thousands of pounds’
Gary Parkinson, who served with Greater Manchester police for 15 years, was jailed for conspiracy to supply class A narcotics to small towns in Devon. @thejohnsimpson reports
bit.ly/4vcCouw
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Grenfell handprints wrecked despite government promise to families, @thejohnsimpson uncovers
Campaigners’ hopes that stairwell wall had been saved for memorial are dashed after news that it has been destroyed
bit.ly/4sbk3we
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Tears for a clown – but Philippe Gaulier leaves the stage in good humour
At an unconventional wake in Paris, ex-pupils tell tales of the entertainer who taught them with brutal and hilarious wit – and bought their secrets with champagne, @thejohnsimpson
bit.ly/3MoAKVD
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‘There are specific things that I wish had gone differently, of course, but I will always want to do what is right’
@thejohnsimpson met with Palestine Action protester Zoe Rogers - who has no regrets after spending 18 months on remand in jail before being freed last week.
If you want to hear more from Zoe, watch her full interview on our YouTube channel:
bit.ly/4bR3zUU
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‘What I have experienced pales in comparison with what Palestinian prisoners go through’
Palestine Action protester Zoe Rogers has no regrets after spending 18 months on remand in jail before being freed last week, writes @thejohnsimpson
bit.ly/3O13B2B
John Simpson retweeted
The relatives of those killed fighting alongside US troops in Afghanistan have reacted with fury to the US president‘s claim that British soldiers stayed ‘off the frontlines’.
✍️ @thejohnsimpson and @itsjamestapper
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Qesser Zuhrah has now stopped her hunger strike, lawyers for the prisoners have confirmed
"You're starving your body to a point that it should never go, where the body starts eating itself"
🔗 @thejohnsimpson reports on 20-year-old Qesser Zuhrah, now into her 50th day of hunger strike
bit.ly/4qpRrhM
