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Steve Yates

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I'll do this bit properly one day

  1. BBC political editor Chris Mason has, in all seriousness, just made the remark on the 6 o'clock news that Keir Starmer would not be in this mess if he had appointed Nigel Farage as US ambassador instead of Peter Mandelson

    He never misses the chance to insert Farage into the story

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  2. A local resident said:

    "I asked them not to put a flag up outside my daughter's bedroom.

    "It terrified her the previous night & I asked them not to look into her window.

    "They refused and... threatened to come back later and look through her window."

    www.edp24.co.uk/news/2545769...

    Norwich has seen a second night of tension on the streets as 'flaggers' returned to an area to put up national flags, sparking a stand-off with…

    Second night of tension in Norwich with stand-off between flaggers and locals

    Norwich has seen a second night of tension on the streets as 'flaggers' returned to an area to put up national flags, sparking a stand-off with…

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  3. I think a lot of well meaning good government types should be thinking closely about Peter Mandelson, and how dangerous it is for a politician to earn enough to give them a taste for yachts, but not enough to afford a yacht of their own.

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  4. Bad as the latest political assassination in the US is, let's not be distracted from the urgent need for Keir Starmer to sack Peter Mandelson. Now.

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