Alex Partridge

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Producer and journalist at BBC Westminster.

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"There is a party game I like to play with friends. The question itself is basic: Is there a piece of art you would sacrifice yourself to save?" defector.com/i-would-die-...

I Would Die To Save The Winged Victory Of Samothrace | Defectordefector.com There is a party game I like to play with friends. The question itself is basic: Is there a piece of art you would sacrifice yourself to save? But like any good ice-breaker, it works because it contai...

Something glorious about a country where our elected government dresses our king up in a robe and crown and makes him say stuff like “my govt will legislate to ban the sale of high caffeine energy drinks to children”

A great place to go if you want to to look at adverts is your phone’s Instagram app!

Hot take but we’re gonna miss Gareth, folks.

Thoughts and prayers with UK website editors who have to put two domestic stories above Trump today

13 paragraphs of “London Playbook” before we get to something UK focused is it

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Study for a Portrait, by Francis Bacon, 1952, 📸 via @MenInBlazers

England

England are in it folks

Why is Italia ‘90 the dominant England shirt you see out and about on people definitely too young to remember it. I’m part of it, I have the home shirt, squad number 19 and was only three that year.

Feels like ours was the “little bit of all these” election. Plus WhatsApp fwds and a bit of old fashioned boots on the ground grassroots organising

Reminder that 2024 is effectively the first post-social media election. People used to get their news from the tv and newspaper. Then we had a decade of news-via-google. Then a decade of news-via-big-social-feeds. Now that’s been fractured and nothing has replaced it.

If we all watch this enough times before kickoff they’ll give England the trophy youtu.be/VIYj4R-TeT8?...

BBC Colombia v England Shootout Montageyoutu.be A wonderfully touching montage by the BBC for England finally breaking their penalty shootout duck in a World Cup

Only on one of these channels will you be able to sing along to the Gillette ad at half time so…

Lineker and Shearer v Keane and Wright: does BBC or ITV have the stronger Euro 2024 final lineup?

Lineker and Shearer v Keane and Wright: does BBC or ITV have the stronger Euro 2024 final lineup?www.theguardian.com The two big channels prepare to slug it out for viewers for the climax of the tournament

Hey look at how well read I am

Bonkers section from the Wikipedia page for Suggs from Madness

Caught between my desire for England to win the Euros and my desire to never ever hear “Sweet Caroline” ever again

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Water bills set to rise by between X and X

Water bills set to rise by between X and Xwww.bbc.com Water bills are set to rise by between X and X over the next five years, water regulator Ofwat says.

Sir Keir Starmer will attend the Euro 2024 final in Berlin on Sunday, No10 has confirmed

Glad I held on to my bum flare futures

Enjoying astounding and amazing people with my current favourite fact: it costs £32 to get in to Boxpark to watch an England game

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Gus Atkinson, absolutely ruining everybody's pre-written Jimmy-centric pieces #thecricket

Great piece in the Economist on “England away”: www.economist.com/britain/2024...

A weekend with Gareth Southgate and friendswww.economist.com England football fans abroad: soft boys playing at being hard men

Enjoyed this piece. Including the standard “the House of Commons chamber is much smaller than I imagined” shout from a new MP

'An amazing sense of excitement' - New MPs take it all in

'An amazing sense of excitement' - New MPs take it all inwww.bbc.com Hundreds of new MPs get their first taste of Parliament after last week's general election.

Fascinating to see Starmer appointing some brand new MPs straight into ministerial roles www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Keir Starmer gives government jobs to brand new MPswww.bbc.co.uk In an unusual move, five MPs get junior ministerial roles having only been elected for the first time

Spain v France absolutely sensational. Best game of the tournament by far despite the lack of second half twist to make it an all time classic

This is bracing to read

Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future. www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...

Can everyone calm down please

Parliament meeting to elect a speaker from 2:30 this afternoon. Election of the speaker is a forgone conclusion but it’s the first time we’ll see Keir Starmer in Parliament is Prime Minister and Labour MPs on the government benches

This plus the fact that a certain ex minister/podcaster was using it on election night while on live TV makes me think people just do not understand what it is or what it does

Well this is grim

The people shocked James Corden delayed his play ten minutes to watch the football will be aghast that they delayed *school* so we could watch England v Brazil in the 2002 World Cup