Assistant editor, digital politics, Sky News 🏳️🌈
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Joined March 2009
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Ned Simons retweeted
🔴 Sad to say that Hyphen’s parent company is consulting on shutting the website and laying off all of its staff, including me.
It’s obviously devastating news for a superb team whose journalism has had real impact this week alone. I’m so proud to have worked alongside them. 🧵
Sky News is hiring a political reporter, come work with me sky.talent-community.com/pro…
Ned Simons retweeted
I’ve been laid off by openDemocracy, along with a load of my amazing colleagues in the UK. Another bad day for good journalism in this country
If anyone needs an editor, reporter, barman, ageing centre forward or hype man hit me up
Ramzy is the best editor I’ve ever worked with. Utterly baffling to ever want to lose him. Everyone should be fighting each other to hire him quickly
Thrilled to be joining @SkyNews as assistant editor, digital politics, in the summer. Always proud of @HuffPostUK
Ministerial code: ‘All major interviews and media appearances, both print and broadcast, should also be agreed with the No 10 Press Office.’
No.10 on Suella Braverman’s Times article: ‘No it was not agreed by No.10.’
Ned Simons retweeted
Before coming to Congress, he spent 8 years as the senior attorney and national spokesperson for a Christian nationalist group dedicated to dismantling LGBTQ+ rights and outlawing abortion.
This is Mike Johnson, the new House speaker. huffpost.com/entry/mike-john…
Ned Simons retweeted
🚨more juicy whatsapps from the covid inquiry...
chief scientific adviser angela mclean called rishi sunak "dr death the chancellor" in 2020 re eat out to help out
she also called prof carl heneghan a "fuckwitt" [sic]...who happens to be next up to give evidence today😬
Rachel Reeves tells me the two moments which made her think Labour could win the next election were Keir Starmer winning the leadership and his ‘big decision’ to remove the whip from Jeremy Corbyn after the EHRC report
Rachel Reeves says of the glitter protest: ‘It really angered me.
‘You saw the measure of the guy [Starmer] today. It must have been pretty terrifying.. he just got his stuff together and cracked-on.’
Labour NEC member says of Suella Braverman: 'It's like she is on some sort of personal driven mission to be the most racist brown person in UK politics in a personal quest for far-right acceptance'
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/s…
Steve Baker tells fringe: ‘When somebody says multiculturalism has failed, that seems to convey the idea that someone else’s choices about how they live, which are doing no harm, are somehow unacceptable to the speaker and I think that’s wrong.’
Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson tells @ConHome event: ‘Keep the ship calm, we’ll be fine, I think we’ll win next year.’
Anderson says ‘no’, Nigel Farage would not win a Tory leadership race. Adds: ‘Nigel has stood many times for Parliament and not won.’
Elliot Colburn this evening: ‘We will not win the next general election fighting with the LGBT+ community’ huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/t…
Jeremy Hunt speaking at @Policy_Exchange drinks: ‘We are going to win the election next year because we go to the British people with a plan.’
