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  1. @hopisen It can't have been worse than Newsnight, Hopi. Newsnight was car-crashingly awful. about 11 hours ago via web in reply to hopisen
  2. @marbleicehook Oh, Hitchens, Peter Oborne, Melanie Phillips for sheer entertainment value. But McKenzie is just drearily shoutily philistine about 11 hours ago via web in reply to marbleicehook
  3. @TheLondonColumn @sandralaville It's a joke--a good joke--from @tomscorza a while back now, but not a real quotation from Cameron. about 11 hours ago via web in reply to TheLondonColumn
  4. @khairoun Yes--Today has been v. bad ever since Liddle was in charge. But I think increasingly Newsnight is picking up its bad habits. about 11 hours ago via web in reply to khairoun
  5. @maxrothbarth Yes: agree on Mason & Flanders, and Paxman, who has been parodying himself for around fifteen years. about 11 hours ago via web in reply to maxrothbarth
  6. #newsnight is pisspoor these days, isn't it? I mean, I don't watch very often, but when I do, it's crap. And that hasn't always been true. about 11 hours ago via web
  7. Who on earth thought that anyone would be interested in the opinions of Kelvin McKenzie about anything? #newsnight about 11 hours ago via web
  8. @antoniabance !!! Jericho is calm, too. about 15 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to antoniabance
  9. @TomChivers Thanks for chasing this down. about 16 hours ago via web in reply to TomChivers
  10. "Boris set fire to the toilets" RT @tomscorza I originally wrote it as a joke. Never expected people to accept it as truth. Via @TomChivers about 16 hours ago via web
  11. @IzzyMiller @GriddleOctopus @tomchivers @TheSimonEvans I don't say that it *is* a fake, just that no-one's come close to showing me a source about 16 hours ago via web in reply to IzzyMiller
  12. @alixmortimer @sunny_hundal There was also a four-man tent last time I looked. about 17 hours ago via web in reply to alixmortimer