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Liam Thorp

@liamthorp.bsky.social

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Political Editor, Liverpool Echo. 3 x Specialist Regional Journalist of the Year. 2 X Orwell Prize and Paul Foot Award nominee. Loves overpriced craft ale.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · Mar 12

Totally delighted to be named Regional Press Specialist Journalist of the Year for the third time today

This job is hard, exhausting and amazing but there are so many people who make it brilliant and I’m grateful to them all

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 10h

Intimidating or show of pride? Locals react to Union Flags

We spoke to a range of people living and working around Park Road to find out how they feel about the sudden arrival of flags in the bustling city road

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 20h

This is very annoying as we double checked this with the council but looks like they were still wrong. I thought it sounded massive.

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 21h

The cabinet report says 250,000 and I asked the council to clarify

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 21h

I’ve been guided that this ‘arena’ will be something very very different to that

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 21h

That’s looking much better now Urban Splash involved.

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 21h

Understand the scepticism. One big difference - Tom Morris and Home Bargains.

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 21h

I questioned this myself - but that’s what’s in the report and not been knocked down by the council

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 21h

Hard to say but the HD has certainly been a catalyst for development in the northern docks, no doubt

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 21h

Not got much detail on the breakdown of the housing yet

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 21h

Not much detail at the moment, but have been told it would be a very different concept to a traditional arena if it comes to fruition

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 21h

I’m told it will be a very different sort of space

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 1d

So good at telling the truth in fact, that this is not a picture of Mel Stride

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure I would have gone with headline - unless I actually wanted people to laugh out loud....

Mel Stride: Conservatives are the only people who tell the truth, and have a plan for growth that means something | Conservative Home

It falls to us, the Conservatives, to win back the country’s trust and reverse the economic vandalism of this Labour government. We can and we will.

conservativehome.com

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 2d

God Alex Garland was really onto something with Civil War wasn't he

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 2d

As a local government journalist of many years I could have easily told these plonkers that there is nowhere left to cut in local government. Actually anyone could have told them that.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 2d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2d

I know this is obvious when you think about it but we don’t think about it enough: fascists have to cow & persecute decent journalists to prevent them from reporting exactly what they, the fascists, are doing. Fascist-adjacent ‘journalists’ help by insisting that we shouldn’t call fascists facsists.

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 2d

Basically what I do tbf

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 2d

That’s not bad for you

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, quite literally fascism on display here

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 2d

ICE thugs patrolling the streets but they keep being cut back so they can’t form a full working squadron and all their kit is knackered

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3d

I just have no idea who the Tories think the audience is for full bore authoritarianism plus austerity. Very few who want the former want the latter.

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 3d

These people are genuinely not well

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

For those who take a niche interest in the Americanisation of UK rightwing politics, formerly Tory-linked student group Turning Point are increasingly going down the Charlie Kirk-type evangelical path.

[Not the point, but I love the idea of 2025 Soho being some hotbed of sin]

Screenshot of TPUK post

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 3d

I didn’t think I could ever find a podcast to rank alongside the might of @theresthistory.bsky.social but hats off to @gordoncorera.bsky.social and David McCloskey because @restisclassified.bsky.social is a totally absorbing listen. Recent series’ on Escobar and Mossad pager attacks = fascinating.

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 3d

The next general election is going to be unbearably awful isn’t it

Just parties lining up to outdo each other in awfulness

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 3d

This just a few weeks after many of Robinson’s supporters were doing Nazi salutes and shouting Nazi slogans at his march in London. Absolutely insane stuff.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 4d

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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 4d

There is something odd about this picture that the Reform candidate for Caerphilly Llyr Powell has put out.

It looks edited. Someone removed perhaps?

Can't imagine his former employer Nathan Gill (who has just pleaded guilty to accepting Russian bribes) would have been there🤣