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Jon Tonge

@jontonge.bsky.social
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wait until the Times feature writer finds out the Labour conference was in Liverpool, not Manchester…
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hope you had a lovely Bank Holiday
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
??? Today’s Liverpool Echo
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
That’s not yesterday, Metro. No-one wore a coat yesterday.
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Are steps 10,11, 13, 14, 17 and 18 secret then or can the Sunday Times not count?
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Even the demonstrators haven’t turned up #CPC25
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Kemi Badenoch re the NI Act 1998 and the ECHR. ‘That’s the assembly, that’s not national law’. I’m no lawyer but ….
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Shot while strapped to a chair??
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Ensuring football club owners are not going to bankrupt a club or run it into the ground with a view to turning the ground into houses - both happened at Bury - isn’t “bureaucratic whim”. Astonishingly complacent arguments against a regulator from Oliver Dowden.
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
William Hague in today’s Times
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Tomorrow’s Irish Politics panels #psa25
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Ireland’s Ambassador to the UK, Martin Fraser, stressing the value of good UK-Ireland relations and NW England’s contribution, in a difficult global context, at tonight’s @irishinstitute.bsky.social dinner
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Think Hugo Boss my favourite but a close call (Private Eye)
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Yesterday’s Irish Times asking a few useful questions…
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Looks like The Times or Sunday Times might have a decent shout of winning the, er, Times and Sunday Times Sports Journalism Awards…
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I know a few political journalists who have tried! Times obit on why Henry Kelly switched from journalism to gameshows.
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
A Presidency with much to answer for
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Is the PM planning to remove the legal ban on 16 and 17 year olds undertaking frontline service? Or just unaware?
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
How can you not be excited about 2025? Happy New Year
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Bad enough losing your seat but then The Times takes 9 years off your Westminster parliamentary career on your birthday as well….
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
All REF, curriculum review and TQA on the Politics department Christmas night out
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Slightly strange headline given the % share fall in seats is only 0.7%! The near 117,000 drop in FPVs offers a clearer story!?
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram highlights improvements in public transport and the way Liverpool is perceived at Westminster as the most important changes during his tenure.
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Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“John [Prescott] was a big proponent of devolution for England in a government that, frankly, wasn’t” Gtr Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham opens the @livuniheseltine.bsky.social annual lecture, alongside Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram, hosted by BBc NWT’s Mairead Smyth
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