Manuelfocus🎥 @manuelfocus

Shooting BBC Global Breaking News in sharp focus (hopefully !) Joined March 2011

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Manuelfocus🎥 @manuelfocus

4 months ago

@scottiebateman Can see you doing a poetry book from 39000 ft !

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Over the years I’ve been in many towns and cities when they were being bombed — in a few cases (Baghdad, Belgrade etc) by my own country. No matter what the justification, most of the victims have been entirely innocent. I’ve come to loathe the very thought of aerial bombardment.

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Manuelfocus🎥 @manuelfocus

10 months ago

@DaveWallsworth The examiners have been watching our News output recently then! All those ideas - just like a board for a new job. One of my tests is remembering to press the record button on the camera for a one off arrival shot or work out an alternative way of recording when the camera fails!

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Stop HS2 @stophs2

a year ago

"The fact that close to £35B has already been spent is, under the sunk cost concept, no argument for further investment. Those costs are indeed “sunk”; they are irrelevant." "On that basis, there is not a single good reason for continuing." #HS2 #StopHS2 thebluearmchair.substack.com/p/oh-mr-porter…

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mop denson @mopdenson

a year ago

#HS2 It's important to remember that campaigners pointed out BEFORE the green light was given to the original scheme that £32billion was not a realistic budget. Now it's more than £100bn for a fraction of the line promised. £100bn to Birmingham is a total scandal. @StopHS2

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Stop HS2 @stophs2

a year ago

"Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander is expected to tell Parliament on Wednesday that there is "no reasonable way to deliver" the railway line on schedule and within budget". #HS2 #StopHS2 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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Manuelfocus🎥 @manuelfocus

a year ago

@mopdenson Yes Align deserve the listening and doing prize, even if there’ll only be a couple of trains an hour each way (if that!) by 2040-45

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Manuelfocus🎥 @manuelfocus

a year ago

@mopdenson Yes you were a star and still are !!

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Martin Anthony Tett @MATatBucks

a year ago

Indeed. This remains a massively expensive, over budget vanity project

Diana Blamires @diana_blamires

a year ago

Standing down as Leader of Buckinghamshire ⁦@MATatBucks⁩ said wanting to oppose HS2 spurred him on to 1st stand as leader. “We fought a damn hard battle.”He said new leader ⁦@BroadbentSb⁩ would need to hold HS2 to account & get them to repair the roads they damage.

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Manuelfocus🎥 @manuelfocus

a year ago

@frances_cutler @HS2ltd @transportgovuk Wrong sort of concrete. Mafia involved ?

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Manuelfocus🎥 @manuelfocus

a year ago

@DaveWallsworth At least you definitely get to turn left !

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Manuelfocus🎥 @manuelfocus

2 years ago

@TonyD9999 @DuncanCStone Smile !

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Lord Ashcroft @LordAshcroft

2 years ago

As a wartime leader I’m sure our great Winston Churchill would be proud of ⁦@ZelenskyyUa⁩ …

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EMPR.media @EuromaidanPR

2 years ago

Photo of the day.

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Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv

2 years ago

The day the crowd turned on Ceaucescu, he was dead shortly thereafter. 35 years ago today.

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Manuelfocus🎥 @manuelfocus

2 years ago

@MarkUrban01 I witnessed it too !

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Manuelfocus🎥 @manuelfocus

2 years ago

@ChristopherJM So cool

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lyse doucet @bbclysedoucet

2 years ago

Joy ! To see #Gaza colleagues @adnanelbursh Mahmoud Alajarami as well as @Journo_Ashraf #WorldServicePresents @bbcworldservice

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Manuelfocus🎥 @manuelfocus

2 years ago

@MarkUrban01 7 years I spent listening to your musings & bird tweets (before tweets!). And many Newsnight trips between 1997 and 2004 which were always fun and interesting getting to film & talk to big generals and spooks. NN was a great programme to work on with you, wish you well next phase