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Jim Waterson
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Rarely check X, try Bluesky...Journalist. Editor of London Centric, a modern news outlet for London. WhatsApp me: +447760993558, londoncentric.media
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    Jim Waterson
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    Sep 22, 2025
    Quit my job a year ago to start a local news site called London Centric. Broke a load of stories that bigger outlets rip off. No investors/ads. Amazingly, people paid to subscribe and it might just work. Here’s what I’ve been up to if you're intrigued.
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    One year of London Centric
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    Jim Waterson
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    Jul 19, 2024
    Someone, somewhere, is the person who pressed go on that software update. And right now they know exactly what they did and what it has done. And as someone who knows that sinking feeling when you realise you’ve screwed up at work, I cannot imagine the state of them right now.
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    Jim Waterson
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    Oct 14, 2022
    The video of that Thick of It quote that people are sharing.
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    Jim Waterson
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    Mar 1, 2022
    Well. This is spicy. Conservative MP Bob Seely makes the most of parliamentary privilege to name individual London lawyers working for Russian oligarchs and questions their morality.
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    Jim Waterson
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    Aug 9, 2022
    Jacob Rees Mogg wrote an article criticising lazy civil servants staying at home. It featured this photo, supposedly of empty desks in the Serious Fraud Office. Unfortunately...the photo was actually taken in Rees Mogg's own cabinet office department. It has been quietly deleted.
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    Jim Waterson
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    Oct 15, 2022
    Good morning Miriam Margolyes.
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    Jim Waterson
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    May 12, 2022
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    Rooney's lawyer claims WhatsApp messages that would show the leaking of stories to the Sun are on a phone dropped off the side of a boat. He says it is now "lying at the bottom of sea in Davy Jones' locker". Vardy asks the court: "Who is Davy Jones?" The judge intervenes.
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    Jim Waterson
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    Jan 13, 2022
    "While employed by Downing Street, I was sent to the Co-op on the Strand to fill a suitcase with bottles of wine for a lockdown-busting party held at Number 10 in honour of the future deputy editor of the Sun."
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    Jim Waterson
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    Dec 25, 2021
    If a court has ordered your newspaper to issue a front page statement acknowledging your legal defeat to Meghan Markle, why not shove it out on the quietest news day of the year? Merry Christmas to one and all!
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    Jim Waterson
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    Jul 10, 2024
    A red button option to just have a livefeed of Pickford’s face in the corner of your screen at all times.
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    Jim Waterson
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    Apr 9, 2021
    The BBC, having adopted wall-to-wall Prince Philip coverage to avoid being criticised in parts of the media and politics.... has now received so many complaints about their wall-to-wall coverage they’ve set up a streamlined form to complain about it. bbc.co.uk/contact/death-…
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    Jim Waterson
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    Jul 26, 2024
    Oh the poor Olympics camera operators and directors. Beautiful single shots that took months of planning completely screwed by the rain because they don’t have a second camera for the director to cut away to and give time for a lens wipe.
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    Jim Waterson
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    Mar 21, 2021
    Foreign developer buys London pub, is refused planning permission to replace it with flats, still orders the bulldozers in regardless and is ordered to rebuild it exactly brick-by-brick. Especially pleasing if you just keep imagining the developer’s fury.
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    Rising from the rubble: London pub rebuilt brick by brick after illegal bulldozing
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    Jim Waterson
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    Jun 14, 2022
    Buy the fan. Every year about now you consider buying the fan. Then when you finally decide to buy the fan there are no fans left. Buy the fan.