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Spending social capital during the pandemic faster than Rishi Sunak raised the national debt, I feel like an organic extension of my phone and laptop. The ­
Daily Mirror’s Canary Wharf newsroom shut last March and won’t reopen until the spring at the earliest, while Westminster, where I’d loitered for 16 years, is a ghost parliament with few MPs attending and even fewer worth talking to. Mask-to-mask whispered conversations at a socially distanced two metres could’ve been devised by Downing Street to halt the free flow of interesting information and divulging of official secrets.
So, instead of collaring MPs in Portcullis House, gossiping over coffee, enjoying spilled beans for lunch and boozing in Strangers’ Bar with informants – I like to joke that their choice is to be a source or a victim – the transformed modus operandi of political journalists is drinks on Zoom, texts, calls, emails and WhatsApp messages. All largely from home. Like many hacks, I’m ....

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