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Restaurant critic and staff writer for The Sunday Times.

Joined November 2010
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@CharlotteIvers
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I don’t fucking know Jack are we not meant to be blinking at the moment I can’t keep up with the trends Jesus
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3 years
Swimming pools may open in February - but with no water
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2 years
Too old to date Leonardo DiCaprio, too young to have avoided 9k a year tuition fees
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@CharlotteIvers
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4 years
Narrator: the answer was the Contempt of Court Act 1981
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Why have West Midlands Police not told us who committed the knife attacks last night? I think I know the answer.
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Bob Stewart MP on Times Radio saying he’s backing Penny M because of her bravery. Asked for an example he says she bellyflopped a dive on the reality show Splash and then came back to dive again.
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4 years
Glad Matt Hancock has answered my question to him 15 hours later. When I asked last night I was told it would be ‘inappropriate’ to give me an answer.
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Rob Powell
4 years
NEW: Health Sec Matt Hancock says that 19 NHS workers have died in the #COVID19 outbreak so far #r4today
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God it’s been a long two years
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John Rentoul
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What an image
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2 years
I believe I would be well placed to appear on the cover of Vogue but this is simply not the right time 🥺
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2 years
Pass him over, I will marry him
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@CharlotteIvers
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2 years
Been meaning to do this for a while and have a train journey so… everyone is always saying they have run out of podcasts. During one lockdown I started writing a list of every podcast I recommend (I listen to *a lot* of podcasts). Here’s a thread of them for general use:
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Always utterly bemused after every press conference by people tweeting me insults themed around their view that I look young. Sir, I own three different types of eye cream, you are not going to upset me with that line of attack.
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hate myself so much for this joke
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@georgeeaton Wow this has really made me rethink my regular (and population representative) habit of eating 160 Big Macs
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2 years
This week: a howl into the void about a government that has denied the young all the nice things conservatism promises, and instead of fixing this comforts itself by choosing to believe we don’t vote Conservative because we are Too Woke.
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Rishi Sunak:
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get in the car it’s august
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Imagine being a person who would think this. Then imagine being a person who would say this. Then imagine being a person who would go on TELEVISION and say this, Jesus.
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Laurence Fox just did a whole speech on GB News on why men apparently won’t shag me ?
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3 years
Have just parted with - and I cannot stress this part enough - ✨£11.50✨ in a central London pub for a single G and T and a Diet Coke. I am capitalism’s clown.
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4 years
NEW: more from Durham Police
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So in professional news that I’m embarrassingly thrilled about, I’ll be taking up residence in the Sunday Times Magazine’s opening column for the foreseeable. Week one: I’ve written down every bit of advice I’ve learned in a decade of being an adult.
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Durham Police absolutely doubling down tonight - they’ve taken the unusual step of naming Mr Cummings, and set out their conversation with his father. Downing Street’s earlier statement said that Mr Cummings’s family had not been contacted by police.
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Gal at university (off her tits at the time to be fair) once said to me ‘I’m so jealous of you because nobody takes me seriously because I’m pretty and cool, and you don’t have that problem’. It’s been nearly a decade and I’m still in awe at the brutality.
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Zaza Man
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What’s an insult you’ll never forget?
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I think a lot about @Dannythefink ’s wife’s observation that opinion columns are either obvious or rubbish. This from Danny today is perfect, in that it is very much not rubbish, and it is obvious, but only once you’ve read it expressed so elegantly.
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1 year
Going to spend the weekend telling people at parties I work for a edgy underground zine ✌️
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1 year
Lovely to contribute to The Times's International Women's Day article on women who inspire us. I went for Laura Kuenssberg, and there are loads of other brilliant women picked by my colleagues too:
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2 years
Briefly dropping my insistence on never being sincere on this website to say that I’ve loved The Sunday Times Magazine since I was a kid so to have the cover story is honestly such a joy.
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4 years
Harriet Harman does not hold back, telling talkRADIO re RLB:
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4 years
Writing to my MP about the heat. This has gone on for too long and something must be done.
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4 years
This is.... exactly how not to win an election
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4 years
Who is the whole 'girly swot' messaging meant to be appealing to? I presume that - as a millennial woman with a degree - the answer is 'me', but every time I see it it just makes me want to take a spoon to my eyeballs.
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3 years
One of those job news tweets: Beyond excited to be able to say that - alongside my role as Political Correspondent at Times Radio - I’ll be writing a column for The Sunday Times, starting this Sunday.
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1 year
Congratulations to Jean Paul Sartre on his new job designing the seats on the Central Line
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4 years
Would walk over broken glass to be drinking a warm beer at a house party while someone’s new boyfriend tells me all about his job in finance
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2 years
Missed the ‘look pleased to be alive’ memo
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1 year
joyless joyless joyless why is everything in public policy atm so joyless
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(This is mildly unfair I know I do a weird fluttering thing with my eyes but I DONT KNOW WHY IT HAPPENS AND GOD DO I NOT HAVE THE TIME TO BOTHER TO FIND OUT)
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4 years
After Downing Street denied the police were in contact with Dominic Cummings or any of his relatives, I asked Durham Police to clarify. Their spokesman has just got back to me reiterating their previous statement and saying he will not be elaborating. Police doubling down.
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2 years
Column this week a bit different to usual. My advice to anyone applying to university, or just starting. Work really hard. I wish I had.
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2 years
I spoke exclusively to Nadine Dorries for this week’s Sunday Times Magazine. She is one of the most interesting politicians around and far more than the viral clips you see on Twitter. A few highlights:
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3 years
Have learned that the Deliveroo algorithm thinks I’m a family of 4, on the basis of my past orders. I live alone.
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2 years
Column this week is a response to the avocado toasters who think that millennials should just reign in the spending on nice things and suddenly the entire economy would work in their favour
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3 years
Prime Minister’s spokesman repeatedly refuses to say whether it is illegal to go for a walk with a friend while holding a coffee. Says he will get back to us later.
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This is true. People in Hampstead don't have families. Very weird. I've been there. I've seen it. If you say the word 'family' on Hampstead High Street they chase you out brandishing their Le Creuset.
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Dominic Penna
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Day two of the National Conservatism Conference starts with organiser James Orr “Faith, family, flag… Three ‘f’ words guaranteed to induce fainting fits from Hampstead to Hackney”
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Early publication for my review of Alistair Campbell’s new book, which I did not like.
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Hate to say it but I actually think this is chic. It’s gone so far into uncool it’s come out the other side. The horseshoe theory of chic.
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Nick Gutteridge
2 years
In the centre of Tiverton new Lib Dem MP Richard Foord and party leader Ed Davey have just walked through a blue door emblazoned with ‘it’s time to show Boris the door’. Foord is wearing a tie in Tory blue too.
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In what I suspect will be my most controversial column ever, I have set out how to communicate in the digital age. Never call unless someone has died. Never text ‘okay.’ or ‘right.’ unless you are starting a war. And more…
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2 years
I see the biased mainstream media have once again left me off the Westminster power couples list. And for what? The tiny crimes of a) ‘not dating anyone in Westminster’ and b) ‘not being powerful’. Much to think about.
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So tomorrow is my last day at Times Radio as I’m going full time at The Sunday Times as a Staff Writer. I’ll still be doing politics stuff and the magazine column, but also some culture, interviews and anything else that looks interesting.
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Spent several hours with friends yesterday allocating every object in the world as Brexit or Remain based on its vibes (Ketchup Brexit, Mayo Remain). Now my brain is broken and this is becoming the entire framework through which I conceive of reality.
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Complained to a colleague that I'm always tired and he correctly suggested exercise and eating more vegetables. Furious.
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4 years
Concept: if you’re enjoying working from home but worried about the impact it would have on the economy, send me the money you would have spent in Pret or at after work drinks and I will spend it for you at the pub.
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3 years
Always wondered what percentage of people lie to pollsters. Looks like it’s about 27%.
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Redfield & Wilton Strategies
3 years
Do Britons know the name of their local area’s Police and Crime Commissioner (if they have one)? Yes: 27% No: 73% Majority of all age groups say no, ranging from 64% of 25-to-34-year-olds to 79% of 55-to-64-year-olds.
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Why is Rishi Sunak dressed like every man I dated at university who now works for a ‘super cool and innovative tech start up in east London
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2 years
Ew calories on menus come into force today. What an achingly joyless policy.
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1 year
And for my col this week, 800 words of invective about the insane (*insane*) idea being discussed in government that over 50s should get a break from income tax
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2 years
. @RobDotHutton and I inadvertently creating the publicity poster for a darkly comic Netflix series about a friendly man who gets murdered by his psychopathic housemate.
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Is Soho dead? To find out, I decided to replicate Tom Baker’s famous Sunday Times Life In A Day, in which he engages in a 15 (ish) hour pub and restaurant crawl through golden era Soho. Could it still be done? More pertinently, could I hack it? 👇
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The Fence Magazine
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‘Back in the day of the York Minster, you could be barred for being boring, but never for being drunk.’ @CharlotteIvers steps back into seventies Soho, trying to live — and drink — like the Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker.
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i’m a single issue voter now and this is the single issue
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Breaking from Lib Dems
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2 years
Only three cans of Coke a day though? Presume he’s on some sort of health kick?
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1 year
Wrote about having anorexia as a teenager, and not having it now. I never think about it, so I never write about it. But I decided last week it might be helpful for the reasons below.
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Being Chairman of the 1922 Committee is just the chicest job isn’t it. What do you do? Oh yeh I’m the All Knowing Harbinger of Death. Chic. Can’t argue with it.
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Apropos of nothing, if someone says ‘it’s raining’ it is the job of journalists to look outside, see if it’s raining, then report if there’s rain or not. Not to tweet ‘ooh if it’s raining that would be very bad! 👀’
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Half asleep in bed this morning listening to the Today Programme. Heard the words ‘here’s our political correspondent’ and sat up bolt upright in a panic because I thought I was listening to talk and was about to be on air. Having a normal one.
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Please stop mentioning Tony Blair
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Morning everyone!
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Would just like to say that the day after the 2019 election I said on the radio that Claire Coutinho would be the first of that intake into the cabinet. God I know nobody cares but me, but I’m telling you anyway because I am thrilled with myself.
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Confirmed: Claire Coutinho MP as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero; David Johnston OBE MP as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Education.
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1 year
Had to make a phone call in French yesterday to book a restaurant. Took hours to psych myself up. All going so well until they asked for my phone number and I realised I was going to have to count up from 1 each time to remember the numbers. Mortifying. Still thinking about it.
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Last day working with the kindest man in broadcasting @EamonnHolmes . What a privilege to have worked with someone who is not only a legend, but has also always gone out of his way to teach and provide opportunities to others.
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In the paper this week talking about STUDENT LOANS which are basically an aspiration tax, and absolutely hammer professionals who pay much more in total than eg hedge fund guys or people with rich parents.
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Thinking about Agnes today. It’s an odd feeling when your job is writing about your own life, but the thing you think about most is something you would never write in a magazine. Still, I want everyone to know how great she was, so here’s what I wrote the day after she died.
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I love Agnes so much. I’ve never met anyone so kind. She cared so deeply for me, for her friends, for everything. She made me a better person. And fuck she was funny. The first thing she ever said to me was ‘you don’t know me but we are going to be best friends’. She was right
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Agnes Mary Frimston, the love of my life, died Friday night aged just 35. We don't yet know why. She was the kindest, funniest, most beautiful and all round best person I have ever known, and she was adored by pretty much everyone who ever met her. I loved her so, so much.
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please stop asking me if I ate The Times’ Expensive Fridge Chocolate i did not eat The Times’ Expensive Fridge Chocolate although i accept i have the vibe of someone who might have done
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In the Sussex countryside, an organisation is being investigated by Ofsted for running a potentially illegal school: but Ofsted can’t legally enter. This weekend they held a conspiracy festival full of children. I went and was horrified by what I found.
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@SarahDuggers Would describe this existence of this video as a Bad Economic Indicator. No healthy housing market produces this.
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Charlotte Ivers
2 years
Social media platforms die when they are no longer cool. Musk is doing a very good job at kicking twitter towards that point. Column this week is about that.
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Double Ivers for your money this week as the excellent @rcolvile is away. I’ve written about why young people don’t feel inconvenienced by the strikes. We have priced inconvenience into our dealings with the British government already.
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Entering the next phase of my attempt to replicate in full the life of Boris Johnson*. Tomorrow 9pm, BBC 1. *(this is a joke I have no desire to get fired by The Times. having said that, tomorrow could be the thing that does it)
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Oh no! Your boyfriend has started a podcast. Don’t worry, it happens to the best of us. In fact, it happens to all of us in the end. Luckily there I have written this handy guide in @The_Fence_Mag to help you through it.
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Charlotte Ivers
1 year
Horoscopes aren’t real: Exhibit A
@GuidoFawkes
Guido Fawkes
1 year
Happy birthdays to Jeremy Corbyn, Kwasi Kwarteng and Michael Portillo
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Charlotte Ivers
2 years
If you’re following me thanks to this fun tweet I hope you know I need you to stick around when I drop a thousand words on Tory Party internal processes. Got to take the rough with the smooth with this account.
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Tomorrow’s column is about being young (ish) free (ish) and feckless (ish) and how this is all summed up by the fact I don’t own a kettle
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Charlotte Ivers
4 years
Broke: house party Bespoke: grouse party
@paulwaugh
Paul Waugh
4 years
NEW: Boris Johnson's Rule Of 6 has a controversial exemption - for grouse shooting and similar field sports. Upto 30 people can gather to hunt with guns cos classed as a licensed outdoor sport. EXCLUSIVE: Cab Office drafted special meeting on exemption
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2 years
Picked the wrong week for a holiday didn’t I lads
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Claire’s accessories this, Claire’s accessories that, nobody ever asks how Claire is feeling
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@jimwaterson Jim I am furious on your behalf that the Pulitzers were earlier this week because this thread is impeccable
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2 years
Have spent a pleasant afternoon thinking what I would do if I had parliamentary privilege. 'Charlotte please, this is just DEFRA questions' the speaker begs me, tears in his eyes, as I flip over to my forth page of notes headlined 'enemies (cont.)'
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Just absentmindedly said ‘thanks, love you’ to the guy who works at the corner shop next to my office, so I’m going to need a job and also perhaps a new passport
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2 years
Notes from the frontline of the greatest show on earth. Plus the elephant in the big tent: whoever wins is going to have a bad time, and so is the country.
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Charlotte Ivers
3 years
Legally enforced day off for polling day. Thank you OfCom you’ve always been my fav xx
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7 months
Oh god what do I do now
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Charlotte Ivers
8 months
Gonna have to put my bully XL back on the cigs 😔
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3 years
Why listening to the radio is great
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Charlotte Ivers
3 years
You can keep your beautiful sunrise wild swims - it’s a pound for the locker and a vending machine KitKat for me. I wrote about my great love for council swimming pools for the New Statesman:
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@CharlotteIvers
Charlotte Ivers
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please stop tagging me in your angry videos about this on instagram. i cannot stress enough the extent to which I am not watching them. all i do on instagram is watch videos of people icing cakes. you cannot change me.
@bbcquestiontime
BBC Question Time
11 months
"It doesn't feel particularly like justice for me" Journalist Charlotte Ivers gives her view on the jailing of a mother who induced an abortion after the legal limit and warns about importing a fight from America into a "settled debate" in the UK #bbcqt
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Charlotte Ivers
2 years
Q: Where does the Conservative Party’s lack of ideas come from? A: They haven’t had a proper debate since Davis V Cameron - because they are too efficient at moving on and winning. They are stuck in 2005.
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Charlotte Ivers
3 years
On 24th December I’ll be presenting Times Radio early breakfast (in for the excellent @CalumAM ) - and also a couple of dates in Jan too. Early birds - please do tune in for my first presenting gig. Would love to have you there.
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Charlotte Ivers
1 year
For £5k off my student loan I am willing to say ‘you can’t say anything these days’ up to and including 5 times
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