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Decca Aitkenhead

@DeccaJourno

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Chief interviewer, Sunday Times decca.aitkenhead @sundaytimes .co.uk

London, England
Joined March 2010
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@DeccaJourno
Decca Aitkenhead
4 years
One amazing woman...
@timesculture
Times Culture
4 years
THIS SUNDAY: Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon talks to @deccajourno
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Decca Aitkenhead
10 months
Here it is again with the link now hopefully working. What a family, what a story. What a privilege to share it
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8 months
This devastating story is a private catastrophe for a family I know and love, but a public alarm call for everyone to read and see the terrifying crisis in our care system @kategarraway
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Decca Aitkenhead
6 years
I’m beyond grateful for 21 amazing years with @guardian , and it’s been very hard to leave, but I’m thrilled to bits to be following in the footsteps of so many of my heroes and joining @TheSTMagazine
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News UK
6 years
. @TheSundayTimes announces several new appointments, including Decca Aitkenhead as chief interviewer and James Coney as money editor. Read more:
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2 months
Probably the most important story I'll ever get to tell. Possibly also the hardest to read. Think it could never happen in your family? So did the parents of every single person who talked to me about being sexually abused as a child by an older brother.
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Decca Aitkenhead
7 years
Not everyone's cup of tea when it comes to Trump, but Piers M is the undisputed king when it comes to interviewing. In a league of his own.
@piersmorgan
Piers Morgan
7 years
UPDATE: Life Stories returned with highest ratings for 3yrs. Thanks for watching & thanks @GibbBarry . This Friday: Nigel Havers. ITV 9pm.
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Decca Aitkenhead
6 years
As ever Jenni Russell on sparkling form
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Jenni Russell
6 years
Boris Johnson's resignation was an act of desperation. He knows the verdict of history is about to come down on him - and bury him. My column for @nytimes . Boris Johnson Has Ruined Britain
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4 years
A lockdown highlight - Webb’s new novel is completely brilliant - and he is too. Pure interview joy
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Krissi Murison
4 years
Today’s cover with @arobertwebb Plus brilliant interview about his shock, life-saving heart surgery by @DeccaJourno
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Decca Aitkenhead
6 years
Is everything you think you know about depression wrong? The wisest, smartest, most eye-opening book I’ve ever read about mental health, and how to stop the world from making us so miserable.
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Decca Aitkenhead
5 years
This one's a cracker
@timesculture
Times Culture
5 years
THIS SUNDAY: MP @JessPhillips talks to @DeccaJourno about Boris, Brexit and the Labour party
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Decca Aitkenhead
6 years
@Scaramucci if only all my interviewees were like you...
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melissa denes
6 years
Tomorrow's cover: an unmissable Decca Aitkenhead @deccajourno interview with Anthony Scaramucci, on his 11 days in the White House ('totally enjoyable'), Trump ('very funny'), @guardianweekend ('communist magazine') & oh so much more
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Decca Aitkenhead
5 years
Just watched #Horriblehistoriesthemovie with my youngest. His expression says it all - it is absolutely BRILLIANT
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Decca Aitkenhead
4 years
The breathtakingly talented George The Poet...
@timesculture
Times Culture
4 years
“I was — and I still am — an angry young black man.” Podcaster and performer @georgethepoet talks Cambridge, crime and colonialism with @DeccaJourno
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10 months
I've never read anything as powerful or moving as this story, let alone had the privilege to tell it. ttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/b0740a42-8ff6-4b5a-9de3-159673bac437?shareToken=f9ad94c9298108079c94ecfb9e3d0907
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5 years
This one’s pure joy. Me: ‘So I read in your book...’ Fury: ‘You can’t have. I don’t have a book out’. Me: ‘Er, yes you do. That’s literally why we’re doing this interview’.
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Decca Aitkenhead
5 years
Emma B is a broadcast superstar
@Emmabarnett
Emma Barnett
5 years
Over the moon to be featured in today’s mighty @TheSTMagazine re my new book: Period. Talking periods, politics & power with peerless @DeccaJourno - I won’t lie, it was an odd experience to have the tables turned! Can’t wait to share the full book with you Sept 5th #periodpride
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Decca Aitkenhead
4 years
Riveting
@harrytlambert
Harry Lambert 🌻
4 years
🚨 Excl: Ken Clarke on Boris Johnson's deal with EU - He was "desperate… there was no proper negotiating." - Johnson was alone with Varadkar for 90 mins and caved. - Boris "hadn’t understood what he was agreeing to." In essence, a clueless capitulation.
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Decca Aitkenhead
3 months
To the people appalled by Nigel Farage on the front of the Sunday Times today: His politics repulse me. Ignoring them, and their populist appeal – or ignoring him, and his – isn’t going to help.
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Decca Aitkenhead
3 months
If you want to understand the threat Farage poses – or think about how to counter it – you could read the interview instead of denouncing its very existence. Oh, and I’m an interviewer. I don’t write headlines or standfirsts.
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Decca Aitkenhead
7 years
In memory of my late love Tony, please please please donate, retweet, and save young lives from the ocean Thankyouxx
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Decca Aitkenhead
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Hard to name a more important writer and thinker right now, his book is life-changing
@thetimes
The Times and The Sunday Times
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The social psychologist @JonHaidt thinks the evidence is now conclusive: the smartphone and social media have ruined young people’s lives. He tells @DeccaJourno how we can save a generation ⬇️
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Decca Aitkenhead
4 years
Peerless from the great Marina. Fridge-hiding, the final frontier in election WTF-ery | Marina Hyde
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Decca Aitkenhead
7 years
Selfie by Will Storr - one of my absolute favourite writers - out Thursday, can't wait for more Storr joy and genius
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Decca Aitkenhead
8 years
I'll be talking about All At Sea this morning on the mother ship of all radio. Woman's Hour, Jenni Murray, 10am.
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Decca Aitkenhead
5 years
This woman is breathtakingly brilliant, I honestly don’t think there can be a better book this year.
@timesculture
Times Culture
5 years
Eve Ensler on surviving child abuse and why she wrote the apology her father never gave her. By @DeccaJourno
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Decca Aitkenhead
3 years
This film is unmissably good
@UKLEAP
LEAP UK
3 years
A special podcast, ahead of release tomorrow, let’s talk about a film based on a foundation of uncomfortable truths. We all need to see County Lines - with Writer & Director Henry Blake Acast Apple Spotify
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Decca Aitkenhead
5 years
A masterclass in cool, Billie is incredible, you won’t want to miss this one
@timesculture
Times Culture
5 years
#BillieEilish is the most talked about teenager in the world. On the day of her Glastonbury debut, she talks to @DeccaJourno about trust issues, relationships and how fame has changed her
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Decca Aitkenhead
4 years
Our podcast team are brilliant - recording this was a lot of fun
@poppy_damon
Poppy Damon
4 years
This has been one of the most powerful episodes of #Storiesofourtimes with @DeccaJourno . Please do give it a listen:
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Decca Aitkenhead
6 years
Interviewees don't come much more extraordinary than this one...
@timesculture
Times Culture
6 years
The Interview: Decca Aitkenhead meets Ann Coulter, the flame-throwing pundit who inspired Donald Trump – and made America irate again
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Decca Aitkenhead
4 years
Unlimited respect for Rio and Kate, this will be a cracking watch
@SpencerOwen
Spencer
4 years
Make sure you tune in tonight to Rio & Kate: Becoming a step family. 9pm @bbcone @rioferdy5 👍🏻
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4 years
Depressing but nonetheless brilliant
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Decca Aitkenhead
4 years
Going to miss you so much Sarah xx
@beckymbarrow
Becky Barrow
4 years
One of the many great things about working for @thesundaytimes is the number of top women in top jobs. And @SarahbaxterSTM is at the top of that tree. An absolutely pleasure to work with her for the last five years. Just sorry I missed the first 20. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Decca Aitkenhead
4 years
I’m interviewing the great Juliet Rosenfeld about her breathtaking new book, do come along. An event with Juliet Rosenfeld at Daunt Books Hampstead | Wednesday 12th February 2020 | Buy tickets online
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Decca Aitkenhead
4 years
@MrAndrewCotter Pleaaaaassssseee, do your first book launch interview with me?
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Decca Aitkenhead
5 years
The Great University Con - great cover story by a great young writer
@harrytlambert
Harry Lambert 🌻
5 years
"The Great University Con" - how we're creating a lost generation of sub-prime students (while costing the taxpayer billions). My cover story in this week's @NewStatesman :
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Decca Aitkenhead
5 years
Always my favourite weekend of the year. Take my advice: don’t even think about missing it
@PortEliotFest
Port Eliot Festival
5 years
Here we go! We're excited to reveal the latest artists just added to our already-bulging line-up. Jump in:
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Decca Aitkenhead
8 years
Can't recommend this enough. Even if you find most festivals as tiresome as I do you'd be charmed by One Love.
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Decca Aitkenhead
5 years
A fantastic hire, absolutely thrilled
@chedwardes
Charlotte Edwardes
5 years
New job news: I am thrilled to be joining the brilliant team at @TheSTStyle as a columnist and interviewer. I will be writing across @thesundaytimes , which has been a home to many of my all time favourite journalists
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Decca Aitkenhead
6 years
Pure interview gold from the great @shattenstone
@shattenstone
Simon Hattenstone
6 years
this is my interview with controlling, vulnerable, closed & ultimately very open @MariahCarey – one of the weirdest, & most interesting, situations, in my life as a journo
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Decca Aitkenhead
11 years
If you go to one festival this summer make it the @OneLoveFestival . Beautiful reggae, tosser-free, and beyond charming, Aug 16-18th.
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Decca Aitkenhead
4 years
Properly brilliant, well done Matt
@EleanorMills
Eleanor Mills
4 years
Hooray @TheSTMagazine ’s brilliant @mattrudd wins columnist of the year at the prestigious #bsme awards - well done Matt!
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6 years
Yep Kevin Bridges is the funniest person on the planet, a literal genius.
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5 years
Can anyone dm me with address of the mtg? #WPUKLab19
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Decca Aitkenhead
6 years
I'm already boasting....
@QEDComedy
QED Comedy Lab
6 years
If you missed him at #OxfordComedyFestival you should check out the wonderful @hawleyjacob at #EdFringe18 - get in there before he's famous so you can boast to your friends that you discovered him! 3.40pm @Justthetonic at the Mash House #Dontmiss #EdFringe #IntoTheUnknown
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Decca Aitkenhead
7 years
Huge thanks to @jonhenley @becky_gardiner @james_randerson @guardianclasses and all attendees for Sunday's fantastic journalism insights
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Decca Aitkenhead
6 years
Check out this amazing silent auction for an amazing charity. Luxury villa holidays, photo shoots, fashion, celebrity experiences. Bike race against Alistair Campbell? Meet Jon Snow? Lunch w/ Kate Garraway? Dinner w/Katie Hopkins? Ends 31/3, get bidding!
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Decca Aitkenhead
6 years
At last some clear eyed sanity. Thank you Matt d’Ancona
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Decca Aitkenhead
6 years
The Comment Awards 2018 show that feelings matter more than facts
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Decca Aitkenhead
7 years
This is excellent
@guardianopinion
Guardian Opinion
7 years
How do sexual assault victims feel when the media fails them like this? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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Decca Aitkenhead
7 years
I'm interviewing Katie Hopkins live at the Groucho club on April 3rd. This is going to be fun.
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Decca Aitkenhead
5 months
@GeorgeMonbiot @GWRHelp Geoge I fear your best bet would be to high tail back to London. The 1.03 I was on from Paddington got diverted to Bristol TM and is still stuck there; I've given up and turned back to London, good luck!
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6 years
@OwenJones84 can you follow me so I can DM you? I’ve something I think you should hear
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Decca Aitkenhead
5 years
Jenni Russell once again superb
@nytimes
The New York Times
5 years
In Opinion Jenni Russell writes, "Whether Boris Johnson is heading for either triumph or disaster isn’t up to Boris Johnson. His course is being set by Dominic Cummings."
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10 years
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5 years
Today's most charming read by a mile - lovely work by @MeganAgnew
@timesculture
Times Culture
5 years
Meet @FloPerry , the voice of reason for a confused generation exposed to hard porn and #MeToo
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Decca Aitkenhead
8 years
@alexvtunzelmann by spending your entire life on Twitter and thinking it's normal to call strangers scumbags
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Decca Aitkenhead
6 years
The definition of relatable:
@robdelaney
rob delaney
6 years
Read this last night & just made 3 people at my friends’ house read it in front of me, now we’re all discussing its brilliance.
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5 years
@British_Airways I’ve woken up to an email from you saying you’ve cancelled my flight home. No explanation, no contactable email address, no local Jamaican number. I’d quite like to go back to the UK as planned on Wednesday, so do you think you could contact me?
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6 years
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4 years
A must read from the brilliant @jennirsl
@thetimes
The Times and The Sunday Times
4 years
None of the main parties seem prepared to discuss whether self-identifying as a woman should trump the rights of biological females, says Jenni Russell
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7 years
#MeToo . And I don't know one who hasn't either.
@Jemima_Khan
Jemima Goldsmith
7 years
#Metoo (and I barely know a woman who hasn’t been harassed or assaulted at some point in her life)
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Decca Aitkenhead
7 years
Go on @piersmorgan , prove everyone calling you a sexist wrong by RT'ing this: 'The Feminist Times is back! Issue 1: '
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Decca Aitkenhead
7 years
Would not miss for the world.
@piersmorgan
Piers Morgan
7 years
****TONIGHT**** The showdown Britain's been waiting for.... Morgan v Farage. You won't want to miss this, trust me. ITV 9pm. #LifeStories
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Decca Aitkenhead
8 years
Can anyone recommend a good lingual orthodontist in London?
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Decca Aitkenhead
5 years
@AliceMEvans @thegriefcast Hi Alice, if you’ve not already read it there’s a book called Motherless Daughters I can’t recommend highly enough x
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Decca Aitkenhead
5 years
Exclusive to Times+ members, I'm interviewing Bret Easton Ellis about his new book, White, on Tues April 30 in the News Bldg. If you saw his interview with me in the Sunday Times Mag last week you'll know this is one not to miss. To book go to
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Decca Aitkenhead
7 years
Welcome back Fem T! This month's must read:‘Great news men. I’ve found something useful you can do for feminism. It’s called THE HOUSEWORK.'
@Feminist_Times
Feminist Times
7 years
The first issue of the new Feminist Times is available online now #NeverMoreNeeded
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Decca Aitkenhead
6 years
@bariweiss @joshglancy Josh and Bari thank you! Yay indeed x
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7 years
Not to be missed - Hillsborough documentary screening and panel debate - May 24th - highly recommended - tkts here:
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5 years
How we'll all get through the awards dinner with Grant I don't know; he's so famously no-fun-at-all on a night out, right? PS Grant, see you in the bar tonight to celebrate
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Grant Tucker
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Decca Aitkenhead
8 years
Four amazing books I love....
@4thEstateBooks
4th Estate Books
8 years
'It was just a relevation'. Decca Aitkenhead on 'Motherless Daughters', one of her picks for #4Books
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6 years
@LeonieEland And I wasn’t even particularly a fan. But honestly, I’ve thought about her every single day since we met. I’ve never ever met anyone like her.
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Decca Aitkenhead
8 years
@nml_1976 Motherless Daughters i #is such an incredible book isn't it? Wish everyone knew about it.
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7 years
Proud to pledge to #StopLookListen17 during #NationalSafeguardingMonth to create a bright future for young people
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7 years
@LaraWhyte Nope, 100 per cent true. If only words always came that easily...
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3 years
@amolrajan Thank you! X
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6 years
@beckymbarrow @thesundaytimes @jimconey A stellar team indeed - i'm so excited to be joining you
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Decca Aitkenhead
7 years
@janakiallen @guardian you don't think this story is interesting?
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8 years
@brightwell08 yep, setting's as lovely as the line up
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Decca Aitkenhead
8 years
@ladylaxton sorry response so late, thank you x
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Decca Aitkenhead
8 years
The amazing Hackney playbus has been bringing play to kids on estates since '72. New bus now needed. Pls donate!
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Decca Aitkenhead
6 years
@Womans_Place_UK hello, much obliged if you could follow me so i can ping you a DM, am really keen to get in touch
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Decca Aitkenhead
7 years
Intriguing piece about casual racism in Cuba by the wonderful Matilda Munro Revolutionary Cuba’s racism problem
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7 years
@pollybirkbeck @missdianemorgan Thank you! Yes I think I drew the long straw there
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Decca Aitkenhead
8 years
@NationHahn I've just looked at your website. Good god what you've been through and lost, I am so desperately sorry x
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5 years
Another must read from Harry Lambert in the Statesman
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