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6 years

It's been two years. So it's worth revisiting the time a friend was slightly confused by her + Jews! travel charger. Before she realised it was iSmart, upside down.

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British woman Liz Trussell, who tweets as @LizTruss , has been spending the morning replying to world leaders and it's possibly the best thing in the history of the internet.

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6 years

If tea spread to your country by sea, you call it ‘tea’. If by land, you call it chai. (*This is because the ports of Fujian and Taiwan use the coastal pronunciation ‘te’, whereas Mandarin uses chá.)

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6 years

If someone ever criticises your tidiness, show them this, the New York Review of Books office.

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5 years

A digital billboard in Odessa malfunctioned, in the fog. Convincing unknown numbers of motorists not only were they living in the Matrix, but it was being run on Windows 98.

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2 years

I need to know what happened here.

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6 years

This is apparently what happens when you’re riding pillion on a motorbike and accidentally take a photograph of the magpie behind you.

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2 years

Hi from America. Where Walmart doesn’t have a plug adapter for my UK laptop. But on the other hand, I can buy a rifle and ammunition.

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7 years

Tired of carrying your meat cleaver, pistol, and calendar of saints around separately? This 16th c. Czech startup has the product for you.

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5 years

As it’s almost the weekend, here’s a map of all the pubs in the UK.

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3 years

A thought for Igor, who lost his job as a chef and died homeless, here in Dun Laoghaire, ten days ago. A local woman, Sandra Perry, traced his family in Latvia, organised his repatriation, and what she describes as ‘a small send-off’ here. The best and worst of Ireland in one.

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3 years

Japanese couple taking a mirror selfie, 100 years ago.

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6 years

Amidst everything, a Dalek with a blonde hairpiece is quietly going up and down Whitehall. #TrumpVisitUK (courtesy @BroganKear )

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6 years

Meanwhile the Spectator letters section hits peak Britishness.

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2 years

Spare a thought for the National Trust staff, up at 2 am to change the time at Stonehenge.

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4 years

There is an isolated clown motel in Nevada next to a graveyard and I feel we have to talk about this.

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2 years

Lord, give me the confidence of an American telling an Irish person they’ve mispelt their (Irish) name.

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5 years

The first women doctors in India, Japan, and Syria sat down for a picture together in 1885.

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3 years

Dublin Zoo got real.

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7 years

You may hate your job. But at least you aren’t Jedward’s barrister.

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2 years

Here is a hotel in Ireland, in the Burren, putting the people with the greatest need first even during the summer tourist season. 🇮🇪🇺🇦💚

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4 months

Can we just talk about how brilliant it is having Ncuti Gatwa--who at age two found a home in Scotland as his family fled the Rwandan genocide--dancing in a nightclub in a kilt. I'm not sure we deserve this Doctor but I love him already. #DoctorWho

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3 years

The Sikhs of Kent, feeding hot meals to stranded lorry drivers, truly are the best of British. 🍽❤️

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3 years

We are working with the Kent Sikh community & @kent_police to provide 800 hot meals for the truck drivers who are stranded due to Borders being closed ! #OperationStack #BordersClosed @ashishskynews @Port_of_Dover

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6 years

This is Alma Harrak. Two years ago, at twelve, she came to Ireland from Damascus as a refugee. She taught herself piano from YouTube while living in a direct provision centre. Tonight, she's performing with the National Concert Orchestra. And talks like any Irish 14 year old.

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6 years

Members of the Bolshoi following Russia vs Spain backstage, during a performance. From dancer Bruna Gaglianone.

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3 years

It is a measure of the sport and the man that after securing the Triple Crown, here is Wales’s captain helping the ground staff clear the presentation stand. #SixNations

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2 years

My daughter’s school class in Dublin, preparing to Zoom with their classmate Emil, stuck in Kharkiv. And again I have no words.

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7 years

I'm in. Nuns are setting up a pop-up restaurant, 'Nundos', in Shoreditch. Free food, but you've to turn off your mobile and talk to people.

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5 months

I am heartbroken by Dublin; the children who were stabbed, the crowds now attacking the Luas, law enforcement. A centre for refugees attacked, TCD in lockdown, Arnotts staff hiding on the 3rd floor from a rampaging mob. Off to pick up my wife who has been seeing patients in town.

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3 years

To help restore balance to Twitter, here is Marcus Rashford helping at a Manchester food bank with his mother Melanie.

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6 years

Just if you were wondering - the Irish girls who self-funded their way to the hockey World Cup, who didn’t book their hotel room through today because they assumed they were going home, who went into the tournament ranked second from the bottom, are headed to the final. #COYGIG

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5 years

Cameron was due to face PMQs as opposition leader the day after his son Ivan died, aged six. But Gordon Brown adjourned the house for the day so he wouldn’t have to. Brown had also lost a daughter, Jennifer, a few days after her birth. Our politics used to be capable of this.

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5 years

I basically have a new hero. #londonheatwave

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6 months

Fifteen years ago on a blowy late October morning, in a Dublin bookshop I met a girl with electric blue eyes who made me buy her two breakfasts. This morning, the son we have together helped me set her a breakfast table with chocolates and champagne. Happy anniversary, Mrs B.

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3 years

Dún Laoghaire, People’s Park, a Friday evening. Busker catches sight of five year-olds, clasping ice creams. Instantly begins playing Baby Shark. And reader, the whole park was dancing five year-olds.

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7 years

Dull, Perthshire, sister community to Boring, Oregon, has just twinned with Bland, New South Wales, and I have hope again for our species.

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2 years

The last paragraph of Graham Norton’s Home Stretch is a stunner.

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3 years

From the pub last night: a Dalkey babysitter - one of her families don't let her watch Netflix after the children go to sleep because - they don't want her messing up their algorithm.

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4 years

Holles Street, a blowy night. After a junior reg from Cork, and a midwife from Donegal, I was first to hold you. You were prised from my arms at 4 am by a nurse who commanded me to go away, shower and sleep, but promised at 7 I would be let back in and allowed hold you some more.

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5 years

BEST OF BRITAIN: A 94 year-old Second World War brigadier, holder of the Military Cross and MBE, demonstrating against Brexit with his mixed race great-granddaughter, in Parliament Square just now. (photo by my friend Andrew). #PeoplesVoteMarch

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1 year

On 30 December 2012, I married a woman with electric blue eyes I’d met in a Dublin bookshop four years before, and who made me buy her two breakfasts. Ten years, six house moves (three internationally), and two children later, I’m so very lucky to say: Happy anniversary, Mrs B.

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6 years

Well played, Guardian. #RoyalWedding

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6 years

Meanwhile in libraries.

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2 years

As a weekly UK-Ireland commuter, the utter horror of the dog walker I cheerily greeted at 8 am reminded me that today I am in London.

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1 year

My alma mater @TrinityOxford has just named its library trolleys Trolley Parton and Cart Vader and I am hereby leaving it all my money.

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3 years

Thirteen years ago on a blowy late October morning, in a Dublin bookshop I met a girl with electric blue eyes who made me buy her two breakfasts. Tonight our two children and I are surprising her from work with champagne and takeaway, a few streets away. Happy anniversary, Mrs B.

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6 years

I'll never think of my mother-in-law the same way again.

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3 months

Just to be clear: if you poison someone, fabricate charges against them, send them to an Arctic penal colony, put them in solitary confident for 307 days in three years, and then one day they fall over dead, you have still killed them. #AlexeiNavalny RIP

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7 years

Michael O'Leary walks in to a bar, 'Guinness please.' Barman, 'That'll be €1 please.' He pays. Then, 'Will you be wanting a glass for that?'

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4 years

A dozen years ago, in a Dublin bookshop, I met a girl with electric blue eyes who made me buy her two breakfasts. We now have two children. Happy anniversary, Mrs B.

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6 years

Literally nothing about this headline is right.

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7 years

Overseen in Ireland: As far as notes left on your windscreen go, this one is fairly gentle.

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7 years

Bloody excellent. Today is Albus Potter - Harry's son's - first day at Hogwarts, and this is the departures board. #19YearsLater

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5 years

One butt-load: 477 litres.

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5 years

So Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province government forgot to turn off cat filters when live streaming their press conference and this is giving me life

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5 years

Caesar’s last word’s were (in Greek and) ‘Screw you, kid.’

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6 years

St Pancras, being careful not to over promise. (Photo Edmund Harris.)

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5 years

Introducing my children. ‘I want to show him big toys. And I want to show him nanny’s house. And the lights outside.’

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6 years

Trump versus Scottish insults is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen today.

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2 years

103 years ago, an Austrian camp surgeon, believing an Italian prisoner wouldn’t last the end of the war, helped him escape. His wife waited along the road, and gave Carlo Valdrighi, my grandfather, her jewellery to find his way home. I will remember him. And him. And her. 🌺

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4 months

@cmclymer @YouKnowWhoIAmIE A very large percentage of my very closest friends are queer. I am very happy to give my cash over the bar to places that have provided them with safe space and joy, and am grateful to have always been made ridiculously welcome. Even with my dance moves.

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2 years

Just a flashback to when Queen Elizabeth became the first UK monarch in 100 years to visit Ireland, laid a wreath in the Garden of Remembrance, wore green, visited Croke Park, chatted with fishmongers, spoke Irish. Her very best ever state visit, said Mary McAleese. God save her.

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6 years

This is basically how I spent a year in rural Ireland.

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5 years

‘Look, it’s daddy’s face,’ said a three year-old, unbidden.

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6 years

Amazingly, according to Snopes, this is real.

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4 years

Ireland: closes all schools and universities, cancels Paddy's day parades. Italy: shuts down US: blames foreigners UK:

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1 year

A strange trope of UK papers recently has been links between the US and Ireland are all 19th century and contrived. Biden’s visit served up a weird cocktail of sneering, anger, and racism. So. Thread. 🧵

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5 years

2019, viewed differently....

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8 years

A FRIEND: Presumably PM just wrote F. Off next to Bojo's name and some civil servant misinterpreted it.

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7 years

Your British bobby - they catch terrorists, dance with children after #OneLoveManchester ...

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6 years

This is actually excellent.

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6 years

Meanwhile.

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2 years

I’m so pleased i was able to see, and bin, this before any of my lovely immigrant Dublin neighbours who are contributing so much to our country.

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7 months

My wife’s Fitbit went off during Bundee Aki’s try. In ten years I’ve never got her pulse that high. #IREvNZL #RWC2023

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2 years

On a dark, sad day, a rare joy is Ireland waiving visa requirements for citizens of Ukraine. We are a diasporic country. It suits us to put some truth in the phrase Ireland of the welcomes.

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Fist bumps at the finish w all who finished near me. Passed someone from Ireland at mile 5, and we’d the quick chats as Gaeilge. (‘Dia dhuit!’ ‘Nach bhfuill sé go h-álainn?’ ‘Go h-álainn ar fad!’ ‘Go h-álainn. Ar. Fad.) Also, I sprint finished vs an orange. Loved every step 🥰

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8 years

Today's the date of Shakespeare's death. For comparison, this is how his characters died. #Shakespeare400

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5 years

So one more child and I can win Halloween like these three Wicklow stars

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4 months

Tonight's my wedding anniversary, I have some champagne chilling and meanwhile Mrs B wants a romantic night of takeaway and doing my tax return. Happy anniversary, my bride, six house moves (three internationally) and two children later. I still utterly can't believe my luck.

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5 years

@realDonaldTrump You kind of hope he never looks at the US murder rate.

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1 year

Funny how many Irish place names are commands. Like Stepaside. Or, more worryingly, Kilkenny.

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7 years

This pleases me. RTÉ's newest newsreader, Lagos-born, fluent Irish speaker Zainab Boladale, from Ennis. Will start watching @news2dayRTE .

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6 years

In 1996, a gunman killed 16 children and one teacher at Dunblane Primary School in Scotland. As a result, two Firearms Acts in 1997 banned all cartridge ammunition handguns. The UK has not had a school shooting since.

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8 months

Sometimes you do feel very proud of Ireland …

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Well, Bob Geldof certainly had the measure of Russell Brand.

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5 years

@realDonaldTrump 'A very stupid guy.' UK National Security Advisor, 2012-2015. Permanent Representative to the EU, 2007-2012. Desk officer for the Channel Tunnel, head of the Adriatic department during the 1995 Dayton Accords that ended the Bosnian War. Knighted 2008.

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3 years

My friend, who is from Eastern Europe and works in the hotel where we live, says the guests ‘often speak in Irish downstairs so we won’t understand’. So I’ve started teaching her Irish. Ours is not a language that excludes.

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1 year

104 years ago, an Austrian camp surgeon, believing an Italian prisoner wouldn’t last the end of the war, helped him escape. His wife waited along the road, and gave Carlo Valdrighi, my grandfather, her jewellery to find his way home. I will remember him. And him. And her. 🌺

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5 years

Eleven years ago in a Dublin bookshop, I met a girl with electric blue eyes who made me buy her two breakfasts. She’s now mother of my two children. Happy anniversary, Mrs B.

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2 years

So this little guy thinks his picture is awful and I’m convinced the internet will help me tell him otherwise 🎨

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5 years

Michael D, consoling Lyra’s partner. I am so proud of the president of my country.

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3 years

I am not normally the biggest republican in the room but didn’t we Brexit in 1922?

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5 months

So my sick four year-old got rave reviews from the downstairs critics…

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6 months

105 years ago, an Austrian camp surgeon, believing an Italian prisoner wouldn’t last the end of the war, helped him escape. His wife waited along the road, and gave Carlo Valdrighi, my grandfather, her jewellery to find his way home. I will remember him. And him. And her. 🌺

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100 years ago, an Austrian camp surgeon, believing an Italian prisoner would not last the end of the war, helped him escape. His wife waited along the road, and gave Carlo Valdrighi, my grandfather, her jewelry to find his journey home. I will remember him. And him. And her.

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Visiting friend from London: So Dublin's this major tech capital, clearly I can use Apple Pay to catch the bus right? Me: I am so embarrassed for what I'm about to tell you

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Graffiti on a Weatherspoons near me. There’s no reason for this. If you’re going to go into a second line, put all of ‘staff’ there.

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