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Nicholas Booth

2 years

Bored? Listless? Ever wanted to rob the Bank of England? Parachute into Nazi territory as a double agent? Join the generational quest to find life on the planet next door? Then my books are for you - available at all good outlets

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@AGeekwithaHat Yes

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Tweet of the year so far

Just British Things 🇬🇧

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@Colak I’ll say they did

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Please watch this 35 second Magnum clip. I have not stopped laughing.

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@ChrisHewitt Add a nativity scene - Tom Clancy's Clear And Present Manger

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@SoVeryBritish Throwing away an old credit card without cutting it up into thin long strips so that International Master Criminals can’t read them any longer

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@jxckcper Smudge has the same face when she wants food

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@katie_eckler Yes. It's the law.

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Who's a fictional military leader you'd follow into combat?

Dr. Dan Lomas

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@thomasfuchs Slightly different effect at this end (with added Rolling Stones logo)

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@trevorjtweets @orzelc Sean Connery voice: you only have your shelf to blame

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@stillgray @tan123 As I said the other day….

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2 years

Are you a privileged middle class child who didn't get enough attention growing up? Why not annoy the rest of us with pointless grandstanding that has to be cleared up by the children of lower class parents as you self-righteously think you are "dealing with issues"

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@RegretteRuane Biblical. In the kingdom of the arses, the man with four arses is King

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@TM_Eubanks @VG_Stef I suspect all the dark matter in the universe is somehow feline

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2 years

I feel seen

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2 years

People who haven’t had Covid yet probably have no friends, Korean doctor says

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3 years

@thegallowboob I don’t need packaging

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@UtterlyTC Our next door but one neighbour knocked on our door last night. Her son's toy helicopter landed on our pergola. I made a joke about sending him to bed early. She laughed and said she was flying it - she's probably about your age btw

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5 months

No, it’s utter smug middle class bollocks

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@BBCNews

5 months

Love Actually at 20: Are we still in love with the controversial Christmas classic?

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Are you a privileged middle class child who didn't get enough attention growing up? Why not annoy the rest of us with pointless grandstanding that has to be cleared up by the children of lower class parents as you self-righteously think you are "dealing with issues"

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2 years

Activists from Animal Rebellion have sprayed parliament with white paint and called on the Government to support a plant-based future, as Liz Truss prepares to face Keir Starmer at PMQs. @RebelsAnimal | #PMQs

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2 years

Not even Unlucky Alf could claim that level of bad luck @TheFastShow1

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4 years

@Jenny_Radcliffe Predicted in the Book of St. John of McClane

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For young people coming across Cat Stevens for the first time, he provided the music for one of the funniest black comedies ever filmed. If you haven't seen "Harold And Maude", you should. It is just wonderful and you will be singing the songs for days

Harold And Maude Opening Title Sequence

Opening credits for the cult movie Harold and Maude. I do not own this. No copyright infringement intended. To be removed at the behest of the distributor.

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7 years

@bexgibbons @thecatreviewer Bless - we have two new kittens and they squeak, too

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@SoVeryBritish Die Hard plays and social media is awash with rumours

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@TheFastShow1 FYI

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@AngelaRayner Driving a tractor is a bit like making love to a beautiful woman..

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@RodneyMarshall1 My absolute favourite stooge of theirs especially in the preceding film to the still you show, Them Thar Hills. When we go to New York we always go to the Pom Pom Diner as a nod to their genius @NeilKBrand

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Lynne Reid Banks was a remarkable writer and reporter. She was working at ITN when she wrote The L-Shaped Room which was one of those great novels that shone a searchlight into the realities of a social phenomenon that was overlooked, ignored and brushed under the carpet #RIP

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In August 1957, ITN's Lynne Reid Banks went to #Maidstone to investigate a recent outbreak of #polio . She spoke to children receiving their second polio jab, before finding out more about the #vaccine campaign from the local doctor. #Poliovirus #Vaccination #PublicHealth #1950s

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@NewsOrFallSong @angrypiln Fuck me, a talking snake

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11 months

Go on admit it. You heard David Attenborough’s voice.

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First picture ever of a newly hatched electrician still has part of the egg shell on its head

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5 years

Finally, the news I have been wanting to share. Working with the superb @howellspace on a book which will appear next year. The greatest detective story of all time: the search for life on Mars Out next summer:

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3 months

No, this

There Must And Shall Be Aspirin

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3 years

This is the greatest author photo of all time. Yes?

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@sophielflynn Families, eh? I knew a guy who worked for Reuters and when told he was now working in Paris for the biggest news agency in the world, his auntie said - and I quote - “He could have worked at a news agents here if he had wanted”

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@davidmbarnett I’d read that. Do a deal with Greggs to sell garlic bread and get a free book. You’ll be a millionaire overnight!

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5 years

@MJMcKean @rysimmons Cut and print

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3 years

So far as I know, there are only two astronauts known as Wally. Walter Schirra flew on Mercury, Wally Funk didn’t - and she shoulda. But tomorrow she will finally reach space and all I can say is about bloody time and all

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2 years

@RodneyMarshall1 @russty_russ Put your trousers on, you’re nicked

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@AJ_FI @TM_Eubanks It’s when it disappears is when all the trouble starts… as per the following impeccably researched story from 1988

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@Thievesbook

2 years

If you like mysteries, you might like my books - how four American ne’er-do-wells nearly broke the Bank of England, the inside story of the greatest scientific puzzle of the ages and how a pre-war safebreaker played off MI5 and the Nazis to become the most amazing double agent

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Don’t take my word for it - “a jaunty caper” (Thieves, NYT), “a splendidly vivid portrait” (Zigzag, Max Hastings) and “remarkable, timely, up-to-date” (Mars, Len David) - #idealgift #greatread #books #xmasideas

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6 years

@JamesTCobbler @MartinBarrow Why is it that people in arbitrary authority don't have an ounce of common sense?

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2 years

This is very, very funny and a painfully true parody of the level of incipient fuckwittery in “prestigious science shows” today @drdwhitehouse @SpaceKate @MattPotter @DrJeniMillard @Spicey_Spiney @Jenny_Radcliffe @Ratrin @DavidGalvin9 @davejgiles @NickAstronomer @DaydreamAstro

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Every BBC series about the universe.

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@PetrocTrelawny Rave in the S Times and deservedly so, old fruit

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4 years

@GehegeDrei @AnchorCake And wasn’t The Tsar’s diary the day of the Revolution: “Bit windy. Went for a swim”

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3 years

@Sotherans The calibre of your staff ..... or if they leave, ex-calibur

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4 years

Today is our eighth wedding anniversary. I still pinch myself and can hardly express how much I love Mrs Booth and how my life now has meaning, purpose and endless joys. Her pride and joy is the garden and when I see all the flowers, I break into a grin. Luckiest boy in the world

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4 years

Awwww bugger @dr_david_w @howellspace #Venus #Mars #Lifeinspace

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1 year

I rarely get on my high horse about the actions of governments and civil servants, but the Post Office scandal - which ruined ordinary lives and destroyed families - is a National scandal and travesty. None of the civil servants and perpetrators have been brought to justice

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So far, according to the Post Office, 49 of the historical convictions in which Horizon evidence ‘might have featured’ have been upheld. Why is this figure so high?

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Finished it!

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@FelicityHannah

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@Andyharristweet @wearecultonline @heidi_teaman To our delight, when Mrs Booth and I go to NYC we stay in Hells Kitchen across the street from a diner called.... "The Pom Pom Diner"

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Pom Pom #LaurelAndHardy

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8 months

We could be herons, just for one day

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I don’t know how your morning is going but there’s a heron on top of my car

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4 years

@RachelWardbooks @NiecyOKeeffe My ma - also 86 - has the same problem with ignorant pipsqueaks in call centres. She paid a bill by cheque - it got lost in the post and the company was so rude and unpleasant I went straight to the CEO and said how dare they speak to someone like that and suggest she was lying

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3 years

@lilithepunk After my dad died in 2002, several people came up to me and said “Your dad knew the real identity of Kendo Nagasaki”. A mystery ok so many levels and a flavour of why is here:

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2 years

Want to take a temperature reading of the country? Talk to a cabbie

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Black cab drivers are lining the mall to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth. One told me in tears that he wanted to pay his respects to the monarch who’s “all we’ve ever known”.

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6 months

Drop an actor who were absolutely perfect for their role.

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Drop an actor who was absolutely perfect for their role.

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@DrChrisCombs Genius line - “Twitter is the place where people who don’t read books come to argue with those that write them”

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3 years

Fuck me, that’s a page lead - I mean the first ever resurrection in modern times and it’s Phil Spector? @NeilKBrand @Jenny_Radcliffe @DavidCollinsST @eshelm @NicBoothby @quantick @NewsOrFallSong @angrypiln

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@mars_stu @MarsCuriosity It’s Bert, it’s always Bert

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@JALowden @Lunarheritage There’s the great story of when he came to Edinburgh for the premiere of Dr No. He went to visit his ma, and the old bloke who lived next door saw him and said “Oh hello, Tam. Have you ye been away, then?” @NickdeSemlyen @vicky_allan

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3 years

Looking for an adventure? Learn how to rob the Bank of England, about the greatest quest in scientific history or join a World War II double agent on his various eye-popping escapades in my books -- all available at your local bookstores

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1 year

The reason I wanted so desperately to visit California when I was a kid

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The Banana Splits. Whoever created this show was definitely on something stronger than coffee🤯

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#caturday And what about MY lunch?

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@phi1mccann I always felt sorry that when I was on The Times the then German correspondent covered a story about a countrywide paedophile ring. The reporter’s name? Roger Boyes

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@HrryFlwrs @MattPotter Btw Three cheers for Prince Ted! I have always admired his tenacity given he got worse A Level grades in 1982 than I did but somehow - and I have no idea how - he got into Cambridge. And who can remember his grace during the It’s A Royal Knockout presser

Play Prince Edward off, keyboard cat

Edward is convinced that the press will have loved It's A Royal Knockout.

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Even stranger, it's Stephen Morris from New Order @JakeRudh @JonSavage1966

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@johnstonglenn @johnhaffenden I am bid you what a cabbie said to him about Bertrand Russell

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3 years

My greatest fan

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I can’t move due to a panther

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@Margoandhow @MarkusAhonen Oddly enough, where my ma lives all her neighbours have died in order down the lane - I said to one "If I were you, I'd move. You'll be next" and even stranger, he was

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@latestinspace We have a great deal on what one JPL engineer has called "The Great Interplanetary Egg Hunt" in our book - working out how to improve Perseverance's own wheels - small wonder he terms them "my sick rims"

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@OlgaWojtas @amandalees My favourite line in NCIS is where someone asks of David McCallum's character: "What did he look like when he was younger?" "Ilya Kuryakin"

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For those who have never seen it, the greatest television series in history was "Monkey". Beats anything David Attenborough, Marti Caine or The Two Ronnies ever did And the most incomprehensibly profound and yet silly opening titles

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1 year

What happens if you have a world famous poet in the back of your cab and the cabbie recalls what the greatest philosopher of the age said to him

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5 years

@KENNETHWILLlAMS @IntlTSEliotSoc And here (from the Miscellany page on our website) is the letter in The Times from Valerie Eliot to which he refers:

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3 years

Many years ago, I had wanted to do a biography on George Gamow - never got very far with it (but talked to his son, Vera Rubin, Ralph Alpher and Bob Herman at some length). Paul’s new book is way better than anything I could have ever written - and am hooked already! @phalpern

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6 years

As you will see, the dismaying saga of the RBS scandal has now burst open: one journalist has followed and written about it all along. The coverage by @Ian_Fraser is exemplary. Follow him for all updates and commentary @Thievesbook

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@Jenny_Radcliffe @Morbidful He’s in Panto

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3 years

So tonight I finished this impeccable biography of Syd Barrett by the ever excellent @rcscribbler - gets to the heart of the artist, in all his rich, Arcadian glory. The myths have taken over, but Rob cuts through them and carefully chronicles his lineage through Lear and Belloc

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I know I shouldn’t laugh @dsquareddigest @Jenny_Radcliffe @MattPotter @NeilKBrand

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3 years

“Cop called officers for help after being pursued by drone but it was Jupiter” @NewsOrFallSong @LeighFletcher @DavidBflower @Jenny_Radcliffe @drdwhitehouse @planet4589 @NickAstronomer @jonny_nichols @davejgiles @danithecole @drspacejunk @natdyerwild

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6 months

Since my dad died in 2002, some of the sparkle has gone from Christmas which he loved. But Mrs Booth and I always now enjoy a treat and we are just back from the amazing Hotel Gotham in Manchester with my ma and her ma and pa. A former bank designed by Edwin Lutyens! Huzzah

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4 years

Based on thirty or more years experience of writing - some of them about science - I wanted to share some random thoughts, mainly because of the head scratching I see when "experts" pontificate about "sci comm" and "science writing". I make no apologies for being an old grump!

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Venus and Jupiter. Huzzah!

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@prkirkley Same here, but mainly being encouraged not to talk like the other children on the estate, studying hard so as to become a metaphor for épating les bourgeoises and taking care to wee down my leg in more exalted circles so as to be classed as a “ragged trousered pissanthropist”

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The Lion In Winter

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Which of us hasn’t wanted to shove apples in an exhaust pipe and write “Twat” on a wall, I ask you? This from the local paper

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3 years

For the background to how RBS nearly tanked the whole country, “Shredded” by the ever excellent @Ian_Fraser is a must read. All I can say is that if we don’t learn from history, we’ll make the same mistakes over and over again

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NatWest, a banking group formerly known as RBS, faces "significant reputational damage" as it becomes the first bank to appear in court on criminal charges over money laundering.

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6 years

To all of you north of the border, wow! Scotland from the space station @vicky_allan @es_thomson @Julie_Fergusson @Ian_Fraser @Katielander @LiamHamilton16 #scotland #space

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4 years

So the wait is over - our book on #Mars is out tomorrow, in the U.S. at least - we await the shipped copies here, but there’s always the Kindle version. A big thank you to my splendid co-author @howellspace and to everyone who has helped us over the last eighteen months.

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@marcuschown But he didn’t have all the answers, as a London cabbie revealed to T.S. Eliot

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@Thievesbook

4 years

If you are self isolating, take a journey into the furthest reaches of exploring - where nothing is real Try the books below by -- they are superb @marcuschown @phalpern @dschwa8059 and @imanjitkumar

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9 months

@archivetvmus71 I think he told “the Man from Wergs” story on a chat show but here is the story from his fabulous autobiography

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1 year

It is a brilliant book and the story about the man from Wergs - a contestant on The Golden Shot who phoned in from a call box opposite a TV shop - is one of the funniest things I have ever read

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3 years

This letter to Viz sums up exactly how I feel about the world at large - uncanny

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1 year

The good news is I now have a hot water bottle but the bad is I can’t see the screen #CatsOfTwitter

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2 years

@SaucySeventies Oh, the posh, posh traveling life The traveling life for me First cabin and captain's table Regal company When I'm at the helm, the world's my realm And I do it stylishly Port-out, starboard home Posh with a capital P-O-S-H P-O-S-H, P-O-S-H Posh

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@MarcDavenant @rupertbu Also significant that local lad Ridley Scott knew these landscapes which he has said helped him with possibly the greatest opening sequence in movie history @GroomB

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4 years

Getting real - as is my hair, alas. I seem to be growing a grey mullet. That's what books do to you. @howellspace @tanyaofmars @dr_david_w @SpaceBrendan @People_Of_Space @SpaceKate @sciencebase @ScienceNelson @phalpern @GabriellBirchak @MarsVikingGCMS @MarsSocietyUK @Thievesbook

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6 years

An unbelievable true story now in paperback! UK - U.S. watch here: ⚡️ “The greatest fraud in history” by @Thievesbook #fraud #greatread #truecrime #crime #amazingstory

The Thieves of Threadneedle Street

The Thieves of Threadneedle Street: The Victorian Fraudsters Who Almost Broke the Bank of England by Nicholas BoothLate in 1873, London was gripped by the as...

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2 years

I have always been a disloyal subject, immune to royalism and pageantry, but you would have to have a heart of stone not to feel a catch of sadness at the passing of such a steadfast presence in all our lives. Do not go gentle into that good night, ma’am - thank you and Godspeed

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The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.

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4 years

Today is ten years to the day I met my wife - The greatest thing I ever do (to paraphrase Linus Pauling) is to earn her love and respect every morning - I am the luckiest boy on Earth #bestyearsofmylife #thankyou