Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvtunzelmann Twitter profile

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Alex von Tunzelmann

2 years

Absolutely thrilled that my book Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History is on the @WolfsonHistory Prize shortlist, and in such wonderful company!

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2 years

The shortlist has been announced for the 50th Wolfson History Prize, Britain’s most valuable non-fiction book award. The nominees are…

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Alex von Tunzelmann

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4 years

The headline here doesn’t tell you that the reason she walked out is that Polanski drugged and raped a child, and you have to get more than halfway through the piece before you are told he admitted “having sex” with a 13 year old girl. This just will not do.

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#PortraitOfALadyOnFire star Adele Haenel walked out out of the #CesarAwards after Roman Polanski won best director

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4 years

Oh, so it’s be kind to ladies who are having their first kid now, is it? Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool

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1 year

Oh dear

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3 years

The Culture Secretary and the Minack Theatre give us a lesson in three act structure:

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5 years

The reaction of the trans-exclusionary feminist crowd to Caster Semenya’s case is telling. Semenya isn’t trans: she’s a cis woman with DSD. Assigned female at birth, raised a girl. Any feminist, whatever their position on trans people, ought to be defending her. But they’re not.

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6 years

There was a lady on the tube with a REAL LIVE CAT in a SPACE AGE BACKPACK you guys. I have rarely been so impressed

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6 years

Every year, I don’t think the scarf can possibly have been as big as I remember. *wipes away tear* Every year, this day brings joy anew

Alan White

@aljwhite

6 years

Happy Lenny Kravitz scarf day.

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2 years

The cognitive dissonance of a society in the middle of a moral panic about LGBTQ+ people being anywhere near children while this is reported as if it’s hilarious

New York Post

@nypost

2 years

Glamorous heiress, 45, charged with having sex with 14-year-old boy four times in one day

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2 years

Feels like No 10 is in a tailspin. Turning into a random Conservative comfort-food generator. End the licence fee, send the military after migrants, stop all covid restrictions, pretend to be outraged by Keir Starmer having a beer. Because they have no idea what else to do

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4 years

From a friend in admissions at a uni: “I’m crying in a corner stuffing crisps into my mouth. Ethically I’m pleased, logistically I’m crushed.”

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2 years

I have a lot of thoughts about what is happening in the US, and one of them - which also very much applies in the UK - is that in a democracy, there should be no lifetime appointments.

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3 years

I’m not sure why it’s difficult to understand that the fact that a person consents to one thing doesn’t mean she consents to everything.

Paul Lewis

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3 years

She went to court to protect her privacy. Now she tells the whole world she is pregnant and releases a photograph. How celebrity now works. Tell stories on our terms or we’ll sue.

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5 years

Some sad personal news: my father, Nick von Tunzelmann, died yesterday after a long illness. He was a mountaineer, professor of science & technology policy, proud New Zealander, beloved father & husband, & most importantly a deeply kind & generous man. I will miss him very much.

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2 years

What an incredibly stupid idea.

BBC Question Time

@bbcquestiontime

2 years

Question Time will be in London on Feb 3rd and we're seeking those who have declined the Covid vaccine to share their views. You can apply to be in the audience here: #bbcqt

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3 years

A friend just sent this, and now I seem to have something in my eye. The Emperor protects. #warhammer40k

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4 years

The quote marks somehow lend this sign in a corner shop window an air of dark menace

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5 years

Just be grateful that you’re not the Conservative staffer who’s going to have to spend all afternoon making hand-painted buses out of wine boxes so there are some to show to the media.

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2 years

Inspired by my favourite travel website @seatsixtyone , I just went from London to Barcelona and back by train. I’m keen to cut down on air travel, so I want to share how easy, pleasant & inexpensive it was. 🧵

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3 years

Holy moly, this thread. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Sam Bowman

@s8mb

3 years

Good question @allisonpearson ! What did they do in China and Wuhan that has allowed them to get back to normal?

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3 years

I’ve always loathed the Captive Princess narrative around Melania Trump. There’s a particular type of sexism which essentially assumes that, because she’s a pretty lady, she can’t *really* be a bad person. She must be under his control & need rescuing. She isn’t & she doesn’t.

Ayesha Hazarika

@ayeshahazarika

3 years

Worth remembering Melania helped spread the racist birther lie. I do not see her as some kind of victim in this story.

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4 years

This piece is over a decade old. The words can be said. They should be said. I wish he was stigmatised. He isn’t; he’s lionised. I don’t ever want to see that man’s name in a headline unless it’s prefixed by the words “child rapist”.

Reminder: Roman Polanski raped a child

Finally arrested 32 years after he fled sentencing for unlawful sex with a minor, the director is ... a big hero?

www.salon.com

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10 months

The Prigozhin story really makes me miss the time when a blue tick gave you a hint that a tweet might be trustworthy or written by someone with accountability, rather than just telling you that some random gonk has $8 and wants attention

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Alex von Tunzelmann

@alexvtunzelmann

4 years

It’s a very big deal to come out in middle age when you already have a family and a career, whether you’re a celebrity or not. I hope Phillip Schofield & his family can go forward with love & ever greater freedom & happiness.

Alan White

@aljwhite

4 years

Philip Schofield has just announced he is gay on Instagram:

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3 years

Just went down a Google hole and learned that the world’s most expensive watch is the Graff Diamonds Hallucination. It costs $55 million and looks like somebody has vomited jelly sweets on your arm. Really wish we would just make the super-rich pay taxes

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Alex von Tunzelmann

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8 years

Harvard Law professor Roger Fisher, writing in 1981 about how to prevent nuclear war:

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2 years

Yes. YES.

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@alexvtunzelmann

4 years

Just found out about the mountain goats that have seized the opportunity of human lockdown to take full operational control of Llandudno. This thread is full of joyous footage.

Andrew Stuart

@AndrewStuart

4 years

Goat update: they’re back, and they’re gathering in groups of more than 2 🐐

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2 years

The one thing I will say for this woman is that, had she been my headteacher, the sheer joy of breaking every single silly rule she obsessively enforced would have set me up for life

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4 years

Oh, I love this. To accompany “And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.” Sometimes attributed to Plutarch; actually Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

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@LostInTheMovies

4 years

lol

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Alex von Tunzelmann

@alexvtunzelmann

3 years

Oh man, just wait till you find out about the Crown Jewels

The Times and The Sunday Times

@thetimes

3 years

The Times can reveal that the duchess wore earrings to a 2018 event that were a wedding gift from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, said by the US to have approved the murder of the Jamal Khashoggi. The dinner took place three weeks after the killing.

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5 years

If you’re a grown adult and you’re so threatened by some kid talking about climate change that you thrash out like this, please take a long, hard look at yourself.

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Alex von Tunzelmann

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4 years

... she wrote, in her column in a national newspaper.

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1 year

Lots of good points in this article and this one is decisive for me, at least.

James Ball

@jamesrbuk

1 year

If one in five current blue ticks paid $20 a month that would raise just under $15 million a year for Twitter…Twitter’s current revenues (mostly from ads) are $5 billion a year. Musk’s apparent plan would generate about 30 hours’ worth of annual revenue.

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3 years

Netflix already tell people that The Crown is fiction. It’s billed as a drama. Those people in it are actors. I know! Blows your mind

Caroline Dodds Pennock

@carolinepennock

3 years

The Culture Secretary's 'intervention' over The Crown is the funniest thing I've heard in ages. I look forward to his letter to Hilary Mantel.

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Alex von Tunzelmann

@alexvtunzelmann

11 months

The Unabomber has died. Here is a famously good footnote to him in a mathematics paper. Citation: Pudwell, Lara. “Digit Reversal without Apology.” Mathematics Magazine, vol. 80, no. 2, 2007, pp. 129–32. JSTOR, . Accessed 10 June 2023.

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4 years

Just watched a woman do immaculate full flicked eyeliner on a moving tube train, and she’s my first hero of 2020. Please do not come at me with your prissy “I hate women doing their makeup in public” clucking. It was a spectacular performance.

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2 years

I believed implicitly that this was a work event

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3 years

OK, this beats my previous favourite brain-exploding historical timeline fact: Cleopatra lived closer in time to Twitter than she did to the construction of the Sphinx and Pyramids of Giza

Christopher Ingraham🦗

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3 years

I saw a tweet the other day about how the T-Rex is roughly as close in time to the iPhone as it was to the Brachiosaurus (~65 million years either way) and I had to go lie down for a bit

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4 years

And preferably suffixed by “is in jail.”

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5 years

Instead, I’ve seen quite a lot of cruel, disgusting and intrusive comments, speculation on her chromosomes, sniping about her appearance, questioning her identity. It is blatantly anti-feminist to talk about another woman like this because she doesn’t fit a feminine stereotype.

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2 years

Just perfect, too perfect, a whole history of the marketing of counterculture in one tweet: impossible to satirise in any way

Sex Pistols Official

@sexpistols

2 years

The God Save The Queen NFT collection, includes three tiers of rarity 💎 Each tier features a number of artworks & NFT's will be allocated upon minting.

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4 years

Now, admittedly I’m not the government, but if I really wanted to get people back to their offices and kids back to school, I would institute a fully functioning test and trace system, implement all possible infrastructure improvements, & enforce mask wearing wherever possible.

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5 years

This has been a party political broadcast to Londoners on behalf of Sadiq Khan.

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4 years

I have been out in London today and I have one thing to say, with all the passive-aggression I can muster: THE MASK NEEDS TO GO OVER YOUR MOUTH *AND* NOSE IT’S A RESPIRATORY DISEASE IT’S NOT JUST BAD BREATH 😷

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@alexvtunzelmann

8 months

People will say “it’s not the breed, it’s the owner,” but when you see a story like this it’s not usually a teacup Pomeranian going on a killing spree, is it

The Mirror

@DailyMirror

8 months

Two XL bully dogs kill 22 sheep in savage attack after escaping from their home

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1 year

I’ve seen several people rightly comment already on how this headline implicitly blames the victim for her own murder. I’d specifically like to note the exculpatory passivity of the phrase “lead to unthinkable tragedy”

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4 years

At the time of Rhodes Must Fall, I wrote: “Monuments to historical figures and regimes stand not by divine right, but by the grace of those who live alongside them.” Thrilled to see the people of Bristol have had enough of living with slaver Edward Colston

Rhodes Must Fall? A Question of When Not If

www.historytoday.com

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3 years

The argument coming from some on the right now seems to be that (a) universities must host open and robust debate regardless of who is offended, and simultaneously (b) nobody should be allowed to hurt the feelings of anyone expressing right-wing views.

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@alexvtunzelmann

3 years

James II founded the Royal African Company, which transported more slaves from Africa to the Americas than any other institution during the transatlantic slave trade.

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Nigel Farage: "Nobody in the world, in history, has done more for people of color than the British royal family."

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5 years

I sort of feel he’s going to discover the downside of his new favourite seat eventually but he’s so happy with it right now

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6 years

You are so lucky in life if you have a friend like John Legend. May we all be wise enough to listen to our friends like John Legend, who, out of deep & true kindness, are trying to save us from making complete arses of ourselves.

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7 years

Excellent Twitter this morning

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2 years

There are not two distinct meanings of dissing someone as being “from North London,” one of which is antisemitic & the other of which is “lefty progressive yoghurt weavers etc: People's Republic of Islington”. The latter is historically & culturally rooted in the former.

Tim Shipman

@ShippersUnbound

2 years

@AdamWagner1 Fair enough, and I can see in some contexts that that would be a correct assumption and abhorrent, but I would have thought in this context that it was clearly the other meaning. But if it's that widespread a view, users should be careful

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5 years

Stoked to see Doctor Who’s “Demons of the Punjab” episode, especially as the Mail is already wetting its knickers: “Next, we’ll be told we did bad things in India...” THE VERY SUGGESTION 😱

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3 years

Watching Afghanistan fall to the Taliban on the anniversary of Partition - the consequences of two western withdrawals, 74 years apart - is bleak.

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2 years

In my lifetime we’ve gone from free university education with cost of living grants to saddling students with a potential £100,000 of lifetime debt not including any consideration for their cost of living. The generational inequality this creates is shocking.

James Boodt

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jfc

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5 years

The absolute clusterfuck of racism & misogyny, as well as sheer cruelty, around this case is horrendous to see. A lot of people are really showing themselves.

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5 years

One of the many things that concerns me about the trans-exclusionary feminist position is that it presumes to be able to draw clear boundaries around womanhood. As this case shows, it is very easy for these boundaries to be used to exclude & vilify cis women as well.

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5 years

Those who support Semenya’s exclusion are, in effect, biological essentialists. Her life & experience as a woman count for nothing. It is all written off if she fails a test most of us never have to take (no matter that the science, let alone ethics, seems to be hotly contested).

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4 years

The reason Conservative MPs are on the receiving end of legitimate public anger is because people are reacting to how they voted & what they said, not because one MP used one word. This attempt to shift the blame is tawdry & desperate. You have no claim to the moral high ground.

Amanda Milling

@amandamilling

4 years

We’ve written to @Keir_Starmer after @AngelaRayner ’s comment resulted in widespread abuse towards our MPs, staff and families. Will Sir Keir take action against Labour MPs and party members who perpetrate abuse, and apologise for Rayner’s record of unparliamentary behaviour?

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5 years

The fundamental questions that divide feminism over trans inclusion or exclusion are about what a woman is & who gets to decide that. But, again, Semenya *isn’t trans*. The process of sex testing & public judgment has been about questioning & undermining her existing womanhood.

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6 years

As a culture, we place so much emphasis on the importance of thinking for yourself & your right to your own opinions; too little on informing yourself & your duty to assess facts. Hence Kanye. Hence Trump. Hence Brexit. Hence millions of proud doinks on the internet.

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Yes, it seems extraordinary that Prigozhin would have got on a small plane using Russian airspace, but what I find even more extraordinary is that apparently nine other people were prepared to get on it with him

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2 years

It doesn’t surprise me that the PM candidates are going in on culture war stuff. What else do they have? They’ve been in power 12 years & the result is high inflation, higher taxes, lower standards, corruption, cost of living crisis, covid rates going up, Brexit unresolved, etc.

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10 months

In this bizarre review of Indy 5, there’s also a shocking error about Casablanca. Rick’s backstory is that he ran guns to Ethiopians fighting Mussolini & fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. His whole character is deeply & morally antifascist.

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3 years

The commissioner who said this, Philip Allott, is an elected political police, fire & crime commissioner, and he represents the Conservative Party.

EverydaySexism

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3 years

Just when you think the absurdity of victim blaming could not possibly go any further, here is a Police Commissioner openly blaming Sarah Everard for what happened to her on BBC radio #FixTheSystemNotTheWomen

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4 years

This is surely a joke tweet, but I am quite enjoying the angry responses from people who are evidently ready to believe there’s a statue of Robert E. Lee in Trafalgar Square so they can get angry about it being defaced.

🇸🇪🇩🇰 Daniel’s Tweets

@AmigoNews20

4 years

Fuck you every single MP and BBC broadcaster that has endorsed this today. Lockdown is over.

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4 years

I’ll level with you: the heir to the throne being monarch in waiting is pretty much how this whole monarchy doohickey usually works

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2 years

I already wanted to see RRR as a Tollywood response to British colonialism and now I simply cannot wait 🐅🐅🐅

Nate Offord

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2 years

I’ve watched 29 MCU movies. I’ve never seen a shot as ridiculous and incredible as this truck/animal shot in RRR (on Netflix)

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3 years

It’s very thoughtful of Richard Dawkins to step again into the role of Twitter Main Character, just when the moderators had taken Naomi Wolf away from us

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6 years

They’ve deleted the tweet but not the article (yet). Hilarious as it may be in isolation, it’s also part of a real and burgeoning campaign of anti-intellectualism on the right, aimed at students, academics and “metropolitan elites”.

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Struck by how often the Lucy Letby coverage has been framed by a disbelief that a serial killer could “look like that” - young, blonde, conventionally attractive, female. For instance, this is the beginning and end of a piece on the BBC.

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4 years

Contemplating how much weird cultural baggage and political partisanship you’d have to explain to a non-British person to make sense of the fact that the big pic here is supposed to be charming and the story immediately below it is supposed to be horrifying

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5 years

Daniel Kawczynski MP blocked me ages ago, so I can’t see the tweet of his you’re all reacting to. He blocked me because I posted this video of him getting pwned by @mrjamesob on Newsnight. Whenever I’m reminded of his existence, I like to post it again:

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5 years

The Incredible Sulk.

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

5 years

UK PM Boris Johnson cancels a press conference in Luxembourg, as protesters boo outside the venue – leaving an empty podium next to Luxembourg's PM Xavier Bettel

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3 years

I’ve RTed this before, but it really is one of Twitter’s finest ever moments

R&D

@rhetanddisc

3 years

@StolenDans This is my favorite

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5 years

This is terrible advice and ridiculous posturing, which is standard for Bukowski, of course: it’s nearly as bad as Kerouac’s writing rules. Writing is a craft, not a mystical process. If you want to do it well, you have to stop wanking off your ego, sit down, & work.

Maria Popova

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"if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it." Bukowski's fantastic poem "so you want to be a writer":

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5 years

Any Brit who says things were better in the old days should be obliged to eat their way through some 1960s & 1970s cookbooks

Dan Hancox

@danhancox

5 years

Just read about a recipe from a 1962 issue of The Caterer for spaghetti in curry sauce, with apples, sultanas, chutney, olive oil and grated coconut

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5 years

Belly rubs ftw #Caturday

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3 years

Coverage of trans issues in much of the UK media is woeful, and this is a big part of why. Trans people themselves are rarely permitted even to be part of the conversation.

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Heads up for people in London over 25 who do not have an NHS number or ID documents - please get yourself a free NHS Pfizer jab in Mile End Park this Saturday, no questions asked 🙏

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3 years

I didn’t make this, but it’s so accurate

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3 years

I’m fine with lockdown deniers invoking Magna Carta as long as they can explain the difference between novel disseisin and darrein presentment, remove their fish-weirs, and send twelve knights to investigate the evil customs of the forest.

trevorw1953

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3 years

We've entered the world of the surreal when anti-lockdown nut jobs start tweeting about Article 61 of the Magna Carta. A small but relevant point, Article 61 refers to certain rights granted by the king to twenty-five barons and was swiftly annulled by Pope Innocent III.

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@alexvtunzelmann

4 years

When your racism has you questioning the whole foundation of monarchy & aristocracy. It’s almost one for @LeftAccidental

Daily Express

@Daily_Express

4 years

Meghan Markle fury: Duchess should be STRIPPED of royal titles – ‘Done NOTHING to earn it’

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Alex von Tunzelmann

@alexvtunzelmann

7 years

Of course, Rees-Mogg never received a single bauble as a youngster. Worked his way up through the coal fields of Eton.

Adam Bienkov

@AdamBienkov

7 years

Jacob Rees-Mogg: "I loathe this idea that we have to give baubles to young people." #Cpc17

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Alex von Tunzelmann

@alexvtunzelmann

4 years

@belpercfc I think you should ask them that. Genuinely. Put them on the spot. Make them justify it.

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Alex von Tunzelmann

@alexvtunzelmann

6 years

Compare & contrast: daily schedules for Mark Wahlberg & Hunter S. Thompson. Your essay topic for today is the construction of masculinities.

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Alex von Tunzelmann

@alexvtunzelmann

6 years

got married, lol

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Alex von Tunzelmann

@alexvtunzelmann

6 years

In contrast to Theresa May: here’s how Clement Attlee went about a sacking:

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Alex von Tunzelmann

@alexvtunzelmann

4 years

Symmetricats #Caturday

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Alex von Tunzelmann

@alexvtunzelmann

4 years

Sorry to get all cancel culture, but I think @HISTORYUK should probably pull the show in which they’ve cast someone with Nazi face tattoos as a lovable charmer

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Alex von Tunzelmann

@alexvtunzelmann

3 years

I don’t know why none of you believe this. It makes total sense for drug dealers to buy fireworks, find a place to set them up, trigger an obvious, massive & dangerous explosion, then wait for clients who have night vision goggles & a sextant to turn up. Much easier than texting.

Sky News

@SkyNews

3 years

Fireworks are being set off throughout the year at all times of the night to signal where drugs are being dropped for pick-ups, Robbie Moore said

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Alex von Tunzelmann

@alexvtunzelmann

3 years

Mates I have bad news about how this thing works

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Alex von Tunzelmann

@alexvtunzelmann

3 years

Prove it. Impeach him tonight.

Senate Republicans

@SenateGOP

3 years

This is not who we are. This is not what we fight for. This is not American. This must stop. Now.

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Alex von Tunzelmann

@alexvtunzelmann

4 years

@RoastedReast Is there? I can’t qwhite put my finger on it.

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Alex von Tunzelmann

@alexvtunzelmann

4 years

An utterly compelling thread of photos from yesterday’s anti-mask, anti-vax, anti-lockdown protest in Trafalgar Square. Behold, 2020, these are your people 🤦🏻‍♀️

Paul Clarke

@paul_clarke

4 years

Am in the midst of some very, very special people

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Alex von Tunzelmann

@alexvtunzelmann

1 year

Today I learned that the Lima people were just out here making shark jars from around 110-650AD and now I don’t care much for any other pottery

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Alex von Tunzelmann

@alexvtunzelmann

3 years

Still howling at this. It’s like watching your college housemate, who has literally never cooked, stumbling in drunk at 3am and trying to make himself a sandwich

Wray’s Niece 🇯🇲

@ARD28X

3 years

This is what people are spending their hard earned cash on?

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Alex von Tunzelmann

@alexvtunzelmann

5 years

@northumbriana Battenberg was never Philip’s surname, of course! He adopted Mountbatten from his uncle when he joined the Royal Navy. Going with his original surname, it should be Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg-Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha. Try fitting that on a credit card

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Alex von Tunzelmann

@alexvtunzelmann

5 years

I don’t get the No Dealers: they want to go through all of this, and then still have to negotiate a deal, but from a position of abject desperation? There is no such option as Never Deal when the EU takes 44% of our exports.

Deborah Haynes

@haynesdeborah

5 years

IMPORTANT - this is the assessment of impact of no deal #Brexit on UK security, defence, economy, food prices by the top civil servant, a career diplomat whose warning should be heeded by all those saying they have no fear of a no deal... #Brexit h/t @JasonGroves1

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