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Becky Barrow

17 days

We won Sunday Newspaper of the Year at last night's @PressAwardsuk ! Here is a photo of the team, but there are so many other people - designers, subs, graphics, lawyers, cartoonists and so on - who make The Sunday Times what it is.

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Becky Barrow

@beckymbarrow

8 months

Sad to see how many people say they resent the paywall to read our Russell Brand investigation. It took 4 years. It took a team of top journalists, editors, lawyers and many more. Investigations are not cheap. But they are v important - and we should all support them.

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8 months

Here, at last, is the result of an investigation which began in 2019. Of the many bits that will shock you, it is this line that has been a worm in my brain: "Brand, then 30, sent a car to her secondary school to take her out of lessons and to his home, she says." She was 16

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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Russell Brand has been accused of rape and sexual assaults by women who have broken their silence on alleged attacks between 2006 and 2013 This is a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and @C4Dispatches ✍️ @RosamundUrwin @char_wace @pmorganbentley

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3 years

An ex-Tory councillor wins a £276m PPE contract...and, within months, upgrades from modest home in Stroud to a £1.5m Cotswold mansion with 100 acres of land. How is this allowed to have happened?!? Great reporting from ⁦ @Gabriel_Pogrund ⁩ 🌟

Tory Steve Dechan’s £276m in PPE contracts lands him a place in the country

A former Conservative councillor, who was awarded £276m in government contracts for personal protective equipment (PPE), has traded his modest home for a £1.5m,

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@beckymbarrow

2 years

Nothing better than a letters page. This is a masterclass in how the short ones are often the best. 😂 😂 😂

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7 months

The new provost of @Eton_College in today’s @Telegraph He says most of his friends are Old Etonians - and if he meets somebody who did not go there “I do admit…that it counts against them slightly.” Was there not a candidate with a more open mind?

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4 years

To all those people stockpiling, spare a thought for the elderly man who I just passed in the pasta aisle at Sainsbury’s. It was totally empty. He was very distressed as to why there was none left, having struggled to get to the shop with his walking stick and shopping trolley.

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6 years

So, that’s an interesting result: In a poll of 12,939 @thetimes and @thesundaytimes readers, 70% think the UK should hold a 2nd referendum on EU membership.

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3 years

Taken - without needing to zoom - from my sitting room window (currently doubling up as my office). That’s one brazen fox.

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@beckymbarrow

2 years

Quite a moment for Boris when his ex-employer, ⁦ @Telegraph ⁩, devotes this much of its Letters page to…trashing him.

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4 years

What a man! To invent a ventilator that is being used to treat Covid patients, to speak "at least 8 languages" - and to be the father of a Hollywood superstar. Oh, and he made a film when he was 84 too.

George Weisz obituary

George Weisz was six years old when he opened up his father’s pocket watch and removed every part. “I managed to put it back together again,” he said. “From that point onwards, everybody said I was...

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6 years

Don’t miss one particular gem in tomorrow’s @thesundaytimes : 1,400 academics sign anti-Brexit letter (against 37 who started the pro-Brexit campaign last Sunday....). Credit to @stephenbleach , our acting letters editor.

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6 years

Tomorrow's front page: Secret memo turns heat on Topshop boss #tomorrowspapertoday

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9 months

The saddest story in this weekend's edition? The number of teenagers doing a modern language for A-level has gone into freefall Since 2013, German A-level -45% and French A-level -37%

German A-levels halved: why modern languages are in freefall

When Katrin Sredzki-Seamer came to England from Germany in 1990 and later started teaching German at a secondary school, pupils could be quite negative. “Chil

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1 year

Look who’s joined us at The Sunday Times. Welcome ⁦ @HadleyFreeman ⁩ 👏 👏. This is going to be brilliant.

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8 months

First of many? ⁦

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6 years

Why do so many men who call the newsdesk always assume that I'm the secretary? One just said: "You probably don't understand what I'm saying to you." And then repeated himself, just in case I hadn't understood that either.....

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4 years

This month marks 3 years as news editor of @thesundaytimes . If you’d told me on Day 1 that the job would involve Grenfell, Manchester Arena attack, years of (unresolved) Brexit torture, two general elections and a global pandemic, I wouldn’t have believed you.

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Becky Barrow

@beckymbarrow

5 years

No correction will ever, ever beat this one.

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@theJeremyVine

5 years

Everyone saying yesterday's #DailyMail apology on #SaintDenis was one of the best ever, but nothing beats this in @guardian

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Becky Barrow

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3 years

Quick poll: did anybody else write a poem for their husband after having their first baby??

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3 years

Meghan says: “The Bench started as a poem I wrote for my husband on Father’s Day, the month after Archie was born. That poem became this story...My hope is that The Bench resonates with every family, no matter the make-up, as much as it does with mine.”

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4 years

Very well said @Baddiel . So worth reading the whole piece, particularly on this very, very sad day. #CarolineFlack

David Baddiel: why I feed the Twitter trolls

The internet, as we know, has no laws. Scrabbling around as we are in the gut of the monster that our Frankenstein culture collectively created, we have tried and failed to police it, to give it...

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4 years

Something I wrote in The Sunday Times a month ago.

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2 years

Such a blessing to have a teenage daughter to say it like it is.

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@beckymbarrow

2 years

The Matterhorn, better known as the Toblerone mountain, tonight. Bravo Switzerland, indeed.

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The Matterhorn last night. Bravo Switzerland. #QueenElizabeth

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2 years

Hear hear @doctor_oxford . She writes brilliantly for @thesundaytimes about her desolation at seeing unvaccinated patients die - and her fury that 'a torrent of disinformation, spewed out on social media, has made them too scared to have the vaccine'

I suppress a howl of disbelief. She would rather die than get a Covid vaccine

She is young, ashen and fighting for her life, and all I can offer is morphine. Recent chemotherapy has sent her blood count crashing. The drugs that could cur

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Becky Barrow

@beckymbarrow

11 months

As promised, here are the “16 books for my daughter’s 16th birthday” Thank you for all the ⭐️ suggestions. (If you’re wondering where some of the classics are - To Kill a Mockingbird, I Capture the Castle etc are - she’d already read them.)

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4 years

Can confirm that trying to be the news editor of @thesundaytimes while a large gaggle of teenagers celebrate not doing GCSEs downstairs is....quite trying. #WorkimgFromHome

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@beckymbarrow

5 years

This little snippet in today’s Mail is just vile. ‘Woman is crap at her job - but at least she was wearing a nice dress’.

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1 year

What I love most about this gem of a @RoyaNikkhah story is that a 96-year-old woman was still keen to meet new people and have new experiences.

You can be my wingma’am: Tom Cruise’s high time with the Queen

The monarch enjoyed tea with the Top Gun star this summer — and let him land his helicopter at Windsor

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Becky Barrow

@beckymbarrow

10 years

One thing that I will not miss about working for the Mail: unspeakably awful and demeaning spreads about women. http://t.co/DqIS86kYDm

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2 years

This is what happens when you tell 3 teenagers that it’s Father’s Day.

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1 year

Rishi Sunak's Christmas card: Those are some bizarrely tidy, clutter-free kitchen shelves....

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5 years

So, Twitter friends: I’m speaking to 150 sixth formers at a girls’ school tomorrow. What do you wish you’d been told when you were 16/17 years old?

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3 years

After a day spent in A&E with my elderly, ill mum, it is impossible to say thank you enough times to the kind, calm, professional, hard-working saints who looked after us. And on a Sunday too. In a pandemic. Thank goodness x1,000,000 for the #nhs . I’ll clap you forever.

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Becky Barrow

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4 years

Nothing but respect for my husband who is teaching Maths in our sitting room from a new laptop that he bought (with all of us listening). There are so many heroes in lockdown, and he is mine.

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2 months

I am so bored of a world in which people still - still!!! - assume that news editors are male. A gentle reminder that women can do….anything!

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4 years

Readers of @thesundaytimes have spoken.....That's quite a resounding "no" (86%).

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5 years

Day off work to speak at my girls’ school to talk about journalism. Strict instructions from my daughters to pretend I’m not their mother; “don’t be boring” and “look cool”.

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Becky Barrow

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4 years

One of the many joys of my job is clearing the expenses for @ShippersUnbound 's lunch with Nigel Farage. They're not vegan teetotallers, that's for sure.

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4 years

A wonderful little tribute in today’s @thetimes by @matthewsyed to his remarkable mum. If mothers like this one ruled the world, it would be a much better place.

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5 years

Great letter from the ex-headmistress of UK’s top girls school in @thetimes today.

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3 years

For all the exasperations of WFH, there is something amazing about helping to put ⁦ @thesundaytimes ⁩ together from the corner of my sitting room. Much less amazing, however, for my kids who were banned from streaming all day so I could have 100% of the broadband....

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Becky Barrow

@beckymbarrow

3 years

Can somebody please explain to me the male urge to take your top off to have your vaccination done?? Can't they just...wear a T-shirt and roll up the top bit?

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3 years

Such a great day. Feel hugely emotional. Many thanks to all involved!! 🙏💉🙏💉

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6 years

Ruth Davidson rocks. It’s as simple as that. So pleased for teenagers today that powerful, capable, brilliant women like her talk openly about self-harm and depression.

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6 years

SUNDAY TIMES - Ruth Davidson: ‘I never wat to be PM’ #tomorrowspaperstoday

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@beckymbarrow

3 years

Wish Matt Hancock's dachshund could give us an interview.

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@beckymbarrow

2 years

Killer quote from Kwasi Kwarteng in @cazjwheeler and @HarryYorke1 political read. He told allies [recently]: “The idea that a prime minister is going to bullet her chancellor and survive, I just don’t think is feasible.”

Truss is the latest victim of a never-ending Tory death cult

When Kwasi Kwarteng was made Liz Truss’s chancellor, he believed he had entered into a pact of mutually assured destruction with the prime minister. Even two we

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3 years

Equally delighted I'm part of this new team. Journalism has come a long way since I started in the 1990s when the idea of an all-woman newsdesk was not something I ever thought would happen. It makes me very happy that my two daughters - and my son - will see that it can.💪💪💪💪

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@emmatuckerWSJ

3 years

Delighted to announce @lmkmcintosh as new head of news for @thesundaytimes She's joined by @beckymbarrow as news ed, @k_faulkner as news projects ed and @emilykentsmith as assistant news ed. @TanethAutumn joins the paper as associate editor

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1 year

Throughout her life, my mum collected hundreds of children’s books. As we clear out her flat (to pay her nursing home fees), it is the books that evoke the most positive memories. Thank goodness for ⁦ @ShirleyHughes_ ⁩ , ⁦ @emmachichesterc ⁩ and so many more. ❤️

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Becky Barrow

@beckymbarrow

3 years

I feel v v grateful to have been double jabbed. My Covid over the last week wasn’t so bad - I could work, be a mum etc. Two of my children, who are too young to be jabbed, had it at the same time, and were much, much worse than me. Thank you 🙏 🙏 #Astrazeneca .

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1 year

Don't give up before 20 seconds.... 😂😂😂😂

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2 years

There are so many different types of heroes emerging from the Ukraine crisis: these train drivers are definitely among them. 🇺🇦

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@beckymbarrow

3 years

A big shout to @thesundaytimes team for producing a paper - once again - with 99% of the team at home on a laptop, often with erratic broadband, equally erratic children and no colleague to do a cheering tea round. You are all 💪.

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In The Sunday Times tomorrow: Postcode lottery for life-saving jab. And: Head teachers call for GCSEs and A-levels to be scrapped this summer #tomorrowspaperstoday

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2 years

Very difficult to respond to my three teenagers - “Is this WWIII?” - when their childhood has already involved the Covid pandemic, Brexit, multiple acts of terrorism, climate change and a global financial collapse.

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1 year

What a total legend. Why isn’t she a Dame? Fabulous interview with the one and only Helena Bonham Carter by ⁦ @RosamundUrwin ⁩

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1 year

Dear @BBCr4today . Most of us either don’t care, or loathe, Manchester United. Please stop going about the club, not just today but constantly.

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2 years

Our new health editor @ShaunLintern starts next week. And along comes a new variant to welcome him to @thesundaytimes , just in case he was hoping he could start writing about something other than Covid.....😭😭

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6 years

Er, I think I’m a woman and I’m also news editor of @thesundaytimes .

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4 years

Good to see Prince Harry already finding work outside the royal family.

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1 year

If you have Parkinson’s, or know somebody with it, I cannot recommend this piece, or this podcast, more highly. Both are brilliant. ⁦ @RosamundUrwin ⁩ ⁦ @moversand6 ⁩ ⁦ @CureParkinsonsT ⁩ ⁦ @ParkinsonsUK ⁩

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News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

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5 years

As all working mums know, we’ve done a day’s work before even arriving in the office. But this morning was particularly gruelling- a Y7 before first-ever exams, a Y10 going on DOE and a Y5 dressing up for World Ocean Day. And it was raining. And there were no buses. And breathe.

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5 years

Quite a nice gig to be a “private citizen” but to live in a home renovated with £2.4m+ of public funds, isn’t it?

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@RoyaNikkhah

5 years

Royal exclusive: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are planning a completely private baptism for their son Archie in Windsor next weekend, in keeping with their wish to raise him as a “private citizen” @thesundaytimes

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1 year

Q: "Was leaving the EU a mistake?" So far, 47,000 readers of @thetimes have voted in our poll. Their answer? 86% voted "Yes"

Readers’ poll: Was leaving the EU a mistake?

Almost seven years after the UK voted to leave the European Union, Brexit still looms over the political debate. On issues from trade and immigration to investment and regulation, the aftermath of...

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5 years

My sister! Born 17 years after me, and super special since the day I went to see her as a newborn in hospital. So bloody proud she won a BAFTA! Well, Louis Theroux did, but she’s the producer.

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@beckymbarrow

4 years

Sometimes it is the smallest stories that are my favourite. Wishing them a very happy anniversary. What craziness is planned for their 50th??

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3 years

Sending a big hug to all 18-year-old girls who might feel a little sensitive that they haven’t yet won the US Open, picking up a cheque for $2.5m. And got an A* in their Maths A-level. And modelled for Vogue. And speak a second language. #EmmaRaducanu = WOW 🌟 🌟 🌟 #BRILLIANT

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4 years

Letters pages...another example of why I love you.

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4 years

By a mile, the best piece I’ve ever read on why the disappearance of Madeleine McCann so profoundly traumatised parents. Because we’ve all made mistakes, but have, mostly, thankfully, got away with them. ⁦ @indiaknight ⁩

Madeleine McCann: It could have been us, so we damned her parents

Only a handful of news stories lodge themselves in the mind and refuse to budge. There they lurk, for weeks or months or decades. Often they are about the gap between our ordinary, safe, everyday...

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6 years

Some of the greatest stars at newspapers are those whose name you never see in the paper. Colleen Window was the brightest of those stars. She left today after 18 years as the Newsdesk secretary. I’ll miss her more than she’ll ever imagine. A truly special person.

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1 year

Goodnight Possums! Wonderful tribute in tomorrow’s paper to Barry Humphries by his friend ⁦ @KathyLette ⁩ “His house backs onto mine. Whenever he got home from a trip he’d email me, “Kathy dear, I’m poised at your rear entrance” or something similarly wicked.”

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4 years

If you missed the report on @BBCNews 10 o’clock news from UCLH hospital, watch it now. Absolutely extraordinary. Please - let’s have an even louder clap to these heroes on Thursday night.

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@beckymbarrow

3 years

Best office wallpaper in the world, I’d say. Thank you to the one and only ⁦ @mortenmorland ⁩.

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@beckymbarrow

2 years

This is wonderful. A cheering tonic at a time of crazy politics, terrifying heating bills, a war...and loads of other misery.

Jeremy Vine

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2 years

She's ultra-shortsighted, and she's about to see mum and dad for the first time with these glasses. ❤️❤️❤️

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7 months

If you thought our Russell Brand investigation was shocking…. read this one. It will blow your mind. Extraordinary forensic work by ⁦ @Gabriel_Pogrund ⁩ and ⁦ @KatieTarrant_ ⁩

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4 years

Working from home can be quite crushing at times. Chatting enthusiastically about a story for Sunday’s paper to my kids. “Do you really think anybody is going read that, Mum?”

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3 years

Just had my first jab. One little known side effect.....

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3 years

Best-ever reason for a road on my bike route to work to be blocked. @elephantfamily

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3 years

❤️❤️ ❤️ to Rashford, Sancho and Saka. Most of us wouldn’t be brave enough to take a penalty in the first place. Thank you for getting us to the final at all.

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2 years

Readers of @thesundaytimes have spoken.

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5 years

Champagne finished. Hungover begun. Enough battery to finally tweet: We won Sunday Newspaper of the Year last night. Go @thesundaytimes !

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4 years

Is there any parent with school age kids who doesn’t agree with this woman? Covid has made the emails....so much worse.

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7 years

So, some news: After two very happy years, I am leaving the lovely @ST_Money team to become the news editor of @thesundaytimes .

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3 years

Not sure this vaccine expert chose the right background for her appearance on ⁦tonight’s @BBCNews ⁩....

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10 months

🧨 🧨 Good news alert! A 31-year-old Loughborough graduate who has saved (so far) 1,500 premature babies lives after inventing a folding incubator which can run on batteries.

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1 year

Is it a sign of middle age that it feels like there is rubbish everywhere - or has it got a lot worse in the last few years? ⁦⁦ @cleanupbritain ⁩

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3 years

He's not the only one waiting for @ShippersUnbound 's copy to arrive.....

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3 years

Not long now...

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4 years

Put a mum on a newsdesk, and there is only one thing on her mind: Please, please can schools go back full-time in September. 🙏

Times Politics

@timespolitics

4 years

In The Sunday Times tomorrow: Children suffer more by staying home, says PM. And: Banks face second wave of PPI payouts #tomorrowspaperstoday

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2 years

To whoever dreamed up this one - The Queen meets Paddington - 👏 👏 👏. #genius

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4 years

Well, this was a treat this morning, ⁦ @Emmabarnett ⁩. 😂 😂 😂

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4 years

Rethinking plans for my 49th birthday next summer.

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3 years

It’s been 4 years of terrorist attacks, elections, Grenfelll and the small matter of a pandemic. Today is the end of this wonderful crew who have run ⁦ @thesundaytimes ⁩ newsdesk since May 2017. I honestly couldn’t have done it without their friendship, sense of fun & support

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4 years

May the fourth be with you: today marks 16 years of being a mum. Without doubt, my most important, most rewarding - and most exhausting - job. #BirthdaysInLockdown

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@beckymbarrow

4 years

I challenge even the most committed republican not to think this photograph is fabulous. And tomorrow marks the Queen's 25,000th day on the throne. I mean, that's a work ethic for you.

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PIC OF THE DAY is from the ⁦ @Telegraph ⁩ taken by Chris Jackson #snappersrule #TomorrowsPapersToday

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5 years

We have a very strict “house style” guide @thesundaytimes , with swear words divided into Category A, B & C. It has not yet addressed the issue of “cum buckets”.

David Baddiel

@Baddiel

5 years

However bad this is, it’s not going to stop me laughing at the fact that we’ve got to the point where The Sunday Times has to print the words “cum buckets.”

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@beckymbarrow

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When you read this - and you must - have tissues to hand. The most touching tribute from ⁦ @lewis_damian ⁩ to his magnificent wife Helen McCrory: ‘’She’s been a meteor in our life.” ♥️ ♥️ ♥️

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Becky Barrow

@beckymbarrow

1 year

Some stories are….a lot more personal: Caitlyn with my daughter in 2011. Very happy times together at primary school, for which forever grateful to @SMAHEADQUARTERS That Caitlyn, only 16, has died is just beyond words. @wycombeabbey

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Becky Barrow

@beckymbarrow

2 years

If you loved Hilary Mantel - and who didn't? - you will ❤️❤️this. A beautiful tribute written by her publisher and editor of nearly 20 years, Nicholas Pearson.

Out of the blue, Hilary Mantel emailed me 40 pages of an idea. It turned out to be Wolf Hall

Last month, the writer Alan Garner sent me a small gift, a curious glazed jar. In it, on a slip of tiny paper, he had written: From a poor man to his friend. Th

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Becky Barrow

@beckymbarrow

3 years

After all the sacrifices of the last year, it is very difficult to understand why we couldn’t hug our elderly parents - but plane loads of people potentially with a much more transmissible strain of the virus could fly into the U.K.

Times Politics

@timespolitics

3 years

At least 20,000 passengers who could have been infected with a virulent strain of coronavirus were allowed to enter Britain while Boris Johnson delayed imposing a travel ban from India.

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Becky Barrow

@beckymbarrow

4 years

"I used to think you went into the office and did nothing all day." One of the advantages of working from home: my kids see my job - all our jobs - can be quite....demanding.

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Becky Barrow

@beckymbarrow

2 years

Wish Letters pages had photos….

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Becky Barrow

@beckymbarrow

5 years

How @rcolvile ⁩ managed to write this beautiful piece about the loss of his wonderful wife and mother of their two little boys, I will never know. Thank you so much for writing such a magnificent tribute to her, and letting us publish it.

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Becky Barrow

@beckymbarrow

2 years

Hear hear @anitathetweeter . "A small fact but - as Prince Harry would say in his fight against fake news - truth matters."

Roya Nikkhah

@RoyaNikkhah

2 years

Well said @anitathetweeter

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Becky Barrow

@beckymbarrow

2 months

In 2015, I interviewed ⁦ @rebeccacmyers ⁩ for our grad scheme. After nine years, including two with me on the newsdesk, she left us today for ⁦ @ObserverUK ⁩. “Office parenting” really is a thing. Love, pride and already hoping she’ll come home soon.

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