Guy Walters 🇺🇦 @guywalters Twitter profile

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21 days

She's clearly never been.

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7 years

Of all the letters I've unearthed in archives, this is by far the best. It's a model of how to say no to someone you loathe.

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2 months

Dashcam footage of driving over the Baltimore Bridge truly reveals the scale of what has collapsed, and collapsed so quickly and completely.

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2 years

I've discovered that if you leave a joint of beef out overnight to defrost with two dogs in the room, your Sunday lunch just consists of vegetables.

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1 year

If Aldi is now attracting customers like this, then it's all over for Waitrose.

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6 years

I am deeply – DEEPLY – suspicious of people who arrange their books by the colours of the spines.

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1 year

What a horrible horrible thing to do to your father, to tell him in public that he was a bad father. Sorry, but what a truly nasty thing to say. Everything about #PrinceHarry reeks of being a subject of coercive control. This is loathsome.

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2 years

Finland's prime minister in 1922 vs Finland's prime minister in 2022.

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"In. Fire thirty percent of the workforce. New logo. Booom. Out."

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2 years

If the UK really wants to hit the Russians where it hurts, remove the visas from the 2,300 Russian pupils at British private schools.

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3 months

Often and rightly recognised as the finest paragraph on the whole of Wikipedia.

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3 years

The One Where Nobody's Face Can Move

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2 years

My son has just finished a painting that is called, "The Consequences of Showing Watership Down to Your Young Children". I am both proud and ashamed.

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4 years

Thank God we didn't have Twitter during the Second World War.

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4 years

My dogs have formed a band. They think the Rolling Bones is a good name, but I'm sure they could think of something better...

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3 years

Happy 95th Birthday this chap.

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3 years

Perhaps the best ever death notice I've read in @thetimes .

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7 months

I don't see the outrage in the UK that at least seventeen of our fellow citizens have been killed or kidnapped by a terrorist group. This is nearly equivalent to the Manchester Arena attack. Why is there no outrage?

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11 months

Johnson should be struck off the Privy Council. There is precedent for this from exactly sixty years ago, when a minister was struck off in June 1963 because he had misled the House. It would mean he would no longer be allowed to use the prefix 'The Right Honourable'.

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6 months

Eight decades old, and this letter never stops giving.

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2 years

Annual figures of costs to taxpayers: Monarchy: £102.4 million White House operations: £1.2 billion Royal travel: £3.2 million Air Force One: £425 million

The New York Times

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2 years

Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, which will involve elaborate processions, vigils and rituals, will be paid for by British taxpayers as they deal with soaring energy prices and high inflation. The British government has not yet said how much it will cost.

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1 year

The wedding photos of Alan and Jane Clark never fail to shock. He was 30, she had just turned 16. Clark had identified her as a potential 'victim' when she was 14.

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4 years

A narwhal tusk is not a cheap weapon. One sold in auction for £36,000 a few years ago. Elizabeth I so valued the one presented to her by privateer Martin Frobisher that she placed it in the Royal Wardrobe & Treasury. It was valued at £10,000 in 1598 -- some £2 million today.

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5 years

FFS. This is PRECISELY what makes me want to flip from Remain to Leave. How can any fellow Remainer defend this?

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5 years

"I will make use of the clauses in the Treaties that allow proposals on taxation to be adopted by co-decision and decided by qualified majority voting in the Council." @vonderleyen #QualifiedMajority

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5 years

NOT STAGED AT ALL.

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3 years

I wasn't going to share this, but thanks to my brand new printer f***ing up already, I now have no self-control when it comes to expressing my contempt for these detestable devices. Enjoy.

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3 months

I don't normally approve of dog shaming, but in this instance I feel it is fully justifiable.

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3 years

I'm going to issue ONE MILLION visas for lorry drivers and they'll all come here tomorrow and everything will be fine and I'll win the election.

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1 year

After watching All Quiet on the Western Front, I wondered how many were killed on Armistice Day. It turns out there were some 11,000 casualties, of whom nearly 2,800 were killed. That's not far off D-Day. All sides ordered attacks, despite knowing peace was only hours away.

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4 years

So brave.

Stella McCartney

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4 years

This man is a winner… wearing custom Stella because he chooses to make choices for the future of the planet. He has also chosen to wear this same Tux for the entire award season to reduce waste. I am proud to join forces with you... x Stella #JoaquinPhoenix #GoldenGlobes

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2 years

Five years ago, Dominic Troulan was awarded the George Cross. Read the citation and then doff your cap.

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10 months

Hell. Actual hell.

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2 years

Finland cabinet 1922 vs Finland cabinet 2022. The habit of wearing black seems to remain unchanged.

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3 years

This interview is fascinating not just because of the content, but also because it shows quite how impoverished public discourse has become as a result of an editorial obsession with polarisation and conflict. Editors, directors, presenters, producers – please, please take note.

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5 years

"Whoops, I've stayed friends with someone who trafficked minors. I'm so silly. Heigh-ho!" Which utter, utter cretin sanctioned this interview?

BBC Newsnight

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5 years

"It was not something that was becoming of a member of the Royal family... I let the side down." Prince Andrew speaks exclusively to #Newsnight about his decision to stay with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein WATCH: Saturday 21:00 @BBCTwo @maitlis

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4 years

Is it just me, or does Brexit week feel utterly anticlimactic? No final demonstration, no significant celebration. Just weariness on both sides.

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11 months

Would love to see his Strava.

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1 year

Yes, birdsong is lovely. But those who venerate it probably don't live in the countryside. At this time of year, you're woken at 4 a.m. by little leftover dinosaurs screaming for sex.

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3 months

Brave decision to open a restaurant with a Boris Johnson theme.

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3 years

Brilliant.

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4 years

Someone has had enough of lockdown.

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2 years

Thank you, Kevin from Gresford in @vizcomic for successfully distilling my entire televisual output.

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5 years

Not photoshopped. #unwantedivanka

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4 years

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6 years

The statement by the #skripal suspects is glorious. The city was so 'covered in snow' that they couldn't walk 0.7 miles to Salisbury Cathedral, but they could walk over a mile to Christie Miller road, in completely the opposite direction. Poor lambs, they clearly got really lost!

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2 years

Checkmate in three.

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6 years

I am disgusted to hear that the @achrisevans show is offering historians neither a fee nor travel reimbursement to appear on the programme for 3½ hours during the Royal Wedding. While it pays Evans £2.5 million p.a., it is repugnant that the BBC expects experts to work for free.

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2 years

Here's why Patel's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is akin to Eichmann's plan to send Jews to Madagascar. The answer lies in statistics.

Why I think Priti Patel's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is like Eichmann's plan to send...

The answer lies in the statistics, those damned statistics

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2 years

The Americans are right. Russian wealth has perniciously wormed its way into British society. It has had a corrupting influence on politics, finance, law, property, sport, and education, and it needs to be removed. That needs to start now.

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4 years

WW2 & Third Reich historians. I've been approached by @LeftRightTV who are making a series for @CNN on Hitler. Despite being 'a major, marquee project', the channel is refusing to pay contributors. I'm therefore asking colleagues to boycott the show. Please RT & spread the word!

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4 years

If you are not social distancing: - You are helping the virus spread wider - You are helping the virus spread quicker - You are helping the virus infect more people, more quickly - You are helping to kill more people Your call.

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2 years

This looks awesome. Am definitely having a pint here later.

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2 years

Finally, some reliable news that I can well believe.

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4 years

Lessons learned from sharing a couple of bottles of wine with a 91-year-old neighbour: 1) Aim to be a 91-year-old who is drinking two bottles of wine with someone half his age on a Tuesday evening

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2 years

Timely.

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2 years

Broad point is that wealthy Russians, many of whom are cosy with Putin, have access to the best that UK offers – education, financial services, culture, property, sporting events and clubs, lawyers – and yet despite the behaviour of the regime, their access remains in place.

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4 years

Gourmet breakfast. Essential that bacon is as posh as possible, while bread should be pure junk.

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2 years

OK. Here's an idea. What if everybody wore blue and yellow on Tuesday 1 March to show that we #StandWithUkraine ? It's the very least we can do. Retweet if you're up for it! PLEASE let's make this happen. #blueyellowTuesday

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3 years

I note that he is suitably equipped to deal with his printer.

Andreas Steno Larsen

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3 years

This is the new head of the Afghani central bank. Do you think he is long or short duration?

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3 years

Love this little cartoon in the latest Private Eye.

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2 years

I found the committal service very moving, especially when the regalia were stripped away. At that point, they were no longer burying a monarch, but just a person. You could see it in her son's eyes.

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5 years

Hang on... Didn't someone else invade Poland in 1939?

MFA Russia 🇷🇺

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5 years

Thanks to London & Paris, Nazi #Germany managed to defeat #Poland in a flash & redeploy its main forces to the West without meeting any resistance. Following a campaign in 1940, #France was occupied, while #Britain came under a threat of German invasion▶️

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4 years

I've written to @OliverDowden , Sec of State at @DCMS , asking him to look into the appalling access restrictions at @UkNatArchives . De facto closure is having a catastrophic effect on the production of historical works. If you care about history and agree with me, then please RT.

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1 year

Frog meets scorpion to discuss exciting river-crossing project.

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3 years

I actually believed this.

Fake Showbiz News

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3 years

Meghan Markle reveals she gifted Prince Charles a ‘Suits’ DVD boxset but when she and Harry visited three months later it was still in its cellophane wrapping

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2 years

Sanctions against Russia should not just be financial, but also cultural and social. The sophistication of London – and other global cities – should be denied to them.

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4 years

The whole exam fiasco doesn't just reveal flaws in Johnson's administration, but a major flaw in our whole system of governance – we entrust increasingly complicated managerial roles to people with no proven managerial competence.

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4 years

This is the most brutal paragraph I've ever read in an obituary. (From: )

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4 years

Delighted to announce that I've signed a two-book deal with @TransworldBooks . The first book, published in Jan 2022, is a biography of Josef Mengele. The second, for 2023, is a history of the Gestapo. Thank you to Bill Scott-Kerr & his team, and @James1940 for helping it happen.

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4 years

Somewhat buried in the @nytimes story about Russians offering bounties for the killing of US troops is that British troops were also targeted.

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3 years

Possibly suicidal. Imprisoned. Subjected to false accusations. Let down by those who should have helped.

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3 years

I must say this is a little disquieting, @NHS .

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4 years

Will channels such as the BBC keep inviting the likes of Blakeley, Jones, Bastani, Sarkar onto their politics and news programmes? I'm not really sure they speak for anybody apart from their own coterie. Time for more exposure for more moderate voices of commentary from the Left.

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3 years

My favourite pic I took in 2020.

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4 years

The heroic chef 'Luckasz' who used the narwhal tusk yesterday was not the first to wield such a tusk as a weapon. In Greenland, narwhal tusks had wooden handles attached to them to make a weapon called a 'nuguit'. See this extract from The Book of the Sword by Richard Burton:

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5 months

Michael Aspel, 90, his son Edward, 59. Yup, you're thinking the same thing as I am.

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4 years

It's the polarisation that gets me. It's possible to find the killing of George Floyd horrific and yet not regard all coppers as bastards. It's possible to feel uneasy at the presence of Colston's statue, and yet also uneasy at the way it has been torn down.

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1 year

Under the Nuclear Explosions (Prohibition and Inspections) Act 1998 – which is not yet in force – King Charles is allowed to cause a nuclear explosion, so long as it is in a private capacity. It's all right for some.

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2 years

If the Prime Minister emerges from this morning's Cobra meeting with any balls, he will announce the start of the total dismantlement of Russian oligarchic involvement in Britain's social, cultural, and financial sectors.

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6 years

For the convenience of any GRU employees thinking of paying a visit to Salisbury, I've produced this handy guide showing how tricky the cathedral is to find from the railway station.

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1 year

But Lee, nobody thinks this is wrong. Why the need to start an argument?

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1 year

My Weekend. I won't be travelling to foreign shores. Tomorrow I will start a weekend break with my 2 boys on a canal boat in North Wales. I cannot wait & anyone who thinks that this is wrong needs to have a reality check. Love your country. It's not that difficult. Happy Easter

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In loving memory of my great friend and neighbour, Ray Gallop, who died this morning at the age of 94. He was a lovely man and I cherished not only his long memory, kindness, and decency, but also his capacity for never saying no to a midweek bottle. We shall miss him enormously.

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1 year

We've all got a drawer like this, haven't we?

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3 months

Can't she be placed somewhere more visible and iconic rather than ignominiously tucked away behind some sheds? There was a plan to suspend her from the ceiling of Terminal 5 which would have been fantastic.

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1 month

All of her days in Downing Street were final days, to be fair.

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4 years

That moment when you're trying to look statesman-like with your red box and union flags but you just look desperate.

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5 years

This genuinely makes me angry and upset.

Vandals trash Stamford model railway exhibition

Four youths are arrested and the club in Lincolnshire says a "hurricane would have done less damage".

www.bbc.co.uk

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6 years

Your face when you realise that your identity as a gay, cathedral-loving, health supplements salesman has been blown, and the world now knows that you're a highly-decorated senior officer in Russian military intelligence. That face.

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2 years

You can't overestimate how important the site of Babyn Yar is for the history of the Holocaust. If the Russians have destroyed the memorial, then they have laid waste to something that is as sacred for Jews as the Thiepval Memorial is for the British. So much for denazifying.

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1 year

Initially surprised that some don't know who Alan Clark was. But then realised fair enough. If you're under the age of 40 and not into politics or diaries, it's quite possible you wouldn't have heard of an MP who died nearly a quarter of a century ago.

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3 years

In mourning for Sir Clive Sinclair. The ZX Spectrum was the best computer ever made. I still have mine, bought by my parents for Christmas 1982.

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4 years

My excellent, excellent 91-year-old neighbour, Ray, has been infected, not by Covid, but by ludicrous shirts and rosé. Poor chap.

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2 years

Glorious evening to walk to the pub.

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2 years

Currently buried in the Vatican Secret Archive. I may never leave.

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7 months

If you're more concerned over the methods by which the children of Kfar Aza were slaughtered rather than the fact that they were slaughtered at all, then you've lost something.

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2 years

Brilliant cartoon by @mortenmorland in today's @thesundaytimes . Captures the complexity of the situation far better than thousands of words in comment pieces.

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3 years

Love this picture of my parents' cat confronted by a lawn full of pheasants. "What? I'm not even allowed just ONE?"

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