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writer @guardian | Joy of Small Things 📖 | tweeting politics, culture, LFC, mental health, media 🌈hannah.jane.parkinson @theguardian .com

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@ladyhaja

Hannah Jane Parkinson

3 years

Today the Joy of Small Things is published! 📖🎉 The collection of my @guardian columns on the little, niche or everyday things that cheer us. Includes: well-dressed dogs, exquisite displays of pettiness, fresh bedding, the sounds of sports + much more.

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Holy shit, this guy is amazing. What a hero.

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These protesters in Seattle are literally chanting “we don’t see no riot here, take off your riot gear” & doing nothing else but standing peacefully when the police start throwing tear gas & firing into them

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Every single word of this from Dan Carden. Every single word.

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5 years

statement from the Fire Brigades Union on Theresa May and Grenfell. No further comment necessary.

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quite possibly my favourite thing this year

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i’m afraid i simply cannot deal with how funny this is

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7 years

Can I just point out that Theresa May is wearing a bracelet of Frida Kahlo, a member of the Communist party who LITERALLY DATED TROTSKY

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4 years

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the kids are alright

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6 years

Mcontext: he’s called Mamoudou Gassama, he’s 22, originally from Mali & scaled 4 storeys in 30 seconds to save that toddler in Paris

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5 years

just absolutely died at this

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7 years

For the first time in the history of 'policeman dancing at NH Carnival' trope this guy is good 👌👏

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5 years

Jess has just shamed the government benches into pin drop silence over their cowardliness & hypocrisy. Awesome in the original sense of the word. @jessphillips

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4 years

why is the best story of 2020 being ignored, is what i want to know

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2 years

I actually think the most cringe bit of that awful Mail article re @AngelaRayner at PMQs is the Tory MP quoted as saying “she knows she can’t compete with Oxford Union debating skills”, when it’s consensually acknowledged she’s ripped Johnson to shreds every single time

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3 years

yes, I believe we have noticed

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4 years

utter annihilation

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4 years

i am a free i am not man a number

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4 years

this is the only thing that has made me laugh all day. and laugh a lot

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4 years

well someone starting drinking early

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4 years

There are so many people who need to see this. I am so angry at some people’s selfishness and idiocy. This woman, meanwhile, is amazing.

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6 years

Watched this seven times in a row & somehow it gets funnier every time

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4 years

a scientist being born

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4 years

this gets better with every single second & i will never recover from it

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4 years

cool. maybe start with the daughter you abandoned. her name is Stephanie. she is 10 years old.

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General election 2019: Johnson vows to help women reach 'full potential'

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5 years

I didn’t tweet about this earlier cos it made me so furious I wanted to ignore it. But I can’t stop thinking about how horrific this presenter’s behaviour is. The only thing offensive about this segment is her.

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4 years

literally everyone was expecting it

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4 years

Head of Test and Trace: 'No one was expecting to see such a big rise in demand'

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4 years

kicking the year off with this absolute gem

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2 years

Obvs the Liz Truss cheese speech is now more iconic than Churchill’s beaches – but I still don’t think the *level* of cringe/nonsense/hilarity is appreciated enough. Most clips don’t even get to the Isaac Newton apples bit. I will simply never get over this performance.

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5 years

My favourite genre of politician is Australian women standing up in parliament & absolutely ripping into the misogynist men sat opposite

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4 years

quick, someone grab a couple of bowling balls

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4 years

Actually very pleased with this focus on the Cummings’ farm (co-owned by Dominic) because it gives me another opportunity to bring up the £235,000 it has received in EU subsidies.

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7 years

. @Courtney Love's advice in 2005: "If Harvey Weinstein invites you to a party at the Four Seasons, don't go."

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Hannah Jane Parkinson

5 years

my drug of choice is @BethRigby interrupting Boris Johnson to read him Donald Tusk’s statement & then telling him to his face that he is deluded

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5 years

imagine embarrassing yourself to this extent on national television & not having the faintest clue

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Hannah Jane Parkinson

4 years

The full two minutes of Van Jones’ reaction is incredible. It’s also a great rebuttal of all the people privileged enough to bang on about Biden not being their perfect candidate / ‘no different to Trump’ etc

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4 years

mad respect to matt hancock for going on live television after necking eight poppers

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4 years

Every single word of this. @maitlis summarily & articulately crushing the bullshit “great leveller” & “fighter” coronavirus takes. What an intro.

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4 years

it genuinely is a constant battle between Philip Green, Tim Martin and Mike Ashley as to who is the most indefatigable dickhead in the UK. real photo-finish stuff

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4 years

Do not recall Andrew Neil, John Humphrys, Jeremy Paxman etc ever being yanked from air 🤔

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Hannah Jane Parkinson

3 years

@RichardDawkins Sounds like it really bugs you

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Hannah Jane Parkinson

3 years

me ten minutes after getting out of the shower when i’m already an hour late

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Hannah Jane Parkinson

4 years

This is really quite something, very powerful indeed. Multiple of Dominic Cummings’ neighbours angrily & emotionally remonstrate with him

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Hannah Jane Parkinson

7 years

Emma Thompson is an absolute hero. Here she is sticking it to Weinstein when he bullied Hayley Atwell:

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Hannah Jane Parkinson

4 years

live your life with this dog’s dedication to joy

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4 years

absolutely gone. there are 12 books.

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5 years

I watched this with my mouth open the entire time

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4 years

Klopp breaking down has finished me

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5 years

It’s just the most extraordinary footage. Never in my life thought I’d see a UK Prime Minister speaking on the steps of Downing Street drowned out by chants of “stop the coup!”

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David Cameron accidentally saying he “shat at the TV” when he saw the £350m bus on the screen is not getting any less funny

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Firmino committing a murder live on television & with 55,000 witnesses present

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5 years

your husband’s a cunt

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4 years

Nato leaders slagging off Trump while Princess Anne laps it up – not giving a single shit – is also the mood we need to take into today

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4 years

Klopp telling a fan to “put your hands away you fucking idiot” is a better coronavirus response than the government’s

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7 years

Carrie Fisher's last Guardian advice column was to someone also with bipolar & it is lovely

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Hannah Jane Parkinson

4 years

wild that jenny harries is a doctor but doesn’t appear to know what a spine is

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3 years

is Shaun Bailey selling a washing powder

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4 years

he’s Polish

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Julia Hartley-Brewer

4 years

This may be the most British response to a terrorist attack... EVER. (As is the spelling correction.)

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4 years

this is the most happy-making thing i have ever seen in my life

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Hannah Jane Parkinson

5 years

I obviously want Boris Johnson out of office as soon as possible. But at the same time, it would be a tragedy if he were to go before we’d had a chance to witness him in Liverpool.

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4 years

Genuinely shocked to hear that Matt Hancock has an adviser.

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2 years

wine and cheese has had its reputation absolutely dragged through the mud this last month

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4 years

i cannot stop laughing

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7 years

This is now my favourite political segue of all time & it’s doubtful I’ll ever stop laughing.

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3 years

i am sorry but hancock must be the least sexy person in the entire world, it’s making me want to die

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Hannah Jane Parkinson

4 years

The Sunday Times piece is as good as everyone is saying. But many are describing it as “truly shocking” etc. Every single person who knows Johnson & knows how he operates, & Johnson himself, had repeatedly conveyed his character & MO. Nothing in that piece deviates from it.

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2 years

is she... is she rowing a boat

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Hannah Jane Parkinson

6 years

Everyone on my timeline is calling this guy Peter Parker as in Spiderman, but he’s really PETER PARKOUR, AMIRITE?

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Hannah Jane Parkinson

4 years

yeah sure inject yourself with a bottle of dettol, fuck it. i will never, in my entire life, get over this odious moron being president

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6 years

Cannot stop watching @sharonstone ’s response to being asked whether she’s ever faced sexual harassment 🔥💯🔥

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4 years

this is one of the most devastating things i’ve ever seen in my life

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animals happiness 🐾

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Raccoons wash their food before they eat it. Here's a raccoon trying to wash cotton candy. 😬

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4 years

i long for death

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4 years

I have just watched this 900 times in the last minute & will be watching it 900 times more. Gorgeous scenes. 👏

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4 years

Absolutely brilliant (again) from Gary Neville. Huge respect to him for speaking out like this. It says a fair bit about the racist culture he is describing that he almost certainly won’t get the treatment Stormzy did.

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3 years

I’ve been desperately, desperately unhappy & unwell for 18 months now and currently paying £380 per hour to stay alive. & it would be really fucking great to not have to, every single day, read about some next level example of unfathomable idiocy. I’m so close to being done.

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6 years

Incredible response from the British diver who found the Thai cave boys, when asked about Elon Musk 😂😂

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Hannah Jane Parkinson

5 years

. @maitlis HAS FUCKING HAD IT. WE’VE ALL FUCKING HAD IT.

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4 years

is this the beginning of an epic maths question

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A Bolivian orchestra has been stranded in a German castle for 73 days during the pandemic. The castle's woodlands are home to several packs of wolves

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5 years

i genuinely screamed

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4 years

there’s a lot going on here

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4 years

this is genuinely one of the thickest tweets i have ever read

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4 years

Princess Anne watching the Trump handshake

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6 years

*leans exceedingly into microphone* YOU MADE A DEAL WITH THE DUP

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4 years

please spare a thought for those of us who were already weeks overdue for our hair appointment pre-lockdown.

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2 years

Absolutely brilliant caller on this radio show, speaking about the rail strikes

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4 years

oh my gosh the relief and joy that intelligence and competence bring

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5 years

i believe this is the opposite of being rescued

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4 years

I think the thickest person masquerading as clever in the past few years, and my god there are SO many candidates, is Jacob Rees-Mogg. He’s actually just stupidity in a double breasted suit.

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6 years

I am so sick of 52% being rounded up to 100%

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6 years

Emma Thompson picking up her damehood: 1) wearing this incredible suit 2) asking Prince William if she can kiss him 3) also wearing box-fresh *trainers* 4) AND wearing an equal pay badge is an absolute MOOD

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5 years

toby young does not understand what a strike is

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2 years

I have been off Twitter for a couple of months or so because I went mental (again), but I am trying. Trying to try. This is a cringe tweet but just wanted to say hello all – and it’s good to see all your funny, smart, insightful, witty, sometimes amazingly banal, tweets again. ♥️

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2 years

So many parties at 10 Downing Street and I haven’t seen a single Ministry of Sound joke, why is it always left up to me

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4 years

i have fully lost it

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4 years

quite simply — and i cannot stress this enough — iconic

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6 years

Oh my gosh, this woman @VetDannii absolutely WIPES the floor with Farage here. I don’t think I’ve see anyone do it as well & so calmly. It’s almost indecent.

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3 years

My 7-year-old self would never have believed it ☺️

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3 years

Ah, the metropolitan London elite! A city in which 28% of people live in poverty (higher than the rest of the country) & even those doing well can be residing in a cupboard with a bed in it

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