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Writer, bon viveur, @guardian haunter

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Rich people are obsessed with poor people eating potatoes.
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I just saw Joanna Lumley in Sainsbury’s and all she has in her trolley is a bottle of champagne and some coriander and this is not a dream
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Boris Johnson is now saying he may have to tighten restrictions because we’re not being disciplined enough to halt the spread of a virus that a fortnight ago he was telling us all to catch, because herds... it’s such a naked attempt to wriggle out of responsibility
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Laura Kuenssberg blaming anything lacklustre about the Labour results on 'long Corbyn' is legit the most absurd and hilarious thing you'll hear today
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Can we drop the ‘how come a gov that screwed up everything else does vaccines so well?’ takes, in favour of ‘finally, work is being undertaken by qualified public servants not profit seeking behemoths therefore it’s happening at awe inspiring pace’, thanks, Is better
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In a meeting today, trying to get the “Love Corbyn Hate Brexit” sticker off my laptop, because I still hate brexit but I no longer love corbyn. wouldn’t come off, just left a grey sticky patch, & this nice young tory woman next to me said “at least you didn’t get it as a tattoo”
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This is brilliant
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There's a woman on PM saying "we want good things for Boris and Carrie, and having a beautiful home is part of that" I think this might be farthest from the national mood of any remark I've ever heard.
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Bloodie collies think they’re so intelligent (because they are)
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I don’t understand why Jacob Rees Mogg hasn’t the common sense to escape the store cupboard they’ve locked him in
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This might be the most powerful vox pop I've ever seen
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This dinner lady says she cries going into work - because she has to deny children school lunch.
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I need to tell you, Beryl, I don't think anyone anywhere will be brave enough to come get this fucking cat
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There's not much about the conservative victory over the narrative that stings more than the fact that a book by a holocaust denier which would be a resignation matter on a Labour bookshelf can just be intellectual curiosity on the Gove/ Vine bookshelf.
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It looks like hypocrisy, for Boris Johnson to castigate single mothers while simultaneously creating single mothers. But it's actually worse, he simply wouldn't recognise a single mother in his own class as a Single Mother. It's a class-based attack, not really about parenting
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My contrarian but sincerely held view is that a top epidemiologist, risking everything and losing everything, in the middle of a pandemic, for the love of a polyamorous bee campaigner, is the most romantic thing ever. It’s like the English Patient with phds.
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‘In response to the survey, a UK government spokesperson told Classic FM: “We’ve always been clear that the end of freedom of movement would have implications for professional mobility.’ When, though? Literally when was this ever said?
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It's like we had a referendum on making the country hotter. Nobody said how. When it came to how, it turned out the only way to make it hotter was to set fire to all our stuff; and now we're going to argue forever about how much stuff we're prepared to set fire to.
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I mean, there's briefing and there's fucking briefing
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Genuinely think that if Woman's Hour is going to give this much uncritical airtime to GCs, then for balance the BBC should have a Trans Ally hour where we get to complain about them _the entire time_.
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It’s somehow more embarrassing when the New York Times covers it
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Poor Mary Wakefield. Can’t look after a child for a fortnite after vomming. Can’t drive. Full of weird ideas about the best way to test your eyesight being to drive with your 4yo in the car. Doesn’t have any friends.
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I'm actually quite surprised the Greens are colluding in this lib dem fiction that Labour is a Brexit party. It plainly isn't, and it's plainly a line peddled solely for LD advantage; it also has the best promises on the environment it has ever had. Seems petty and shortsighted.
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As well as entertaining and informing, the BBC should also uphold British values and maybe not call Trump v Sadiq a "grudge match with a capital G", but rather defend the mayor against what is plainly racially-motivated attack. No? Too strong?
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I’m only showing you this because of the beautiful flowers from @Birksen & not because I GOT MARRIED YESTERDAY
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Bizarrely, this is absolutely true: there is no longer any argument about whether or not Brexit is a good idea, because it plainly, from every possible angle, is a terrible one. It's purely about this crackers, winner-trashes-all version of democracy.
@pritipatel
Priti Patel MP
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This is no longer an argument about whether Brexit was a good idea but is about democracy & standing by the democratic decision made by the people. The public want to know that their political leaders will stay true to the promise made to them that Brexit means Brexit.
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There's been a constant attempt to non-person Owen Jones, by flinging big words you can't back from - misogynist, from the GCs, anti-semite, from the right, bully, from the melts - hoping that they simply become true by repetition/ amplification. The thing is, they are not true.
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Mmhmm. Swinson really needs to dial it down with the labour hate. It’s making her look like she doesn’t understand the fight she’s in
@OwenJones84
Owen Jones
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This is a direct lie. It's a matter of public record that Jeremy Corbyn campaigned for Remain. But what really matters here is Jo Swinson's dishonest party politicking is going to fling this country into the abyss of No Deal.
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I’m not a godly person, but if everyone could say a short secular prayer at 1pm for my friend Victor, who will be answering a load of bullshit questions about Rudyard Kipling in order to stay in a country which has been his home for 30 years, I think that might help
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It’s weird that Jess Phillips’s slogan is ‘speaking up for people who can’t speak up for themselves’. I think most people could speak up a bit better than this. It’s amazing how fast plain speaking turns to waffle when there’s nothing underneath it #Marr
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Careful to remove all scorn and tribalism from my analysis: I don't understand how the libdems thought they were going to defeat No-Deal *without* Labour
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This is mad. This is a man who's made his whole career saying, 'in Pinner, what would they think is reasonable?' Every reasonable person is saying please stop killing children in front of our eyes. Please. & that's extremism now. It is mad.
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Last minute rumours that Nuneaton is winnable: an hour from Euston, any volunteers who could GOTV tomorrow will get a lift from the station
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The idea that Boris Johnson is well liked among ordinary people is very last-decade
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Sheer number of parties in Downing Street, it’s like Freshers Week in Aiya Napa
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LOL, in 12 hours, the line has gone from "stop kidding yourself, Labour wants Brexit as much as the tories do" to "Labour is a totalitarian EU-loving genius-hub that wants to strip you of your Leave-dignity"
@IainDale
Iain Dale ⚒️🇺🇦.🇮🇱.🇬🇬
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LEAKED: Labour's second referendum ballot paper revealed...
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Apart from the obvious, this telegraph report completely removes all women from a story which, last time I checked *definitely had women in it*
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Someone reminded me yesterday that Liz Truss had already U-turned before she even took office, on her regional pay idea that she had to withdraw as soon as she'd said it. She blamed the media for 'misrepresentation' when in fact they'd represented exactly what she said on the
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I genuinely never thought the day would come when I'd be wondering whether or not to bother explaining the difference between throwing an egg at some MPs protected by barricades and chasing a lone guy down the street calling him a faggot. To a "centrist".
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Srsly BBC, if you’re still calling Liz truss the first female foreign secretary 18 hours after being reminded about Margaret Beckett, are you actually doing this on purpose?
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If you think the result defied the laws of physics, I can tell you that owen jones, who is only 12, lifted me off the ground.
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When Keir Starmer moves into Downing Street, he should arrive with a wallpaper steamer. It’d have such huge ‘I’m not corrupt & I know how to use a steamer’ energy
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Part of my second (or third, can’t remember) job was to courier Allison Pearson the newspapers on her column day because she was too much of a dick to walk to her local newsagent.
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What's so interesting about this family is that they think any contempt or scorn for other people will pass for "lighthearted fun". "Proles don't read books and can't spell" "Muslims look like bankrobbers" "Young people are like Nigerians". Whose idea of fun is that?
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Bought the dog a puffa & now he won’t take it off even in the house
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I would like to rent this flat, but only with this person still in it
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Christ, we spent 7 months taking 14 refugees of 5 million & David Davies wants to talk about whether they're lying about their age #r4today
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The conservative Easter message is just about the weirdest thing I’ve ever read
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Of all the presumptions of the media class, one of the most bizarre is that any criticism of the super wealthy is 'envy' and therefore out of scope in an adult discussion. Hoarding wealth when other people are suffering is an objectively anti social behaviour.
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@speakoutsister They appear to be trying to create the impression that to be anti-trans is the mainstream position of women & feminists, which is not borne out by any polling. It's literally just a few hundred really angry keyboard warriors with handles like lovelycuppachocca4meee23789
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It's like you told him you had cancer but he wasn't listening, and replied 'oh well, you rest up'
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Missed the start of this Emma Barnett interview & blankly could not figure out why she was tearing into the head of an endemetriosis charity for not having endemetriosis. Like you'd go after the CEO of Rethink for not having schizophrenia. Or Macmillan for not having cancer
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Imagine being Jeremy Corbyn: you were so dangerous, yet so pathetic, so potent, yet also so inadequate, that the whole country had to ditch its senses to defeat you, ergo 3 years on, everything is *still* your fault. The whole of British politics is like his batshit crazy ex
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Apparently the French have a rejoinder to our expression "French exit", where you slip out of a party very quietly. A "Brexit" is where you yell in everyone's face that you're leaving, but are still there at 4 in the morning
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I know Toby Young's remarks are problematic because they exhibit poor impulse control, contempt for others and a whole swill of bigoted attitudes, but isn't the main problem that they are just so incredibly dumb? Isn't being stupid what makes him unfit for high office?
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In gods name when is someone going to post a picture of Theresa May's ball gown
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Or, simpler fix! - maybe just try and be a bit more impartial, and interview the odd trans person with some empathy once in a blue fucking moon
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Isabel oakeshott has the most incurious mind. It's really amazing. Goes at life like a tourist at the acropolis who won't get off the coach
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I've literally said nothing about sport! There are things I could say, but I haven't said them! Is there a way to call off Sharron Davies, or once she's activated, she fights to the death?
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@speakoutsister Also, specifically about Woman's Hour, the editorial decision making is really obvious: GCs are invited on to talk about their victories. Trans people are invited to defend "controversies". The tone in which they're interviewed is so different it's laughable.
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I am, hot & cold, a Corbyn supporter & I have criticisms up the wazoo. But I have no patience at all for "we thought he was a godly man... yet he is mere flesh"/ "trembling, I defaced the membership I have cherished for so long" from ppl who've been slating him for 2 years solid
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I was telling the 12yo off for talking over the telly, & said ‘you’re 12, not 4,’ and she said, ‘it’s 2020, I can self-identify as 4,’ and I am very conflicted about this calibre of backchat
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It is an awkward listen, this Mick Lynch interview, & I really like Mishal Husain, but he is right, unfort: again and again, the questions on @BBCr4today are lifted unquestioningly from the Sun & the Mail
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That is some mad contagious virus if Melania can catch it from Donald Trump
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The eighties called. They want their arsehole back
@piersmorgan
Piers Morgan
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MANchester will have to be renamed PERSONchester. And feMALEs will have to be called fePERSONs.
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Literally wrote a piece on personally leaving the Labour Party & thinks it’s personal for people to point out that she wasn’t a member
@frolix22
Wittgenstein's Slab
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"As a journalist I highly disapprove of gathering together publicly available information to determine the veracity of someone's claims."
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Y'day Sharron Davies wrongly accused me of some trivial Twitter-related things, she declines to delete, no biggie, except TL now flooded by her horrible disciples. They're wondering if my children are trans and whether they can leash me. Someone just spelt my name with a y.
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My friend’s son sent her a birthday card so good I’m ready to swap children with her
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I borrowed my daughter's headphones to go on @OwenJones84 's podcast and now all the young dudes are calling me Gamer Girl, am thrilled
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I really hope one of the many, many positives to come from this is that the BBC recognises that the Greens are bigger than UKIP
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The "who do you want negotiating Brexit? Boris Johnson or Kier Starmer?" question is the funniest of the whole election
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If one more person refers to Toby Young's remarks about Danny Boyle's wife's breast, without clarifying that it was actually his 14-year-old daughter, I swear I'll complain to the PCC.
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That line about Rees-Mogg, that he's "very, very well-educated". AFAICT he's educated to degree level. If he has a masters, it's a fake Oxon masters that you pay 14 quid for. Off the top of my head, I can think of two Grenfell victims whose bachelor degrees were longer.
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I did this for my friend/ student who's doing the British Citizenship test and definitely doesn't have time to learn a load of poetry, you are welcome to use it if you have a friend/ student in that situation
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What if Ken Clark & Harriet Harman were Mr & Mrs Caretaker Prime Minister, and they could get a dog & that would be very relaxing.
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I just cannot get over the laziness of getting Claire Fox on Across the Red Line. As if R4 wasn’t already mostly powered by her knee-jerk contrarianism, they consider an interesting new format & just fill it with the same voices. So disappointing & what a waste.
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This is such unbelievably horseshit, no offence
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Laura Kuenssberg
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Nicky Morgan’s surprise decision very much based on personal reasons, not intended as comment on political direction of govt I understand
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I'm so sick of it! We're all supposed to shake our heads sagely and say, 'isn't it a shame the debate has got so toxic', when all the toxicity is coming from one direction* *not the band
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This is genuinely crazy. I didn't turn off replies. I didn't say anything about sport. I haven't lied about anything.
@sharrond62
Sharron Davies MBE
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I see @zoesqwilliams you’ve turned off replies, rather cowardly & utterly ignorant of understanding sport. What you have written below is an out & out lie .. and I can tell you first hand from the mouths of 100s if not 1000s of female athletes, they absolutely want fair sport &
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It's hard to think democractic levers are working perfectly, when your local authority allowed the rich/poor playground apartheid and your MP is Kate Hoey
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At least now we know why they’ve been so slow on contact tracing. It would be a really bad look if the whole north eastern spike could be traced back to one symptomatic family driving all over the place
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I love on-train drinking as much as the next Britisher but there's someone drinking a bottle of port here at 11 in the morning
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One of the bar people at my local asked whether it was legal to bar Laurence fox for not being vaxxed & I said, you can bar him for anything, you can bar him for having an annoying nose, so you’ll be pleased to hear I give legal advice now
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Cannot describe the contempt I feel for whoever distributed those ‘£30’ food packages
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Housing tsar thinks there's no such thing as date rape, it's just women "withdrawing consent in retrospect"; BBC's invited Jordan Peterson on Question Time to blah his incoherent misogynists ramblings. Do you ever get the feeling all that "we're all feminists now" was... bollox?
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@speakoutsister And what's so strange is that the BBC line on "controversial issues" is that polls have to be respected: x many people hate immigration, therefore Nigel Farage has to be respected. But when the majority of cis women are trans-inclusive, that's apparently not relevant
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Sometimes you need Gordon brown to get angry before you realise how angry you are
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Yeah exactly this. I don't know whether Streeting thinks he's got Men in Black powers or what, but his new total alignment with The Sun isn't even convincing The Sun. They're just laughing at how much it's annoying the rest of us.
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If I was “gender-critical” I wouldn’t trust Wes Streeting either. His newfound support for their cause is just as shallow, cynical and disingenuous as his support for trans rights was, and he will abandon it the second it’s no longer politically expedient
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I was on the fence about writing this, because I've written before that Sadiq Khan is a great mayor under constant and vile racist attack. Then I thought, wait, am I out of my goddam mind . Columnists dumping on trans people write the same column every week
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I just sat down to do some serious work for a change, and instead passed a very pleasant hour giving a friend a carefully detailed timeline of Giles Fraser's descent into darkness.
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I feel sure if somebody called them by their names we’d be able to guess they were women
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Sky News
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Two women jointly win Nobel Prize for chemistry for first time in history
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There’s a huge amount of hair in these queue photos; this means they are skewing young. YOUNG VOTERS ARE THE BEST VOTERS
@sparklysparkly
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The biggest queue I’ve ever seen at my polling station! Get out there and vote people! #GE2109 #iVoted #BeAVoter #clapham
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@SoniaRGallego Seriously? You seriously think that attacking trans people is as empirically necessary as _the theory of evolution_? That's what you _seriously think_?
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Then I accidentally tuned in to Mondays #r4Today prog, to hear Hugo Vickery defend Prince Andrew's association with Epstein: "he has an ex-wife who is very expensive to maintain." Unchallenged. I have to hang out with peadophiles because my ex is so expensive. UNCHALLENGED
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This dog just rolled over two phones and managed to retweet a story about Heidi Alexander & call a primary school
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When you consider that students weren’t even allowed to mingle across a single corridor, it is inconceivable that Johnson genuinely thought 10. 11, 12 Downing St + 70 Whitehall were ‘one household’
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