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theretronaut Time Capsule: "Views of London", c.1905 - bit.ly/JP7264 14 minutes ago via WordTwit Plugin Retweeted by frasermatthew and 4 others
@HadleyFreeman @bellamackie @helenlewis nice try, but lame escape 30 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone in reply to HadleyFreeman
@HadleyFreeman @bellamackie @helenlewis why are right-wing columnists so often described as "angry"? Just as bad as left-wing called "loony" about 1 hour ago via Twitter for iPhone in reply to HadleyFreeman
Spanish banks so desperate for deposits they are luring new customers with...free English lessons on.wsj.com/LOpZnC via @WSJ about 1 hour ago via Tweet Button
HuffingtonPost This dog has a Facebook page, $1,800 in savings and an air-conditioned dog house, but no home huff.to/JPdwlp about 2 hours ago via The Huffington Post Retweeted by frasermatthew and 35 others
@iRaaHooL @noopurtiwari oddly, it's a French word but the spelling in French is "guet-apens" -- with a hyphen about 2 hours ago via web in reply to iRaaHooL
A sign the Sarkozy era is truly over RT @Telegraph: Glamorous French newsreader Laurence Ferrari gets sacked soc.li/mtnTWnf about 2 hours ago via Tweet Button
Barack Obama personally ordered wave of cyberattacks against Iran nyti.ms/L1Qr8D about 2 hours ago via Tweet Button
French word decides spelling victory RT @Telegraph: San Diego teenager spells 'guetapens' to win National Spelling Bee soc.li/q5asAUc about 3 hours ago via Tweet Button
the madness of high finance RT @Telegraph: City fund high-flyer jailed for plotting murder of woman PR exec's father soc.li/YelfSpU about 3 hours ago via Tweet Button
Editors of Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror were secretly planning to take over parent company before getting sacked soc.li/sE1vTeh about 3 hours ago via Tweet Button
Money can buy you 'Likes': Facebook's latest money-making scheme is paid-for posts on your news feed bit.ly/KfNgR2 via @MailOnline about 3 hours ago via Tweet Button
On Facebook, your ‘Likes’ are becoming some brand's advert nyti.ms/Kjzcp8 about 3 hours ago via Tweet Button
Queen_UK Sod it, take today off as well. One's making it a five-day weekend. #diamondjubilee #makeonesagin about 4 hours ago via TweetDeck Retweeted by frasermatthew and 1514 others
achrisafis "People who changed France did it from abroad, like Voltaire, Hugo, de Gaulle" French expats vote for new MPs abroad gu.com/p/382qz/tw about 4 hours ago via Tweet Button Retweeted by frasermatthew and 3 others
@achrisafis the other ones never came back, like the expelled Huguenots.... about 3 hours ago via web in reply to achrisafis
cnni Canada killing suspect's 'creepy past' dlvr.it/1fSXxS about 3 hours ago via dlvr.it Retweeted by frasermatthew and 6 others
businessinsider France's Manufacturing PMI Falls To 44.7, 'Staffing Levels Decline At Fastest Pace Since September 2009' read.bi/N2QZRH about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck Retweeted by frasermatthew and 7 others
patrickgjackson The man suspected of the posted body parts murder in Canada may now be in France bbc.in/JTL2lO #Magnotta about 3 hours ago via Tweet Button Retweeted by frasermatthew
@campbellclaret tweet instead the number of people that work in the BBC publicity department, that will get our temperatures up. about 3 hours ago via web in reply to campbellclaret

Name Matthew Fraser
Location Paris
Web http://matthewfra...
Bio Paris-based exile from big media (newspaper columnist, editor-in-chief, TV host). Author. Flâneur. University professor. Butler to a bichon called Oscar.