Emma Woollacott

@EmmaWoollacott

Freelance journalist: technology, business, consumer affairs. BBC, Forbes, Raconteur, Private Eye, Daily Swig

Oxford, UK
Joined April 2014
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  1. May 12

    This thread is extraordinary

    Today I had to explain to a grown man (aged 52) that women do not have a continuous supply of milk. He thought it was something that happened in puberty, that women get a period and milk at the same time. He thought that.
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  2. May 10

    For years I’ve looked down on American flag worship, and now I discover we have a crown with its own carriage and throne

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    May 10

    Today a priceless gold hat with a 317-carat diamond and 400 other jewels was driven in a custom-made Rolls Royce to a £2.5 billion palace, where it was placed next to a gold chair in which sat one of the world's richest men, who told 2 million hungry Britons there's no money.

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  4. May 9

    By me: Report Calls For Child Influencers To Be Protected From Exploitation via

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  5. Apr 20

    By me: UK Ramps Up Measures Against Fake Online Reviews via

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    Apr 13

    2/2 6 shells. 1696. Simplicity. But not. Adriaen Coorte.

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  7. Apr 13

    Hey, , apparently you're homophobic. Does your husband know? 😀

    When I started expressing support for trans people Private Eye ran a series of toxic pieces about me; it attacked Reclaim These Streets when its feminism was revealed as inclusive; and it has a long history of snide homophobia.
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  8. Apr 12

    Dominic Grieve is wearing a lumberjack shirt and has grown a beard, and I have to say he looks quite hot

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    Apr 12

    I think if we're going to try and establish that ignorance of the law actually *is* a defence after all, starting off with the people who drafted and imposed the law in question might be quite ambitious.

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    "I don't think at any time he thought he was breaking the law... he thought just like many teachers and nurses who after a very long shift would go back to the staff room and have a quiet drink" Tory MP Michael Fabricant urges Boris Johnson to apologise
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  10. Apr 7

    If she's not domiciled in the UK, does that mean she has another passport? If so, we can deport her - thanks, Priti!

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    Apr 2

    Happy feel free to spread this far and wide x

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    Apr 2

    I just learned that if a hermit crab finds a new shell that is too big it will wait for other hermit crabs who need new shells to gather and then they will organize themselves by size and trade shells and I am pissed that the crabs have a better housing market than we do

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    Apr 3

    I don’t think wind farms are eyesores.

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    Apr 2

    I decided to try my hand at embroidery, practicing on my least favourite pair of jeans in case it went terribly. But now that I’ve finished, I think I might have a new favourite pair 👀

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    Apr 2

    What is being burned here is the billowy pale fluff which is actually actually seeds from female poplar trees, The fluff which is necessary for the seed being wind dispersed, is highly flammable, look at the speed at which this burn propagates

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    Mar 31

    Every American town: welcome to Historic Tolt, population 704, visit our museum, take in our cultural center, delight in everything that’s happened here since it was formed in ye olde 1976 British towns: founded by William the Conqueror but we’ve got 12 vape shops

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    Mar 26

    Putting the clocks forward at . English Heritage staff repositioning the stones for the start of British summer time tomorrow ⏰➡️

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    Mar 19

    That moment when the sacked workers shout “Shame on You” and you join in, but then realise it’s you they're shouting at... 😂

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    Mar 16

    Hi my name is Charlie and has destroyed my life. Today is two years.  Before my 'mild infection' I was a healthy fit 30 year old biking 10 miles a day. Now I can't work or leave the house. I still can't breathe right. It‘s a nightmare. Here are my 4 questions:

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  20. Mar 15

    By me: DPC Sued Over Failure To Investigate Google's Real Time Bidding via

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