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Madeline Grant
@Madz_Grant
Telegraph columnist and Parliamentary sketchwriter
London / WarwickshireJoined December 2012
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Gloria! Gloria! In excelsis deo!
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Kissing the bible, our head of state has just vowed to preserve the doctrine and privileges of the Church of England. This is no way to inaugurate a head of state in a diverse 21st century democracy.
secularism.org.uk/opinion/2023/0
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And of course it falls to the Earl Marshal to type in the HTML.
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Huw Edwards voice:
“And now for the ceremonial updating of the Royal Family website, an unbroken tradition dating back to 1689…”
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With just hours to go until the Coronation, the official Royal Family website drops one word....
Her Majesty is now described there as The Queen rather than The Queen Consort
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“We must not let daylight in upon the magic."
*invites Ant and Dec to the Coronation*
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"Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honour millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison."
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Savour the weirdness, embrace the ancient mysteries of the Coronation
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Before and after in Farringdon, London
A 1970s office is retrofitted, I think superbly, with a brass cladding that fits with the geometry of neighbouring buildings
The new facade makes it a much more pleasant walk at street level and makes the building a better neighbour
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Free Hong Kong is over.
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BREAKING: Democratically-elected seats slashed to 20% for local Hong Kong elections, candidates vetted
hongkongfp.com/2023/05/02/bre
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Brilliant stuff from the Lords today. The benefits of Commonhold are clear. Flat owners are in control and there is no need for an investor freeholder. If you want your home to be truly your own, join us today commonholdnow.uk Let’s End Leasehold for Real Homeownership!
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While I'm at it, don't forget the other comic gem in Pride and Prejudice. Long live Mary Bennet!
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I'm sorry but it is just the greatest performance ever put to screen, isn't it? Forget Citizen Kane
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I think I now understand what happened to the guy in Bleak House. It wasn't a weird non-sequitur; he was just getting massive FOMO for the Great Exhibition or some other major public event of the 19th century
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I'm going to a wedding on the day of the Coronation and no exaggeration but I think I might spontaneously combust if I can't watch it somewhere
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LAYLA MORAN IS LITERALLY POSTING LOCAL ELECTION LEAFLETS TELLING PEOPLE TO VOTE GREEN TO STOP THE TORIES BECAUSE THEYVE BEEN “IMPOSING MASSIVE OVER-DEVELOPMENT”
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The absolute brass neck of Layla Moran on the housing crisis
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I was once reading a Poirot book on the tube when I looked up and saw Hugh Fraser, the actor who plays *Captain Hastings* in the ITV series sitting directly opposite. Thought I was hallucinating
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What's your best celebrity sighting in London? Extra points if you talked to them!
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More as we get it
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Direct ancestors of King Charles had people hanged almost to the point of death, cut down, castrated, disembowelled, beheaded, cut into quarters and stuck on spikes theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a
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The has released these beautiful prayers for King Charles and Queen Camilla and the rest of the royal family for the coronation
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“In a focus group earlier this week, one woman changed her mind three times in sixty minutes on who she was going to vote for”.
🔈 from on podcast on how Labour’s poll lead is not locked in. + other 2024 insight
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The tremendous fun I had proofing this new issue of The Fence cannot be overestimated. It's all good but the gold of the Wiseau piece will live long.
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Might be my favourite journalistic revelation this year @The_Fence_Mag
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Might be my favourite journalistic revelation this year
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'We're NOT boring killjoys' insist people instructing their followers to come armed with a bottle of tap water and some unbranded, plain crisps
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This is a very funny piece and also has the scoop on where Tommy Wiseau is *really* from…
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Here's the first feature from Issue 15 - in which @Madz_Grant takes Tommy Wiseau on a tour of Oxford University.
the-fence.com/issues/issue-1
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In this, the first feature we're releasing from Fence #15, the unlikely tale of Tommy Wiseau's trip through Oxford, as told by his guide, and friend.
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Here's the first feature from Issue 15 - in which @Madz_Grant takes Tommy Wiseau on a tour of Oxford University.
the-fence.com/issues/issue-1
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The man who made and starred in ‘The Worst Film Ever Made’ took a trip to the nation’s oldest university. This is what happened:
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Here's the first feature from Issue 15 - in which @Madz_Grant takes Tommy Wiseau on a tour of Oxford University.
the-fence.com/issues/issue-1
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Glorious piece about Tommy Wiseau’s Varsity sojourn
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Here's the first feature from Issue 15 - in which @Madz_Grant takes Tommy Wiseau on a tour of Oxford University.
the-fence.com/issues/issue-1
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I urge you to put aside whatever you are currently doing and read this from about the man who made ‘The Room’.
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Here's the first feature from Issue 15 - in which @Madz_Grant takes Tommy Wiseau on a tour of Oxford University.
the-fence.com/issues/issue-1
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Beyond delighted that the Fence gave me the opportunity to write about one of the great days of my life – Tommy Wiseau's iconic visit to Oxford in 2012. Not sure anything will ever surpass it
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Here's the first feature from Issue 15 - in which @Madz_Grant takes Tommy Wiseau on a tour of Oxford University.
the-fence.com/issues/issue-1
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Here's the first feature from Issue 15 - in which takes Tommy Wiseau on a tour of Oxford University.
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if you're Oxford based and interested in politics, religion or journalism, you should come to this evening to hear what promises to be an excellent talk by
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Come to Pusey House at 6:30pm TODAY to hear The Telegraph's Madeline Grant (@Madz_Grant) give our inaugural Faith in Public Life lecture. All very welcome.
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Fascinating thing about 's Observer letter is how it cites American segregation and black slavery as the primary definition of racism. Anything else, eg the Holocaust or persecution of Travellers, doesn't count.
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What men expect she will bring:
- Hygiene standards adequate to a hotel in Torquay
What she really brings:
- Dirty, cracked and missing wall and floor tiles
- Evidence of smoking in food preparation areas
- Lack of wash hand basin
- Two dead pigeons in the water tank
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What men expect she will bring:
- VIRG*NITY
- OBEDIENCE
- COOKING
- FAMILY
What she really brings:
- Ungratefulness,
- Constant complaints,
- STDs,
- Ex-mental trauma,
- Overused va*gina
- Lost prime beauty
- Envy, greed, selfishness, insecurity, mental diseases,… Show more
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