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Apr 21, 2022

Absolutely thrilled that my book Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History is on the

@WolfsonHistory

Prize shortlist, and in such wonderful company!

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Jack Blackburn

@HackBlackburn

Apr 21, 2022

The shortlist has been announced for the 50th Wolfson History Prize, Britain’s most valuable non-fiction book award. The nominees are…

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Beth Rigby

@BethRigby

Conservatives hit 1,000 losses LAB: 2,552 (+505) CON: 2,172 (-1,005) LDM: 1,548 (+402) GRN: 450 (+230)

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Flying_Rodent

@flying_rodent

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Anti-woke or whatever they’re calling it seems to be eating shit at elections almost everywhere except maybe Eastern Europe, and that is a sliver of good news in the daily landslide of idiotic horseshit that is British politics.

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Liam Bright

@lastpositivist

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It is kind of interesting that the Tories went all in on culture war blather this past month or so and it just doesn't seem to have made a significant difference. The UK electorate continue to be relatively indifferent to that tactic, I am happy to see. twitter.com/Beyond_Topline…

David Whitley

@mrdavidwhitley

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Who knew that relentless fucking up everything in the country while showing absolutely no interest in fixing it could have consequences?

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Tom Davidson

@TomDavidson09

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a heart-warming post/appeal on r/London

Darren Jones MP

@darrenpjones

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Someone should have studied maths for longer.

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BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

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"I’m not detecting any massive groundswell of movement towards the Labour Party or excitement for their agenda," PM Rishi Sunak says Follow local elections results and analysis bbc.in/3VCkU9G

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Chairman Moët

@ChairmanMoet

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RIP "*whisper it* the polls are narrowing" chatter. You're wiv de angles now xxx

David KC

@DavidMuttering

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“It was a one-sentence letter which simply said: 'Dear chief secretary, I'm afraid to tell you there's no one who wants to vote for you left,' which was honest but slightly less helpful advice than I had been expecting."

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Lewis Goodall

@lewis_goodall

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Conservative Chairman Greg Hands: "It's been a disappointing night for us."

Will Jennings

@drjennings

23h

An updated analysis of the vote by Brexit vote, based on results from nearly 200 wards. Labour is making its largest gains in areas that voted Leave in 2016, while the Conservatives are suffering their largest losses in areas that voted Remain. #LocalElections2023

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leon

@leyawn

i know this site amplifies the worst people but god damn the gleeful reaction on here from right wing freaks to a guy killing a homeless person is sick. i don't want to live in your world man. i don't want to debate you on this. you are beyond fucked up

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East Midlands Railway (EMR)

They’ve limited the replies on this now – but, my goodness, they deserved the absolute roasting they got before they did that.

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@EastMidRailway

To help celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III this weekend, we'll be giving out a limited number of scones onboard our services to London to First Class passengers tomorrow and Friday

The question is - do you put jam or cream on first?

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Ashley Nicole Black

@ashleyn1cole

Snoop gets it.

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Variety

@Variety

Snoop Dogg Shows Solidarity With Writers on Strike: ‘Where the F--- Is the Money?’ variety.com/2023/music/new

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John Scalzi

@scalzi

For those who celebrate, a most somber and reflective fourth of May to you, please accept this illustration of the day's most sacred representative, Gandalf

Spoiler: It's actually ALF. Oh! The japery!

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Kaitlin Fontana is ON STRIKE

@kaitlinfontana

Kaitlin Fontana is ON STRIKE

I can't stop thinking about this. There are a lot of arguments against AI, but this is one of the best and clearest I've seen: By its very nature, AI is regressive. It can only extract and remix old thoughts. Only human beings grow and create consciousness.

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@kaitlinfontana

Ilana Glazer, going right for the fucking jugular! Comrade Ilana!!! #writersstrike #wgastrong

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Luke Pollard MP

@LukePollard

Hardly anyone knows about this. If you’ve lost your ID you can still vote by applying for an emergency proxy until 5pm on polling day. Don’t lose your chance to vote the Tories out.

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Electoral Commission

@ElectoralCommUK

Lost your photo ID? You can apply for an emergency proxy vote until 5pm on polling day. Your proxy will need to show their own ID to cast your vote. Apply now

electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter/a

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Mike Smithson

@MSmithsonPB

From the latest Private Eye

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sk1 revival

@samknight1

People who made a cottage industry whining about the tyranny of cancel culture have spent the last 12 hours saying that it’s fine to murder people on the subway who annoy you

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Aaron Bady

@zunguzungu

The murder of Jordan Neely is ACTUALLY what everyone thought the murder of Kitty Genovese was

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The Monocle Daily, episode 2457 - Radio

Latest Daily on

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on the day’s stuff, plus

@pburtsoff

on Zelenskyy in Helsinki and

@tomosdlewis

at Hot Docs.

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Hear our take on the news and enjoy sharp reporting on the big stories every weekday. Tune in as our guest panel reviews the day’s events in Europe, follows…

Tiffany Cabán

@tiffany_caban

People experiencing homelessness, mental illness, hunger and frustration need and deserve compassion and trauma-informed care. Officials and media outlets have instead told us that they are threats to be contained by force. Jordan Neely’s murder is the inevitable result.

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Adam Serwer

@AdamSerwer

“If a homeless man makes me uncomfortable, the sentence is death” is the kind of argument I think people should be embarrassed to make in public

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b-boy bouiebaisse

@jbouie

this is the law working as intended

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Ken Klippenstein

@kenklippenstein

"A Florida woman, unable to get an abortion in her state, carried to term a baby who had no kidneys. Deborah Dorbert’s son Milo died in her arms on March 3, shortly after he was born, just as her doctors had predicted he would." cnn.com/2023/05/02/hea

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Whores of Yore

@WhoresofYore

A love letter from Virginia Woolf to English poet Vita Sackville-West, written in 1927.

“Look here Vita - throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on the river together and walk in the garden in the moonlight and come home late and have bottle of wine and get tipsy, and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads, - they won’t stir by day, only by dark on the river. Think of that. Throw over your man, I say, and come.”

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Finally, Suella Braverman did something with an arguable benefit to British society. By accident and in the course of trying to do the opposite.

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Chaminda Jayanetti

@cjayanetti

of course had Suella Braverman not opened her stupid mouth over this for her own personal benefit, they'd probably have got away with it twitter.com/sundersays/sta…

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Shar A

@Shar_A_

Mad that he did all that but the media just chooses to focus on his age

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Jonn Elledge

@JonnElledge

measure of balance here is that one of these guys is Liz Truss's biographer, and so is the other, they wrote it together

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Sky News

@SkyNews

The Sun's Political Editor Harry Cole speculates the coronation will cost the UK "into the hundreds of billions", but suggests that the exposure it will get is "worth it's weight in gold." The Spectator's Political Correspondent @JAHeale echoes this view trib.al/i3MdJgX

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megatronstrikesagain

@be_da_lort

She says in the comments it's five person house - if you want to maximise the rental income on your house by stuffing it full of people you can't expect single occupancy tidiness.

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Pam

@pamdeschanel

Who the fuck does my landlord think he's talking to because it isn't me

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chris bauer

@realchrisbauer

That’s me, a proud union man, playing a proud union man.

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Ziggy Sobotka

@Ziggys_Duck

In honor of all the unsung heroes and to solidarity of workers all across the globe. Happy International Workers’ Day. #MayDay2023

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Lon Harris

@Lons

So far, I've seen two separate tweets suggesting film and TV writers will inevitably be replaced by ChatGPT within the next few years, and if you really think that and are okay with it... I don't WANT you to have content. You don't deserve it. No more YELLOWJACKETS for you.

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Hari Kunzru

@harikunzru

Writers in other fields should be paying attention to the WGA negotiations. Here's the current position on the use of AI.

Union proposal: regulate use of AI - can't write or rewrite literary material, can't be used as source material, MBA covered material can't be used to train AI. Proposal rejected. Countered by offering 'annual meetings to discuss advancements in technology'

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mr too damn bueno

@BergoEsBueno

[guy who has to pay $8 a month just so people will even glance at his terrible posts] anyone can write a TV show

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Zack Bornstein

@ZackBornstein

Call me Karl Marx but I don’t think 8 Hollywood CEOs should make more money every year than ALL writers are asking for combined over 3 years

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Paperback cover attached!

What a lovely review! Thank you! For anyone who feels like kicking against the pricks, Fallen Idols is available in paperback & audiobook now too.

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Rod Dale

@roddale

And I finished reading @alexvtunzelmann's magnificent Fallen Idols: how and why twelve statues that went up eventually came down, that memorialised (let's face it) pricks. Funny, fascinating and definitely worth getting a copy.

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Ben Collins

@oneunderscore__

This is true. Here's Conan spinning his wedding ring during the 2007 writers' strike just to fill airtime. It was like this for months. NBC was lucky that Conan is the GOAT, but it's impossible to explain to Gen Z how bad the content will get if there's another one.

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AK Lingus

@aklingus

I mainly remember Conan honoring the strike and doing shit like seeing how long he could spin his wedding ring on his desk, the man was a real one for that twitter.com/theashleyray/s…

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T$E CHUN is premiering GREMLINS on May 23!

@thetzechun

Writers Guild of America West

What if I told you… if ur a fan of TV shows and movies. U could come to any studio in Hollywood or NYC and picket in solidarity? And hang with the ppl that make the TV shows you love What if we shut this shit DOWN I’ll be at Netflix tomorrow 5808 sunset blvd C u there

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@WGAWest

The Board of Directors of the @WGAwest and the Council of the @WGAeast, acting upon the authority granted to them by their memberships, have voted unanimously to call a strike, effective 12:01 AM, Tuesday, May 2.

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The Notorious J.O.V.

@whotfisjovana

not now honey, mommy is judging the met gala looks

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Jo Maugham

@JolyonMaugham

There's an especially ugly and cynical thing happening in relation to voter id which hasn't got enough attention. 🧵

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James Felton

@JimMFelton

Apr 30

Ahahhaha

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dan barker

@danbarker

Apr 30

Here is a very short thread on this news story, and how the story has become bigger than it probably deserves to be: If you read the text the BBC put out here, it says "Public *asked* to swear allegiance to King Charles" That's not quite the case...

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