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Features for the Sunday Times and poetry for the TLS. Glum Cartoonist. Winner of Pageturner prize for my novel, An Ordinary Man. Book reviewer for 🍴📚

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    6 hours ago

    I spoke to Paralympian Martine Wright about how she put herself back together after losing her legs to terror. She was so impressive.

    Martine Wright lost her legs at the 7/7 tube bombing. She tells why she wouldn't turn back the clocks
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  2. 3 hours ago

    Eva Wiseman is essential Sunday reading

    A beautiful piece of writing by about coffee and croissants but also, neither of those things
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    3 hours ago

    Real talk Nick Timothy looks like someone exhumed Dostoyevsky

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    4 hours ago

    Love this - Nick Newman's cartoon in the Sunday Times

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  5. 3 hours ago

    Left-field track of the day, but it's a jewel of 00s scruffy indie - "Patricia the Stripper" by the Wombats

  6. 6 hours ago

    Ugh, I love this piece by almost too much. Ostensibly about ghosting, but bigger and better.

    Will it always and forever be painful to be dumped? Or are broken-hearts avoidable? -
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    6 hours ago

    This sounds all too plausible from

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    17 hours ago

    Tomorrow's front page: five cabinet ministers urge Boris Johnson to topple Theresa May

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    14 hours ago

    It's the yoof wot won it. How rewrote politics & won youth support.By &

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  10. 21 hours ago

    Made by a 23 year old this nails song mashes Blondie, Queen and more. Disco hip hop. Track of the day

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  11. 23 hours ago

    It does irritate me when poets use the lower cap "i" to refer to themselves. It's nearly always disruptive and fussy. Desist.

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    Jun 10

    Best letter yet in Wooster Sauce feat. T Blair (cc. )

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    Jun 10
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    Not sure they've been overlooked.... Many etcs xx

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  14. Jun 10
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    there are ace sculptures like this one, lots of twisted erotic sketches of women being banged by burly naked bulls, it's a super exhibition.

  15. Jun 10
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    Picasso was always drawn to bull-fighting & minotaur myths; they're an overlooked thread in his career that the show tweaks to the fore (2)

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  16. Jun 10

    Worth hitting the Gagosian gallery in Mayfair to catch its deserted and intelligently curated show "Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors" (1)

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  17. Jun 10

    No city can pip London when it's in blaring summer – at Hyde Park

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    Jun 10

    Nothing has changed! savage in

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  19. Jun 10

    May’s behaviour comes close to inviting "not political analysis but psychoanalysis." Read Matthew Parris

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  20. Jun 9

    Shout out to double exclamation points

    Tories warned us about a "coalition of chaos" propped up by "terrorist sympathisers". They just didn't tell us it would be them leading it!!
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