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The past is never dead. It's not even past (Faulkner) . Historian, writer, art critic, cook, BBC presenter but not necessarily in that order

Joined August 2013
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  1. 8 minutes ago

    except kids shot up at school

    Except brown babies at the border.
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    20 hours ago

    WATCH: : It's time we take it back to the people and have a

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  3. 9 minutes ago

    yes - appalling

    Democrats in theory: This is most important midterm election in decades--let's stay focused on health care, swampy GOP incumbents, etc. Democrats in practice: Hey, Hillary here, doing some interviews! Hey, Elizabeth here, time a for a DNA test! Hey, Kamala here, heading to Iowa!
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  4. 22 minutes ago

    a brutal economic contraction - 5% of GDP - blighting the future of the young - from which Rees-Mogg BoJo et al will be personally insulated.. The ultimate selfishness

    This is the most profound crisis of my adult life. Davis,Johnson,Rees-Mogg and the DUP are taking an entire country into prolonged stagnation& social division for fantasies. May can’t face them down. Labour plays games. Cry our Beloved Country! A Peoples Vote the only solution
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  5. 28 minutes ago

    why dont the Dems BLAZE forth on this? another strike against America’s future generations

    As a result of Trump’s massive tax cuts for corporations and the super-rich, the federal deficit has grown to the highest level in 6 years. In a troubling sign, the deficit soared 17 percent in Trump’s first fiscal year.
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    15 hours ago

    “BEST” EVER! 😍😜👍👊💕

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    Relax and have several seats, Melania, as I proudly present your slogan. 🎶🌈💅🏻☕️🕯
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    15 hours ago
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    He never pays. He stiffs everyone. Contractors, porn stars — you name it. Now he’s stiffing America.

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  8. 15 hours ago

    personally

    Replying to @rebeccaballhaus @simon_schama
    Is Trump a Geneticist, now? How is he going to test her?
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    15 hours ago
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    For the purpose of this argument, Ms Conway assumed the mantle of a geneticist, true! But to be fair, she didn’t claim to be an expert geneticist, more of an alternative geneticist, alumnus of the famous “I just make this shit up as I go along” School of Genetics.

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    15 hours ago

    I was asked today to compile a list of ten Brexit benefits. I could only think of one: .

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  11. 15 hours ago

    wow ecch he’s back to “bleeding from every place” mode - he needs help

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    US Senate candidate, MA
    We all know why makes creepy physical threats about me, right? He’s scared. He’s trying to do what he always does to women who scare him: call us names, attack us personally, shrink us down to feel better about himself. It may soothe his ego – but it won’t work.
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  12. 15 hours ago

    quoted Hannah Arendt to this effect this evening in the Leslie Stephen lecture at Cambridge University. Conway of course couned “alternative facts”

    Replying to @simon_schama
    Look carefully at what she’s saying: furthering the Trumpian message that there’s no such thing as truth. Even science is subjective and anyone’s interpretation is as valid as anyone else’s. Nothing is knowable so give up trying to find the truth. Lying press ... Lying science ..
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  13. 15 hours ago

    Nazi art redux

    Replying to @simon_schama
    It's a close call.
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  14. 15 hours ago

    Tolstoy/ Dickens? later this week I think

    Replying to @intelligence2 @Hiddlestunner1 and 5 others
    Any news yet on when it will be ready to view please
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  15. 15 hours ago

    pay up cheap crook - and while youre at it release your tax returns

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    Flashback. July 5. Trump on Elizabeth Warren: "I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you're an Indian." (via Fox)
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  16. 15 hours ago

    Hope Mourinho has bodyguard

    It's being reported that 's American owners want to sell to the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman. He's the one who's being accused of ordering the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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    23 hours ago

    In case anyone forgets: Eddie Lampert, who ran Sears into the ground, is an Ayn Rand devotee who tried to apply Atlas Shrugged to corporate management

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  18. 15 hours ago

    worst painting in the world?

    Oh my God, the guy in the painting with orange hair is living in the White House.
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    16 hours ago

    Earlier today, Trump denied ever saying—as he did at a Montana rally—that he would write a $1 million check to charity if Warren took a test proving she had Native American heritage. Just now, he said: "I'll only do it if I can test her personally."

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  20. 16 hours ago

    she of course is expert geneticist@- hey peer review

    Kellyanne Conway called Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test "junk science." Is it?
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