Simon SchamaVerified account

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

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  4. 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

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

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

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

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

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  14. Tolstoy/ Dickens? later this week I think

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

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    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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    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. she of course is expert geneticist@- hey peer review

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