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Adrian. Retired English teacher, Head of Faculty for English & Humanities in South London. Uxbridge born. Arts & social interests. keen photographer. Age 63.

Warlingham Katılım Nisan 2012
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Harriet Harman
Harriet Harman@HarrietHarman·
Impossible to overstate the importance of Jenni Murray to the movement of women that changed our politics, economy & our society; that changed our lives. She was the broadcasting wing of the women’s movement. We all owe her. RIP. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Bret van den Brink
Bret van den Brink@BretVDB·
Virginia Woolf’s diary entries on James Joyce’s Ulysses: “An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me; the book of a self taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating. … I finished ‘Ulysses’ and think it is a misfire. Genius it has, I think; but of the inferior water. The book is diffuse. It is brackish. It is pretentious. It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense. A first-rate writer, I mean, respects writing too much to be tricky; startling; doing stunts.”
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Prixpics@prixpics·
@simon_schama My father tapped out his journalism into the small hours on a typewriter and my mother used a sewing machine on our landing. When I got pins and needles as a child when slept, I dreamt I was being fed under the needle of a sewing machine. I never had a dream about typewriters.
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@MarkSeddon1962 Often the folk who spout Judeo-Christian values have little knowledge of our places of worship nor of the value of the high quality art to be seen and heard in our great cathedrals. Then they ignore the message too of ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’
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Mark Seddon
Mark Seddon@MarkSeddon1962·
What we are witnessing here is a Trump style attempt to whip up hate and division, because that is all these people have to offer. All religions, and none, have gathered at Trafalgar Square and will continue to do so long after Farage & co have been tipped into the dustbin of history.
Nigel Farage MP@Nigel_Farage

What we witnessed in London at the historic Trafalgar Square, in a country built on Judeo-Christian values, was a group of people attempting dominance over our capital city and our culture. We are not going to surrender everything that was built over centuries and defended at great cost in two world wars for us to be a free, independent nation. The British people will not put up with this any longer — simple as.

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OxfordLitFest
OxfordLitFest@oxfordlitfest·
Professor Catherine Clarke tells the history of Britain through 25 poems written between the eighth century and today and explains how they connect us with the emotions and imaginations of those who lived them. She talks to Lucy Thynne of the @Telegraph. shorturl.at/dUcZN
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@JohnSimpsonNews I wonder how long Israel dictating to the US expensive and ill judged military action will be tolerated.
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John Simpson
John Simpson@JohnSimpsonNews·
Joe Kent, the US counterterrorism chief who resigned on Tuesday over Iran, makes a ferocious attack on Trump’s policy: “Israel drove the decision to take this action… We could have told the Israelis, ‘No you will not’”.
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John Simpson
John Simpson@JohnSimpsonNews·
I don’t get it. If Hezbollah had flats in this block (unlikely in central Beirut but not impossible) why did the Israelis give everyone inside an hour to get out — including those they wanted to kill? And if there weren’t any Hezbollah people there, why destroy a building with dozens of civilians in it?
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An Israeli airstrike struck an apartment building in central Beirut, on Wednesday. The Israeli army had warned residents to evacuate about an hour before completely flattening it as day broke.

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@JohnSimpsonNews Netanyhu is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court with arrest warrant issued 21/11/24 and alleged genocide too, so further death and destruction is hardly going to worry him. I assume he just does not care who he displaces and kills in Beirut.
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@FrankRGardner A friend with signif. M.E. connections and involved in UK politics said over Gaza conflict 'They are all in it together... once in a room where a business man was selling X....to Hamas.' My friend frequently travels to Israel and M.E., Rusi links, knows leaders, diplomats etc.
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Frank Gardner
Frank Gardner@FrankRGardner·
War in the Gulf: the escalation that everyone feared.
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@FrankRGardner The Iran conflict has exposed how UK navy and our defence is inadequate and how the EU only acts as individual countries when it comes to intervention in foreign conflicts. Also Arab nations starting to realise they have common needs of defence and protecting people and assets.
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@Kevin_Maguire @PierceVsMaguire I'm fast thinking the British have a growing strand of isolationism and prejudice. Reform might well win GE in 2029 so that will be the new form of being British. The cruel party in power due to the electorate being 'British.'
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Kevin Maguire
Kevin Maguire@Kevin_Maguire·
Forcing people building new lives in Britain to wait much longer before they are given security is cruel, unfair and counter-productive but is it really, as Angela Rayner says, "unBritish"? @PierceVsMaguire youtu.be/_DI9JRISpaI?si…
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@ajmandal15 @BretVDB The antisemitism and snobbishness grates with me too. As to closet fascist many rich folk who could afford to travel dropped in to see the spectacle of Nazi rallies. We have MAGA rallies, Meloni rallies and even Reform protests outside hotels. Choose a divisive and cruel rally.
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Arthur Mandal
Arthur Mandal@ajmandal15·
@BretVDB People don’t want to say this, but she was a snob, a closet fascist and an antisemite.
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@ajmandal15 @BretVDB Many were in the 1920s. Even Graham Greene later regretted his Jewish stereotype of Colleoni in Brighton Rock of 1938. And as we know antisemitism has been in recent politics and whipped up in street protests flourishing at universities too in 2026! Snobbishness e.g. publishing.
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BBC Newsnight@BBCNewsnight·
“I put him to bed with paracetamol and Nurofen and I went in in the morning and he was dead - it was that quick.” Author and poet Michael Rosen remembers the sudden death of his late son Eddie to Meningitis C in 1999. #Newsnight
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ALASTAIR CAMPBELL
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL@campbellclaret·
The good die young … have been to too many funerals of late and another one tomorrow. My old mate Chris Boffey, old school reporter who also worked with me in government. Looking forward to seeing old friends and remembering Chris at the Journalists’ Church St Bride’s 130pm
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