Julia LlewellynSmith Profile
Julia LlewellynSmith

@JuLlewellyn

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Writes @TheTimes @Telegraph + many others. Smash Hits young writer of the year my career high aged 12. Once won a karaoke contest in Vietnam. Bananaphobic

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@JuLlewellyn
Julia LlewellynSmith
10 days
Absolute honour to meet the astonishing Jung Chang and find out what happened after Wild Swans - cast out of China, unable to see her dying mother @Independent
@indybooks
Independent Books
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Interview with Wild Swans author Jung Chang, by @JuLlewellyn https://t.co/8lStfpdbL7
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@cleanupbritain
Clean Up Britain
3 months
WE SUPPORT THIS... ALTHOUGH ARE LOBBYING FOR SIX POINTS Last Tuesday, issuing 3 penalty points for littering from vehicles was debated in Parliament for the second time. ALL 11 of the Labour MPs on the Committee voted against it. SHAME ON THEM.
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Scientists: global warming of 2.5/3°C is * hard/impossible to survive * hard/impossible to prevent * likely by 2045-70 * just one compounding factor in extinction catastrophe meaning a total rethink of economic growth is mandatory to protect species and everyone Journalists:
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Julia LlewellynSmith
4 months
Sometimes my job is the pits 😢
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Julia LlewellynSmith
6 months
I met the still-got-it Pierce Brosnan - he didn’t want to talk about Bond (I don’t entirely blame him). Nonetheless, I asked. He’s keener on Harry Potter. https://t.co/AlnSKPYF6a
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Julia LlewellynSmith
6 months
Loved meeting @torvillanddean for @thetimes - 50 years of professional brilliance, deep friendship and still masters of the ice
@lizjedwards
Liz Edwards
6 months
Just try reading this and not humming Ravel's Bolero. Lovely piece on Torvill and Dean's phenomenal 50-year partnership, "Quality Street-purple costumes" and all. The full 6.0 to @JuLlewellyn https://t.co/qAEADYGzKJ @thetimes
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Julia LlewellynSmith
6 months
Great to meet the smart and funny @Saschabailey talking about his near transitioning experience, while also providing humour and balance around this too-often crazily polarised issue
@Saschabailey
Sascha Bailey
6 months
In the @Telegraph today. Great piece, finally a headline that doesn't say I would have been a women. Thank you for the coverage Link below
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Julia LlewellynSmith
6 months
Petty, jobsworthy, stupid - because books are non/combustible. Idiotic, philistine decree by @londonfire to remove small element of joy from commuters’ lives. Please reconsider ⁦@TfL https://t.co/VCqzQXfmwE
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thetimes.com
The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.
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Julia LlewellynSmith
6 months
Huge response 2 interviewing neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan on her brilliant book on overdiagnosis - so many docs + teachers saying the situation is “farcical“ excusing dire behaviour + stealing resources from ones who really need it ⁦@DoctorChrisVT https://t.co/O3utfXOv9S
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thetimes.com
The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.
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@ChrisO_wiki
ChrisO_wiki
7 months
Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!
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@Dannythefink
Daniel Finkelstein
7 months
It is as bad as you think it is.
@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
7 months
Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.
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@simon_schama
Simon Schama
7 months
yes - lest we imagined nothing more about Trump could shock and disgust us, today's attack on Zelensky was that of a deeply wicked individual whose presence in the White House is a deep stain on American history
@BulwarkOnline
The Bulwark
7 months
Sen. Blumenthal: “What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable, a disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom…The president's surrender is pathetic and weak.”
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Julia LlewellynSmith
7 months
Broken Britain. Hammersmith Bridge. Laughable if it wasn't so awful, 30 mins to walk over a major G7 river crossing. @LBHF @MayorofLondon @Transportgovuk @FMConway Millions wasted to date. And you're talking about a 3rd runway @rachelreeves? @RossLydall
@kieren
Kieren McCarthy
7 months
We’re reached the point where we now have pedestrian traffic jams to go with the car traffic jams in Putney. This is the scene at 8.30am on Hammersmith Bridge… #justnotgoodenough
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Julia LlewellynSmith
7 months
Hammersmith Bridge closed for nearly 6 yrs to traffic, finally - after a 4 yr gap - there's been a task force meeting. Now we hear @transportgovuk insist its contents confidential. So much for openness Labour promised. Just be honest + say it will never reopen to motor vehicles.
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Julia LlewellynSmith
7 months
Total joy as someone who came of age in the 90s to speak to the woman who was the first to fully reflect the joy and anxieties of my generation of women. The new Bridget Jones film Mad About the Boy is VV funny and also as she enters middle age vv moving. Strongly recommend it
@timesculture
Times Culture
7 months
Helen Fielding: ‘I want Bridget Jones to smash the idea of a sexual sell-by date for women’ The creator of the hit rom-com and best-selling books opens up on dating age-gaps and coping with grief | ✍️ @JuLlewellyn Click below for the full article 👇 https://t.co/CgqDNP7TfG
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Julia LlewellynSmith
7 months
I met the other double-barrelled Welsh-named person, who told me all about nearly drowning for Netflix in the presence of Mel B, Boris Becker and Holly Willoughby
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telegraph.co.uk
The designer on celebrity whingers, midlife crises, and the fateful day when he almost drowned on Celebrity Bear Hunt
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Julia LlewellynSmith
8 months
Hard recommend to #thedoubleact by brilliant Mark Jagasia @arcolatheatre . Dark, poignant, very funny, thought provoking - go!
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Julia LlewellynSmith
8 months
🎥 Save The Prince Charles Cinema! This iconic London cinema is at risk of closing due to unfair rent demands. Sign the petition to protect its future #SaveThePCC https://t.co/GU6F3nf6fY via @38degrees
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The future of the iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords, Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company...
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Julia LlewellynSmith
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Plea to @tfl PLEASE start fining people who watch TikTok on public transport without headphones. Or at least stick up some posters explaining why it's horrible. Seriously. It's ruining tubes
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