A wonderful recommendation for Oliver Twist and Me #olivertwist #charlesdickens

"The melding of fiction, memoir and history raises questions about the extent to which a novelist fuses the raw material of life with their fertile imagination." Georgia de Chamberet @bookblast admires @NicholasBlincoe's Oliver Twist & Me @LittleBrownUK https://t.co/RUmHJ4yPU7

#charlixcx House references Big Black's Kerosene, surely. "I think I'm going to die in this house / town"? #bigblack #stevealbini

Award-winning novelist, Nicholas Blincoe brings narrative tension and a personal perspective to the historical material, making it engaging and compelling ... I was absorbed by Oliver Twist & Me to the end. https://t.co/gC3m4p2bqY

'Free Palestine"=Racist and unacceptable. 'Death to Arabs'= Just a bit of football banter. Hope that clarifies.

Join me as I chat about Charles Dickens , Oliver Twist, Blincoes , the origin of the British working class and other rich & fun stuff. #olivertwist

@NicholasBlincoe joins @hannahmacin to explore the intertwined lives of Charles Dickens and his great-great-great-grandfather Robert Blincoe—the orphan whose real-life story inspired Oliver Twist. Mon, 27 Oct | 6:00pm | Online Tickets: https://t.co/3KOSGCci9F

Next on my reading list, this looks like a cracker from @NicholasBlincoe #Dickens #OliverTwist

If you bailed 'terrorist supporters' then you, like everyone else, believe they aren't terrorist supporters at all. Shame on you. https://t.co/CiYNMw18va

The true story of Nicholas Blincoe's family and Charles Dickens's best-loved novel. 🖊️'A fascinating family and social history' Catherine Taylor, author of The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time Out 4th September: https://t.co/m10p72qU54

#bobvylan If two black men call out a racialised genocide, no one should be calling them stupid, attention seeking, or naive. Assume we don't know how it feels to see what is happening in Gaza, and to speak up. Definitely don't compare it to calling for the burning of refugees.

Since then the moral standing of the museum has fallen even further, pandering to genocide deniers, cheering on mass murder. Please pass on my views that the museum is an appalling moral cess pit, poorly run, stupid, corrupt and a cheerleader for the worst of evils.

Incredibly powerful investigation in Dutch newspaper NRC: Seven of the world’s leading genocide scholars — including renowned Holocaust experts — describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal. And according to them, nearly all of their peers agree.

When Francesca Albanese slammed Starmer 🇬🇧: “Israel is committing a genocide. It’s not only me saying that. It’s 100’s of legal experts, historians, genocide scholars, including from 🇮🇱 So why is the 🇬🇧 still trading weapons with 🇮🇱” The 🇬🇧 is guilty https://t.co/YNAm5hztBe

Thank you Home Secretary @YvetteCooperMP for the deep dive explaining why the PM is not quite Enoch Powell. What times we are living in.

This means cheap loans for all Israels, & powers all aspects of Israeli economy. Tech start ups succeed not because Israelis are more dynamic or clever, but because of cheap loans, plus initial contracts with military and government. All Israelis benefit from settler colonialism.

Israeli settlers are not fringe actors. They've always had government support across the party spectrum. Taking over 'free' land, via colonisation, pumps the equivalent of billions of dollars into Israel's banking system, as collateral on settler mortgages ... 1/2

As demonstrated by extensive culinary historical research, shawarma, tahini and falafel were all “invented” by Yitzhak Shamir, and then combined with pita which was “invented” by Ariel Sharon.

I spoke about the history of football in Palestine and Israel https://t.co/zUjygFbJZL

Sharon Osbourne insists music is supposed to unite us, not separate us. Except for the time Ozzy bit the head off a bat. That separated the head from the body. #FreePalestine