Dr Tessa Dunlop
@Tessadunlop
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Historian, agitator, Elizabeth + Philip, ST Bestseller: The Century Girls, The Bletchley Girls, Army Girls. Romania, Royalty, 20th C War + Women, member @bcrpm
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King Charles at his finest. In a country he loves - Romania. His 1st choice post coronation
He’s consistently championed Romanians, even when our press + Brexit politicians trolled them.
Europe’s last great wilderness and second home to our King.
🙏🏼 4 clip
@andreea_mihaela
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Dr Tessa Dunlop is out here destroying "thin-skinned, slightly aging whiteman" who hate Meghan Markle for no reason.
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Russell Brand and the media culture that made him.
Yes I’m one of those women ‘in plain sight’
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When Kensington Palace announced that the Princess of Wales had abdominal surgery they hoped:
‘the public will understand her desire to maintain as much normality for her children as possible’
In the light of today’s revelations we’ve failed our royal family. Again.
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Why didn’t Camilla - domestic violence tzar - speak out against
@JeremyClarkson
bloody awful article? The one even the
@TheSun
apologised for?
Ball drop. There has to be a new way forward.
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Here is what Prince William really said:
'It’s really horrifying. The news every day, it’s just, it’s almost unfathomable.
For our generation, it’s very alien to see this in Europe. We’re all right behind you. We’re thinking about you. We feel so useless'
Ends.
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Unable to trust what I see on social media (and even the news) I went to watch the Pro Palestine March from Vauxhall Bridge in London. Here is what I saw.
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I warned Laurence Fox against ‘bear baiting’ women for clicks.
(What was said yesterday went far further than that.)
Why are right wing men given disproportionate platforms from which to spew their filth?
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Mum, 81, watching
#wimbledon
‘That poor little Prince George. Ridiculous to dress him in a suit and tie. What’s wrong with a t-shirt!?’
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Even a football philistine like me enjoyed that!
One of the cleverest, cheekiest, most brilliant bits of football I’ve witnessed... from the 20 year old
@trentaa98
👏👏
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Me: I submit PhD in 2wks
Librarian: Why you doing a PhD if you’re a broadcaster?
Me: 10 yrs ago I lost my job. I wanted something no one could take away from me.
Lib: what d’y mean?
Me: Once I’m a Dr you can sack me but you can’t strip me of my title or deny my expertise.
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Throughout the 20th century there has been a close relationship between the royal family and the conservative press. They depend on each other.
Under our new King it is perhaps time that relationship was interrogated or both institutions will become increasingly compromised.
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My PhD supervisor was a 65+ man. Btw 2014-19 I had 2 miscarriages, 7 rounds ivf, 1 stillbirth + a baby. Prof Bruce Collins stood by me throughout. He’s old school + doesn’t do twitter but without him I wouldn’t be a DR today. To all the unsung supervisors
Thanks
@sheffhallamuni
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My favourite clip from
@PiersUncensored
last night.
It’s important to control one’s own narrative 😉
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Tall poppy syndrome. A british problem. Unlike the Americans we are not good an embracing success.
#Meghan
was just too beautiful, independent, successful and madly in love for ‘traditional’ (read into that what you will) British sensibilities to cope.
And now we’ve lost her
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We were unjustifiably cruel to
#HarryandMeghan
- I stand by that. Like it or loathe it the way we treat and talk about our royalty reflects on us as a nation ...
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As I have now explained to two news outlets no matter how long the car chase went on for it was too long.
#princeharry
#meghanandharry
#womanofvision
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Prince Harry - King of the Court.
Harry pockets £140k and the moral highground.
Will be talking about this on
@SkyNews
at 14.45. Wonder why some of the other channels aren’t covering it?!?
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This is not what
#princewilliam
said.
For social media to be a force for the good it has to be accurate. See my previous tweet for what he actually said.
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‘Knowing the monarchy as I know it, it has always been about uniting people..the press have so successfully managed to create this divide and conflict at the same time as there is a culture war in UK’
Boom.
#HarryTheInterview
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Covid Britain:
Brother on a train from Penrith to Edinburgh.
After Carlisle there’s an announcement: ‘you are now in Scotland and must wear a face covering on public transport’
The carriage full of the same people breathing the same air solemnly masked up.
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New Year Resolution - be more conciliatory.
So I’ve bought gifts. But who should I give them to?
@piersmorgan
?
@LozzaFox
? Or my old mate
@richardaeden
?
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I first met Pamela 9 yrs ago.
Aged 96 she was the oldest person I’d ever met and my original Bletchley Girl.
She changed my life and aged 103 she is currently fighting for hers.
All thoughts are with one of the most special women I’ve ever met. ❤️
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Prince Harry has played us (the British press) like a fiddle.
Who saw that coming?
Lest we forget taking on the ‘paps’ is his life’s mission.
#PrinceHarry
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Ouch. Optics not good in
#harryandmeghan
Christmas messages.
‘Archie made us a ‘Mama’ and a ‘Papa’ and Lili made us a family.’
Implication being one child is not family. I had one child for ten years and we were v much a family.
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I work with the extreme elderly.
‘Their final year on Earth has been rendered unliveable in order that they might be protected from a different killer, Covid-19. Did anybody ask them what they wanted?’
#freedomday
#covid19
Me in
@mailplus
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I have just made this very point on
@TalkTV
Miscarriage is ageist and sexiest. Women over 35 are more prone to miscarriage. Meghan’s age is what made her more vulnerable not stress.
I know. I’ve been there. 3 times.
I have enormous, huge, unspeakable sympathy with the Duchess of Sussex for her miscarriage. I do not, however, feel it is responsible for Prince Harry to suggest that it was caused by stress. This is misinformation - all research agrees that miscarriage isn't caused by stress.
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Olivia Jordan has died aged 102.
She drove an ambulance under fire in France, escaped to England as the Germans closed in, was de Gaulle’s translator-driver in London + awarded the croix-de-guerre.
She told me: ‘I did nothing very much, I was just a girl.’
#armygirls
…..
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Tonight I will reminding
@piersmorgan
about the far right threats that
#meghanmarkle
faced when in UK.
I'll also ask him why he does focus some of his ire on costs associated with the lesser royals security briefs. After all if Harry doesn't need protection...
@PiersUncensored
"There were many serious, credible threats against Meghan Markle emanating from the far-right?"
"Absolutely."
Former head of counter terrorism for the Met Police, Neil Basu, tells
@cathynewman
about the "disgusting and very real" threats Prince Harry and Meghan Markle faced.
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When I first read this
@JeremyClarkson
extract about
#meghan
I didn’t post because I thought it can’t be for real.
It is.
Please remember he was sacked from BBC for lamping someone over a sandwich.
A chance for palace sources to distance Queen Camilla - a campaigner against violence against women - from her friend.
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Reviewing this (naive) statement by Camilla on violence against women, I think it would’ve been appropriate/ supportive to have released one condemning
@JeremyClarkson
‘s hateful words against her step daughter-in-law, Meghan.
But it’s wishful thinking, I’m afraid.
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China’s got Covid-19 under control.
America hasn’t.
Where would you rather live?
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1/2 I’m used to trolling on Twitter. I generally ignore it. But this week attacks plummeted to new, deeply personal, unpleasant levels.
I’m a historian not a ‘Sussex Squaddie’ but obsessively slagging H & M off + writing vengeful books doesn’t do Britain’s image any favours.
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#ImmodestWomen
2wks after my daughter was born I got sacked. Everyone said if you sue you’ll never work again. So I sued, changed career, wrote 3 bks, did an MA and have nearly finished my PhD. Daughter will be 10 in Oct.
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Camilla's rehabilitation is an example of how that relationship can work for the royals. And Harry is an example of what happens when a royal falls foul of the press or takes them on.
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Why didn’t he ask his virus-free niece or sister to travel to London in the UNLIKELY event that both
#DominicCummngs
and his wife were incapacitated?
No more tweets - that’s it. He’s appalling.
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Decided to celebrate my mauling 😉 of
@piersmorgan
and
@lozzafox1
with some new earrings.. what do you think?
Full Moon Designs, Brixton.
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Regarding the Sussexes removal from
#frogmorecottage
I believe it is a mistake.
#harryandmeghan
#kingcharles
I explain why in
@DailyMirror
⬇️
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7 media calls so far on the Harry and Meghan docu-series trailer.
Anyone would think Britain was missing them.
Ps I’m in Romania with patchy WiFi! 👋🏼
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The King’s Speech - dissected in 30 seconds. Enjoy!
Now where’s the champagne 🥂
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The sexist hated-filled reality of challenging the SNP in Scotland.
What is avowed feminist
@NicolaSturgeon
going to do about it? 🙏🏼🏴🤷♀️
@bbcdebatenight
@BBCScotland
@StephenJardine
⬇️⬇️
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This is bias.
I work with v old people.
2 died more quickly than they would’ve done with nothing to live for in the final furlong of life.
2 more seriously deteriorated. Without daily activities they got v confused. They cant hear people behind masks.
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This on Camilla from
@PiersUncensored
last night - both Piers and Petronella are friends with Camilla.
Camilla is popular in our notoriously fickle tabloid press. That’s no mean feat. 🧐
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Too perfect to sale papers? My hunch is not this weekend when our majestic mistress of discretion turns a staggering 40!
Here’s to Kate - a woman at the top of her game.
Me for
@mailplus
#Kateat40
#duchessofcambridge
#katemiddleton
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Below - the conundrum of free speech and
@LozzaFox
. I do hope I haven’t been cancelled. 🧐
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‘There he was walking down the aisle, smiling at his cousins, every bit the prince – broad-shouldered, relaxed, even handsome, clearly enjoying the moment.’
Me ✍🏻in
@DailyMirror
today.
#coronation
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Harry is credible and much more sympathetic in this
@itv
doc than he was in the
@netflix
volumes.
#HarryTheInterview
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Today I am wearing the coat Daphne gave me She died yesterday age 99.
She bought it post war.. sheep skin (best not ask about collar!)
Her WWII ATS service was v important to her. We got very close - perhaps because she couldnt have children of her own. She understood pain.
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My daughter has been sick for six days.
GP says she needs A & E. Hope we are making right call in going first thing in morning. (Neighbours said it was mental the other night)
I’m middle income + am prepared to take tax hit to better fund NHS. Just sayin.
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@piersmorgan
Piers it’s false equivalence to compare that to
@JeremyClarkson
‘s article as you did tonight - and you know it.
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You can’t have it both ways Suella.
You can’t wrap up Rwanda as a punishment and then pretend it is an African paradise with great interiors.
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2nd time in a month daughter sent home from school to isolate for 10 days.
Only half the class is isolating = divisive.
They will miss end of term 2 years running and for what? Who exactly are they protecting?
Daughter has had Covid. She survived, she’s 12.
#EnoughIsEnough
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OMG According to
@SkyNewsAust
(Murdoch’s) , I’m part of ‘looney left’ I’m having a meltdown, I’m hysterical and determined to silence voices I don’t like.
FYI to include stirring up hatred against women as an offence was mooted by the Law Commission in 2021.
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What is
@SuellaBraverman
on?
ALL the policemen I spoke to yesterday said the main problems came from counter protestors. The arrest tally backs that up. Yet her ire comes down disproportionately on Palestine marchers.
A Home Secretary deliberately spreading misinformation.
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#harryandmeghanarefinished
is trending on twitter.
What does it say about us when we delight in the pain of others?
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Romania has difficult roads and I was over tired. I crashed my car in a ditch and was stranded late at night.
An entire village came to my rescue. I was fed, watered and recovered.
I wonder if a Romanian crashing in an English village would get an equivalent reception?🤔
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Too perfect to sell papers? My hunch is not this weekend when our majestic mistress of discretion turns a staggering 40!
Here’s to Kate - a woman at the top of her game.
Me for
@mailplus
#Kateat40
#duchessofcambridge
#katemiddleton
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Of course you liked it Piers.
But to survive and thrive monarchy needs to reach beyond its echo chamber.
I loved that King’s Speech… perfectly pitched. We’re very lucky to have a Charles as our Monarch.
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It’s arrived. Late at night. By courier.
I feel like Christmas has come. 👑
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Just called a
#bletchleygirl
, aged 95.
Her: ‘Well it is very boring. I’m looking forward to my whisky at six.’
Me: ‘Can I call you again tomorrow + I/v you for my new book about sex in the ‘60s?’
Her: ‘Ooh yes. Call after 11am, that’s when I have my midday sherry!’
❤️💕
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And FINALLY one minute on the Laurence Fox freedom of speech saga and the interview never to be aired.. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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When you open the fridge door, spot an open bottle of prosecco and take a swig.
11.47am.
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I would not have posted this even five years ago. So something has changed.
Thank you for the kind words.
Russell Brand and the media culture that made him.
Yes I’m one of those women ‘in plain sight’
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Well. That’s a poke in the eye for the tabloids.
Congratulations to Prince Harry whose memoir 'Spare' has become the fastest-selling non-fiction book of all time
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@BenTwomey1
@I_amMukhtar
It was cut early .. I go on to say it is NOT illegal to stir hatred against women.
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And
@JeremyClarkson
? Will he volunteer to walk down the street naked as excrement is thrown at him?
#grindsteeth
We at The Sun regret the publication of last week's Jeremy Clarkson column and we are sincerely sorry.
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Happy new year!! Hope you have the best available. 🥂❤️
Teenager tells me boomerangs v uncool.
Lucky I’m not a teenager!!
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Is it just me or did it stop raining for the first time in 6 months the day lockdown began?
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Me and Prince Harry in my bedroom, tomorrow afternoon! 😂😂
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The ‘King’ of Transylvania arrives home. 😉🇷🇴
Charles III is the 1st British monarch to visit
#Romania
. They LOVE him. He loves them + their wild beautiful country.
This reel points out both Edward VII + George VI (+ Charles) visited when princes.
Ps his accent is good!)
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Here is how this interview with
@piersmorgan
began.
It appears I now have a
@tiktok_uk
account. 😉
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Also worth bearing in mind that
@JeremyClarkson
has kept his ‘job’ at the SUN and while he said he was ‘horrified’ to have caused hurt he never said sorry.
BREAKING: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have responded to an apology by The Sun for Jeremy Clarkson's column on Meghan
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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In front of the Accession Council in the wake of her father’s death the new Queen, Elizabeth II said:
‘My heart is too full for me to say more to you today than that I shall always work as my father did.’
And hasn’t she just. For seventy years.
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My daughter is 4 today. The result of 7 rounds of IVF. (I lost my job at 34 and left it too late to have a second child naturally)
Today thinking of all the women who feel too financially vulnerable to have a baby but know biology doesn’t wait for a well governed economy.
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Once upon a time our monarchy was above politics - not anymore. It has been dragged firmly into the dog whistle shenanigans that distract us daily.
‘Remainers and young want Harry and Meghan at coronation, poll finds’
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Who do we have here?
Miles away from the high court and Prince Harry King Charles strolls through Romania’s Transylvania, a shepherd’s crook in hand……
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Our British scum going over there, trashing their country, using their public services, clogging up their penal system.
I ❤️ Romania.
#andrewtate
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I’ve always despised 2nd home owners, inflating the market with their fancy ideas..
Then this from my cousin in Cornwall:
I talked to a friend who’s husband is head of traffic police in Cornwall/Devon, 2nd homeowners are taking the £1000 fine and carrying on coming down
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The parallels between Britain’s derision and fear of beautiful ‘foreign’ Prince Philip marrying into the GB Royal Family 75 yrs ago and the fear and hatred shown towards Meghan are disturbing.
It made Britain look mealy mouthed then. Ditto today.
'They're a different generation...Let them be.'
Historian Dr Tessa Dunlop argues against Tom Bower's comments by saying that people need to let Harry and Meghan be.
What do you think?
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Proving balance wherever I go. In the name of national service. 😉
Off to bed, someone’s back in court tomorrow.
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I split up a fight btw 2 shoplifters + a guard. I screamed like they were my children. Last line = ‘you need a bloody good spank on the bottom from your mother ‘ They stumbled backwards out of the shop.
I grabbed the tampons in my basket + told onlookers ‘I just got my period’
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🙄🙄 the record is stuck in the GB gramophone. It’s scared, angry, middle aged and male.
‘Big bears like you, Nigel Farage and Dan Wootton bear-bait us for clicks!’
‘Hang on a minute, I’m a “big bear!?”’
A fiery clash between Dr Tessa Dunlop and Laurence Fox kicks off as they debate whether Jeremy Clarkson’s Meghan Markle comments should have been allowed.
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Ok. Here goes.
The first copy of my brand new book - Army Girls.
17 women and their WWII story.
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@piersmorgan
I don’t hate you. But I don’t understand why you have unfollowed me on Twitter. Twice.
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Pamela Rose 103 finally departed on Saturday. A Bletchley Park veteran, an actress, a wonderful human being.
I listened to this today and wept. Sad that she has gone and full of joy that I had known her. Thoughts with her great family. RIP Pamela Rose.
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'They're a different generation...Let them be.'
Historian Dr Tessa Dunlop argues against Tom Bower's comments by saying that people need to let Harry and Meghan be.
What do you think?
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Explaining the importance of historical context in Gaza to Jacob Rees Mogg and Kelvin Mackenzie. 😅
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Lest we forget the British did not learn the languages of those countries we settled in and occupied, instead we forced them to speak ours.
"They are coming from abroad, they are not learning the language, they're not embracing British values."
Suella Braverman says there are some people "not taking part in British life" and that "we need to be fearless in calling that out".
Politics latest:
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When you shake your head despairingly at the
@DailyMailUK
diary editor
@richardaeden
.. when will they admit we all MISS the 🌟power of
#HarryandMeghan
?
'Yes, you've had the odd bit of negativity but let's be honest Harry and Meghan have looked for it'
Our Diary Editor, Richard Eden on the couple's decision to snub some UK papers in this week's
#PalaceConfidential
Watch now:
@richardaeden
|
@Tessadunlop
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