Will Lloyd
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🚨🚨 Some personal news:
I’m now a News Reporter at the Sunday Times. First story - on the increasingly paranoid battle to be the next mayor of Tees Valley - below.
The Tory mayor was once flying high in Teesside as ‘Britain’s most popular politician’. But accusations and shuttered shops have left him struggling ahead of next month’s election
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I read Penny Mordaunt's book for
@unherd
. If this really is our next Prime Minister then its time to turn the lights off and shut the country down.
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I spent three days with the far-Left for
@unherd
in Liverpool, as they planned to abolish the monarchy, sang songs for Jeremy Corbyn, and generally avoided reality
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I wrote about another terrific week for our Royals, who continue to go from strength to strength, for
@unherd
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I spent a day with some young right-wingers for
@unherd
and found that they see the world very differently from the Conservative party, and the Tory press
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For
@unherd
I wrote about the one lesson of the Rushdie affair — most people don’t like freedom of speech very much
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Some personal news: I am thrilled to be joining the
@NewStatesman
, starting in January 2023, as a Commissioning Editor and Writer.
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Here is a video of Bill Williams (101), the Spitfire pilot in this piece, flying a plane again for the first time since the Forties.
I went to a last reunion of WWII RAF veterans, found they were more interesting than the myth around them, and then was flown around in a plane by a 101 year-old, for
@unherd
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🚨bit of news 🚨as of today, I’m officially a staff writer at
@unherd
by night and a commissioning editor there by day
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"How can you be a journalist and not ask questions... How can you shut your eyes to your own experience and say something that makes no sense? Apparently some people can, but I could not."
Read
@HadleyFreeman
for
@unherd
today.
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I went to a last reunion of WWII RAF veterans, found they were more interesting than the myth around them, and then was flown around in a plane by a 101 year-old, for
@unherd
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I reviewed
@MazzucatoM
and
@RosieCollingto
's bleakly dystopian new book on management consultants for the
@NewStatesman
.
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I am in His Majesty's Times this morning wondering where this England team's consciences have gone...
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For the
@NewStatesman
I wrote about the horrible and persuasive vision found in Evelyn Waugh's novels
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I wrote for
@thetimes
about the (not very festive) mood of the year — luxury fatalism — and what it means
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For
@unherd
I wrote about the intellectual who lost Afghanistan, his family, and his ideas
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My report on the launch of Gina Miller's new political party, bad speeches, Brexit, empty rooms, untouched croissants, and needy PR people — for
@unherd
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For the
@NewStatesman
, I spent a weekend being driven through Scotland and England with
@RoryStewartUK
- we talked about his new book, and much, much more
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Matt Rudd is away so I've covered his column in today's Sunday Times Magazine.
It's about taking up smoking (again) to stop vaping.
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I wrote for
@unherd
about how Churchill failed, and why he still deserves a bit better than being squabbled over by Tariq Ali and Douglas Murray
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I wrote about Roman Abramovich, grandiose basement extensions, Londongrad, war, England's love of dogs, and turning evil into hard currency, for
@unherd
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I wrote for
@thetimes
about whether 1,000,000 men in Britain are taking steroids because they suffer from body dysmorphia - or if something else might going on
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"Johnson can give his party no star to steer by, for he has none. His political compass points only at himself" |
@redhistorian
for
@unherd
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Five days. Two conferences. One Conservative Party at war with itself.
My
@NewStatesman
cover story.
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I am in His Majesty's Times this morning wondering if modern men are really in as much trouble as people seem to think
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For
@unherd
, I reviewed new books by Ed Miliband and Gordon Brown, which are both more interesting for what they don't say than what they do say...
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I am once again bewildered at how bad our very soon to be new Prime Minister is at public speaking, for
@unherd
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Don't quote from old novels. Never generalise. Don't take a stance, or have a view. Avoid irony. Signpost your jokes.
Represent the world as it ought to be — not how it actually is.
This is what a sensitivity reading is like.
@KateClanchy1
for
@unherd
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"The European Union will happily cashier its loftiest claims about democracy and human rights when cold realpolitik demands it" - read
@SohrabAhmari
on Armenia in today's
@NewStatesman
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"Young people have always believed that they know better than the older generation, and now the older generation agrees with them." Time for grown-ups to grow up, says
@HadleyFreeman
for
@unherd
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For
@unherd
I wrote about Prince Charles' epic journey from hopeless laughing stock to hero of COP26
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I went to Windsor for
@unherd
to watch the town, Britain, and the world say goodbye to Elizabeth II
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For
@unherd
I wrote Keir Starmer, the magic of 1996, the Zombie Centre, Gina Miller, the 28 day food festival Jo Maugham wanted to hold in Maidenhead, and 'radical normal'
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Michel Houellebecq writes exclusively for
@UnHerd
this evening, on progress and self-destruction
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@CapelLofft
Pitt 'a three bottle man'. I read somewhere that he returned home quite drunk once, to see a crowd rioting outside his house. He joined them, threw a brick through his own window, then walked inside and went to bed.
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Why Emmanuel Macron is a Nietzschean superhero, and online reactionaries who despise him are weaklings —
@blejksmith
for
@unherd
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"A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazon, and a woman in Wolverhampton sees another chunk disappear from her savings."
The great
@dcsandbrook
on the horrors of inflation for UnHerd's weekend essay.
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On Monday, Rishi Sunak mentioned a seven year old girl who died last month trying to reach Britain from Northern France.
This week I went to Calais for The Sunday Times to find out what happened to Rola Al Mayali.
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Promising young whippersnapper David Hockney makes his
@unherd
debut this morning — on smoking
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I watched the sad, furious aftermath of England's Euro 2020 run last night in central London for
@unherd
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@Grit_Situations
@NewStatesman
I fear that this book will be given to teenage boys and it will radicalise them
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It's the two year anniversary of the UK's first lockdown, so I've retold the story of the pandemic through the ups and (deep) downs of Matt Hancock, for
@unherd
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This year I will be writing a column for the
@NewStatesman
every other week. Here's the first
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I wrote about Salman Rushdie, watching crap television, and how to live a free, insistently unguarded life for the
@thetimes
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I wrote about Vladimir Putin's absurd table, and absolute power, its consequences, and inevitable downfall, for
@unherd
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Michel Houellebecq in
@unherd
today, on euthanasia, and France as — you guessed it — a declining civilisation
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I think it's fair to say the Vice Chancellor is taking it well too
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Even if you do not live in Clapham, you actually live in Clapham, writes
@josiahgogarty
for
@NewStatesman
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Good morning, I've reviewed 'The Gospel of Wellness' — an unwittingly entertaining book for
@thetimes
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Good morning — if you missed it yesterday, Michel Houellebecq has written his first new essay in years, exclusively for
@unherd
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This week
@unherd
is republishing our best essays of the year.
In June, David Hockney argued that Britain needed a cigarette.
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Thrilled - and somewhat shocked - to be the only journalist on
@AirMailWeekly
's list of '25 young talents lighting up the scene'
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I wrote about the stampede of Conservative Party politicians past and present who seem to enjoy admitting they destroyed the country for
@thetimes
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"In the coming days, the likelihood is that a shock and awe campaign analogous in scale to that of America in Iraq will take place in Ukraine..."
Read
@arisroussinos
on Russia, Ukraine, and Europe's borders, for
@unherd
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Happy St George's Day! 🏴
I wrote for
@unherd
about George Orwell, England's other Saint George, and his performance of Englishness
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For
@unherd
,
@AlwynTurner
brilliant as usual on Britain's tortured relationship with the Union Jack, from Morrissey to Starmer
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Vladislav Surkov played Western intellectuals just like he played the Russian people — "he wasn't letting them in on the secrets behind his choreography, but turning them into his marionettes" — brilliant from
@zakavkaza
for
@unherd
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Bernard-Henri Lévy writes exclusively for
@unherd
today, on why events in Afghanistan this week are a beginning, and not an end
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I spent last night in Westminster as the scenery fell in on the Prime Minister, and half the Conservative party attempted to drink itself into another dimension
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I spent the morning listening to Ukrainians talk of the overwhelming sadness about what is being done to their home, for
@unherd
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Includes a visit to the 'most expensive restaurant ever opened'
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For
@unherd
I wrote about Substack, the different ways writers are rewarded in America and Britain, and why Journalism will always make journalists go crazy
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Britain’s Fourth Afghan War has ended, like the First, in ignominy and defeat — read
@DalrympleWill
's Weekend Essay for
@unherd
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I interviewed
@BretEastonEllis
for the
@NewStatesman
. We talked about his new novel, why the literary world is "bullshit", interior design, and all the ways that the Food Network is superior to CNN
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The left has luxury beliefs. Suella Braverman has luxury hostilities. My sketch for the
@NewStatesman
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For
@unherd
, I watched our sweaty, luckless Chancellor shout about economic growth for twenty minutes
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"A new British star has emerged, one that smashes through the tedium of social media to create a new genre of entertainment that is egalitarian and grotesque in equal measure."
Read
@thugclive
on citizen showbiz for the
@NewStatesman
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I am in His Majesty's Times this morning wondering if the British are still as brave as their heroic wartime ancestors...
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I wrote for
@unherd
about Count Binface, 'joke' political candidates, and the myth of English eccentricity
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England's footballers used to be greedy, horny and vulgar. Embarrassing their country was the only thing they did more reliably than embarrassing themselves.
Now they are 'super-activists' who force government U-turns.
What changed?
@unherd
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"Passover is not just a story of triumph, but of sadness. And here in Odessa, amid the joy there is darkness, too; amid what we hope is eventual victory is tragedy."
Superb dispatch from
@dpatrikarakos
for
@unherd
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"The original basis of our multicultural society was the imperialist, royalist ideology of High Toryism" - delighted to have
@tanjil_rashid_
make a superb debut in
@unherd
today
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"The Kremlin says Ukrainians are merely confused Russians; that Kyiv is not Ukrainian but simply the source of Greater Russia. And it is determined to bomb and kill them until they remember this fact" — superb
@dpatrikarakos
dispatch for
@unherd
from Kyiv
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Divorce isn't the tragedy — staying in an unhappy marriage is. An excellent
@arisroussinos
on devolution and English independence for
@unherd
today.
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"Many expressions of anti-racism look like religious revivalism, any analysis of the complex realities of black people obscured by penance and sanctimony." Typically superb
@tomowolade
on George Floyd, two years on, for
@unherd
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Last year Kate Clanchy's work as a teacher, editor and writer was cancelled by her publishers, after a deluge of bad faith, unfair criticism.
Today for the first time, she defends her students and their work, in
@unherd
.
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I went to Oxford to watch Kathleen Stock speak for the
@NewStatesman
- an apparently national story that was really something much more local
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For
@unherd
I wrote about the way even television — his greatest ally — has turned on Boris Johnson
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Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty on five of six counts. This is why
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I wrote about the sad state of radical chic during the mounting chaos of the last week for
@SpectatorUSA
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