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Does anyone else who was a child or teenager in the UK in the 00s remember a brief but intense trend for ponchos? For a single term, every girl in my school had one, and so did half the mums.
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Need to find someone with my niche intersection of interests who cares as much as I do about Toff and the BrewDog CEO being a couple now
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The only acceptable song about Transatlantic dating is 'American Boy' by Estelle and I won't settle for anything less.
#LondonBoy
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Personal/professional news: Today is my last day at
@theipaper
. Next week I'm moving to Brussels and, once I've completed some paperwork hurdles, I'll be freelancing. In the meantime I'm looking forward to a break, working on some writing, and eating waffles!
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Ah, I see BrewDog is now that lad from your A-level politics class who makes "get back in the kitchen" jokes but it's OK because he's being "ironic" and is actually a "feminist"
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Some job news: This is my last week at PA, and from Tuesday next week I'll be Deputy Business Editor on
@theipaper
📰
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OK so it appears this was a quick - but somehow very widespread - trend in 2004, with its origins in 2002 runway collections (some, err, unfortunate phrasing from Slate at the end here)
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Just popping up to share some wedding photos and then back to Twitter hibernation for another week. We had the best day 🍰
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Job news: Today is my first day as Future of Finance Editor at
@DigiFrontier
! Get in touch if you want to chat about crypto, fintech, and what we're up to.
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So excited and a bit stunned to be able to say that my work-in-progress novel has been longlisted for Women's Prize Discoveries!
We are delighted to announce the 16 writers longlisted for Discoveries, powered by
@CBGBooks
,
@cbcreative
and
@NatWestBusiness
.
Enormous congratulations to these brilliant new women writers 👏
Find out more about them here:
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Shout-out to the grandmothers who seem to have knitted a good portion of these. Fashion victims around the world salute you.
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Is it just me or is this page on the Great Northern website mildly threatening
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Work note: I'm off for three weeks from Monday to get married & honeymoon in sunny Glasgow, so won't be looking at emails, or hopefully anything that isn't a good book or a pint of Tennent's 👋
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I don't mean this in a snarky way btw, I genuinely love this for them
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Instead of fretting over why you haven't read everything in the 'top books of the year' lists, read my round-up of short fiction that you can polish off in a weekend!
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I didn't really know who Rachel Hollis was until this morning but after listening to this episode I'm obsessed
Girl, Stop Reinforcing The Status Quo: Tuesday's episode is about RACHEL HOLLIS!
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Meet the fresh faces of the high street! I had such a fun time talking to Britain's newest shopkeepers, who are looking forward to opening properly this month
@theipaper
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@saranev
@NewYorker
I have been annoyed by this for almost exactly three years
Sorry but the most shocking thing in the Dan Mallory piece is this styling of "pre-empt"
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Jessica Simpson wearing this (which I think is technically a shawl, not a poncho) on Newlyweds appears to have been an important early moment in the trend.
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@GraceGoodwin20
Given the scale of the reaction I think we might need to set up a 2-day conference on it
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This week I've written about why we should all pay more attention to the state pension age battle
@theipaper
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Finally the Government has taken action on those who unfairly bulk out their pub quiz teams to 8 people
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Does Eddie Mair using the phrase "It's a thing" on
@BBCRadio4
PM mean that "it's a thing" is officially a thing now?
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My question for Oxford Instagrammers: how do you guys always get the same seat in Missing Bean? Is it reserved for influencers?
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At the start of the pandemic we shelved our fledgling 30 Second Interview feature in
@theipaper
. But it's now back with a big focus on startups and small biz that have either been created during lockdown or had to change their model to adapt. THREAD 👇
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Had an acceptance for one short story and a genuinely encouraging rejection for another today. One of those rare days when it feels like I'm actually making something and not just daydreaming
#AmWriting
#AmWritingFiction
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This
#IWD2021
I have:
👩💼Chaired a virtual panel event
🕵️♀️Written the splash for our Wednesday
@theipaper
Money section
👩💻Received payment for my first ever short fiction sale
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For the
#storyoftheday
, a piece of flash fiction by
@toddclaystuart
, featuring a comet. It will take you much less time to consume than Don't Look Up, and be a lot more satisfying. via
@JanusLiterary
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Been writing about troubled businesses long enough that I can now type "beleaguered" correctly on the first attempt.
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I spoke to fellow
@mcflymusic
fans about what the band's music means to them, and what they're expecting from the first new studio album in 10 years
@theipaper
#mcfly
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Should probably post to say I'm officially living in London again! In the market for catch-up coffees/pints, restaurant recommendations, and a new writing group.
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@nakedvix
@ruhawksley
I hope
@ruhawksley
knows he's about to cause the most books argument since Marie Kondo said you should have 30 books
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Disappointed that I have yet to receive any fan mail regarding this subtle yet brilliant pun
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From Bois-du-Luc former mining site and workers' village in Wallonia, Belgium
#PostboxSaturday
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I wrote a weird little lockdown ghost story and it found a home! I'm so excited!
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I wonder who was the first costume designer to decide that if a man is playing a journalist on screen, he MUST wear a shoulder bag.
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Whenever the whole WeWork saga inevitably becomes a movie, can we sign up Joe Keery to play Adam Neumann?
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Once spent an entire day arguing back and forth with a PR who want me to call a shop a "retail experience space"
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Sorry but why does WeWork's new co-CEO look identical to Bradley Walsh
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Productivity shot to pieces because of too much time spent inside > Too much on to-do list to go outside > And repeat 🙂
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Pretty sure the news about Jimmy Carter circulating right now is fake, and ironically also shows the importance of verified accounts.
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A couple of Deutsche Post highlights from the Museum of Communication in Nuremberg.
#PostboxSaturday
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New 30 Second Interview thread for 2021! Talking to small and medium businesses about how they started and how they're adapting for
@theipaper
⬇️💼📈🍕🎮⬇️
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Wow, I'm on the longlist for the Alpine Fellowship writing prize!
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Yesterday my housemate asked what I thought of Byron and I nearly launched into a discussion of the burger chain's strengths/weaknesses & why it's in financial trouble before realising she meant the poet.
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Low-key really want this banner that's being mocked in a wedding shaming facebook group
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I'm starting a writing newsletter! It's something I've wanted to do for a long time, and I hope it will be helpful to other prose writers. Sign up here 👇
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My take on Tom Blomfield's exit from Monzo: a welcome break from the fanaticism around founders
@theipaper
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Just been mistaken for a member of staff at the gym. Never been so flattered in my life.
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This is... not a subject line I ever expected to appear in my inbox
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I miss charity shops so much and they're probably going to be the last thing to go back to normal aren't they?
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I really don't think companies should be allowed to list the statutory levels of holiday and parental leave as a "perk"/"benefit" in job listings.
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I wrote a handy guide to Elon's plans for Twitter... which was surprisingly difficult to pull together because the man has managed to say dozens of different things in the past month alone via
@decryptmedia
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I read this one over the long weekend, a miniature cusp-of-the-pandemic odyssey by
@jenniferlcroft
via
@kenyonreview
#storyoftheday
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My spread on hospitality is in the centre of
@theipaper
today, featuring a trip to Camden Town Beer Hall, Big Mamma Group's big payments idea, and a comment on how pubs are changing from
@KingDermot
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Making my 15-year-old fashion-blogger self very proud today by heading to my first London Fashion Week event. Updates to follow...
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My take is: all ice lollies are bad and for wimps. Have a proper ice cream, you cowards.
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Elizabeth Debicki has really cornered the market for 'woman in unhappy marriage to older British actor on a boat' roles
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Galaxy Defenders, assemble. I'm looking to talk to
#McFly
fans for a
@theipaper
online article about what their music means to you. Did it get you through a hard time? Was your wedding song All About You? My DMs are open.
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Late nights in a newspaper office make me really miss my evening trips to Mission Burrito in Oxford...
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Sat next to another journalist in a café so timidly trying to make friends by putting my shorthand notebook next to hers. It's not working.
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Back-to-work evangelists should put their money where their mouth is and pay us for the time we spend commuting
My latest comment piece for
@theipaper
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Distressed to discover that the brand name Birds Eye has no apostrophe
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Had a dream I became a staff writer at The New Yorker and we all sat around in a nice lounge all day, playing snooker and coming up with ideas to pitch to David Remnick. In the evening he rejected all our pitches and the cycle started again.
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