Samuel West 💙💛
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I'm supporting a great new campaign to defend our brilliant
#NHS
.
Go to to take their five simple actions. Follow
@YourNHS2021
and join the fight. Let's save this national treasure.
#YourNHSNeedsYou
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50 years ago they tried to stop Katherine Switzer running the Boston Marathon. Yesterday, at 70, she ran it again, wearing the same number.
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Popping back on here to wish a very happy 90th birthday to my darling Ma,
#PrunellaScales
. Acting the hell out of life since 22nd June 1932.
If anyone would like to send her a message, I'll make sure she gets it (and I'm sure it would make her very happy) x
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Happy birthday to my dear Ma, Prunella Scales. 88 today.
Spoke just now about her time at drama school, which she remembers well. She’s in good spirits
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St Pancras just now. Almost missed my train.
Watch to the end for a nice surprise
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Tweeps, can I have a big fat Happy Birthday to my darling Da, who’s 85 today? He’s not on twitter but he sort of loves it anyway. Thank you thank you.
(PS
#GreatCanalJourneys
tonight is on the Oxford, where it all began 43 years ago. Channel 4, 8pm)
#TimothyWest
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Singing together was prohibited. Not just choral singing, which brings joy and comfort to so many, but singing at tens of thousands of funerals.
And they had a fucking karaoke party
#NotMovingOn
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I'd take Sunak's crusade against teenage 'loitering' more seriously if his party since 2010 hadn't closed more than 800 libraries, sold off hundreds of playing fields, cut arts funding by a third and local authority grants by 40%.
Young people need cheap, interesting things to do
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Happy Diamond Wedding Anniversary to my dear parents,
#TimothyWest
and
#PrunellaScales
.
Early days of course, but it seems to be going well. I hear the first sixty years are the hardest 💎❤️
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It’s hard to measure the gulf in class between a real leader like Jacinda Ardern and the mendacious moral vacuum masquerading as our Prime Minister, but this manages it.
Ardern cancels own wedding
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Now I have daughters, I'm fed up with men saying "I have daughters, so this matters to me". Stop treating women by their relation to you; that's the problem. Just don't fucking sexually assault them. It's a pretty low bar.
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Oh Oliver. Know your
#Shakespeare
, especially on his birthday.
The speech continues: “this England… is now leased out …bound in with shame,
With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds:
That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.”
"This blessed plot,
this earth, this realm,
this England."
Happy St George's Day 🏴
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Sunny garden meeting with the parents today. Both very well, and looking it - Ma (88) has a new haircut, Da (85) wearing this rather cool jacket “because it’s the only thing I have with a working zip.”
Da’s great-grandson Khaya eyes his next basket
@TimothyWestNews
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A brilliant idea, post-Brexit, for Amanda Holden, the British jury representative, to remind everyone how ignorant we are of other people’s languages.
And we wonder why we have nul points
#Eurovision
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Parents had a little do this evening to celebrate 60 years of marriage.
Brother
@JoJoLaWe
spoke about how pressure had turned these carbon-based life forms into diamond geezers; I wondered how their 60 could have so many factors and yet still be indivisible
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We’ve forgotten Jo Cox already, haven’t we?
"We can again start to put the fear of God into our MPs - they deserve nothing less after the way they treated us"
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage launches his new Brexit Party
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The Conservative Government tonight passed the
#ElectionsBill
, allowing the PM to rewrite election law in his favour, and the Police Crime Sentencing & Courts Bill, removing our right to protest if we make too much noise.
These are the actions of a dictatorship, not a democracy
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Rotten news to wake up to. Paul O’Grady was a primetime drag queen, a famously kind person, a fierce critic of austerity, a brave fighter for gay rights, a great friend to animals and an effortlessly funny comedian. RIP
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Spoke to him this morning. He was in a cab on his way to an audiobook studio. 86. He NEVER STOPS.
Happy Birthday Timothy West, born this day in 1934.
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Happy 88th birthday to my darling Da, Timothy West
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D1, six, and her Grandpa Tim, 86, playing chess this afternoon. First time they’ve seen each other since last summer. The other board is for trying out moves, not simultaneous games.
Swingball is a new addition to their garden. I used to play him at it when I was her age
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Lovely lunch with parents and children. My mother, despite having no short-term memory, managed to do all of Sonnet 116 by heart.
You’re never too old for your first churros. I think it’s fair to say that they went down well
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Ma in Millbank Pizza Express. New hat, decorated by grandchildren
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87 today. Having tea with her later
A very Happy Birthday to the exquisite Prunella Scales.
Sybil Fawlty: ”Have you got Cosmopolitan
there?”
#ClassicSybil
🇬🇧
@johncleese
@exitthelemming
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Sanna Marin, 34, is about to become the youngest Prime Minister in the world. All five parties in Finland’s coalition are currently led by women.
They’re deliberately taking the piss out of us, aren’t they? 🇫🇮
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Sky News: “The Sunday Times rich list has revealed Britain created more new billionaires during the pandemic than in the last 33 years.”
Just a thought. Perhaps we should stop voting for the people who make this grotesque inequality worse?
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Why Boris Johnson is finished, in one cartoon. People don’t get over the fury of hypocrisy like this. Thank you
@tonyhusband1
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Everyone on
@BBC
is discussing how much better than No Deal this deal is. But we were promised a better deal than we had already, not a better deal than No Deal. Nobody is talking about this.
We have such short memories. What a bloody mess
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Passing an emergency law to change a Supreme Court decision you don't like sounds really useful. Unfortunately it's also fascist.
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The Conservatives are destroying a world-famous institution for spite, greed and ambition.
How can an actual Culture Secretary get away with calling the publicly-funded
#BBC
“a Soviet-style” organisation? We’re in a very dark place
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If only all the people coming on Twitter to say they hate
#SadiqKhan
actually lived in London and could vote against him.
Most Londoners who have lived through his last two terms admire his dignity, like his policies and are, by a large majority, very pleased to have him back
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Dear
@LEGO_Group
,
My daughter, four, loves Lego, football and blue, so she was delighted to get the new Lego City magazine.
Then she noticed that of the 29 people who talk in it, only one is female, and she speaks once, to agree with a man.
So my daughter wrote you a letter:
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Been waiting to post this for a year. Joe Wright, director of Darkest Hour, leads 450 MPs in a warmup sing of Hey Jude between takes. Gary Oldman as Churchill makes an entrance at the end.
Darkest Hour is released in the UK today. Hope you like it
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Happy birthday to my darling Da
#TimothyWest
. 89 today (and thus in his Prime); looking well on it
This gorgeous photo was taken at
@OldieMagazine
literary lunch on Tuesday, where Tim chatted about his amazing new book, Pru & Me, which I might just have mentioned once or twice...
By the way, Pru's 91 and Tim will be 89 tomorrow.
Sickening, isn't it!! 😭
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“Do you know” says d1 in her bath, “there were 12 people on the Moon and they were always always ALWAYS men.”
She thinks for a bit. “Maybe I will be the first girl”.
I wouldn’t bet against it
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This is a disastrous, shameful decision. We need bees more than they need us
Government gives farmers go-ahead to use bee-killing pesticide that's banned in the EU:
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Stay classy,
@UKHomeOffice
.
Someone who has given their working life to the NHS. Who voted for this?
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I heard it was an emergency, so I emerged.
As an actor, I can’t do much without face to face contact. But I can read verse. If me reading a particular poem would make you happy, let me know and I’ll post it on
@SoundCloud
. I’ll try and do at least one a day x
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This government.
I’m no expert, but it occurs to me that announcing a ban on public gatherings of more than six only a week after telling people to get back to schools and open-plan offices and on the same day as saying you’re going to break international law may not go well
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Just been out. Streets packed, nobody distancing. Lockdown effectively over.
The Government had a chance. The Blitz spirit was there. For the first time in years, the important stuff - public service, honouring workers, belief in the collective - was at the front of our minds
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Bought a cheap digital film scanner and am going through my old self-developed negatives. The only things I want to see are faces and photographs of old rooms.
Found this picture of my Ma which no-one has ever seen, taken in our kitchen in February 1982
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Well, I hope this news makes you as happy as it makes all of us. All Creatures Great and Small will return for a second series in 2021.
We had a wonderful time making S1 and we're thrilled that so many people enjoyed it. Can't wait to get back to the beautiful Dales
#ACGAS
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Suppose we feed our hungry children first, and leave the military spending increases to charity?
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Parents at
@GylesB1
’s celebration of Shakespeare last night. Combined age 180. Treble 20s all round!
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So maybe don’t shut 800 libraries in the last ten years? Just a thought
It doesn't matter where you're from - a library card is a ticket to anywhere in the world. It's a chance to escape poverty, to broaden your horizons, to change your life, even.
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I realise now how many of my favourite pics of Da have him holding a glass of wine - but after all, why not? Especially at 87
Please join us in wishing Timothy a very Happy 87th Birthday today 🎉 🎂
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A 1970 National Front poster. All policies now followed by the 2020 Conservatives. Except one: restoring the death penalty.
Wait for it…
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I always admired Helen McCrory as an actor of great power and stillness. She led so many companies from the front, with strength and surpassing style.
But she was also one of the kindest, most generous people in the world. What a terrible loss.
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This is a terrible loss. One of the nicest and one of the best.
Haydn Gwynne, star of stage and screen, dies aged 66
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This morning I’m trying to work out how I’ve become the proud father of a ten-year-old who was only born last Wednesday
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Dear Government,
If you tell children worried about climate change to stay in school and do their work, have the decency to do the same when it’s debated in Parliament
#ThereIsNoPlanetB
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Dear Elon,
Doing anything decisive after a 52/48 split turns out badly. Just saying.
Yours, the UK
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Daughter just asked why I was so sad.
Ian Holm died.
- Who’s Ian Holm?
An actor.
- A great actor?
Yes. A great actor.
Alien. Lord of the Rings. Chariots of Fire. Richard III. RIP.
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As you know, Germany has a history with broken glass, so this seemed like an odd thing for a German politician to say. Read on, and you discover that this baseless quote is an anonymous one from a UK ‘source’.
#MailOnSunday
, your headline is xenophobic nonsense. Please stop it
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And in English. I hope this news makes you happy. It does us
#AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall
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Spanish photographer Xavi Bou takes long-exposure photographs of birds in flight.
The patterns they reveal are astonishing
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Delighted to be a pointless answer on
@TVsPointless
tonight (actors who have played Hamlet at
@TheRSC
since 1969).
Nothing like spending a year at the greatest classical theatre company in the world to make absolutely no impression on the public consciousness.
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Good morning. This is a public health message for Conservative voters.
Stay home
Save the UK
Protect the NHS
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Yes, the Coronation music was wonderful. Conservatives have cut arts funding by a third in the last decade. Government cuts to the BBC mean they’re losing 20% of orchestra places. Music teaching in state schools is in freefall.
Who’s going to play at the next one?
Zadok . This sounds amazing. Amazing.
This ceremony is NOTHING without the music and the musicians.
Remember this current & future members of parliament .
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I'm wearing my Prisoner teeshirt today, in solidarity with the Hyde Park protestors
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Mist and rain from dawn till tea
And off we go on Series Three.
The British name it that with reason 🇬🇧
Some people call a series, ‘season’ 🇺🇸
#AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall
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It doesn’t matter if it’s Happy Birthday or the Vivaldi Gloria: all indoor singing was illegal.
Dorries knows this - she’s Culture Minister. Thousands of UK choirs who would have loved to meet & make music together, observed the ban. This governmental disingenuousness won’t wash
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That 45-day debacle cost the country £30bn, enough for an inflation-equalling pay rise for every public sector worker in the country.
But tell me again how the real problem is Meghan and Harry, train drivers and asylum seekers
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I hope these rhymes are not a bore;
Today we started Season Four.
(To second-guess your naming queries
We’re also starting Four: The Series 🇬🇧)
#AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall
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This makes me laugh more than almost anything.
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This from a former Culture Secretary. Honestly. It’s government by fridge magnet
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RIP Bamber Gascoigne. My parents were in a 1984 play of his at the Old Vic, BIG IN BRAZIL, directed by Mel Smith. The critics didn’t care for it, but they had a great time.
My mother, who was 52, particularly enjoyed playing a 36-year-old in Victorian underwear. As you would.
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Can we please stop calling them “sewage spills”. Spills are accidents. These are deliberate acts of environmental vandalism. The cost of getting privatised utilities to clean them up will now be added to our bills.
The water industry paid £1.4bn to shareholders last year
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Good news:
#AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall
will return for a fifth and a sixth season.
We start filming S5 next week in the
#YorkshireDales
To the Drovers to celebrate! We’re excited to share that
#AllCreaturesPBS
has been renewed for Seasons 5 and 6 and that the full ensemble cast will be returning for the fifth season, including Callum Woodhouse as Tristan Farnon. Cheers, everyone! 🍻
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D1: A dress really is better with pockets. I mean, is there a girl in the world that doesn’t collect interesting pebbles?
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Morning all. From July, when I was off Twitter.
St Pancras station. A plasterer took off his hi-viz to play Debussy’s Clair de Lune.
More of this sort of thing
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Now that the Director General of the BBC has explicitly adopted an alt-right trope by saying employees must avoid “virtue-signalling”, can we at least stop parroting the idea that the state broadcaster is institutionally left-wing?
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Ranks of free-market ghouls shouting in unison against the BBC this morning. Because they can’t own it. It belongs to us all (the NHS will be next)
The BBC isn’t perfect; never can be. But it’s world famous for a reason. Trash it and the UK’s descent into irrelevance is complete
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“Dear mummy,
I made this card for you to spred Joy into our emtey lives”
Happy
#ValentinesDay
, all ❤️
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@UKLabour
Please withdraw this. It’s lower than low and I’m embarrassed to be a member when this is the way you campaign
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Raising a martini glass to the songwriting genius of
#BurtBacharach
(1928 - 2023). I wrote down the first 25 of his songs I could think of.
I find it impossible even to read the titles without hearing the tunes. And such great tunes...
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People who think culture is an add-on, a nice-if-you-can-afford it (and run it down and defund it accordingly), remember that
@SamRyderMusic
did more for the UK’s reputation tonight than government ministers have managed in years.
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I think I might have found the most beautiful colour in the world. Purple jalapeños left to ripen on the bush. Harvested this morning
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There is nothing good about this. And it’s no longer the will of the British people (assuming they understood they would lose Freedom of Movement in the first place).
You’re “delighted” to be taking rights away from your own citizens. How utterly pointless.
After many years of campaigning, I am delighted the Immigration Bill which will end free movement on 31st December has today passed through Parliament.
We are delivering on the will of the British people.
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Horrific news. Our orchestras, theatre and dance companies are some of the finest in the world. Now the Government tells us “music, dance, drama and performing arts, art and design ... are not among our strategic priorities.”
Funding for those courses is to be cut by 50%
The Government has announced plans to impose a catastrophic 50% funding cut to arts subjects at higher education (HE) level in England, including music.
Have your say in the consultation before 6 May 👇
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I’m DEAD interested
Jeremy Hunt "I don’t think people at home are remotely interested in personal tax affairs."
Hunt is commenting about his own and Rishi Sunak's tax dodging.
I call him a Lying ****
If you are interested RT.
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Number Two yesterday.
Oh, and our second daughter was born.
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It was instructive to return to this
@BuzzFeed
story comparing headlines about Kate with headlines about Meghan.
If we can’t see the racism here, it’s because we don’t want to
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#Rwanda
is a performatively cruel, unworkable and massively expensive policy.
“Send them back” was the slogan of the National Front of my childhood. It’s now law. A shameful day for this country
🚨 BREAKING: Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda bill has passed through Parliament
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Harrogate station. Feeling slightly harassed by this staircase
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All these fictitious "British" farms are made up by
@Tesco
; some of the produce is from abroad. Tesco say people understand this. I disagree
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Had a very jolly time muting people who claim to have stopped donations to the
@RNLI
because the humans they save from drowning aren’t always British. Bit of a deal-breaker.
Have also sent the
@RNLI
some money
In response to the
@MailOnline
&
@thetimes
:we are proud of our international work. Its saves (mostly kids') lives. And we haven't kept it secret - it's in our annual report, on our website and in the media. We spend just 2% of our expenditure on this work:
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Sad news about Gary Waldhorn. He played my dad, the eponymous king, in both parts of Henry IV at the Old Vic in 1997 (here with my actual dad as the ultimate non-father, Falstaff).
A lovely man and a terrific actor. RIP.
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Brilliant. For the first time in 30 years, Britons now have more confidence in the EU than in our own Parliament.
I’m not surprised. What a clusterfuck
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Kids, you too can be a King if you work hard enough.
Adding this title to the Little People, Big Dreams stable certainly puts the achievements of Rosa Parks and Malala Yousafzai in perspective
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Thinking of the thousands of craftspeople across the centuries whose names we'll never know, their work going up in flames in Paris
#NotreDame
Cathedral Builders, by John Ormond
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RIP my blue tick. Late this afternoon it experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly.
Good thing too, since a blue tick now does the exact opposite of what was originally intended. From now on if I have one it ain’t me.
@ElonMusk
, you scamp
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Delighted and proud to become an
#RSPB
Ambassador, starting now. Great company, great organisation, great amount of work to do
Sam West
@exitthelemming
: “With nature under unprecedented attack, the RSPB shows those in power what a huge and vocal nature lobby can do to change things. Biodiversity isn’t just a nice thing to have, it’s essential for the survival of humanity and the planet.”
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Four million people have read this thread so far. If you’re not one of them, please do
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