Fiona Roberts-Moore
@fillefi
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Head of Production, The London Standard. Tweets are mine - mostly pasta, pedantry, books and front pages
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Joined February 2009
An honour, a privilege and a great sadness to send the final front page of the Evening Standard to press this morning. Messy desk essential. @standardnews
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Close your eyes and hang on for the ride in Kaliane Bradley’s time-travelling genre mash-up, The Ministry of Time - my latest book review for @EveningStandard 📖 https://t.co/uhYCkVFCEl
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“He was, above all things, a charming man. In every century they make themselves at home.” Which, in the case of Graham Gore, a Victorian naval commander plucked from a doomed polar expedition to a...
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✍️@fillefi: Clear by Carys Davies is a novel with the electric hum of a thriller
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There is a moment, about three-quarters of the way through Carys Davies’s third novel, Clear, so simultaneously startling and pleasing that I put the book down in delight. In trepidation, too: this...
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This is such a gorgeous book. A slim, masterfully carved gem of a story with the electric hum of a thriller. Really delighted to have reviewed Clear by Carys Davies (published by @GrantaBooks and out now) for @EveningStandard
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After (many) years behind the scenes at @standardnews it’s still an absolute thrill to see my byline in print - and The Glutton is a truly delicious book. Go order it!
His belly distended, his teeth ground to stumps, his eyes wild: this, we are told, is a man who ate cats; corks; rats; belts; 30 pounds of beef lung and liver; a golden fork; 75 eggs. This is a man who ate a child. Or did he?
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Extraordinary thread. Labour MPs should be reading these cases out to the prime minister one by one at #PMQs
A woman prosecuted for breaking lockdown rules told a court she had inadvertently attended an illegal gathering. "It was not intentional...I didn't realise there would be others present". She was convicted and fined £250 #PartyGate
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PC Wayne Couzens was seen handcuffing Sarah Everard on a road in Clapham - she was compliant because he used the guise of covid restrictions to “arrest” her. It was seen by witnesses who assumed Everard had done something wrong. They were in fact witnessing her kidnap by a cop
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'The misappropriation of "staycation" reflects a modern assumption that unless you go abroad, it’s not a real holiday.' ✍️ Lara King https://t.co/LmeT2srR9g
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Last summer, when Covid forced the cancellation of our holiday, my husband and I had a staycation. We read books, played games, drank Pimm’s on our patio and invented ever more imaginative ways to...
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A Life of Service @standardnews #PrincePhilip #FRONTPAGE Thank you for my team for getting our tribute to Prince Philip ready so fast and onto the streets of London.
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Don't think anyone who heard Sue Martin speak on @bbcr4today in April will have forgotten it .. we have now gone back to her and spoken to Mal for the first time. An incredible story of survival and love - also sobering on what consequences of Covid can be
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Mal Martin's family were told there was almost zero chance of survival after he contracted Covid-19.
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I’d like to pretend I hadn’t tried to learn The Confrontation, but that would be a lie. This is excellent.
Love #musicals? Know everything there is to know about @lesmisofficial? Well you might have some Opinions on this excellent, epic ranking of all the Les Mis songs by @jessiecath and @Katierosseinsky - tell us what you think! https://t.co/OjBiFih7JD
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Our front page today as @Keir_Starmer surges five points ahead of Boris in @standardnews Ipsos Mori poll despite Labour now being plunged into civil war...
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“No I’m sorry, you go ahead.” “No please you.” “No I cut you off.” “No I cut YOU off!” “Okay if you insist...” “I do!” -Scene from the first presidential debate between two women
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Early bird catches the worm: huge team effort in dawn hours spotting Boris and his new celebrity trainer, enlisted as doubts of his health emerge again... brilliant pic by @jeremyselwyn1 @elliotwagland @standardnews @JoeMurphyLondon
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There goes the running order
BREAKING: Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds have announced the birth of a “healthy baby boy at a London hospital earlier this morning”. Both mother and baby are doing very well, their spokesman said.
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