Frank Cottrell-Boyce
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UK Waterstones Children's Laureate!!!!!! Swinging a hammock on the Island of Brilliant ... https://t.co/KZR84cpn8B "Dapper" - Daily Mail
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Joined September 2014
Yes it's that time of year already. The annual C-B living on a £1.00-a-day Challenge is here. We're living on £1-a-day for @MarysMeals Updates and heartaches here .. https://t.co/mNjJLUJNjW
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The fact that not one of the relevant Royal Colleges supports this Bill (while being neutral on the principle of assisted suicide) is a powerful red flag telling you that the scrutiny underway in @UKHouseofLords is an absolute necessity. Stop complaining.
Peers’ delay of assisted dying bill ‘could lead to constitutional crisis’ Powerful piece in @thetimes⤵️
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Over the moon that 12 Churches has made The New Yorker Recommended Books of 2025 list- in august company! https://t.co/RvnFQZ85kd
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@ddhitchens @kimleadbeater @thetimes I understand Kim was approached by the Whips with the usual handout bills - chose the puppy farming bill - then a subsequent approach was made for this Bill, NOT on the handout list, which the govt had done no work on, but Starmer personally wanted. It stinks.
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And here is a Starmer aide, speaking to the Guardian in Nov 2024: “Keir wanted it to happen. It’s that simple.”
@ddhitchens @kimleadbeater @thetimes I understand Kim was approached by the Whips with the usual handout bills - chose the puppy farming bill - then a subsequent approach was made for this Bill, NOT on the handout list, which the govt had done no work on, but Starmer personally wanted. It stinks.
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we had these spuds instead of the scheduled cheese on toast which means we are basically a meal up on the schedule. Result.
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Guys look what we found!! TWENTY SEVEN P!! It's going to be a beautiful night ..
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Look at this fabulous stack of books from @booknookhove to go into our school book vending machine. @HGold_author @frankcottrell_b @MichaelRosenYes @vashti_hardy @RobBiddulph @TraceyCorderoy
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It's sobering that some MPs have such a flawed understanding of how the Parliament in which they sit actually works. There is no constitutional principle of the 'primacy' of the Commons in the sense that @kitmalthouse asserts. Repeatedly asserting otherwise does not make it so.
You’re asking primacy to be absolute in order to exist, but constitutional principles are hierarchical not binary. They require only that, at the point of ultimate conflict, the mandate of the Commons takes precedence. Statutory and conventional limits simply give effect to that.
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Delighted to get @FaberBooks proof of John Lanchester’s black comedy about a toxic marriage ( not least because am writing a little non-fic book on modern marriage for @nottinghillbooks). Is this an avocado on the jacket??
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In late 2023, Keir Starmer was solemnly intoning “country before party” about every five minutes. We now know he was also planning to introduce a major social reform by the most reckless legislative means possible—while hiding his involvement—to give himself “political cover”.
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No it couldn’t.
Peers’ delay of assisted dying bill ‘could lead to constitutional crisis’ Powerful piece in @thetimes⤵️
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Not quite in your league @frankcottrell_b and @MichaelRosenYes, but I wrote a short book for my Grandchildren and it seemed to go down well. Perhaps other little ‘uns might like it for Christmas? #ChildrensBooks #Reading
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Bette Davis was the only white performer who agreed to be part of Hattie McDaniel's performing troupe to entertain Black servicemen during WWII. Bette didn't give a damn what anyone thought!
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In a major development we went out just before closing time and found ... 34p mushrooms. They were borderline slimy but we fried them up and added them to today's portion of the daal. Jealous yet?
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Occasionally we see columnists and politicians saying a person could easily live for next to nothing on porridge and turnips. This is our tenth year of doing £1 a day for a week and I can tell you, it's not sustainable. And it's bloody time consuming.
Yes it's that time of year already. The annual C-B living on a £1.00-a-day Challenge is here. We're living on £1-a-day for @MarysMeals Updates and heartaches here .. https://t.co/mNjJLUJNjW
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16th century Venetian lawyer/bibliophile Odorico Pillone shelved his books spine-inward and commissioned Cesare Vecellio (Titian’s nephew) to paint their fore-edges with colourful images suggesting their subject matter. Here’s how they looked on the shelf https://t.co/SpoejwfaVV
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Humbled to meet medically evacuated Gazan children in parliament this afternoon. They have been through so much in their short and precious lives. I will do everything I can to make sure that they have what they need to recover 👇🏻
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Does nobody else think it weird that "vanilla" has become a shorthand for safe, boring, clean, unadventurous? For a start, vanilla is fucking delicious, with a taste like no other spice. It's expensive, rare and only grows in a handful of places. Sensual on every level.
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