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Public Historian FRHistS 🎙Host & creator of #YoureDeadToMe on @bbcsounds 📖Author of 5 books 📺 Series 1-8 BBCHorribleHistories ⚽️ Spurs #COYS
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One of my all-time fave movie-watching memories was being on a 7-hour flight. After an hour or so, some guy gave up on a movie he was watching, and presumably took a punt on a new kids animation. The Lego Movie.
Soon he was chuckling. Then giggling. Then LAUGHING… 1/6🧵 👇
10 years ago today, THE LEGO MOVIE released in cinemas. It was a joyful experience making the film - a celebration of creativity.
To celebrate, I’ll post some memories and behind-the-scenes tidbits on this thread throughout the day.
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Jeanne de Clisson, murderous French aristocrat-turned-pirate who named her ship My Revenge after the French king executed her husband. She spent the next decade killing all the French crews she encountered, sparing only 1 sailor to relay her message of vengeance ☠️⚓️⚔️
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The hill I will die on is that doing comedy is harder than drama. Gosling nails this
First clip from Greta Gerwig’s ‘BARBIE’.
“My job… is just beach.”
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I’ve been to fewer parties in my entire thirties than Boris Johnson attended in a national lockdown
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Hi! OK, BIG PERSONAL NEWS...
You may have noticed I’ve had a lot of down days on here. In 2014, I married my wonderful wife, after a decade together, and we began trying to get pregnant. It didn’t go as we’d hoped. First, 2 years of nothing. Then in 2016, 2 miscarriages...
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And on Thursday night, thanks to my wife’s incredible courage — and the kind support of friends, family & medical staff — and, after 15 years together, and 5 years of pain, we finally held our baby. She’s called Esmé, she has a ridiculous amount of hair, and she’s amazing 🥰
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Get yourself a renowned Shakespearean actor for your ludicrously silly comedy, and you get scenes like this peppered in amongst the goofing and slapstick - ‘gravitas’ doesn’t even come close to describing Andre Braugher’s mastery of big speeches
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One week into lockdown the BBC launched the biggest educational programme in its recent history to ensure children had learning support. No other platform could/would do that
This is what we get from the BBC license fee which costs around 43p per day
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I keep seeing a raven with its beak open. Even after I see it’s a rabbit
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“Wounded” in the sense that he stopped living immediately. His name was Francoise-Antoine Fauveau; he died aged 23, having previously been a butter merchant
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I thought this was a badly executed stunt. Happy to admit I was likely wrong about that
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Hello, general note of polite Twitter decorum - if you don’t like a TV show/film/book/album etc, PLEASE DON’T @ the creator and tell them. It’s incredibly aggressive, hurtful, selfish and destructive. If we want to know what people think, we will search for it ourselves. Thanks!
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The horrible thing about watching History happen in front of you is you don’t yet know how it ends
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History degrees are superbly transferable - you learn how to write, how to argue, how to critique, how to reframe, how to read, how to be empathetic to other perspectives, and how to understand why the world is as it is. It is not a “fluffy” subject
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This is the best crime of the year
Teenager is arrested after buying PlayStation 4 for £8 by WEIGHING it in the fruit section and paying for 6lb of food at self-service till
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I’d argue this has more educational power than some workmen quietly removing it in the night
This is the current scene next to the plinth on which Colston’s statue stood until earlier today.
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Turns out Tom Cruise is only Tom Cruise when you can see his teeth. Otherwise he's Bradley Walsh
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…I was already happy getting on that plane, but I’ll never forget the way a silly little movie (which turned out to be a total masterpiece) went viral in the most physically obvious way possible - I’ve never seen anything like it, what a wonderful thing to have witnessed.
End.
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…and I realise this is the strangest sort of elation, because we are all strangers finding common joy in the same glorious thing, but none of us is watching the same bit. We’re out of sync, but in harmony. It’s not like a cinema, or comedy club, or sports arena… it’s Twitter?!
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Statues are put up in praise, they can be taken down in condemnation . That is not changing the past, it’s reflecting what we value in our present
Concerned about the precedent this sets:
We certainly should be more aware/critical of our past. It should be a source of insight, education & debate.
Expunging historical figures for failing to comply with 21st C values will not amend past mistakes - not right today’s wrongs.
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…and now it’s spreading! Slowly the plane starts to fill with laughter, as more and more people discover this delightfully silly animation, but in a strangely delayed rhythm; you can hear the ripple effect as the first big joke lands, over and over, for 50 different people… 👇
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…and by now my wife has put down her book and joined this emergent cult of mid-air glee, and the two guys who started the movement are becoming preachers promising a brighter future, because they’re laughing so much at jokes we haven’t got to yet! 👇
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…5 minutes later, the new guy is laughing hard. The original guy leans over and says “wait to you get to the next bit!”
Suddenly another person, from the opposite aisle, strains their neck over the headrest and asks “what is that?”
“The Lego Movie!”👇
“Ok!”
It has begun.
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Nothing is more boring and wrong than people scoffing at Media Studies in a world where most of us are unable to judge the quality of information on the internet, or on our screens, or the way narratives are constructed by the powerful
WE SHOULD ALL DO MEDIA STUDIES
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Channel 4: Overwhelming majority (96% of 55,000 people consulted) reject privatisation plans during consultation
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It's my birthday. It's also
#WorldSuicidePreventionDay
- both are linked. 6 years ago I nearly ended it all. Please don't suffer in silence
Why we're publishing real suicide notes to mark
#WSPD17
today, by the men who wrote them and survived:
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Honestly, we’re 70 years deep now, every pop song sounds a bit like every other pop song… there are only so many notes
Ed Sheeran sings in court as part of Marvin Gaye copyright case
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Reading history books does not make you a history lover.
Actual history lovers have...
- read ALL the history books
- tweet only in Latin
- have had bubonic plague at least twice
- been married to Henry VIII
- been displayed in the Louvre
Seeing the Star Wars movies does not make you a Star Wars fan.
Actual Star Wars fans have done some of the following:
* Read the novelizations
* Read books in the EU
* Read new canon books
* Read some comics
* Watched the animated shows
* Participated in SW discussion groups.
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I’d much rather have been told “2020 is a write off, just stay safe until the vaccine”, than have Christmas dangled in front of us then snatched away at the last minute. That’s much more upsetting and confusing
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…the guy next to him leaned over and asked “hey, what are you watching?” 🤨
The dude realised how loud he was, and was a little embarrassed. He apologised, and said quietly: “uh… it’s The Lego Movie? - I didn’t expect this”
So the guy next to him selects it too… 2/5👇
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…so, having eavesdropped this whole thing, obviously now I need to watch The Lego Movie!
True enough, 5 minutes later, I’m laughing hard, and my wife is looking at me in confusion.
I look around embarrassed (was I loud?), and see people behind me, squinting at my screen… 👇
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I’m excited for the continuing updates from these lads. I want a new photo every 5 years, so future historians can track our descent into climate change chaos through the width of our trousers
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Hands up if your home is also your workplace and you still followed the rules 🙋♂️
Exclusive:
Boris Johnson will appoint his own private lawyer if he receives a questionnaire from the police over alleged breaches of lockdown rules
The lawyer will focus on his ‘unique’ legal situation - that No 10 is both his home and workplace
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He’s making a list,
He’s checking it twice,
He’s changing the font,
To make it look nice,
Santa Claus’ priorities are wrong
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BRITAIN: "Hey, America, watch this!"
*BRITAIN SETS ITSELF ON FIRE*
USA: "Cool. Can I borrow your lighter?"
#ElectionNight
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The Royal Family’s injury crisis is revealing flaws in its transfer policy. Most coaches would panic, but Ange Postecoglou would simply play Beatrice & Eugenie at centre back and start Prince George in midfield
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For all of you saying we don't need the BBC because the free market will make history documentaries, *this* is what the market provides...
Though it’s widely established that Hitler died in his bunker in Berlin, rumours of his escape abound. What do you believe?
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Just think, if Remus had killed Romulus instead, we’d maybe talk about:
-The Reman Catholic Church,
- Holy Reman Empire,
- My Chemical Remance,
- Remantic Comedies,
- Remania,
- Reman Holiday
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“Reduced to using public spas” is one hell of a line
BREAKING: Captain Tom's daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore has been reduced to using public spas after losing a planning application appeal against the demolition of an unauthorised home spa in their garden.
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I wasn’t sure how I’d feel upon the death of Prince Phillip, but it turns out my abiding feeling is sadness. A 73 year marriage is an extraordinary thing and I feel for Elizabeth, the person
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Oh no, I’ve accidentally done a viral thread on Twitter about a viral movie experience feeling a bit like Twitter! Here come the irony police 🚨
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Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times by his friends and colleagues
Donald Trump says: "No politician in history… has been treated worse or more unfairly"
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Fair play to Rishi Sunak, desperately waiting 3 months to be paid is very much the authentic self-employed experience
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Hi, historian of celebrity here, and this isn’t paradoxical - this is how famous people who are routinely hounded try to reassert control. Consent given, on their terms, in order to ensure the information isn’t leaked on other people’s terms
She went to court to protect her privacy. Now she tells the whole world she is pregnant and releases a photograph. How celebrity now works. Tell stories on our terms or we’ll sue.
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*SCREAMS IN HISTORIAN* 😱
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Oh my god, I wasn’t prepared for your replies. I’m bawling my eyes out in the lounge. Thank you, Twitter. Thank you from the bottom of my heart xx
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Happy 15th birthday to
#HorribleHistories
, the show that changed my life!
I could live to 150 and still never do something as impactful as the thing I did aged 25 when we invented a brand new genre of TV: factual sketch comedy! I’m dead proud of it, including footnotes for kids
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I’m sharing this story because infertility is an agony often felt in private. People rarely knew how to talk to us. It sometimes made me angry there wasn’t more awareness. But I get why that is because I kept it hidden. I was scared. And I still don’t want to talk about it now
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I’ve woken up this morning to an astonishing torrent of kindness and love. I can’t believe our beautiful daughter is trending on Twitter! I’m so sorry I can’t reply to your messages; I’ve read every single one and they mean the world to my wife and me. Thank you so much xx 🥰
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But I do want to say I’m grateful to so many of you for the twitter conversations that were a welcome distraction. You often helped without realising it. Thank you. Twitter is a kind place, as well as a hellhole full of Nazis. But I’m now off to hug my wife & baby. Goodnight x
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This makes me so very happy! 👇👏👏
12 years ago I watched an episode of Horrible Histories for a school project. Today I graduated from uni with a degree in history. There’s a lot of people to thank but, on my graduation day, I want to thank the cast of Horrible Histories for inspiring that first love.
Legends.
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It sends the message that enslaving tens of thousands of people is bad, David
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Please know that David Starkey doesn’t speak for historians.
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We've lost so many significant musicians this year, but Bowie, Prince and George Michael redefined how sexuality was discussed in public
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Lovely metaphor, not remotely true history. This photo is from Paris Match/Daily Mail, 1958. The Algerian donkey was starving to death, so a soldier from the 13th brigade of the French Foreign Legion carried it back to base where it became a regimental mascot named “bambi”
A WWII soldier carrying a donkey. Because the field is mined & if the donkey was free, it would likely detonate a charge & kill everyone. So during difficult times the first ones you have to keep under control are the jackasses who don't understand the danger & do as they please.
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The BBC isn’t perfect, but I speak from experience when I say no other broadcaster would’ve backed Horrible Histories or You’re Dead To Me, the two most successful things I’ve done. The marketplace just wouldn’t take those risks. So many careers begin with the BBC’s support
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For the sake of historians and our mental health, AI-generated art must be banned immediately
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I honestly don’t know what The Daily Mail wants anymore…
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Full credit to Toby, it takes huge creativity to keep embarrassing yourself in new and exciting ways. He’s like a jazz improviser tooting atonally on a trumpet made of turds
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Thanks to everybody who liked my story!
BTW, I’m a historian who LOVES comedy, so if you like laughing while you learn, maybe try my funny BBC podcast You’re Dead To Me where we pair up top comedians with top historians 🙏😁
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The Troll-Puddle Martyrs
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Paddington 2 is the best thing humanity has achieved in this millennium
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Is it because they have a stable career?
A study has shown a correlation between children who play Mary or Joseph in their school nativity play, and being a high earner later in life.
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Today was my first day off in a year. Didn’t go to the pub, didn’t go shopping, didn’t get a haircut. But my toddler learned how to say “puddle” while jumping in a bunch of puddles, and that’s as lovely as I could have hoped for ❤️
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Fund Lovin’ Criminals
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ONLy ALiEns CoULd hAVe bUilT thE PyraMiDS
Piramitleri kesin uzaylılar yaptı abi 4 bin yıl önce o dev gibi kayaları cetvel gibi düzgün kesicek teknoloji mi vard
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There will never be another like him again - I can’t believe how good he is at 80. I can’t believe how good he was at 25. Cherish him, we only get so long with these titans
#PaulMcCartney
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Until the year 1371, when Ibn al-Shatir constructed a complex sundial in Damascus, an hour was not 60 minutes long: it was 75 minutes long in the summer and 44 minutes in the winter. Time stretched & shrank to mirror the patterns of available daylight
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Today I tweeted about Boris Johnson, with inevitable results.
The most offensive thing about repeatedly being told “shut up you cunt!” is none of these people are using a comma after “up”. It really upsets me. The comma is crucial, guys. Please, have a heart.
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It wasn’t built by slaves
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GROOT: "I am Groot"
HODOR: "Hodor!"
THERESA MAY: "Strong and stable leadership"
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They’re not “errors”, they’re creative choices - the kind that every dramatist has to make because there’s no such thing as an accurate history drama
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I feel like ‘millennial’ is the most-used, least-understood word at the moment. I’m turning 37 soon. I have grey hairs in my beard. I grew up with cassettes and VHS and Ceefax. I got my first mobile phone at 18.
And I’m a Millennial.
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Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
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You’re all doing millipede jokes about the marriage ‘not having legs’, but I’m here to ruin your fun by reminding you ‘pede’ means ‘feet’, not legs. The etymologically correct joke is “sadly they were not sole mates”
Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied Divorce After 11 Years of Marriage
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Urgh, I’m gonna be all ME ME ME, but after 20 years of money anxiety, precarious TV contracts, and working 80-hour weeks, I’ve finally paid off my student loan - and it’s such a relief!
I nearly quit this career in 2017, my finances were so bad, so this feels like a little win
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Maybe there's loads of them?
Melania
Melanib
Melanic
Melanid
Melanie
Melanif
Melanig
Etc...
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@lingerie_addict
Similarly there’s a theory that we can date when shoes were invented in the Stone Age because of changes in the robustness of toe bones
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I’ve not seen anyone talk about it, but
#SlowHorses
series 2 on Apple TV is absolutely fantastic - a spidery plot and pithy dialogue worthy of The Thick Of It. Gary Oldman is having the time of his life in the lead role
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I commuted for 3 hours per day for 6 years. It cost me £3000 per year and contributed to me having a mental breakdown. It’s not ideal, lads
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Film pitch: everyone gets the vaccine, becomes 17% more Tom Hanks, society improves immeasurably, The End
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Our Prime Minister is a liar, an egotist, a bully, a man who uses racist language, who targets Muslims, who writes biographies about himself; a man who failed as a Foreign Secretary, whose tenure as London Mayor was marred by wasteful gimmicks, a cynical charlatan, a sly buffoon
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"Fly me to the Moon, let me play among the stars" - Frank Sinatra
"I need to borrow your shuttle, I can't say why..." - Evasive Sinatra
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You fools, he wasn’t recaptured - he has accomplished his reconnaissance mission and now returns to the zoo to teach other animals about the vulnerabilities in our national defences. This is how Planet of the Apes starts!
BREAKING : A monkey which has been missing in the Highlands for more than five days has been successfully captured. He was found this morning, a couple of miles from the park and is now being checked over by Park staff.
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IT CAME!! I WROTE A BOOK. AN ACTUAL BOOK!!
4 years of hard work, battling against traumatic grief and financial insecurity, but it was all worth it. I’m so happy!!! 😍😍😍
#DeadFamous
is out on March 19th, please pre-order if you can, it makes a huge difference! Thank you 🙏
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@TheDailyShow
Hi, I enjoy your show, but you’re flagrantly ripping off
@MrMichaelSpicer
’s act here. Not cool
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@AaronLancs
I disagree! Most dramatic actors are not good at comedy, unless they think they’re in a tragedy - see Succession for the best example
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Feeling very emosh on my first Fathers’ Day, after five years of grief at how it hadn’t happened for me yet. Sending love to everyone for whom today is painful or sad, I see you 💓
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We’ve discovered our baby falls asleep if I talk uninterrupted for about 15 minutes. Usually I talk about Spurs. Tonight I lectured her on the seminal study of medieval political theology, The King’s Two Bodies, by Ernst Kantorowicz. Baby now understands nuances of mortal power
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I loved it when Netflix made Detectorists, and Horrible Histories, and Inside Number 9, and Panorama, and Horizon, and Exodus, and The A Word, and Line of Duty, and Peaky Blinders, and Sherlock, and Doctor Who, and Taboo, and Wolf Hall, and Motherland, and Doctor Foster, and...
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So, forgive me if I don’t respond to your tweets. I’m not strong enough; I don’t want to relive it all, and I don’t want to be some IVF spokesperson, or a news story, and I’m not qualified to give infertility advice. I’m sharing this because i feel I should, not because I want to
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