Hannah Tomes
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At my village pub and a man said to his lovely black lab: ‘pay for my beer, Fergus’ and put his card in Fergus’ mouth and he ran to the bar, put his paws up and dropped the card on the counter. The bartender paid the tab on contactless and it was THE BEST thing I’ve ever seen
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Some genuinely hilarious responses on Sky’s rolling list of messages for King Charles before the coronation, but none that sums up British culture more than this
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Of all the new year (and Truss) honours, one really stands out: Rizwan Javed, a Tube station assistant, who has become an MBE for saving the lives of 29 people by talking to them on the platforms. The best of us
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Found out that an ex-boyfriend CAMPED for TWO DAYS to get a good spot for the jubilee and I have never felt a stronger surge of the ick
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Every last fine in this was – and is – completely insane.
In The Spectator last May I wrote about the 136,000 fixed penalty notices issued to Brits while Downing Street was in party mode.
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the absolute dream situation would have been alex & alex winning, and her taking the money then shouting ‘shame on you’ & we all know it
#loveisland
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✨ Thrilled to say I’ll be joining the Daily Mail features desk as a commissioning editor next month! Will be sad to leave brilliant, hilarious colleagues on news subs after two and a half years but... at least I’m only moving across the newsroom ✨
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So excited + delighted to say I’ll be joining
@spectator
as newsletters editor in the summer! Will miss excellent colleagues at the Daily Mail – but can’t wait to get started 🗞
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@OwenJones84
my granddad, a lifelong Tory voter, is v unhappy with the Tory manifesto and is ~considering~ changing (a big thing for him!)
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The news about Sarah Everard is terrifying. She was last seen on the street next to my house, a road I've walked down so, so many times alone. I'm *tired* of not feeling safe doing something as mundane as walking - and I'm sure other women feel the same.
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* record scratch *
* freeze frame *
So, you're probably wondering how I got here
#eurovision
#Portugal
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Started as The Spectator's newsletter editor today – great to get going with a lovely team
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only plan for today: pilgrimage to my nearest greggs to sample that sweet, sweet vegan steak bake
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personal news: i am 💫absolutely spiralling💫 at the thought of another lockdown
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Absolutely shocked and thrilled in equal measures to have won Feature of the Year at the
@NCTJ_news
awards! Apparently made a judge cry so sorry about that x
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No longer will
@Number10cat
need his human helpers to open the door... he's happy as Larry with his new flap in today's Daily Mail!
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I would simply die if someone summed up my life in a sentence like
@LouisStaples
has (savagely, brilliantly) with Tom Sandoval’s
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I posted a room for rent one evening – and had almost 60 responses on SpareRoom by the morning. Wrote about how mental the London housing market is for renters atm – and the extent to which most young people are at the mercy of their landlords
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Wrote about the Scottish government’s worrying £186k(!) egg donation advertising drive for
@spectator
. Incredibly dystopian to have a state actively recruiting for donors when it’s such a deeply personal choice.
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Someone who used to live at my house ordered food here by accident. my housemate waited about 15 mins but then started on the chips. Then we noticed someone looking through the window. Apparently they only moved round the corner and had come for the food. Dying of embarrassment
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my grandparents, who raised me since i was a baby, had their vaccines this morning!!! they are the best people and this is the best news ✨💉
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Got my first article in print in this week’s
@spectator
, on the joy of rude place names. For reference, I grew up in a village called Clunton… so nearly so vulgar
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Thinking of all the reporters being sent on the tube today to see how hot the different lines are
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solidarity to all journalists hoping for a chilled last shift before christmas
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this is......... not the daily mail office
Anti Vax Passport Protesters take over the Daily Mail Offices in London
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crying at my local pub thinking ‘spend £150, get a free coffee’ is a good deal
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Peak Westminster: just seen a man jogging with the Budget blaring out of a small speaker strapped to his back
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Completely thrilled that The Sunday Times (!) has syndicated my article on egg donation adverts (from this week’s
@spectator
) as a column in today’s paper👇
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Actually so bloody proud of the fact we're still managing to produce three editions of the Daily Mail with almost all staff working from bedrooms, kitchen tables, sofas and wherever else across the country in such difficult, scary times
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Listening to the Christmas teaser for
@dadwroteaporno
and it is honestly repulsive. I'm so proud of Rocky.
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Got to sub the most glorious story in tomorrow's Mail - and am unreasonably pleased nobody vetoed 'Carrying Miss Daisy'. The tale of a lovely dog who hurt her leg and had to be carried down Scafell Pike by a team of 16 PEOPLE in a rescue operation which took FIVE HOURS. An icon.
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Out of the office on my last day at the Daily Mail and into the pub in a solid two mins – three years well spent, surreal to be leaving!!
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There is actual, genuine suspense in
@dadwroteaporno
and I'm both shocked and amazed in equal amounts
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someone i went on two dates with deliveroo'd me some prosecco and chocolates and i am dying this is cute
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Wrote about why the Tories’ refusal to engage with the housing crisis – and renters locked out of home ownership – will ultimately harm them electorally
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didn't think this is what the apocalypse would look like but here we are
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Wrote about the double standards of MPs loudly condemning the Roe vs Wade decision when most are silent on the hurdles to access in Northern Ireland. Almost 3 years since it was decriminalised in NI – and hundreds still travel for abortions each year
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went home and surprised my granddad by showing up at the pub where he drinks every friday. it’s been hours now and he’s not stopped alternating between telling me off for giving him a fright and getting teary/happy: v v v worth it
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Really happy to have subbed my first national splash – tomorrow's Daily Mail!
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Great from
@AnnabelDenham1
on Britain’s incessant infantilisation of the public – and particularly the young – in pursuit of a risk-free (fun-free) and sanitised society.
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I was a couch to 5k sceptic but have gone from not running at all to running 2 miles, 3 times a week in five weeks and......... the exercisers were right, endorphins are real???
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the guy i'm seeing just told me he doesn't like chinese food and honestly, might have to call it a day. no prawn toast? no salt and chilli tofu? no egg fried rice? what a sad little life jane
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some *small* professional news: i'm going to be doing some health reporting bits for
@mailplus
— my email/dms are open for any wellbeing, fitness or health tips, stories and tidbits!!!!! 🚑💊💉
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So happy that the
@spectator
Evening Blend newsletter has just won ‘Best Politics Newsletter’ at
@pubnewsletters
🎉
Huge congrats to
@IsabelHardman
!!
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@CharlieFBBaker1
The Roger Stevens building at Leeds Uni (the numbering of the floors inside make no sense and it was apparently designed to be ‘riot proof’?)
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reliably informed i've just become the first sub in 124 years to edit the Daily Mail's leader from the sofa, wrapped in my duvet
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HUGE honour to be one of
@MHPC
’s
#30toWatch
this evening. I am very nearly too old so ty for giving a biddie an award 🙏
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now RIP to my whole roof lol
RIP to my bedroom (which has a hole in the ceiling) after my landlord said ‘some tarp over it will be fine’
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T2 Trainspotting is the most beautiful sequel I have or will ever see. Just WOW
@IrvineWelsh
@mcgregor_ewan
and everyone else you beauties
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Absolutely over the moon to have been shortlisted for the NCTJ student features award!! Shocked but so so happy!
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@cornishop
I’m not a huge fan of the honours list, but if they’re going to someone at least this is a good use of the recognition in my opinion! Ditto Kevin Sinfield and Row Burrow
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Deep dive into the chaotic energy of the Handforth council meeting in tomorrow’s Mail... with a few words from Jackie, who said ‘my knees were shaking but I was determined to hold the meeting’
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Started on the Spectator’s online team this week. Still editing newsletters but am also on the lookout for interesting pitches and ideas from excellent writers – please do drop me an email (in bio)!
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Absolutely thrilled to be one of the
@MHPC
30 to Watch winners!! 🥳
This year's
#30ToWatch
Journalism Awards winners in the Culture, Entertainment & Lifestyle category judged by
@emilyfairbs
and
@KerrisCorner
are
@abigailbuchn
[The Daily Telegraph],
@JadeCuttle
[The Times],
@JossieEvans
[ITV News] and
@hannahtomes_
[The Spectator]. See the full…
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I spent *weeks* looking back through Prince Philip’s life – as documented in the Daily Mail from 1935 to the present day – to bring these facsimiles to life. Really happy with how they’ve turned out. Running all week in the paper 🗞
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Fun evening hosting the Turkish restaurant and takeaway awards! Well done to all the winners 👏
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FINALLY a party that seems to grasp the scale of the housing crisis and wants to take steps to address it. Ignoring it just makes you look like you’ve got your head in the sand
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Wrote about my love of Baileys in this week’s
@spectator
. It was the first alcohol a friend and I used to nick from her parents’ alcohol cupboard as teenagers! Fun! Festive!
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It’s not even the fact we can’t see families etc for christmas. It’s the sheer scattiness of the messaging – throughout the pandemic – that is frustrating and has shattered the public’s trust. It could have been so easily avoided had they been honest
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Last day at
@irishdailymail
after three excellent months. Will be so sad to leave, I couldn’t have asked for a nicer group of people to share a newsroom with! I’ll always have a soft spot for Dublin, for sure.
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Devastated to have to say goodbye to my fluffy mate today. I loved her for 16 years, and she was perfect. Sleep well, little Soots. X
Photos of other people's pets are very much appreciated to help lift my spirits
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regret to inform you that i've lived in clapham for three weeks + just had my first sunday morning coffee in running leggings. i am now a hopeless parody of a south london 20-something, sorry
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Worth braving the cold for this stunning walk to work through St James’s Park
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Very happy to be joining the news desk at The Spectator from next month to cover some maternity leave 🗞
BUT! I’ll be continuing with some parts of my current role, so this means we’re looking for a newsletter assistant to help out. Come join the team!
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980,000 copies a day - and who said print was dead? 🗞️🗞️🗞️
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Very bizarre giving a talk at a journalism conference on the same stage where I used to do karaoke after a few pints at uni
Our session on Crafting the perfect newsletters with Rob Parsons and Hannah Tomes
#SPANC22
“Something that makes you want to click it is really important”
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Really beautiful tribute to Jeremy Clarke by his wife, Catriona in this week’s
@spectator
. To write with such clarity and thought about someone you loved so soon after their death must be almost impossible, but this is wonderful:
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Just helped a woman who must be at least 80 download tinder & set up a profile & honestly: what a woman.
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Massive honour for
@spectator
Lunchtime Espresso to be nominated for Newsletter of the Year at the
@pressgazette
Future of Media awards alongside some cracking entries – and huge congrats to Inkcap for winning!
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V pleased to have subbed my second splash for the Mail – Archbishop Justin Welby on the Andrew scandal
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Boris isn't the only one with baby news today... my ~beautiful~ folding bike arrived and i am obsessed
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Real honour to chair such an interesting discussion for
@Shelter
this morning on renting and politics.
Thanks so much to top speakers
@michaelgove
,
@KwajoHousing
,
@pollyn1
,
@clare_caudery
,
@NatalieElphicke
and
@Shaun4WBW
👏
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Think we might have set the record with 144 pages... huge team effort for a long life
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In latest YouGov polling, Labour has a 33-point lead over the Tories. For more on the (huge) results – and everything else from Westminster today – don’t miss
@IsabelHardman
’s Evening Blend newsletter. Sign up for free here:
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bacon sarnie and a bottle of champagne: seeing in 26 as i mean to go on
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is it just me or has anyone else found it almost impossible to watch anything serious since march? 12 hours of ramsay's kitchen nightmares over a weekend? no problem. but a documentary? a proper film?? leave it
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did a terrifying thing today & read some poetry i wrote out loud and in front of actual people at a
@PoetrySociety
event & wow. scary but so thrilling! (yes, i am aware i've reached peak english grad, but what can you do eh?)
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viewing flats in brick lane/bethnal green and wondering: do i like it or is it just near beigel bake
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Small point but: always in awe of journalists who are live on air and have to fill time when announcements are delayed
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Thought I’d check what was happening in the news 27 years ago today, the day I was born, and........... it was major
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Not the Gordon Brown/Silvio Berlusconi crossover I was expecting
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