Simon Schama
@simon_schama
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The past is never dead. It's not even past (Faulkner) . Historian, writer, art critic, cook, BBC presenter but not necessarily in that order
Joined August 2013
bless her
“We can’t turn off our menorahs!” This interview made me cry. 😢 Every Jewish person needs to watch this.
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Moronic but also more items for the 25th amendment...
The only thing worse than a narcissistic sociopath is an unbelievably petty narcissistic sociopath. https://t.co/s6Gn8D6Mqz
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can't wait to see what Grover Cleveland had to say about Donald Trump ! "I dream of a golden-haired genius-angel-saint whom if America is deeply fortunate will one day occupy this House?" Something along those lines perhaps?
The White House has installed descriptive plaques under the gold-framed portraits of every President featured on the “Presidential Walk of Fame” just outside the Oval Office, with every plaque, of course, in someway having to mention President Trump.
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If matter can't be created from nothing then where did our universe of matter come from?
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"at length" oh oh .....
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Actually I'm old enough to remember the 1958 black and white BBC series - with Alan Badel as the best Darcy of all. (no wet shirt though)
Which Pride & Prejudice adaptation is better, the BBC's 1995 TV series or the 2005 film? 🍿
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Your daily hate from London. This evening, it is yet more "death!" chants. I am sure, absolutely sure, that a few more warm words from politicians will sort this out. Aren't you? https://t.co/nrc7z9mZ8y
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Great news ! UK students can study freely all over the their won continent again. To be announced tomorrow 👇 Just such a totally pointless waste of opportunities they haven't been able to do it for the last 10 yrs - mainly because of the selfishness of some of their parents
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The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing https://t.co/9mp79e97gM "an ultra-powerful presidency without an actual president at the helm". Jamelle Bouie's is the best analysis of the calamity that is the Trump presidency "Bonapartism with an American twist" - but with a
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Why are the Supreme Court and Congress conspiring to give him more power?
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Rejoining Erasmus is the best morning news for weeks. Another important stepping stone in the re-association with our continent and our friends. Above all opportunities restored to our youth.
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Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
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Leibel has miraculously survived the terrorist shooting in Sydney. 🙏 While crouching over a critically injured Australian @nswpolice police officer, using his own shirt as a tourniquet and risking his life to help him. Leibel has undergone multiple life-saving surgeries for
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Very very beautiful. Thank you (amidst tears) Aussie cricket.
A moment's silence at Adelaide Oval to pay respect to the victims of the Bondi tragedy, and offer condolences to their family, friends, and the Jewish community, followed by John Williamson and True Blue 🙏
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The one-sided police policy of who are doing "the antagonising" has to stop and stop now.
“Death to the IDF!” It isn’t these people who are “antagonising the situation”, it’s the person who calls them out, according to the police. Welcome to Christmas on Oxford Street.
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it's been there long before October 7th..it just took the glee of massacre to set light to it. I first heard from an Oxford Labour Society member who was experiencing vicious Jew hatred thinly disguised as anti-"Zio" ten years ago
"The last two years I have seen and experienced antisemitism on a level... completely at odds with anything I'd experienced in my life" Rachel Cunliffe describes her experience of rising antisemitism in the UK.
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Fantastic news!!! As the year turns and 4 days hence the light will start creeping back. Erasmus himself ( who spent time in Cambridge) would himself have rejoiced
A good news story at last!
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James Woods: “When people say horrible things about Rob right now, I find it…infuriating and distasteful. Did I agree with his politics? I did not. Did I love him as I friend, as an artist, as an icon of Hollywood, and as a patriot? I most certainly did” https://t.co/UHBgAoAX5t
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All they have to do is take a simple vote on extension of the premium tax credits to erase misery for million of Americans and they simply refuse. Their ideology against the ACA is more important to them than the pain health care premium spikes will cause 20 million Americans.
JOHNSON SAYS THERE WILL NOT BE HOUSE VOTE ON ACA SUBSIDIES AMENDMENT
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They didn’t know what was happening but Boris and Sofia Gurman, 69 and 61 saw a man twice their size with a shotgun and decided to tackle him. Can you imagine the courage and bravery you’d need to do that. Don’t forget them.
Dashcam video shows couple trying to stop gunman before they were killed in Bondi attack
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which is your favourite Jane novel? (guess mine)
on this day in 1775, marked the birth of jane austen. happy 250th birthday to the eternal literary icon!
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HOW are you celebrating, though?
Today we are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen, one of the best-loved authors in the English-speaking world. Famous for works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility and more, some of Austen’s works were originally published
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Happy 250th birthday to Jane Austen! Emma still one of my favourite novels of all, a masterpiece to stand next to anything: complex, witty, daring, revolutionary.
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