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@thediyora
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journalist, writer, progressive comms, hothouse bookclub co-organiser, email: [email protected]
Joined January 2012
For the @guardian's 'This Summer I' series, I wrote a column about how getting an allotment has radically altered my relationship with food and my local environment!.
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at some point we have to recognise that the financial anxiety young people are living through is not normal. monetising all your hobbies is not normal. hustle culture is not normal. glorifying precarious work is not normal. self-optimisation is not normal.
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alright here we go, these are the most iconic British TV moments of 2020.
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you didn't think I'd forget did you?! here is a thread of the most iconic british tv moments of 2021:.
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The Shein Halsey confidence activist and her boyfriend were in England and thought “fish and chips” meant mixing tinned mackerel and Walkers crisps in your mouth 😭😭😭
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It's every three days Davina. A woman is killed by a man every three days in the UK.
Female abduction / murder is extremely rare. Yes we should all be vigilant when out alone. But this level of fear-mongering isn’t healthy. And men’s mental health is an issue as well. Calling all men out as dangerous is bad for our sons, brothers, partners.
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I just wonder how many of the people who made marmalade sandwiches for a dead monarch have ever made them for the living poor.
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whatever u do, pls don’t judge ppl for the decisions they’re going to make over the next week. save all the energy u have for an incompetent government that has swore it wouldn’t cancel Christmas and now has. not everyone had the chance and privilege to get out earlier.
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We’ve now had verified reports of Muslims being punched, stabbed and attacked with acid in England in the space of a few days. What do you even say at this point. This is so scary and yet politicians remain silent.
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12. When this presenter added a little ✨ spice ✨ to the BBC News theme tune
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6. When Nigella Lawson was so posh she really said mîcrowàvé
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13. When this Tipping Point contestant clearly HATED his prize
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I can’t get the image of that limp headless child out of my head. That child was someone’s entire world. A whole life taken away in the most cruel way imaginable. A whole future. How can our governing politicians back any of this?! How do they sleep at night???.
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1. when this Insulate Britain activist sat through the most painful interview of all time bc the presenter kept insisting that you can "grow concrete" like trees lol
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6. when this football fan kept swallowing the mic in his support for England at the Euros
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5. When this Mastermind contestant had no clue who Greta Thunberg was
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14. When someone forgot to collect their NSFW grandma from This Morning
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nah this episode had me spun for all the wrong reasons!!! the coded language around race, comparisons of fillers to skin colour, Aaron wanting to date a child with no arm hair. I beg they send people in with some sense #LoveIsland.
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10. Quite possibly the worst acting ever on Emmerdale
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14. when Barry Humphries either genuinely mixed up Dermot O'Leary for Philip Schofield when congratulating him on "coming out" on This Morning or, more likely, did one of his bits
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4. When this very chaotic Come Dine With Me contestant made "stir loan steak"
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3. when these contestants got the wrong Homer on Tipping Point
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all these issues have a single root and guess what? it's the economic system we live under!! but we're too fucking exhausted to even see an alternative to capitalism because we're so broken and fatigued by it. it doesn't have to be this way, we can seek a different future.
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12. when McDonalds ran out of milkshakes and ITV did the most dramatic reporting of all time, interviewing some VERY distressed customers, including one person who was "distraught"
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ARE WE GOING TO IGNORE AARON'S COMMENT ABOUT HAIRY ARMS??? because having to wax your arms at the age of 13 when everyone bullied you for them WAS actually a traumatic teenage experience #LoveIsland.
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It’s the fact ITV took out the lie detector test because #BeKind but still continue to mentally torture (and lie) to the girls with the post card???? Wild. #LoveIsland.
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11. when Curtis from Love Island went on Hollyoaks and gave us this GCSE drama performance
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7. When Love Island's Ched tried speaking to Jess in modern day Shakespearian
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27. When an old man was trapped inside this little boy's body
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7. when the BBC sent over a reporter called Phil McCann to cover the petrol crisis story!
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8. When this BBC presenter said she'd seen lots of doggers this morning
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11. When John Torode's kitchen nearly set on fire
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"I'm obsessed with Mafia books" LOOOOOL how is this girl chatting up Davide – an Italian man – like this??? #LoveIsland.
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As Mark Fisher argued, it's easier to imagine the end of the world than it is the end of capitalism. We've been utterly brainwashed by every part of our society to think that everything we're experiencing right now is extremely normal! But clearly, capitalism is failing us.
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22. When Matt Hancock tried to cry but couldn't because he is a robot
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existing in the UK is the actual embodiment of “if you don’t laugh you’ll cry”.
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16. When something possessed these Chase contestants to sing Nelly and Kelly's "Dilemma" on live television
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1. When Zara McDermott told Sam Thompson HE CAN
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15. when Prue from the Great British Bake Off started talking about her holes and everyone in the tent could barely hold their laughter
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17. he's a runner, he's a track star: when Matt Hancock literally ran away from this Sky News interview to avoid being questioned
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22. when Alan Carr was abandoned to sing 'Make You Feel My Love' at the Adele concert
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21. not this groom thinking the bridesmaid was his wife-to-be on Married At First Sight 😭
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13. another Tipping point classic for the books, when one contestant thought the collective noun for moles was. Liberal Democrats
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Landlords aren’t working class because they earn their wealth through assets, not labour/wages. Hope that helps anyone in a tizz this morning!.
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What’s pissing me off is that Danny is clearly just mad at the fact Aaron didn’t “respect him as a man”. It’s not like he would have developed actual feelings for Lucinda in under 24 hours. Very territorial. It’s screaming toxic masculinity to me! #LoveIsland.
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5. when this random person had no idea who Keir Starmer was
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24. when Linda from Loose Women did *not* realise she was live on air hahahahaa
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I will never forgive these two enablers.
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how depraved do you have to be to drop bombs on refugee tents?.
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Going into Love Island during Casa Amor Must WRECK your self esteem. You either get zero screen time or, like Mary and Sam, get used as a pawn in the original Islanders’ love games. All you leave with is a water bottle and trauma ://// #LoveIsland.
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It'd be one thing if what the postcard was somewhat accurate. eg. Liam actually being very into Lillie and Teddy being loyal to Faye. But creating entirely different narratives is just unnecessarily cruel to people who already struggle being emotionally vulnerable! #LoveIsland.
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18. when the man with 'the world's biggest penis' surprised the This Morning presenters with his nudes
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9. When @AlisonHammond made the most Alison Hammond return to the This Morning studio after 15 long weeks off
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If the Western left was serious about building an honest anti-war movement, it would target its anti-war sentiments at Russia (the country invading), not Ukraine (the country being invaded).
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even if they are trolling us, this is the kind of top tier TikTok content that keeps me awake at night.
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I think Liam will kiss Lillie but then not choose her and see it as some kind of noble thing when he goes back in the main villa! what are your thoughts??? #LoveIsland.
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Incredible! People in the replies to this are like “people who hustle will be relaxing when they get wealthy”. That’s IF and not when and still, that’s not a given. The fact we don’t see having a regular full-time job as enough “hustling” or whatever is so scary to me.
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“What did you do when a genocide took place in darkness? What did you do when all the powers of the world funded a massacre?”. This speech by @BarnabyRaine at Waterloo Station brought me to tears. Powerful demonstration by @SistersUncut.
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Do we really have to sell our own limbs and nearly kill ourselves to be seen as “worthy” of having basic human safety nets provided by our governments? Also most people who have “hustled” their way to the top have just exploited the rights of others in one way or another.
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How about instead of “manifesting” money on TikTok, we work towards building a more equal society? Just a thought.
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9. when this Tory MP got roasted by BBC presenters for the size of his Union Jack flag
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One thing I can't get over from the Peckham immigration resistance yesterday is that The Telegraph sent a journalist down to cover the protest. He came in a shirt and tie and suit trousers after most people had dispersed and kept asking to speak to "an authority" for quotes.
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16. when Hugo from Love Island said his search for love on the show was “TRAGIC” as he stood right next to the girl he was coupled up with 💀💀💀
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7!!! Air fryer magazines in WHSmith — if you’re trying to survive in journalism, get ready to pivot to Air Fryer!
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19. when this Ru Paul's Drag Race contestant (iconically named River Medway) dressed up as the Thomas Waghorn statue in Chatham, Kent
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A hundred air strikes in 10 minutes and Israel will still say it’s “just projecting” itself. This is a full-scale war and the intention is maximum damage. #GazaUnderAttack.
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26. when Rufus Hound unexpectedly called out the government on Dancing On Ice
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These people are incredibly brave, they are marching in full knowledge of human rights abuses that could face them as a consequence.
In #Novosibirsk, #Russia, local residents are marching in #protest against the Russian invasion of #Ukraine:.
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2. when Jesy Nelson performed 'Boyz' at the Jingle Bell Ball and became an instant meme
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Faye says to Teddy: "to react like that, I obviously do care about you a lot". sorry but is that not a huge 🚩🚩🚩??? when you spend a whole evening shouting at someone??? let me not speak too much.
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25. When a contestant on the Hit List completely savaged another contestant for no reason looool
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me going to bed single, depressed and alone after calling everyone on Love Island ugly for 60 minutes straight #LoveIsland
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20. When Demi completely stacked it on Love Island
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And when I say that, I’m not talking about your favourite resin maker on TikTok, but people like Jeff Bezos who own large corporations where people have to piss in bottles because they can’t catch a literal break at work.
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25. when Alan Partridge slipped right at the end of this clip
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I'm not trying to incite the whole Gen Z vs. Millennials vs. Gen X vs. boomers culture war in this thread. I'd say that most people from each of these generations are getting massively screwed over and exploited right now. Granted, some have more financial security than others.
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27. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen scaring the shit out of people on Changing Rooms
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He was totally clueless and was like. "who are the official organisers? did local politicians organise this? can I speak to them?". It was perfect evidence that many journalists can't seem to grasp the power of local community organising. Most people resisting were locals.
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I don’t know why they didn’t bring the game forward to 3pm. English fans will destroy the whole country by 8pm looool 😭😭😭.
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30. Jonathan Van-Tam's fever dream-like introduction on this BBC Four TV lecture
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this is simply late-stage girlboss horror.
I saw a CEO arrange her app folders as affirmations so I decided to do the same
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I don’t want more police out on the streets. I want men to stop being violent.
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28. when Patsy Palmer told GMB to fuck off for bringing up her past during a completely unrelated interview
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Can we seriously talk about Prince Philip's death and the moralising that has been created around it? The reason many people, including myself, don't care about his death isn't because we're inhumane unempathetic people. It's because this man had zero role in many of our lives.
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