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@AlexLiviaJones

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editing @EveningStandard // writing @guardianweekend @ESMagOfficial @ELLEUK etc (pitch2me alexandra.jones @standard .co.uk)

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@AlexLiviaJones
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3 years
Hello & delighted to announce that I've got a job. To the many writers I've worked with / hung out with / admired from afar, would love to commission u, let's chat☀️
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2 years
I'm looking to get a #freelancewriter to help out on an ongoing basis at the @EveningStandard feats desk. Interesting pieces guaranteed! full time (or at least 4 days) 👀 Is this you?? Ideally someone who can turn a feature out in record time without losing tone etc.
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@AlexLiviaJones
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5 years
Very privileged to go to the #PeaceSymposiumUK last night and hear His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad give a speech about the need for tolerance and unity...
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5 years
I'd never been to a mosque in the UK before last night. And honestly, it was a humbling experience to meet people - literally hundreds of people - who're so focused on trying to do good in the world, and to bring people together irrespective of religion or background.
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5 years
Thanks for the invite @_NoorHadi . I've lived near mosques my whole life - in Rotherham where I grew up, in Leeds where I went to university and in London where I live now. I'm glad I've finally got to understand a bit more about them and about Islam #educated
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5 years
The #PeaceSymposiumUK has been run by the Ahmadiyya Muslim community for 16 years, and each year they open up a mosque to visitors and invite people to hear talks about peace and then sit down to a meal.
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@AlexLiviaJones
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6 years
I tried 'Instagram face' for @bbcthree and quite a few young women have contacted me to say they've been thinking about fillers and botox because of what they seen on Instagram...
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7 years
Icelandic parental leave model: 3 months for men, 3 for women, 3 together. And men can't give theirs to women. It's use it or lose it...
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@AlexLiviaJones
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2 years
lil #journorequest -- looking to speak to people who've left London (and possibly a job they love), because they wanted to buy a house? For a piece about how ridiculous it all is #housingmarket #HousingCrisis #journorequests
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5 years
He also warned that a new nuclear arms race was underway - a particularly terrifying prospect considering that - as he put it - “the leaders of some of today's nuclear powers are trigger happy..."
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5 years
Omg YES @pollytoynbee absolutely rinsing @BorisJohnson on @BBCRadio4 . 😅
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@AlexLiviaJones
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4 years
At what age did you start to feel like a grown-up? And why then? Would love to hear different people's experiences for a piece I'm writing...or perhaps you still don't feel like a grown-up? hmu dms open #journorequests
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@AlexLiviaJones
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7 years
Got my first bit of hate mail. Who has this kind of time? Do something better with your Saturday pal. #famousnow
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7 years
Would be awesome never to face that "oh but she'll get pregnant & take a year out, give the job to a man instead" discrimination #IWD2017
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3 years
I'm looking to interview Londoners who've #quit jobs or changed careers because of moral considerations (like your company wasn't green or didn't support mothers etc) would be great to hear what finally pushed you to it and what you switched to... can be anon #journorequest
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6 years
Looking at diet culture and the dangerous euphemisms which make 'going on a diet' more palatable to PC millennials @bbcthree ...and also at how I used to eat family sized pasta bakes in one sitting 💪 I was on a diet for 18 years. Here's what I learned
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3 years
I'm writing about #work ethic and canvassing for thoughts, opinions and stories...how has the past 18 months affected your feelings about work? Are you more or less motivated? What's happened to your ambition? What counts as success now? All thoughts welcome #journorequest
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@AlexLiviaJones
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8 years
Words I never thought I'd be saying: I'm a centerfold! via @StylistMagazine
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11 months
Calling all Londoners - I'm writing a piece about fertility in the capital, and I'd love to chat to people about their 'journeys'. I'd particularly like to chat to anyone who put off trying because of cost of living... it'll be a sensitively handled piece, ofc. #journorequest
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7 years
Well. Someone took the time to be kind. I am actually a bit teary... Off to read @azizansari 's take on it all... #emosh
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6 years
read about me as a teenager (weird and obsessive). much more level headed now tho.
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6 years
Housemates & I initially paid £660 in fees to @CityZenProperty & now £120 to "check out" is being taken from our deposits. #grateful to @Victoria_Spratt . Her #makerentingfair campaign has changed the law so that this kind of gross exploitation is no longer legal #tenatsfeesbill
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7 years
I'm nominated for an award😃 Doubly thrilled b/c it's for a piece containing the line "I’ve been thinking recently about how much my vagina cost. I grew it myself, so there was no initial outlay." #blessed Thanks @StylistMagazine #JnJAwards2018 #vagpower
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5 years
@rhiannonlucyc @dollyalderton 🎵"we'll be together, with a roof rack over our heads"🎵 as the iconic Bob Marley song lyric goes (according to my mum)
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6 years
unporn -- the phenomenon where vaginas are likened to a boiled hams. i'm open to your thoughts on this (mine here... @bbcthree )
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4 years
some people have so many opinions I really wonder how they have time for other things like despair and food and stuff
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4 years
#journorequest for all #events professionals. I'm writing about the future of clubs and festivals for a national newspaper and would love to interview about how venues and events have had to innovate to make the 2021 season a reality. Any/all help warmly welcomed🎉 #backtowork
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5 years
I just wrote this. The ex has asked that I let everyone know "about 50% of this is bullshit"...I Went On Holiday With A Man I'd Known For 12 Hours via @refinery29uk
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2 years
Every time I write some fiction - which I've been trying to do since forever - it prompts this deep sense of self-loathing, like 'what is this drivel????' ---> can't afford therapy so asking here, like wtf is this?
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6 years
This makes me want to weep for our society. Groomed at 15, married off to someone twice her age, saw countless atrocities, gave birth to, and buried two children. She's 19 and probably suffering with severe mental ill health. And as a country we show no compassion...
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BBC Breaking News
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Shamima Begum, who joined Islamic State in Syria aged 15, to lose her UK citizenship, family’s lawyer says
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8 years
any women out there who work in a stylish shed? would be interested in chatting to you about home working/ stylish sheds #journorequest
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7 years
"congratulations to Alex and her vagina" ACTUALLY THRILLED 😄😄😄
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Congratulations go to @AlexLiviaJones for winning the ' Best Healthcare/Trade Feature' category #JnJAwards2018
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@AlexLiviaJones
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8 years
promotion vibes.
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DIARY fashion beauty
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Stylist names commissioning editor @StylistMagazine @AlexLiviaJones
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8 years
Out of the office, back at uni, learning about robot sex. Uh-huh. #lsr16
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Don't mean to be rude but all the hoo-ha about AI partners seems q unhinged. Like, "omg would it be cheating if my s/o had an AI side gf??" Dude, who cares if it's cheating, the person is clearly unwell. Where is your mental health at if you need validation from a chatbot?
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7 years
I know everyone goes on about how shit it is, but I am literally sick with excitement about New Year's Eve. A group of my best friends, holed up together with drinks and music, hugging and reminiscing and waving sparklers? Fuck you naysayers, this is BRILLIANT
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@AlexLiviaJones
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2 years
@mlothianmclean @zoe_beaty & I have talked about this at length. The audacity is mind blowing - imagine walking around without the burden of embarrassment
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5 years
the fucking wonderful @zoe_beaty wrote something really fucking wonderful for me @TheFaceMagazine today . . she also did an audio intro, which broke my heart a bit . . Skin, stomach, vagina: the anatomy of a depression
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3 years
#journorequest I'm looking to chat to nightclub owners/ promoters who are outside of London, for a cool article in a national...basically, are we ready to go dancing again?
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7 years
Did this for @thepooluk about sexy sexy anonymity. Particularly excited because I bloody love The Pool.
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7 years
When happens when you start using dating apps after a 10 year relationship? @AlexLiviaJones
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@AlexLiviaJones
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3 years
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is an attack on the human right to peaceful protest, giving police & govt unprecedented powers to arbitrarily shut down opposition. Whatever your politics, this is a step towards authoritarianism. Fight it if you can
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Location announcement for London march, Saturday 15th January Meet📍Lincoln Inn Fields Time⏳ 12 midday Standing against the #PCSCBILL and alongside @EuropeNottm for their Nationality and Borders Bill Protest #PoliceBill #protests #NBB #Tories #HumanRightsDay #wewontbesilenced
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@AlexLiviaJones
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2 years
First shocking revelation - royals plagiarized family motto from Kate Moss #HarryTheInterview
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7 months
@AdamWagner1 @stephenkb The film wasn't out when I wrote the piece & I didn't want to give this big crazy, dont-see-it-coming plot twist away but agreed! it was building on a distinctly victorian literary tradition which painted the middle classes as greedy & grasping
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2 years
My fascination with the #psychedelic industry continues...
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Psychedelics are being touted as a cure for depression, addiction and many other common mental health disorders — but will this new industry live up to the hype?
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6 years
This is a lot.
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7 years
Two guys behind me having a deadly serious conversation about pizza. "It was a really great dough experience, but I didn't appreciate it at the time." #shoreditch
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6 years
can you have love without commitment? the piece in which I write about the ephemeral love of @zaynmalik & @GiGiHadid and also about "porking" people - now available to read on @BBCNews alongside, like, politics and stuff
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3 years
An egregious case of victim blaming on the part of the BBC
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3 years
Check out the moment this greedy squirrel was rescued from a bird feeder in a Surrey garden. The little guy was unharmed, but the RSPCA is now advising people to pick simpler designs for their feeders so animals don't get stuck. More here:
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4 years
Hard hitting reportage from me, as per
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4 years
Could the pandemic explain why we fancy politicians like Andy Burnham more than ever?
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Trauma economy! #publishing
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6 years
i came to visit my nana, who's been ill, and she made me jam
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7 years
On the January diet & feeling at odds with The Body
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My body looks so different in January - I see nothing but room for improvement @AlexLiviaJones
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7 years
overheard in the @StylistMagazine office: "did I tell you about the time I washed my hair with femfresh?"
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7 years
Find out why... @StylistMagazine
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6 years
Whether she's a sympathetic character or not, the fact is she was groomed from a young age by men who knew how to manipulate a 15y/o child. Much of the response seems to overlook that fact...
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14-year-old girl takes own life after viewing disturbing images online. Media outcry: “She must be protected!” 15-year-old girl risks own life after viewing disturbing images online. Media outcry: “She must be condemned!” Guess which girl is white, and which brown. #ShamimaBegum
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4 years
Little #journorequest I'm putting together an amazing feature about the experiences of mums in the first three years of their child's life - looking to speak to women about how they made work and childcare happen in the time before state-funded childcare kicks in 1/2
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3 years
Lil #journorequest looking to chat to someone who quit their job and then celebrated...like went on hols, threw a party etc. For an interesting feat in a national mag (can mention a business or brand too)
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10 months
£45,000 for IVF, £16,000 for egg freezing: how fertility became the ultimate workplace perk @clairecohen reports on a growing trend among London companies. But is encouraging people to put off having children creating more of problem than its solving?
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8 years
An outtake from my #handmadeissue Christmas shoot @StylistMagazine Essentially how I spent the entire week - despairing over a hot glue gun
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6 years
you tell me, are we not living in an age where young people are being told that their faces are somehow wrong? In need of 'tweaking', a little alteration here and there, whether by way of make-up or, indeed, something more permanent.
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7 years
Took me months to shag enough people so that it would be interesting. All in the name of #journalism
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7 years
HELLO I WROTE THIZ...Hookups, sexting and unwanted threesomes: first-time dating in the age of Tinder
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4 years
little #journorequest I'm writing about how antidepressants can affect a woman's sex life/ drive. Would love to interview you if it's something you've had to contend with. Will be a really sensitively handled piece. Can be anon & my DMs are open
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Need to speak to an #anthropologist about the differences between generations (and whether they're actually significant), does anyone have any leads for who'd be good to chat to? #journorequest
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2 years
A wonderful read by @simon_schama for @FT Putin’s plan is failing in ways he could not have imagined
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2 years
#journojobs ---> are you an experienced editor with a good political grounding? Come head up the @EveningStandard features team 🎉
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6 years
@rhiannonlucyc one time I wanted to lose weight quickly and a personal trainer told me to 'look at a picture of a grape as a treat meal'
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3 years
Appreciate there's a literal war on but if you need a break from the existential dread, I wrote about the #vibeshift . Read 4 such searing observations as: chapped lips from too many salt-rimmed margaritas are IN. Career progression is OUT. @ESInsider
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2 years
Rates of in-work poverty are peaking, so it's not a surprise to me that people are opting out of work altogether... like, why bother? Would love to chat to anyone who's made the decision to opt out of work (or like take early retirement), for an article #antiwork #journorequest
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2 years
I truly cannot express how sad it makes me to see people - NHS workers, rail workers, private renters, just a huge cross section of society - completely browbeaten and demoralised @bbclaurak #BBCLauraK #torycuts
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Can't stop thinking about what #EmmaWatson put on her #squarespace websites
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7 years
...this led to 80% of men taking parental leave (it's 1% in th UK). & re: job progression: men & women take equal time out to raise children
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3 years
I'm looking to chat to anyone who's currently working in an A&E department at the moment for a sensitively handled piece - any/ all help would be warmly welcomed #journorequest
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7 years
got norovirus and three deadlines. I write, I vomit, I write, I vomit. I'm either producing delirium-induced gold. Or, more likely, I'll never work in this town again. HAPPY NEW YEAR. #backtowork #slaying2018
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I'm working on an article about people who've decided to remain #childfree because of the #ClimateCrisis - would love to chat if this is you. Very sympathetic, sensitively handled, for a British monthly #journorequests
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3 years
I don't often spaff off about my political views on Twitter because it's all a bit 'screaming into the void' but something very precious to us, as people living in a free democracy, is being dismantled. See u there if u can make it #killthebill
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6 years
#journorequest I'm looking to interview people of all ages - but particularly 45+ - who're really bad at life admin. Filling in forms/ tax returns/ cancelling lost cards/ getting pictures framed - those little jobs that can pile up. It's for a fun piece in a national supplement👍
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2 years
God bless you if you got this far
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5 years
Ate until I felt sick again. Can't wait for valentine's day
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3 years
Bringing you the hard hitting stories
@EveningStandard
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All of Us Are Dead is being hailed as the new Squid Game Netflix’s new mega-budget zombie horror confirms the public appetite for gore and violence is strong. @AlexLiviaJones dissects the chilling trailer already seen over 12 million times. 🧵👇
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8 years
#overheardinwaitrose "I got my mum to shave my back as I'm seeing this girl tonight" THIS MADE ME SMILE
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4 years
You remember that bit at beginning of first lockdown where everyone was like "my dreams are WILD rn"? well, the other night I dreamed about printing on my home printer and fretting over the amount of paper being used and cost of printer ink
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2 years
I wish we'd lingered on the 'Willie's red mist' episode for longer #HarryTheInterview
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7 years
slightly strange #journorequest ...looking for a #pagan , #wiccan , #druid or #odinist minister / priest / priestess to interview for the @guardian .... anyone?
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7 years
hey @Snapchat who's the best person to speak to with a press enquiry? Would love to include u in a piece for @CosmopolitanUK #journorequest
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9 years
@vextape @theMickeyMod @erikalust @theMickeyMod @erikalust here is an online version. A huge thank you to you all
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2 years
Watching Rishi squirm away from @bbclaurak 's question about whether he has private healthcare makes me want to spit #BBCLauraK
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4 years
@GeorgieLGodfrey @carolineallen__ @zoe_beaty We're actually talking about something similar atm 👽
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7 years
Since graduating in the middle of the last recession I've been an intern, a (really shit) PA (oh…
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7 years
MAN ON TRAIN SAID I LOOK SEXY TYPING ON MY LAPTOP. Sunday goals achieved then. Ffs. #EverydaySexism
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6 years
look at all this jam...
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2 years
It just feels rare and refreshing to hear people talk of solutions and cures within psychiatry...but like any industry, it's also about 50% hype and 30% bullshit...the other 20% tho might really lead to something groundbreaking #mentalhealth
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4 years
Looking for a wide range of stories...from mums who juggled education with childcare, to those who had to move cities to be near family for childcare to those who hired nannies...v interested in hearing the spectrum of experience. #journorequests 2/2
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