Ed Clarke @ClarkesLatin Twitter profile

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Ed Clarke

2 months

Very pleased finally to be publishing Clarke's Latin VI, the penultimate book in the series (which will conclude with GCSE and IGCSE standard in CL VII) and one of whose design and content I am - if I say so myself - especially proud. [1/5]

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Ed Clarke

@ClarkesLatin

1 year

Horror of a mob of West Yorkshire Police arresting some poor autistic girl reminds me of that wonderful (potentially apocryphal) story about a man catching a burglar and the police refusing to come out because they had no-one available in the area. Man rang back and said "Don't

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4 years

What on earth is this picture? He looks like a welder suffering from existential angst.

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4 years

Everyone remembers Calpol from their childhood, but do you recall the banana flavour amoxicillin in glowing Chernobyl nuclear yellow?

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1 year

And in response to some of the “they’re British” - on paper, maybe. But anyone who behaves *like this*; anyone who hates every single thing about us, and utterly rejects our culture and our morality and our way of life? No, they’re not British. And they don’t deserve to be here.

StopAntisemitism

@StopAntisemites

1 year

London - women removing posters of those missing in Israel. 💔

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9 months

BBC: "... apparently wielding machetes ..." Owen Jones: "... wielding machetes, though of course we do not know their intentions - these could easily be socio-economically deprived youths unable to afford cutlery in modern Tory Britain ..." The Met: "... and a crack team of

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@bbcemt

9 months

A video showing youths apparently wielding machetes in broad daylight in Nottingham city centre has emerged on social media. Read more:

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1 year

I’m not convinced there are many other events that would enjoy this latitude. “Glyndebourne was a great success this year, with eight stabbings the only slight blot on an otherwise immaculate Tristan und Isolde.”

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1 year

Whatever you may think of Nigel Farage, I find this utterly terrifying. So many stories are emerging atm of people whose accounts are suddenly yanked after years of no issues - banks should not have the right to do this, not at *least* without good explanation. And I don’t accept

Nigel Farage MP

@Nigel_Farage

1 year

The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts. I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me. This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they

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6 years

My partner @FlorianGEHowe and I are both gay Tories. We met via political interests, and on Saturday I asked him to marry me. The best, most joyous day of my life has come about because a Tory government made it possible. So up yours, mister. Take the divisive rhetoric elsewhere.

Jacob Trueman

@TheJacobTrueman

6 years

Gay Tories are traitors. Yes, there are many individual members of the Conservative party who support LGBTQ rights in some form or another, but the party as a whole has always stood in the way of queer liberation. Just felt the need to say that in the run up to London Pride.

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Ed Clarke

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1 year

Holly Willoughby is retiring to spend more time with her Microsoft Office 97 Suite.

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Ed Clarke

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8 months

Prince Albert apologised publicly for the slave trade in 1840. It’s time to drop it now.

Nadia Whittome MP

@NadiaWhittomeMP

8 months

In order to look to the future, the UK needs to be able to have mature conversations about our nation’s past. This includes confronting the legacy of slavery and colonialism. I was recently asked on LBC if the Royal Family should apologise for slavery. Here’s what I said:

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7 years

Perhaps, @jeremycorbyn , you could be so kind as to wait for the dead to be buried & the inquest carried out before making political capital.

LBC

@LBC

7 years

Jeremy Corbyn has told LBC that the #GrenfellTower fire is the price we have paid for local government cuts

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1 year

@calvinrobinson Gosh. He has rather gone off the rails since This Morning, hasn't he?

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Ed Clarke

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2 years

I must admit I mistrust anyone who can hear phrases like “legal but harmful” or “non-crime hate incident” without feeling a shiver down the spine.

Guido Fawkes

@GuidoFawkes

2 years

Phillipson: Labour Would Restore “Legal But Harmful” Clause for Online Content

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1 year

This is how you deal with Just Stop Oil et al. blocking roads - remove them quickly and efficiently the moment they are reported. Why our police behave like it’s the teddy bears’ fucking picnic in this country I really don’t understand.

Alexander Fröhlich

@alx_froehlich

1 year

Die @PolizeiBerlin_E hatte die Klimablockaden heute schnell im Griff. Zwei Blockaden wurden verhindert , drei binnen einer halben Stunde aufgelöst. Eine Gruppe wurde noch auf dem S-Bahnhof Friedenau festgesetzt. Aktuell klebt es noch an der Frankfurter Allee, der Verkehr fließt.

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2 years

Farewell, dear sweet Tabitha, who died in my arms today, aged ten years and eight months, and takes with her a piece of my poor broken heart. May she sit among the angels and in eternity bat at their wings. Rest your weary paws, my love x

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1 year

@ArchRose90 Let's hope she's fled the area before Khan has her arrested for the promotion of smoking.

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1 year

Bit dispiriting when terrorist activists are screaming "JIHAD!" on the streets of London to have the police go all fucking dictionary corner about it. "Well of course, they could be referring to the 18th c. Moroccan bedpan of the same name..." Where's Gene Hunt when you need him?

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1 year

Bryant is such a frightful shit.

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@CalumAM

1 year

Did Harriet Harman create a perception issue for the Privileges Committee? I’m not sure we’ll ever know what Chris Bryant thinks: “I don’t think you’re a journalist at all”

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1 year

Genuinely shocked to hear someone in the audience of tonight’s #bbcqt comparing the expulsion of Hamas from Gaza to, and I quote, “The Final Solution”. If people are comfortable expressing these views not in whispers but publicly, on national TV, I fear we’re in big trouble.

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Ed Clarke

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1 year

But murder *is* a criminal matter; and I don’t see a distinction, bluntly, between an illegal abortion of a 34-week old infant and killing the baby after birth. There are ontological arguments to be had over 20, 21, 22 weeks - but eight months?! That’s a child.

Sky News

@SkyNews

1 year

"Abortion is not a criminal matter, it's a healthcare matter". MP Stella Creasy says women's rights are "at risk", after a woman was jailed for inducing an abortion after the legal time limit. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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Ed Clarke

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6 years

Everything @toadmeister says here seems to me eminently sensible. (Only as preposterous a figure as David Lammy could interpret it as "bullying" - what bollocks.) I am generally mystified as to why Toby Young draws such vitriol.

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4 years

@calvinrobinson @adilray @GMB "Well, there is this incontrovertible evidence-" "No, no, I'm going to have to stop you, I'm going to have to stop you there, stop with the evidence please..."

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4 years

I'm not terribly keen on Matt Hancock, but this does seem a bit of a slur too far.

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1 year

I’m ready to vote for any politician who pledges to fuck off for five years and leave us all the hell alone.

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@PolitlcsUK

1 year

🚨 | NEW: The government will BAN Buy One Get One Free deals despite analysis showing it will reduce calorie consumption by just 2.5% Tory MPs are calling it "nuts" and telling Rishi Sunak to keep his "hands off people's BOGOFs" [ @DominicPenna ]

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6 years

It baffles me how teachers ignore their own childhood experiences. Who genuinely remembers group work, for example, being constructive? Or lessons spent in IT labs? These were licences to piss about when I was at school and, broadly, remain so. 'Twas ever thus, 'twill ever be...

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@Strickomaster

6 years

Still intrigued by the anti-strict brigade. When you were a kid did everyone treat each other 100% of the time with total respect, was there no bullying, no fights, no slyness? Did we all, as kids, talk about our learning all the time? I strongly doubt it. Realism not pessimism.

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7 years

@danielrhamilton @joe_pattinson @KarenLeeMP As Ken Livingstone said in a Radio 4 interview after he died, "He wasn't great on LGBT rights, but on the things that mattered..." (!)

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4 years

Pointing them in the direction of the nearest heterosexual.

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@johnIsPimped

4 years

They show up outside your house. What are you doing?

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The Times and The Sunday Times

@thetimes

1 year

Ministry of Defence officials accidentally sent emails containing classified information to Mali, an African country with close links to the Kremlin, because of a typing error

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1 year

Christ alive - can we hurry up and deport these people? Or at least relocate them to Ascension Island or something.

StopAntisemitism

@StopAntisemites

1 year

London - women removing posters of those missing in Israel. 💔

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1 year

Lucky he’s not a gynaecologist.

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1 year

He really needed his stethoscope during his Sky News interview, otherwise nobody would know what his occupation is.

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1 year

They testified to confirm his presence at one party and not various others - they weren’t taking the stand on his behalf, or mounting a defence of the man! Glad I opened the article because otherwise I’d have been completely misled by the headline.

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1 year

@christiancalgie Given that we're apparently about to surrender the Chagos Islands, I'm far from bloody convinced about the government's interest in defending the Falklands or anywhere else. Hell, they can't even police our own borders.

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4 years

Strong Star Trek cosplay game from Fiona Bruce again tonight. #bbcqt #BBCQuestionTime

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2 years

@LukeDyks @TylerWilsonYP Quite apart from the fatuous message, in thirteen years of teaching this may very well be the worst handwriting I have ever seen.

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1 year

I mean it is quite fitting that a Wagner epic took place over twenty hours - just a bit disappointing Prigozhin didn’t fall in love with any of his own relatives or have a dwarf put a curse on his Kalashnikov or something.

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2 years

"The Soviet embassy's on the line, Sir Humphrey - a Mr Smirnoff..."

The Spectator Index

@spectatorindex

2 years

BREAKING: Qatar announces it will only allow the selling of non-alcoholic beverages at World Cup stadiums.

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1 year

@deepfriedgeorge They’ve done a runner.

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1 year

@fesshole Did you serve them on the wedding toast?

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11 months

Is it just me or is this a really horrible thing for someone to say? BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake has said an “overwhelmingly white” working environment is affecting his mental health.

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Ed Clarke

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4 years

Thank you, grandad's lucky briefcase - I shall be, from September, Head of Classics at one of the top schools in the country. Very emotional beat after such a punishing year. They offered me the post an hour and a half after the interview!

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4 years

My lodgings in London for the evening. Grandad’s old nuclear bomb-style briefcase with me too - here’s hoping it brings luck.

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7 years

@danielrhamilton @joe_pattinson @KarenLeeMP He also drained prisoners on death row of their blood and sold it to the Viet Cong. $50/pint.

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Ed Clarke

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6 months

My poor baby. She’s still purry and creakily inquisitive and deeply affectionate, but now riddled with cancer. It’s time for her to slip away before she’s in pain; booked in for next Friday. I know I’ve done all the right things, but it’s going to be so desolate without her. 💔

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4 years

If you'll forgive a moment's immodesty, I'm quite proud of my "glow up" (is that the phrase?). 37lb (17kg) in eleven weeks (LH pic was December). It's the first time I've felt I actually looked nice in as long as I can remember. Target's not far off now.

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1 year

I see "He's 33" is trending - is this the latest "young person" Huw Edwards is accused of DM'ing?

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Ed Clarke

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6 years

@shahmiruk What a wicked thing to say. My fiancé & I are both LGBTQ Tories and are getting married next year thanks to legislation which our party enacted. I couldn't wish for a more gentle, kind, loyal partner and I love him to bits. Only a fool would seek to banish him from the community.

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2 years

@JamesMelville Still going strong chez moi.

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1 year

Jesus. Tony Chambers (the chief exec) should go to the fucking wall over this.

Paul Brand

@PaulBrandITV

1 year

EXCLUSIVE: The doctor who helped catch Britain’s worst baby killer. Dr Ravi Jayaram spent two years pleading with hospital managers to investigate Lucy Letby. Instead, they made him apologise and attend mediation with her.

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1 year

@zarahsultana What we wouldn’t give for a period of complicity from you.

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1 year

He’s nineteen years old, not nine - why isn’t he in adult prison?

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@TonyDowson5

1 year

"TikTok prankster Mizzy has been sentenced to 18 weeks' detention in a young offender institution."

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1 year

Can’t help finding this rather satisfying viewing… “Whoopin’ yo ass!” lol.

Chris Rose

@ArchRose90

1 year

When this brazen thief was stealing items, the store owner was told that "there ain't nothing you can do, have you got insurance?" The store owner had different plans and wasn’t messing about. 😂

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8 years

@70sscifiart Presume you chaps have posted some of the classic Hawkwind album art before?

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1 year

@Bushra1Shaikh Are your parents ashamed that you’re a low-rent race-baiting troll, or did they bring you up that way?

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4 years

Installed my new dual monitor setup today - it is a REVELATION!

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10 months

@przemekg18 We often reminisce about it.

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3 years

Head pulled me to one side today - always a moment of apprehension - to tell me, re the parents, “oh, they love you” and offer me a promotion in my marketing role (and a concomitant handsome raise). Not bad going after five months in the job! ☺️

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4 years

I'm probably going to be up most of the night creating half a term's worth of online teaching. This should have been decided days ago. More than that, it really hurts - as a card-carrying Tory for ten years now - to be left defending the utterly indefensible (yet again).

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4 years

RIP Ross Cooper, who passed away peacefully this evening after a long and happy life. He was a professional cricketer, a military veteran, an inventor, engineer and entrepreneur, and I was so very proud to be his grandson. Go gently, grandad, with all my love.

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1 year

Some fun Ciceronian slight-of-hand in Jack Monroe's sophistry today. "So unassailable are the proofs of my innocence, so innumerable, that I shall not trouble to say what they are..."

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@ClarkesLatin

4 years

This has been the single most damaging attitude in education of the last fifty years.

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@rogertitcombe

4 years

@ModernCassie 'Low level disruption' is indeed a serious problem - it indicates that a significant group of your pupils is not engaged with your lessons Suggest you think about your lessons rather than disciplinary solutions

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7 months

I cannot understand how anyone could claim with a straight face that the modern-day Tory party is more right-wing than that of the 1980s.

LBC

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7 months

'I was Chair of the Conservative Party when there was one.' 'They've lost the most important attribute: the benefit of the doubt.' Former Conservative Party Chair Lord Patten tells ＠AndrewMarr9 the failings of the current government are mostly due to 'the disaster of Brexit'.

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9 months

@calvinrobinson Where's Indiana Jones when you need him?

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3 years

First day of term - wish me luck.

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4 years

Nicola Sturgeon as Denby dinner services; a thread. 1. Denby Ode, in fetching 1970s mustard.

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3 years

Gosh! A grateful parent of two of my students has given me membership of the British Museum as a leaving gift. Really quite touched.

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4 years

My poor grandad is nearing the end now and it’s heartbreaking; but his stoicism in the face of it is extraordinary. “I don’t know how long I’ve got,” he managed to say this evening, “but I’m not going to let it get to me.” Here he is in happier times, teaching me to read.

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4 years

πεποὶηκα, confeci, I've done it!! 18 months, 11 books, 2,200+ pages and 250,000+ words later (including 20,000+ questions and 30,000+ words of continuous Latin prose), I have completed the #ClarkesLatin project. Vol.s I-V, their corresponding answer keys and a batch of [1/3]

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1 year

@Mr_John_Oxley Queue of applicants:

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1 year

@Fox_Claire @BBCNews Between this and Jack Monroe on Question Time it’s not been a great night for the promotion of criminality on national television.

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4 years

I’ve been a paid-up party member since I turned 18 and became eligible to vote, ten years ago. I’m still a dyed-in-the-wool conservative at heart, but I am so, so tired of having to defend the completely indefensible in moments like this.

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@Fox_Claire

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"I won't have this divisive language. I just won't have it" says Matt H before, sitting down indignantly having not even tried to answer the question. So is anyone who dares have the temerity to query Gov's failings to be dismissed as divisive? The arrogance is breath-taking!

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@DreyfusJames The irony is that - speaking as someone who's, on average, been chubby throughout adult life - none of these fatuous policies would make the slightest difference to my size. I cooked a chicken casserole last night and ate a large portion of it; what next, tax the shallot?

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3 years

Highfield cricket whites for grandad’s send-off today.

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1 year

John Caudwell - owner of a 230’ yacht who commutes daily from Staffordshire to London by *helicopter*?! Fuck off.

John Caudwell

@JohnDCaudwell

1 year

I spoke to The Sunday Times about my extreme disappointment with the @Conservatives and how @RishiSunak 's net-zero U-turns may be the final straw. @thetimes @ojngill #NetZero

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3 years

How am I looking?

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5 years

75,000 words, 6,000 questions, 460 pages and 24 continuous passages later, I have finally produced the first draft of Clarke’s Latin, Part I. Workbook form, copious practice exercises - traditional. Watch this space! #ClarkesLatin #Variatio #Latin #amo #mensa

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Haircut. Also, now 10 stone 11, which is the thinnest I’ve been since uni (!). When I hit my 9½ target I’ll have shed 60 lbs.

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@CarolineFlintMP @Allpunsblazin I really am sorry to see you go, Caroline. We’re on opposite sides of the political divide but you’ve conducted yourself w/ absolute integrity throughout the battles of the past 3 years (& put certain elements of your party to shame in the process). V best wishes for the future.

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@benoflan21 (from The Naked Gun) Drebin: “When I see five weirdos in togas stabbing a guy in the middle of the park in full view of a hundred people, I shoot the bastards.” Mayor: “That was a Shakespeare In The Park production of Julius Caesar you moron. You killed five actors! Good ones!”

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4 years

Why did Downing Street say this at eleven o'clock at night on a Saturday?

Sky News Breaking

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4 years

Downing Street has said England will enter a strengthened three-tiered system of local restrictions when the national lockdown ends on December 2 and Boris Johnson is expected to detail his plan for winter including how families will see each other at Christmas to MPs on Monday

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@70sscifiart Hall of the Mountain Grill (1974) also superb. But Space Ritual etc. are quite remarkable too. Many by the late Barney Bubbles.

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@KonstantinKisin

Man Finally Put In Charge Of Struggling Feminist Movement

WASHINGTON—After decades spent battling gender discrimination and inequality in the workplace, the feminist movement underwent a high-level shake-up last month, when 53-year-old management consultant...

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1 year

What does No Tmyking mean?

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1 year

🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Republic activists have staged the first-ever protest INSIDE Buckingham Palace! #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

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4 years

Another couple of schools switching over to #ClarkesLatin - always a nice feeling. Hard at work manufacturing today.

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7 months

Oh fuck off, for god’s sake. What do all you people WANT? What do you think any of your endless protesting, fannying about and generally being a bloody nuisance has the slightest hope of achieving? There’s not going to be a ceasefire (and, if by some literal miracle, there were

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I'm Jack Petocz, a 19 y/o activist that's been fighting for marginalized people for years. Yesterday, I was expelled from Vanderbilt University for peacefully protesting the genocide in Palestine. Vanderbilt will let sexual assaulters walk free, but expel passionate organizers.

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Well, I’ve reached Gatwick, bought a sandwich for about £15 and acquired a terrible Jeffrey Archer novel - I am officially on holiday (off to Antalya). Oh, and did I mention the exam board promoted me? I’m now head honcho for all the classical subjects (Latin, Greek & Class Civ).

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1 year

@Fourbytwo_ Cygnet failure?

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8 months

Thought Bond fans on here might appreciate this vintage (and unopened) Smirnoff vodka bottle I found at my grandparents’ house - “win one of 100,000 tickets to see the new James Bond movie GoldenEye”! @TheTchaikovsky @LicenceToQueer @TheWizardOfIce @calvindyson

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4 years

My Latin mini-epic about fleeing the coronavirus and holidaying in Jurassic Park. Must admit to being quite pleased with myself - macaronics are not the easiest constraints in which to write seventy-two lines (and quote Jeff Goldblum). @DigitalMapsAW , may just be up your street?!

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@ClarkesLatin

2 years

I'm absolutely thrilled to announce the official launch of the new #clarkeslatin website. Books & e-subscriptions are all available through the online store (by card or PayPal) and two 20% off book deals are on offer until 31st August. Check it out! [1/3]

Clarke's Latin

We manufacture, curate and sell a series of Latin textbooks to individuals and institutions across the UK.

www.clarkeslatin.co.uk

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Ed Clarke

@ClarkesLatin

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I’ve studied Latin and Roman history for more than twenty-five years, but don’t think I’ll ever lose the sense of awe something like this instils in me.

Naija Vawulence

@naijavawulence

11 months

@historyinmemes This is how a Roman aqueduct worked.

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Yikes, this brought out all the crazy die-hard Jack Monroe fans, who are blind to the obvious (and desperate for her to sue anyone not part of the cult). There's obviously a wealth of evidence to indicate fraudulent crowd-funding, Patreon stuff etc.; but this case gives a good

Ed Clarke

@ClarkesLatin

1 year

@Fox_Claire @BBCNews Between this and Jack Monroe on Question Time it’s not been a great night for the promotion of criminality on national television.

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Ed Clarke

@ClarkesLatin

1 year

@ArchRose90 Stewardess: “Excuse me, are you a doctor?” Leslie Nielsen:

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Ed Clarke

@ClarkesLatin

9 months

My beloved grandmother, Joan Cooper, with whom I was so blessed to have a close and profound relationship these past thirty-something years, passed away a few days ago. She was eighty-eight and died peacefully in her sleep after a long and remarkable life, that took her from

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Ed Clarke

@ClarkesLatin

3 years

Skoda filled to the brim; off to London at first light tomorrow for the start of a whole new phase to my life. A little apprehensive but overwhelmingly positive & excited. Feels a lot like going to uni! Or maybe it’s that I suddenly feel young again. Wish me luck in the big city.

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Ed Clarke

@ClarkesLatin

9 months

When the King's prostate exam was publicised, the NHS webpage on the procedure saw footfall increase 1000% - that is a very good thing and this will doubtless have a similar positive effect. Certainly more so than being a twat about someone important's cancer being in the news.

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Ed Clarke

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3 years

Home at last; and someone’s pleased to see me. It’s been easily the most stressful and exhausting three weeks of my life - certainly my career - but I’ve survived and haven’t cracked up under the pressure. I don’t mind admitting I’m really proud of myself for that.

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@ClarkesLatin

3 years

RIP our good boy Buster, who has gone to join his friend Mitten in the great hereafter.

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Ed Clarke

@ClarkesLatin

1 year

Crikey. Did someone say it, see it and sort it...?

Politics UK

@PolitlcsUK

1 year

🚨 | NEW: Cabinet Minister Robert Jenrick may have BROKEN the ministerial code for leaving his red box unattended for 4 mins on a public train while he went toilet [ @NatashaC ]

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Ed Clarke

@ClarkesLatin

4 years

(I don't actually know why I'm blocked, but I'd assume something along these lines...)

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Ed Clarke

@ClarkesLatin

3 years

Very pleased to have been appointed Director of Social Media at my new school (further to the Classics role). Who knew that the vice of Twitter addiction could be so readily turned to virtue?

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