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LucyMangan

2 years

Forgive me - my crap photography cannot do justice to my paperback’s superb ORANGENEITY so have a jpeg instead. And a link, in case you felt inclined to make one of those pre-orders that help @authors so much 🙏❤️ xx

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

1 year

My Dad died yesterday. Here he is celebrating yet another convincing Scrabble victory over me a few years ago. And here’s to all the dads worthy of the name ❤️

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@LucyMangan

3 years

You could literally have had three policewomen attending Clapham Common tonight, handing out tissues, and that would have been more than enough. Instead, for all-too-fucking-fathomable reasons, we get this

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@LucyMangan

4 years

Just seen the Gove/Ferrari clip again, them sniggering over how outrageous his "I drive to test my eyesight too!" claim is. And...children have died alone. Children have died, alone. Because people did what was good and right and lawful, children died alone. I cannot bear it

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@LucyMangan

4 years

I watch this and only this now and forever

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@GY18164253

4 years

Don't even think about it.

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@LucyMangan

4 years

You and your party are a piece of fucking work, lady. A piece of fucking work

Priti Patel MP

@pritipatel

4 years

We’re ending free movement to open Britain up to the world. It will ensure people can come to our country based on what they have to offer, not where they come from.

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@LucyMangan

4 years

Home last night, slept in my own bed for first time in a week, and all I have to do is concentrate on getting better because I haven’t been left with medical bills or anything shitty else. Thank you, NHS 🙏🙏🙏❤️

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

4 years

This is great

NewstalkFM

@NewstalkFM

4 years

Here's what @ciarakellydoc thinks of the Tampax ad being banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland.

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@LucyMangan

3 years

Amazing. Amazing. That this bag of shit holds us in such unshakable contempt

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

4 years

Jesus CHRIST, men on public transport - you have to wear the mask OVER YOUR NOSE

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

4 years

Could people please stop tweeting competence? It’s very upsetting

Niall Harbison

@NiallHarbison

4 years

My local shops in Thailand. In 2 seconds scans my temperature and to see if wearing mask. Doors don’t open if not. 3 cases in 100+ days here. Removes awkward mask arguments for staff as well.

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

4 years

Okay, fuck this, I'm writing this fucking day off, everything is fucking shit. I'm having a drink. Who's with me?

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@LucyMangan

4 years

They, and my life, are complete. By @alanlyons66 , god amongst men ❤️🙏🥂

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@LucyMangan

4 years

We’ve just had to have our beautiful Henry put down. I did love him x

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@LucyMangan

4 years

Made cheese scones with the child for the first time. "Baking is boring, Mummy" "Yes it fucking is, son. Yes it fucking is." And they'll taste like shite

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@LucyMangan

4 years

Have a good cry ❤️

lulu🇵🇸💋

@grammyhobi

4 years

now this video is useful #ByeByeTrump #bidenharis2020

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@LucyMangan

4 years

Going through another unable-to-read-or-work phase. This is because everything is absolutely awful, mostly in ways it wouldn’t be if we didn’t have nothing but selfish, incompetent cunts in government

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@LucyMangan

3 years

Thank you so much to the lovely man and his daughter in Wells Ice Cream Company who just quietly paid for my boy’s cone and drink when, after an already shitty day, I found I had no cash card. So kind. Thank you, thank you 🙏 ❤️

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

1 year

Dear Twitter - Mum, my sister and I have been completely overwhelmed by all your lovely, lovely messages to my post about Dad's death. Thank you so, so much for such kindness. It has helped us every day. With gratitude, the Mangans xxxxx

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@LucyMangan

4 years

Finding some minor comfort in how deeply unhappy Boris must be. Just wanted the job. Never wanted his mettle tested. No urge or ability to rise to an occasion. This is a charlatan/narcissist's nightmare

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

3 years

First flower on the camellia my mum gave me last time I saw her ❤️

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@LucyMangan

3 years

I am having a glass of wine at a cafe outdoors and am sitting next to what is clearly a first date! It’s going VERY well. I’m very excited for them 🤞

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@LucyMangan

8 years

Friend says - it's like divorce. They think it's going to be brilliant but actually you end up in a flat above a chip shop

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@LucyMangan

4 years

New favourite person

jack rem

@jackremmington

4 years

This has absolutely finished me off I love her

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@LucyMangan

6 years

Mum is deciding which of Dad's underpants to relegate to floorcloths in anticipation of the new pack he will unwrap on Christmas day. It's the most wonderful time of the year

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

3 years

If we waste this lockdown - all its hardships, all its sacrifices, all its already-built-in consequences - by coming out too early, which will THEN cost untold additional lives too, THEN send us BACK TO LOCKDOWN I will honestly lose my mind

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@LucyMangan

4 years

Non-fiction and the beginning of children’s. My life’s work 😀

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

3 years

OMG - @alanlyons66 has finished my study! Bookcases and desk COMPLETE 😍😍😍😍🎉🎉🎉😭😭😭❤️😍😍❤️❤️❤️😍🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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@LucyMangan

3 years

In a pub. With a book. And a drink. On my own. For an hour. I wish you all as much unadulterated post-lockdown happiness 🙏

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

5 years

To the young couple who just stopped me on Vauxhall Bridge Rd to tell me I am beautiful, made in God's image & tried to hug me & would only settle for a high five, it was an entirely hateful experience & I suggest you find another way to proselytise. Thanks

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

4 years

Is there any woman who hasn’t been advised by her mother/grandmother etc always to keep a running away fund if she can?

Am I the Asshole?

@AITA_online

4 years

AITA for getting mad at my wife for having a secret savings account?

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@LucyMangan

4 years

I’m bored shitless but I still can’t read. Worst pandemic ever.

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

4 years

I shit you not, if this happens I will lose my fucking mind

Jeremy Vine & Storm Huntley on 5

@JeremyVineOn5

4 years

Should we build a royal yacht to boost morale? Former trade minister Lord Digby Jones has called for £100 million to be spent on a new one to lift the nation's spirits after the coronavirus crisis. But is this the boost the nation needs? #JeremyVine

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@LucyMangan

4 years

Today's a shit day and it can shit off

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@LucyMangan

4 years

I’m gowned n ready to go under the knife and get sorted. And my diabetic friend (a GP who’s been working online while shielding for nearly a year) has just been vaccinated 💪 The rest of this shitshow can wait xxx

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@LucyMangan

4 years

Listened to an exhausted nurse crying and being comforted by another last night. Thanks again for everything, Boris, and the rest of your fucking scum mates

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@LucyMangan

7 years

Dad's just finished the last mouthful of his dinner. Mum has laid the table for breakfast

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

4 years

Well, fuck this fucking stupid, sad day

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

6 years

So am I!

Guardian Comms

@GuardianComms

6 years

Delighted to announce @LucyMangan is our new TV critic!

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@LucyMangan

3 years

What. A fucking. Turd

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

4 years

I’ve gone back to not being able to read 😭😭😭 I’m so upset at lockdown being lifted so early I can’t settle to anything. Unless it’s staring at the wall

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

6 years

So...so...is this the good one? The one where at 2am it becomes 1am? I never, ever understand or get this right #clocks

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

4 years

Right, I'm off for my walk before I burn this fucking house down

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@LucyMangan

4 years

This has been the greatest fucking source of my rage all along. The vacillation. The half-arsery. The laziness. The cowardice. The immorality. The abnegation of responsibility to a literally murderous degree. Fuck Johnson, Cummings and the rest, forever

Laura Hughes

@Laura_K_Hughes

4 years

This is a real moment. Professor Neil Ferguson: "The epidemic was doubling every three to four days before lockdown interventions were introduced. So had we introduced lockdown measures a week earlier, we would have then reduced the final death toll by at least a half."

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@LucyMangan

5 years

Best thing I've ever read

David

@davidclewis

5 years

Tommy Lee, of all people, has absolutely nailed it.

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@LucyMangan

4 years

Not now, Gwyneth

The Independent

@Independent

4 years

Gwyneth Paltrow releases 'smells like my orgasm' candle as follow up to Goop's 'vagina candle'

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@LucyMangan

4 years

We are so unprotected. Serially betrayed, and left powerless, exposed and adrift by this shower of shits

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

5 years

This is beautiful, man #RevokeArticle50

The Independent

@Independent

5 years

Giant banner from @ByDonkeys and @FFSake_ unfurled over the #PutitothePeopleMarch |

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@LucyMangan

3 years

Fuck you, Johnson & Scum, if you fuck this vaccine up, this chance of chances, this hope of hopes, this gift of fucking gifts.

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

5 years

Here. Watch this every fifteen minutes and cleanse yourself of the shit that accumulates relentlessly round us

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@LucyMangan

4 years

I've got both sets of my pyjamas drying at the same time and I don't know where I got the idea that I could cope with this level of risk

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@LucyMangan

4 years

I’m so tired I could cry but I haven’t the energy. Now back up to bedroom to force child through maths worksheet. Fuck everything, and good luck to everyone xxxx

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

4 years

Operation over, morphine haze not. Ideal situation 😀 Thank you again for all your kindness, Twitter, and your excellent suggestions for kit afterwards. A list is being made ❤️🙏🙏

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@LucyMangan

4 years

Broke my ankle on my way to bed at midnight. Currently awaiting x-ray in A&E. Merry Christmas! 😀

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@LucyMangan

4 years

My @guardian review of Paltrow's The Goop Lab, in which Gwyneth does not know what a vagina is

The Goop Lab review – so Gwyneth Paltrow doesn’t know what a vagina is

Like the star’s wellness brand, this whole show is a demented paean to self-indulgence. And for someone peddling health treatments, she seems alarmingly ignorant about anatomy

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

4 years

Going to bed is the best bit of everyone’s day, right?

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@LucyMangan

3 years

I have completed two vile admin tasks today that have been crouching in my soul for weeks and weeks and I wish to cry with pride and relief but will probably just have a Magnum

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@LucyMangan

3 years

Watching The Naked Gun with the ten year old for the first time and I think he’s about to laugh himself to death

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@LucyMangan

3 years

Just the idea of a huge coordinated mass of people working, right now, to undo four years of harm. Just getting down to it. Right now 🙏❤️🙏

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@LucyMangan

2 years

We thought she was sitting on four eggs. Turns out it was 18 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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@LucyMangan

3 years

Mum and Dad are having their covid jabs on Thursday 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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@LucyMangan

5 years

You had 5 fucking years of wanking yourselves to death over your arrogant,cuntish,self-serving vision & here we are. Thanks so fucking much

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@LucyMangan

3 years

This is my dad. 80 years old, LITERALLY hallucinating on pain meds and STILL just beat me at Scrabble 🧐

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@LucyMangan

3 years

Christ I’m sick of feeling like shit for not managing to do everything I need to/‘should’ do every day

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@LucyMangan

4 years

Son's first question this morning - is infinity odd or even? I had four hours sleep last night, child, so could you just take it elsewhere?

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@LucyMangan

3 years

I am either pre-menstrual, entirely broken by the pandemic or both but the touching simplicity, practicality and best-endeavours-ness of this has just made me cry

Matt Jones

@mattcjones

3 years

Now everyone’s coming back in to the office, we’ve upgraded our lanyards so we all know where we’re comfortable. 🙌

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@LucyMangan

4 years

This. Am too weak with hatred to type. Fuck you, Cummings. Fuck you

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@LucyMangan

4 years

For fuck’s sake, BBC. And #HerNameWasReevaSteenkamp

Sonia Sodha

@soniasodha

4 years

My god BBC. “The extraordinary story of paralympic and Olympic sprinter” who “suddenly found himself at the centre of a murder investigation.” Extraordinary? Found himself? INSPIRATIONAL?! No way to talk about a convicted murderer. Talk about minimising the murder of women.

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

6 years

I am concentrating purely on the fact that eight of the Thai boys have been rescued. It is everything amazing and beautiful

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@LucyMangan

4 years

Tried to garden with husband so we are divorced now

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@LucyMangan

3 years

FLOELLA BENJAMIN IS (nearly) SAFE. REPEAT - FLOELLA BENJAMIN IS (nearly) SAFE

Floella Benjamin

@FloellaBenjamin

3 years

Had my #Covid19 vaccine today through the round window from a doctor who tells me he’s one of my #Playschool Babies #NHSuk ⁦ @ATMedics ⁩ ⁦ @omardin ⁩ ⁦ @drhasnainabbasi ⁩ ❤️ #OxfordAstraZeneca ⁦ @HLCOVID19Com ⁩

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@LucyMangan

4 years

The child has reached improper fraction in maths and I Am Out

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@LucyMangan

4 years

I've said it before and I'll say it again - Floella Benjamin laid her hands upon my belly when I was six months pregnant and the child and I have basically existed in a state of grace ever since 😍

Floella Benjamin

@FloellaBenjamin

4 years

Happy New Year to everyone, especially my #Playschool Babies. Sending you all my unconditional love and hugs #keepsmiling ❤️

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

4 years

Thank you for another day of kind messages, Twitter. I have to have an operation on my ankle tomorrow so am in hospital for at least a further 24 hours. To answer your main question - my Kindle is here and fully loaded, so all is basically well xxxx

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

5 years

Fucking magnificent by @salihughes , a woman I am proud and honoured to call my friend, and whom I love and respect in every possible way

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@LucyMangan

4 years

Foot not deswoled sufficiently so op will be Mon at best. It’s all very...2020. Still, Xmas with parents was already cancelled so why not lean into it? Still aware I’m v lucky. I will heal, my friends are being wonderful, & Twitter so kind. Love & thanks (&evening morphine) xxxxx

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@LucyMangan

6 years

The child and I are in a soft play centre and I have forgotten my book. And cyanide capsule

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@LucyMangan

4 years

I. Cannot. Bear. It.

Paul Waugh MP

@paulwaugh

4 years

NEW: Boris Johnson's Rule Of 6 has a controversial exemption - for grouse shooting and similar field sports. Upto 30 people can gather to hunt with guns cos classed as a licensed outdoor sport. EXCLUSIVE: Cab Office drafted special meeting on exemption

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

4 years

Why am I awake before my nine year old? Merry Christmas, everyone. I hope the day is as un2020ish as it is possible to be 🙏❤️🥂❤️

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@LucyMangan

2 years

I’m so fucking sick of everyone and everything

Marcus Barnett

@marcusbarnett_

2 years

This guy was a Tory council candidate in Preston earlier this month

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

4 years

For sure ❤️

aaron

@BlitznBeans

4 years

This is the best thing you’ll see today.

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@LucyMangan

4 years

Today my sister tries to set Mum and Dad up with Zoom so we can 'meet' later. The risen Christ will be less of a miracle than if she succeeds. Happy Easter xxx

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

4 years

Yes, the deliverance from evil of America and everything BUT ALSO I just sent my final draft of my new book to my editor so - double slainte, everyone, and hallelujahs xxxxx

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@LucyMangan

4 years

I just want to go out for dinner with friends and see and speak to them properly and it feels like that’s years away. (I’m not really complaining - I know this is hardly a problem - just...yearning, I suppose. And missing folk)

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@LucyMangan

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I miss when hygge was a thing. That was a happy time. Tell me what you do to make yourself cosy. It's the best thing, I don't want to lose it yes I've been drinking what of it

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@LucyMangan

3 years

I am now vaccinated AND pregnant

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@LucyMangan

8 years

My piece on Victoria Wood, with apologies. I couldn't do her justice if I had a million words & a year to write them

Victoria Wood remembered: 'Her genius never stopped unfurling'

Only she could write a line like: ‘And where has it got you, having a pelvic floor like a bulldog clip?’ Her comic creations – from scallop-faced punks to menopausal dinnerladies – will live for ever

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

3 years

My mum and dad got their first jabs today - no queuing, no problems, painless in every way. Thank you everyone organising things at Downham leisure centre ❤️🙏🙏🙏

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

4 years

So this morning, like many of us, I just want to cry and cry and cry, but what shall we do instead? Normally I’d throw myself into work but that’s one of the things making me cry, so...🤔

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@LucyMangan

1 year

I know it’s not technically the worst thing ever, but equally I will never get over this

Robert Jenrick has cartoon murals painted over at children’s asylum centre

Paintings were considered too welcoming at Kent centre for lone children arriving in UK

www.theguardian.com

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

4 years

Please don't lift lockdown without knowing what you're doing and why. That's all I ask of people in charge. But they're absolute fuckheads, so on we'll go

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@LucyMangan

3 years

AND NO ONE OVER 35 CAN GET THEIRS TO WORK

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@LucyMangan

5 years

Fuck. Right. Off.

Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge

@SkyPoliticsHub

5 years

Foreign Secretary and Conservative leadership candidate @Jeremy_Hunt says he would like to see the legal time limit on abortions reduced from 24 weeks to 12. #Ridge For more, head here:

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

4 years

Happy New Year, everyone. Let’s just cross our fingers, shall we? ❤️xxxxxx

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

5 years

Keep finding myself genuinely praying to a God I don’t believe in that Brexit be cancelled. I’d give anything

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

4 years

Obviously I hate this government. But also, I simply do not understand them

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@LucyMangan

7 years

This is obviously what the orange skies foretold 😠 #GBBO

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@LucyMangan

4 years

My @guardiang2 review of The Trials of Oscar Pistorius documentary, which was disgusting

The Trials of Oscar Pistorius review – what about Reeva Steenkamp?

This docuseries could have asked bigger questions on domestic violence, or the murder of Pistorius’s scarcely mentioned girlfriend. Instead, it is a flawed, fawning hagiography

www.theguardian.com

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LucyMangan

@LucyMangan

3 years

If I could stop thinking everything was my fucking fault my entire fucking life would be fucking revolutionised

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@LucyMangan

4 years

I am in Norfolk. For less than 48 hours, but I could cry with happiness. Also with misery because I saw my shielding parents for three hugless hours but... anyway, booze now

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4 years

The increasingly-lived-in look

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