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Marika Cobbold

11 months

Facts are not the enemy. Facts are not aggression. Facts are not oppression. Facts are not genocide. They are, however, the building- blocks of democracy and peace.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

2 years

Just two days ago. What it must have taken just to get up that morning, to dress, put on make-up, jewellery, to smile, be interested ...

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Marika Cobbold

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7 years

Preparing to sit an English test, needed for my UK citizenship application. I asked if the fact that one of my novels was extracted for English GCSE exams may count as evidence of my ability to speak and understand English, but no. #HappyDays

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Marika Cobbold

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7 months

Officers from @metpoliceuk tore down posters of children held hostage by Hamas saying such posters might "inflame community tensions." But a genocidal slogan saying Israel should be wiped off the map, projected onto Big Ben, is OK? Utterly disgraceful.

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Marika Cobbold

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6 months

The girl who brought the legal action against #Michaela Community School which cost taxpayers "hundreds of thousands of pounds" wants to stay at the school due to its "excellent" teaching. Her sister is due to start in September. Seriously?

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

11 months

Yesterday, Alison Moyet posted this thoughtful, compassionate tweet. An avalanche of abuse followed and she has now closed her account. There are people on here so blinded by hate they seem to have completely lost their minds.

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Marika Cobbold

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5 months

The first poster calls for submissions from authors over 50. The second one is the poster just released calling for submissions from authors over 60.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

2 years

I've not entered into the trans rights debate, but I have "liked" some tweets by JK Rowling, Helen Joyce etc. and that, it seems, is enough for me to have been blocked by groups and people I've never heard of, many of them in my industry.

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Marika Cobbold

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6 days

Just watched #WeWillDanceAgain To those who call Hamas heroes, resistance, to those who defend them or make excuses for them, know that you are on the side of evil.

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Marika Cobbold

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6 years

@ABC I’m looking forward to a massive display of outrage from the American Right/pro-lifers/Evangelical Christians over this sad state of affairs that is caused by a lack, in their country, of an #NHS type free universal healthcare.

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Marika Cobbold

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5 years

Our little Gilbert has been found dead. I have no words for how I feel. Thank you to everyone who helped.

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Marika Cobbold

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2 years

I find this frightening. I like to hear different points of view, hear of people's experiences, trans and not trans, but it seems there is no room for even a hint of divergence from the orthodoxy. Is this healthy?

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Marika Cobbold

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3 years

It pains me, both as a reader and as a writer, to face up to the fact that I don't remember very much at all about most books I have read. That includes wonderful books that I loved and admired. I will now go and boil my useless head.

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Marika Cobbold

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4 years

I know #DameVeraLynn had a wonderful life and I know that dying aged 103 surrounded by loved ones, is hardly a tragedy, but selfishly, I feel the loss of something unquantifiable: a rare spirit? One of the last links to a past to be hugely proud of? ...

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Marika Cobbold

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10 months

Smiling faces at the #MarchAgainstAntisemitism

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Marika Cobbold

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1 year

I never knew I had it in me. This table was a grey wreck, a wreck I tell you and look at it now.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

3 years

I think I speak for pretty much every author on here when I say that our book bloggers really are the good angels of the publishing world. Unpaid, probably overworked, they bring our creations to your attention for the sheer love of books.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

5 months

Though opinions may vary when it comes to the background, his Majesty's face is done exquisitely, at least I think so and I'm usually right. About everything.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

7 months

It's got to a point where every statement by Israel, however well evidenced, is dismissed as a lie, while everything claimed by Hamas, however outlandish, is accepted unquestionably. This is not as helpful to the Palestinian cause as some might think.

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Marika Cobbold

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2 years

@AmandaHLondon Same here. Especially when I found out she kept her marmalade sandwich there.

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Marika Cobbold

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2 years

Today has seen a campaign to bully and discredit a group of authors, me included, because of a motion (7) to @SoA about the importance of effectively safeguarding free speech for all. I find it baffling and quite frankly, rather frightening.

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Marika Cobbold

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8 years

Lord Haw-Haw - the infamous WW2 traitor - broadcast fake news claiming morale in London crumbled during Blitz. Just thought I'd mention it.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

1 month

There are some twenty million women and girls in Afghanistan and under the vile Taliban their lives have been reduced to mere existence, worse, a living death. So where are the protests, the marches?

Shabnam Nasimi

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1 month

Women in Afghanistan are being obliterated—no voice, no face, no existence. The Taliban’s latest decrees are nothing short of barbaric: women banned from singing, reciting poetry, or even speaking aloud in public. Their faces and bodies must hidden from the world. This isn’t

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Marika Cobbold

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1 year

Just left the Trafalgar Square vigil for the hostages kidnapped by Hamas. Harrowing testimony from British Jews whose family members are amongst those held and from those whose family members were slaughtered by the terrorist. Somber, peaceful, dignified.

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Marika Cobbold

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9 months

Merry Christmas, dear Twitter friends and may 2024 bring you peace and happiness.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

4 years

According to the fashion pages, elasticated waists are out and "wasp waists" and corsets are in, for spring. Well, good luck with that.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

5 years

@hugorifkind It's really ugly. I made the mistake of reading the Mail online comments on a piece about her and it was hideous. Racism writ loud and clear. Thought we were better than that.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

3 years

Back on my Swedish island. It wasn't easy getting here, we had to drive because of Dog, and we hit the rainstorms in Germany as we went, but we made it. Now I can see my father for first time in 2 years. 😊

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

6 years

@AngelusofDeath @ABC That’ll fix it. No need for that lemonade stall now.

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Marika Cobbold

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4 years

I passed this front garden yesterday, on my first walk since the dreaded virus's struck.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

4 years

If you've not seen this already. And do listen carefully.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

3 months

The ever brilliant ⁦ @tomgauld ⁩ I feel seen.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

10 months

@faniaoz Oh my God, I'm so sorry. These poor, poor people and as for Yarden Bibas, no, can't even go there. And still people don't see. Everything Hamas has done from 7/10 onwards is calculated to provoke the response we're seeing.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

1 year

"Nobody eats shortbread. Least of all novelty shortbread in a tin with a picture on it," says Giles Coren in his column today. Well, the Cobbolds beg to differ.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

4 months

The look I was going for was "English cottage garden" but I feel what I've ended up with is more "Amazonian rainforest."

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

1 year

Children at Jewish schools in London are told not to wear their school uniform for their own safety. Men in cars flying Palestinian flags drive through Jewish neighbourhoods shouting threats of rape and other violence. Is this the country we want?

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

3 years

Where has the expression "fiction novel" sprung from? I see it used more and more often and it seems like a tautology to me because surely the word fiction is inherent in the word novel? Then again I'm Swedish so what do I know.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

4 months

@hanneramberg It's really awful. And so disappointing. Norway let their Jews down horribly during the Holocaust and it would seem, learned nothing from that.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

2 years

@Joannechocolat I signed motion 7. I am not a bigot, racist or transphobe, nor did I attack you. The constant linking of two separate motions and the endless accusations levelled at the signatories, individuals not a cabal, are deeply upsetting and unfair.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

4 years

Twitter, If I reference Greta Garbo, does anyone under a hundred who I mean?

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

1 year

Hamas were in a hurry, they killed quickly. When they had time, they tortured, raped, and burned their victims." And this is what people have celebrated on the streets of Britain.

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Marika Cobbold

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1 year

The hideous sight of people in the UK and elsewhere celebrating the slaughter, torture and hostage taking of innocent men, women and children by Hamas illustrates perfectly why the Jewish people must have a homeland. What's happening to this country?

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Marika Cobbold

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1 year

#vindicated

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

11 days

@AllisonPearson @metpoliceuk I live close to there. To know that people celebrating mass murder, rape, torture, kidnapping, the burning alive of children, minutes from where I live while @metpoliceuk who I used to trust and support, stand by and do nothing, breaks my heart.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

7 years

@ht4ecosocialism They tried out the Life In The UK test (that’s the other one we have to take) on some politicians a while back and none of them passed. I did. *proud face*

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Marika Cobbold

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4 years

I was so hoping to be able to see my 91 year old father in Sweden this summer, I’ve not seen him since summer 2019, also brother and his family. Doesn’t look like it’s going to happen now. Not everyone who’d planned to go abroad were doing so “just” for a holiday.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

2 years

So, the conclusion I draw after a somewhat upsetting time on this platform, is that there are far more lovely, kind, thoughtful people on here than there are bullies. To all those lovely people, Thank you!

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Marika Cobbold

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5 years

Thank you to everyone who's sent such lovely messages of love and sympathy on the death of Gilbert. Thank you for understanding and respecting the depth of our love for our little person and that there is no such thing as "just a dog." Xx

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Marika Cobbold

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3 years

So sad for the Queen. She’s not only lost her husband, but the one person in the world with whom she could be entirely herself, and also, the last of her generation, the last person who knew and understood where she came from, and the times that shaped her. #dukeofedinburgh

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

11 months

Yesterday masked demonstrators on a crowded tube train chant for "Intifada." 3 weeks ago I was in a packed carriage heading to the vigil for the hostages. No chants, just sadness. And people making sure elderly had a seat.

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Marika Cobbold

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3 years

As an insomniac, I wanted to say how super helpful articles about poor sleep causing cancer, heart disease and dementia, are. A bit like telling short people that the way to reach the top shelf is to be tall.

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Marika Cobbold

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1 year

About 90% of Gaza's water comes from groundwater wells. Remaining 10% comes from desalination plants and from Israel's national water company, yet Israel is blamed entirely for the catastrophic water shortage. Not helpful.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

3 years

My father has just celebrated his 92nd birthday, kicking off the day with a champagne breakfast, followed by a loooong lunch, followed by a champagne reception. #RoleModel

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

1 year

This, from Sir Salman Rushdie, is so important.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

3 years

Who would have thought that continuing to allow travel from India and Pakistan once the Indian variant was rampaging over there, could possibly cause problems over here. Who?

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

3 years

Jo Brand on - from Monday we're allowed to hug again: "I'm getting a taser." #HIGNFY

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

7 years

My darling little dog, Harvey, was put to sleep today. He was an old doggie but I had no inkling, when I got up this morning, that he would be gone by the end of the day. It’s extraordinary how much one can love a little person like that.

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Marika Cobbold

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4 years

I just had to post this of my darling 90 year old father. We nearly lost him a while back, but here he is. 💕

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

3 years

@JCollaro @WestWingReport @Geoff_McGivern So a man who was a serving officer in the Royal Navy, including during WW2 - set up and headed Duke of Edinburgh awards and countless other charities, carried out hundreds of engagements a year into his 90s "never did a day's work in his life?" Good one.

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Marika Cobbold

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2 years

Just back from the vets. He's got a broken paw. Not a happy bunny. 😞And four, or more weeks without a walk. I wonder who will go insane first, him or me?

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Marika Cobbold

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6 months

@BradfemlyWalsh Everything is wrong with people. To keep going with the vulgar, intrusive and harmful speculation even now is quite something, isn't it.

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Marika Cobbold

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12 years

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” Anton Chekhov - Possibly most important writing tip ever.

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Marika Cobbold

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11 months

@mayynajm @mrconfino People like you who are wilfully blind and deaf to anything that might upset their black and white view of the world, are the problem. Attitudes such as yours are the greatest obstacle to peace and justice in the region.

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Marika Cobbold

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4 years

@JNRaeside And if it mutates enough it may eventually mutate to evade the vaccines quicker than we can alter them, at which point we're back to square one re vulnerable and older population.

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Marika Cobbold

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10 months

I don't think there is any subject on earth upon which so many, without even a basic foundation of knowledge, have so much to say as that of Israel and its conflict with its neighbours.

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Marika Cobbold

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3 years

@Dilshad2Khan @NazShahBfd Why is she brave? No one is going around threatening the lives of people who share her views. Brave is standing up to religious dictatorship and threatening mobs.

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Marika Cobbold

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4 years

@JuddLegum Seems to me they are looking out for all of us. No one is safe from the reach of ths New Totalitarians. Look at what's going on with JK Rowling.

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Marika Cobbold

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2 years

@katherinegould If you want to be"respectful," not dismissing people who disagree with your world view, as "haters" would be a good start.

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Marika Cobbold

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4 years

I try not to be an author-bore, but it's been a long time and a lot of sweat and tears and some laughter too ...

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4 years

Very excited to announce a new novel from the amazing @Marikacobbold after a gap of ten years. Here are the details in @thebookseller & the stunning jacket for #OnHampsteadHeath coming April 2021. All media enquiries to me please @midaspr

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

9 months

@48thAve @NatalieLisbona @AndyJehring They are conscripts. They were in their own country. A country that was not at war. They were not captured by an enemy army, but kidnapped by terrorists.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

4 years

I've just found out that my name, Marika, means "bitter disappointment." I'm phoning my father first thing tomorrow.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

2 years

@lucymirandaward Though she got a yellow card for her efforts.

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

5 months

Israel's contestant in #Eurovision is singing on behalf of her country's broadcaster. Not the government, nor the military. The Israeli broadcaster is independent of its government, unlike Russia's which is a Putin mouthpiece. That's a big difference.

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Marika Cobbold

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8 months

@lelemSLP Wouldn't the best solution be for the West Bank to, once again, become part of Jordan and Gaza of Egypt? Israel surely would be delighted. Could it be that neither Jordan nor Egypt want these troublesome territories back?

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Marika Cobbold

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5 months

Iranian rapper is sentenced to be hanged for supporting protests over the death of a woman arrested for wearing an 'improper' hijab via Meanwhile utter numpties in the West shout, "Iran, Iran make us proud ..."

Iranian rapper is sentenced to be hanged for supporting protests

Toomaj Salehi (pictured) will be hanged for charges linked to a period of nationwide unrest following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in Iranian police custody in 2022

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

4 years

I have it on good authority that my previous picture of the finished copy of my book was "dull and completely lacking in artistic merit." I can't take a hint so here's another attempt. (See what I've done with all that blue?)

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

4 months

The giants of literature, Charlotte Church and Nish Kumar prominent amongst them, have spoken and so have the "Book workers." Next, giant bonfires of offending works, as long as the wood is smoke free.

Guardian Books

@GuardianBooks

4 months

Baillie Gifford cancels all remaining sponsorships of literary festivals

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Marika Cobbold

@Marikacobbold

4 months

From me to me.

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Marika Cobbold

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1 year

Wagner chief says Russia had no reason to attack Ukraine. We all know that but to have a major Russian military and political figure come out and say it, is quite something.

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Marika Cobbold

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3 months

Whatever people's views on Israel, the rush to make the world's only Jewish state, its people and supporters analogous with the perpetrators of the greatest evil against the Jews in history, is not only grotesque wrong but also deeply sinister.

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Marika Cobbold

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2 years

@John_Pettigrew @thebookseller That's one hell of a serious accusation. Would you please name the authors who you say have carried out a campaign against women writers of colour? Or are you saying everyone who proposed either or both motions have been involved in such campaigns?

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Marika Cobbold

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4 years

@ElmtreeMc @MirandaBakes @JohnCampaign @MattHancock @Bobosvensk In the words of a senior doctor I know, These rules are breaching the human rights of care home residents by, in effect, keeping them imprisoned and away from society.

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Marika Cobbold

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2 years

@millihill @NCTcharity Makes no sense. If they were referring to women and trans men it would make some sense but however supportive you are of trans rights, pretending that people who were born male but ID as women, can get pregnant and give birth is just silly.

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Baillie Gifford has 2% of its investments in fossil fuel, as opposed to the industry average of 11%. So, Fossil Free Books" as you survey the ruins of literary festivals across the country, know you played an absolute blinder there.

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6 months

@PollySissy2 @jfwduffield No idea. The entire case cost the tax payer hundreds of thousands according to The Times.

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Marika Cobbold

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4 years

200,000 animals, mainly from Romania, onboard 18 ships waiting to go through the Suez Canal, are now resuming their horrific journey towards death in some hellhole Middle Eastern slaughterhouse. Live export of animals for slaughter is a stain on humanity.

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2 years

I wish I could tweet the scent.

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5 years

@CharlieFoxID @andro1317 Are they doing you or anyone else any harm? Families enjoying a day out at the beach. What's the problem?

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Marika Cobbold

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2 years

@TitaniaMcGrath @blablafishcakes 🤣 Did you see the reply to Jameela telling her that she shouldn't only check people's bios for their pronouns to prevent "misgendering" but keep checking in case the pronouns had changed since last time. Looks like a full time job.

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2 years

@redballoonsue Indeed, but ask any very elderly person, even someone in, what passes for good health, about the effort it takes to just get out of bed in the morning ... The Queen did, and worked, pretty much every day of her life.

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Marika Cobbold

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8 months

Russian prison says Alexei Navalny has died. This is utterly, utterly awful. The poor, brave man.

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Marika Cobbold

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4 years

Pointless, I know, but I keep thinking about what could have been done for the country with the billions of pounds. that’s disappeared down the Covid pit.

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Marika Cobbold

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6 years

Can we have favourite #PeoplesMarch placards please. I liked "Ikea has better cabinets." And the brilliant, "Pride and Prejudice 52% - Sense and Sensibility 48% "

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1 year

@EAzizlerli @YoniMichanie "From the river to the sea," has a specific meaning, that of an Islamic state reaching from the river Jordan to the Mediterranean obliterating Israel in the process. So, really, it's like a sweet little nursery rhyme isn't it. Do please wake up.

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2 years

Save our @e_n_o

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3 years

My brother sent me this photo from our summer island this morning. I really wish he hadn't. It hurts my heart.

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Marika Cobbold

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1 year

The stabbing to death of lovely, wholly innocent Elianne Andam, was not about gangs, but about male entitlement, a young man driven to uncontrollable rage because a girl told him No. This rage seems to be everywhere fuelled by people like Andrew Tate.

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