Actress. (she/her) Agent: Roger Charteris at Artists Partnership. Voice: Yaketyyak. Writing: Charlie Campbell Literary Agents. Profile shot by Rachell Smith
Dear Media, nobody, but nobody needs to see pictures of Matt Hancock’s wife right now. No way is her emotional turmoil in the public interest. Please call off the cameras.
PM has had to deal with the greatest challenges of any peace time leader. He delivered Brexit; led us through the pandemic/a global leading vaccination programme & is leading support for Ukraine.I am backing
@BorisJohnson
to get on with the job he was democratically elected to do
This is quite the expose: man owns field which doesn’t have planning permission and which he isn’t looking to sell. But if he did, someone might build on it. But he isn’t going to. Oh, and he originally bought it as a donkey sanctuary. The bastard.
Ok all. The PM makes it clear. By STAY AT HOME they meant DO WHATEVER WORKS FOR YOU. This is a sickening insult to those who stayed away from dying relatives and mourned alone.
Watch and learn. This is a man who has always got away with everything . Always. And this is how he’s done it. By leaving people gasping at his audacity
You know that thing when your son’s on his gap year and you’ve been missing him so much that it hurts, but you’ve tried not to show it? And then tonight, right in the middle of your birthday dinner, he unexpectedly just strolls in? Turns out it really is the best thing ever.
Nicola Murray would like it to be known that she once had a Vodka and Red Bull at a disco. She was twatted off her bonce for 26 hours. She is ashamed of this incident, but has used it as a learning tool. She has avoided any but the most routine kind of stimulation ever since.
This is a TERRIBLE take. No. We didn’t. Everyone I knew adhered to the rules. However painful it was. And we weren’t even the people making the rules. We did it because it mattered. This makes me incandescent
EXCL: Keir Starmer is in talks with a production company about a fly on the wall documentary tracking his leadership
Some aides see it as a way of getting a broader section of the public to engage with him
My husband, the most organised person I know, is currently fuming . After everything we’ve gone through, this press conference delay is what’s finally tipped him over the edge
Just got back from taking my mum to have her first vaccination. She was a little nervous going in, but very jolly coming out and asked me to tell people ‘it didn’t hurt at all and everybody was absolutely lovely’.
#NHS
#vaccination
Please
@bbclaurak
@Peston
@BethRigby
ask why we are not hearing direct from scientists. The optics of this are bad. It looks like a party political broadcast, not a way of informing the public during a health crisis
3. Here are 4 simple statements of fact:
If you go out, you are endangering yourself.
If you go out, you are endangering your friends and family
If you go out, you are endangering society.
And
If you go out, THIS FUCKING NIGHTMARE IS GOING TO GO ON LONGER
Every woman I know has felt that fear walking home. Which road is safest? Is there street lighting? Should I carry my keys, wear shoes I can run in, call a friend…just to walk home. It makes me so fucking angry and so fucking sad.
A week’s suspension. For spewing relentless Antisemitism at his 500k followers. And half those racist tweets haven’t even been taken down. 7 days. Great work
@Twitter
. I’m stepping back for a week or so. This doesn’t feel like a comfortable place to be.
Our brilliant 90 year old Dad
@charlesfront87
is doing another
@FutureLearn
course - The Tudors this time. That means more of his exceptional hand-written and hand-drawn notes. Enjoy.
By popular demand, another page of Dad’s notebook. This from studying
@FutureLearn
‘s Beyond the Ballot. He’s nearly 90, people. We all need to damn well buck our ideas up.
@charlesfront87
@MrFront
Also, did I mishear? His wife had symptoms but he went back into Number 10 anyway? What happened to ‘if you or any of your household have symptoms you must self isolate’ ?
'If you don’t believe the arts are a viable job, switch off Netflix, close your books, turn your music off. See how great you feel with no entertainment.'
This is a brilliant letter. It’s shocking to think that this is happening in 2020. By no means the main point, but it shocked me nonetheless: the Universal Credit phonelines are Premium Rate??
Today a primary school headteacher in my constituency shared the letter she’d sent to her MP about Free School Meals. It’s really powerful so I’m sharing an anonymised version with her permission. Heartbreaking and inspiring. Keep going
@MarcusRashford
, this matters.
A thing that has given my daughter & me a stupid amount of pleasure during lockdown is this: whenever we read or hear a truly reprehensible viewpoint, we nod towards this beautiful, innocent boy and whisper ‘Bailey agrees with that, you know’.
Like SO many others - almost everyone in fact -I’ve been working hard to follow the guidelines and manage the emotional fallout during this time. Today I’m fucking furious. Thanks a lot
#Cummings
and all those government ministers defending him.
The PM is flatly refusing to allow the scientists to answer legitimate questions about whether Dominic Cummings’ behaviour might have an effect on the public’s adherence to guidelines. This is shocking.
This has floored me. Heartbreaking news. I was almost always paired with Jeremy on The News Quiz and he was endlessly kind, supportive, generous and of course funny. Ridiculously funny. God, we’ll miss him and now of all times we needed him.
We are desperately sad to announce that Jeremy Hardy, mainstay of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and The News Quiz, and one of the funniest people around, has died of cancer aged 57. Our thoughts are with all who knew and loved him.
Thinking of everyone whose Christmas plans have been upended. It’s an emotional time, and this uncertainty takes a toll. Just be as kind to yourself and others as you possibly can. And keep your eyes on the light at the end of the tunnel
@realDonaldTrump
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
,this is London this afternoon. We don't do 'alarmed'. We grieve, we trust law enforcement and we get on with it.
The Warsaw Ghetto was one of the vilest atrocities of the 20th C. This graffiti reduces it to ‘yeah, but Israel...’. It demeans both the victims AND the Palestinian cause the artist claims to support. I’m disgusted.Don’t tell me I have no right to be.
This. I’m incandescent. People living in poverty, using food banks, homeless...no money for public services like libraries. But we can find £4.2 billion for this ...
That’s £4.2 billion NOT being spent on the NHS, housing, education and alleviating poverty. I don’t remember reading that on the side of a fecking bus.
I’ve put a 💙 next to my Twitter name to show I stand with our NHS workers and am appalled by the abuse they are inexplicably receiving. This pandemic is hard. Let’s be grateful to those risking everything to help us. And let’s be kind.
#NHSblueheart
Heartbreaking news about Barry Cryer.He was an utter genius, endlessly intrigued by and supportive of everyone who worked in comedy.He made us all feel special.There’s a Baz-shaped hole in the world now that nobody will be able to fill.
#ripbarrycryer
One of the greatest privileges of working in comedy is that-if you’re lucky- every so often the legendary Barry Cryer will call you up and tell you a joke. Today was one of those days. All hail the Benevolent Baz.
(I won’t tell you the joke. I’d only ruin it.)
This is what happens when you grow up watching The Two Ronnies:
An American friend said he’d just had his vaccination.
‘Excellent,” my husband said. “Was it the Johnson one? Or did they put it in your arm?”
Flabbergasted at the amazing response to this tweet. I’ll see if I can persuade
@charlesfront87
to let me post some other examples of his notebooks as it seems to have delighted so many people. They are kind of magical 1/2
I’m an exceptionally messy eater - especially when I’m enjoying my food. So it’s the mark of a very good meal that I just found a substantial stalk of broccoli in my handbag.
Also, it makes me feel - in tandem with loads of others in similar circumstances, I imagine - that my decision not to bend the rules to go and see my dementia-ridden dad for eight weeks has been clearly heartless and uncaring.
Whenever guests came to our house when we were kids, my grandma (who was quietly antisocial) would help clear up. Then she’d say, triumphantly and with some relief: “There. It’s as if they’d never been.”
#BoxingDay
People are asking if it's historically accurate to have black characters in
#Bridgerton
& I want to point out that Jane Austen herself included a WOC in her unfinished novel Sanditon, also set during the Regency period. Crystal Clarke played her in the TV series.
Armando Iannucci has recruited a star of one of his previous series, The Thick Of It‘s Rebecca Front, for a lead role opposite Hugh Laurie in Iannucci’s HBO space comedy pilot
#Avenue5
Baffled by this. The symptomless people I know who’ve had tests have done it out of an abundance of caution for the benefit of others because they thought it was the correct thing to do. If there aren’t enough tests that’s the government’s fault for not providing enough.
It is "unacceptable" for people who don't qualify for a coronavirus test to take one
@MattHancock
tells
@BBCr4today
. He criticises schools that send all pupils for tests or holidaymakers who want a check before taking a flight
One of the most staggering things in recent public discourse is how No Deal Brexit has seamlessly moved from ‘unthinkable worst case scenario’ to ‘the thing people voted for’. No Deal has morphed into No Big Deal. Terrifying.
Absolutely thrilled to win Best Actress at the BBC Audio Drama Awards this evening for the wonderful
@Petejackson79
‘s Love in Recovery
@BBCRadio4
What an honour !
This is such an honour. I could never have imagined it when I turned up for my interview at
@StHughsCollege
as a very nervous Comprehensive School sixth former all those years ago. Thank you so much!
Congratulations to renowned actress, Rebecca Front, who has been elected Honorary Fellow at St Hugh's in recognition of her contribution to the British entertainment industry and her charity work to raise awareness about mental health. Read more at:
Gove here tying himself in knots over this utter nonsense. Other senior figures performing similar contortions. How can anyone think this doesn’t undermine the government’s credibility at a time of national emergency.
Michael Gove has told LBC he has 'on occasion' driven to check his eyesight, but the Minister said he was 'not an authority on driving.'
@NickFerrariLBC
Just took part in a Zoom service for Rosh Hashana. Hundreds of people sitting in their living rooms wearing prayer shawls and singing along. Separate togetherness. It was quietly wonderful.
Some days are easier than others in our current circumstances. Be kind to yourselves and others. Nothing is a waste of time if it makes you feel cheerier.
To all professionals in the film, television, theatre, entertainment and arts world, join the challenge to post a picture of you in your job. Just a picture, no description. The goal is to flood social media with our profession.
Copy the text and post a pic.
#SaveTheArts
10 years ago today (boy, that went fast) I spent my birthday on set filming The Thick of It. Today I’m spending it with
@Aiannucci
and the gang again on
#Avenue5HBO
.Which is frankly bloody lovely.
I don’t want to promote the click bait because brilliant women should NOT still be being judged by their clothes. But since we seem to be playing that game, WT actual F?
@nicolacoughlan
looks absolutely stunning!
A habit I seem to have developed during lockdown is announcing everything I’m doing. “I’m just going to take the washing upstairs, then I’ll grab my iPad and read that article “. I’m really finding myself irritating.
#unappealinghabitsoflockdown
This really is shocking. Imagine going away from home for the first time and a week later told to isolate. The mental health impact for some students could be awful.
Happy
#BackToSchool
Day. As someone who suffered with school anxiety when I was 11, I’m aware that for some kids today might be incredibly hard. Don’t be afraid to talk about it and ask for help. It can make all the difference to know you’re not the only one feeling afraid.
I’ve often written/spoken about my bout of school phobia when I was 11. Just found this beautiful note from the teacher (too modest to want to be named) who helped me through it she was an inspiration.
Maybe if students were not demonised but incentivised with, say, a fees reduction or rent rebate on condition of following rules, they would take it all more seriously. 3/3