Elena Shalneva @ShalnevaE Twitter profile

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Elena Shalneva

8 months

My Kindle weekly sales report came through... To the trolls who have been yapping, ever since the day my novel was released, that no one would buy my "shit self-published book": Guess what? I won. Ha!

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

3 years

@StigAbell Highly irresponsible message from a public figure with a large platform. You are openly calling for a stigmatisation of a group of people.

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2 years

@LozzaFox The baby is visibly distressed, and the photoshoot should never have happened. What kind of parent allowed this?

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2 years

@JuliaHB1 Why does an issue that affects a tiny minority of the population increasingly dominate public discourse?

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@ShalnevaE

7 months

@waruwk As many as you want. But the fact remains: anyone above the age of consent can date another 18yr-old - or a 100y-old, and it's none of your business.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

1 year

@SarahTheHaider Simply condemn Israel bombing civilian apartment blocks in Gaza, and Netanyahu gleefully tweeting the footage. Do it now.

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@ShalnevaE

9 months

@tomgara What baffles me even more is that a former MIT tenured professor (and self-proclaimed feminist) whose dissertation is under attack is incapable of defending herself, letting her husband, who had nothing to do with said dissertation, do all the legwork and speak on her behalf.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

1 year

@fasc1nate There was an outstanding German film made about them: "Sophie Scholl - the Final Days." On Amazon, do watch.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

3 months

@itsjamesherring Highly enjoyable ad. He forgot a small matter of prices, however: Olso is one of the most expensive cities in the world. In that respect, it kind of is exclusive.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

8 months

@simon_schama He is 12, so he doesn't know. What's your excuse? Unapologetic bias?

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@ShalnevaE

1 year

@SarahTheHaider I am not! I've done rather well in life with my level of literacy and don't have to depend on the alms from Substack subscribers to scrape a living, unlike you. And forgive me if I misunderstood your post. But it was rather incoherent.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

2 years

@toadmeister Whenever you stand on the trans issue, work is not the place to "express your identity", of any kind. If anything, it is a place to tone it down in favour of neutrality and professionalism.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

2 years

@andrewhunterm I'd say he still looks hot.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

1 year

@benjaminbutter Bizarre, made-up, biased comment. The first thing Jones said was that he condemned the Hamas attack unconditionally.

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@ShalnevaE

1 year

This cannot be right. According to a stream of legal dramas released since c. 2015, the most brilliant attorneys who win the most difficult cases are all black.

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@ShalnevaE

3 years

@JuliaHB1 These people also tend to call themselves "tolerant" and "respecting of others' choices". Little do they realise that by insisting that I nod along to their rhetoric and repeat statements that fundamentally go against my idea of reality, they display profound intolerance.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

1 year

@WGthink @DrProudman Here you go. She rages about the whiteness and privilege of the royal family - all while happily flaunting the pictures of her white and (reasonably) privileged social circle.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

1 year

@JuliaHB1 @AvaSantina @LozzaFox That's what I thought until I found this tweet. You post about not "shagging" someone, it's only fair that they respond in kind.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

3 years

@jasonintrator By wonderful coincidence, this announcement from the Dean of my business school, world's top-3, just came through. Would a business school with a militant anti-woke majority be proudly launching a new DEI department?

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

1 year

@marcuschown I am generally against filming and doxxing, but, on this occasion, it would've been justified.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

3 years

@jasonintrator This is simply not true.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

3 years

@stephenfry @Digbylj I am a linguist and I agree with Digby Jones.

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Elena Shalneva

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1 year

@DrProudman You refer to yourself as a "junior barrister," yet you are at an age when people make it to KC. Your tweets are at best elaborately banal, at worst plain daft. How you stay in legal profession is beyond me. Even your radically left-wing colleagues like @BarristerSecret mock you.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

4 years

@mldauber @NicholasA1715 I can't believe you teach at Stanford.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

3 years

@realchrisrufo I'll stick with watching Bambi and Mary Poppins, and also Disney's inevitable collapse. And is pansexual a woke word for bisexual?

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

9 months

@loki_monster @tomgara What triggered the revelations matters less. Fact is: she plagiarised, and it is she, and not her husband, who is responsible.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

4 years

Postmodernism, as term and concept, is often used randomly (and illiterately) - so I attempted some corrections and clarifications in today's Quillette.

Quillette

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Postmodernism: Some Corrections and Clarifications | @ShalnevaE

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

3 years

@wesyang She is wearing a classical ballet kit. I was trained in professional ballet. So believe me when I say that she will not last for more that 3-4 minutes. There's a reason dancers and athletes are thin: it's impossible to perform with extra weight.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

3 years

@theAliceRoberts @revkatebottley This is not criticism, this is blatant mockery. I am an atheist, but I'll never have the bad taste of ridiculing a figure other people hold sacred.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

1 year

Another staggering example of Western illiteracy. The entire production crew of Snow White, including PRs who prepped this actress, think that the story dates back to a 1930s cartoon. Literally no one heard of The Brothers Grimm 1812 fairy tale and the folklore which informed it.

@amuse

1 year

Go woke, go broke. Disney should issue a gag order…

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

3 years

@Baddiel @hugorifkind A term just about acceptable for certain reality TV stars who make the point of flaunting their lives and antics to the public, to shock and provoke. But using word "toyboy" to describe a family living a private life and raising a child together is low and cheap.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

8 months

@nhannahjones If the overwhelming majority of US pilots were white at the time of the crashes, so were the pilots who crashed the planes. This analysis proves nothing. A more enlightened analysis would be to look at the percentage of white pilots who crashed their planes to the total number of

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

7 months

@mishtal International Women’s Day is 8 March. You can't even get that fact right.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

2 years

@historyinmemes I read that Manson played the insanity card for the rest of his life in jail to avoid death penalty.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

2 years

@ar_rothschild Taking a picture of someone's private house and posting it on Twitter for the world to see? Forgive me, but this is both in bad taste and rather creepy. And I don't know who these days is still surprised by a home security camera, especially in a house that attracts attention.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

4 months

@SamAdlerBell He must be devastated.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

2 years

@realchrisrufo None of this would've happened if instead of engaging in politics - an activity which should be left to elected politicians - Disney focused on what companies are supposed to do: provide quality products to their customers and quality returns to their shareholders.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

2 years

@toadmeister I feel really sorry for those students who come to school with a genuine desire to learn, rather than witness a freak show.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

2 years

@theJeremyVine Cars don't drive on the pavements or go through red lights. You keep denying the obvious: cyclists' behaviour, on balance, is reckless.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

3 years

Is there a more delightful, uplifting, reliably first-rate presence on our screens these days than Ryan Reynolds @VancityReynolds ? Film after film, he never fails to deliver.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

2 years

@jasonintrator This may or may not happen. But if a philosophy student stumbles across this thread in 200 years, he'd be like "wow, that's a bit mad."

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

1 year

@DrProudman @RosamundUrwin You instigate trials by social media for personal publicity. You shouldn't be practising law.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

3 years

@ec1vOld @jackhardwick93 And proper jobs.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

1 year

@CHSommers @LvilleSchool The classmate who spread the rumour should be named, tried and incarcerated.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

3 years

@AndrewBrookLdn @JuliaHB1 People re-align their bodies for various reasons: to look and feel younger, for example. Some make it their life's mission and go for it with zeal. Yet when I see a 60-year-old with a face lift, fortunately, I am not obliged to believe they are 35.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

9 months

@JonHaidt It isn't. Anti-Zionism is, and you are fallaciously and intentionally conflating the two.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

2 years

@AllisonPearson And the Royal etiquette she mocks so childishly and nastily in that video is something she knew all along she would have to follow. If she found it that oppressive, she didn't have to marry.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

3 years

@JuliaHB1 Masks are a nuisance, no more, they are hardly "severely distressing."

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

1 year

@thenephrologist @StewMama71 Yes. Affirmative action of any kind, when identity overrides merit, ultimately leads to failure.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

7 months

@chriswb71 @waruwk It's "we are." And no, it's not my responsibility to tell anyone with whom they should sleep.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

1 year

@monitoringbias I didn't think we needed studies for this: wokeism is largely an act. A number of times passionate feminists and defenders of sisterhood addressed me as an ugly bitch or suggested that I was in my 60s when other arguments didn't work...

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

5 months

@NewYorker Oh, for god's sake, it didn't "suddenly" become popular: the phenomenon existed for as long as people existed. It's just that some American recently gave it a fancy name.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

2 years

@phil49472744 @jasonintrator I'd be surprised if someone was "harmed" by that joke, but if they were, it's on them. The joke was harmless.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

10 months

@JuliaHB1 @OwenJones84 "Favourite terrorist group?" @OwenJones84 , you should sue (and this is coming from a neutral observer, not a fan).

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

5 years

Thrilled to make my debut in Quillette.

Claire Lehmann

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5 years

"Yes, young girls need role models. But whether these are male or female is irrelevant. We admire other people for certain qualities. For me, these are honour, courage, talent, kindness, intellect. Decency."

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

3 years

@afneil @British_Airways Couldn't agree more: they are taking advantage of their position as national airline and virtual monopoly on many routes. Please continue using your platform to hold BA to account.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

3 years

@buitengebieden_ Shouldn't it be released into a penguin colony? It's a small bird, not sure it can survive on its own.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

3 years

@davidfrum Preposterous tweet. Delete.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

2 years

@SwipeWright @Etsy Don't be too disheartened. The letter is signed by a bloke with a job title "Etsy Markerplace Integrity." Just imagine what his job (life?) must be like.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

11 months

@theyasminbenoit @stonewalluk Not wanting sex is a pathology, as sex is the most basic and essential human instinct. If we were all asexual, human race would die out. But no one discriminates against you. If you applied for a job, you wouldn't be asked about your sexual preferences. Although I suspect you'd

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

1 year

@monitoringbias @CNN I really don't understand this obsession with "live-in" biological fathers. Men sleeping under the same roof as their children doesn't make them good fathers: they can still be distant, disinterested, or plain cruel. Having 1 parent who unconditionally loves you is far healthier.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

1 year

Let's cut the crap about men being shameless self-promoters, and women too shy and retiring to advertise their worth. Here's a girl dabbling in philosophy at a 2nd-tier college comparing herself to Hume. Stupidly self-assured people have equal representation in both sexes.

Daisy Dixon

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1 year

What people What think philosophers we actually look like: look like😎

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Elena Shalneva

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2 years

The incredulous thing is that it's people with "Philosophy PhD" and "Philosophy Professor" in profiles confessing to have never read/understood basic philosophy texts. Perhaps universities are right in shutting philosophy departments, if this is the tuition level students get.

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2 years

I have a feeling this thread is turning into a celebration of happy ignorance

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3 months

@thetimes Who judged her? What nonsense. People start over in their 40s all the time. You're just inventing stuff now.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

7 months

@Beavkin @waruwk It may come as s surprise to you, but society works through the law. Everything citizens do that comply with the law is no one's business.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

3 years

@clairlemon The definition of truth is far wider than empirical knowledge.

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Elena Shalneva

@ShalnevaE

2 years

If you manage to retrieve marginalised equals of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Plato and Kant, I will devour them with passion. Until then, I'm afraid, it will be Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Plato and Kant. Books should be read because of their quality - not their authors' identity.

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We are engaged in both retrieving philosophical works of women and individuals from other marginalized groups and sustaining the presence of these figures in the history of philosophy.

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2 years

@CHSommers He's right, though, this is a celeb magazine-style piece.

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@ShalnevaE

7 months

@AdameMedia As importantly, why was he not arrested shortly after the episode went on air? He should be in jail awaiting trial.

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@ShalnevaE

3 years

@StigAbell It only works if you've only ever lived in Britain, only speak English, only have British friends and regard travel as an exotic luxury. Those who are more internationally minded want to visit places where they had lived and see friends and family.

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@ShalnevaE

1 year

@TelegraphUS @jordanbpeterson This man is a shrink. Could you not find a more qualified commentator on theology and geopolitics, @TelegraphUS ?

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@ShalnevaE

1 year

@JuliaHB1 I think you should stick to reporting on train delays and stuff. International politics is way above your competence.

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@ShalnevaE

1 year

This guy will go far. Cultures mixing and learning from each other is a good thing, Jones says. Not so, the guy replies, as some cultures have more to offer than the others. The guy stops short of examples, so let me provide some for him. The culture I was born into gave the

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Whether you agree with the young conservative or not, it’s entertaining to see him articulately embarrass Owen Jones, who clearly was trying to trip him up with this line of questioning for his next outage video compilation.

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2 years

@kcjohnson9 @CHSommers Shouldn't campus sexual assault be the matter for police only, to be investigated according to standard police procedures, like any other sexual assault? Universities are blatantly not qualified to carry out criminal investigations.

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9 months

@ecomarxi Actors are not very clever, as a rule. They should stick to acting.

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@ShalnevaE

3 years

@toadmeister This is very strange. Even if Mr Berenson expressed an incorrect opinion, this is nothing compared to the flood of misinformation and deliberate lies that other Twitter users supply every day. Yet hardly anyone gets suspended. Are we sure this the whole story?

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@LozzaFox God save us all from the indignity of old age, when we find ourselves at the mercy of a random sadist.

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@MahyarTousi More importantly, how did she stay an MP with a criminal conviction and mental instability? How can this be legal?

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@ShalnevaE

2 years

@DrProudman Because his comment, in bad taste as it was, concerned one woman - not "women" in general. I didn't like my colleague Alistair. This doesn't mean I hated all men.

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@ShalnevaE

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@jo_bartosch @TheCriticMag I have a genuine question. Why is self-identification by gender acceptable, but not the others? I may decide to identify as being 20 years younger, because that's how I feel, but noone will take me seriously. But if I identify as a man, they will. Just trying to understand.

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1 year

@OULGBTQ @oxfordpride @OxfordSU_LGBTQ @OxfordAgainstCT @OxFemSoc @JollyFarmersOxf @OBU_LGBTQplus Why don't you guys spend your time studying and getting better grades.

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@ShalnevaE

1 year

This is how the "passé -retiré" position in classical ballet actually looks like (left). And best of luck to Sophie Rebecca with finding a male dancer willing to partner "her" for a one-handed lift in Spartacus (right).

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Sophie Rebecca, former rally driver and IT technician, was the first transwoman to pass exams at The Royal Ballet Academy (which changed its rules in 2013 to allow transwomen in). Sophie is 6ft 3in. “I knew from a young age that I was trapped in the wrong body”.

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@realchrisrufo "Wildly inappropriate" is the point. Children shouldn't be exposed to sex education, even of garden variety - that's for teenages and YAs. Children should enjoy the innocence of childhood, and any questions they may have about their bodies should be dealt with tactfully at home.

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@archi_tradition Italy is more beautiful. Spain has much nicer people. Italians are very good at their own PR, but their gregariousness is for show.

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1 year

@DrProudman I wasn't going to do this, but enough is enough. @barstandards , this barrister repeatedly instigates trials by social media for personal publicity, ignoring the basics of your profession: innocent until proven guilty in a court of law by a jury of peers. Why does she practice?

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@davidrieff @CHSommers This is what baffles me most: why does management cave in, again and again, to the whims and histrionics of junior publishing staff - instead of firing them for insubordination? This is what a corporate executive would do, on the spot.

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1 year

@DrProudman @BarristerSecret I don't follow you, as you can well see. Your tweets appear on my timeline.

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1 year

@jordanbpeterson @CBC @PierrePoilievre Have you considered seeing a shrink?

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1 year

@thenitinsawhney Wracking my brain, but cannot think of many breakthroughs in the history of human thought that weren't achieved by a white man or a group of white men. So I'm not terribly concerned about this particular group being in the BBC studio.

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@jasonintrator I'm not saying you are right or wrong, but you can't possibly claim to know much about a country which you visited once and whose language you don't speak.

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@thetimes Just admit you are a tabloid.

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9 months

@Dawn_French Their books seem to sell faster, yours is a high untouched pile.

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6 years

@BorisTheBlade02 @piersmorgan The first half of your tweet is spot on. Shame you ruined its impact by being offensive.

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4 years

@JuliaHB1 @SkyNews For which he was tried and acquitted.

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1 year

@NewYorker You seriously cannot find better contributors?

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1 year

@ClarkeMicah You are the most knowledgeable, sympathetic, and yet objective commentator on the Russia/Ukraine conflict in this country. Makes a refreshing difference to the cynics who comment on this war as if it were a Netflix action movie.

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@April_1970s The woman is either an opportunist or a snowflake. There is no reason for anyone to be fearful of being in central London. I salute @DalrympleWill .

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@DrProudman A 16-year-old is not a child. It's an individual above the age of consent, free to date whoever she chooses. Her intimate life is no one's business.

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@mashedAvocado_ @TheFigen_ On the contrary, it was a merciful thing to do. It is easier to feel unwanted together, than on your own.

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@ShalnevaE

2 years

@JuliaHB1 This phenomenon exists in the US on an even wider scale, and has plenty of woke defenders who reason that it's "only property" and that thieves need to eat. Shoplifting is a crime and shoplifters should be prosecuted. Please use your platform to hold law enforcement to account.

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@DrProudman You dispense life advice now?

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