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I don't know who made this but whoever it was, I'm a fan.

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Breaking: Michael Gove moving to Ministry of Sound in reshuffle.

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Not sure about the new Star Wars.

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Marry me, @rickbur1n . ❤️

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A happy 90th birthday to actor William Shatner, perhaps best known to audiences as Alexei in The Brothers Karamazov (Richard Brooks, 1958).

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Bernard Cribbins RIP. Of all the vanishing voices of a 1970s childhood, his will always have a special place in my heart. I know he had a remarkable and varied career but this is probably where I heard him first and it's where I go whenever I hear him talk. x

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Strong Britain, great nation! Strong Britain, great nation! Strong Britain, great nation! Strong Britain, great na-a-tion!

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It should contain the title of the novel it closes e.g. "And to think, it all happened right here in Middlemarch."

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Last night Mum's care home told us they now have a Covid outbreak. My two prevailing emotions are fear for my mum and rage at @MattHancock for openly lying. Stop attempting to contain bad PR for your lot and put the same effort into not letting our family members die alone.

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You'd think that people would have had enough of Paul McCartney. I look around me and I see it isn't so. Some people want to fill the world with Paul McCartney. And what's wrong with that, I'd like to know?

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Françoise Hardy RIP.

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I wrote this for @BoundlessLit about how and why I read as much as I do, so you can stop asking me now.

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7 years

First they came for the Queen and I said nothing. Then they came for Mrs Brown's Boys and I said nothing. I stand by these decisions.

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6 years

Well quite.

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And half the nation wouldn’t care if every football stadium closed. What’s your point? Because there is such a thing as society, in fact, we accommodate each other’s enthusiasms. (Pic c/o @adelegeras )

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10 months

Roses are red, Prospects are gloomy. Dreams once so sweet now

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Please send £5000, I am trapped in a country with some bad people.

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GP’s will soon be stripped of the ability to sign people off work as part of a major government inititive to crack down on ‘sick note culture’ Rishi Sunak says people should stop 'over-medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of life'

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We can't just keep remaking Ghostbusters because people were unhappy with the result of the last Ghostbusters.

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2 years

I just think at this stage there need to be fewer apologies and more fuckings off.

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This is just to say I have melted the coins that were in the bank vault and which you were probably saving for Brexit Forgive me They were premature so vain and so spaffed

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3 years

One of those glorious summer mornings that makes you glad to be alive.

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Just informed the dog about Gavin Williamson’s knighthood.

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This is probably not the day for Raymond Briggs’s final book Time For Lights Out but it is amongst the most beautiful, truthful and courageous works of art I think I’ve ever read and I am in bits. #RIP

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Great name for the group but I still think Wings was the right decision.

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Like the rings of a tree, one could probably estimate how many times this reader tried to get into Anna Karenina before giving up.

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Sitting in a leather armchair in the London Library @TheLondonLib feeling drowsy. The man sitting next to me was snoring with a literary journal spread over his stomach. I opened my book, The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin, and read this paragraph. I slammed the book shut.

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6 years

Our postman earlier: "What breed is he then? Miniature Chewbacca?"

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This screen adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel stirred up considerable controversy at the time, not least the decision to change the title from The Brothers Karamazov to Tsar Trek.

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@NadiaShireen When I read this thread at 3am, I did a quick search to be sure he wasn’t making it all up in his role as a ‘storyteller’. Clearly he wasn’t. What a nightmare, I practically had a panic attack just reading it.

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The great Kirsty MacColl would and should have been 60 today.

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Kirsty MacColl on her lunchbreak, Whitgift Centre, Croydon 1979. http://t.co/cPZHRzOJZo

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When All This is over, I'm going to get on a train to York, head to @Bettys for lunch - pot of tea, Rarebit, chips for the table and a custard slice - take a leisurely stroll round the city walls, and then go straight home again. I will take a good book and some music. Bliss.

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5 years

It was a slow 1990s for this book I'm reading.

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@RichardDawkins Coincidentally I woke up this morning transformed into Richard Dawkins, a nightmare of Kafkaesque proportions.

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9 months

Incredible news. Astoundingly, Michael Palin and Terry Jones's pre-Python series The Complete and Utter History of Britain, long thought wiped, has just popped up on BritBox and ITVX IN FULL. h/t @worldoftelly

The Complete and Utter History of Britain - Watch Episode - ITVX

Michael Palin & Terry Jones' comedy classic - newly discovered episodes!

www.itv.com

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1 year

This morning, almost 38 years since my father died, I am seeing a bereavement counsellor for the first time. Wish me luck.

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I was in this crush at Euston yesterday when a platform was called for a delayed train, after previous services were cancelled. There was a stampede and it was terrifying. A failure of the railways, stewardship, public safety, privatisation, personal accountability, you name it.

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Took 25 minutes just to get out of Euston this evening. So dangerous. Totally out of control.

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Murdoch-owned publication The Sun launches homophobic smear campaign against BBC ahead of license fee review, with support of right-wing politicians to fix it in public mind as “safe haven for perverts”, leading to breakdown of accused man who may have done nothing illegal. Nice.

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Rewatching Detectorists on iPlayer. Like you, unless you're wrong, I love the whole thing. That's a given. The purpose of this tweet is to celebrate episode 5 of series 1. It is perfect.

BBC Four - Detectorists, Series 1, Episode 5

Andy, Lance, Becky and Sophie's secrets are on the verge of being revealed.

www.bbc.co.uk

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I read 203 books in 2020. These were my favourites. I have chosen the ones that spoke to me most clearly or usefully during that rotten year.

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Books read (or reread) in April 2019. My favourite - narrowly - was Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe.

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I am all set for the big game.

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Footnote regarding WH Smith and the significant part it plays in British cultural life, from The Year of Reading Dangerously, pg 161.

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Dolly Parton in Liverpool, May 1977. Photo by Chalkie Davies.

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I won’t be saying how many books I’ve read in 2021. This is because when I revealed last year’s total, the Times newspaper ran an editorial column slagging me off for reading too much, boasting etc. This turned out to be really bad for my mental health all year long.

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. @Andr6wMale and I have accidentally created a ‘dogs react to news of Gavin Williamson’s knighthood’ thread, please add to it if you have a photo of a dog looking utterly aghast etc.👇

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Just informed the dog about Gavin Williamson’s knighthood.

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7 years

This by @ClaireDederer for @parisreview is the best essay I've read this year.

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4 years

Zoom is able to capture the image inside your head during a call. This is mine.

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And here is William Shatner in an adaptation of Chekov.

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Interior of the Meeting House of the University of Sussex this afternoon, designed by Basil Spence and opened in 1966. 🙏

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It's really good, I agree.

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This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!

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Saw Thomas Hardy trending and feared the worst. But it's OK, he's still dead.

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6 years

It's taken me a few days but this is what that Arctic Monkeys photo reminds me of.

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I read [XXX] books in 2021. These were my favourites. >

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3 years

OK, late capitalism poses a threat to the fabric of society and will eventually consume its host, the Earth. But on the other hand:

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Morrissey may have let himself go but Stewart Lee has not. This is excellent.

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@andreajenkyns This isn’t an apology and neither is it grammatically correct; it is also factually inaccurate. However as a metaphorical representation of a middle finger raised to standards of education and decency, it shows a degree of imagination. Something to build on, Andrea. C-.

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Me yesterday; me today.

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Incredible scenes here, it's five past nine on a Bank Holiday Monday and yet none of our neighbours is operating a power tool.

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Someone pulled me up on my grammar earlier but I couldn't care fewer.

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I read 262 books in 2019 including lots of poetry, much of which was suggested by people on here. Thanks everyone. These were my favourites.

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I wrote this for @BoundlessLit in defence of suburbia, and why life in the suburbs is so underrepresented in British fiction.

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I have not been invited to a single New Year's Eve party. I cannot thank you enough.

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Thinking of organising a virtual book group during the lockdown where everyone doesn't read Ayn Rand and then we don't discuss her on here. Is that something people would be interested in? #AnyoneButAyn

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3 years

An open letter to Tory backbenchers: Stop citing “the impact on people’s mental health” when issuing your strident proclamations on lockdown restrictions etc. as you clearly don’t give a shit about people’s mental health or you wouldn’t be a Tory backbencher.

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4 years

Remake of The Great Gatsby starring Matt Damon entitled Bourne: Back Ceaselessly Into The Past.

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Books read in December 2020. It was nice to end this lousy year with a very good month. I actually can't identify one favourite without inadvertently diminishing another half dozen I loved. More to follow. 📚

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Tove Jansson on an elephant, London Zoo, 1957. Good morning.

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2 years

Sure, reading for pleasure is great. But have you tried reading for pain?

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There are no overrated books, only overrated opinions.

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I miss going to parties like I did in 1974.

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Books read (or reread) in July 2021. This was a great month, so many excellent books, so much actual pleasure. Highlights coming up.

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'The Hottest Tribute to ABBA'.

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Books read (or reread) in June 2020. This has been a good month. My favourite, narrowly, was Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf.

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@FraserNelson @adamboultonSKY Gentlemen, I review books regularly for @spectator .

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@RichardDawkins To answer your first question, because it's a major work of literature. For confirmation consult experts in the field, just as you would do in your own. Hope this helps.

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Please direct me to this club where in 2020 young cool people dance to Totally Wired by the Fall. #Roadkill

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Just spoke to doctor's receptionist who burst into tears because I was polite and thanked her for everything the medical practice was doing. I asked if people were generally being rude. Her: "This call is very much the exception."

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Just finished reading a novel I enjoyed so much I can’t say what it is on here until I’ve finished thinking about it for fear someone’s careless reply will attach itself to my memory of the book like a leech or a stain or a scar or a knife to the guts.

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Seeing lots of writers doing amazing, generous things on here. So I am pulling together a list of ten novels to remind us what truly dreadful people writers are under normal circumstances.

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Books read (or reread) in January 2021. My favourites were CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia and especially A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, all by George Saunders.

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I wrote about the challenge of returning to ‘normal’, whatever that is, for the New York Times @nytimes .

Hello, World. It’s Been a While. (Published 2022)

On the pleasures and pains of joining up with other people after a long, quiet time in the Covid doldrums.

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Given the Tories won the election by a landslide, Brexit is happening and Trump might well be reelected and they have most of the actual power, you'd think they could withstand a bit of non-violent humorous dissent. But apparently not.

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Books read (or reread) in February 2022. My favourite of the lot was probably Time For Lights Out by Raymond Briggs, not just deeply moving but formally innovative too. I’ve never read anything like it.

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If you’re planning to watch #TheBeatlesGetBack again today, start Part 3 at 22:31:35 and The Beatles will launch into Get Back on the stroke of midnight. Happy new year! 🥂

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Books read (or reread) in March 2021, @BacklistedPod reading on the left, pleasure/curiosity/Betterment™ on the right.

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I urge you stay at home on New Year's Eve, as I do every year.

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And we're trending. Happy 90th birthday @WilliamShatner and thank you for all the pleasure you've given us. x

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I read 183 books in 2018. These were my favourites. 1/2

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Huge if true.

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Jane Birkin shoplifting Beatles albums, 1966.

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Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon on their nobility scooter.

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Good morning from the brutalist seaside.

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“Daddy! My Daddy!” If all Bernard Cribbins had ever done as an actor was set up this scene from The Railway Children - and you all know which one it is - he would still be a legend. It’s an absolute masterclass in modest emotional storytelling. RIP. @BacklistedPod

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Pete Shelley RIP.

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Stop announcing your books of 2018. There's still a fortnight of 2018 to go, meaning you could read between one and (say) seven more books, any of which might be better than anything you've read in 2018 to date. I just want you to be happy and you're not.

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Books read (or reread) in May 2021. My favourite was A Goat's Song by Dermot Healy closely followed by The Bend For Home by Dermot Healy.

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People often ask me for tips on getting through challenging books. Here's one I'm using right now: motivate yourself by eating a Mini Egg at the foot of every right-hand page.

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It isn’t the first time a woman named Sue has been put in an invidious position by an ill-advised party.