Linda Grant @lindasgrant Twitter profile

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Linda Grant

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3 years

There was more than one vigil for Sarah Everard in London last night. Here’s one which took place in a Crouch End park. The police stood at the perimeter and didn’t intervene. We left flowers and candles and went home.

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4 years

Friends in Cornwall reporting the arrival of second home owners for the Easter break. Like angels of death riding Chelsea tractors.

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5 years

The motto on Baroness Hale's coat of arms is Omnia Feminae Aequissimae. Women are equal to everything.

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4 years

I’m surprised Dr Sarah Gilbert, head of the Oxford vaccine research, wasn’t named in the New Year's honours list. Queen seems a suitable title.

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7 years

If the figure of 72% turnout of 18-24s is correct then the power of the tabloids to swing elections is dead and buried. They don't read them

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4 years

Daily Mail 1938. See @AuschwitzMuseum for details of what happened to those who didn’t make it.

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6 years

We had three Labour councillors in Crouch End - they were deselected and replaced by Momentum backed candidates. They all lost to the LibDems.

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5 years

My father received this letter when he applied to become a British citizen in 1948. It’s why my name is Grant.

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4 years

When I was a child in the fifties there was always someone in callipers, a survivor of polio. You don’t see that any more. #vaccines .

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5 years

They told us we were centrist scum. We should fuck off and join the Tories. They deselected councillors because they wouldn’t toe the momentum line. They said anti-Semitic conspiracy theories were ‘legitimate criticism of Israel ’. Yeah. Jeremy played a blinder.

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4 years

Another little girl, born a few months after Bob Dylan, who would be celebrating her 79th birthday today but was murdered in a gas chamber aged two. Never again? Yesterday the flag of the British Union of Fascists was unfurled in Trafalgar Square.

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4 years

30 August 1941 | Belgian Jewish girl Dora Poznanski was born in Brussels. In 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

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6 years

All day people, many Jews, in my timeline have been criticizing Israel without comparisons to the Nazis, conspiracy theories, retreading of old antisemitic tropes. Nobody is stopping you criticizing Israel. You can do it easily without being a racist.

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6 years

The British Museum has used the phrase 'reaching out' instead of contacting and all lies in ruins now.

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6 years

@PeterBradshaw1 @benugo Hi Peter, thanks for reaching out. We have followed up with our catering provider about this. Please email info @britishmuseum .org so we can look into this and get back to you as soon as possible.

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6 years

It’s Shrodinger's Brexit, isn’t it? We can’t leave and we can’t not leave. We're dead.

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4 years

The daffodils I planted last October for Deborah Orr have formed buds. She knew she wouldn't see the spring but wanted to be in our memories when it eventually came around.

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4 years

The Crouch End plague doctor is on the move.

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3 years

I don’t think Dylan is as good as Joni Mitchell.

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5 years

Morning.

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4 years

Keir Starmer acting as a politician hoping to form a government rather than a 70s student union leader. Works for me.

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3 years

70 today. Good grief.

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4 years

Look at her surrounded by her dollies, she’d only be 81 today but murdered aged two and half but people who thought she was vermin and that her whole race should be annihilated.

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4 years

4 December 1939 | A Jewish girl Magdalena Dora Blau was born in Rotterdam in The Netherlands to Fritz and Mina. On 11 August 1942 she was murdered in a gas chamber at the #Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp.

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9 years

Getting to the heart of what might be Labour's problem

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6 years

Do you want to criticise Israel but don’t want to be antisemitic? Easy. Cut out the ‘Zio’ taunt, it’s a KKK term of abuse. Don’t bring Hitler into it. Eliminate the conspiracy theories about harvesting the organs of Palestinian children. This one shows how to do it.

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3 years

An incel movement retakes a country.

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5 years

If no deal comes to pass and our children ask, what did you do to stop it, I will hold my head up high and say, I compulsively checked twitter.

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5 years

When she was so very ill @DeborahJaneOrr said, ‘Don’t worry about me. Write next about the stubborn beauty of life throughout all human idiocies’. And so my next book will be dedicated to her. Always remembered, Deborah. Always.

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3 years

I’d like to live long enough to see a time when Boris Johnson doesn’t get exactly what he wants.

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5 years

I finished Middlemarch a few minutes ago. I started it in the Spring of 1973.

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7 years

Corbyn supporters: 'why don't you fuck off to the Tories?' Electorate: 'okay'.

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3 years

Overheard conversation. ‘I’ve only slept with one man, my husband.’ ‘Me too.’ ‘Oh, and Peter O’Toole’.

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6 years

Just spoke to someone who voted Leave. 'It’s a bloody disaster. It’s like separating Siamese twins, often one dies and it won’t be Europe.' Regrexiter.

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4 years

I couldn’t be happier about David Starkey's downfall. Years ago he was vile to me. Never forgotten.

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5 years

I woke up yesterday morning to a message that Queen Deborah Orr had died. In her memory I planted bulbs. If you admired, loved, respected her, plant a pot of bulbs so the country will rise in the Spring in a blaze of Deborah and we'll remember her.

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22 days

There are some absolute stinkers running for parliament today but the Portillo moment that would give me the greatest joy is Rees-Mogg.

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3 years

Today the BBC had a debate about whether Jews are an ethnic minority.

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3 years

1 March 1929 | A Belgian Jewish girl, Rebecca Szafir, was born in Antwerp. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 28 September 1942 in a transport of 1,742 Jews deported from Malines / Mechelen. She was among the 1398 people murdered in gas chambers.

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4 years

The word I most weary of in this crisis is not coronavirus, it’s sourdough.

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3 years

I got the bus to Sainsbury’s and everybody got off the the bus and looked around and said they didn’t know or had forgotten the shops are shut on Easter Sunday. And everybody got back on the bus and went home and that is what these days passes for an unexpected adventure. 😐

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9 years

This has made my day

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4 years

Since the beginning of the year I’ve been retweeting from the @AuschwitzMuseum the brief lives of children murdered in gas chambers. Yesterday the grime artist Wiley spent 10 hours tweeting about the slipperiness and power of the Jews. His account has been suspended for 12 hours.

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5 years

Expand this photo. Look at her face, her dress, the collar, the buttons, the sleeves. Had she not been murdered she would be celebrating her 82nd birthday today.

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5 years

26 January 1937 | Dutch Jewish girl Esther Polack was born in Amsterdam. She arrived at #Auschwitz in a transport of 1,010 Jews deported from Amsterdam on 28 July 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber at the age of 5. (Photo: @yadvashem )

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6 years

Something I learned over the weekend is that a fascist can gun down elderly people praying at a synagogue in Pittsburgh and you can rely on the response being, 'but what about Palestine'. I’ve had enough of Labour's spiteful warriors.

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4 years

This is Britain’s finest statue.

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4 years

There’s no political point to these RTs of the @AuschwitzMuseum just a reminder that the gas chambers are, for a little while longer, not history but within the lifetimes of people alive today, or would have been alive if not murdered. Our parents and grandparents.

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4 years

Eva should be celebrating her 86th birthday today but she was murdered in a gas chamber at the age of seven. Two little giris with ribbons in their hair. How frightened they must have been.

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5 years

I thought dividing the Booker Prize this year was a serious mistake. The BBC naming the winner as Margaret Atwood and 'another author' is testament to how damaging it has been. All power to Bernadine Evaristo who should have won outright.

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5 years

Light a candle for Deborah Orr whose funeral is today #candleforDeborah

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3 years

If you’re Jewish you will probably have as your family history a story of flight across borders, with or without the right papers which makes the scenes at Kabul airport so hard to watch.

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8 years

Any woman who says she's not a feminist is welcome to go back to a time when she needed her husband's signature for an emergency Caesarian

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8 years

Fairytales can come true it can happen to you

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5 years

Thank god @lucianaberger never again has to be in a room with those thugs from her CLP.

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1 year

Listening to Melvyn Bragg conducting a discussion of the planet Jupiter. What an heroic contribution he has made to the cultural life of this country.

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4 years

Keep checking this account. You may find you share a birthday with one of the victims of the gas chambers.

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@AuschwitzMuseum

4 years

6 February 1936 | German Jewish girl Rut Mandel was born in Berlin. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 March 1943 in a transport of 1,500 Jews deported from Berlin. She was murdered in a gas chamber. She was 7 years old. (Photo: @yadvashem )

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5 years

. @DeborahJaneOrr was a legendary magazine editor, then she became an award-winning columnist. Then she wrote the definitve book on difficult mothers. Now she’s live tweeting stage 4 cancer treatment from her hospital bed with all her incendiary brilliance.

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5 years

My father was born in Poland and came to Britain when he was six months old. So where was he to get out to? Back to an unknown country or the months old Israel?

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6 years

Readmitted to the Labour Party, someone who says Blair was influenced by a cabal of Jews and doesn’t know if thousands or millions died in the Holocaust. He’s been asked to attend training in antisemitism but has declined.

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8 years

Summary here

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8 years

Applause for my friend Louiza Patikis who plays Helen and and has lived with this story in her head and heart for 3 years #freehelen

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4 years

I’m in awe of the actor Jason Watkins. He slides into every role with complete conviction as if his last role was erased from your memory. I could watch him in anything.

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4 years

Dear joggers, if you’re running along a pavement lined with parked cars and someone with a buggy is walking towards you, in order to maintain two metres distance one of you will have to go into the road. Which do you you think would find it easier to get between the cars?

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4 years

Eva should be celebrating her 86th birthday today but she was murdered in a gas chamber at the age of seven. Two little giris with ribbons in their hair. How frightened they must have been.

Auschwitz Memorial

@AuschwitzMuseum

4 years

10 July 1936 | Dutch Jewish girl Eva Minzer (or Münzer) was born at The Hague. In February 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection together with her younger sister Liane (in the picture: Eva (left), Liane (right)).

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9 years

If you missed this wondrous story of advice to a child yesterday . . .

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8 years

I realize guns don't kill people, people kill people, but it's odd how the weapon of choice for mass murder is never a vase or a book.

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5 years

When my mother died I put her death notice in the @JewishChron . 'She taught us to respect others, that a bowl of chicken soup can cure almost anything, and a good handbag makes the outfit.' Rose Grant 1918-1999.

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4 years

@Baddiel Daily Mail 1938

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5 years

Call the Midwife, a tv programme with a serious social and historical purpose which also manages to be accessible and grip the heart as well as the head. It wants its characters to have the best outcomes and knows it can't always give them. All hail Heidi Thomas.

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8 years

Labour moving from second to fourth place in Sleaford demonstrates that Jeremy's project of gaining fewer but better votes is working

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3 years

Charlie Watts failed the 11+, went to a secondary modern, left school at 15, went to work as a graphic designer at an ad agency. I wonder what today's system does with non-academic, arty kids.

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4 years

Eduard was born 3 months after Bob Dylan. Had he not been murdered aged two in Auschwitz, he would have been in his twenties in the 60s, listening to Dylan, the Beatles, The Rolling Stones. These children aren’t history, he would be celebrating his 79th birthday today.

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23 August 1941 | Czech Jewish boy Eduard Beck was born in Olomouc. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto with his mother Blanka on 15 May 1944. They were registered in Czech family camp in Birkenau. They did not survive.

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9 years

My favourite thing of the leadership race - the candidates http://t.co/u997oAnvYK

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4 years

'It's only antisemitism if it comes from the Antisemitique region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling socialist banter.'

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6 years

I was raped in my twenties by a fellow PhD student. I remember every detail of that night, I bet he doesn’t remember even meeting me.

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4 years

As someone wittier than me remarked Emu can’t fire Rod Hull

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5 years

I don’t accept that things are no better for women than they were 40 years ago. That implies an historical amnesia about what life was like, when even to get a credit card you needed the permission of your husband or father.

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5 years

In the quiet coach in the train to Penzance. Baby boomer carriage. Everyone is reading. Books, actual newspapers, kindles. No headphones in sight. A man is reading a 1000 page hardback about globalism through a magnifying glass.

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This face has haunted me ever since I began following this account. Now my great niece is the same age as Esther in her puff sleeved party dress. The horror of her final hours will never leave me.

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28 July 1942 | A transport of 1,010 Jews deported from #Westerbork camp in the German-occupied Netherlands arrived at #Auschwitz . SS doctors sent 473 men & 315 women to the camp. The remaining 222 people were murdered in a gas chamber. One of them was Esther Polack. She was 5.

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5 years

If Labour deselects @lucianaberger on a nod from the leadership, then it will be institutionally anti-semitic and I'll find another party to vote for - LibDem, Green, Women's Equality. There'll be something out there that doesn't stink.

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4 months

Thank you to the Victorians who gave us public parks

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4 years

Your daily reminder that the Nazis considered this laughing curly haired six year old girl subhuman and gassed her to death. She’d be 83 today. Don’t be surprised that for Jews, persecution is part of living memory, not history, a few miles across the Channel in civilized Paris.

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27 September 1937 | French Jewish girl Myriam Bloch was born in Metz. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 20 December 1943 in a transport of 850 Jews deported from #Drancy . She was among 505 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

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Most British Jews are descendent of the pogrom immigration of the early 20th century. There are no holocaust survivors in my immediate family. The uncles and aunts and cousins who didn’t leave and whose letters stoped coming in 1939 are the nameless shadow family.

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6 years

Jeremy Corbyn's supporters are currently attacking @Baddiel for writing a Tracey Ullman sketch about Corbyn, which he didn’t write, but must have done because he’s a Zionist ( he isn’t.)

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6 years

It is 104 years ago today since Edward Thomas' train stopped at Adelstrop and no-one got on or off, and all the birds . . .

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5 years

Labour Party HQ in Crouch End this morning

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6 years

My celebration of the joys of @TalkingPicsTV

Nostalgia doesn’t come more joyous than this | Linda Grant

Tune into Talking Pictures and wallow in a perfect antidote to today’s many ills

www.theguardian.com

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A few years ago I bumped into my neighbour on the street and asked her where she was off to. ‘I’m being interviewed by a lawyer as part of the Spycops enquiry. How about you?' I was taking my Nespresso pods to be recycled.

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Hadi Matar, Salman Rushdie’s attacker, is only 24. He wasn’t born at the time the fatwah was issued. Rushdie has never been safe, we just complacently assumed danger was past. Feeling sick for him and everyone who says what others don’t want said.

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5 years

2019 summary

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Fowey has a Labour MP. Absolute scenes at the yacht club.

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2 years

Ian Jack has died. The best of men. My editor at the Independent on Sunday and Granta books. He thought deeply and wrote fluently and with grace.

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4 years

Perhaps the viewing figures for Normal People could remind commissioning editors that not all tv drama requires a mandatory series of murders, the slashed naked body of a young woman, corruption in high places and ceaseless improbable plot twists.

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6 years

Utterly glorious self-take down of a cynical hack

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Two days ago the obituaries editor came round and asked if I would like to write about someone who had done something important to do with platelets. With an inward sigh, I said yes. I prepared to write the worthy-but-dull obituary of Gustav Born. 1/n

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The chattering sound outside my window of a crocodile of primary school children being taken on a walk is as sweet as birdsong.

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9 years

Yes, my nephew

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5 years

Talking to my next neighbour who is German. Full roll out of the app to apply for settled status not till 30 March. Calls Home Office. What if we leave the country and come back before we receive settled status. What proof of residence is needed? HO: 'We don’t know.'

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I met a 17 year old last night who was applying to LSE. I said, Mick Jagger went to LSE. She said I don’t know who he is. Sic transit gloria.

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6 years

Hard to say why this Crouch End Labour candidate didn’t win in a heavily Remain ward

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If there’s a lesson, for me, of Holocaust Memorial Day it isn’t soothing phrases like never again, but the knowledge that things can change for the worse very quickly, that there isn’t always a happy ending and that suffering doesn’t necessarily ennoble.

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Women fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto