Simon Alvey @salvey1 Twitter profile

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3 years

I love Pickford, and his deep irritation at having to do his job, which is a big mood

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The whole Paddington thing is what happens when you once mention to a relative that you like ladybirds so get ladybird themed presents for the rest of time - but for a whole country

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I had forgotten my favourite OJ Simpson fact (probably my favourite fact), OJ Simpson was a sprinter before becoming an American footballer, he took part in a race in 1967 won by a British athlete who ran under 10.2s for the second time that year That athlete, Ming Campbell

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5 years

This speech was too long imo

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@MartinSLewis how is it legal for a government to force you to take on a loan without your consent?

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2 years

Nothing reminds me of the impossibility of the success of liberalism like the 100ml liquids at airports rule, brought in against one plot 16 years ago, now just accepted unquestioningly as another inconvenience of travel, in spite of the cost and inconvenience it entails

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2 years

@bencsmoke Obviously a difficult day for him, but hiring a hitman in a Fiat Uno to distract is a bit over the top imo

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4 years

@onalifeglug @tinymattresses That's it, I'm taking back the mantel of best ginger guy with glasses from Suffolk

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@LordAshcroft I mean if we didn't leave the UK could be an excellent EU base

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2 years

The Telegraph writing articles about the UK being in a mess having endorsed almost all the political decisions that got us there in the past decade

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

2 years

💼 As a gloomy 2023 dawns in high-tax, mega-inflationary, low-growth Britain, here’s a seductive thought: why not go and work abroad for a while? Read more about the people about to do just that here ⬇️

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2 years

Just recieved a push from the EasyJet app on my phone saying "not ready for the heatwave to end?", which is baffling but also a threat of sorts from an airline

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2 years

The brass neck of Conservatives to write articles like this is genuinely remarkable with the state the country is in - it is also an inelegantly written, humourless piece of trash

Penny Mordaunt: A Christmas vision of the horrors of Labour past - and what might have been had...

I wish to be your guardian angel, and whisk you off to another reality for a moment - one where a Conservative government did not exist…

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2 years

@EH_Stonehenge Lads, this is extremely rubbish and naff, please get back to doing the good job protecting heritage you usually do

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6 months

It is the kind of fact that has everything, genuine surprise, makes you reasses what you knew about at least one of them, and the guy who killed two people lost to a Lib Dem

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2 years

@jasebyjason @hansmollman I didn't even know there was an aesthetic way to leave a house

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2 years

Congratulations to Mr Bacon here for taking the prize of 'worst PR gaffe by a man called Richard Bacon' away from the guy who snorted coke whilst being a presenter of Blue Peter

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

2 years

Conservative MP Richard Bacon defends Boris Johnson and suggests NHS staff had also been "letting their hair down" during pandemic

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6 years

@rhesusfactor @HodgkinDavid @LordAshcroft They won't, the EU have the opportunity to steal huge amounts of business from a country that never bought into the idea, we have thrown away such a sweet deal

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3 years

@kirstofcomms He just looks so adorably pissed off

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3 years

I don't know much about this article but every dog in a half mile radius just started barking

Coffee House

@SpecCoffeeHouse

3 years

‘The sight of Sadiq Khan celebrating on the television news next month is not going to convince the Red Wall voters that Labour understands their lives.’ ✍️ Patrick O’Flynn

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2 years

Also a useful reminder to never give the security state additional temporary powers because they will never give them up

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3 years

But how many exactly, 5,6,7,8?

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3 years

Several cases of new Omicron variant linked to Steps concert in Scotland

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3 years

Really not comfortable with a national newspaper demanding that people breed, so that we can support the richest generation in this country's history

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4 years

It says a lot about our differing political cultures that Ireland gets John and Edward Grimes, the US gets Grimes and the UK gets Darren Grimes

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5 years

@prydwen3 Hi, was born 43 years after the end of WW2. We didn't have food shortages, it's called progress. The fact that we are talking about going back to potential shortages is massive backward step

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3 years

I am once again reflecting that my life would surely have been happier if at the age of about 14 I had got really into cricket, or hard drugs, or some addiction other than British left wing politics

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4 years

@EssexCanning Hey it vaccinated me, gotta love that not dying of Covid feeling in the morning

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2 years

Kwasi Kwarteng won University Challenge in 1995 with Trinity College, Cambridge - an object lesson in not giving quizzers any real power

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3 months

@Mr_John_Oxley Not as good as the IPP MP for one of the Galway seats in 1906, who died at the count where he was elected

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5 years

Something terrible happened here, the cut-off made me genuinely ask why the NS is putting minions on its front cover

The New Statesman

@NewStatesman

5 years

This week’s cover: The rise of the new working-class Tories, by Simon Heffer and @stephenkb . Plus, @JeremyCliffe on why the global elite has failed to solve the inequality crisis, and @MsRachelCooke on the bizarre world of Goop.

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2 years

@BNHWalker See you don't understand, what he's saying is 'when the Conservatives do it, it is not illegal'

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2 years

@lijukic @johnmcternan Isn't Japan one of the best places to live in the world by most measures?

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8 years

Is this the most extreme countdown clock Sky News has ever done?

Sky News

@SkyNews

8 years

"It's a wonderful day. We've won. Job done," MP @DouglasCarswell tells @KayBurley following the triggering of #Article50 #Brexit

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2 years

It is very unlikely I will ever agree with a piece Owen has written more - the gradual removal of public loos makes life particularly tough for people with disabilities

Owen Jones

@owenjonesjourno

2 years

The moral panic over gender neutral toilets is a classic example of how anti-trans hysteria is used to deflect from an actual problem: the mass destruction of public toilets. I wrote this in 2019 and for some reason lots of people scoffed at it!

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@ReemAmirIbrahim On Christmas Carol I think it would be interesting to read Orwell's essay on Dickens in which he highlights the profoundly unradical conclusion of Christmas Carol - that all that is required is a 'good capitalist ' rather than any systems change

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4 years

Perfect headline, no further investigation needed

Sky News

@SkyNews

4 years

Cher on her way to Pakistan to help save world's loneliest elephant

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6 years

The Independent Group must be the first parliamentary group to have a majority of women

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2 years

@DPJHodges It's not supposed to work, it's supposed to stoke the culture war, undermine the judiciary and get Labour on the 'wrong' side whilst not actually processing the asylum claims

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6 months

@molls I was being needlessly cautious, it absolutely is my favourite fact

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1 year

@jamesjohnson252 @MikeyMcMahon @TimesRadio I wonder if it is because whereas the Tory Conference was top billing on the news, Labour's was quite rightly playing second fiddle to the situation in Israel/Gaza

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2 years

@scattermoon I love that this Tweet is how I found out who my energy supplier is going to be

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5 years

@JohnRentoul @ComRes I don't trust a poll that says newspaper's star columnist should become PM tbh

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2 years

@MrJoshTweets @JackTindale I find the tube to be a fascinating space for this, it is an oddly private space, in spite of clearly being public. The reserve people have on the tube has allowed me to be able to cry on the tube several times without being interrupted

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5 years

@lottelydia I feel that livetweeting an episode of In Our Time explaining how the calm words are actually 'I will take this grudge to my grave' or 'I love and admire everything you do' would be useful

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1 year

Well done Britain's Strictest Head for falling for this PR stunt naming of an interdisciplinary Humanities degree, just as the marketing team presumably predicted you would

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1 year

We have moved beyond the realms of lunacy. 😳😳😱

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3 years

This is exactly what @PronouncedAlva said would happen on the latest New Statesman podcast

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3 years

Can't quite get my head around Carrie Symonds reportedly looking down on 'John Lewis furniture'. I think we had our wedding list there. For all but the tiniest section of the population, John Lewis is posh.

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8 years

@MxJackMonroe I'll be the millionth person to say this, but congratulations - I think you've made the whole country happy

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4 years

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the first televised leaders debates and the start of the brief moment of Cleggmania. Strange because it only feels like it was 2000 years ago

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3 years

If one of Europe's poorest nations can do this, then so can Europe's richest

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

3 years

🇲🇩President Maia Sandu has said Moldova will introduce a state of emergency and was ready to accept tens of thousands of people coming in from neighbouring Ukraine. "We will help people who need our help and support," she said.

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4 years

On this, the 170th anniversary of Tolstoy's unnecessary horse day, what unnecessary object are you going to buy?

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2 years

Why yes I am packing to go home on a flight today

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2 years

@DavidGHFrost @Telegraph There are these things called elections, that's where different political parties fight out ideas - maybe try winning one of those in Scotland. Not that you'd know anything about being elected to anything

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8 years

@LouiseMensch well I hope that if your children are ever in hospital no-one decides to abuse you, even you wouldn't deserve that

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7 years

If Morris said that word deliberately she is too racist to be an MP, if she didn't know it was offensive she's too stupid to be an MP

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1 year

For anyone who is finding it hard to navigate the war between Israel and Gaza (and who isn't) I found the most recent episode of the BBC's Newscast with @JohnSimpsonNews and @bbclysedoucet very useful

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4 years

@MrJoshTweets @Michael_Dunn4 Disagree we are decent, measured, and kind

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8 years

@Lin_Manuel Is this because you wouldn't Wait for It?

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4 years

I'm a physically disabled man, who lives independently and has a job, this has never happened

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What's the first film where you felt like you saw yourself on screen?

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2 years

@bencsmoke well this is erasure of people who enjoy caving

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2 years

Ignoring everything else £84k to be a senior public facing representative of a major national organisation really isn't that much

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4 years

@sammurraytory If you want young people to get jobs, then one of the best things we can do is to make it easier for them to travel to interviews and the jobs themselves

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3 years

If you want to know how R Kelly got away with his horrific crimes for so long this is a neat summation - a story that is about decades of abuse could be dismissed as a celebrity gossip story

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3 years

Second item on BBC TV news was a long report on the conviction of R Kelly. The German election result was about the tenth item and got roughly thirty seconds.

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4 years

I realise that me saying nice things about @stephenkb 's writing is predictable, but his little hymn to London as a city he loves is just utterly wonderful - I particularly feel his complaints about the people who moan

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4 years

God bless @yourewrongabout 's @Remember_Sarah just throwing away the timetabled episode and talking about a film she enjoys, it is a mood, also I loved @RottenInDenmark 's reaction to this turn of events

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6 months

@Sal_is_the_Man Nah Ming's still alive, I kinda hope there's not peace for Simpson

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4 years

@stephenkb It's a good start, but what about MPs who are physically unable to stand for this long. This policy continues to send the message to disabled people that being an MP isn't for people like you

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3 years

@BBCWorld Lads, seriously your evasion of the reason for the population taking so long to get back is both shameful and embarrassing

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2 years

For fifteen years scientists have been working in a lab to find the most Lib Dem tweet, and this is what they came up with

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5 years

This is a fantastically good idea, if it is possible it would be a great thing to have

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3 years

RT if you have heard of the Barnett Formula even before being appointed as a Secretary of State

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🚨BARNETT FORMULA KLAXON🚨 🧮Remarkably, SH says Barnett Formula is something "nobody has ever heard of, really. Me included before I took on this job". SH has been an MP since 2010 and was appointed Welsh Secretary in 2019. 5/

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@mariacaulfield @alisonwallis60 So you are going to deny people somewhere safe and secure to live, to protect the view of a hill

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4 months

To talk so movingly about his experience as a carer, in amongst all the silliness of the Lib Dem campaign is really impressive

ITV News Politics

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4 months

'One of my biggest fears in life is what happens to him when I'm gone.' Speaking on @ITVTonight , Sir Ed Davey opened up about juggling responsibilities as Liberal Democrat leader and caring for his disabled teenage son | @rachyoungeritv reports

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I am seeing a lot of that image of school meals shared, it is a shameful consequence of a political culture that believes that profit-making corporation know better the interests of vulnerable children than their own parents.

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4 years

@patrickkmaguire @timesredbox As a supporter of Biden and Labour it took a moment to flip the colours, and my reaction, around there

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2 years

@jrc1921 @sistersinead I wonder if this is a subtle burn - when a much disliked colleague once left to become an estate agent I congratulated them and told them I though they would be brilliantly suited to the job

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3 years

@Samfr Even if this hobbles him for a year, and takes a few points off the Tories (so that whoever replaces him eventually only wins a majority of 40), I think essentially setting the precedent that a government can ignore the rules they set for the rest of us is dangerous tbh

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@akemikieu @LUKEMIDDUP @onalifeglug @tinymattresses If this were true i would have to abolish myself

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5 years

@RobBurl @MattHancock As a public service broadcaster will the BBC be publishing this information in full, for those of us without Telegraph logins

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6 years

@BootstrapCook You really walk the walk, excellent

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5 months

@sundersays Is she the only PM not to have held office on any of constituent nations' saint's days?

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4 years

Guess who has two thumbs and has just been texted about booking a vaccine? This guy

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2 years

@AyoCaesar Surely the question is who is invading because in quite a few cases I'd just open the doors

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8 years

@paul__kendall @RealDMitchell there is literally an episode of Peep Show about the differences between history buffs and Nazis

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2 years

This story has got far less coverage than I feel it should have done - one of the biggest music stars in the world has used an offensive term for people with spastic diplegia, such as yours truly, in her latest song

Fans ask Lizzo to remove song over offensive lyric

The US star has prompted anger after using an ableist slur in her new single Grrrls.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@thetyronwilson It's such a Johnson move, buy a dog for a day's headlines, be stuck with the consequences - shit everywhere - for years

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5 years

@christopherhope God, it's indicative of how low the bar is now that you are shocked that a party is going to wait to have a parliamentary majority before enacting its policies

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5 years

In this house we stan Sally Rooney

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4 years

@Conorpope Tiffany, he already hates her

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2 years

Tfw when you are an MP for more than 30 years and the only achievement that the BBC can find to mention is the introduction of Section 28, one of the most damaging laws of my lifetime

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2 years

@danielmgmoylan @Erimus81 @BorisJohnson @RhonddaBryant Right then, you are a smart, and interesting person whose opinions regularly enlighten me and add to my understanding of the situation (sit back and prepare to be blocked

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7 years

@craigmelson The question of whether it is baffling and how popular it is are two very different ones with respect

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10 months

I've done it, I've been to Winter Wonderland, I never need to go again, it was possibly my worst experience in London and I have literally been hit by a car

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4 years

At a time when the BBC is attacked by the sort of people who can't notice racist interviewees the corporation has, in #NormalPeople and #IMayDestroyYou produced two of the finest TV dramas I have ever seen, I love the BBC

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5 years

Donald Trump is the greatest existential threat to the United States since Stalin, and his continued existence is a strong argument against a lot of conspiracy theories about the CIA

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6 years

@FraserNelson 16m people or so realised this a while ago, thanks for catching up

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4 years

Spotted: The government's comms strategy

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6 years

@craiglinscheoch @Freedland I believe that is what is known as a lie

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5 years

Sexual harrasment allegations ruin men's careers, to such an extent that they get endorsed by one of the biggest names in their chosen field

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The Politics Live team did a wonderful job editing the essence of my Ben Shapiro interview. But I urge all interested to watch the full uncut 16 minutes, which Rupert Myers has helpfully provided.

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4 years

Who knew that Whenever, Wherever was actually a hymn to distance learning

Shakira

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4 years

I just graduated from my 4 week Ancient Philosophy course with the University of Pennsylvania ( @Penn ). I know... my hobbies are very impractical, but it took a lot of hours after the kids were asleep. Thank you Plato and predecessors for all the "fun" over the past month!