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sam wollaston

@samwollaston

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Feature writer at the Guardian

Dollis Hill, naturally
Joined March 2009
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Shout out to the guy who didn’t hold the door open for Trump
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5 years
like to see @afneil and @maitlis interviewing each other, in the final
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4 years
proud to work for the one on the right
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Yesterday more than 1000 people in UK died* ...... Contrast and compare ..... #COVID ー19 *see ONS
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7 years
this is pretty extraordinary. tonight 9pm
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' Asperger's and me ' - tomorrow evening 9pm, BBC Two
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@samwollaston
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4 years
perhaps everyone should call the health secretary Hat Man Cock, as @Sarah_Montague just did on World at One?
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1 year
i don't often feel proud or patriotic but the fact - and the reason why - "Keith Arsewank" is trending in the United Kingdom is making me both
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3 years
nothing ruins a weekend quite like an international break does
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8 years
Louis Theroux: Savile (Sunday, 9pm, BBC2) is extraordinary and uncomfortable
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4 years
This town is coming like a goats' town All the clubs have been closed down
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Can’t believe I’m writing this... they’re back (again)
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2 years
At least you're not in Yakutsk. Unless you are, in which case what does -46° even feel like?
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4 years
Best birthday ever
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2 years
@heidistephens I hope your son is a writer. I once went on what is probably that one's sister ship, the Harmony of the Seas, and can confirm hellishness
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4 years
I just had an operation, on my hand. All fine, but it went on for a while. How are you feeling, the anaesthetist asked. Bit bored, I said. It wasn't busy, so she read to me, for an hour. I bloody love the NHS
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@1goodtern Thank you 1 good tern. There are a couple of these profiles to come but I think the earliest got Covid in 22 - I suppose we wanted to emphasise the long part of long Covid. Dr Kane did talk to me about the more recent cases and I hope I can get that in. Thank you for heads up
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I did something about going to visit the trees my dad planted 'I'm delighted to find them big now': a pilgrimage to the trees my father planted
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4 years
those things fly?!
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6 years
did one about the @ByDonkeys billboard campaign
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4 years
Buy a paper. Buy this one. Excellent @guardianweekend mag today. Words from all your favourites: @HadleyFreeman , @IAmTimDowling , @shattenstone , and - especially - me. #buyapaper
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4 years
Walk, on opposite sides of the path, with the woman who gave birth to me 55 yrs ago today
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3 years
lots of this please at #ARSBHA He's got no hair, But we don't care, Stevie Stevie Bould...
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4 years
"fewer" doesn't have much of a future does it, as a word?
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2 years
In a big queue for passport control while the EU passport holders sail through. Not the biggest issue, still cheers @Nigel_Farage
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6 years
from now i'm only taking penalties like this
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What a penalty by our youth academy player Norik Avdalyan! 🥋
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I give up, it (oven clock) will be right again in 6 months
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If you're of a certain age you may recognise my old school mate? (school's a clue)
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3 years
we're very good at lighting up buildings in Ukrainian colours and wearing armbands at football matches but when it actually comes to helping people who need help...
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The Independent
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France accuses UK of ‘lack of humanity’ after 150 Ukraine refugees turned away at Calais
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Morning @RishiSunak . Just taking a train to Leeds. Turns out you don't need to go by private jet after all. Only takes 2 1/4 hrs, with the added bonus that you don't destroy the old planet. Maybe next time eh?
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4 years
those lovely few seconds as you're waking up, before you remember...
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2 years
"... a democracy - the birthplace of Newtonian physics no less - that is now likely to be led by a woman so dense that light bends around her." This is fabulous. Via @KiriThomas
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From Papua New Guinea’s London correspondent. This is epic.
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6 years
Killing Eve wasn't the best TV show of 2018, Patrick Melrose was
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3 years
So farewell then @guardianweekend . Thank you for so many happy memories, happiest of all perhaps a famous motoring column I forget who by
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not sure if you caught Channel 4 News earlier @realDonaldTrump , but Jonathan Safran Foer called you a "sentient haemorrhoid"
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3 years
@hugorifkind I always use the name Hugo Rifkind when booking posh north North restaurants. I assumed everyone did
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6 years
Hey @WHSmith , don't forget to watch Britain's Fat Fight with @HughFW (BB1, 9pm). You're in it! Pushing chocolate at the checkout... #WHSugar
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10 years
Morning conference jam packed with women today. Because I'm here obvs, though Benedict Cumberbatch - also present - prob thinks it's him
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5 years
how's the NHS this morning anyone know? pretty flush with cash I imagine
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8 years
I'm probably the only person in the world not to think #TopGear was an unmitigated disaster. My review
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6 years
Today i met Thandie Newton at the fishmonger. I told her I liked her on the Big Narstie Show, she said thank you, then she bought a big sea bass. That's the end of my celebrity shopping story
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5 years
I think a little part of everyone who attempts to write for a living hates Marina Hyde. So good this
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5 years
They fuck you up, your mum and dad
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YouGov
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Age is a key factor in voting intention for the EU Parliament elections. The older someone is, the more likely they are to vote Brexit Party. Likewise, the younger someone is the more likely they are to back the anti-Brexit parties (LD/G/CHUK) or Labour
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Possibly, in Qatar, a problem that goes beyond that one particular hotel?
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Liverpool have rejected the five-star hotel allocated to them for Qatar Club World Cup over human rights concerns after staff were made to work 12-hour shifts in 45°c heat for just £8 per day...
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I have been been shortlisted for a prestigious financial journalism award. Some of my colleagues think this is hilarious, but that's because they are mean spirited and jealous. Recognition for my financial journalism is way overdue, frankly.
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I hate The Pursuit of Love so much
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3 years
Parenting tip: don't be like me and forget to look to see when yr kids passports run out the week before going abroad for the 1st time in 2 yrs. On my way to Newport, WALES, the nearest passport office with emergency appointments available...
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@iankatz1000 get lily allen instead?
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@richardosman Really Depressed Peter
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@piersmorgan @BorisJohnson Some people say you're smart, funny & entertaining Piers. I don't think anyone thinks you should be PM
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if you're lucky enough to have a garden this thing doesn't have to spoil everything #HomeHoliday
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Morning America Please don't fuck up again Yours, The World
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Friday night I'm alone watching 2 screens On one: people, also alone, some pretending to be other people, communicating with each other via screens On my other screen I'm watching what other people are saying about what's happening on the first screen Unless I'm lying #TheCircle
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...in 2020 #news
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Family rescue a black bear swimming in a lake with its head stuck in a plastic jar
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What room temp is it too cold to be working at a desk please?
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4 years
Pfizered. In a Hindu temple 🙏
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4 years
Seven Up - the documentary that gets closest to documenting real life. So honest, so moving, an extraordinary lifetime's achievement in itself. RIP Michael Apted
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Michael Apted, director and Seven Up documentarian, dies at 79
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Cut my boy's (very) red hair in the garden the other day, and today I've been watching a pair of great tits gather and fly off with clumps of it. One lucky brood is going to be born in the best nest
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to the person who came up with "See it, say it, sorted": I hate you
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Made myself a marmalade sandwich to go for breakfast, cos I've got an early train. Bumped into this guy at the station. #TrueStory
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same...
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The herb garden from bedroom window.
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Who's laughing now? @VivGroskop on Zelenskiy, the comic who became a national, then international, hero. So revealing and interesting A rehearsal for war: Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s path from comic to symbol of courage
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@rachelleese84 Hi Rachel, I'm so sorry to hear of your situation. I wonder if there is some hope in what Dr Kane says in the piece about many in her profession getting ME/CFS wrong for so long
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@richardosman Proud to be part of the 99.63%
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looking forward to waking up tomorrow as a tabloid journalist. at last
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I've just watched the whole of this, with the three new episodes. It's extraordinary, last time I felt this involved in a case was when I did jury service. The Staircase launches on Netflix on June 8 via @YouTube
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"Ten universities, including three good ones..."
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EXCLUSIVE: Retrieved from behind the paywall, it's the Times article about censorship on campus.
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Pol Roger £34 at Waitrose, if you don't want the Spectator
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I wrote 3,000 words about my doorbell... I spy: are smart doorbells creating a global surveillance network?
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11 years
#saveBBC3 petition reaches 85K. Sign up here http://t.co/aKXHuGGxEJ
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My boys got into birds over lockdown, I ordered binoculars to try to maintain interest before football takes over again, they just arrived, we're trying them out of the bedroom window, spying on a few neighbours... and only see a red fucking kite! Soaring past, over NW London
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this is so unbelievably awful Nepalese guards airlifted from Kabul to UK now face deportation
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7 years
Ha, you're not walking on the air any more are you, loser
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@samwollaston
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3 years
. @POTUS is quite active on Twitter but only follows 12 people, all connected to the White House. His @JoeBiden account follows a few more, but still only 47, mostly connected to him. Not a good look Joe, it doesn't look you're listening, or interested. @BarackObama follows 591.2K
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@piersmorgan oh go on Piers, give it a go
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6 years
Delighted to be leaving this miserable Greek view and returning to the magnificence of wheelie bins in Dollis Hill
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Opinion: Let's try "FUCK OFF"
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Opinion: Let’s try “Dry Covid” – lockdown is the time to kick our national alcohol habit for good
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Nettle soup. Picked in the park. Tastes like a pond
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Half term treat: litter picking in the rain by the north circular. Special thanks to @ben_watt
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Being Piers Morgan, for starters RT @piersmorgan : Still slightly bemused by what I am supposed to be apologising to Wenger for...
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3 years
Camping at Goose Green it is then
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@samwollaston
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3 years
Prince Philip been "in good spirits" for weeks now. What's he so fucking happy about?
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@samwollaston
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3 years
... learn how to use an apostrophe.
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Finish the sentence: If England win the EURO's I will...
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please stay down in Kensington, @virginmedia 's broadband
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Hi @virginmedia - your broadband's been down in Kensington for 5hrs. Any word on when it will return? I have a column to write..:
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looking forward to today's treat in the @PippaCrerar advent calendar
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28 yrs well spent
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Dutch sculptor, Theo Jansen, has spent the last 28 years designing and building a series of wind-powered creatures called Strandbeests or ‘beach animals’
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Man on tube freaks out when big spider appears. Another man saves spider. 3rd man tells story of Prophet Muhammad and spider. My commute
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