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4 years

Embarrassing time with the UPS man just now - he asked for £106 and I thought he was joking so said 'cash or cheque?' He was not joking, it was a parcel from France and Brexit means whopping great shipping charges. Desolee.

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Had a brilliant conversation with Jodie Comer and @SuzieMillerWrtr about the play Prima Facie (and a bit about Killing Eve too). Have a read here

Jodie Comer’s mission to win justice for rape victims: ‘Something’s not working’

As she bows out of the show that made her, the Free Guy and Last Duel actress has her pick of parts

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New year, new job. It’s my first day editing on the features desk at the Telegraph - let me know if you have a story idea (or know where is best for lunch near Victoria)

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An astonishing performance by Jodie Comer in Prima Facie, which is a fierce, funny and phenomenal play about how something is fundamentally broken in the justice system and how we see consent. Bit more here

Jodie Comer’s mission to win justice for rape victims: ‘Something’s not working’

As she bows out of the show that made her, the Free Guy and Last Duel actress has her pick of parts

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6 months

It's not news as such, but self-involved update alert: I've moved desks to the brilliant @timesculture as Editor of the Sunday Times Culture. So keep me posted on good things from the arts

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Best performance in Lungs at the Old Vic last night was the teenage girl who shouted at Matt Smith and Claire Foy “you’re both being pricks” just as their introspection was starting to drag. Stole the show.

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5 years

Meet Sky’s new political editor Beth Rigby

Beth Rigby on box sets, Brexit and life in the lobby

She’s frenemies with Laura Kuenssberg and has a reputation for holding MPs to account. Sky’s new political editor Beth Rigby talks to Susannah Butter

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3 years

After nearly 10 years at the Standard, next week I'm leaving to go do a year's maternity cover at The Sunday Times Culture. I'm really sad to be leaving such a great job, so many ace colleagues and Northcliffe House canteen but excited too

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4 years

Fact of the morning is that Fatboy Slim and Keir Starmer had violin lessons together at school

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2 years

Obvs there’s plenty to get your head around in Spare if you want to go down that hole (including Harry stealing Courtney Cox’s magic mushrooms and the King’s perfume) but here is Harry on shopping

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3 years

I 💕John Lewis

John Lewis nightmare? Why it’s a mistake for Boris Johnson to alienate the department store shoppers

In dismissing Theresa May’s interior design tastes as a ‘John Lewis nightmare’, the PM risks offending key voters

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4 years

Empire is on the curriculum but 72 per cent of secondary-age children attend an academy or free school, so their teachers don’t need to follow it. @hannahcusworth on why we must change the way black history is taught (and how Stormzy could fund this...)

We must change how black history is taught

Last week, I saw more engagement in learning about black history than I’ve witnessed in my whole career as a teacher.

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2 years

Lovely to hear stories about George Michael from his best friend David Austin, Kate Moss, Nile Rodgers, Elton John and Rupert Everett ahead of the release of his film Freedom Uncut. Here they are

George Michael’s last film — my life as I want to be remembered

When George Michael told his best friend and collaborator David Austin that he wanted to make a film, Austin sensed what was coming. “George made this film the

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The film George Michael was making when he died is finally out — Elton John, Kate Moss and Nile Rodgers remember him. By @susannahbutter

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The Queen’s Gambit was just the start - ⁦ @JenShahade ⁩ has written a brilliant book about why chess needs more women, with some amazing stories. Review here

Chess Queens by Jennifer Shahade review — women need more than The Queen’s Gambit

There are more than 1,600 chess grandmasters across the world — only 37 of them are female. That bleak statistic should demonstrate that, despite the success of

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4 years

Very pleased and honoured to be shortlisted for interviewer of the year (popular, lol), in such brilliant company

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Shortlists for the #PressAwards have been announced! Join us at the awards ceremony on 2 April to celebrate the best of UK national journalism where the winners will be announced.

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I interviewed Yvette Cooper about women's speeches in her brilliant book She Speaks and how most people are kind -we need to remember that as our culture becomes more aggressive. There's only one mention of her husband Ed Balls's dancing

Yvette Cooper: Voters did not trust Labour to keep Britain safe

As Yvette Cooper calls for all political parties to unite against abuse, the Labour MP tells Susannah Butter about the threats she has faced, dancing with husband Ed Balls and how their daughter...

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@laurenbravo Airport security, decanting my 100ml toiletries into a ziplock bag and queuing up before buying that pret bacon sandwich you can only get at airports. Don’t even care where I’d be flying to in this fantasy

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2 years

@MartinSLewis Gateshead council has warned the Baltic gallery to prepare for this, expecting an influx of visitors next autumn and winter who are trying to keep warm because they can’t afford to turn on their heating. A sentence I wouldn't have thought I'd write

Arts centres are on the front line of the cost of living crisis

Asmall queue, mainly families with children, snakes into a bus in Scotswood in Newcastle upon Tyne. There’s a sign on the front for its destination that instead

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Can’t wait til Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel about the death of a young Medici woman in renaissance Italy is out? Read this interview with her by @PatriciaNicol

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How can Sienna Miller’s character in Anatomy of a Scandal have such great taste in clothes and such atrocious taste in wallpaper and furniture?

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7 years

. @MunroeBergdorf told me abt the L'Oreal furore, trolling, fangirling over Laverne Cox&the joy of Caribbean chicken

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5 years

Rory Stewart is now able to talk about the catastrophic BBC leadership debate. He also told us about dim sum with Dominic Cumming, being told off by Boris Johnson and fighting for "a yes deal country". Interview by @nicholascecil and me here:

Rory Stewart: I would still love to be prime minister

EXCLUSIVE

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2 years

@SkyFUpdates Here's the link to the piece!

Sky Ferreira: “I was desperate. Miserable. I got down on my knees”

Poised for a comeback years in the making, Sky Ferreira tells Susannah Butter how creating music has always been an ordeal and why she’s ready to make her 30s better than her troubled 20s

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@benjaminbutter I offered to go to the cash mach but there wasn't time so it's gone back - I have to call up to make a payment and then they bring it again. Total tedium and a waste of time for the delivery guy to have to come twice. And then imagine if I want to return it...

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I had some hummus and pita with Paul Dano and we talked #TheBatman , toxic masculinity, how being a father affects which roles he plays, Bake Off and believing he could be more than "the dorky guy in glasses"

Paul Dano: ‘I thought I’d only be playing dorky guys with glasses’

Paul Dano is about to graduate from ‘that guy from that thing’ status to bona fide scene stealer in The Batman. Susannah Butter meets him

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7 months

Promise my name isn't why I was sent to do a food themed interview

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New game among ⁦ @thetimes ⁩ readers. I’d better start reviewing wheelbarrows.

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"It is not a big romantic thing; it is just that I am still here for Nazanin. In solitary you are told you have lost everything so the thing she needs to hear from me specifically is that she has not, we are here waiting for her.” Richard Ratcliffe:

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is in despair about her trial, she told me we should divorce

Today, in a closed Iranian court, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces a fresh trial. Here, her husband Richard talks about their terror for the future and the heavy toll of their ordeal

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6 years

Newspaper and news channel owner Hamdi Akin Ipek on his ordeal and how free speech is being threatened in Turkey:

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5 years

I interviewed OLIVIA COLMAN

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Spoke to Isaac Hernández about leaving the English National Ballet for San Francisco - after finding fame, falling in love with Tamara Rojo and having a baby, whose middle name is Maynard after John Maynard Keynes

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5 years

I'm back at the Evening Standard, editing the comment pages and writing features - do let me know if you have ideas for either.

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“Life on the road – so much waiting around, as any journalist knows – was endlessly lifted by her irreverent sense of humour and love of stupid jokes” - ⁦ @tombradby ⁩ pays tribute to his colleague and friend Emily Morgan

Compassionate, charismatic and humane, Emily Morgan was a brilliant journalist

ITV News's health and science editor, who died of cancer last week, was a remarkable friend, daughter, sister, wife and mother

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@JNRaeside Sometimes it's the ones who aren't even mega stars. The Italian influencer whose male manager told me that asking about Brexit was inappropriate and escorted me out, grabbing the cake pop in the shape of the influencer they had given me back

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The story here of the family brought in to jazz up the coronation in the 1300s who have been to every one since and had their commemorative goblets stolen because they fell asleep sunbathing would make a wholesome caper movie (maybe starring Hugh Grant)

‘My family have been to every coronation since 1066 – I’m waiting for my invitation’

Since 1066 Francis Dymoke’s family has played a ceremonial role in coronations, something he hopes will continue when Charles III is crowned

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5 years

Here he is, Tony Blair looking like he’s in Cats.

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@hannahmacin Haha, I feel so free from the tyranny of bureaucracy.... oh wait

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As we go into crisis mode I spoke to the Wuhan clan, the civil servants who evacuated China when this all began in February

Meet the Wuhan clan: British civil servants who went to the epicentre

As London is gripped by coronavirus, Susannah Butter meets the British civil servants who headed straight for the epicentre of the infection in January. This is what they can teach us about handling...

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. @TobiasMenzies who plays Prince Philip in @TheCrownNetflix on why looking for accuracy in the show is missing the point - it is drama

Tobias Menzies: The Crown’s Prince Philip on a right royal drama

As the fourth series of The Crown divides the nation, Tobias Menzies talks about playing Prince Philip, equal pay and Margaret Thatcher

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Daisy Haggard on her lols post-prison comedy #BackToLife which she made with her kids on set, and how we judge women too harshly. I didn't have space for how funny she is on the pronunciation of noodles but watch the show on iPlayer and you will understand

Back to Life’s Daisy Haggard: We are much quicker to vilify women

As the post-prison comedy wraps up, Haggard discusses second chances and writing interesting female characters

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3 years

I highly recommend What White People Can Do Next by @EmmaDabiri Here, she tells me that she wrote it because marches and Instagram activism last year weren't getting us anywhere because we weren't talking about class:

Instagram activism won’t stop racism, we need to talk about class

After a year of marches and black squares on Instagram, Don’t Touch My Hair author Emma Dabiri felt nothing had changed. It’s because we’re approaching racism from the wrong angle, she tells Susannah...

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2 years

@phoebeluckhurst Surely! Imagine the photoshoot opportunities. But it sounds like he was too fast for us - we missed him because he says he never dawdled over colour or style, just knew he could look like a fashion plate without trying anything on

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4 years

At the risk of turning into a #Brexicast fan account, read @adamfleming , the confessions of a proud geek #MichelBarnier

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Spoke to Jonathan Bailey about loads of things, including being the new lead in #Bridgerton 🐝 privilege and pressure and reading the script for his new play Cock in the bath

Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey: ‘Sex scenes? They’re less exposing for men’

Jonathan Bailey laughs as he sums up what he has been working on for the past few months. “It’s sex, sex, sex,” the actor says, looking delighted.First, “the B

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4 years

Great article by @russelltovey about how he is flexing his dancing muscles for mental health in a video by @FabioDandrea

I’m flexing my dance muscles for mental health - Russell Tovey

I’ve been flexing my dancing muscles. When the supremely talented composer and director Fabio D’Andrea and choreographer Jerry Reeve asked me to be in their short film I couldn’t turn them down....

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What happens when you marry someone whose family own half of Sussex? Very much enjoyed the warm and funny novel Someday, Maybe by ⁦⁦⁦ @OnyiWrites ⁩

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6 years

Monday is quiz night on the telly. @Onlyconnectquiz is warm and funny, QI more of an onslaught. Review here #onlyconnect :

Warmth and humour make Victoria Coren-Mitchell queen of quizzes

Here’s your starter for 10: what does a quiz need to win over an audience? Is it fiendishly challenging questions, likeable contestants or does it all hinge on the host?

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Road closed but it’s not annoying because it’s for the filming of Slow Horses

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Our brilliant independent museums need support and are expanding online. I spoke to @SoaneMuseum @drjohnsonshouse @Aimuseums and more about what they face after lockdown

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Small Fires by @rebeccamjohnson is a thought provoking, loving reflection on cooking, as resistance to oppression and an act of caring - includes a lot of thoughts on tomato sauce and made me want rice pudding. Review here

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I interviewed Jessica Raine about her role in #PatrickMelrose

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@PippaCrerar Why does it always rain on May? (to the tune of the Travis song)

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His relationship didn't survive lockdown but tbh it's his ex's loss. Lovely column by @benjaminbutter (no relation to me)

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Please read this, it's about the staff at St Barts and Royal London and how they are struggling to to their best in a dire situation. Many nurses might leave because of this

How Covid is pushing our hospitals to the limit

As Covid rips through London, staff at Barts Health Trust are stretched to the absolute limit. They talk about the struggle to provide the best care in an impossible situation

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6 years

If you need an hour away from Brexit news, watch Sex Education on @netflix Highlights include Gillian Anderson, her house and gentle lols. Preview here:

Sex Education: Lessons in lust with Gillian Anderson in charge

You can glean a lot more useful knowledge from watching a film about school than you can hope to from years spent in the actual classroom. From the Queen Bees of Mean Girls to the lovelorn teachers...

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Sadiq Khan on the toll this crisis has taken on his mental health, blue hair dye, his old colleague Keir Starmer's eye for detail and the future of getting around London, interview by me and @RossLydall

Sadiq Khan: I’ve felt mentally fragile … people need hope, I need hope

Sadiq Khan has brokered a £1.6bn Government bailout to save TfL — but Londoners will pay the price in fare hikes. He tells Susannah Butter and Ross Lydall why concessions are needed, and about the...

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3 years

It’s not so much that Pickford is angry, he’s just disappointed

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3 years

I wrote about why we can’t get enough of farm shows (are TV farmers the new TV doctors?) as Strictly winner @kelvin_fletcher buys a farm. Thanks to @Minette_Batters @wigsandwords @FCNcharity

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The beautiful cover of this week’s Culture, by Victoria Sandoy. Highlights inside include interviews with Nicole Kidman and Aaron Sorkin, Jamie Dornan and a very useful guide to 14 days of festive TV and film

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4 years

If you’re looking for a book to read this weekend can I recommend Luster by @ravenleilani It constantly surprised and made me lol. Review here

Luster by Raven Leilani review: disarming, funny and human

There is already a lot of hype around debut novelist Raven Leilani’s book about a young African American woman who has no filter - and it is richly deserved

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6 years

The Evening Standard has a new look, its own font, great exclusives and I've written a TV column about #BeingBlacker - pick up a copy

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Great column by @BethRigby on how Boris Johnson has to prove himself and keep his promises to those first time Tory voters who demolished Labour's "red wall" (and their alpacas)

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4 years

It sounds trivial but the ubiquity of the navy suit makes life easier for male politicians — it says “I fit in” Brilliant piece by @helenlewis on the difficulty factor for women in politics

If you want equality, start with the politics of power dressing

Consider the navy suit. Worn with a pale shirt, dark shoes and a block-colour tie. It is the uniform of British politics. Respectable, dependable, even boring. It is a choice that is so common it...

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This week’s Easter Sunday Times Culture mag, feat Sasha Swire on Anatomy of a Scandal, the Russian rappers taking a stand against Putin, Ross Kemp on what makes him cry and Jodie Comer on her West End debut and Couples Therapy

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If you are interested in Daphne Caruana Galizia, who @jed_mercurio said inspired Gail Vella in Line of Duty, here is her son speaking powerfully about her life and her case

Paul Caruana Galizia: 'My mother was the centre of our family'

After Paul Caruana Galizia’s mother was murdered in a car bombing, he sought the truth. He tells Susannah Butter about his fight, and why there was no one like her

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Wondering what to watch now White Lotus is finished? I Hate Suzie Too! I spoke to ⁦ @lucyprebblish ⁩ all about it and a bit about Succession, which she’s a writer on, too

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Maryland on BBC Two is the antidote to a wave of true crime dramas where we see women suffering. Its writer Lucy Kirkwood and stars Hayley Squires and Zawe Ashton explain

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The brilliant @NimkoAli on why she doesn't date woke men, Dilyn the dog being a good egg despite her general views on pooches, the problems with Labour and ending FGM by 2030

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When Covid-19 broke out, @StellaPicsLtd went to @bhr_hospitals and took these amazing portraits of 7 staff whose lives have been changed by the pandemic. I spoke to them about it. Please read the piece about it:

If I go to work, will it kill me? NHS Heroes on fighting coronavirus

As deaths from Covid slow in the capital, seven NHS staff at Queen’s Hospital in Romford and King George Hospital in Ilford reflect on the battle to defeat Covid, and tell how the virus tore through...

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Surprise product placement for Gather and Gather Northcliffe House canteen and its paper cups in the Blair Brown documentary

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. @SadiqKhan on cleaning up London's air with the new Ulez extension, the everyday threats he has to live with, Mo Salah and how Kendall Roy copied his look. By me and @RossLydall

Sadiq Khan: I miss living a normal life but it’s not safe, something needs to change

As he launches a bold new green policy, The Mayor of London talks cars, violent crime and the tragic death of Sir David Amess

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Interviewed Gavin Williamson - includes Cronus the tarantula transitioning and this...

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Accent could have been a giveaway 🤣

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New self-isolation type, the friend who can’t make the remote virtual drinking sesh conference call tomorrow because they have already booked a few in and suggests next week.

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Respect to Sandra Huller on the BAFTA red carpet telling the interviewer “I am not an anecdote person”

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2 years

Inside the £1.35m mansion that its owner @itsmrdoodle covered in doodles and why he did it

‘I doodled my entire house’: Inside Mr Doodle’s extraordinary home

There are no clues that Sam Cox’s house is any different to the others on the quiet country lane in Kent. It’s hidden by trees, so only once you turn into the d

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Tech force @tabithagold on how AI is changing London, putting women at the centre of it & being polite to #alexa

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We don’t need sad faces. We need an understanding that lockdown's been brutal for our families. We need the Treasury to recognise that withholding money costs the country far more in the long run. Read this by @samcarlisle on bringing up disabled children

Lockdown has been brutal for those caring for disabled children

The death of a 10-year-old boy, described by his father as “a beautiful, bright, inquisitive and artistic child” is a tragedy beyond measure. Dylan Freeman had severe disabilities, autism and was a...

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When @FrankMannion was a student he wrote to #KirkDouglas and was surprised to receive this reply @LettersOfNote Read the letter and Frank's piece about it here

My letter from Kirk Douglas showed his charm and humility

When I was a student at Trinity College Dublin in 1993, I wrote to Kirk Douglas to ask him to curate a season of his films at my university. He unexpectedly wrote back: “I have made 80 films, but one...

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Overheard in Bloomsbury: "Oh, do I feel for Romilly-Jane, she has really borne the brunt of inheriting that chateau."

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The murder of #GeorgeFloyd has exposed a nerve that has been raw for generations and Trump has widened the racial divide and emboldened extremist white voices. Read this article by @Lynnbrooklyn

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I interviewed @caitlinmoran and she made me feel better about the world despite the asshattery (sp?) that's going down. #howtobuildagirl #bitchgottapayrent

'Covid's put women back a full century,' says Caitlin Moran

As her hilarious book How to Build a Girl is adapted for film, Caitlin Moran talks Twitter wars, cancel culture and feminism's new battlegrounds with Susannah Butter

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"An apple pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze" - I'll believe it when I try it, perhaps heated up in the microwavé. @annemcelvoy speaks to @Nigella_Lawson

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I absolutely loved The Hungover Games by @heawood and was sad when it was over. Review here but probs just read the book:

The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood: honest and funny

Honest, moving and funny, says Susannah Butter

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I love the BBC but Tony Hall's successor has their work cut out for them - @HarrietHarman makes pertinent points in this ace piece

BBC beware, I love you but you need to shape up fast

As a feminist BBC devotee, it’s torture for me that the BBC is under a cloud of equal pay shame. The latest revelation that Sarah Montague was underpaid is no surprise but it’s so disappointing....

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4 years

A terrible photo of an amazing live recording of #Brexitcast with the Abba of the BBC and an actual Abba tribute band. They’ve all made Brexit more bearable but a special mention for @BBCkatyaadler - I now want to wear disco sequins and high boots to work

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4 years

Excellent column by @MatthewdAncona on the contagion of conspiracy theories and Eamonn Holmes's ludicrous 5G outburst

5G conspiracy theories are vicious — we must battle virus of falsehood

It is hard to imagine anything much more criminally reckless than to damage a mobile phone mast that services a Nightingale Hospital built especially for Covid-19 patients. Yet this is exactly what...

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3 months

I had such a nice time reading You Are Here by ⁦⁦ @DavidNWriter ⁩ - and he told me more about it here:

The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

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4 years

I had the pleasure of speaking to @BretEastonEllis about his new film, why Prince Charles is his favourite character in @TheCrownNetflix , drugs, cancel culture and his first ever book

Bret Easton Ellis: ‘Being cancelled is a badge of honour’

Outspoken as ever, Bret Easton Ellis talks to Susannah Butter about why millennials are ‘wiped out’ after the US election, the JK Rowling trans row… and his nights in watching The Crown

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4 years

Here is my interview with Johnny Flynn, who is a perfect Mr. Knightley in the new film adaptation of Emma and very eloquent about it too. Also about to play David Bowie so no chance of a Lovesick remake anytime soon sadly

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4 years

In today's @EveningStandard @Keir_Starmer apologises for the hurt his party has caused to the Jewish community and pledges to end antisemitism in Labour

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1 year

Roald Dahl has been edited with words changed, removed and added in a bid for “relevancy” - that means no one is fat and cloud-men are cloud-people. They’ve even tried not to offend tortoises. Great article by @edcumming @bsmithjourno @genevieve_holl

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@susannahbutter

6 years

Florence Pugh gave me a call from the set of the new little women film to talk about BBC thriller The Little Drummer Girl, which is fantastic and starts on Sunday night

The Little Drummer Girl's Florence Pugh talks spies, nudity and heroes

Florence Pugh was drawn to her latest role because it was a chance to play someone normal.

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@susannahbutter

4 years

The free fruit and veg for primary school children has stopped, with no announcement. It's the only fresh food some kids get all day, we can't afford to lose it, says @we_are_food

Give our schoolchildren back their free fruit

A couple of weeks ago, I saw a post on my friend Hannah’s Instagram stories. On returning to school, her son Marlow was asked to bring in a piece of fruit. So far, so innocent. But Hannah, a cook and...

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@susannahbutter

4 years

The sweetest thing I've learned today is that in Denmark and Norway the PMs have held covid press conferences for children, with questions like 'can I see my granny?' and 'what about my birthday party?'

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@susannahbutter

6 years

Tonight, Shappi Khorsandi is putting on a night of stand-up comedy to mark two years since Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed. She talks about why the story of this Iranian-born London mother struck a chord:

Nazanin’s case is so close to home

Tonight, Iranian-born comic Shappi Khorsandi will host a night of stand-up in support of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, jailed two years ago today. She tells Susannah Butter why her story struck a chord

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@susannahbutter

6 years

. @KayBurley on her karaoke Christmas for waifs and strays where everyone is welcome

Why Kay Burley has an open-door policy at Christmas

More is merrier — here, Kay Burley explains why she has an open-door policy for waifs and strays at Christmas

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@susannahbutter

1 year

I know change is meant to be good but I miss the Bircher yoghurt pot at Pret. The woman there just told me it has been dropped (with a bit of serious shade, saying “it’s so two weeks ago”)

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@susannahbutter

3 years

Very excited about seeing the David Hockney and Michael Armitage shows after speaking to @royalacademy boss @AxelRuger who says a lot of sensible things about opening, contested heritage, cakes and taking photos in galleries

‘It defies logic that we can’t open when shops do,’ Royal Academy chief executive Axel Rüger says

The Royal Academy’s boss Axel Rüger talks about a year of struggle, optimism for the future and why he will never sell the gallery’s Michelangelo

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@susannahbutter

2 years

The final Culture of the year. It’s a bumper issue starring Ian McKellen, Minnie Driver, Lindsay Lohan on her favourite Christmas film, Emily in Paris, Jonas Kaufmann and more

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2 years

This week’s sunny cover of Culture is by David Hockney - lovely interview with him inside, plus your cost of living crisis guide to which streaming services are worth keeping and a fascinating Delia Smith interview

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3 years

"I always got on well with Cummings when we worked together on Gove’s education team. He did insist on calling me “Dwarf”, on account of my diminutive stature, but it was said with affection". Pick up a Standard to read @Samfr Friday Diary

I recall Cummings consoling himself with an IRA slogan after a plot against Cameron

I always got on well with Dominic Cummings when we worked together on Michael Gove’s education team. He did insist on calling me “Dwarf”, on account of my diminutive stature, but it was said with...

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