Daily Telegraph arts and entertainment editor. TV critic. Bradfordian
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I wasn’t planning to plug this podcast again but I’m reading Tim Burgess’s autobiography and he mentions Pretty in Pink AND Betamax so it feels like a message from on high
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Lenny Henry just introduced himself at this media conference with: “Hello, I’m Justin Trudeau”
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Woman in my train carriage smoothly telling the conductor that her son is travelling free because he’s only four, while the kid repeatedly yells: “BUT I’M NOT FOUR”
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When I had a miscarriage, I remember scouring the internet for articles by women who had been through the same thing. Because reading that you're not alone is helpful and it's comforting. So thank you to Meghan Markle for writing about something so difficult
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How has Dominic Raab made it into government and not found his level as an assistant manager of a leisure centre in Stevenage
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One of my favourite celebrity genres is ‘Heartfelt Apology After Phone Call From Hysterical Agent’
W H I S T L E R ⭕️
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Saying Stormzy should be extra grateful to live in Britain because he’s black/working class/son of an immigrant is low even by her standards
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This horse did not sign up for a photo opportunity with Marine Le Pen, and he wants you to know it
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ITV boss Carolyn McCall just revealed that ITV called Domino's to complain that this tweet wasn't funny, which just makes it more funny #RTSconvention
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I just read the full Prince Andrew transcript. If ever you worry that you’re not doing well enough at work, just remember there is a PR professional out there who thought it was a good idea to let Britain’s dumbest royal be dismantled by Emily Maitlis
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Michael Heseltine speaking at the Hay Festival:
“Racism is basically what underpins UKIP and Reform. I’m just over 90, I have lived through some of the most tumultuous events of our time, and anyone who is looking for the common theme: it’s racism.”
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Look at this completely gorgeous woman on the new cover of Vogue. Anisa Omar, who works in King’s Cross Waitrose. Because of social distancing she didn’t get a make-up artist so this is all her own work. I’m swooning
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Absolutely fascinates me that Liz Truss has made “I grew up in Leeds and it was shit” the cornerstone of her political message
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OF COURSE Dominic Cummings, who has spent the past year accusing the BBC of being too Islington, lives in a giant townhouse in Islington
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All the people fancying Rishi Sunak are gonna be psyched when they discover there are actually thousands of British Indian men out there who wear nicely pressed hoodies and fulfilled their parents’ dull but financially prudent career aspirations
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The same Downing Street that issued a statement on Jo Brand the other day. Good to have priorities in order
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I don't want my kids addicted to Fortnite but equally I don't want to be lectured by a prince with no experience of children, and whose future children will be able to knock about the palace gardens instead of sitting inside playing videogames
‘Fortnite should be banned’, says Prince Harry bit.ly/2UlOJzi
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Every newsroom:
- Can you do a weather story
- Do I have to, they’re so boring
- Just do it
- FINE
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Nicholas Witchell currently speculating that the Queen has had cancer, that she had a fall last year, that she has gout, that she recently had a cannula in her hand - feels grossly intrusive to discuss someone's health like this
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Just a reminder that Britain is full of headteachers of outstanding schools in multicultural areas who just quietly get on with the job and don’t make stupid pronouncements on here for attention
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If you're wondering why David Cameron's bottom shelf isn't quite full, it's because he hid the Hitler book before the photographer came round
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Why does this woman keep going on about temp jobs she did at college? She’s 42
EXCLUSIVE: Kemi Badenoch shares her experience working as the only woman on a building site with 300 men earlier in her career.
@tnewtondunn | @KemiBadenoch
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I’m no fan of David Cameron but to describe him as only experiencing “privileged pain” when he had a profoundly disabled child who died aged six is a terrible thing to say theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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The Mail: ugh, foreign nurses
Also The Mail: why can't these lovely white foreign nurses come to work here immediately
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Nadine Dorries on C4 exuding the energy of a woman who's going to get thrown out of the pub for glassing someone in about two hours' time
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Just a reminder that Emily Maitlis was paid less than her male colleagues and didn’t even make the list of high earners until it was made public and the BBC was embarrassed into adjusting her pay
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Start your weekend with Denise Welch
Denise Welch: ‘Who would I like to say sorry to? The people I hurt when I was addicted to alcohol and cocaine’ dlvr.it/SzbtZW
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So Matt Lucas and David Walliams have cut the blackface from Little Britain to “reflect the changes in the cultural landscape” (and get it back on iPlayer) yet this has stayed in 🙄
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I like the way @PippaCrerar is stripping this story across the weekend rather than dropping it all as a boxset
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Every journalist at the daily briefing should agree to ask questions about Cummings and nothing else
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Jonathan Gullis, Tory MP for Stoke-on-Trent North, just billed himself as “someone who grew up on Dad’s Army and Porridge and loves those traditional programmes of the past” (he is calling for the abolition of the licence fee on anti-wokery grounds)
He is 31
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There’s something almost poignant about Dominic Cummings composing a 42-tweet thread while everyone ignores him and watches Eurovision
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Pizza Express remains the best restaurant for young kids. Dough balls. Mini pizza. Ice cream. Colouring and stickers. Anyone who would rather take a 3-yr-old to a hipster pizza joint with artisan mozzarella is being a dick
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Tickled by Katie Hopkins’ discovery that there are Lebanese restaurants on the Edgware Road
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Oh my god I love him
'She really is beautiful, innit.'
This is the moment a cheeky student complimented the Duchess of Sussex, receiving roars of laughter from both his classmates and Meghan.
The duchess was visiting the school ahead of #InternationalWomensDay.
More: itv.com/news/2020-03-07/megh…
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Absolutely hooting that Holy and Phil trashed their own reputations for a report so bad it included Holly saying the queue was "this ever-moving line which is in real contrast to the stillness of her" #ThisMorning
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Andrea Leadsom is that woman from the Rotary Club who tells Linda she isn't welcome at the cheese and wine evening now she's a divorcee
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I worry that the Cummings story means this picture won’t get the attention it deserves
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There'll be lots of talk about George Michael's "demons" and "troubled life" today. So here's a reminder that he was hilarious. On Band Aid:
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I see wearing trousers is woke now. Does this only apply to fictional mice or is it a wider rule, I’m not sure who to ask
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As the parent of a 2-yr-old and a 4-yr-old I very much appreciate this column from Matthew Parris
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Ceramics and glass a foot off the floor, you might want to move those in three months’ time, just some free advice
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This is extremely funny. “Would you like to come on my podcast to talk about why, unlike me, you’re a sociopath?”
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I'm genuinely fascinated by how famous and rich and successful and ubiquitous James Corden has become despite nobody seeming to like him
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If this was a disaster movie, we'd all be watching the news reports on a wall-mounted TV in a small but busy bar
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oh my god story of the year
'Seagull Boy', nine, wins European screeching competition bbc.in/4d6T2Dd
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Take the politics of lockdown out of it and what you have is a man horrified by the idea of having to look after his own child while his wife is ill, because that is a job for women and not a Maverick Genius™️
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So people are angry that The Crown shows Prince Charles having a long-running affair with Camilla? The same Prince Charles who *checks notes* had a long-running affair with Camilla?
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“Foreigners. Anyone who looks different to me. Immigrants. It was Mosley and his blackshirts in the 1930s… in the 1960s it was Enoch Powell… You only have to listen to Reform or UKIP or Nigel Farage to know what they’re saying”
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All the people having a go at Meghan for visiting the Texas school memorial were just as angry about Kate going to the Sarah Everard vigil, right? Just checking
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I tell you who this will hurt the most - the parents of Extinction Rebellion protesters, currently sitting at the breakfast tables of their Georgian rectories in Ottery St Mary without their morning newspaper
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Your child can’t get her own toys out because she’s a BABY, as soon as she can reach that Duplo you’re screwed, my friends
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NOBODY MENTION THAT TIME CHERYL PUNCHED A TOILET ATTENDANT WHO ASKED HER TO PAY FOR A LOLLIPOP
Cheryl Tweedy bids to airbrush her criminal past by calling in lawyers to ban reports of her conviction dailym.ai/2DCxlMu
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Duke of Cambridge gives a speech saying it “simply cannot be right” that people of different ethnicities have been shut out of the royal family, oh no sorry he said the film industry #BAFTAs
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The thing that annoys me about the Roald Dahl changes is how stupid they are. A ban on the word “fat” yet keeping in the rest of the description in which Augustus Gloop is clearly fat
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Brad Pitt isn't at the #Baftas but sent a message: "Hey Britain, heard you just became single - welcome to the club"
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List of people who could have been in the #FriendsReunion instead of James Corden's friend David Beckham: Paul Rudd, Julia Roberts, Danny DeVito, Bruce Willis, George Clooney, Giovanni Ribisi, Christina Applegate, Winona Ryder, Hank Azaria, FERGIE
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Never seen this portrait of the Queen before and I love it. Like she’d quite happily take you out the back and give you a kicking if you didn’t behave yourself (pic by John Swannell)
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Much love for the @Se_Railway ticket man who has special dinosaur and unicorn hole punches for children’s tickets 😍
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I am a Durham miner’s granddaughter, going to start working it into the headlines of all my stories because it’s extremely relevant
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It’s too late for this year’s Booker shortlist but Pat Sharp has written a book in which he inserts himself into history, Forrest Gump-style
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Seeing Blue Peter presenter Michael Sundin in the BBC4 Elton John doc has made me remember the absolute awfulness of this
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Dani and Jack: 3 series on ITVBe
Kaz and Josh: parents to world's cutest baby
Megan and Wes: dumps him for a footballer
Laura and Paul: split up at the airport
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Could it just possibly be... that Meghan and Harry considered their private exchange of vows to be the day they got married, while acknowledging that the wedding was the public/legal bit? Which isn’t *that* weird?
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Furious that when I sat down to watch this drama about a notorious serial killer it included details of his notorious serial killing
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And these two other fabulous covers featuring London Overground driver Narguis Horsford and community midwife Rachel Millar. Who needs supermodels and terrible celebrities?google.co.uk/amp/s/www.vogue…
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The more I think about this, the more absurd it gets. A grown woman wants to have a say in the birth of her child and gets criticised for it
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Impressed they’re managing to hold the Islington North count in the Sobell Centre, where nobody has answered the phone in the past 5 years of me trying to book soft play birthday parties
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BBC chairman Richard Sharp confirms Jess Brammar has been appointed #RTSCambridge
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I’ve written about Nadine Dorries once in my life and to be honest I think it covers everything
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I mean I grew up knowing someone who qualified as a lawyer AND a doctor, Sunak can only dream of attaining that brag-to-the-aunties level
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