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Hadley Freeman retweeted
What’s the middle-aged Sacha Baron Cohen doing resurrecting his sexist, puerile idiot from Staines? Actually, a surprised Hadley Freeman says, it’s wicked thetimes.com/culture/film/ar…
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Ahead of Tuesday’s election, I spent the past week driving across Israel and the West Bank, from Lebanon to the gates of Gaza.
This is the country I found, frenetic, divided, angry, joyful, messianic and anxious. Its future is up for grabs.
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Happy to explain exactly that:
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It’s pouring this weekend but who cares? There are SO many good films out! Fatherland is extraordinary and Ghosts: the Possession of Button House is just pure delight on a stick
Praise be to the gods of half-term, they’ve made a Ghosts movie!
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And for Times Books I reviewed Laurence Leamer’s new book about JFK and his compulsive sex life
Why did JFK risk everything for casual sex?
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For my @thetimes column I wrote about the Paris riots, the ludicrous defence of Sally Rooney and how nihilistic violence became a sign of piety for the left
Gen Z anxiety isn’t eased by rioting, even in France
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Hadley Freeman retweeted
Also, I laughed my socks off at Ali G: Who Iz I?
Call me a Neanderthal, but Ali G is a very, very funny film
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Hadley Freeman retweeted
It’s pouring this weekend but who cares? There are SO many good films out! Fatherland is extraordinary and Ghosts: the Possession of Button House is just pure delight on a stick
Praise be to the gods of half-term, they’ve made a Ghosts movie!
thetimes.com/article/ea0896a…
Hadley Freeman retweeted
Read this account by @hannahsbee of Sarah Redvers whistleblowing about the Brighton WellBN clinic.
Gender ideology breaks safeguarding.
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He used My Surrogacy Journey - a company I covered here, it is under investigation from UK government after issues with insurance & birth complications from surrogates theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
How can you feel OK paying a Mexican woman to be pregnant, get a C-section and express milk for a baby she doesn’t get to keep? How is this being presented as socially acceptable? thetimes.com/article/4e09e57…
Hadley Freeman retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth wanted Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it.
We have photos.
Delighted to be putting my lifelong obsession with literary adaptions to some use ☺️
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Hadley Freeman retweeted
For the Sally Rooney - Salman Rushdie parallel to work, a major Jewish leader would have had to call for her murder, gangs of marauding Jews would have had to burn down bookstores, and a Jewish extremist would have had to stab her eye out with a knife.
If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was still possible – you’d know they sit in the fiction stacks adjacent to the novels of another SR whose books have been withdrawn in dastardly political circumstances. Until last week, “Rooney” and “Rushdie” had little in common beyond being shelfmates; now they have more than just a physical proximity.
@tanjil_rashid_: This is censorship by other means newstatesman.com/comment/202…
This comparison with Salman Rushdie is pure luxury dilettantism. You can disagree with the politics that led to Rooney's books being withdrawn, but no one is threatening to kill her. Rushdie OTOH is under constant threat from Islamists, which is the opposite to Rooney's situation
If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was still possible – you’d know they sit in the fiction stacks adjacent to the novels of another SR whose books have been withdrawn in dastardly political circumstances. Until last week, “Rooney” and “Rushdie” had little in common beyond being shelfmates; now they have more than just a physical proximity.
@tanjil_rashid_: This is censorship by other means newstatesman.com/comment/202…
