Author of 'Dismembering the American Dream: the Life and Fiction of Richard Yates'. Mother of three. Wife of one. Potter.
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Very grateful to a @TheRestHistory club member for sending us this clarification about which members of a particular family did and did not survive the Titanic - an even more remarkable story than we had realised
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An integrated offshore grid is not 'nonsensical' and we do, obviously realise, that there will need to be landing points. However, those need to be:
1. Close to demand (London)
2. Brownfield
3. Fewer (as is the result of an offshore grid.
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Kate Charlton-Jones retweeted
Hey, listen, he's not wrong is he?
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Well done @suffolkcc eadt.co.uk/news/local-counci…
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Hard to think of a translation that captures the Arabic soundscape more fully — the rhymed prose, the poetry. My review in the @NewYorker of @yasmineseale ‘s exceptional new translation of Arabian Nights. newyorker.com/books/page-tur…
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I know it’s a complex history but (clickbaity headline aside) in this short article composed mainly of quotes there are 6 errors of fact. Lots of woolly writing on the Nights around, so just to be precise… theguardian.com/books/2021/d…
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104 days after been fined £90m for dumping sewage into the environment and less than 12 hours after Gov voted to protect water companies and not our rivers, @SouthernWater were dumping sewage at 60, yes 60, different locations along the south coast of England.
#COP26 hypocrisy
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Two springs ago I started attacking the text I was translating. Here is a foggy-headed page from the 1001 Nights, a portrait of Shahrazad with writer’s block — or on strike. “One night / I imagine nothing”. Very moved to see it on the cover of @WasafiriMag
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A crucial lesson from this week Never betray principles because of focus groups and “strategists”. Labour can’t attack the government as ferociously as now demanded because, focus group driven, it backed the debacle of Brexit. It gained nothing:but lost its soul and the argument.
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Johnson’s airy dismissal of Macron - “ donnez-moi un break” - over the Aukus deal Is Brexit cackle. Yes, the west must take harder line on China. But it must include France and the EU. Boris Johnson dismisses French anger over Aukus defence pact via @FT
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“Building back better and levelling up are rhetorical zeppelins, floating on the political horizon, carrying no cargo of policy”. Brilliant must read column. British politics is still drunk on Brexit spirit, and Boris Johnson won’t call time theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Everyone should know the international sign for Help me. Let’s make this famous #HelpMe
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A break in the cloud: my poem 'Conventional Wisdom' won the 2020 Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry and is now published in the excellent spring issue of @Wasafiri, which you can get here: wasafiri.org/product/wasafir…
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Very different and weirdly compelling new film about psychedelic experience in middle age: Watch 5MEO - Are some doors better left unopened? Online | Vimeo On Demand on Vimeo bit.ly/3849Ji1