@_andyduff

Author of Sikkim: Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom, published by @BirlinnBooks (UK) and @PenguinIndia (India), May 2015. Web: http://t.co/eWdCpdcj7k

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Joined October 2010
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Benji Wilson@benjiwilsJul 2
RATE THIS BOOK — How Star Ratings Took Over The World out 2 July on @newmodern_books #ratethisbook #starrating#starflation#everythingmustberated amzn.eu/d/029i3zgF ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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🎉 We are thrilled to share that the SLA has been granted £500,000 by the Charlotte Aitken Trust to launch our new Reading Reboot programme. The programme will deliver social book clubs in 100 secondary schools across three years. Find out more: buff.ly/WX9CWJx
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This nature recovery craic isn’t that hard once you start... quite modest changes have brilliant effects And a lot of it is just about sensible landscape/farm design
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James Hogg
@JamesAHogg217 Feb 2025
This sketch makes my laugh like a drain but because of a characteristic as opposed to a punchline. That's what makes it so clever, I suppose. We quote it ad nauseum in our house. All together now: What, forty, forty five years??
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I want to vomit every time I hear someone from our goverment saying we are going to be world leaders in AI. What a crock of dangerous BS. What about being world leaders in looking after our landscapes and nature, looking after our people, looking after our health and our diet?
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Replying to @DuffCooperPrize @4thEstateBooks @JHUPress @uniofeastanglia @RoyalHistSoc @LucyHH @histassoc @OxUniPress @LibAllSouls @FaberBooks @WBTWKeswick @BiographersThe @TheLondonLib @campdenlitfest
Congratulations! Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War between Science & Religion Michael Taylor @M_H_Taylor (The Bodley Head @TheBodleyHead @vintagebooks) is shortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War between Science & Religion Michael Taylor (Bodley Head) is shortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025

ALT Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War between Science & Religion Michael Taylor (Bodley Head) is shortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025

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I wrote about a book I call, The Man Without Philosophy. You know it by a different name. unherd.com/2024/12/the-tortu…

The torture of an unphilosophical life

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Andrew Duff retweeted
Jonathan Ford@Grepsul19 Dec 2024
Ofwat today unveiled the biggest water price rises since privatisation, when bills rose to fix an underfunded system and meet new enviro standards. So why do we face another crash price-rise three decades later? In this @Telegraph piece, I explain why. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12…

How Britain’s water supply spiralled into chaos – and put your bills up again

Privatisation in the 1980s made sense, but the mess that followed has left us, the consumers, paying the price

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Delighted to present @jonawils with the Writer of the Year @WeAreTheFSA Awards last Monday 👏🏽
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Why the crypto industry backed Trump: because the crypto oligarchs want billions of dollars from the US government. @chrislhayes has the best explanation of this story I have seen youtu.be/qWANiC28M8o?feature…

‘Enormous heist’: Hayes on the ‘audacious scheme’ to reward big donors

After Republicans took back the Senate with the help of money from ...

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🌱 It’s #WorldSoilDay! 🌱 Matthew Elphick, #NFFN farmer at Nutfield Dairy, explains why soil health is vital for sustainable, high-quality food and a thriving planet. From boosting biodiversity to supporting yields, healthy soil is key to a better future for farming!
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Replying to @psframes
Any mention of Pieter De Hooch is an opportunity to post Ustinovs story about the Dutch De Hooch expert and the Duke. xitter.cf/psframes/status/185462…
Peter Schade@psframes7 Nov 2024
We framed Pieter de Hooch‘s Courtyard Scene today. The clumsy gilded 20th century replica frame was replaced with a newly acquired Dutch 17th century ebonised fruitwood ripple moulding frame. This is 400th re-framing of the permanent collection (NG) during my tenure.
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Andrew Duff retweeted
Jeet Heer
@HeerJeet8 Nov 2024
This is literally one of the biggest scams around, although a legal one. At the very least everyone involved should be shunned for the rest of their lives.
David Sirota
@davidsirota8 Nov 2024
Democratic consultants just pocketed tens of millions of dollars overseeing the loss of what Dems said was the most important election in history & now Democratic media is trying to convince liberals that they ran a flawless campaign & nothing has to change. We need a new media.
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David Owen@dodo9382 Nov 2024
Fewer than 95,000 votes. There are football matches that are better attended.
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It’s here! Through 2024, @Gmaxi_32 and I have been writing. Excited to say The Showman is out on Wed. Proud of him - this isn’t a typical cricket book. As soon as the final edits were sent, he jumped on @Final_Word_Pod. Listen to get a feel for it... then grab a copy (please x)
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Aatif Nawaz
@AatifNawaz26 Oct 2024
Inside the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium Scoreboard... #PAKvENG @bbctms
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And here is my contribution to the Guardian and @hopenothate's extensive report. If you know the history of eugenics, and scientific racism, it is galling to see it repeat and rhyme over and over again. Which is why it needs exposing. theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Propelled by tech money, the menace of race science is back – and it’s just as nonsensical as ever...

Once thought extinct after the fall of empire, this debunked practice has re-emerged with support from rogue experts and rich backers, says geneticist Adam Rutherford

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The Evolution of Football, by @jonawils is flipping genius, and surely a superb Xmas present for your average football nerd theblizzard.co.uk/shop/merch…

The Evolution of Football - Poster - The Blizzard

From The Blizzard and The Goal Hanger: Jonathan Wilson's Evolution of Football art print. Customers from the EU can order here.

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alexmassie
@alexmassie10 Oct 2024
It really isn’t expecting too much to expect someone who was prime minister to know that Labour were not in government in Scotland in 2009. But then different standards must be applied to Johnson, I guess. Soft, low, standards, of course.
Scott Wortley@Scott_Wortley10 Oct 2024
My son bought the Boris Johnson memoir for degree related reasons and brought this to my attention as an indicator of its quality and factual accuracy apparently Megrahi was released by a Labour scottish government. Shoddy. But characteristically shoddy and slapdash.
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