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Screenwriter/watcher, landlocked yacht rock-lover, @BAFTA Connect member | Tweet about writing, film, TV, music, politics, cats & dogs (order varies) | She/Her

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How it started vs How it's going
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First job is to “rebuild the economy” says new Chancellor, whose party has been in charge of the economy for the past 12 years.
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JOKER. CRUELLA. MALIFICENT. What’s the next villain solo film you’d like to see?
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In Whitby, and we’ve just seen the best sign ever.
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So very, very tempted to go in and ask...
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The hill I will die on is that Sweep is one of the all-time great British comedy characters. He should be spoken about in the same breath as Hancock, Captain Mainwaring, Blackadder, Fleabag...
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Harry, Sooty and Soo are enjoying a refined musical evening. But then Sweep turns up ...
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Remembering Obama cracking up at baby Pope at the White House Halloween party last year. Utterly glorious.
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I see people are mocking this tweet, but this is why I moved out of London. To get away from Sarah Vine.
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Beryl Cook's depiction of the Bowling Green Massacre is particularly moving.
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#BritishThreatLevels We've run out of teabags.
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@RufusTSuperfly Love it! Very reminiscent of this Alan Rickman moment in Galaxy Quest.
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Watching Die Hard
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And lest we forget these magnificent statements by Carrie Fisher:
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I love voting at our local polling station - but I’m always slightly disappointed we don’t pop our ballot papers into Pingu’s beak. #ElectionDay #penguinsatpollingstations
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Every once in a while there’s an actor whose comedic talent is so singular that they seem to create a particular style of delivery, a certain physicality, a whole comedy type - that’s then imitated but never bettered. RIP Matthew Perry. You were wonderful, and we adored you ❤️💔
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@BBCBreakfast Dominic Raab: This wasn't a social occasion, it was staff having a drink after meetings. Everyone: That IS a social occasion.
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This makes me very, very happy. NOW can Hollywood start making and celebrating more diverse movies, please?
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RECORD BREAKING: #BlackPanther exceeds expectations, does $192 million at the box office for the highest February opening and the fifth biggest of all time
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- Exit poll shows 68% voted to #Repealthe8th - Harvey Weinstein is charged with rape & sexual abuse - Tommy Robinson is jailed In the words of MLK: The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
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Literally THE SAME DAY he did this, Matt Hancock told the rest of us: "You can meet 1 other person from outside your household in an outdoor, public place. But please keep 2 metres apart... Stick with the rules, keep an eye on your family and don’t take risks."
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NEW: Matt Hancock is in the cheese and wine photo from the Downing Street garden, Telegraph can reveal.
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Is it possible to impeach a President before they're inaugurated? Asking for 319 million friends.
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TBH if more 'Britishness' means more shows that reflect modern Britain like We Are Ladyparts, I May Destroy You, Dreaming Whilst Black, Starstruck and This Country do, then I'm all for it. Those *are* the kind of shows John Wittingdale means, right..?
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Well this is rather marvellous. A tree on Whitehall, just across the road from Downing Street -
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On the BBC, Will and Nancy dedicate their #Strictly dance to everyone who lost a loved one in the pandemic and didn't get a chance to say goodbye to them... while over on ITV, they rehabilitate Matt Hancock. Thank you @bbcstrictly 🙏
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@filmindublin Ay O'Edebiri
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I get the impression that this is like Al Capone being done for tax evasion.
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Remembering Alan Rickman, the master of acting with one's eyes.
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Parliament tonight, lit up for #PrideLondon tomorrow. Beautiful. 👏
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Never thought I'd say this, but: Christianity Today has basically nailed Donald Trump's character.
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Very excited to announce that I've just had my first feature film script optioned. I realise all kinds of things could happen now... But for now, to have got to this point, feels great.
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"This time, the shark is smartly dressed."
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Now picturing Theresa May running like this through fields of wheat.
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“If that means living life as a trans person, if that’s what makes sense to them, it doesn’t matter if that doesn’t make sense to you. It makes sense to them and it’s their right to live that out.” It shouldn’t be refreshing to hear this view, but blimey, it is. 👏
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Channel 4 News
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"LGBT has got a T in there for a reason - trans people started our movement" Writer Armistead Maupin talks to @krishgm about transphobia in the UK and US, and why he's using his voice to stand up for trans rights. Watch him on Ways to Change the World:
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This is the start of a Pixar movie.
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My robot vacuum is nowhere to be found. He's been missing for two days. My house isn't that big, I've genuinely looked everywhere. I don't think I've ever been this confused.
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So impressed by this from Prince Harry. Things like this go a long way in helping people's (esp men's) mental health
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This photo of Olivia Colman with tears in her eyes kissing her Oscar is everything. (Photo: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images)
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He had one hand in her pocket.
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BBC News (World)
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Alanis Morissette's ex-manager jailed for six years for stealing $7m
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Obama and Baby Pope remains the best ever Halloween costume, and the best ever reaction to one.
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@mrjjlean Never has our generation gap been clearer, John.
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Hopefully the last time I'll have to wear one of these in a while. I'm off the metaphorical rollercoaster, and my legs are metaphorically wobbling, but my thumb's aloft. Because I'm out the other side of breast cancer treatment 🙌🥳 #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth
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I feel a #BritishThreatLevels coming on...
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We're British. I don't get scared until the threat level hits "Replacement Bus Service".
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More great #ObamaAndKids :)
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And you may find yourself in a beautiful house With a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself How did I get here?
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Things That Only Rich People Say, No. 81:
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#BritishThreatLevels Someone going in for a second kiss on the other cheek.
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"People of all backgrounds are sophisticated, are interesting, are equally prone to tragedy and joy... So I think it’s wrong to allow one strata of society to have the most access." A million times this.
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David J Bradley but marked with a Recusant's Sigil
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Peter Capaldi is a real one
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<3
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Most bizarre moment of the Westminster Council Elections (so far!) happened before the hustings yesterday. I said hello and held out my hand to the Conservative councillor/fellow candidate - and he refused to shake it, saying "I don't shake hands with communists." Eh?!
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When you find out Zac Goldsmith lost #RichmondPark .
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One of the many silly joys of The Naked Gun? The end credits list actors who had one line by the line they said 👌
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When you omit to put a space in a tweet and unwittingly create a link... and then someone buys that URL.
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Mueller filed an indictment just as the President left for July he indicted the Russians who will never come here just before he left for Helsinki.Either could have been done earlier or later. Out of control!Supervision please?
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🧵In the words of John Lennon in his song Beautiful Boy: “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”. In the words of the doctor sitting opposite me in hospital: “So we have your results. I’m afraid it’s not going to be the news you were hoping for…” 1/
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@ShippersUnbound But they won’t be “disconnected from people” if they see more of their families, neighbours, local shopkeepers and others in their community, right?
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Platini banned from football? But who's going to make all the sticker albums? :/
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Had to be done 😉
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These will never not be my favourite Halloween pictures: Obama laughing at a kid dressed as the Pope in his Popemobile.
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So, so happy to hear that a family in my ward, who have been living in a frankly uninhabitable property and who I doggedly pushed to have moved, have today picked up their keys to their new home. *This* is why I wanted to be a Councillor.
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Probably around the same time Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage did..?
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Julia Hartley-Brewer
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George Soros, David Beckham... It's funny how the super-rich think the EU is a great thing. When did they last work in a minimum wage job?
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It's just occurred to me that we could end up with no UKIP *and* no Brexit. As if it's all been a horrible dream. Wouldn't that be nice? :)
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Farage's face as Verhofstadt says 'there is one positive result of the UK election - the disappearance of UKIP'
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Just a reminder that The Guardian US staff were so horrified by The Guardian UK’s transphobia that they wrote a piece *in The Guardian* condemning it 👉
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Stonewall is at centre of a toxic debate on trans rights and gender identity
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Love this advice from ⁦ @iamkateherron ⁩ in ⁦ @empiremagazine ⁩ 😄🙌
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The Standards Committee's report on Chris Pincher describes his groping as "sexual misconduct" and "very inappropriate sexual contact". Just so we're clear: it's sexual assault.
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Hi @twocitiesnickie , Please can you reassure us that you will be holding No. 10 to account over their Christmas Party? Not least because it took place in your constituency? I'm sure you agree it's disgraceful that they were partying while your constituents were following the law?
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#Oscars2023 Best Picture nominees as Muppets, a thread: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
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For #WorldPoetryDay , a favourite Wendy Cope.
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I hope every single person receiving or presenting an #Oscar mentions this on the night.
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Trita Parsi
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Confirmed: Iran's Asghar Farhadi won't be let into the US to attend Oscar's. He's nominated for best foreign language film... #MuslimBan
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First scenes from inside the Commons as MPs vote to trigger Article 50:
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“In my obit it will say that I wrote Good Will Hunting. People don’t want to think that those two cute guys wrote it.” RIP the brilliant William Goldman.
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@speakoutsister I think a lot of people also miss that drag is an act of resistance (as well as expression, and celebration). eg this piece talks about its history and "the pervasive danger of living authentically"
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Also amazing: when he cracked up at the kid who came to the White House halloween party as the Pope :) #ObamaAndKids
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(Props to the staff of St Mary's Church up by the Abbey)
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Arron Banks then and now: a story in four parts.
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My favourite Christmas carol about realising you left something behind at the garden centre is ‘Jesus Christ, The Apple Tree’.
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Re May's speech: If the headlines tomorrow aren't 'Florence and the machine', we will have have failed as a nation.
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Perhaps they're not doing it right..? RT @independent Nigel Farage says homosexuality makes most Britons aged over 70 feel uncomfortable
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Delighted & honoured to have been elected to represent the residents of Churchill Ward along with @ShTalukder . Absolutely gutted that the hardworking, caring & brilliant @JasonPimlico wasn’t elected alongside us.
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@KristenBott This is actually something some people do! 🙌
@pamelacolloff
Pamela Colloff
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I once watched a colleague (who had just returned to work after maternity leave) highlight every email in her inbox and press delete. When she saw the look on my face, she shrugged and said, "If they really need to talk to me, they'll find me." I think of her nearly every day.
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@alanalda You are, as always, an inspiration, sir. Keep on keeping on. We love you.
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I do hope that @Sootyandco and Matthew Corbett know that there are currently c. 5k people on this hill with me 😁❤️
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Happy Birthday #RikMayall , you ruddy legend ❤️ Rik was a childhood - and adulthood - hero of mine. I wrote to him when I was 12. And I met him when I was 20. People say you should never meet your heroes. Those people never met Rik Mayall.
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Who is your favorite character from space that isn't in Star Wars or Star Trek?
@lucyfishwife
Lucy Fishwife 🥐
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Who is your favorite character from space that isn't in Star Wars or Star Trek?
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Two horses at a party. Which one finds it hardest to mingle? The shire horse.
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Fun fact: this Westminster Tory councillor lost his seat last night. The arc of the universe, etc.
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Most bizarre moment of the Westminster Council Elections (so far!) happened before the hustings yesterday. I said hello and held out my hand to the Conservative councillor/fellow candidate - and he refused to shake it, saying "I don't shake hands with communists." Eh?!
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Cannot believe we lost an MP to a Nazi-sympathising white supremacist in 21st century Britain.
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Nigel Farage MP
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Cannot believe we're seeing Nazi salutes in 21st century America.
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The acceptance speech of the night 🙌 loved The Holdovers, love her
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The wonderful Da'Vine Joy Randolph gets emotional as she picks up her Supporting Actress BAFTA 🩷 #EEBAFTAs
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And I’ll end this with the wise words of Chumbawamba, as spotted in Leeds city centre on our way back from hospital. Stay well, Twitter. And look after your boobs, and your loved ones’ boobs! xx 10/10
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This is amazing. Kids born in Southwark will get a free book every month until they're 5, thanks to Dolly Parton.
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'What impact reports?'
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Radio Times
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We now know the three words Luke Skywalker first says to Rey in #StarWars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
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For #WorldPoetryDay , some favourite poems by my favourite poet, Wendy Cope.
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29th March
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My liege and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief:
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Wasn't happy with my Kate Bush seats, but I made a deal with God and got him to swap our places.
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