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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA

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▪️A life spent between pages, politics & celluloid▪️Reader ▪️Writer ▪️Fellow @theRSAorg ▪️Historian @city_celluloid ▪️’The Night Before’ out now on Kindle & Kobo

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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
5 months
On February 12th 1946, Isaac Woodard, an honorarily discharged veteran of the war in the Pacific, was set upon by officers of the South Carolina police force and blinded. The NAACP contacted Orson Welles, who used his ABC radio show to call for justice for Woodard 1/
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‘Fat blonde cunty one, the lettuce one and the little one - all gone, yes?’
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Because you’re married to Giles Coren
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In 1986, the actor Jeremy Brett was admitted to a mental unit after a breakdown following the death of his wife. The Sun ran a cover story (I have a copy) which stated ‘TV SHERLOCK IN NUT HOUSE’ Jeremy deserved his dignity. 1/2
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I want a living room like this so I can swan around smoking a black Sobranie in a negligee with Columbo asking me questions about my rich elderly husband who died in suspicious circumstances
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Brendan Fraser's new movie got an 8 minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival. He deserves all of them. Welcome back you wonderful man 💙
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Three years ago we did a socially-distanced handover and took custody of a skinny, scared and very bald saluki who had been found as a stray. Now he’s a glorious arsehole of a dictator who forgets we adopted him and not the other way around. Happy gotcha day Wizard, my son🧙 x
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Jeremy later moved to a private hospital and was getting better. Reporters from The Sun, on the instructions of Kelvin MacKenzie, gained access to him and bombarded him with questions about the rumour he was dying of AIDS. His progress was hindered. Don’t buy the fucking Sun.
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Auntie Linda coming back from Torremolinos with five times married Ted and she’s already changed her will
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2 years
That face when San Marino, population 33,938, goes on your shitlist
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He was going off about grooming gangs and I politely reminded him that he had sent dirty texts to a 17 year old girl
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4 years
If you're saying you hope Boris Johnson dies you're a fucking ghoul and unfollow me.
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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
4 years
Starmer isn't interested in creating a purist socialist utopia. He is interested in moving the Labour Party into power to be enable to make life better for millions by doing, not just saying. If you're not interested in that too, you have no place in @UKLabour .
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When I confronted him about it years later
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The last time I looked at something like that I either married it or ate it.
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2 years
Just renewed my @UKLabour membership. Getting behind @Keir_Starmer to get this shambling shower out of government.
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What in the Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel hell do these two look like
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Edwin Landseer: I am going to paint a picture to commemorate the loss of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror and Sir John Franklin and his crew in the Northwest Passage in 1845 Lady Franklin: thank you that sounds nice and respectful Landseer:
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Dying at these kid’s faces as Geri barks Wannabe at them
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6 months
Are you happy now you bastards you’ve made Gregggg upset
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He’s just remarkably bad at this isn’t he? I mean woefully bad at this
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ITV News Politics
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Prime Minister @RishiSunak challenged by former NHS worker about long waiting times in the health service The encounter happened during a visit to Winchester
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3 years
If your response to Katie Price being attacked is 'good' then you're a cunt.
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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
4 years
I can't stand Jeremy Corbyn and left wing cranks. I support Keir Starmer and Tony Blair. I cannot stand Boris Johnson and his shower of shits but am not averse to Tories for the sake of it. I'll just get that out there so you can unfollow me before we get attached.
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3 months
When people look ridiculous can we please start saying they look ridiculous
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Big Chungus here reckons hungry kids are selling school dinners for drugs
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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
2 years
Prue Leith's son is an absolute horror
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Tory MP Danny Kruger says he doesn’t agree that “women have an absolute right to bodily autonomy".
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I wish Kirstie would stick to glueing feathers to napkin rings.
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Kirstie Allsopp
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What the hell happened to “Covid doesn’t like the Summer?” We’re in March, surely by July numbers will have fallen across Europe? Why crush people hopes of a holiday, it’s perverse & cruel.
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Everyone seems to lose their shit when Labour don’t promise unicorns. Surely we all recognise that the damage from the Tories will take more than one term to rectify? #c4news
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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
3 years
Good morning from Plague Island. We now go live to the COVID cabinet briefing
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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
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Life is just one big ball of bloody irony sometimes. #TheresaMay
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In a sane government, this lad would be no more than a junior minister #r4today
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I feel this went under-reported this week
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Pet I think it’s actually because you schtup other women’s husbands
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4 years
I'm beyond heartbroken that we've had to have our beautiful girl Susie Bean put to sleep this afternoon. She was listless this morning and not her usual self. She was sent to the animal hospital in Woodstock where a scan revealed a mass on her liver. We're completely lost.
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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
8 months
why does your cock always find its way into women who are not your wife?
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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
2 years
Brookers Beckham here looking like Gary from Facilities Management who's not too bright but always gets the first round in.
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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
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@SamStev46866209 They did. I’ve retweeted it onto my TL
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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
2 years
Joanne Harris had a go at me when I tagged her in a post where I said I'd won a bundle of her books on ebay. She failed to take into account that if I loved the second hand books I'd buy new releases from a bookshop. Consequently I have failed to read any of the books I won.
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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
11 months
And are these 60 women in the room with us now Naomi?
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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
3 months
Orlando Bloom looks like your nephew Ian who says ‘plenty of irons in the fire’ when you ask him how work’s going
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@charliersmith1 I’m going to be on citalopram for the rest of my life because I don’t always have the best balance of serotonin. There’s no shame in it sweetheart. Xx
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This lass will freak when she learns that Poles were the largest group of non-British personnel in the RAF during the Battle of Britain, and the 303 Polish Squadron was the most successful RAF unit in the Battle of Britain.
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Jess Gill
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Is it any wonder no one wants to fight for Britain when Britain is unrecognisable? The truth is that mass immigration and multiculturalism has FAILED.
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4 years
I am a @UKLabour member and how dare you try to speak for me. I want this antisemitic skidmark of a human nowhere near the party.
@zarahsultana
Zarah Sultana MP
4 years
Labour MPs, NEC members and affiliated unions have called for the whip to be restored to @jeremycorbyn . That is my view too. But more importantly, it is the view of Labour members. Local Labour parties should be able to express their views. Party democracy must be upheld.
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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
5 months
Hayley Mills in 1966 after picking up her chippy tea
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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
9 months
Let me get this straight. Labour politicians on the cusp of power are throwing in their shadow posts because of an SNP motion of no consequence? Insane.
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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
3 years
According to Diane Abbott, Keir Starmer has always been a Blairite. For fucks sake these people...
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1 year
@kane_blackwell If you take a big shit in public, cover your hands in it and clap you can’t expect your friends to like it.
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Claire Meadows BA(Hons) MA I did it.
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Guess what I was watching on the treadmill
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How edgy and original. Shall we hand back our 200-odd Michelin stars then?
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Love that Keir Starmer is boiling all the right piss. Britain is back x
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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
3 years
Can we fuck off from asking Corbyn's advice on how to win elections.
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His skinny little twig arms would struggle with the recoil from a bottle of Lambrini
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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
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@Sorrelish This was our Pissfingers. Susan. 9 when we got her. Special expensive diet for life because she formed crystals in her bladder Had to be on liver supplements Warts Frequent urinary infections Had three wonderful years with her. The canine love of my life.
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‘Having a lovely time on Pedro’s yacht. Went to Santorini yesterday. Off out for a fish stew tonight. Hope everyone is well, love Auntie Linda’
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4 years
I don’t engage with Corbynite twitter anymore. They remind me of the end of The Wicker Man if the matches got wet.
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Look at the state of this uppity wallop
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I asked her if she'd counted acid attacks in her violence against women stats
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@ShowerAbsolute It’s perverse that anyone would cover them up
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4 years
Just told my husband that Dickie Burgon wants to challenge Keir to the leadership. His laugh is still ringing in my ears and he’s at the other side of the house.
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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
3 years
This lad is my Britain. Love you @BukayoSaka87
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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
1 year
Everything came with chips and cabbage - lasagne, moussaka, pie. It sounds grim but it was fucking immense. The two of us ate two courses with wine and spent no more than £15. We did it most Saturdays. When the Kings Road was still worth bothering with.
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Back in Time West London
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Which restaurant or café in London would you bring back to life? And why… Be inspired by the grinning chef of The Bellavista restaurant on 132 Cromwell Road in the 1970s
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@zaktoscani And you just know there’s going to be that moment where staring intently at the screen he says ‘Wait...take that bit back again’
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Look at this daft cunt seriously. Once upon a time you’ve got your dad’s contacts in the film industry and you’re married to Billie Piper. Fast forward and you’re pretending to enjoy smoking cigars, posing with the absolute dregs. Life comes at you fast you lanky fuck
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@markblk9779 @jeromethegnome It was nothing less than homophobia in the first instance.
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Claire L Meadows MA FRSA
3 years
Yvette Cooper. The leader we could have won. The Prime Minister we could have had.
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4 years
Tbh Jan, if that's your attitude it was never 'your' party to start with.
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Gullis is an absolute black hole. It makes me give up hope just looking at him. The very dregs of the swampy bin of the 2019 intake.
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@FionaBowler Surely you have to keep him now. This will be his face if you don’t.
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This woman couldn’t find her arse if she had as many arms as an octopus to reach it. Genuinely fifth rate candidate.
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"You don't know who owns Hammersmith Bridge, you don't know what a police officer makes, and you don't know the bus fare." @NickFerrariLBC grills Conservative mayoral candidate Susan Hall.
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Seriously - how is Starmer meant to turn things around with weapons-grade thickos like this polluting the party?
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Zarah Sultana MP
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Cuba's humanitarian medical brigade have provided assistance to 40 countries during the pandemic. It's an inspiring example of solidarity across borders. That's why I'm proud to have officially nominated them for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.
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@AwayFromTheKeys I’ve got a soft spot for Basil
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My George Galloway story - he called me BBC plant because I’d reviewed the Sunday papers on BBC Oxford radio. When I told him I wasn’t employed by the BBC he accused me of pretending to work for the BBC. Mind-bending cunt. Good luck Rochdale.
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Edward Burke
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My George Galloway story - a meeting at Trinity College Dublin. A student asked him about his support for Saddam Hussein. He turned, paused, looked at the student and called him fat. Good luck Rochdale.
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How crass of them. There’s a time and place for everything. This is not it.
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'How many more children?' 'You can't do s***.' 'You're not wanted.' Keir Starmer is heckled as he pays his respects to the victims of the Southport stabbing attack.
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Kelvin Mackenzie is my proudest block. He blocked me because I reminded him, and informed the whole of Twitter that he had okayed journos under him to gain access to Jeremy Brett's hospital room to ask him whether he was dying of AIDS. He didn't like that little reminder.
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Thanks for watching Kelvin. Big hugs wee man. Ps @AngelaRayner is much better company than you ever were x
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7/7 - my husband was trapped underground for two hours and I couldn’t reach him. I was working at the Home Office so I knew it wasn’t an electrical fault. Thus began the worst two hours of my life until I knew he was alright. I was a basket case for years afterwards 1/2
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I bet it’s this #RoyalAnnouncement
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Fucking Nora
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Me 2001. Aged 19. Had met the man who would be my husband two years later. We’d been together a matter of weeks. He was much older. Everything was kicking off around us. We’re still together 22 years on.
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‘You’re a cunt Greg. I’d I’ve always thought you were a cunt but I had to be nice to you because Margo is my sister. But no more’
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I was sexually molested in my own home by a teacher from my school when I was 15. I didn't tell anyone except my husband for years. Because I blamed myself. So get to fuck with comments about only telling people when it's 'politically expedient'.
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Corbynites finding out Corbyn had nothing to do with the Good Friday Agreement
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Kelvin MacKenzie as a talking head on @TrevorPTweets ’s show on @SkyNews . Shall we remind ourselves of one of greatest hits from 1986? Was this before or after he sent journos into Brett’s hospital room to ask if he was dying of AIDS? The man is a scumbag. #KelvinMacKenzie
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21 years ago today
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If your priority when Keir Starmer is talking about the death of his mother is to shout 'Oh Jeremy Corbyn' you know where the door is.
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When your mam usually puts a Freddo in your lunchbox but you opened it today and it was a muesli bar
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@SteveBarclay How is it an honour to be called in to scrape the shit off the walls and nobody else wants to do it
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*whispers* Working class people do not talk about the working class struggle.
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Has paragon of world peace Jeremy Corbyn said anything yet?
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@MrNoCorruption @kelvmackenzie He blocked me when I confronted him about it
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A FB friend of mine has terminal cancer and just announced that there are no further treatments available to her. Am I a complete cock for loathing the comments on her post that say 'think positively'?
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I wonder whether Carrie will find him as fascinating out of Downing Street and without Chequers.
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Twenty years after we yoked our waggons to the same horse, the husband is still my favourite person in the whole world.
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Blocked by the bully who piled on a 17 year old lad. Kinder, gentler.
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@DawnHFoster Clarify what you mean by his 'performance now'. All that 'rising in the polls and aiming at winning back seats' nonsense, you mean?
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