rhys thomas (he/him)
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Future of Wales (2024) | bylines in GQ, The Face, The Guardian et al
London, via Laugharne buh
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for context, he is currently worth £20 million
Wow. Stormzy donating £10 million to orgs fighting racial inequality.
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I just think two actors buying a struggling welsh football team, falling completely in love with the community, and helping them to get back into the league after fifteen years is pretty fucking special
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a bank holiday for everyone except men but including ian wright
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Imagine having a Monzo Wrapped though? "This year you spent £4586 with pubs"; "Your new discovery was Subway Seven Sisters Road"; "Your top 5 genres: pubs, food, miscellaneous junk, books, online subscriptions".
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@LucasMitte
@ObanMackie
Yeah you’re right, just thought that it is quite a commitment for him to promise half his current earnings 😌
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Jamie Laing has never needed a job in his life and so he can do the thing that the middle class do every day - fill up creative glamorous dream jobs - and be piss average, often undertrained, and tone deaf with entitlement in the process
(Yes, he’s a sound guy, fine)
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This is going to be all over east London soon and I will hate you all
Italians are just a different breed 😅
Menu from one of the restaurants - is printed out screenshot from Notes app.
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just a reminder to clap for guy fawkes this thursday november 5 at 8pm
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Pitch: someone gives me 82,000 a year and we see how I manage
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@SamDiss
‘My Parents’, David Hockney (1977). I have no idea on the popularity of this, but I started sobbing as soon as I saw it, sending it now is filling me with frission. I think it’s the idea of parents being old, the newspaper, the colours, the loving look from mum & the empty mirror
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"I’m going to cycle 100miles in a day and donate all proceeds to the Stephen Lawrence"
@Emilykippax
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🚨 Thrilled to announce the launch of my new column with
@VICEUK
– “Hey Man” is a personal advice column for guys. I think this has been needed for a while, and hope it helps. Here’s the first instalment!
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i just can't believe people still react to Piers Morgan, his entire political and moral compass is based on what he thinks will get media traction, there's never been more to it. I do not understand how anyone thinks there's more to him than this
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🚨 professional things: I have been moonlighting words since October, but I’m finally coming back to writing full time! From today I’ll be doing two days a week at
@TimeOutLondon
(!!) Other weekdays will (in a month or so) be spent on the column, features, and other long projects
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this is more or less one in every 952 households. add to that one in every 834 people in the UK dying (so far) and tell me this government should ever sleep peacefully again.
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Interviewed all-round hero
@IanWright0
about growing up in south-east London, do have a read
Ian Wright: 'We Had to Run a Lot When I Was Young, to Avoid the Skinheads'
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Job titles carry more value than money for people who don’t need the money, so they’ll take the nice sounding role for no salary, thereby creating a job sector which is underpaid to the point where it shuts many people out of the opportunity
just saw the word ‘senior’ in the job description for a role advertising a salary of £22-26,000 a year, full-time. someone explain please !
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Are any young writers/journalists looking for some extra £? I transcribe for a handful of amazing writers (it's a big part of how I've made rent as a young freelance). I have new commitments, so I'm having to stop this. If you'd be interested in maybe taking some on DM me x
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Between her many commitments and training sessions *music and movie megastar*
@shrutihaasan
kindly spoke to me about how she's happy to be forging her own path, and on the industries' obsession with vanity.
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Moving flat and all I can say is I wish I couldn’t read. Books fucking everywhere here. Can’t move for books. No I don’t know what a kindle is. Keep it.
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Had a lecture on waiting for godot and the lecturer walked out 'to get something' at the end and we all sat there waiting for him. 10/10
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if it isn't all men it's some men, it's statistically your mates if it isn't you. if you are a man, you are responsible one way or another. all men can also read/listen to what has been said today and in the past and be informed by it. it's on us to change.
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'It's a Halloween party'
'Safe mate let me just tape some toast to my head'
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My latest for
@VICEUK
– A list of all the promises the tories have broken over the last year. Took some time !!
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Meat Loaf was in both fight club and spice world, and happens to be behind one of the biggest selling musical albums ever – range
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Over lockdown, I've been trying to get hench, because what else can we do. It did not come naturally to me, but I learned a lot about myself and the human body on the way. You can read more below, in my longest article to date. (Video coming soon 👀)
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bbc commentary on Kyrgios is the most bias punditry I've ever heard, does very little for the sport to be snarling at every single thing he does or doesn't do
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I don’t want to take up space rn but it needs to be said that it’s v problematic to use the male mental health crisis as an excuse for male behaviour – or to tell people to back off from the current conversation. men are also responsible for improving their own mental health
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joining for a couple months as an acting senior staff writer, also helping to develop new editorial formats. Building my list of freelancers already, but PR it'd be great to talk talent, stories, and product across wellness and popular culture: DM me x
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Oh yeah, you know when I wrote about trying to get hench over lockdown? We filmed it too. Be kind thanks x
I lost a third of my body fat and turned it into muscle in 30 days over lockdown.
Here's how I did it.
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@wilson_matty
My tweets usually get three likes and an unfollow but as a duo we are apparently lit 🙏
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Primark exists because the government does not support the basic needs of its people. Thousands rely on food banks daily in the UK, they also need clothing and deserve retail therapy and autonomy where possible. Direct your anger where it's needed.
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here's a (big) thread of the articles i most enjoyed/admired/thought were good etc. this year. Was going to wait for the post-boxing day slump but people are isolating etc so here you are:
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My latest piece for
@VICEUK
looks at how Fred Perry accidentally created a monster. I could have written a book on this.
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i have solved all of society's problems, you are welcome
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been freelance a year today, despite not being eligible for any form of grant/furlough beyond UC my landlords remain very happy with me. in what must have been a real hard year for them, this is all that matters. so thank you all for helping them via me, more of the same pls x
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In the magazine tomorrow (I think) and online now, I wrote about the folk song written in 1982 that has become something of an alternative anthem across Wales, and especially football fans, for
@guardian
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As someone with a dumb nickname, I wanted to investigate the history of nicknames, and why typically men end up with really stupid ones.
@VICEUK
let me at it.
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Profiled the man of the moment, super
@PMullin7
for
@BritishGQ
we speak
@Wrexham_AFC
@RMcElhenney
@VancityReynolds
McDonalds orders, hanging off lampposts, the gamble, karaoke, and more.
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It should be illegal to erase a journalistic website, there should at least be a copy at (eg) the British Library, as there is with newspapers.
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My first piece for the
@guardian
/
@guardianopinion
is a little love letter to the hairdressers, which I miss going to very much.
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A thread of some of the stand out articles (etc) this year:
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Spoke to basically everyone ever in and around the Cardiff rap scene for
@TimeOutLondon
because it’s doing bits 🔥🏴
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@alonso_hoyt
He’s among the most tireless ambassadors for women’s football and deserves credit for always speaking up on the topic
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Sorry if this is pass-agg but if you’re emailing me and not spelling my name right I won’t be replying. Please do check beforehand. It’s four letters. (Three welsh letters !!)
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Haaland is windows and Mbappé is mac, I’ll say nothing more on the matter
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Lockdown has been lonely at times. My latest piece for
@VICEUK
looks to change that (with varying success)
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I spoke to a lot of people about how the Welsh language has found its confidence and is making waves in the world of music.
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As students and graduates are staring down the barrel of a recession and all other manner of shit, I thought I'd ask those who were in the same position in the last recession what they'd have done differently. Hope it helps a little.
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I’m not a fan of marvel or always sunny in philadelphia but this is class
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who are your favourite young non-male writers? let's get a good list going for them lazy folk at the beeb
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calling all 'short kings', i'm writing an article – if you're under 5"8, live in london, and don't mind having a photo taken and answering a few questions, give me a dm.
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@DanInnes
@BBCScrumV
@BBCSportWales
@GabbyLogan
@JiffyRugby
@5liveSport
@WelshRugbyUnion
Sadly the pass is as backwards as the WRU
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print? in this economy?! lovely stuff
NME announces return of iconic print magazine – the new bi-monthly bible for music and pop culture will be available this summer
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The latest article for my
@VICEUK
column answers – how to stop being a fuckboy, and how to take good nudes (for men). 👀
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Catching a train out of London later is truly giving me sliding under the door of omicron like it’s Indiana Jones levels of palpitation
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lovely to see my article doing the rounds once again, diolch am rhannu! 🏴
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reminder that today is the first day back, allow yourself to not have a new yorker front cover already, despite what your gut is telling you x
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extremely glad the prince of Wales is nowhere near team Cymru; enough bad about this World Cup without our blessed vibes being taken
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stephen king wrote come dine with me
You lost, you miserable self-entitled infantile fucker. Concede and get the hell out.
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right. I have an idea for a magazine. It's a bit like magazines that used to exist, but it's also bolder and more accomodating. I'd like to make it, but only if it's wanted. It's currently under the (playful) title 'lad mag'
@thatLadMag
(1/3)
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My latest article investigates the big question:
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people who have good eyesight AND don’t wear a mask can fuck off
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Popped into the local wearing cropped trousers, dad’s mate who hasn’t seen me in four years:
“Got any jam?”
“Pardon?”
“Was thinking you could invite your trousers down for tea”
💀💀
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Can people who graduated from uni or got their A-Level/equivalent results in 2008, give this a like/comment/dm me, please!
I would like to chat with you for a nice and helpful Vice UK article (it'll be a 10 min chat or so I imagine). Thanks!
Also, I never ask so: pls RT
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I really like seeing kilts and flags around London. When Wales play England in England I want the same energy. Leeks and flatcaps on every corner, nans offering welsh cakes at the garden fences
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Would love to know why editors are commissioning people roughly ten years outside of the Gen Z bracket to write stories about Gen Z.
Sure it might be convenient and times are tough etc, but where’s the opportunity for new writers? 😤
(Well written of course, but come on!!)
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hi
@Simonhartmp
any chance you can explain why you voted to not provide an extension of free school meals to children in need during a pandemic?
I'll be messaging you daily until I have an adequate response. Ideally, I want a discussion.
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Spent some time with
@donetodeath
and
@themjeans
talking how long gone but also mums, birds, football, brawn, optimal edible doses and more for
@TheFaceMagazine
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if anyone would like to give me £100k salary to test this out i will be happy to do so in the name of public service thank you dm me
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so uh this video of yours truly trying to get hench has well over a million views now, have you seen it?
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In the latest column for
@VICEUK
, I answer a question on anger, and also what to do when we feel life is ‘unremarkable’
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Write from an authentic place with reliability, and there becomes no such thing as competition, your work will come to you
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I’ve written an op-ed on domestic abuse for
@highsnobiety
– was a tough piece to write but essential and I’d hope any men seeing this give it a read.
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Seeing as there’s nothing else to do on December 27 5pm, join me and my wine and two pals
@bethanymrd
@shahedezaydi
chatting about our experiences as babies in the industry. I’m not promising expertise but I promise honest reflection on my first year at it
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I have a little book of essays out in 2024, it is called “the future of Wales”
The news is out!
@melvillehouse
will be publishing The FUTURES Series in February 2024.
We can't wait to share these succinct visions of what the future might hold, written by talented experts
@kristinhersh
@rosamundmtaylor
@reportingLibya
@_rhysthomas_
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Sorry to go one deeper on the truth of it, he’s just one example of why media is increasingly dumb, look at the bigger picture
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Wrexham’s tourism economy is bucking trends nationwide, and it’s because of those boys from Hollywood*. For
@TimeOutLondon
I had a look into how all came to be
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Latest instalment of my
@VICEUK
column is here!
Answering: how to get around ED issues, and breaking up with mates.
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