Alice Jones
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Deputy Head of Culture & Books @TheTimes and Sunday Times. Formerly @theipaper @Independent . Write @nytimes @graziauk @bbc_culture @refinery29uk
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Jimmy Savile wrote a PR “handbook” for the royal family after Prince Andrew’s ill-advised comments at Lockerbie. 20 years of letters from Prince Charles to Savile - “You are the bloke who knows what’s going on” - revealed in Netflix doc. By me
@thetimes
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Huge fan of Brooklyn Beckham's terrible photographs and even worse captions
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It’s absolutely fine to take a break from Twitter without warning us first
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Very into this couple on Grand Designs who have failed to make any bedrooms for their two teenage daughters but did travel to Marrakech to personally oversee the design of about 25 small tiles for the kitchen floor
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Whyyyyy do we need vox pops of two mothers saying “well we don’t really enough about the polio vaccine do we” on the News at Ten. It’s been administered for over 60 years but please do share their Whatsapp wisdom with the nation
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Oh, Clive James. What a writer. Had ‘Have You Got a Biro I Can Borrow?’ at our wedding and sharing it now because it’s nice.
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Have just endured a two-hour flight next to a man who bought a tube of Pringles then tenderly licked each one c. 8 to 10 times before munching it down. Sour Cream and Chive.
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Boris Johnson looks quite like a man who has put his head through a hole at a fairground and ended up wearing a wooden suit
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One day on Masterchef I would really love someone to cook some scallops or a chocolate fondant maybe
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Soz if I’ve got this wrong but did Boris just spend £2.6 million on a room for his hoover
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We are all Emily Maitlis
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Yes that Gregg Wallace interview is gold but have you seen the to-do list his ex-wife had to write for him each day? My sister and I still talk about it most weeks
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My name is Adam Buxton I’m a maaaaaaan = the best moment in any long car journey
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'I looked round and all the comics on the bill had come out to watch him. We don’t do that for just anyone.' This is a wonderful tribute
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@karans613
how many teenagers having fun with a camera get a book deal with Penguin Random House?
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I would estimate my life is now around 30-40% flattening cardboard boxes
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Absolutely dead at SJP discovering the Timpsons by my office
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Things I’d quite happily never read about again:
Increase to the licence fee
New Year’s Honours
Holly and Phil “getting the giggles” on This Morning
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One thing you can say for Harry and Meghan is they are very good at soundbites that say the same thing twice
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Just Liz Truss getting owned, every seven minutes in a different county. Every day should start like this
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I cannot cannot believe that of all the politicians who have had harmless foodstuffs thrown at them, it is NIGEL BREAKING POINT FARAGE that has people running to their typewriters. This is what he does, you’re doing his job for him. Look at the man/ his politics not the milkshake
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Think we should all clock off early and go to the park. No one will write a better headline today
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Some news! After five years I’m leaving i to join The Times as Associate Arts Editor in January. I’m very sad to be leaving a job and a paper I love and so many wonderful colleagues but am very excited for what comes next.
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What I can’t understand really is how everyone in Downing Street is so stupid
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Gemma Collins' book interviews continue to delight. On PA: "Amid the froth... the Romford-born celebrity writes that she was bullied at school. Today, the memory eludes her. 'I've not read that bit in the book, where was that? I've not seen that bit so I can't comment on that.'"
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“In America I’ve got Kevin Hart’s agent, Beyoncé’s lawyer and three development deals. Here, I can’t even get on 8 Out of 10 Cats.” I loved talking to
@TheLondonHughes
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Yes that picture of Michael Sheen as Chris Tarrant is spooky but mainly I’m excited by these two playing the Coughing Major and his wife Diana in Quiz
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I spoke to Jed Mercurio about his new graphic novel and it was all fine until I mentioned Line of Duty
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Feel like it’s a certain kind of person who calls it Covid-19
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Straight up clapped and yelled at this. Bill to win no further questions
A Rapper's Delight from start to finish 🙌 Bill Bailey and Oti's epic routine is one for the
#Strictly
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@BillBailey
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Loling at these pics of celebrities wearing their
#sponcoats
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“You think, well, I do want a new kitchen. But I don’t want to do a shit panel show...” I interviewed
@gregjames
about naps, boring celebrities, married life, anxiety, ambition and dog poo
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When you’ve just been unmasked as Bin Day on The Masked Singer
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“I spent so much of my life hiding from the word or trying to camouflage my entire being from being called fat”. Aidy Bryant brilliant on
#Shrill
, sex scenes and stereotyping. Excited for series 3!
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This morning I saw a woman walking a dog and the dog was wearing a poppy.
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Happy for this person that they’ve finally discovered the meaning of “breakfast”
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I cannot really get over how gross it is that the government is calling it Super Saturday - and the media is following suit.
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Find someone who loves you like a Tory PM loves a pointless Downing Street lectern moment
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Very happy to review Carl Benjamin’s next stand-up set, if he really wants to see comedy under attack.
Carl Benjamin claims 'comedy is under attack' after being grilled on live TV for his 'rape jokes'
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Scream! Joanna Lumley playing Amanda’s mother in Motherland is casting perfection 👌
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The opening scene of that episode is one of the greatest things I’ve seen on television in years I think. Goosebumps and tears
#HappyValley
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Oh my god the Mail piece on the Cats trailer is even madder than the trailer.
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Wwhat have we done Twhy did it happen Fhow do we take back control
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A long read by me, on the state of our museums. Over 4000 jobs lost.
@florencemuseum
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@royalacademy
has lost 18,000 Friends in a year, representing £2.5 million.
@WhitworthArt
has cut its exhibitions budget by 75%. And so, sadly, on
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One aspect of parenthood I hadn’t prepared for was the icy fear that grips every time Boris has a baby in case he gives it the same name as my child
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Lord give me the self belief of Karamo Brown doing the
@theipaper
’s One Minute With... books interview
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Is it frowned upon to use someone else’s photograph for your family Christmas card
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I suppose a bit of me does wonder how Royal Mail didn’t anticipate that quite a lot of people might be posting things, at Christmas, in a pandemic.
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I don’t understand how you have all binged Normal People without dissolving. I can only watch one episode at a time - it’s so intense and enervating and GOOD, each half hour like a film.
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First review of new Doctor Who here! Jodie Whittaker sounds great and this is interesting on how it's upped its game visually
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“I mean, he’s not a total dipstick.” I went quite deep on the creation of Wambsgans with Matthew Macfadyen,
@jessearmstrong1
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@georgiapudding
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#Succession
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"I want to make the most ambitious artworks in the world." Exclusive interview with Alex Chinneck - the man behind the floating building, melting house and so on on his massive new project. Amazing pics
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At least we definitely know who is going to play Ranieri in the film
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The lads in Houghton & Sunderland would have counted these votes half an hour ago
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Oh my god this is very exciting
Gavin & Stacey is to return for a new special!!!
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I am completely obsessed with this and have watched it at least 20 times today and am going to watch it again now
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"I found myself thinking of him in Chernobyl today. Someone as nice as Paul playing someone as unpleasant as Dyatlov barely seems possible, but he was devastating. Even in a show that good, he shone brightest." A tribute to Paul Ritter by
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This is a fun game. Guess the John Lewis advert cover version. I'm going Sampha does The Darkness "I believe in a thing called love". Really slowly, obviously
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Try & predict the combination of female vocalist & re-worked 80s pop classic: I'm going Emeli Sande and A Good Heart by Feargal Sharkey
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It’s been two days and I’m still thinking about IDS and Rees Mogg roaring up the drive to Chequers dressed like Biggles and Gussie Fink-Nottle
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Noel Fielding is just so great on
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Just watched for 50,000th time and in hysterics once again
I could watch the Reece ‘Here Comes the Hotstepper’ Shearsmith outtakes from Car Share forever.
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Very excited to start work
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My favourite kind of Instagram bar absolutely none is Love Island Contestants Being Glamorous in Mundane/ Drab Surroundings
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'I don't want to be this vegan guy who's talking openly about mental health. I don't want to be that box-ticker. But I might as well be honest.'
I talked to the excellent
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Andrea Leadsom's stake in the future of this country is so gigantic, she's standing down after one interview didn't go the way she planned.
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Two years ago my apple tree was TRAGICALLY killed in a storm. Now look at the old girl (
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The thought of Gordon Brown shouting "That is the beef!" down the phone really makes me happy. (From Ed Balls' book)
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Olivia Colman, Andrew Scott and Phoebe Waller-Bridge are our real Crown Jewels and we must treasure them
#Fleabag
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Gregg: you want me to sprinkle some olive oil and salt over this ice cream?
<Gregg sprinkles some olive oil and salt over the ice cream then eats the ice cream with olive oil and salt>
Gregg: what you get is the creamy ice cream, with the olive oil and then the salt
#MasterChef
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