Rupert Hawksley
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Opinion editor @theipaper . Previously The Independent, The National and The Telegraph
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“I don’t sleep. I have what I like to call a mini-death every 24 hours”
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“Mate, you really need to apologise to Buckingham Palace” is the hungover text we all fear
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London to Taunton. Nearly £200 with a railcard. £300 without. We are not a serious country
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Trainline here channelling my Dad after I applied to Birmingham University
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@EJ_McGuinness
Correct on (a) and (b) but do you honestly think that’s a reasonable price for an open return on the same day? London to Taunton…
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Really, really excited to announce that I'll be joining
@theipaper
as Opinion editor in March. Can't wait to get started on such a brilliant desk 🔜🗞️
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Written by
@IanDunt
on 3 June: We are watching the slow, painful death of the Conservative Party. Don't forget to enjoy it
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34 and Mum checking to make sure I look smart on Christmas Day 😩
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'A Labour-led government is now the most likely outcome of the next general election' Peter Mandelson writes for
@theipaper
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Argument with Dad about electronic music.
Him: “It’s just pressing buttons, though, isn’t it.”
Me: “What, like the piano?”
Haven’t seen him since. Done over. Languishing upstairs somewhere.
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I once took the only copy of Fire and Fury from the Telegraph day before publication, happily reading in bed when editor messaged whole team asking where the hell it was 😎
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Some personal (professional?) news: thrilled to be joining
@Independent
later this month as senior commissioning editor on
@IndyVoices
Fully excited and cannot wait to get started 🗨️🗨️🗨️
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The brilliant
@IanDunt
writes: 'Johnson was committing contempt by lying about the contempt he had committed against a committee inquiring into his original act of contempt'
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A few weeks ago, we launched a short series for
@theipaper
, asking writers to reflect on the books they return to most often. I have been completely floored by the writing, ideas, sadness, humour and joy. Here is a thread of all the pieces. Happy reading in 2023 🧵
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'Welcome to day one of the post-Truss era. But no time for celebration. Some other fucking awful thing is already happening' – snorted at this opening line from
@IanDunt
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Very open to pitches for
@theipaper
opinion desk. Do email me rupert.hawksley
@inews
.co.uk with your ideas
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Fairly confident this opening par by
@tompeck
on Desmond Swayne's 'contribution' this afternoon will cheer you up
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Me checking to see if the editor has started on a shared Google doc
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This line from
@tompeck
on Owen Paterson mess is unimprovable: 'There is no other way to put it than to state the ineluctable fact that you can put your pants in the wash but you can’t unshit yourself'
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Big fan of this headline. Cressida Dick says Cressida Dick should not have gone
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This is not really an article about Dolly Alderton and Ghosts, even if it looks a bit like it is
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'If they had any decency about them, they would acknowledge the distance between their previous promises and their current excuses' –
@IanDunt
on this thing called Brexit
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'As we reach the fag end of Conservative government, there’s an ever-more frenzied search for excuses' –
@IanDunt
here in charitable mood
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A fish rots from the head and the Tory party has all but decomposed -
@IanDunt
on another appalling week in Westminster
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Even Brexiteers are now looking longingly at Europe. Isn’t it glorious?
@IanDunt
charged up (on USB-C charger, obviously)
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'To say it was aimed at the lowest common denominator is an insult to fractions' –
@IanDunt
on the election debate is a cracker
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Time for some new words
@IanDunt
: If Liz Truss becomes Prime Minister, we will have to invent new words to describe the scale of her failures
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'Once it is passed, the Government will face a nightmare of its own making' –
@IanDunt
on the Illegal Migration Bill, which has somehow made Theresa May look moderate on immigration
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News from Tate: 'In response to the current situation, Tate Britain announced today that it will be awarding one-off bursaries of £10,000 to 10 artists in place of this year’s Turner Prize.' << Nice one,
@Tate
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Very excited to say that I am starting as acting deputy Arts editor
@theipaper
next week, working with the brilliant
@carsonsarah
. Can't wait to get going.
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Just in case me looking and sounding like a teenager is your thing
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Interesting stuff from
@_SeanOGrady
, digging into why former newspaper editors like
@piersmorgan
make the best TV interviewers
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Delighted to have
@ionewells
, who broke the story that the PM *did* know about "specific allegations" re Pincher, write for
@theipaper
about how this extraordinary week unfolded
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If you're just catching up with it all, you can't do better than this from
@IanDunt
's newsletter: 'Good afternoon and holy shit look at that, Labour just took Westminster Council'
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Spent the morning thinking about Rachel Johnson's defence of her brother, namely that he won't have partied because he prefers reciting poetry. It took a bit of unpicking
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Predictably,
@IanDunt
nails it: 'You can make your own choices about how to live life. It is not the state’s job to do so for you'
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I’ve seen some bad best man speeches in my time but this is definitely up there
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That's me done at
@theipaper
Been a fab year with a cracking team, who I think are producing some of the best Arts stuff out there. So many people involved but huge props to
@carsonsarah
,
@emilyrbakes
and
@RobEpstein01
and thank you for taking me on!
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.
@IanDunt
's newsletter is one of the week's great joys. Today he thinks about the Tories' hangover: 'The pain hasn’t hit yet, but they just got that first stabbing jolt in their temple, and, with it, the knowledge that it’s going to be a horrible day'
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Very good Sunday analysis by
@katyballs
: 'So many MPs believe that they have been promised promotion that it will be hard to shake up his team without triggering a backlash'
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Here are the two leads of Jinn living their best life. Nicely done, Salma Malhas and Hamzeh Okab
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'Spanking as a Platonic form: pure and untainted by human imperfection' –
@IanDunt
on a night when the Tories' backsides were left red raw by voters
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@IanDunt
It seems to me quite obvious that if you’re going to get people to move from the news channels they’ve always watched, you have to offer something... better? But what do I know!
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“Life is too short” to finish bad books... say the people scrolling through Twitter
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown argues that Meghan and Harry's brief return to the UK will confirm that they did absolutely the right thing by leaving
@y_alibhai
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Excellent column by
@KateMaltby
which asks difficult questions of those prominent British journalists who have been more than happy to entertain Orban over the years
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If you want to understand how wrong-headed this laughing gas ban is, you really need to read this by
@IanDunt
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Our very own
@y_alibhai
was at the heart of the Question Time furore last week. Here she explains why Fiona Bruce was right to step in and why it's so sad the host has been forced to step back from Refuge
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After two 15 minute episodes of ‘Staged’, I seem to have declared it better than the long-running, BAFTA-winning ‘The Trip’. I’m afraid I’ll be taking no further questions. Review for
@theipaper
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.
@Aiannucci
writes an open letter to
@RishiSunak
– a penny for your thoughts, Prime Minister
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Tbf to her she’s played an absolute blinder here
Been dropping hints about a Soda Stream since October but the latest conversation with my mother suggests they have all gone totally unheeded. “Where would I even get one?” Very sad day.
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Yesterday was my last day at The Independent, a newsroom full of funny, smart, brilliant people, all of whom I'll miss terribly. Thank you to each and every one. I used my final newsletter to make a series of iffy jokes, which the readers, on the other hand, will not miss
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A huge amount of work went into the Christmas Day edition, and it’s really, really good, so do give it a read. Featuring Brexit analysis and comment by
@JohnRentoul
@tompeck
@AllieRenison
@campbellclaret
and many others
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We've been so looking forward to running this excellent piece by
@KatyaTaylor
about the rise and rise of
@FitzcarraldoEds
It sometimes feels as if everything I want to read is being published in blue and white. This is how it all happened:
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So can you actually become Met Commissioner without being in the police? Sounds like one for George Osborne
Are *you* looking for a new career? "Former Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson has said the force should be 'casting the net as wide as possible' ... He added that included anyone who was eligible to apply, even from outside policing"
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Such good stuff from
@gregjames
on the dangers of oversharing our darkest and most personal thoughts all over the internet. Ask yourself, why am I doing this?
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Leaving The Telegraph today with 27,003 unread emails. God bless you all.
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Spare
You’ve just won £1m. What are you still not buying?
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I'm not quite sure how he's managed it but
@tompeck
has written nearly 2,000 words on dahlias and every one is a joy
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So it turns out that Normal People is very, very good. And it was a right joy to speak
@mescal_paul
about playing Connell. Have a read
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Been dropping hints about a Soda Stream since October but the latest conversation with my mother suggests they have all gone totally unheeded. “Where would I even get one?” Very sad day.
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Glamorgan need 282 with one session to go on day four and 6 wickets in hand
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Good times with Orhan Pamuk this afternoon recording a new episode of Books of My Life for
@TheNationalUAE
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'When you peer past the daily scandals, you find an executive that is entirely empty, a kind of legislative black hole' –
@IanDunt
on terrific form
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If you’re a pensioner who happens to take magic mushrooms, I want to hear from you rupert.hawksley
@inews
.co.uk
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Into my third week of living alone in isolation and have taken to shouting "SERVICE" every time I put food on a plate. Right little buzz.
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This is actually a superb piece about Andrew Tate but I just think the intro, on something else entirely, is wonderful
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Really excited about a Christmas series we are launching today: The book I read every Christmas. Some fantastic writers have contributed. First up,
@IanDunt
on, er... Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Will be throwing a small garden party for ~100 people in the fullness of time. Bring your own booze!
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Sometimes still think about the time I went to a gallery press view, the PR asked me my name and where I was from and I said 'Wiltshire'.
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Oh this is so joyous and brilliant by
@gregjames
on how he effectively broke Radio 1 (for 5 minutes)
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We ran an interview this year with Neil Buchanan, which I've been combing for clues in light of Banksy rumours. Would like to draw your attention to this quote: "We all draw crap but we think it’s brilliant – and that’s the key." Yep, we've found our man
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More than happy to reserve some space on a wall outside a pub tbf
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Day after day, another of these little fellas comes to the office with me and day after day, that is where they stay
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After nearly two years and endless givings up and restarts, have just finished a 1200 page novel and waaaah am buzzing
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Worth noting that
@k8_lister
wrote this... 931 days ago for
@theipaper
. At last, the world is ready for it
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Steve Baker looks like he absolutely loves a bit of MotoGP on a Saturday
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When
@IanDunt
steams in, bends his back and bowls it short and quick, he's pretty much unplayable. On strike this week is Suella Braverman
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The brilliant
@Nick_Duerden
spoke to
@i_am_mill_i_am
about what – and how – to read during these strange times and it is bloody excellent
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'Sunbaked, stewed in alcohol, and wonderfully gossipy' – have been longing to read
@PollySamson
's 'A Theatre for Dreamers', even more so after
@Nick_Duerden
's fabulous review
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