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History Correspondent and Deputy Diary Editor for The Times
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Finished Andor and am now bereft

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

A bunch of my school friends become parents at the same time as us. One of their sons got measles in the outbreak last year and I have rarely been angrier at people.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Currently on a well-earned and lovely holiday

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On holiday and Sky won’t let me watch cricket clips. Anyone know who holds the County Championship rights in Greece?

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It’s got to the point with big shows like Andor that if you have a job or a family or both and don’t have time to binge episodes in a night… then you kind of need to stay off the internet entirely until you catch up.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Insane University Challenge final. The intermittent curse of the cult hero strikes again

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Fellow Anglicans, how many of us have looked at the events in Rome this week and yearned for an institution which is in touch with and unashamed of its traditions? To see rituals which are timeless still move and enthral people - there is a lesson to be learnt

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Where is Where Eagles Dare? The podcast @warmovietheatre.bsky.social has commissioned a poll of the nation’s favourite WW2 films And the results show that we want reality, not Richard Burton on a cable car But which film came top? www.thetimes.com/article/a4bc...

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Where is Where Eagles Dare? The podcast @warmovietheatre.bsky.social has commissioned a poll of the nation’s favourite WW2 films And the results show that we want reality, not Richard Burton on a cable car But which film came top? www.thetimes.com/article/a4bc...

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In The Times Diary, Keir Starmer wanted to shout about his US trade deal from the rooftops… Trouble was, he sent Chris Mason and co to the wrong place Journalists given wrong steer about Keir Starmer’s tariff briefing www.thetimes.com/article/a863...

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For no particular reason, the change from a Franciscan to an Augustinian Pope has reminded me of the line in Frasier when Niles stands in for him in his show. “While Frasier is a Freudian, I am a Jungian - so there’ll be no blaming mother today”. #leoxiv

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In The Times Diary, Keir Starmer wanted to shout about his US trade deal from the rooftops… Trouble was, he sent Chris Mason and co to the wrong place Journalists given wrong steer about Keir Starmer’s tariff briefing www.thetimes.com/article/a863...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Thank you for all the kind words on this today. It has been a lot of work but the reaction has been wonderful. Thanks to all the team at The Times who made it happen - pictures, archive, digital, production and graphics!

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Pope Leo XIV!

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Now it’s the once in a decade time to shine for the Latin simultaneous translators

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Habemus Papam!

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Fascinating thread

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Meanwhile, I might have had fun in today’s @TimesDiary Ralph Fiennes’s Conclave offers divine guidance www.thetimes.com/article/7657...

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80 years ago today, it was the morning after the night before and the people of Britain and Europe were waking up to Victory in Europe day. Here is our coverage of that day in real time www.thetimes.com/article/ac4b... #veday80

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This is how our VE Day Live Blog closed last night - it will resume at 7am #veday80

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Today and tomorrow, The Times will be telling the story of VE Day as it happened in a Live Blog format. Here is today’s blog which will cover the day the news of the surrender broke. VE Day as it happened: how the European war ended in real time www.thetimes.com/article/dad3...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments