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I don’t think JD Vance intended to insult British troops. It’s just that if you turn abuse and condescension and giving offence into your highest political virtue it’s so easy to get careless.

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I walk past a primary school where brass band practice is underway. It sounds like a large pachyderm is being tormented.

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I’m sometimes in favour of fence-sitting. But there really has to be a fence to sit on.

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Onwards! Very much looking forward to this. Up for review on Thursday’s Front Row.

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Nigel Farage says on LBC that Elon Musk and Steve Bannon's Nazi salutes were "not really Nazi salutes" because "they were out to the side." On that basis we’ve obviously gravely misjudged Hitler and Goebbels then…

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The cherry on top — imagining for a moment that any of this is salvageable — would be that Starmer and Macron get the Nobel Peace Prize Trump is gagging for. That would be richly comical.

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Very well, with the rest of Europe (except Hungary obviously)

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In happier news (I know it’s not news to most) this is SO enjoyable. Smart, funny, thought provoking and touching. Looking forward to talking to her on Start the Week on Monday. Also time travelling with the Great Auk and Zombie ponds.

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I want Peter Morgan to rush-write a screenplay in which a British monarch makes it known that they will NOT receive a powerful but unusually odious foreign leader during a significant state visit. I think that would be a really interesting backroom drama. You could call it “Sovereignty”.

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Winston Churchill visiting the WH in 1942. Not wearing a suit

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Paskudnik - Yiddish for a revolting evil cruel person.

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Can’t wait to see the Washington Post Op Ed page rip into Trump for selling freedom down the river… I know defending it is one of their things now.

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Few things quite as disgusting as those who bully the vulnerable and toady to the powerful. Imagine how Trump would be with Putin. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...

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We’re reviewing Leigh Bowery at Tate Modern on Front Row tonight. All dressed accordingly. Such a pity it’s only radio. I slaved for hours over my polka dot gimp mask. Join Ryan Gilbey, Charlotte Mullins and me at 7:15 on Radio Four

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@sathnam.bsky.social Too late?

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Where, presumably, they will be appointed Joint Secretaries of State for Women’s Affairs. news.sky.com/story/andrew...

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Has anybody ever counted the number of different wig disguises in The Americans? They’d need a warehouse wouldn’t they?

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Trump quote; fact

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I don’t think Jeff Bezos has been scared into turning the Washington Post into a propaganda sheet for laissez-faire capitalism. It was just that he was a bit nervous about doing it before Trump’s election. He’s been enabled, not intimidated.

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If you want a picture of the future, imagine Elon Musk eating hummus from a pita bowl — forever.

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Leigh Bowery’s New Year’s Resolutions 1980, the year he arrived in London.

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Went to the Leigh Bowery show at Tate Modern. Feeling a little underdressed.

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I suppose the Ukrainians will just have to ask themselves who’s more likely to stick to the terms of the agreement… www.politico.eu/article/crit...

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@sathnam.bsky.social Things have escalated….

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Just caught the last 40 minutes of The Godfather. Now that’s what I call an expanded universe.

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Bold marketing.

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Just seen a very plump rat being chased along the Parkland Walk by a terrier. Fortunately for the rat the terrier was even plumper.

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Catching up with Slow Horses, Season Two. I’m afraid to say I think most of them deserve to be in Slough House. Some absolutely elementary failures in tradecraft. I’d be reluctant to send some of these people to do the photocopying.

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I think he’s talking to straw men isn’t he?

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@moudhy.bsky.social This post was immediately below your last on my timeline

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Today’s news. A sinkhole basically. What we assumed to be solid ground vanishing from beneath our feet.

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I wonder how quickly President Bonespurs would have been on a plane out if an overwhelming military force was advancing on Washington?

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This extract from Simon Hart’s memoir of his time as Rishi’s chief whip is an absolute marmalade dropper. In fact you’ll be out of marmalade by the end…(Paywall) www.thetimes.com/article/e25f...

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