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Barbara is coming … and here’s the cover. Out September from @HodderBooks but available for preorder now. Best consumed with a massive box of chocolates. amazon.co.uk/Barbara-Cartla…
Matthew Sweet
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Matthew Sweet
@DrMatthewSweet
Public Humanities Fellow, School of Advanced Study @UoLondon; FRHistS; @BBCFreethinking; Bookish; Barbara Cartland's biographer.
- Lost my wing man today. Goodbye Tom. A good boy until the end.
- Elon Musk is like a Scooby Doo villain who dresses up as a ghost to scare everyone away from the theme park but forgets that his business is theme parks
- Hi Laurence. Thanks for the offer. I think the editorial standards at @GBNews are so low that appearing on it is a threat to a person’s reputation. No serious person should go near it. It’s like being asked to debate on the pages of Sunday Sport or Razzle.Would you like to come on my show on Friday for an interview? It would be interesting to listen to your thoughts in longer form conversation.
- ATTENTION ALL WOMEN: If you are working class and get one of the most important jobs in the country, do not mark the occasion by spending your money on clothes.
- Hi Katharine I think you’ve misunderstood this article. It’s a history MA. This is one of the liveliest and richest areas of scholarship right now. It’s really impossible to understand large swathes of our past, some of it quite recent, without and understanding of the occult.We have moved beyond the realms of lunacy. 😳😳😱
Readers added contextThis is not a degree in performing magic, but rather a degree studying "the history and impact of witchcraft and magic around the world on society and science". bbc.com/news/uk-englan… - My choice for BBC chair. Independent, trustworthy, unimpeachable, actually knows about television.
- Do doctors still ask people who've had a knock on the head to name the Prime Minister?
- She’s gone. Olivia de Havilland has gone. Showing, to the very end, the grit with which she took on the Hollywood studio system and won. I had one of the most perfect days of my life in her company. Sitting on that chaise, eating macaroons and gossiping about Errol Flynn.
- This will be quite hard as Britain is not a member of the WEF.
- Shout out to the two white haired ladies on Sydenham high street who found themselves in the path of eight pavement-filling male joggers and yelled: go and do that in the park, shitheads!
- What I'd like to read: a story about owners of Kensington & Chelsea's 1,399 unoccupied homes lending their keys to #GrenfellTower survivors.
- Every time I hear the story of the wrongly convicted post office workers my blood boils. For the individual cases, and for what it says more broadly about the culture of management.
- I prefer “earned” .Record numbers of state school pupils given Oxford places theguardian.com/education/2020…
