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Today would have been the 90th birthday of my mother, Anthea Bell. She translated hundreds of great books. But the one at top left remains my favourite.
Oliver Kamm
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Oliver Kamm
@OliverKamm
Journalist, author & linguist. Rep’d by @JanklowUK
- She is absolutely right because her grammar is not “incorrect”. Her speech contains non-Standard constructions, and these are no less “proper English” than the PM’s dialect or mine. It’s an immense benefit to public life that she stands her ground n this.🗣️ Angela Rayner has revealed she refuses to allow Hansard to correct her grammar in Parliament in order to stay true to her working-class roots telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
- He attended Dulwich College - current day fees £10,206 a term, and boarding fees £21,422 a term. Yes, that’s per *term*.Labour are out of touch with working people.
00:00 - I realise I’m a bore on this subject but this channel holds a UK broadcast licence and is thus legally obliged to observe “due accuracy” and “due impartiality”. It obviously doesn’t and can’t, as it’s a crude rightwing propaganda outlet. So @Ofcom really must rescind its licence.'This is absolutely genius.' @BeverleyTurner has hailed Donald Trump's AI Gaza video as 'brilliant' as it 'will wind up all the right people'. 🔓 Become a GB News Member: gbnews.com/support
00:00 - It is not very sensible that the MPs concerned have fallen silent. When you mess up this badly, the apology needs to be abject & immediate.Health minister Nadine Dorries and two other Tory MPs share edited 'far-right' video smearing Keir Starmer independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
- I can recall when Conservative MPs closed ranks round Neil Hamilton to change the law to enable him to sue @guardian (it did not end well for him). Today’s events are far worse: a party tearing up the rule book to protect one of their own. Decent Tories are, I know, appalled.
- “You” and “I” are pronouns.Do YOU support @reformparty_uk to end Woke nonsense⁉️ I do. Start by banning pronouns in the public sector.
- No, Sadiq did exactly the right thing. London is a great cosmopolitan capital city and his message of openness is vital to its ethos and future.Sadiq Khan has dedicated the fireworks this evening to celebrating the capital's relationship with Europe. @ianpaynesport asks: has the Mayor of London politicised the New Years Eve celebrations?
- Elon Musk is a pernicious, ignorant & inflammatory conspiracy theorist who any decent social media platform would bar from posting, let alone owning.
- Anthea Bell OBE, Order of Merit of 🇩🇪, died this morning aged 82. She was a literary giant: among great C20th/C21st translators, whose work included Kafka, Sebald, Zweig, Freud, Willy Brandt, Simenon, Goscinny et al. @richkamm & I will miss our mother a lot. Cc @GermanEmbassy
- You just know he hasn’t done the research, has no idea what experts in language say, and is making a thinly veiled insinuation that foreigners are a problem. What a disgraceful man he is.'Too often there are parts of our country where English is not spoken by some people as their first language' thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/t…
- I recall Paddy Ashdown once describing John Major as a decent man at the head of a truly appalling party. You could say the same thing about Rishi Sunak, apart from the first bit.This is what we’re up against. The Labour Party, a subset of lawyers, criminal gangs - they're all on the same side, propping up a system of exploitation that profits from getting people to the UK illegally. I have a plan to stop it. Here’s how 🧵 dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
- If you have a record of taking large sums of money from Iran’s state propaganda apparatus and referring to Hamas and Hezbollah as “friends”, you inevitably lack credibility in criticising Trump’s reckless actions.
