Columnist & interviewer, The Times. Orwell Prize for Journalism. Trustee of @AldeburghCinema.
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Plus her Japanese translator would have to be murdered, her Italian translator stabbed and her Norwegian publisher shot.
If Salman Rushdie’s fatwa happened today, how many of these signatories would sign a letter supporting him? Most would be too afraid, many would think he deserved it. I doubt Rooney herself would support him.
The comparison is fatuous and disgraceful.
If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was still possible – you’d know they sit in the fiction stacks adjacent to the novels of another SR whose books have been withdrawn in dastardly political circumstances. Until last week, “Rooney” and “Rushdie” had little in common beyond being shelfmates; now they have more than just a physical proximity.
@tanjil_rashid_: This is censorship by other means newstatesman.com/comment/202…
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‘Martyn’s Law’ burdens every venue that can hold more than 200 with complicated, costly rules offering scant protection thetimes.com/comment/columni…
Do village halls really need an anti-terror plan? My @thetimes column on the thicket of red tape, huge expense & false solutions of Martyn’s Law, coming to cancel your fireworks display or Christmas market soon.
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Neither Israel nor Cable Street… what do Greens & other Palestine flag-wavers want from British Jews? My @thetimes column
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Lord Archer called me “the most disgraceful journalist I’ve ever met.” When I met Jeffrey for @thetimes
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Judge celebrated people on how they treat those who have no power over them. From a @thetimes reader.
I wish my local Green/LibDem council was just issuing statements on housing or bins. Not having to reassure frightened Jewish residents.
“We only ban a march when its opponents will be violent.
We know Jews won’t kick off, so they have to tolerate a celebration of a recent Jewish massacre.”
Violent bullies always win.
What a way to police a city.
"Just ban it"
That was a common response to us urging students not to hold a pro-Palestine protest on Oct 7.
We can't ban protests & can only ask the Home Sec to do so if the risk of serious disorder is so high that it can’t be managed by conditions.
That's not the case here.
ALT An infographic setting out the powers available to the police under sections 12, 13 and 14 of the Public Order Act.
Reform didn’t need to go to Nigeria: they could have asked me. The story about Kemi Badenoch & chess comes from my February 2024 @thetimes interview with her. Here is that section of the transcript.
Kemi Badenoch said she was Nigeria's national chess champion at age 7. So we sent a reporter to Nigeria to find out the truth.
She lied.
Here is everything else she has lied about:
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The actual interview transcript does not support Reform’s description of Badenoch’s claim. She said she won a national chess competition in Nigeria, then explained that “there were only two girls who entered”. She did not claim the overall Nigerian national championship title.
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The PM presents fixing social care as painful, courageous, a sticking plaster ripped off. Instead it should be sold as good news for everyone not just the old. My @thetimes column.
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I interviewed the @WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich about his 16 months in a Russian prison, a story of incredible resilence and self-discipline for @thetimes thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
And my column on the women of Piddington and how the easiest way to radicalise Middle England is to tell people to suppress their rational fears. @thetimes
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I interviewed Sharon Horgan for @thetimes about whether 60 is the end of your sexual shelf life and her fantastic new show Youth, her best (in my view) since Catastrophe.
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I interviewed Dr Xand van Tulleken for @thetimes – and then I threw away all my vitamins and snake-oil food supplements. thetimes.com/life-style/heal…
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"How can commercial surrogacy be illegal in Britain — as it is in France, Germany, Spain and Italy — yet we allow anyone, even sixtysomething single men who we’d never let adopt, travel abroad and buy a child in often dangerous and amoral jurisdictions?"
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Six times Janice Turner asked Southwark's deputy leader a yes/no question: should the women-only session at Camberwell baths stay single sex?
The EHRC code took effect on 5 Aug. As she says, some councils are in denial...
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