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Opinion former? Raconteur? Fashionista? Or just a plain old #TV #News #Editor at the #BBC? Thoughts my own, ideas definitely borrowed. Any views expressed...

London, England
Joined June 2012
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Helen McCrory styling out forgetting her glasses by presenting the Leading Actor category at the 2019 #BAFTATV awards in her sunnies! RIP to one of our best screen and stage talents.
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Every election is determined by the people who show up. 104-year-old Pauline Patton was born before women and Black people were guaranteed the right to VOTE. #USElection2024 #Kamala #Trump
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At last!! My Autobiography ‘Walking With Dignity’ is out 26 Sept. You can preorder on amzn.eu/d/cWyoDGT I hope you enjoy. Do spread the word #autobiography #mylife #actorslife #FamilyFirst
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“I want them to know it was me,” her mumbled words, almost lost in a sea of helium as the balloons descended from the heavens like a confetti-filled apocalypse, turning the arena into a colorful, chaotic circus. #DNC2024 #KamalaHarris #DNC2024CHICAGO
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Sunrise in Southport. A scene of devastation surrounding the mosque on St Luke’s Road after an angry mob attacked police last night. Bricks, bottles, fireworks sit alongside bits of a burnt out police vehicle - metal melted in the heat. @GMB
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I think in America they call this a vibe shift. New Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll for the US presidential election. Michigan 🟦 Harris +11 Wisconsin 🟦 Harris +2 Arizona 🟦 Harris +2 Nevada 🟦 Harris +2 Georgia 🟨 TIED North Carolina 🟥 Trump +2 #Kamala #Trump
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The row over Rwanda rumbles on…
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has claimed the Conservatives' Rwanda scheme cost taxpayers £700 million. But Shadow Home Secretary James Cleverly claims the figures are made up bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1rw…
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In 24 hours, Kamala Harris has had 44,000 black women & 20,000 black men join a Zoom call for her election, raised $81 million, seen 30,000 new volunteers sign up for her campaign & has arguably articulated the Democrat’s best attack line of election year Something is happening
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In the UK, we have an overwhelming love for our vegetables A turnip defined an England football manager A lettuce lasted longer than a prime minister And now an asparagus is predicting (possibly accurately) the next winner of the US presidential election #JoeBiden #KamalaHarris
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Here’s an ad from Kamala Harris' primary campaign 5 years ago if anyone was curious what a general election against Donald Trump would look like. #JoeBiden
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With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived.
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Jaws was released 49 years ago today. Regarded the first summer blockbuster & a landmark of Hollywood. One of the standout moments is the dolly zoom shot into Brody. Spielberg took it from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. It was created by Hitchcock’s camera operator, Irmin Roberts.
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Amadou Onana. Born in Senegal. Raised in Belgium. Fluent in five languages, English, French, Dutch, German and "Don't Mess with me and my South London accent". #EURO2024
Sensational change of aura from Amadou Onana here. He went from BBC Four to ITV2 in an instant
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Best game of the Euro’s so far, end to end! Football at it's most beautiful!! https://teapaw.org/t.co/0c8Y4yzOxH #Türkiye #Euro2024    #TURGEO
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Arsenal's Kevin Campbell along with Ian Wright were part of the new generation of Black footballers: “Being a footballer was a way out of Brixton, there was a lot of racism & police harassment going on & for someone who could play football, it was the only route I could see out”
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Fred Astaire called this the greatest movie musical sequence he had ever seen. Gregory Hines said if a biopic of the Nicholas Brothers was ever made, their dance routines would have to be computer-generated as no one alive could emulate them. Stormy Weather (1943)
What's the greatest dance sequence in a movie you've ever seen?
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Sometimes Twitter (not X) is just amazing!
Yes, her name is Nguyen Nguyen. My grade 6 classmate that sat in front of me. She never spoke to anyone. Not even the teacher. I mean, EVER. But she was brilliant & never needed help with anything. We would walk to school together, & even then—not a single word. Then one day…
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The Open University is offering to pay for the full tuition of 10 Black students to study with them under their special fund. The deadline is July 3rd 2024. If you know anyone who is interested 👇🏾 open.ac.uk/courses/fees-and-…
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Let's get it going, Guyana!🇬🇾🏏 #WIREADY #T20WorldCup
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Global tourism is booming. These people would rather it wasn’t bbc.in/4c2KyLN
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This morning's UK newspaper front pages react to Donald J Trump's historic conviction.
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