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Etan Smallman
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'The so-called journalist' (Raymond Briggs)
'Gripping stories' (@UKWritingAwards)
Freelance: @nytimes @theipaper @Telegraph @Guardian @DailyMail @latimes @FT
- Harry said his family "literally cut me off financially". Prince Harry is literally 36 years old.
- I just asked a Bavarian what Germans make of Brexit. "We think you're fucked."
- Man who used speech is arrested. Man who used physical violence is not.
- I love how meritocratic and open British radio is. Right now, you can listen to Martin Kemp's son on Capital, Johnny Ball's daughter on Radio 2 and Chris Tarrant's son on Radio X 📻
- Anyone sick of hearing about Phillip Schofield should tune into #ThisMorning. It's the only place in Britain where you won't hear a word about it
- Spoke to a privately-educated sixth-former today, who said he has been having full-time Zoom lessons since start of lockdown. A state-school teacher friend of mine says his kids get a phone call once a fortnight. The impact on social mobility is going to be devastating.
- They should put this in the National Gallery. A #bbcqt audience member originally from Congo cites conflict between Rwanda and DRC and asks if UK would send refugee from DRC to... Rwanda. A confused Chris Philp: "Well, Rwanda is a different country from Congo, isn't it?"
- Tomorrow, there is a rally for the abducted men, women and children of October 7. There won't be masked men with genocidal chants and placards. There won't be 100,000 people. There will be Jews standing almost entirely alone, apart from the masses of security they need to do so
- The first time you will hear someone thanking @piersmorgan and @mrjamesob in the same breath. What strange times we live in
- Evanna Lynch joined chorus of Harry Potter stars condemning @jk_rowling over gender debate. Now she's the first to think again. "I didn’t even know there were two sides,” she tells me in @Telegraph. "I’m a bit braver now about uncomfortable conversations"
- This is heartbreakingly apt. Paddington author Michael Bond told me shortly before his death that he had been inspired to create his refugee bear by watching WWII newsreels showing the "terribly sad" scenes of "people pushing a pram with all their belongings down a country road"Confirmed. Volodymyr Zelensky is the Ukrainian voice of Paddington Bear.
