Raise a glass to @bowelbabe - the most inspirational mother and campaigner I’ve ever interviewed. We’re going to miss you so much Deborah❤️ You’ve shown us how to live.
bit.ly/3FDfDqp
Alice Thomson
2,037 posts
Alice Thomson
@aliceTTimes
Columnist/Interviewer on The Times. Presenter with @RSylvesterTimes of podcast Past Imperfect. Author: The Singing Line/ What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Young
Joined July 2012
- Imagine @AngelaRayner sprawling over the green benches, one leg dangling provocatively. Of course you can’t but @Jacob_Rees_Mogg didn’t think twice about doing that. My piece on Westminster’s sexism crisis. bit.ly/3LisqAJ
- Nazanin doesn’t owe us gratitude, and Britain shouldn’t be expecting it from Ukrainians either. My column on why we shouldn’t ask for thanks for doing the right thing, and Boris doesn’t need a grandstanding visit to Kyiv. bit.ly/3D2B4A5
- He dropped out of school at 15 to live off grid with no shoes. Now he's funding Labour and Just Stop Oil, having set up the UK's first green energy company. My interview with @DaleVince bit.ly/43wu2Qa
- In August, 43 per cent of adults in rural areas told YouGov that they backed the Tories with 24 per cent for Labour. This week the Tories are on 28 per cent; Labour 41 per cent. My column on how and why rural England has deserted the Conservatives. bit.ly/3Cw70yb
- ‘It feels as if we have unleashed something. The UK is in trouble here is a new party’. @RSylvesterTimes and I talk to @heidiallen75 on recruiting for the Tiggers.
- In our poll of readers, 99 per cent of those reading my column about the future of the Lords think that we should overhaul the truly disgraceful process. This isn’t a surprise. It’s a national scandal.
- Secateurs are being sharpened for Chelsea. My interview with @TheMontyDon on fake grass, wilded gardens, and beavers. bit.ly/438faHi
- 'What infuriates me most is the middle-class drug users who have Fairtrade coffee and condemn sweatshop clothes ... and then take recreational drugs' says chief constable of Hampshire, interviewed by @RSylvesterTimes and I in our #lostchildren series. bit.ly/2Mmn6gV
- Britain needs its farmers more than ever. My column on why #Covid_19 is a reminder that food security still matters. bit.ly/3csZbdB
- Boris has made us look like idiots. Politicians shouldn’t make rules they aren’t going to follow. My column. bit.ly/3rUtthK
- ‘If you waver and dawdle the rest of the world doesn’t wait with you, other countries have more commitment and drive.’ My interview with @TomTugendhat on Britain’s new Suez. bit.ly/2WTzJuw
- “I can smell their fear. My PTSD has resurfaced, Then I wake and realise I am in Chester.” @DrWaheedArian talks to me about Afghanistan past and present. bit.ly/2UE4l2e
- Children need school, not zoos, shopping and takeaways. My column on why all pupils must go back soon. bit.ly/3hwAn77