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Charlotte Edwardes
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Interviewer @gdnsaturday @guardian Previously @timesmagazine Author @BloomsburyBooks amazon.co.uk/Trouble-Was-Ch…
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    Charlotte Edwardes
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    May 27
    My debut novel Trouble Was will be published by @BloomsburyBooks on July 2nd. It's set in 1976, has heat, danger, feral kids and filthy old houses. Writers who I admire hugely have said lovely things about it. I hope you enjoy it. amazon.co.uk/Trouble-Was-Ch…
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    Charlotte Edwardes
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    Sep 29, 2019
    If the prime minister doesn’t recollect the incident then clearly I have a better memory than he does
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    Charlotte Edwardes
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    Sep 29, 2019
    I wrote about the time Boris Johnson squeezed my thigh over lunch - while doing the same thing to the woman sitting on his other side #DoubleThighSqueezer @TheSTStyle @thesundaytimes thetimes.co.uk/article/charlo…
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    Charlotte Edwardes
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    Oct 19, 2020
    A mark of how badly @BorisJohnson wanted Charles Moore to be BBC chairman is Downing St agreed that the salary for the post could rise from £100,000 to £280,000, to match what Moore is paid by @Telegraph - even though @DCMS pointed out that the government’s official...
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    Charlotte Edwardes
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    Mar 14, 2019
    Funny that Theresa May says of a second referendum, it would be “politicians telling people they got it wrong and to vote again”, but has no embarrassment at putting her deal to a vote again and again and again
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    Charlotte Edwardes
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    Oct 24, 2022
    I have been monitoring the below the line comments on The Spectator for a while – call it research – and noticed over past months an uptick in racist dog whistles 1/7
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    Charlotte Edwardes
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    Nov 9, 2016
    FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States theonion.com/r/35788 via @TheOnion
    R.A. Has Bad Feeling About Kid In Cloak
    From theonion.com
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    Charlotte Edwardes
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    Nov 7, 2020
    Whoa, the excitement at the BBC is off the charts as they announce Biden’s win
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    Charlotte Edwardes
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    Oct 24, 2022
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    We know what happened when antisemitism was rife in the Labour membership under Jeremy Corbyn. Will the current Chair of the Tory party investigate these members, perhaps with the co-operation of @FraserNelson, and have them booted out? 8/8
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    Charlotte Edwardes
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    May 15, 2023
    1/4 I came across my interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg on 11th Feb, 2016. We talked–inevitably– about Brexit, and within that about immigration and refugees. This quote was filed, but didn’t make the final edit. I thought it was interesting in light of the debate raging today:
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    Charlotte Edwardes
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    Oct 19, 2020
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    position is to reduce pay at the Beeb. Perhaps Moore’s decision to rule himself out has spared the PM’s blushes
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    Charlotte Edwardes
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    May 30, 2019
    I’ll see your field of wheat and raise you a field of poppies
    Rory Stewart admits smoking opium in Iran as he continues Tory leadership tour of Britain 
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Charlotte Edwardes
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    Sep 29, 2019
    The prime minister, me and his double thigh-squeeze: bit.ly/2lDaIS2
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    Charlotte Edwardes
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    Jun 22, 2024
    I interviewed Keir Starmer for today’s ⁦@GdnSaturday⁩
    ‘You asked me questions I’ve never asked myself’: Keir Starmer’s most personal interview yet
    From theguardian.com
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