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Woohoo! Beautiful small book, much cheapness, please buy.
Paperback copies of The Haunted Wood by @questingvole have just arrived in the office!!
Out on 4h September!
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Sam Leith π
@questingvole
@spectator lit ed. My new book The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading is now out in paperback: bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
Joined March 2009
- My word of the year is Finnish. KalsarikΓ€nnit: "To get drunk at home in your underwear, with no intention of doing anything else."
- Fine work from an old friend: A Classics professor goes into a tailor's to have his trousers repaired. "Euripides?" asks the tailor "Yes, Eumenides?" replies the prof.
- It does seem a bit odd that parliamentary etiquette means you canβt accuse another MP of lying in the House; but parliamentary privilege means the House is the one place you can actually lie about another MP.
- This all makes me think, more than I even suspected, that those of us who look at the world through Twitter have very little idea indeed of how how narrow and partial a view weβre getting.
- Why in heaven's name does anyone think an extension of A50 won't just leave us in exactly the same place a month or two down the road? If we can't pass a deal (we can't) and we don't want to crash out (we don't) the only sane way to resolve this is to revoke, isn't it?
- This is remarkable piece of journalismTHREAD In July 2018, a horrifying video began to circulate on social media. 2 women & 2 young children are led away by a group of soldiers. They are blindfolded, forced to the ground, and shot 22 times. #BBCAfricaEye investigated this atrocity. This is what we found...
- This short video of Bjork explaining how a television works is exactly what the world needs
- This refurb row seems to me indicative of something particular about Borisβs character. Not sleaze etc etc, but tightfistedness. Most of us canβt find Β£58,000. After years of that DT column, he probably can, but risks his career to avoid it. (Contβd)
- My six year old son decided at lunchtime he wanted to marry our family sized pot of Marmite and now weβre having a ceremony. Heβs wearing a tie and the Marmite is, well
- I like the image of firing Matt Hancock 15 or 20 times. Like, fire him and rehire him just so you have the pleasure of firing him over and over again.
- Just remembered the joy of Prince Philipβs encounters with Gyles Brandreth
- Was happy to lend my name to the Sunday Times letter in solidarity with JK Rowling over the online abuse she has received. google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailβ¦
