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Alex von Tunzelmann

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Historian, screenwriter, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES on BBC Radio 4. PAPER CUTS wherever you get podcasts. Be excellent to each other and party on.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 3 hr
Allons, enfants de la patrie! Le jour de gloire est arrivé!
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 6 hr
Not the economist is just really whiffing with its covers recently, isn’t it
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It held
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 6 hr
a;sdfkasdf;af lmfaoooooooooo yes i love it cry harder
Avatar Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 7 hr
Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.
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Velodus @velodus.bsky.social · 7 hr
When the France election results are good
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Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social · 6 hr
The UK and France just proved that getting out and actually voting makes a difference. Don’t let anyone ever tell you differently.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 6 hr
If the exit polls hold, Marine Le Pen won't last the summer as leader of the RN.
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 7 hr
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 7 hr
I cry every time I watch this scene and right now I’m sobbing. Aux armes, citoyens! 😭
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La Marseillaise Casablancawww.youtube.com YouTube video by Andrew Barbin
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 7 hr
The sun has just come out in the East End of London. Burning through the expected gloom. I’m almost hysterical. VIVE LA FRANCE 🇫🇷
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 7 hr
Oh my GOD FRANCE you BEAUTIES
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Jon Lewis @jonlewis.bsky.social · 7 hr
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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 8 hr
Great thread on crime & punishment:
Avatar Sean Jones @seanjones.org · 9 hr
Listening to James Timpson's interview, it is clear that he would like to see a sea-change in sentencing policy. That will not be his remit, but if the new PM supports such a change, I think it would have very significant ramifications for our political culture. Let me explain. /1
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.bsky.social · 11 hr
Look I Know Miss J.D. Ferguson Said This Pot Was Used By Bonnie Prince Charlie But As A Local Historian I Have Standards You Know.
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Kim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @easybakedoven.bsky.social · 16 hr
I just read an article that said "Why is it taking so long for your favorite movies and tv series to air? Blame the writers and actor strikes" No I won't. I'm blaming that ✨single✨ motherfucker at the studio who makes $250 million dollars a year who's one job is supposed to make this shit happen.
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Sir Keir Starmest @robbarbour.bsky.social · 15 hr
The Telegraph wants you to feel sorry for a retired couple who made a £1.3 million profit on a £300,000 home.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · a day
Well this is grim
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The Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · a day
Like Sophocles
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2 days
This piece in the Telegraph is pretty wacky - I’m not sure that four independent single-issue MPs plus Jeremy Corbyn constitute a party - but the victories for pro-Palestine candidates, plus some very near misses, do seem significant to me. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Pro-Palestinian MPs become ‘sixth largest’ party in shock Labour defeatswww.telegraph.co.uk Five independent candidates elected as Muslim Vote organisation boasts ‘unprecedented’ influence on Friday’s result
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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 2 days
People often ask me - "have you got that picture of Cary Grant in uniform with a puppy poking out of the pocket?" Yes, they do. They rush up to me in the streets, it's true. Well, yes. Yes, I do. And here it is.
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 2 days
“He became frustrated: having excelled at everything all his life, why did the public not appreciate that he was excelling at being prime minister?” @henrymance.bsky.social on the rise and fall of ‘snippy Sunak’:
‘Ineffectual’ and ‘snippy’: the rapid rise and stunning fall of Rishi Sunakon.ft.com The Icarus-like former PM took his party to what is projected to be its worst defeat in history
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2 days
Seen some kick off about this because they’ve decided it’s telling them they must use titles. By all means drop Sir & call him Starmer: most UK papers do. But if you’re offering your opinion on UK politics & call him “Prime Minister Starmer”, it sounds like you don’t know much about UK politics 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2 days
I’m pedantic by nature, but social media has pretty much cured me. It’s just so irritating watching people smugly nitpick stuff like this when the meaning is perfectly clear.
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Someday I’ll learn to never use the word “unbelievable” to convey hyperbole on the Internet, because it ALWAYS results in a ton of replies from people who feel an intense need to tell me that “well actually, it IS Believable.”
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.bsky.social · 2 days
hmmm
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Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 3 days
Yup. There were a lot of overseas right-wing ghouls hanging around Clacton last night. If the unusual structural corporate arrangements of Reform and a ready supply of external money doesn’t demand some kind of attention, I’m not sure what does. Even the Tories might want a bit of oversight here
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2 days
I have plenty of complaints about our political & electoral system in the UK, but this part I really like. Sunak moves out of No 10 today. Starmer moves straight in. Absolutely merciless. No messing around. No time to hide packets of prawns under the floorboards. amp.theguardian.com/politics/art...
Running the country while choosing the curtains: how new PMs move in to No 10 | General election 2024 | The Guardianamp.theguardian.com Compared with other countries, the speed at which Downing Street changes hands is unusual – and can be brutal
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 3 days
Some initial thoughts on the UK elections. 1. It confirms once again that when a center-right party veers to the hard right to weaken the far right, it ends up doing the opposite. After purging moderates and going full-on wingnuts and fever swamp, the Tories got decimated by Reform, not Labour. 🧵
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Blair Bidmead @blairbidmead.bsky.social · 3 days
Jonathan Gullis is at home, right now, angrily eating a candle he stole from the church hall, and crying.
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 3 days
George Galloway *losing* his seat in an election where a bunch of single-issue pro-Palestine Independents were elected is really, really funny
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3 days
I feel like the level of ritual humiliation they have to go through is both correct and also can only come from a nation that has a 1,500 year history of jesters throwing pies at the nations biggest nerd
Avatar lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 3 days
jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava
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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 3 days
Re-record not fade away. Re-record not fade away.