Writer. Books include The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa, The Perfectionists. And, published last April, and to generous reviews, KNOWING WHAT WE KNOW.
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Simon Winchester retweeted
4 Nov 2024
oh they ATE๐ญ
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27 Oct 2024
No politics whatsoever in this short talk I gave lately to the #AmericanPrecision #Museum in #Windsor, Vermont. It might offer you a little respite from all the sturm und drang going on outside - and the APM is a truly wonderful organisation. woa-tv.org/special-events/
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Simon Winchester retweeted
24 Sep 2023
๐Audience pick for Number One Video
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Simon Winchester retweeted
20 Oct 2024
This newly graduated girl shows all the love she has for her parents
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7 Oct 2024
This is for non-Americans. You may think the Presidential #Election is just between #Trump and #Harris. Not so fast. Look at the choices on our mail-in ballot, which Iโll fill in once Iโve tweeted this. Oliver and Ter Maat? Or Mr/Ms Ayyadurai? Nothing simple in these parts.
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5 Oct 2024
Busy day ahead. 1030am in Norfolk, CT, interviewing on stage the great publisher and author #MichaelKorda, then at 430pm in New Marlborough, MA, the equally distinguished Supreme Court writer #LindaGreenhouse. Then a promised good dinner. Late rising on Sunday, with any luck.
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Simon Winchester retweeted
8 Feb 2024
parrot disagrees with everything this lady says
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24 Sep 2024
So true.
23 Sep 2024
This is an incredible ad by The Lincoln Project narrated by Sam Elliott!
โItโs time to be a man and vote for a woman.โ
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Simon Winchester retweeted
21 Sep 2024
Watch Stephanie Ruhle stuff insufferable, undecided NY Times writer Bret Stephens into a fucking locker on Bill Maher's show.
This is EXCELLENT. ๐๐
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Simon Winchester retweeted
18 Sep 2024
A joke for language people ๐
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12 Sep 2024
My #Hangul is somewhat rusty, but this #Korean edition of my most recent book, just published in #Seoul looks elegant and tempting, so I wish it well in bookstores from #Jeju to the #DMZ, and everywhere in between.
12 Sep 2024
Great advertisements of your book, Knowing What We Know, showing up in Korea for the Korean language edition @simonwwriter
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Simon Winchester retweeted
20 Aug 2024
To mark the #DemocraticConvention #DNC2024 #DNC we've had fun adapting @Eddy_Grant's gloriously hopeful international anti-apartheid anthem from 1988.
So here's ๐ถ "Gimme Hope Kamala" - a parody twist about @KamalaHarris ๐ vs #DonaldTrump ๐ that pulls no punches.
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2 Aug 2024
She just nails it, my agnostic friends.
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24 Jul 2024
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies..." A sad day: two dear friends of many years died. Pip Rau - Londoners may recall her Islington shop Rau, selling Afghan treasures - & the formidable Lewis Lapham, late of #Harper's and LQ. When life looks briefly better, this...
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18 Jul 2024
It beggars belief that a person so entirely misguided and wanting in common sense as this person should have ever won prominence in US politics. She makes Marjorie Taylor Greene look like an intellectual. May Biden step down, a new candidate win, and sweep these ruffians away.
17 Jul 2024
This is how it's done. This should be required viewing for the American press -- who are still engaging in bothsidesism, balance over objectivity, and false equivalencies. This is how you conduct an interview with a serial lying sociopath like Kari Lake.
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Simon Winchester retweeted
17 Jul 2024
Opening day of zucchini season
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Simon Winchester retweeted
16 Jul 2024
ON JD VANCEโS WHOLE DEAL
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Simon Winchester retweeted
14 Jul 2024
Best take I've seen so far in regards to Trump's assination attempt.
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8 Jul 2024
Dear old Britain, I miss you so. But wait - did the train leave on time; did it arrive at all? Nationalise our trains! Restore British Railways! Then Iโll come home.
8 Jul 2024
This is rather wonderful. One of Wales's new MPs being sent to Westminster serenaded by a choir of supporters. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
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22 Jun 2024
If you have a spare few moments, you might care to dip into this chat I had with the great Phillip Adams, who retires in a very few days. He is one of Australia's deservedly best-beloved figures, and I am flattered that he included me on his final roster. abc.net.au/listen/programs/lโฆ
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