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18 May 2023
I'm excited to share this edited extract from my forthcoming book, The Invention of Essex theguardian.com/environment/…
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30 Mar 2024
TODAY!
29 Mar 2024
Looking forward to talking Essex, myth, storytelling and, since we're in the Hopkins Zone, witches, with the brilliant @akblakemore tomorrow (Sat) at Manningtree Arts' Big Day Out, at 2pm. Free entry with an RSVP, details and rest of schedule here: manningtreearts.com/schedule…
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29 Mar 2024
Looking forward to talking Essex, myth, storytelling and, since we're in the Hopkins Zone, witches, with the brilliant @akblakemore tomorrow (Sat) at Manningtree Arts' Big Day Out, at 2pm. Free entry with an RSVP, details and rest of schedule here: manningtreearts.com/schedule…
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25 Mar 2024
I'm at @hartsbooks in Saffron Walden to talk about The Invention of Essex this evening, from 6.30. More info here: hartsbooks.co.uk/talks-and-e…
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Tim Burrows retweeted
6 Mar 2024
I asked colleagues about starvation in Gaza. They said there is no precedent for what is happening | Devi Sridhar theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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americans are so serious man, why is nobody fucking creasing there’s a man stuck in a vase for fuck sakes
4 Mar 2024
This geezer getting stuck in a vase at his brothers best friends wedding still kills me 😭
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Tim Burrows retweeted
27 Feb 2024
“I have never… seen a place… so bombarded for such a long time with such a trapped population without any escape. People are traumatized beyond belief.” Jan @NRC_Egeland of @NRC_Norway is in Gaza for the first time since Oct 7. “I’m pretty shaken, actually, from what I saw.”
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Tim Burrows retweeted
23 Feb 2024
This was a really sad story to report. How the education of Ukrainian school children is being hurt by the war.
Just under a million Ukrainian children are studying remotely and another million are doing a mixture of in-person and online classes because of air raid alarms.
23 Feb 2024
How Ukraine is trying to help its ‘lost generation’ ft.com/content/d9acb360-9416… via @IKoshiw
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Tim Burrows retweeted
25 Feb 2024
Watching mealy mouthed, lost, pathetic Tory politicians pandering to extremists by being weather vanes instead of being signposts and leading from the front is always a good reason to post this take down of Enoch Powell by the great late Jonathan Miller.
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25 Feb 2024
A lovely surprise of a review of TIOE by a Harlow-born Essex boy living in Basque country:
'This is a great and unexpectedly moving read which I insistently recommend to anyone wishing to learn, or perhaps just think, more about Essex...'
My review of The Invention Of Essex by @timburrows - app.thestorygraph.com/review…
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15 Feb 2024
🚨PUBLICATION DAY! Same dreamy cover. Easier to bend🚨
15 Feb 2024
Out in paperback today, #TheInventionOfEssex by @timburrows is the secret history of England's most notorious county.
'Exceptionally well-written and intelligent' Simon Heffer, Spectator
Shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Award 2023
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ALT Paperback cover of The Invention Of Essex, in front of a painted sky.
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12 Feb 2024
Boomers had Top of the Pops, whereas Gen Z has
12 Feb 2024
Revealed: the 1,200 big methane leaks from waste dumps trashing the planet dlvr.it/T2dY9L
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12 Feb 2024
Great summation, this: 'Gaza has become the expression of a legitimacy crisis for an Anglo-American political class who preside over already fragile systems that deliver less and less to their populations, and whose main offering is that the alternative is worse.'
12 Feb 2024
‘If liberalism shows no ability or desire to protect civilian life, regional security and even its own electoral prospects, then its mission-defining claims of principle and competence collapse.’ theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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8 Feb 2024
In this photograph Chris Evans and Laurence Fox have very strong 'German couple who have just checked into an AirB&B in Twickenham because they are going to see Depeche Mode but are 'first looking to have some of the famous British fish and chips!'' energy.
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9 Feb 2024
Flashback to that point in the interview where I have momentarily stopped listening to their previous answer and they are looking at me and I desperately make something up out of thin air
9 Feb 2024
Now Tucker is yet again trying to take Putin into one of his fantasy narratives - that he is a devout Christian leader. Putin shuts that down too. Unfortunately the real Putin in this interview isn’t matching up with Fantasy Putin that Tucker created on Fox.
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9 Feb 2024
Intense flashback to being hauled into the headmaster's office
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7 Feb 2024
“Normally in consultation, what happens is that people send me letters. But no one had been sending letters … Next thing we knew the building work started. They [his constituents] are furious.”
7 Feb 2024
Council consulted wrong homeowners before building 60ft warehouse on doorstep inews.co.uk/news/council-hom…
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6 Feb 2024
Quite something to complain about how not enough American journalists are reporting on the Russian side of Putin's invasion of Ukraine when two of them – Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva – are *in jail right now* for doing just that
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Tim Burrows retweeted
6 Feb 2024
Oh my goodness it’s 2pm and no one I mean no one has been into the bookshop today we’ve not sold a single book, this is a first in 4 years!
Not after sympathy just telling you how it is because these kind of trading conditions have massive knock on’s for the entire industry.
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Tim Burrows retweeted
6 Feb 2024
This is a problem I think about a lot, but I don't think policy makers consider anything like enough. My parents' generation are only really able to retire because they either paid off their mortgage or have social housing tenancies. What will become of us?
6 Feb 2024
Without real change, there will be a whole generation of us still working and paying rent at the age of 70.
Security in later life shouldn't be a luxury for the asset-rich. It is everyone's basic right.
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