Karen Shipway

I won’t apologise for The Lost King – Leicester University’s treatment of Philippa Langley is a profound injustice | Steve Coogan I was sued over my film that gave a voice to the committed ‘amateur’ whose pivotal role in the search for the remains of Richard III was drowned out by louder voices in academia

I worked on the C4 programme about Richard III's burial. While I always knew some parts of academia are really toxic I was shocked & distressed by just how awful some of the University officials were to Philippa & also, to a lesser extent, Dr John Ashdown-Hill.

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Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 104 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile Netanyahu ordered strikes on Tuesday evening after firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants

Killing 104 in strikes is not, by any definition, a 'ceasefire'

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'Blue Labour' are fundamentally uncompassionate and smug aren't they? #C4News

A black and white cat sits, facing away from the camera, at the top of the photo, which is angled down towards the floor. There is am open box, which is for the cat, to the left, and at the bottom there is a ruffled rug. There is a tangle of green ribbon spread across the rug, the centre and the right of the floor.

Someone was clearly very busy last night.

Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain in Richmond Burcu Yesilyurt says the fine is

So why aren't Richmond fining Thames Water millions for the literal crap it is polluting our waterways with?*

* This is rhetorical as I do know the answer....

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DAILY STAR: Bozo the killer clown #TomorrowsPapersToday

Halloween party tonight, here’s my costume as a ChatGPT output

Hunt continues for thieves after priceless jewels stolen in heist at Louvre museum in Paris - live updates France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati says the incident happened as the museum opened this morning.

Police are hoping to talk to a bright pink gentleman with whiskers and a tail, driving a ludicrous sports car
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A grey bedlington terrier - fur like a sheep - stares whistfully through a glass door wanting to be let in.

I ate breakfast with this happening, the cat/dog flap is just around the corner, and his sister had just used it to come in, but I am the worst human ever apparently. The dogs are worse than the cats.

Because they film two series of Slow Horses back to back, then break.

If anyone wants/needs to read a story with a happy ending today, read this.

This is spot on.

Can I add my own, which is that no one should be allowed to read Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre, or possibly anything written by any of the Brontes, until they are at least 50 & capable of recognising that Heathcliffe and Rochester are not romantic heroes.

I am so sorry. Send you, and everyone who loved him, so much love.

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

RIP JILLY COOPER! A queen who wrote THE most readable books in existence. People saw my thread of epic Jilly quotes and decided I was saying the books are shite. You COULDN'T be more wrong. Go and watch Rivals today.

It's hard to know how best to mark the death of Jilly Cooper - there is no Concorde to bonk on and I don't have a horse to go and pour out my feelings to in the stables while being groped by an aristo. Perhaps just a glass of fizz and a bracing walk with an unusually sensitive dog.

As I try to get undressed and into bed without stepping on or falling over Lyly I'm absolutely certain that the cause of death on my death certificate will simply say 'cat'.

Tawny owl

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

Yhis is exactly what they did when policing the 2010 student protests, it was mad and diaproportionate then and now.

A black and white cat, with green eyes, stares at the camera. She is standing in front of a book case filled with books, next to a clump of cat grass.

The black and white cat is sniffing the grass, some blades are bent and broken, and the tips of others are shorn.

On #Caturday I am pleased to report that the indoor cat grass has been tasted and passed muster, its only taken two weeks.

Every time I think things can't become any more insane....

Inevitable I suppose that the headlines reporting the sad news of Patricia Routledge's death describe her as "Keeping Up Appearances star". For me she will always be Kitty from Victoria Wood On TV, and Mrs Schofield in Alan Bennett's precursor to Talking Heads, A Woman Of No Importance. A sad loss.

The Richard Littlejohn quote prominently displayed on the front page of tomorrow's Daily Mail is disgraceful, hateful and completely irresponsible.

This. Absolutely this. Sending so much love to the families and friends of those caught up in this horrific attack.

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Seven out of 10 women in creative industries experience bullying and harassment, survey finds Exclusive: Only half of victims report incidents – and of those who do, 42% say response was insufficient

Slightly surprised its only seven out of ten....
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Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Text reads: Your countries are going to hell’: Trump attacks European leaders and United Nations in fiery general assembly speech – live US president lambasts UN for lack of help in peace deals; Trump also scolds European migration and US allies that are supporting Palestinian statehood

I'm sorry @theguardian.com I heard the speech, it was rambling and incoherent, as far from fiery as you can get.