Chris Addison

Vintage portrait of a smiling woman with her chin resting on their hand, appearing thoughtful.

5 March 1912 | A Jewish Hungarian woman, Klara Serman, was born. She lived in Nagyvarad.

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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📖 Deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/

With 27 overs to go, I’d just like to congratulate India on their victory in this semi-final. 🏏

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Going round the Jewish neighbourhoods, putting beads on everyone.

Now then, you Good Time Kids About Town, where’s good for cocktails near Farringdon station?

Do feel free to confine any joke responses that might float into your brain to the old drafts folder, mind. I’m in the mood for colourful hard liquor and I don’t have time for mere banter.

That’s my permanent expression now. Funnily enough, I walked down the street where we filmed that last week.

Oh good. A dynasty. Those always work out great.

Five Regular Cunts is my favourite Agatha Christie novel.

Don't poke the tankies, Hugo. They're all over here now, worrying about people being considered or not paying attention to their t-shirt slogans.

Chag Purim semeach, team. If ever getting drunk was a mitzvah...

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It’s like a Tesco Metro at 6:30 on a Friday out there.

Daffodils in full bloom, a Victorian church in the background, shops to the right.

Daffodils in full effect by the church on the high street. A good sight.

“Elite human capital.”

Almond blossom and magnolia’s out. So there’s that. It’s not nothing.

I know. The ease of it. She made that place feel intimate as well as filling it with her phenomenal voice and music. It’s a remarkable skill, to place alongside all her other remarkable skills. I don’t recall ever seeing any artist there who felt like they were inviting you in in quite the same way.

Greatest talent of her generation. Nobody close.

Governments sure are into betraying their natural constituencies these days, huh?

Hahaha! Did you get it? I can try to dig it out of my laptop later.

3 March 1931 | German Jewish boy, Stefan Breslauer, was born in Leipzig.

He emigrated to the Netherlands in 1938. In September 1944 he was deported from #Westerbork to #Theresienstadt ghetto. On 19 October 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He was murdered in a gas chamber.

They're calling them 'Epstein's Angels'

the british government not only hates me because I'm foreign, but also it wants to give away my stuff for free to billionaires

I’ve definitely MC-d awards ceremonies like that.

Stand-up rules. Tight five of local material at the top, launch into the boilerplate twenty.

YES! I have that saved as a Word doc somewhere. I keep it alongside Trudi Styler’s diary in the Evening Standard.

Gee, first Venezuelan oil, then Iranian oil. Both of which are hugely important sources of fuel to China.

WHATEVER CAN IT MEAN?

I have used
the Mounjaro pen
that was in
the fridge

and which
you were probably
saving
for signing a letter
firing the nanny

Forgive me
it was overly-weighty
so showy
and so unnecessary

Vintage photograph of a girl wearing a party hat and a patterned outfit, standing in front of leafy foliage.

2 March 1933 | A Romanian Jewish girl, Alis Diner, was born in Satu Mare.

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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▶ A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.

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