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Ian Dunt Profile picture
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Sep 15, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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So the book tour I was going to do obvs got covid-cancelled sob and all the lovely talks are replaced by darting into bookshops when they're quiet to sign things.
BUT the positive is that I do actually get to visit bookshops all around the place and fuck me they're lovely. It's the smell. The smell and the tempo. No other act of shopping has the tempo of book shopping.
This is Coles Books in Bicester. Lovely. Gallery bit upstairs selling posters, vinyl, signed editions. coles-books.co.uk Image
Mostly Books in Abingdon is cute as fuck. Image
The beautiful @wallingfordbook. Image
Blackwell's in Holborn. I love it when they put a cafe in a bookshop. You get the smell of coffee and books, which is some kind of next level shit. ImageImage
Daunts on South End Green. Plus: my first sighting of the book in the retail wild, just chilling on a table in a bookshop, like it was the most natural thing on earth. ImageImage
Daunts in Belsize Park. This was the first non-food shop I walked into after lockdown and it felt like a transcendent religious experience. Image

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Apr 18
Once again, the Lords fight back against Rwanda. I thought they'd resist a couple times then let it go. I was wrong.
The Lords is consistently attacked by left and right. On weeks like this, you realise how utterly essential they are. The Commons is powerless against the government. The Lords are not.
It's not just the resistance. Notice the issues they're focusing on & the manner they've done so. They've picked two key aspects: independent assessment of safety & protecting British allies. And they've done so with practical, pragmatic, workable solutions - not grandstanding.
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Mar 19
The Commons rejected all Lords amendments on the Rwanda bill last night. This is actually relatively surprising. There was an expectation that the government would accept at least some of them.
In particular, we thought they might accept an amendment protecting victims of modern slavery and another exempting armed forces personnel & their families from removal. We assumed that on the basis of basic decency. And were therefore predictably wrong.
There are only two things that can stop this bill: Tory moderates in the Commons and Labour peers in the Lords. Both look likely to fail.
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Mar 17
Nothing is going to take place over the next 6 months. No meaningful legislation, no attention to public services. Each in-depth weekend newspaper article will essentially say the same thing, which is that the Tories are fucked and don't know what to do about it.
MPs will go to parliament & ministers will make Commons statements, but it'll all be pointless. The machinery of govt has stopped. Power has drained from No10. Only activity left is people figuring out which post-election leadership candidate they want to hitch their wagon to.
The stories will get more and more dramatic precisely because of the absence of real news. But it's all for nothing. Everyone knows how this ends. It's just a question of waiting for the prime minister to initiate his own downfall.
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Feb 5
Everything about this is fucking disgusting.
Those are people, god damn you. When we actually process the claims, the majority are granted asylum. That means they are fleeing torture, war and oppression. They're not something for two rich men to do a bet about, like it was a harmless fucking game.
Beside myself with disdain. Piss-poor privileged embarrassments, without the slightest sense of the gravity of the lives they play with.
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Jan 18
TRAITORS. FUCK ME .
It's pure drama. Just the just preposterous fucking full bore goddamn drama.
That moment when Paul stood up and it cut to each face in turn - all of them absolutely rinsed with tension, but in completely different ways, with completely different motives. It's like an entire HBO box set condensed into one minute.
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Jan 18
It's really good to see the interviews with postmasters and what they've been through. It would be nice if we could have seen just one interview with an asylum seeker this week while we talked about Rwanda. Just one.
What would happen if we covered this story as we are now covering that one? The government says Rwanda is a deterrent. Perhaps they could tell us if that was likely to work. How other measures sold as deterrence impacted them.
Ministers often all why they come from Europe. Perhaps they could talk about that. Or why they left their country in the first place. Or describe what it was like to spend months and often years in a backlog. Or what happened when they had an interview.
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