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3 Jul, 7 tweets, 2 min read
If you're in your local @Waterstones today keep your eyes peeled.
Unfashionably... I did all the work myself
Yes it's @WaterstonesPicc for the curious
Thank you kind people
And yes... because people are asking Audiobook is available too. Read by yours truly
amazon.co.uk/Fake-History-G…
Really did not expect this little video to have so many views when I put it up this morning. Thank you so much for the kind words and to the people who shared it.
It's one of a pair.

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4 Jul
Giving the NHS a George Cross is so WW2, so utterly unimaginative, so very Boris Johnson - so school of the empty pit of ideas. Give the NHS staff proper respect and a pay rise instead. That would mean something.
So easy to indulge in gestures. So much harder to actually reward people for their hard work and sacrifice.
A George Cross costs about £10 to make. Yes it's a very high award etc etc... but this is the cheapest gimmick of the pandemic so far.
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26 Jun
Earlier this week I sat down with Adrian Goldberg to discuss my book - Fake History, the truth about Winston Churchill and how great myths of exceptionalism have forged the politics of modern Britain. Listen here.. if you like
shows.acast.com/byline-times-p…
Two weeks since the book came out and so far I've had just one small clarification from a University history department... obviously if you write a book called Fake History you're kind of drawing a massive target on your head... and asking for trouble
If you want to avail yourselves of a copy - grab it while you can. On all good websites now including:

Hive: hive.co.uk/Product/Otto-E…
Amazon audible: amazon.co.uk/Fake-History-G…
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18 Jun
Spanish word of the day is - CACA #CheshamAndAmersham
Thanks to the many people who told me this and my daughter who confirmed it to me on the way to her Spanish test
Presumably the derivative of "cack" as in a "load of old cack"
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17 Jun
On the left the joint US-UK statement on a cooperative framework for Large Civil Aircraft

On the right the joint US-EU statement on a cooperative framework for Large Civil Aircraft

See if you can spot the difference ImageImage
Incredible.
If you spotted the numbers and 3 different words give yourself a rosette
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17 Jun
This from 2017 is excellent on the fictional Brexit Neverland conjured up in Enid Blyton's books and how it moulded our present out of a view of our imagined past.
prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books…
I've covered much the same in the Ladybird and HE Marshall chapter in my book. Children's books and magazines created an idealised vision of Britain in the 20th century - a place of order where everyone knew their place. And where all of history was a destiny narrative for the UK
The Ladybird book of The Fisherman and The Policeman are particularly fascinating and I'll wager they both occupied space on the childhood shelves of Messrs Farage and Hannan. (As they did mine)
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16 Jun
Unpopular opinion - companies should be allowed to advertise with whomsoever they wish. I don't think policing advertising is a particularly good look.
You know if you don't like it simply don't buy from that company.
Goes without saying of course that people have a right to criticise them for it too. Life is complicated!
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