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27 Nov, 9 tweets, 5 min read
On the hunt for a new book? 📖

@thetimes and @thesundaytimes books critics have chosen the best books of 2021, from fiction and history to cooking and memoir 👇 thetimes.co.uk/article/best-b…
The best fiction books ✍️

From @blgtylr’s Filthy Animals to Oh William! by @LizStrout, these are our favourite fiction books of 2021 thetimes.co.uk/article/best-f…
The best thriller books to get your pulse racing 💥 thetimes.co.uk/article/best-t…
Looking for a white-knuckle crime read? 🕵️‍♀️

These are this year’s best yarns, say @polblonde and Mark Sanderson thetimes.co.uk/article/best-c…
Fill your kids’ stockings with these stories for all ages chosen by our children’s book experts @NicoletteJones and @aoconnell 📚 thetimes.co.uk/article/best-b…
History nerd? 🤓

Geek out with the year’s finest historical novels, from the likes of @LauraSRobinson and @BernardCornwell thetimes.co.uk/article/best-h…
Communist Albania, media moguls, Napoleon and real-life Derry Girls — @HackettLaura and @RobbieTimes pick the best of the year’s memoirs and biographies 📘 thetimes.co.uk/article/best-b…
The best of this year’s science fiction 🛸 thetimes.co.uk/article/best-s…
Most of us will have 4,000 weeks of life. How are we going to get the most out of them?

Well, the first step might be to read a book, but one that doesn’t waste your time. The seven below are platitude-free zones thetimes.co.uk/article/best-s…

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27 Nov
Boris Johnson has tonight announced that:

⚪ Facemasks are to be made compulsory again in shops and on public transport

⚪ Anyone travelling to the UK will be required to take a PCR test and self-isolate until they have received a negative result thetimes.co.uk/article/compul…
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has also been asked to extend booster jabs to those aged between 18 and 39
The JVCI has further been asked to reduce the gap between second and third jabs to five months instead of six
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27 Nov
Welcome to Steart, a little bit of Britain that is fighting to keep its head above water

The only way to access the tiny Somerset village is via a single narrow country lane – one day, the only way out may be by boat

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Residents know climate change is not some distant problem – rising sea levels and heavy downpours regularly bring the issue to their doorstep

Locals remember the sea wall being breached, damaging homes and killing farm animals

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The @WWTworldwide, supported by the #TimesChristmasAppeal, found a way to fight water with water

Marshland once covered huge areas of Britain, soaking up rainfall and flooding. As the climate changes, their protective powers are needed more than ever

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27 Nov
This year, @thetimes and @thesundaytimes are joining forces once again for our #TimesChristmasAppeal

We are asking readers to support three charities working to address urgent issues affecting vulnerable adults, children and the places we live

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The @WWTworldwide want to protect Britain’s disappearing marshlands and the wildlife that depend on them

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26 Nov
When did Matthew Macfadyen feel he’d got the measure of Tom Wambsgans?

“It was the scene with Greg at the baseball where he turns on him, and that was the hook. I thought, ‘Oh, OK. This is good. He’s that awful bully who kicks the cat.’"

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Macfadyen relishes Tom’s toe-curling dialogue. “There’s always a part of you thinking, ‘This is excruciating.’ But it’s delicious to play. And very therapeutic."
He and Sarah Snook, who plays his wife, Shiv, in Succession, discussed the central puzzle: what this smart, beautiful, worldly heiress sees in Tom.

The script has one allusion to how messed up she was when they met.
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26 Nov
We will need 100 days.

From the moment a decision is taken that a tweaked vaccine is necessary, that is how long the chief executive of Pfizer has said it will take for the first regulatory-approved vaccine tailored to the new variant. thetimes.co.uk/article/how-lo…
And that decision, writes science editor @whippletom, is now looking more likely than ever.

Of all the mutations in the variant discovered in South Africa, it is the ones that threaten immunity that worry government scientists the most.
There are many, many unknowns. This could yet prove to be nothing more than the pandemic’s final scare.

But if there is a possibility this variant can find a chink in the immune armour built up at such cost, we now have a way to get ahead of it.
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26 Nov
“I’m not nervous or worried on any stage in the world,” Suchet says. “That’s my home.”

The Times sits down with @David_Suchet to discuss Poirot, his time at the RSC, and why his father “was never really pleased about me acting”. thetimes.co.uk/article/david-…
Suchet is touring an interview show about his life and career.

“I take what I do incredibly seriously,” he says, his voice as audiobook-rich off stage as it is on stage. “I don’t want to play games with my life as an actor.”
Not only did he wear padding to play Poirot, he also stayed in character throughout the day on set. He will start his work analysing a script three months before he starts a project.
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