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Writer || Sunday Times bestselling ghost || Orwell Prize Nominee || novelist || Rep: @rcaskie1 || indie bookstore owner ||
Jan 13 7 tweets 2 min read
I am never going in my @sainsburys local again. I just went in there to buy a bottle of cordial, paid for it on their stupid robot machines and left in my car. The manager came out, stopped me as I was reversing and accused me of stealing a bottle of wine. The @Sainsburys manager said: “my colleague said you just took a bottle of wine without paying for it.”
I held up my elderflower cordial and he said: “do you have a receipt for that.”
I told him which machine I’d used and pulled back into the parking space while he went to check
Sep 13, 2021 19 tweets 3 min read
I have just watched the press conference given by @CMO_England and apparently attended by our most ‘astute’ journalists of the day. It was disappointing not to hear one challenging question put to the panel on their decision to vaccinate children aged 12-15. If I were still working in National newspapers, here are the questions I would want to ask:
Apr 23, 2019 11 tweets 2 min read
At my 6yo’s school there is an issue with boys looking up the girl’s skirts to see their knickers. The school have tackled this by amending the girls’ uniform to include playsuits. And this, my friends, is where females start adapting their behaviour to fit into a male world. Such enraged responses to this, I felt I should add more info.when the upskirting offence came in I did email the head to tell him about the situation where we had adapted uniforms by adding cycling shorts. I told him that it should not be the responsibility of girls to adapt....