Clare Colvin

Novelist, (Masque of the Gonzagas, The Mirror Makers) reviewer, opera critic.

[Henry Porter The Convention. @HenryCPorter]

Yet in 2022 he absolutely refused to countenance a Brexit reversal. A Labour government can boost productivity by rejoining the SM, at the very least the CU. This is the cold, hard truth that Starmer and Reeves cannot escape. Rejoin and don't get squashed.

[Clare Colvin @ClareColvin3]

Right now, @Mark_Spencer is considering letting a pesticide that's lethal to bees back onto fields - despite the Gov's own scientists saying it should stay banned. Want him to make the right decision and protect bees? Add your name: https://t.co/GjDzxgEeDN

[Clare Colvin @ClareColvin3]

@Trudski2012 🤣🤣🤣

[Jolyon Rubinstein @JolyonRubs]

🚨 NO ONE has lost their job or been arrested for the PPE scandal
🚨 NO ONE has lost their job or been arrested for the BILLIONS £’s lost as “fraud” during the pandemic
🚨NO ONE has lost their job or been arrested for the tragedy of Grenfel Tower & the deaths of 72 people
🤬But Nigel Farage had his bank account closed and heads roll.

[Amanda Craig @AmandaPCraig]

The only UK Nobel Prize for literature, Kazuo Ishiguro, didn’t go to Oxbridge. He studied Creative Writing at UEA - like Rose Tremain, Tracy Chevalier, @NaomiAllthenews Ian McEwan etc. Now the course is being decimated! Protest to [email protected] and RT please

[Clare Colvin @ClareColvin3]

@TimAshAsh @dennzz You will feel better Tim, maybe already

[Clare Colvin @ClareColvin3]

@MarkValencia Congratulations on your 70th Mark, an age to be enjoyed, and an excellent time to bring to wider view the beauty of your sister Ann Marie’s art work

[David Benedict 🏳️‍🌈🕎 @eggsbened]

Oh no! The magnificent Glenda Jackson has died. Staggering on stage and screen and blistering in the House of Commons. If you've never seen her absolute evisceration of Iain Duncan-Smith, give yourself a treat below. (Then track down her film Stevie.)
https://t.co/GIGgl0Y1PB

[Helen S Fields @Helen_Fields]

I’ve read 3 badly written celebrity fiction books recently. 3 books that wouldn’t have got a publishing deal but for the name on the cover.That’s 3 advances that could have gone to real writers who could have done something amazing. 3 books so bad the editor couldn’t save them 🙁

[Teo van den Broeke @Teovandenbroeke]

I found a child’s violin in the back of a Zipcar in south London yesterday. The customer care people didn’t seem all that concerned so I took it home. I would love to reunite it with its owner if I can. The name tag says Isobel Lopez. Can Twitter help? Please share! #lostviolin

[James Clutton @JamesOHP]

There has been a lot of (completely deserved) praise of @AliLanger in #OHPRigoletto - from the critics and audiences. Many people have asked me about her rise. It is not sudden, it is down to talent of course, but also years & years of hard work, sacrifice & determination. 1/2

[Clare Colvin @ClareColvin3]

@suzifeay Lovely discussion @suzifeaybookbag with editor of The Idler on the benefits of idling - passed a happy hour in the garden doing nothing

[Suzi Feay @suzifeay]

Anarchism, bohemianism, dreaming... King of the Idlers Tom Hodgkinson joins me in the Book Bag to discuss a life of freedom from work and worry. I'll drink to that! https://t.co/2cFu0fmkJV

[Clare Colvin @ClareColvin3]

@AmandaPCraig Congratulations on the new novel Amanda! There are several good independent bookshops in Peckham and East Dulwich, my nearest being Review

[Amanda Craig @AmandaPCraig]

My new novel The Three Graces is OUT tomorrow and I hope all my faithful readers enjoy it as much as The Golden Rule, The Lie Of The Land and Hearts And Minds . Please do buy from indy bookshops if possible.

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

Starmer has written in the Express, that he will not restore Freedom of Movement.

Please retweet if you want our Freedom of Movement restored.

We were robbed of our right to live, work, study and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.

[Clare Colvin @ClareColvin3]

@TimAshAsh I tried to join on line queue returns for MultiStory Orchestra’s sold out Gustav Holst’s The Planets at Peckham car park tonight but defeated by the app DICE. May miss entire Bold Tendencies season becs of #tech

[Clare Colvin @ClareColvin3]

@NoisyMV @PGilluley Happy birthday for yesterday Mike, and continuing best wishes all year 👍🤗👏👏

[Clare Colvin @ClareColvin3]

Yesterday I had a booster Covid injection in a Peckham clinic. Today 14 May I read in my Perpetual Almanack of Folklore that on 14 May 1796 a boy in Peckham took to “bellowing like a cow” after being first inoculated against smallpox by Edward Jenner

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

What perplexes me is why, a mere 24 hours after Archbishop @JustinWelby speaks out about the cruelty of Sunak's immigration plans, a minor driving offence (speeding at 25 mph in a 20 mph zone) from <checks notes> *October* suddenly appears on the BBC news feed? 🤷‍♀️