William Bennett

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” ― Michel de Montaigne

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@timothy_stanley “better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian"

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@JimmyLevendia Started reading it yesterday, it’s gripping. So far (@p.150), no rambling digressions that can plague 19c novels. Although, even with the odd diversion, Les Miserables also has a similarly exciting plot.

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@michaelgove You're the new James Blunt of tweeting.

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@oldbooksguy Mistakes were made (but not by me).

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@tonymcmahon_01 @limebike @MayorofLondon I was rammed by one on Thursday whilst out analogue cycling (not my fault). Destroyed my front wheel. We should ban all rental electric bikes and scooters and legalise electric scooters for private ownership. Reclaim the streets!

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@bencobley This is why getting a free sample on a Kindle/e-book and reading it prior to buying the book is invaluable. Sorts the wheat from the chaff.

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@domus_aubrea I read the 1st 9 one after the other. Hesitated starting because of the narrow social world it depicts but you soon realise that doesn't matter, it's the insights into people as people that matters. It's good on the mundanity of the IIWW for many ("the mobile laundry").

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@RosieKayK2CO At the recent Singer Sergeant exhibition there was a portrait of Robert Louis Stevension and his wife. The card next to it was just a rant about cultural appropriation because the gallery had somehow worked out that her scarf had been made in India. It was laughable but annoying.

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@thedustyteapot I was delighted to have one of their excellent breakfasts a few weeks ago. It had been 37 years since my last visit!

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@ColinBrazierTV Same applies to some bicycle lights. They can be blinding, front and back, and are never dipped. I say this as a cyclist myself. It’s at least inconsiderate to other cyclists.

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@SeekAfterBeauty The original from the Cluny Museum. Late 15th/early 16th century. (This image isn't great. It's absolutely stunning in real life with well-preserved colour.)

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@LiverpoolVista Good to see the accompanying church has been looked after. Seem to remember that it was in a bad way in the 80s (when I last saw the pyramid). It is odd that a 19C church would permit such a pre-Christian monument, part of the Egyptomania craze perhaps, but I'm glad it did.

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@LiverpoolVista Walked past it a few weeks ago, it was just so forlorn. You’d think that you could strip it down (like the bombed out church) so that the outline could be secured/preserved.

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@keithjones84 Always assumed Senate House built on top of bomb damage. Amazed that someone decided to knock down what was there before. But the design of Senate House is complementary and doesn’t dominate the square.

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@andrewdoyle_com It's been done before:

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@SantaMontefiore @TheRestHistory @TomHolland @dcsandbrook @simon_schama It's magnificent. Just finished reading it for the second time. My favourite but minor detail is the inclusion of the various contemporary nicknames for the guillotine: to look through the "republican window"; to be shaved by the the "Revolutionary Razor" and others.

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@daisymcandrew @mooseandmouse @tilly_mcauliffe I will never see Stonehenge, or Runnymede, in the same way again.

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@AaronBastani @tomhfh Time to remember the kitchen island v peninsula dispute.

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Peak London pundit. The Observer’s Sonia Sodha on the bbc discussing the cost of living crisis with a leg of iberico jamon on the kitchen island.

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