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1Sep 18, '23My elegantly elderly husband is on a hugely overcrowded train from York to Newcastle (after incident on line). He is standing, surrounded by under 3Os in seats, usually on their he37.7×1.6M4.9k43051
2Jun 25, '23I don’t see how you are supposed to “hold your nerve” if you have no money.16.2×692k12k2.1k18
3Jul 31, '24If you ask : what is the value of the humanities? I would say that it teaches you to read with acuity, to analyse wild claims, to argue responsibly to questions to which there are 15.5×663k8.5k1.6k203
4Jul 29, '24Thank you @RachelReevesMP we have tried to divert our winter fuel allowance,but we don’t need it. It’s right to remove it from those like us14.7×626k3.2k18727
5Jan 21, '23I am struck by the fact that New Zealand can replace their Prime Minister within a few days.12.8×546k6.1k3716
6Aug 1, '21My daughter’s Wedding today. So happy. I hope the haters don’t pile in but they probably will.12.6×047k588115
7Dec 16, '22Ok. This could be a memorable day. I am on the way to the Guildhall to get the Freedom of the City of London!!11.6×496k6.1k1304
8Aug 19, '24People have been asking why I don’t quit Twitter if I don’t like it. Fair point. But my mum always said “don’t let the bullies take over the playground!”10.9×466k10k1.2k60
9Feb 9, '23Anyone who claims that the Death Penalty has a 100% success rate, hasn’t thought about history or (even assuming that he had a limited definition of it) about the nature of “succes10.0×425k3.6k3638
10Aug 10, '24“Mary Beard is an old fossil who should either be in a home or a museum” “a clueless vile ghoul” etc … disagreement doesn’t have to be conducted like this folks, it really doesn’t!9.7×412k6.9k30934
11Dec 19, '24I feel so sad about this scrapping of the Latin Excellence Programme, bringing Latin to state schools (I've been involved a little). I am trying hard to resist the idea that it's p7.6×325k3.4k612100
12Jul 2, '24I reposted pic of 2 elderly ladies peacefully campaigning for Labour. Some idiot replies simply: 'c***s'. I report to X. Within 2 minutes machine replies 'no violation of the rules7.4×316k5.7k37012
13Aug 18, '24I don’t usually report posts on this platform but a couple of days ago I did report a post that called me “ an antisemitic hag who needs to be deported to Gaza”. As well as being u7.1×303k3.9k49840
14Aug 17, '17Can we shout, once and for all, that the reason for going to uni is NOT just about getting a bigger salary. Ffs, it is about EDUCATION.6.0×014k5.1k0
15Jan 8, '24Wish people wd stop saying gloomily that it took Tv to get the subpostmasters to the top of the agenda. This is (as Libby Purves has said I think) the real power of arts and drama 5.8×250k4.7k85118
16Aug 12, '24Thanks very much everyone for the support.. and thanks also to those who disagreed without silly abuse. Just to be clear I’m not in a nursing home yet (wtf) and I am afraid I am li5.8×249k6.5k30724
17May 19, '24Suella Braverman complains in Telegraph that Cambridge protesting students wdnt talk to her (she was there “simply to try to talk”). I’m a gt believer in talking to opponents. But 5.6×239k4.5k69223
18Jul 12, '20Have I just heard right? Did Gavin Williamson say THE PURPOSE of education was to get a job? Now I dont think any of us in higher ed aim to turn out cohorts of the unemployable.. b5.4×016k2.6k62
19Nov 5, '19The uk will be doing a lot better when so many of us don’t confuse being clever (and I am all for being clever) with being a posh boy in a suit sprinkling latin. (I am all for Lati5.4×016k3.3k32
20Mar 3, '24I really love this pic (sorry if that is a bit vain). And particularly because it was so easy to have taken. Only took 30 mins or so start to finish!👇5.3×226k3.8k18926
21Mar 13, '24There is something terrible hearing @HackneyAbbott being talked ABOUT and not being allowed to talk herself is .. well, horribly predictable and depressing.4.9×209k8.7k1.5k33
22Sep 6, '22If you are curious about Boris Johnson's reference to Cincinnatus in his goodbye speech - he was a 5th century BC Roman politician who saved the state from an invasion, then - job 4.8×014k2.7k136
23Feb 18, '25weird how they keep leaving the women out of the picture4.8×204k5.1k77946
24Aug 11, '25As an over 70 I will be happy to take a driving eye test. But headlines are so full of emotive language. “FORCED” to take a test (“required” wd be better) “BANNED” if they fail (“w4.5×191k4.4k39127
25Jan 28, '22Let’s face it. Party-gate is not really a matter of who consumed what when. It is about INTEGRITY (or not) and a wider culture of entitlement at the “top”.I was waiting to see how 4.1×013k2.1k26
26Nov 16, '19When a guy who wants to build a bridge between Britain and Ireland calls a universal broadband scheme “crazed”, it is hard to know what his standards of “sanity” are.4.1×011k3k20
27Jun 8, '18thanks all. I'm hugely pleased to have been made Dame. sure there are things I worry about (empire? ), and I expect a twitter torrent; but i am still pleased that studying classica3.9×013k8682
28Mar 25, '19There is something terribly depressing (and revealingly symbolic) about a load of (mostly) posh hardline men turning up at Chequers in their (mostly) posh cars to "sort Brexit". I 3.7×011k2.2k9
29Apr 10, '25I suspect I am not the only person to see a certain irony in the idea that the biggest investment in the UK is in a theme park?3.7×158k4.8k73840
30May 14, '21Thanks for all your good wishes re my retirement present. Let add that my old supervisor John Crook 40+ years ago gave me the money to get my PhD thesis typed. I asked how to pay h3.7×013k98323
31Nov 28, '18If I was taking a punt on the future, I'd back Mark Carney over Jacob Rees Mogg...wouldnt you?3.6×011k1.7k4
32May 29, '22I hope that everyone wanting the return to imperial weights and measures can multiply 1lb 12oz by 3!3.6×011k1k37
33Aug 10, '20My husband just observed, as I am sure others have, that if the govt hadnt been so keen to get rid of coursework from school exams, the graders might have had more to go on this ye3.6×012k1.6k19
34Mar 14, '19Could I please swap Meaningful Vote 3 for Meaningful Referendum 2?3.1×08.8k1.9k7
35Jan 1, '21Not sure it’s the best day for a birthday. But here we are. A little celebration may be in order. All the sixes. Happy birthday, me!3.0×011k1194
36Sep 11, '24It seems an appropriate moment to repeat what I said before (inspired by ancient writers): A democratic vote swayed by lies is not democracy.2.9×122k3.6k74749
37Sep 1, '19When @MattHancock says that it doesn’t FEEL like Parliament is being suspended (when asked to explain his apparent u turn on prorogation), he hits the nail in the head. Erosions of2.8×07.2k2.1k8
38Mar 27, '19OK one and all, let's have the future exam questions that might get set on Brexit... 20/50/100 years hence. Any level from GCSE to degree! Make them smart and challenging!2.7×04.5k1.4k94
39Aug 29, '18I think it might be a good idea if UK media made it rather clearer that "Africa" was not a single country.. as in "trade deal with Africa"?????2.6×07.5k1.6k2
40Jul 13, '18When you see how Trump treats H Clinton, Merkel and May (“she didn’t listen to me!”), it’s hard not to see a pattern. Doesn’t like capable women in politics? Or any women in politi2.6×06.6k1.6k4
41Jul 17, '19i think the Romans put London on the map, strictly speaking!2.5×07.9k1.3k7
42Feb 12, '25Feel a bit miffed at Mr Trump saying that there is nothing on at the Kennedy Center he ever wanted to see. I have just been there talking about the Romans!!!2.5×106k3.9k33318
43Feb 16, '20Whatever your view on the BBC, the quote from a govt source is alarming “we are having a consultation and we will whack it. It has to be a subscription service”. If you are going t2.4×06.4k1.6k21
44Sep 30, '22Today is my last day working for @Cambridge_Uni after 38 years. How shall I fill my time?? (That’s a joke before anyone helpfully sends suggestions.)2.2×08.4k18115
46Aug 1, '21In response to popular demand! The kaftan goes to the floor.2.2×08.7k726
47Aug 5, '17Another day off Twitter in interests of calm. Still hammering goes on. Thx to all for support. In case you missed2.2×05.1k1.5k0
48Jun 7, '20I am still sticking at home myself, old lady ... but it is very hard to take Priti Patel telling demonstrators to obey lockdown rules, after Cummings et al.2.0×06.7k8074
49Mar 21, '19I don’t often sign petitions but I have just signed the “revoke article 50” petition. Do consider it. Https:1.9×04.7k1.5k6
50Aug 19, '21And here is my version of my hair after a session at ⁦@GaryInghamHair⁩ I feel new!1.9×07.3k557
51Nov 11, '19Oh dear oh dear... Emily Thornberry is being given a needlessly hardtime on @BBCr4today . The idea that we might have a political leader who is RELUCTANT to go to war or use nuclea1.8×05.3k9534
52Jun 9, '17T May still shocks, talking about Tory MPs who 'didnt deserve' to lose their seats. Sorry sunshine, it's up to us, citizens, to decide that.1.8×04.3k1.6k0
53Oct 20, '20Do you want a load of traffic on Twitter? Here’s a tip. Suggest the ancient Romans weren’t entirely white... then duck1.8×06.4k48515
54Jul 14, '20Blimey..after a short notice about me in today's Times, try this under the line (insignificant etc but who are these people): "Well what about her eyebrows...How can any little lad1.8×05.8k45312
55Jun 29, '20Gavin Williamson telling us on @BBCr4today that there was no problem having ex-civil service jobs done by political appointees... because it was done elsewhere, like the USA .. was1.8×05.1k1.2k9
56Aug 1, '21I am so proud ..1.8×06.9k849
57Feb 19, '19Doesnt seem to me to matter a jot whether I have “sympathy” for Shamima Begum (law is above sympathy) She’s a uk citizen & was 15 ffs when she went off to join ISIS. Trying to 1.8×05.1k8367
58Sep 27, '19It might be to logical to say that many people are 'angry' that the government has not delivered Brexit for which they voted. But let's not forget many others feel 'angry' that an 1.7×04.7k1.2k7
59Jun 4, '20I want this country to do things well & decently.I dont give a toss if we're 'world beating' ('Test & Trace') or 'probably the most scrupulous country in the world' (export1.7×05.3k8866
60Feb 22, '19I have been attacked in the last 48 hours for objecting to the citizenship of S Begum being removed, and for suggesting that Giles Fraser (with whom I disagree) was The Enemy. Ffs 1.7×05.9k3518
61Jan 1, '22Oh well I’m 67 today! Shall be celebrating by getting my head around Julia Domna and other Severan women followed by a glass or two of champagne!1.7×05.9k689
62Dec 10, '20Anyone reflecting on the menu (turbot) of last night's dinner of BJ and von der Leyen should read Juvenal Satire 4 (on a turbot presented to emperor Domitian). It's a satire on pow1.6×04.1k88650
63Jul 25, '17this is indeed pretty accurate, there's plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain1.6×03.7k1.2k5
64Jul 7, '22Let’s sing it from the rooftops, one and all. The democratic mandate was NOT for Boris Johnson as individual, president or even mayor. That is not how parliamentary democracy works1.5×04.8k7927
65Aug 25, '20Hearing Trump Junior saying that Biden would turn US into a 'socialist utopia' cheered me up no end. Hope he's right... most of us would love to live in a utopia!1.5×05.4k4916
66Nov 27, '17When Kate Hoey on @BBCr4today talks about the Irish having to pay for putting up the border between N and S Ireland if there is to be one, she sounds to me dangerously like Mr Trum1.5×03.4k1.3k0
67Apr 27, '19Don’t imagine I am the only one who won’t vote Labour in Euro elections unless they clearly back 2nd referendum. 2 reasons 1) I think that is what shd happen 2) their vacillations 1.5×04.3k7303
68Dec 24, '19The truth is that if you know any Ancient Greek (which BJ certainly does) it is not hard to learn chunks of the IIiad by rote. Not knocking the PM’s knowledge but this is quite an 1.5×04k55736
69Jun 2, '20The current CV-19 guidelines state that you should continue to work from home if you can. MP's can (indeed a system was specially set up so they could). It's a no brainer. Parliame1.5×03.9k1.1k2
70Apr 24, '19People must have been saying this.. but there seems something strangely inconsistent in British parliamentarians listening hard (& rightly) to a 16 year old Swedish campaigner 1.4×04k8855
71Jan 1, '18Dont want to say who shd be on Board of Office for Students,but when Dept of Education defends Toby Young appointment,saying his experience includes 'POST ..at Cambridge',am puzzle1.4×03k1.3k1
72Dec 24, '19can I clarify.. i am a great fan of learning by rote.. was made to learn Prufrock at school (for a bribe of 50p). dont regret it, but it isnt a sign of intellectual acumen. And the1.4×04.6k48612
73Feb 17, '18an illicit PS: If you actually want to know, I am sitting here crying. I am not really not the nasty colonialist you say I am. I speak from the heart (and of cource I may be wrong)1.4×04.1k1820
74Oct 20, '22So low have my expectations fallen, that - if we are not to have a general election now (which we should) - I wd settle in the interim for someone who is broadly competent, knows t1.4×04.5k3808
75Jul 15, '20In race for stupid under the line insults,Telegraph beats Times! 'Mary Beard probably considers shampoo elitist.' 'Mary Beard needs a wash and a check of reality' 'Is that why my T1.3×03.9k2967
76Dec 8, '17I assume now, that in the interests of being the same as the rest of the UK, the DUP will be leading call for other differences to be ironed out (eg same sex marriage, abortion)1.3×03.1k1.1k0
77Jun 22, '18I have just had a little nostalgia-fest with a photo taken of me aged 18 by my mate Diana Bonakis Webster, on a 'dig". I think I did once look like this and still see myself somewh1.3×04.8k1676
78Mar 2, '20Can I say thank you to everyone for such warm support over the BM thing. I am touched. I should in fairness point out one thing: in this, Boris is innocent. It was before his time 1.3×04.6k2844
79Dec 27, '17Listening to Obama on @BBCr4today and thinking about what and who replaced him.. It's not that he was perfect but was a grown up and could embrace complexity.1.2×03.6k7350
80Mar 4, '18Gosh. Camilla Long in Sunday Times review of Civilisations has become AA Gill. Says she couldn’t watch more than 20 mins of my episode (review??) as it was “nonsense”. But at least1.2×03.3k3863
81Oct 30, '21Can I say, I appreciate modern politicians having an historical perspective. But it’d be a woeful misunderstanding of the “fall” of Roman Empire (in the west) to suggest that it wa1.2×03.3k73320
82Jul 3, '20Glad Starkey resigned from Fitzwilliam Coll. Was afraid we were going to waste energy, that cd be better spent, debating whether to get rid of him; & so give him, his words &am1.2×03.8k4856
83Sep 19, '21wasnt it only recently that we were being encouraged to turn to small energy companies? and now..? I have never really understood why basic energy and supply was not in public owne1.1×03.6k4675
84Sep 12, '18After 63 years I have my first pink streak in the hair. May do it again I warn you. This is to celebrate @BBCFrontRow late on Friday 11.05 bbc2. Do watch (Clive James, Joan bakewel1.1×04.1k1480
85Feb 22, '21Welcome to grandchild number 2. Ayodeji Odeleye and he’s almost 4 kilos (for those interested in metrics)1.1×04.5k286
86Jul 17, '18Sorry that David Starkey feels he isn’t getting enough airtime. Didn’t actually realise it was a beauty competition. And AA Gill must be turning in his grave to think he had launch1.1×03.1k4344
87Aug 26, '19I may well have missed it. But has someone actually asked Mr Johnson how in a few weeks we have gone from No Deal being a million to one, to a Deal being touch and go? What was the1.1×03.2k5544
88Aug 8, '17belatedly goodnight. final thought:I will argue forever not just about truth of Roman Britain, but for privilge of debating it with courtesy1.1×03.7k4270
89Dec 19, '20For me I feel irritated. I shant see kids & will be living off turkey for months. But who’s going to step up for people who stretched to buy rail tickets & supplies when we1.1×03.8k3335
90Aug 8, '18Don’t we need a way of making it clear to Boris Johnson that we strongly disagree with somethings that he has said WITHOUT letting him dominate the headlines for days?1.1×03.3k4901
91Oct 1, '19It is hard to square Johnson’s rhetoric about ‘friends and partners’ in Europe and about ‘surrender’ to the EU. Since when did you surrender to your friends?1.1×03.1k6005
92Jul 24, '19People keep saying on the radio this morning that Boris Johnson has a real “mandate”. I wonder what that is? And from whom?1.1×03k4711
93May 3, '19Clarity here! I voted LibDem in local elections for 2 reasons 1) manifesto of LD candidate addressed local, ward issues (rather than generalising stuff on 'Cambridge/UK') 2) LD had1.1×03.4k4771
94Sep 2, '18There might be many reasons for not having a second referendum, but that it is anti-democratic is surely not one of them. Thus spake the husband on listening to news this morning; 1.0×03k5881
95May 9, '20Please please can we stop talking about THE SCIENCE We kid people (and ourselves) if we make it look like there’s a single scientific view.1.0×03.1k4644
96Aug 23, '20I do find the title “Professor of Evidence Based Medicine” very odd. Call me naive but I like to think that all medical science is “evidence based”!1.0×03.4k2507
97Aug 5, '17thought i had retweeted thisalready, so sorry if i repeat. but please all young ladies, take Jess's advice!1.0×03k6230
98Feb 18, '22Let’s celebrate international Lego Classicists Day #ILCD2022 I love my figure!0.9×03.4k1645
99Oct 20, '20There appear to be a load of people out there on twitter who think that 'Romans' were 'white'. Some were and some weren't. We have been here before folks.. it really isnt worth it!0.9×03.1k2219
100Dec 25, '21Happy Christmas everyone!0.8×03.2k746

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