Novelist, (Masque of the Gonzagas, The Mirror Makers) reviewer, opera critic.
Joined January 2014
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Clare Colvin retweeted
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.
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: 38d.gs/bz-a
Clare Colvin retweeted
🚨 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.
Clare Colvin retweeted
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 retweeted
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.)
youtube.com/watch?v=9Jckm3X5…
Clare Colvin retweeted
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 🙁 – at South East, England
Clare Colvin retweeted
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
Clare Colvin retweeted
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 retweeted
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! youtube.com/watch?v=eUWNsU7-…
Clare Colvin retweeted
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.
Clare Colvin retweeted
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.
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
Clare Colvin retweeted
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? 🤷♀️
Clare Colvin retweeted
Did you know that not only was Brexit stupid, it was actually illegal?
Because they knew it was influenced by Putin 👇
In activating Article 50 we now know that Theresa May with the backing of her cabinet (which included then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson) failed to take account of any relevant factors apart from the referendum result and in doing so violated the Acts of 2015 and 2017 and in any event acted unreasonably and therefore unlawfully
Please Retweet so you all know the truth behind shitty Brexit
Sign this petition 👇
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Clare Colvin retweeted
The government has sold the Oxford Vaccination production unit to an American Company for £200m Built in 2014 to respond to Ebola and absolutely essential during Covid, we will not have it for the next pandemic. It would cost just £5m a year to keep open. Another Conservative Party benefical financial deal for somebody or just their normal incompetence? @RishiSunak, could somebody please look at this and explain why.
Clare Colvin retweeted
I am not ashamed of Britain.
I am not ashamed to be British.
I am deeply, deeply ashamed of our government.
RT if you agree.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
Clare Colvin retweeted
Dear all -
Tomorrow, voting opens for European Movement (@euromove) members for their next Chair.
I am one of the three candidates. Please have a look at my campaign website, including all the quotes of endorsement.
Pls share & use the tag #Mike4Chair
mike4chair.uk/
Clare Colvin retweeted
Now this is fascinating.
Look at the map of who is calling for a Public Inquiry into the impact of Brexit...
It's not the "remainer" cities - it's the large rural areas that are dominating the call.
Link to petition --> petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Clare Colvin retweeted
Those who talk of the UK leaving the ECHR in the middle of a war on the Continent are dangerous. They already sought through Brexit, to undermine the greatest peace project the world has ever known. But even now they continue. They need to be stopped and we need to stop them.
Clare Colvin retweeted
This is the jacket for my new novel, The Three Graces, out June 8 @LittleBrownUK @Savoy67 . It’s about 3 women friends who have retired to Tuscany, where all is not as paradisal as it seems. RT please!
