So tell me everything is not about me. But what if it is?
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If Zack Polanski is allowed to dance on stage in Trafalgar Square with a man in chaps while "a genocide is happening", I reckon I'm allowed to ask him about a promise he made with his own mouth.
Or did the genocide pause during Polanski's Trafalgar Square party?
Jesus Christ. This is so telling from Hadley Freeman.
There's a genocide happening and her snarky question is about a story from decades ago that Zack had answered to endlessly.
Do these people not understand how tone-deaf they sound? How glib and facile?
Well done to Zack for staying calm and collected in that environment.
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Hadley Freeman retweeted
Yesterday our chair @hollowood_zoe asked @LibDems conference in a trans debate:
"In 2026, are women allowed rights?
Rights to dignity.
Rights to safety.
Rights to say no."
Conference resoundingly voted 'no' thus deciding that women were second class citizens. 🧵
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Will the horrors of this place never end?
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"Wow, I really need to know Ed Sheeran's thoughts about the West Bank" said no normal human being ever
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All over your Sunday Times like a wine-stained dress! First, today’s @thetimes column: Tom Cruise, Gen X’s weirdo uncancellable star
Has there ever been a star as weird as Tom Cruise?
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And finally, in Style, an interview with the fabulous Billie Lourd
Billie Lourd on growing up in one of Hollywood’s most famous families
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This is extremely funny by @EuanDawtrey
What Hyrox did to me: I ended the race like a terrified cat
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Hadley Freeman retweeted
Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci removing her chador during her tense 1979 interview with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Qom, Iran...
In October 1979, Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci traveled to Qom, Iran, to interview the Islamic Revolution's supreme leader. To get inside the room, Fallaci was forced to cover herself from head to toe in a heavy black chador, leaving only her face visible.
The conversation inside the room was tense from the very start. Fallaci did not hold back her questions.
She pushed the Ayatollah on political executions, the sudden shutdown of independent newspapers, and the sharp loss of rights for Iranian women under the new regime.
When she asked about the forced wearing of the veil, Khomeini dismissed her concerns and claimed the garment was meant to protect young and respectable women. He then added,
"If you do not like the Islamic dress, you are not obliged to wear it."
Fallaci took his words literally and replied, "Thank you, Mr. Imam. Since you tell me so, I am taking it off right now."
With a quick move, she pulled the chador off her head, leaving her hair completely exposed right in front of the Supreme Leader.
Khomeini was furious.
He stood up without saying another word and walked out of the room. The room fell silent, and the interview was abruptly stopped. However, Fallaci refused to leave Iran until he returned a day later to finish the conversation.
This confrontation became legendary in the history of journalism.
It showed a reporter refusing to bow down to authority, even in one of the most dangerous settings imaginable.
Fallaci proved that real journalism requires standing up to power, asking hard questions, and refusing to be silenced by fear or tradition.
When journalists trade raw courage for easy access and comfortable silence, we lose one of our strongest shields against tyranny.
In an era where true courage in reporting feels rare, her brave stand reminds us that honest journalism still has the power to light up the dark, giving a voice to the voiceless and inspiring future generations to speak truth without fear.
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Hadley Freeman retweeted
An alliance between radical Islam and the progressive left makes no sense. One demands submission. The other claims to love liberation. Yet across the West they march together. Why?
My column
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Today’s @thetimes column is about the end of Drag Race UK
Drag Race is off to the scrap yard. About time
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And today’s @thetimes film review is about Pressure
Pressure:
Pressure:
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Comrade Freeman’s words are still fully pertinent.
Any journalist who avoids reporting on gender because they’re scared of “the toxicity of the debate”, by which they mean “getting shouted at on Twitter”, should just hand in their badge. You have shown you care more about popularity than reporting and the exit is that way
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Hadley Freeman retweeted
Marvellous most entertaining review of Pressure, a film I had two days in as an extra , by @HadleyFreeman in @thetimes Culture magazine. Her ending is most entertaining not least because the Extras sauntered off to Waitrose on one occasion!
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Hadley Freeman retweeted
Christopher Harborne donates £36m to Reform.
For the avoidance of doubt, we put this to Reform yesterday too.
The Sunday Times approached Nigel Farage and Reform about this story this morning.
A confidential source told us that Delo, a crypto billionaire criminal pardoned by Trump, had given £35m to Reform.
Now, as with other stories on Reform finances, it has been given elsewhere.
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This is one of the most wonderful and sad things I've ever read. I remember absolutely sobbing on the bus the first time I finished it. Rick Rescorla was an amazing man. newyorker.com/magazine/2002/…
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