Robert Harris @Robert___Harris
Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Cicero Trilogy, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer & A Spy, Conclave, Munich, Second Sleep, V2, Act of Oblivion robert-harris.com Joined August 2015-
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Six of my ebooks available for only 99p each! ... amazon.co.uk/stores/page/B6… #Amazon
Hundreds and hundreds of Dreyfus cases, and unlike him, some never lived to experience their vindication
Hundreds and hundreds of Dreyfus cases, and unlike him, some never lived to experience their vindication
Death Valley
Controversial opinion I know but I actually think Napoleon is a much less clunky biopic than Oppenheimer, and certainly a lot less pretentious
All of them paying roughly twice the rate that he is!
All of them paying roughly twice the rate that he is!
Keeley Hawes to Star in an Adaptation of the Novel Miss Austen pbs.org/wgbh/masterpie…
Absurdly difficult! (What was the name of the river in Cicero’s home town? What name was scratched out on a document in the Verres trial??) I could only answer three! So congratulations to the contestant who scored five. 👏
Absurdly difficult! (What was the name of the river in Cicero’s home town? What name was scratched out on a document in the Verres trial??) I could only answer three! So congratulations to the contestant who scored five. 👏
Wouldn’t like to try this myself
Here’s a little trailer for my new novel, PRECIPICE, set in 1914 and 1915, and due to be published next year. It can be pre-ordered now…
If you happen to be in West Berkshire on 1st December… Thanks to @SebastianFaulks for doing this to help raise money for St Mary’s church @KintburyBerksUK @KintburyVillage 🙏
As Home Secretary says, this govt "has allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives..in society but not of it. And in extreme cases to pursue lives aimed at undermining the stability & security of society. We are living with the consequence of that failure."
Congratulations to the wonderful Sally Muir @salmuirAdogaday whose Lady Di sheep jumper, discovered in the attic after 33 years, was just sold by @Sothebys for $1,143,000!
The priorities are supposed to be education, education, education, not Education Secretary, Education Secretary, Education Secretary, Education Secretary, Education Secretary, Education Secretary
The priorities are supposed to be education, education, education, not Education Secretary, Education Secretary, Education Secretary, Education Secretary, Education Secretary, Education Secretary
Harold Wilson reflects on going up against Harold Macmillan in the House of Commons. The elder Harold, looking on, seems glad his Labour successor has understood his tactics so well.
Oh yeah, sure, the privilege committee report was actually good for Johnson. Reminds me of Alan Bennett’s contrarian historian who argued the Japanese were caught napping at Pearl Harbor
Oh yeah, sure, the privilege committee report was actually good for Johnson. Reminds me of Alan Bennett’s contrarian historian who argued the Japanese were caught napping at Pearl Harbor
She was a wonderful editor, cared passionately about her authors, and was a great friend and protector when I didn’t publish anything for 5 years. She also persuaded Douglas Adams to write novels & bought the U.K. rights to Thomas Harris before he was famous. RIP dearest Sue.
She was a wonderful editor, cared passionately about her authors, and was a great friend and protector when I didn’t publish anything for 5 years. She also persuaded Douglas Adams to write novels & bought the U.K. rights to Thomas Harris before he was famous. RIP dearest Sue.
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Sad news of the death of Charles Reiss, former political editor of the London Evening Standard. A titan of Westminster. I worked in the room above him for seven years & learned much of my trade from him. RIP.
“Always bite the hand that feeds you” Great advice to journos from a legend of the craft, my old boss Charles Reiss Former Standard political editor Charles Reiss dies aged 82 standard.co.uk/news/politics/…
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#OTD 2003. Parliament votes for War in Iraq as Robin Cook resigns from the Cabinet. Cook says "Britain is being asked to embark on a war without agreement in any of the international bodies of which we are a leading partner".
Hold on @TiceRichard You're saying this country was BETTER when we were in the EU?
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@LJB179 @BritainElects @RedfieldWilton its definately going to come , all thats stopping them for now is they dont know who the hell to try next - my money is still on them going for Admiral Mordor but Sunak may him the button and call a GE to head them off and leave as a defeated PM rather than ousted by his party
Twenty years after it was published I’ve finally read Jane Gardam’s Old Filth. She can write a perfect sentence and she can tell a cracking story. Nothing is out of place. Rivals Elizabeth Taylor.
Back in 1999, Sir Geoff Mulgan was an important but isolated voice in Tony Blair’s senior team who warned that Fujitsu’s Horizon system - which has led to such an appalling miscarriage of justice for so many sub-postmasters - was a monumental crock. Shortly before the final…
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Tonight, at Midnight Mass, is the 800th anniversary of the invention of the crib by St Francis of Assisi at Greccio (Rieti), 25 December 1223. We are told by friar Thomas of Celano, Francis’ biographer, that one person at the Mass saw the Infant Jesus alive in Francis’ arms.
Utterly nauseating to see Frost, the would-be political philosopher who has spent the year castigating 'illegal migration', morphing for a week into the would-be theologian lecturing us about 'the heart of Christmas'. What would Jesus say, eh? Send them to Rwanda?
Politics is over for the year, so something more seasonal in this week's @Telegraph column, ending with GK Chesterton: "For men are homesick in their homes, And strangers under the sun, And they lay on their heads in a foreign land Whenever the day is done. (...) But our homes…
I arrive in the Front Row studio to find this. Compulsory in all BBC Studios in case of sudden Bloomsbury entanglement brain fog.
10/12/76: #MartinAmis reviewing Four Crowded Years: Diaries of Auberon Waugh: "Waugh is even now shaping the country's destiny. He is also, on account of his good looks, sexually ubiquitous". It is seldom you find writing of this standard in one so young. I commend Master Amis.
Our Marje passed away today. I may be a little biased, but she was the best mum ever. So if anyone fancies raising a glass to Marje please do. This is a chat I had with her about ageing (or not) last year when she was a mere 94. Love you Mam❤️❤️❤️ theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
About 2.6% of Rwandan GDP. Paul Kagame is an even better negotiator than Michel Barnier.
Matthew Rycroft reveals that the cost of the Rwanda scheme has more than doubled. The UK paid Rwanda £100 million in April, and estimates that an extra £50 million will be paid next year. That's on top of £140 million paid previously. Details here: gov.uk/government/pub…
@Robert___Harris It was cheaper to fly Concord back in the day.🙄
Keeley Hawes to Star in an Adaptation of the Novel Miss Austen pbs.org/wgbh/masterpie…
@SebastianEPayne @JamesCleverly You’re such a plum Sebastian 🙄
"My dad and my little brother have been martyred," screams this boy who was just orphaned--having lost his father--in an #Israeli airstrike in northern #Gaza. #StopGazaGenocide
@Robert___Harris I felt for the contestant Anne. Her general knowledge was so good too.