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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 9h

I just don’t understand how you can have a booking system - so you know how many people to expect - and still make such a mess of it.

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 10h

I know there are bigger problems in the world but the queues at the British Museum are absolutely crazy. Even if you pre book! @britishmuseum.bsky.social

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 1d

We’ll be hitting the Evening Standard gentrification list in no time. I’ll be keeping an eye out for men in suede loafers in the Abbey Wood Sainsbury’s.

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 1d

I’m expecting a 100% increase in house prices within the year.

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 1d

Delighted to see that How To Spend It has discovered, of all places, Woolwich and Plumstead …

www.ft.com/content/903c...

Nepal’s culinary peak is in... Woolwich

There are mountains of Himalayan restaurants, cafés and food trucks to discover in south-east London

www.ft.com

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · Sep 19

And the queues! Who is queuing like 10 minutes for this?!

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · Sep 19

Controversial London office worker opinion of the day: Farmer J is wildly overrated.

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · Sep 19

*We’re

Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · Sep 19

Too late, I’m already here!

Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · Sep 19

Yes @chimpman.bsky.social sent me something similar recently. I’ve become the PR person for Abbey Wood in my spare time. Were the darling of the Bexley commuter class …

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · Sep 18

Am pretty sure I have been the guilty party here, in the past …

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Sep 13

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit

Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · Sep 11

In the future everyone will be a PPS for 15 minutes. Etc etc …

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · Sep 11

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Reuters @reuters.com · Sep 11

The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of US political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest reut.rs/41PWH4l

Nation on edge: Experts warn of “vicious spiral" in political violence after Kirk killing

The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of U.S. political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest.

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · Sep 10

Re-upping for anyone interested (part of a short thread).

Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · Mar 15

This is a more academic look at how politics descended into violence and how the state facilitated some of it (posting again as I messed up the thread)

www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Schuma...

Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933: Fight for the Streets and Fear of Civil War | Berghahn Books

Independent Publishing since 1994

www.berghahnbooks.com

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · Sep 7

Also signing up for this club.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thanks for the many shares and warm responses to this piece today.

I think we need to hear more from asylum seekers to counter the myths and lies being deliberately spread about them

We escaped war and torture but now we feel unsafe in Britain

Special report: Amid protests and rising aggression towards asylum seekers across the country, we spoke to those being targeted

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · Sep 7

Enjoy! I envy you …

deliveroo.co.uk/menu/london/...

White Men Can’t Jerk on Deliveroo

Serving up amazing food, White Men Can’t Jerk sits in the heart of Queens Road Peckham. With dishes you're guaranteed to love, order now for delivery within 32 minutes

deliveroo.co.uk

Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · Sep 7

Bet it’s not as good as White Men Can’t Jerk. I really miss them.

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · Sep 7

To be fair the Deliveroo options got a hell of a lot better as a result

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · Sep 7

Integrated?! They’ve taken over!

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · Sep 7

That is gonna take some time …

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · Sep 6

Nor do I. That’s why I sold out and took the zone 2 hipster cash.

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · Sep 6

You zone two lads don’t know you’re born.

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · Sep 6

Am not saying she would rather be out of it, or that she went with some Machiavellian means in mind. Merely that sitting out the next year or so could deliver a second act for her.

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