Queen of the Bogside?
The media, predictably, are full of pictures of the Queen’s handshake with Martin McGuinness. More surprising was the opening phrase of David McKittrick’s piece for the London Evening Standard last night, where a missing definite article suggested Her Majesty had been leading a weird double life all these years:
“Today’s handshake between the monarch and one-time IRA warrior from the backstreets of the Bogside…”
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@gemmadunnchile He did; I'm trying not to be envious.
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RT @gemmadunnchile: Wise? 'I reluctantly & ultimately had to eliminate "Readers' Selections" from Frommer guidebooks' http://t.co/wABXPotOX…
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Stieg (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) Larsson on the Trans-Siberian Railway in a piece from his book The Expo Files: http://t.co/lAeANSxTCq
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RT @ZCWcharlie: Delighted to announce @zerocarbonworld has been shortlisted by @AutomotivePR #tweetcharity competition http://t.co/Jc5wA1Ii…
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"Congolese playing Mexican music to lure Uruguayan soldiers into spending American dollars": that's Goma, in the DRC http://t.co/hJDbykvP40
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Excellent Robert Macfarlane piece in @intlifemag on the 'landscape of the mind' created by Cormac McCarthy: http://t.co/lAcXa1dC0h
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I just posted Leopards in India – on the streets of Mumbai. Read it here: http://t.co/si1sbgQ52q
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