Tarannum Kamlani

‘People in the past were not just like us. To pretend so is an evasion and a betrayal, turning our back on them so as to be easy among familiar things.’ Mary Renault (who was a great historical novelist precisely because she understood this so viscerally)

Why is France on fire? And, with more city-trashing to come, will Macron’s legacy be that France’s next government will be from the far-right, drastically changing modern Europe? @lewis_goodall is on the ground for this @TheNewsAgents special. https://t.co/f2rUPjsJMQ

This superhero is a retired GP in Limehouse East London I’m in tears because she’s saying she learned Bengali in the 80’s to understand her patients because there were no interpreters 😭 This is British pride 🇬🇧 she should be a household name 😭❤️ https://t.co/fp5JK3GKr4

You can only choose one. https://t.co/kuJbP02fvy

I just read -- in the book SEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO by Jess Hill -- about the incident in Stockholm for which Stockholm Syndrome is named, and I am royally pissed off on behalf of all women, buckle up.

The phrase “knocked up,” referring to pregnancy, originated with U.S. slavery. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the expression back to 1813. Back then the price of enslaved African women was “knocked up” by the auctioneer when she was pregnant—promoted as a deal for buyers.