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Robbie Smith

Londoner’s Diary: RA’s tweets seem to lose their edge after trans row

Jess de Wahls

(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

Welcome to the last Londoner’s Diary of the week. First up we notice the Royal Academy has distinctly changed their social media style after fallout from the row with artist Jess De Wahls. Later today, Maggie O’Farrell explains why she dedicated a book to a rabbit, James Phelps says he and his twin brother could play pranks on the set of Harry Potter and get away with it by claiming they were method actors and Dr Catherine Green finds there are extra benefits to creating the Oxford vaccine. In SW1A explains how the world of politics has its types and Pat McFadden MP may be follicly challenged, but he admits he still asks for a footballer’s haircut and the hairdressers.

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