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“Saki’s mother was killed by a cow when he was a child. If that doesn’t turn you into a writer with a morbid fascination with, and deep-seated fear of, the natural world, nothing will”
— @naomialderman.bsky.social on Saki’s razor-sharp & merciless stories
💙📚
3/8
www.theguardian.com/books/2012/s...
— @naomialderman.bsky.social on Saki’s razor-sharp & merciless stories
💙📚
3/8
www.theguardian.com/books/2012/s...
Saki: my hero
'His stories are cut-glass beauties, pitiless and hard-edged and constantly poking fun at the pretensions of the middle and upper classes. Why not be cruel and hard? Life hadn't been especially nice t...
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“Saki’s mother was killed by a cow when he was a child. If that doesn’t turn you into a writer with a morbid fascination with, and deep-seated fear of, the natural world, nothing will”
— @naomialderman.bsky.social on Saki’s razor-sharp & merciless stories
💙📚
3/8
www.theguardian.com/books/2012/s...
— @naomialderman.bsky.social on Saki’s razor-sharp & merciless stories
💙📚
3/8
www.theguardian.com/books/2012/s...
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Driving Home for Christmas, painting by Philip Meadows, Teesside/Yorkshire artist.
December 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Driving Home for Christmas, painting by Philip Meadows, Teesside/Yorkshire artist.
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For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
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It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
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Wondering how Leeds United fans secured an apartment balcony view for the Brentford game?
I had a chat with the man in this picture about his unique vantage point 👇
#lufc
I had a chat with the man in this picture about his unique vantage point 👇
#lufc
How Leeds United fan managed to watch Brentford game from apartment balcony
Chris Smith had an interesting vantage point as he watched his beloved Leeds United secure a point away at Brentford.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Wondering how Leeds United fans secured an apartment balcony view for the Brentford game?
I had a chat with the man in this picture about his unique vantage point 👇
#lufc
I had a chat with the man in this picture about his unique vantage point 👇
#lufc
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The kind .. you find … in a second hand store
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The kind .. you find … in a second hand store
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They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead
December 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead
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'Wish I had a river' by contemporary printmaker Fiona Watson #WomensArt
December 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM
'Wish I had a river' by contemporary printmaker Fiona Watson #WomensArt
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you'll spend your entire life thinking "that's not her, not really" and pushing the thought away. you'll never truly grieve. you'll become attached to a simulacrum, something that isn't your grandmother & never was; it will eventually replace her in your memory. you will live in hell before you die
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
you'll spend your entire life thinking "that's not her, not really" and pushing the thought away. you'll never truly grieve. you'll become attached to a simulacrum, something that isn't your grandmother & never was; it will eventually replace her in your memory. you will live in hell before you die
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This sounds quite difficult to administer.
At least the US isn’t due to host any major international sporting events attracting fans from dozens of countries any time soon.
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
At least the US isn’t due to host any major international sporting events attracting fans from dozens of countries any time soon.
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
The potential social media mandate being proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would apply to anyone visiting, whether they require a visa or not.
news.sky.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This sounds quite difficult to administer.
At least the US isn’t due to host any major international sporting events attracting fans from dozens of countries any time soon.
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
At least the US isn’t due to host any major international sporting events attracting fans from dozens of countries any time soon.
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
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Still beautiful though…
December 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Still beautiful though…
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Christmas lights
December 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Christmas lights
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AN OLD MAN RANTS: increasingly coming across waiters chummily asking ‘what have you been up to this morning?’ while taking a lunch order or ‘any plans for the rest of the day?’ Obv they mean it kindly. But JUST STOP IT. You don’t know if I’ve been to a funeral, or am going for a prostate exam 1/2
December 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
AN OLD MAN RANTS: increasingly coming across waiters chummily asking ‘what have you been up to this morning?’ while taking a lunch order or ‘any plans for the rest of the day?’ Obv they mean it kindly. But JUST STOP IT. You don’t know if I’ve been to a funeral, or am going for a prostate exam 1/2
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After spreading racist disinformation about Sadiq Khan last week, the Conservative party's leader on the London Assembly is now spreading a fake story that an Irish teacher has been sentenced to life in prison for using the wrong pronouns.
The teacher was actually sentenced for contempt of court
The teacher was actually sentenced for contempt of court
December 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
After spreading racist disinformation about Sadiq Khan last week, the Conservative party's leader on the London Assembly is now spreading a fake story that an Irish teacher has been sentenced to life in prison for using the wrong pronouns.
The teacher was actually sentenced for contempt of court
The teacher was actually sentenced for contempt of court
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So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"
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'Way home' by contemporary German artist Katja Lang #WomensArt
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 AM
'Way home' by contemporary German artist Katja Lang #WomensArt
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Now imagine Stephen Pollard and the Jewish Chronicle's reaction if the revelations about historic antisemitism had concerned Jeremy Corbyn or Keir Starmer or indeed anyone on the centre/left.
It's a level of grotesque, cynical hypocrisy that I genuinely find quite hard to process.
It's a level of grotesque, cynical hypocrisy that I genuinely find quite hard to process.
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Now imagine Stephen Pollard and the Jewish Chronicle's reaction if the revelations about historic antisemitism had concerned Jeremy Corbyn or Keir Starmer or indeed anyone on the centre/left.
It's a level of grotesque, cynical hypocrisy that I genuinely find quite hard to process.
It's a level of grotesque, cynical hypocrisy that I genuinely find quite hard to process.
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After the sudden death of Jonathan Main at @booksellercrow.bsky.social, some local authors decided to organise a Christmas signing to help the bookshop make some much-needed ££. If you'd like to help, come on down! And preorder books! booksellercrow.co.uk/shop-tag/lou... I'm on at 2pm!
December 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
After the sudden death of Jonathan Main at @booksellercrow.bsky.social, some local authors decided to organise a Christmas signing to help the bookshop make some much-needed ££. If you'd like to help, come on down! And preorder books! booksellercrow.co.uk/shop-tag/lou... I'm on at 2pm!
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Rosencrantz: Did you ever think of yourself as actually dead, lying in a box with a lid on it?
Guildenstern: No.
Rosencrantz: Nor do I, really. It's silly to be depressed by it.
RIP, Tom Stoppard...
Guildenstern: No.
Rosencrantz: Nor do I, really. It's silly to be depressed by it.
RIP, Tom Stoppard...
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Rosencrantz: Did you ever think of yourself as actually dead, lying in a box with a lid on it?
Guildenstern: No.
Rosencrantz: Nor do I, really. It's silly to be depressed by it.
RIP, Tom Stoppard...
Guildenstern: No.
Rosencrantz: Nor do I, really. It's silly to be depressed by it.
RIP, Tom Stoppard...
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It’s been 60 yrs since Arlo Guthrie was arrested in Massaschusetts. You may have heard the story.👮🏻♂️
Guthrie reflects on his tale becoming the (unofficial) official song of Thanksgiving & on the Guthrie Center's 20th annual free Thanksgiving dinner in Great Barrington
www.boston.com/news/environ...
Guthrie reflects on his tale becoming the (unofficial) official song of Thanksgiving & on the Guthrie Center's 20th annual free Thanksgiving dinner in Great Barrington
www.boston.com/news/environ...
It's been 60 years since Arlo Guthrie was arrested in Massaschusetts. You may have heard the story.
Arlo Guthrie was arrested in Massachusetts 60 years ago and his tale became the unnofficial song of Thanksgiving.
www.boston.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
It’s been 60 yrs since Arlo Guthrie was arrested in Massaschusetts. You may have heard the story.👮🏻♂️
Guthrie reflects on his tale becoming the (unofficial) official song of Thanksgiving & on the Guthrie Center's 20th annual free Thanksgiving dinner in Great Barrington
www.boston.com/news/environ...
Guthrie reflects on his tale becoming the (unofficial) official song of Thanksgiving & on the Guthrie Center's 20th annual free Thanksgiving dinner in Great Barrington
www.boston.com/news/environ...
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There's an advert on his website for a 'Depot Supervisor' that pays £12.75 an hour for shift work.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
There's an advert on his website for a 'Depot Supervisor' that pays £12.75 an hour for shift work.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
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They really don't want to share any interior shots but when they do, you just know that unspeakable acts have been committed within... www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Check out this 3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale on Rightmove
3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale in 75 Camden Mews, Camden, London, NW1 9BY, NW1 for £925,000. Marketed by Auction House London, Hampstead
www.rightmove.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
They really don't want to share any interior shots but when they do, you just know that unspeakable acts have been committed within... www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...