Róisín Lanigan
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
author columnist and gossip
what's the happiest place in england like on the saddest day of the year? and WHY does it smell like that?? i investigate for @dispatchmedia.bsky.social dispatch-media.com/how-to-be-ha...
How to be happy in England
A visit to England's happiest town • On the saddest day of the year • How does Skipton do it?
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January 27, 2026 at 10:09 AM
what's the happiest place in england like on the saddest day of the year? and WHY does it smell like that?? i investigate for @dispatchmedia.bsky.social dispatch-media.com/how-to-be-ha...
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Skipton in North Yorkshire is officially the "happiest place in England".
But what's it like on the most miserable day of the year?
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports:
dispatch-media.com/how-to-be-ha...
But what's it like on the most miserable day of the year?
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports:
dispatch-media.com/how-to-be-ha...
January 27, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Skipton in North Yorkshire is officially the "happiest place in England".
But what's it like on the most miserable day of the year?
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports:
dispatch-media.com/how-to-be-ha...
But what's it like on the most miserable day of the year?
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports:
dispatch-media.com/how-to-be-ha...
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This is a brilliant dispatch from Nottingham, the table top gaming capital of the world, and its "lead belt"
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The Warhammer capital of the world
Nottingham has a new export • From coal mines to Games Workshop • Even the Freemasons have noticed
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January 8, 2026 at 11:11 AM
This is a brilliant dispatch from Nottingham, the table top gaming capital of the world, and its "lead belt"
dispatch-media.com/the-warhamme...
dispatch-media.com/the-warhamme...
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If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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January 7, 2026 at 8:07 AM
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@theobserveruk.bsky.social column this week is about the new frontier of aspirational parenting: being performatively crunchy observer.co.uk/news/columni...
November 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
@theobserveruk.bsky.social column this week is about the new frontier of aspirational parenting: being performatively crunchy observer.co.uk/news/columni...
i HATE let them theory observer.co.uk/news/columni...
The Let Them Theory may be ‘non-fiction’ but it has no facts
Mel Robbins’s bestseller has sold seven million copies and even been anointed by Oprah, but it’s the worst kind of advice for young women
observer.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
i HATE let them theory observer.co.uk/news/columni...
October 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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@roisinlanigan.bsky.social on Irish accents on the screen.
After more than 35 years away, my accent is apparently so diluted and distorted that I've lost count of the times my fellow Irish ask me what part of Germany I am from. (I have never lived in Germany).
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
After more than 35 years away, my accent is apparently so diluted and distorted that I've lost count of the times my fellow Irish ask me what part of Germany I am from. (I have never lived in Germany).
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘If you get it wrong, it’s sacrilegious!’ TV’s problem with Irish accents
From James Norton’s ‘terror’ at playing a Dubliner in House of Guinness to Helen Mirren doing an impersonation so atrocious it went viral – why do actors struggle to play people from Ireland?
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social on Irish accents on the screen.
After more than 35 years away, my accent is apparently so diluted and distorted that I've lost count of the times my fellow Irish ask me what part of Germany I am from. (I have never lived in Germany).
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
After more than 35 years away, my accent is apparently so diluted and distorted that I've lost count of the times my fellow Irish ask me what part of Germany I am from. (I have never lived in Germany).
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Do u think u do “a good Irish accent”? Consider this: u do not
Wrote about this for the guardian www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Wrote about this for the guardian www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘If you get it wrong, it’s sacrilegious!’ TV’s problem with Irish accents
From James Norton’s ‘terror’ at playing a Dubliner in House of Guinness to Helen Mirren doing an impersonation so atrocious it went viral – why do actors struggle to play people from Ireland?
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Do u think u do “a good Irish accent”? Consider this: u do not
Wrote about this for the guardian www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Wrote about this for the guardian www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Why is Belfast thronged with megaphones and placards? @roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports from home.
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Titanic Street Preachers
JESUS SAVES FROM HELL
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September 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Why is Belfast thronged with megaphones and placards? @roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports from home.
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i wrote about the golden age of vice for the ft www.ft.com/content/8e39...
Vice Is Broke and the risky business of selling cool
A new documentary from former Vice presenter Eddie Huang charts the media powerhouse’s rise and fall
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September 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
i wrote about the golden age of vice for the ft www.ft.com/content/8e39...
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Labour's decline in support is remarkable.
Support for Labour has fallen more sharply after this election than it has for any other winning party covered by the BESIP (though the timings between waves are not identical).
Support for Labour has fallen more sharply after this election than it has for any other winning party covered by the BESIP (though the timings between waves are not identical).
September 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Labour's decline in support is remarkable.
Support for Labour has fallen more sharply after this election than it has for any other winning party covered by the BESIP (though the timings between waves are not identical).
Support for Labour has fallen more sharply after this election than it has for any other winning party covered by the BESIP (though the timings between waves are not identical).
column this week is about flegs
August 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
column this week is about flegs
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observer column this week: make musicians poor again observer.co.uk/news/columni...
It’s our fault that Oasis are now the status quo
Liam Gallagher took a pop at the establishment in Edinburgh – but isn’t his band part of it?
observer.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
observer column this week: make musicians poor again observer.co.uk/news/columni...
wrote some things about THE PUB for @thefence.bsky.social’s book about THE PUB
August 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
wrote some things about THE PUB for @thefence.bsky.social’s book about THE PUB
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Rumour has it that Tommy Robinson has fled to Spain after reading @roisinlanigan.bsky.social's dispatch from Benidorm.
Latest here: dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...
Latest here: dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...
Benidorm's greatest patriots
A Glorious Twelfth • On the Costa del Ulster • Pass the Buckfast
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July 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Rumour has it that Tommy Robinson has fled to Spain after reading @roisinlanigan.bsky.social's dispatch from Benidorm.
Latest here: dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...
Latest here: dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...
I went on the Money's No Object podcast to talk about winning the lottery and becoming benevolently evil as a result open.spotify.com/episode/3Tvg...
Money's No Object #8: Róisín Lanigan
Money's No Object · Episode
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July 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I went on the Money's No Object podcast to talk about winning the lottery and becoming benevolently evil as a result open.spotify.com/episode/3Tvg...
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A Palestinian mother in Gaza: “My children have become skeletal, skin and bone. Even the slightest effort makes them dizzy. They are asking for food, and I have nothing to give. I can’t lie and say I’ll bring them something when I know I won’t be able to.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
A Palestinian mother in Gaza: “My children have become skeletal, skin and bone. Even the slightest effort makes them dizzy. They are asking for food, and I have nothing to give. I can’t lie and say I’ll bring them something when I know I won’t be able to.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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We dump vulnerable people (not just asylum seekers, but the homeless as well) in inadequate conditions where you can’t even store a pint of milk, and in the case of the asylum seekers, leave them to rot, and make it harder for them to integrate. Then people claim they’re living in luxury.
July 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
We dump vulnerable people (not just asylum seekers, but the homeless as well) in inadequate conditions where you can’t even store a pint of milk, and in the case of the asylum seekers, leave them to rot, and make it harder for them to integrate. Then people claim they’re living in luxury.
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What a feeling to see Fórsa on the jersey for our rising Palestinian GAA stars!
While we wish they were here in Ireland, they're instead at a summer camp in Jordan. Some of the Dublin hurlers also went over for a training, class acts.
One day we'll meet, a chairdre! 🇮🇪🇵🇸
While we wish they were here in Ireland, they're instead at a summer camp in Jordan. Some of the Dublin hurlers also went over for a training, class acts.
One day we'll meet, a chairdre! 🇮🇪🇵🇸
July 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
What a feeling to see Fórsa on the jersey for our rising Palestinian GAA stars!
While we wish they were here in Ireland, they're instead at a summer camp in Jordan. Some of the Dublin hurlers also went over for a training, class acts.
One day we'll meet, a chairdre! 🇮🇪🇵🇸
While we wish they were here in Ireland, they're instead at a summer camp in Jordan. Some of the Dublin hurlers also went over for a training, class acts.
One day we'll meet, a chairdre! 🇮🇪🇵🇸
in the new issue of @thefence.bsky.social i wrote about belfast's street preacher mania and also some status symbols for the vibeless
July 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
in the new issue of @thefence.bsky.social i wrote about belfast's street preacher mania and also some status symbols for the vibeless
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This is a fascinating essay on Paul Ray, the founder of the EDL – a strange and troubled sounding bloke @dispatchmedia.bsky.social
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The forgotten founder of the EDL
Paul Ray lit the fuse • Then disappeared • From Luton to Ukraine
dispatch-media.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This is a fascinating essay on Paul Ray, the founder of the EDL – a strange and troubled sounding bloke @dispatchmedia.bsky.social
dispatch-media.com/the-forgotte...
dispatch-media.com/the-forgotte...