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Sarah Slade
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Middle-aged, middle-sized, recovering Gen X workaholic, ARMY, OT7, INFJ, PTID, embarrassing parent, Archers Listener. Truly I am Everywoman. Also jazz. And cats. And yelling at the Today programme. If I don’t know you, don’t DM me.
How come World Service journos seem to be the only BBC journalists doing actual reporting?
January 27, 2026 at 6:38 AM
A “ski village”. In the desert.
Thinking of the hundreds of London lobbyists, architects, PR advisers, engineers, etc who managed to buy a house in Clapham after a few years work on whatever this was.
Saudi Arabia to scale back Neom megaproject ft.trib.al/fdrazIJ
January 25, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Ha! Two of the larger landowners in the area conspiring to do an uppity member of the lower orders on hay prices. Defeated! #thearchers
January 25, 2026 at 11:41 AM
When a person mutters “Yellow car” on the motorway so quietly his wife doesn’t hear him, does it count?
January 25, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Irish Traitors is on BBC Iplayer at last. They all look a whole lot more fun than the UK lot
January 24, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Stephen is in danger of drowning in a puddle made of his own sweat #TraitorsUK
January 23, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Poundshop Selecter via Hazel O’Connor? #TOTP
January 23, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Was Peter Powell ever Yewtreed? #totp
January 23, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Reading things like this makes me with the Slow Horses were real
From NYT interview with FBI official on Patel. Utterly terrifying.

"His staff only cared about three things: what his meals were, when his workouts would be and what his entertainment would be. The biggest plan is how he's going to get his girlfriend to Windsor Castle."

(Source: archive.is/ZT5qx)
January 23, 2026 at 12:51 PM
2 tix in the nosebleed seats. I could have got on the pitch but am old and I need to sit down
January 22, 2026 at 2:58 PM
You know what? Sod all this disaster and misery. BTS are playing in London on my birthday (and it’s a big one), so today am going to valiantly attempt to get two tickets.

So there. Do your worst, fascists. I don’t care.
January 22, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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Did you see the youth strategy? First in a long time. www.gov.uk/government/p...
Youth Matters: Your National Youth Strategy
www.gov.uk
January 22, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Ooooh…Invasion of the Dinosaurs with the brilliant Sarah Jane Smith. They appear to be stuck in a shed with a knife wielding Bill Oddie.

In fact the whole thing looks like an episode of The Goodies.
January 20, 2026 at 6:42 PM
After that Spectator article, we switched permanently to the World Service. I don’t think #r4today will miss us.
January 19, 2026 at 6:50 AM
Happy to help…
January 17, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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Farage and his Nazi scumbag would have this in the UK.

The current Gvmnt appear to agree with him.

The fight is on and has been for some time
The only lawless behavior I see in this video is ICE harassing and threatening people for no good reason.

ICE authority is limited by federal law. They exist for immigration enforcement only. They do not have general police powers. (8 U.S.C. § 1357)
January 17, 2026 at 6:20 AM
I think 1999 is possibly when I went full Jazz and stopped watching #totp
January 16, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Holy moly, BTS are playing London on my birthday. #btsworldtour
January 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Agree with this. From a ux perspective, a user-centred approach to developing services good content design can go a long way to restoring trust in government.

</professional soap box>

Ok, back to bitching about The Archers…
New post just out:

"Troubleshooters"

How fixing the many small frustrations - that make up most of our interactions with the state - can give people faith in goverment's ability to make things work.

And help create a different Whitehall culture.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
Troubleshooters
How to get people believing in the state again
open.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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It's amazing to watch US paramilitaries stomping through retail stores in America like this. After the Gwangju Uprising, I spent months in South Korea under the vicious dictator Chun Doo Hwan. I rarely saw ROK security forces deployed in public like this until the regime began to crumble in 1987.
January 13, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Comedy is all about timing. In this case, 3 decades.
January 12, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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The joys of contracting/freelancing. Client didn’t deliver resources so can’t carry on with job. Unexpected half day off. Whoop whoop!
January 12, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Goldfrapp’s mum is looking good #totp
January 9, 2026 at 9:57 PM
This is the last word in literal choreo. BTS could learn a thing or two from this lot (not). #totp
January 9, 2026 at 9:51 PM