Tom Sutcliffe
@tds153.bsky.social
Presenter, Radio Four’s Front Row and Start the Week.
I don’t want to impugn his steadiness of hand, but isn’t this rather obviously an AI image?
February 6, 2026 at 7:17 PM
I don’t want to impugn his steadiness of hand, but isn’t this rather obviously an AI image?
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Good job I invested *my* money in a sure fire winner - digital certificates saying I own a cartoon of a monkey
February 5, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Good job I invested *my* money in a sure fire winner - digital certificates saying I own a cartoon of a monkey
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$27.2m for Michelangelo’s foot at Christie’s. That’s $1.15m per square inch.
February 5, 2026 at 6:02 PM
$27.2m for Michelangelo’s foot at Christie’s. That’s $1.15m per square inch.
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It’s not the most important thing but the world being plotted like bad television is making it pretty confusing for those trying to write good television
February 3, 2026 at 7:18 AM
It’s not the most important thing but the world being plotted like bad television is making it pretty confusing for those trying to write good television
What a piece of writing from Marilynne Robinson.
We asked the extraordinary and rightly celebrated author Marilynne Robinson to respond to events in Minneapolis. She immediately sent us a forceful and utterly direct cri de coeur. The Weekend Essay as.ft.com/r/afe4fee8-1...
Marilynne Robinson: The killings in Minneapolis
[FREE TO READ] As American cities have been left reeling by ICE federal agents, the acclaimed novelist explores the deeper conflict behind Donald Trump’s show of force
as.ft.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:43 AM
What a piece of writing from Marilynne Robinson.
“Hello…Picture desk”
“Hi. We need a picture of Mandelson and his partner…Umm…ideally….quite weaselly?”
“On it.”
“Hi. We need a picture of Mandelson and his partner…Umm…ideally….quite weaselly?”
“On it.”
I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in
Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files
more to follow
www.ft.com/content/c950...
Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files
more to follow
www.ft.com/content/c950...
Jeffrey Epstein sent £10,000 to Mandelson’s husband, emails show
Epstein sent Reinaldo Avila da Silva payment in 2009
www.ft.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:52 PM
“Hello…Picture desk”
“Hi. We need a picture of Mandelson and his partner…Umm…ideally….quite weaselly?”
“On it.”
“Hi. We need a picture of Mandelson and his partner…Umm…ideally….quite weaselly?”
“On it.”
Torn. Does my absolute boycott of all Traitoriana have a carve-out clause for a stage version written by the excellent John Finnemore?
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
The Traitors to get ‘bold and surprising’ adaptation for stage
Makers of TV series to work with Sam Mendes’ production company on theatre show to open in London in 2027
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Torn. Does my absolute boycott of all Traitoriana have a carve-out clause for a stage version written by the excellent John Finnemore?
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Wonderful helmets from the BM’s upcoming Samurai exhibition.
January 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Wonderful helmets from the BM’s upcoming Samurai exhibition.
Currently a queue of 90,000 plus people on the Natural History Museum Online shop -- because they've just unveiled new Pokémon items. Which I guess answers the question of why on earth the Natural History Museum would do a collaboration featuring a fantasy ecosystem.
January 26, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Currently a queue of 90,000 plus people on the Natural History Museum Online shop -- because they've just unveiled new Pokémon items. Which I guess answers the question of why on earth the Natural History Museum would do a collaboration featuring a fantasy ecosystem.
Weirdly appropriate
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January 26, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Weirdly appropriate
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Villains in The Night Manager: 'Come. Let us discuss our incredibly illegal arms deal in the hotel lobby using our outdoor voices.'
January 24, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Villains in The Night Manager: 'Come. Let us discuss our incredibly illegal arms deal in the hotel lobby using our outdoor voices.'
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I've done My Week: Donald Trump (again) for tomorrow. My first draft genuinely had a joke about Trump thinking there were penguins in Greenland but I took it out because it seemed too stupid.
January 23, 2026 at 11:17 PM
I've done My Week: Donald Trump (again) for tomorrow. My first draft genuinely had a joke about Trump thinking there were penguins in Greenland but I took it out because it seemed too stupid.
Was it a spelling bee..?
January 22, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Was it a spelling bee..?
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"By threatening to set off a bomb in his local McDonald's, Trump was able to persuade them to sell him a Big Mac. This is The Art Of The Deal at its most sophisticated!"
January 22, 2026 at 9:56 AM
"By threatening to set off a bomb in his local McDonald's, Trump was able to persuade them to sell him a Big Mac. This is The Art Of The Deal at its most sophisticated!"
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I’ll catch up with the Davos Amateur Dramatic Society’s production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui later. Not sure I can bear it live…
January 21, 2026 at 2:30 PM
I’ll catch up with the Davos Amateur Dramatic Society’s production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui later. Not sure I can bear it live…
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Facebook reminds me that on this day in 2017 a woman turned to me in the veg section of Sainsbury's and said "hopefully now we've left the EU we can have loose carrots that aren't wet"
January 21, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Facebook reminds me that on this day in 2017 a woman turned to me in the veg section of Sainsbury's and said "hopefully now we've left the EU we can have loose carrots that aren't wet"
I don’t know what The Seven Dials Mystery is like as a book, but as television it’s just Enid Blyton isn’t it?
January 20, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I don’t know what The Seven Dials Mystery is like as a book, but as television it’s just Enid Blyton isn’t it?
Is it an offence to *know* that the President is deranged and do nothing about it? I mean if you’re in a position to do something about it, obviously.
January 20, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Is it an offence to *know* that the President is deranged and do nothing about it? I mean if you’re in a position to do something about it, obviously.
He could wake up one morning and announce that a pink hippo had told him he was the rightful King of England and we’d STILL be hearing from thoughtful analysts of international affairs that there was method in his madness.
January 19, 2026 at 6:41 PM
He could wake up one morning and announce that a pink hippo had told him he was the rightful King of England and we’d STILL be hearing from thoughtful analysts of international affairs that there was method in his madness.
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Just for the record, and it’s insane that the mad king made me look this up, there is documentation of the US giving up all claim to Greenland to Denmark when we bought the Virgin Islands from them in 1916.
history.state.gov/historicaldo...
history.state.gov/historicaldo...
![DECLARATION
In proceeding this day to the signature of the Convention respecting the cession of the Danish West-Indian Islands to the United States of America, the undersigned Secretary of State of the United States of America, duly authorized by his Government, has the honor to declare that the Government of the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
ROBERT LANSING
New YorK, August 4, 1916.
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January 19, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Just for the record, and it’s insane that the mad king made me look this up, there is documentation of the US giving up all claim to Greenland to Denmark when we bought the Virgin Islands from them in 1916.
history.state.gov/historicaldo...
history.state.gov/historicaldo...
If FIFA was actually capable of embarrassment they'd have died of it years ago...
January 18, 2026 at 1:05 PM
If FIFA was actually capable of embarrassment they'd have died of it years ago...