Mark Ludmon
@markludmon.bsky.social
Freelance journalist, editor & ghostwriter, writing on theatre, drinks, bars etc. Theatre studies MA from Central School of Speech & Drama. Early modern literature & history postgrad. Včasih slovensko. 🌈 he/him
A clever way of highlighting how today’s transphobia is horrifyingly similar to the homophobic rhetoric of the past.
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
Have I Got Phobia For You
Bringing attention to the often harmful practices of our mainstream media. Thankfully the days of vile hostility against gay people are now more or less over, but, reading today’s newspapers, there’s ...
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
A clever way of highlighting how today’s transphobia is horrifyingly similar to the homophobic rhetoric of the past.
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
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You should act your age – at least when it comes to exercise. Here’s why
You should act your age – at least when it comes to exercise. Here’s why
Adapting your fitness routine to your physical realities can help prevent injury from over-exercising
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
You should act your age – at least when it comes to exercise. Here’s why
Born With Teeth was very entertaining, especially for someone as interested in early modern English theatre and history as me. I can’t believe I nearly missed it. Ncuti Gatwa was great but Edward Bluemel was superb as Will Shakespeare.
Looking forward to catching Born With Teeth with Ncuti Gatwa & Edward Bluemel on the show’s last day.
November 2, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Born With Teeth was very entertaining, especially for someone as interested in early modern English theatre and history as me. I can’t believe I nearly missed it. Ncuti Gatwa was great but Edward Bluemel was superb as Will Shakespeare.
Looking forward to catching Born With Teeth with Ncuti Gatwa & Edward Bluemel on the show’s last day.
November 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Looking forward to catching Born With Teeth with Ncuti Gatwa & Edward Bluemel on the show’s last day.
Still can’t get my head round the bookshop in Manchester where books are shelved by title, not by author or genre (with no consistency over whether titles starting with “The” come under T or not). I guess it suits browsing but it messed with my head too much!
October 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Still can’t get my head round the bookshop in Manchester where books are shelved by title, not by author or genre (with no consistency over whether titles starting with “The” come under T or not). I guess it suits browsing but it messed with my head too much!
A great time last night seeing Nick Winston’s wonderfully silly, arch and funny production of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein The Musical at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre. Ore Oduba is brilliant as Dr Frankenstein, leading a top-notch cast.
#Manchester #Frankenstein
#Manchester #Frankenstein
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
A great time last night seeing Nick Winston’s wonderfully silly, arch and funny production of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein The Musical at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre. Ore Oduba is brilliant as Dr Frankenstein, leading a top-notch cast.
#Manchester #Frankenstein
#Manchester #Frankenstein
At Manchester Victoria station and there’s a long queue for Greggs while the Starbucks is virtually deserted.
#Greggs #Manchester
#Greggs #Manchester
October 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
At Manchester Victoria station and there’s a long queue for Greggs while the Starbucks is virtually deserted.
#Greggs #Manchester
#Greggs #Manchester
Spicing up a grim northern work trip by spending an evening with Young Frankenstein at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre! 👻
@hopemill.bsky.social #manchester #theatre #frankenstein
@hopemill.bsky.social #manchester #theatre #frankenstein
October 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Spicing up a grim northern work trip by spending an evening with Young Frankenstein at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre! 👻
@hopemill.bsky.social #manchester #theatre #frankenstein
@hopemill.bsky.social #manchester #theatre #frankenstein
“Sorry I was a bit late for our meeting but I was distracted by an alpaca chasing a goat”
Vauxhall City Farm is always worth a detour.
#vauxhall
Vauxhall City Farm is always worth a detour.
#vauxhall
October 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
“Sorry I was a bit late for our meeting but I was distracted by an alpaca chasing a goat”
Vauxhall City Farm is always worth a detour.
#vauxhall
Vauxhall City Farm is always worth a detour.
#vauxhall
Riot Women is as glorious as everyone’s been telling me.
#RiotWomen
#RiotWomen
October 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Riot Women is as glorious as everyone’s been telling me.
#RiotWomen
#RiotWomen
The BBC adaptation of Rónán Hession’s Leonard & Hungry Paul is utterly charming, with a great cast led by Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston & Jamie-Lee O'Donnell. How could I resist the story of a sad socially inadequate ghost writer?
#LeonardAndHungryPaul
#LeonardAndHungryPaul
October 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The BBC adaptation of Rónán Hession’s Leonard & Hungry Paul is utterly charming, with a great cast led by Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston & Jamie-Lee O'Donnell. How could I resist the story of a sad socially inadequate ghost writer?
#LeonardAndHungryPaul
#LeonardAndHungryPaul
Another “Brexit benefit”? A clothing company is exiting the UK market after 25 years because of “the complexity and cost of cross-border operations between the UK and Europe in the current trade environment”.
#Brexit
#Brexit
The owner of Mantis and Babybugz has today announced that the two garment brands are exiting the UK market as it focuses its operations on the rest of Europe.
imagesmag.uk/mantis-exit
#MantisWorld #mantis #babybugz #brexit #GarmentPrinting #GarmentDecoration
imagesmag.uk/mantis-exit
#MantisWorld #mantis #babybugz #brexit #GarmentPrinting #GarmentDecoration
Mantis and Babybugz to exit UK market - Images magazine
L-Shop-Team has announced that garment brands Mantis and Babybugz are exiting the UK market as it focuses operations on the rest of Europe
imagesmag.uk
October 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Another “Brexit benefit”? A clothing company is exiting the UK market after 25 years because of “the complexity and cost of cross-border operations between the UK and Europe in the current trade environment”.
#Brexit
#Brexit
More nonsense. It’s a good thing that UK-born British citizens don’t need to be proficient to “A Level English” standard (whatever that means). Literacy surveys show the average reading age among British adults is 9 to 11.
(Also B1 is NOT equivalent to GCSE English.)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
(Also B1 is NOT equivalent to GCSE English.)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK - BBC News
The tougher rules will come in force in January as part of wider plans to cut immigration.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
More nonsense. It’s a good thing that UK-born British citizens don’t need to be proficient to “A Level English” standard (whatever that means). Literacy surveys show the average reading age among British adults is 9 to 11.
(Also B1 is NOT equivalent to GCSE English.)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
(Also B1 is NOT equivalent to GCSE English.)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Loving new BBC3 comedy Film Club with a super cast led by Aimee Lou Wood & Nabhaan Rizwan plus Suranne Jones fabulous as mum Suz.
October 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Loving new BBC3 comedy Film Club with a super cast led by Aimee Lou Wood & Nabhaan Rizwan plus Suranne Jones fabulous as mum Suz.
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‘Under 5ft 5in? Forget about being a prince!’ How the Royal Ballet school is kicking out the old rules
‘Under 5ft 5in? Forget about being a prince!’ How the Royal Ballet school is kicking out the old rules
What will the ballet dancer of the future look like? We visit the hunting lodge where the next generation are being trained – and find huge changes are under way
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
‘Under 5ft 5in? Forget about being a prince!’ How the Royal Ballet school is kicking out the old rules
I know I overslept this morning but did I miss something that explains why Google is giving me dates in the Persian calendar?!
October 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I know I overslept this morning but did I miss something that explains why Google is giving me dates in the Persian calendar?!
I find it very concerning that a police commissioner is allying herself with an anti-LGBT+ organisation, especially as her beat covers Brighton.
The Conservative Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner to open the FiLiA hate conference, with this coded incitement to hatred.
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I find it very concerning that a police commissioner is allying herself with an anti-LGBT+ organisation, especially as her beat covers Brighton.
I appreciate there might be people who admire Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life as a creative work but are there “fans” of what must be the darkest, most depressing book that most of us will ever read?
October 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I appreciate there might be people who admire Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life as a creative work but are there “fans” of what must be the darkest, most depressing book that most of us will ever read?
If you want to remember the legacy of Margaret Thatcher, don’t miss Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho at Wilton’s: a brilliant, scathing and hilarious satire revisiting Section 28 and homophobia under Thatcher.
wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/mar... #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher
wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/mar... #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho - Wilton's Music Hall
James Seabright by arrangement with Áine Flanagan presents Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho We are 100! Maggie returns in her smash hit drag extravaganza to mark the centenary of her epic arrival on ...
wiltons.org.uk
October 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
If you want to remember the legacy of Margaret Thatcher, don’t miss Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho at Wilton’s: a brilliant, scathing and hilarious satire revisiting Section 28 and homophobia under Thatcher.
wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/mar... #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher
wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/mar... #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher
Visited Quantum Untangled, a fascinating new (free) exhibition at Science Gallery London near London Bridge, featuring artwork inspired by quantum physics. Pictured are installations by Robin Baumgarten and Conrad Shawcross - best observed in person.
#quantumphysics #quantummechanics
#quantumphysics #quantummechanics
October 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Visited Quantum Untangled, a fascinating new (free) exhibition at Science Gallery London near London Bridge, featuring artwork inspired by quantum physics. Pictured are installations by Robin Baumgarten and Conrad Shawcross - best observed in person.
#quantumphysics #quantummechanics
#quantumphysics #quantummechanics
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How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
October 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
I’m hoping I understand this a bit better after going to the Quantum Untangled exhibition at Science Gallery London this evening.
Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on quantum mechanics
Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on quantum mechanics
Trio led experiments demonstrating that bizarre properties of quantum world can translate into measurable effects in the everyday
The Nobel prize in physics 2025 has been awarded to British, French and American scientists for their work on quantum mechanics.
John Clarke, a British physicist based at the University of California at Berkeley, Michel Devoret, a French physicist based at Yale University, and John Martinis, of the University of California Santa Barbara, share the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I’m hoping I understand this a bit better after going to the Quantum Untangled exhibition at Science Gallery London this evening.
The non-deranged reality of what is (not) happening in Portland OR
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Nature, books and naked bike rides: Portlanders push back on Trump claims that city is ‘like living in hell’
On the ground in the Oregon city, with rich fall colors and leafy hiking trails, things look different than on Trump’s TV
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The non-deranged reality of what is (not) happening in Portland OR
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Director Miranda Cromwell has argued that being a theatre director is "virtually impossible" due to low wages 👇
Miranda Cromwell: Being a director is not a viable career anymore
Director Miranda Cromwell has argued that being a theatre director is 'virtually impossible' due to low wages
www.thestage.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Director Miranda Cromwell has argued that being a theatre director is "virtually impossible" due to low wages 👇
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Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.
news.sky.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment