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Rachel McCormack

@rmccormack.bsky.social

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[email protected] Wrote Chasing The Dram, on Radio 4’s The Kitchen Cabinet. Have a Substack on art and food and drink https://rmccormack.substack.com/

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 13d

selfies. If you take them can you tell me why?

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 23h

You in a tie is the most shocking thing tbh

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 3d

It generally goes quite badly wrong.

Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 3d

Still better than the Londoner uttering “wouldn’t it be great to sell up and move to a croft on a Scottish island?”

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 6d

I am really sorry you have to write this kind of thing Sathnam.

Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 7d

Jubilee year. It was full of nuns in April.

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 11d

Well, are you?

Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 13d

That is also an interesting concept.

Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 13d

Yes that is a very good point.

Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 13d

selfies. If you take them can you tell me why?

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 14d

Is this about Mexico and the Narcos? Or Canada?

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Sep 12

Part memoir, part environmental history, part travelogue, @dominicmhinde.bsky.social's 'Drifting north' is an engaging and original portrait of Scotland, a nation standing at an environmental crossroads.

Join us in Wigtown on 30th September, tickets:

Dominic Hinde, Drifting North: Finding the Future in Scotland's Past

tickets.wigtownbookfestival.com

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · Sep 10

This spot on and good phrasing. Now let’s see the response.

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · Sep 10

🇩🇪 German Foreign Minister Wadephul:

With drone incursion into Poland, Russia has accepted an escalation.

Russia is not ready for diplomacy, so we will give a strong response.

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · Sep 10

IT'S WEDNESDAY!

It's #buyastrangerabook day.

The grooviest of all the days.

I'll give out TWO books.

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If you'd like one, let me know.

Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · Sep 8

It‘s the entire culture, not the political one.
The world is London and the costal US for almost everything and everyone, except Melvyn Bragg.

Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · Sep 8

and we are only beginning to appeciate the unintended consequences of these things

Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · Sep 7

It‘s also the total depersonalisation of it all so there’s no connection to the people in the place when a large part of the hospitality industry is that they are hospitable.

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Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social · Sep 7

"A captivating journey through Britain and Ireland's ancient sites ... lyrical and charming ..."
Many thanks to @waterstones.bsky.social for naming Upon A White Horse as one of September's best books. www.waterstones.com/book/upon-a-...

Upon a White Horse by Peter Ross | Waterstones

Buy Upon a White Horse by Peter Ross from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

www.waterstones.com

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · Sep 5

A mob of angry drunken men screaming abuse outside an asylum hotel have defended their actions, saying all they want is for women and girls to feel safe walking the streets.

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · Sep 5

Can you adopt me? I am TIRED of cooking

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · Sep 4

Can you imagine how many bams we’ll need to take in Scotland when they extend this English repatriation policy to white people?

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · Sep 3

I managed to take him somewhere without telling him where we were going as I had told him in my head and my mother thinks this is the best revenge served cold she has witnessed.

Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · Sep 3

I had to inform the Patriarch this afternoon about the fleg wars with the saltire hanging from houses and flags.
“Well at least we know where the arseholes live, but could they not just have stuck with the Union Jack?”
What a time to be alive. . .

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · Sep 2

I mean people also share links on THREADS for God’s sake.

Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · Sep 2

I think that’s habit. Substack is its own ecosystem now.

Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · Sep 2

I think it gives journos the illusion of reach and a bigger readership tbh.
It might be worth checking where your readership actually comes from nowadays rather than the social media vibes.