Tom Sutcliffe
@tds153.bsky.social
Presenter, Radio Four’s Front Row and Start the Week.
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An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
This is a great read... "Florida is where you go when you’ve done something wrong. California is where you go when you’ve done something wrong and want to be pretentious about it."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Tell-Nothing Memoir
Can “American Canto” turn scandal into literature?
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This is a great read... "Florida is where you go when you’ve done something wrong. California is where you go when you’ve done something wrong and want to be pretentious about it."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
If that’s true shouldn’t someone wake him up?
December 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
If that’s true shouldn’t someone wake him up?
Coughing. Overrated pleasure.
December 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Coughing. Overrated pleasure.
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I see America has invented the roundabout
Keene, NH has been replacing their stop-lighted intersections with roundabouts, resulting in big reductions in pollution, accidents & injuries, and costs. “Slowly moving is better than waiting at a light any day.” [nytimes.com]
Cutting Emissions, the Roundabout Way, in New Hampshire
Despite its small stature, the city of Keene, has become an example of the safety and climate benefits of swapping traffic lights for roundabouts.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I see America has invented the roundabout
Sad to hear of the death of Andreas Whittam-Smith. A great editor to work for — omnivorously curious, enthusiastic and eccentric in all the right ways.
December 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Sad to hear of the death of Andreas Whittam-Smith. A great editor to work for — omnivorously curious, enthusiastic and eccentric in all the right ways.
A very big tree has fallen. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A very big tree has fallen. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Bending my mind with this today for Start the Week. I currently exist in a superposition of dawning comprehension and complete bafflement. But hey, even Einstein found it hard to get his head round the idea. Collapse of my wave form on Monday at 9:00 on Radio Four.
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Bending my mind with this today for Start the Week. I currently exist in a superposition of dawning comprehension and complete bafflement. But hey, even Einstein found it hard to get his head round the idea. Collapse of my wave form on Monday at 9:00 on Radio Four.
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Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
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The Twitter/X account geolocation feature should be treated with scepticism (FREE TO READ!)
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-twitte...
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-twitte...
The Twitter/X account geolocation feature should be treated with scepticism
And surely BBC Verify should actually... verify... things?
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The Twitter/X account geolocation feature should be treated with scepticism (FREE TO READ!)
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-twitte...
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-twitte...
The only circumstances in which it’s acceptable to wear pajamas on a flight.
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The only circumstances in which it’s acceptable to wear pajamas on a flight.
I didn’t like Wicked back when it wasn’t fashionable.
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I didn’t like Wicked back when it wasn’t fashionable.
Grok? Is Elon more like Beavis or Butthead?
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Grok? Is Elon more like Beavis or Butthead?
Such a useful quantity the “drove”. How many entrepreneurs does it take to form a stampede? Don’t worry, you don’t have to say!
www.thetimes.com/article/ecdc...
www.thetimes.com/article/ecdc...
Entrepreneurs are leaving the UK in droves, minister admits
The business secretary says tax rises have led to an exodus of the wealthy but he claims others are attracted to Britain because of ‘excitement’ in the economy
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Such a useful quantity the “drove”. How many entrepreneurs does it take to form a stampede? Don’t worry, you don’t have to say!
www.thetimes.com/article/ecdc...
www.thetimes.com/article/ecdc...
Feeling a bit Monday morning today. But then I saw this and cheered up. Clickbait advertising — a never-failing spring of comedy.
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Feeling a bit Monday morning today. But then I saw this and cheered up. Clickbait advertising — a never-failing spring of comedy.
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Can't seem to get backing for my film project "Noah: The Early Years". They all say the narrative lacks an ark.
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Can't seem to get backing for my film project "Noah: The Early Years". They all say the narrative lacks an ark.
Has the Archer’s editor been kidnapped by the Blackpool Tourist Board?
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Has the Archer’s editor been kidnapped by the Blackpool Tourist Board?
I have fixed the bathroom blind. Please don’t make any loud noises or tread too heavily on the landing. Only faith is keeping it up there.
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I have fixed the bathroom blind. Please don’t make any loud noises or tread too heavily on the landing. Only faith is keeping it up there.
Not bloody quiet enough…
The fear of not having enough money is familiar. But there’s a quieter struggle at the top: feeling uncomfortable with having too much, says money psychotherapist Vicky Reynal ⬇️
Why my ultra-rich clients are ashamed of their wealth
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Not bloody quiet enough…
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If hadn’t lived through it, I would struggle to believe that the world’s richest man built an AI to glorify himself.
Musk's ego was mortally wounded by Joyce Carol Oates and he's been on a narcissistic supply bender since
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If hadn’t lived through it, I would struggle to believe that the world’s richest man built an AI to glorify himself.
I love “while not Olympian”. One of the ten greatest minds in history but modest with it.
November 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I love “while not Olympian”. One of the ten greatest minds in history but modest with it.
I’m anosmic. I can’t (to save my life) smell gas. But the other night I had a vivid dream about a gas leak which I couldn’t fix. In the morning my wife came up from the kitchen (3 floors down) and said that a gas tap had been left slightly on all night. So, maybe I can smell after all?
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I’m anosmic. I can’t (to save my life) smell gas. But the other night I had a vivid dream about a gas leak which I couldn’t fix. In the morning my wife came up from the kitchen (3 floors down) and said that a gas tap had been left slightly on all night. So, maybe I can smell after all?
Waves in Margate: Bridget Riley Streak 3, Turner view of Margate in a storm, the North Sea.
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Waves in Margate: Bridget Riley Streak 3, Turner view of Margate in a storm, the North Sea.
Paul Murray’s The Mark and The Void available on Kindle for 99p. I mean obviously you’re supporting a rapacious, rent-extracting, democracy-distorting monopoly. But still. 99p.
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Paul Murray’s The Mark and The Void available on Kindle for 99p. I mean obviously you’re supporting a rapacious, rent-extracting, democracy-distorting monopoly. But still. 99p.