Angela Kail
@angelakail.bsky.social
Charity sector and education mainly
100% agree with this. Never understood why people tell their children that all their presents come from Santa.
Got asked to share my awkward views about Santa in a piece for @theguardian.com. First time having a piece like this in a national, what a way to wind up 2025. If you want to see me have a good Xmas roast, check the comments 😎
Thanks @jonnelledge.bsky.social for helping with the pitch. 🙏
Thanks @jonnelledge.bsky.social for helping with the pitch. 🙏
My family has never believed in Father Christmas – I don't want to hurt my kids if the money ever runs out | Matt Taylor
I would never want them to feel that they had been naughty if I couldn’t afford their gifts one year, says writer and music producer Matt Taylor
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
100% agree with this. Never understood why people tell their children that all their presents come from Santa.
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How investors plunder the care system: the owners of the children’s homes company Your Chapter have paid themselves £11 million in dividends this year.
December 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
How investors plunder the care system: the owners of the children’s homes company Your Chapter have paid themselves £11 million in dividends this year.
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“When they are defending their liberal democracy, they are in fact defending ours as well.”
ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus shares a Christmas message with #Newsnight and says that the Ukrainians “deserve all the support they can have from us.”
ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus shares a Christmas message with #Newsnight and says that the Ukrainians “deserve all the support they can have from us.”
December 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“When they are defending their liberal democracy, they are in fact defending ours as well.”
ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus shares a Christmas message with #Newsnight and says that the Ukrainians “deserve all the support they can have from us.”
ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus shares a Christmas message with #Newsnight and says that the Ukrainians “deserve all the support they can have from us.”
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Russia sends stolen Ukrainian children to North Korea to become militarized.
December 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Russia sends stolen Ukrainian children to North Korea to become militarized.
I’m so excited it’s finally Budget Day after months of speculation!
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I’m so excited it’s finally Budget Day after months of speculation!
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
This is just funny. southwarknews.co.uk/news/news-pl...
southwarknews.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:03 AM
This is just funny. southwarknews.co.uk/news/news-pl...
No! Just put them up and put us out of our misery
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
No! Just put them up and put us out of our misery
This is really sad, QEF is a charity that has helped a few people I know. It’s very tough for charities right now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leatherhead charity for disabled people to close after 90 years - BBC News
The QEF says it is winding down as it faces a "challenging financial situation".
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This is really sad, QEF is a charity that has helped a few people I know. It’s very tough for charities right now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It’s funny that the BBC is in a fight for its life as it starts BBC Children in Need week. Radio 2 is dedicating most of the week to this important fundraising activity. There are many reasons to fight to save the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
It’s funny that the BBC is in a fight for its life as it starts BBC Children in Need week. Radio 2 is dedicating most of the week to this important fundraising activity. There are many reasons to fight to save the BBC.
This is great. I first heard of this when we were buying our house and the searches revealed it had been bought up by the council because it was going to be part of the Peckham ring way. So difficult to believe now that we wanted to be like an American city.
Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...
Would your home have been under a motorway?
"The most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London," says the man who has spent twenty years researching the first true map of the unbuilt Ringways.
substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This is great. I first heard of this when we were buying our house and the searches revealed it had been bought up by the council because it was going to be part of the Peckham ring way. So difficult to believe now that we wanted to be like an American city.
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Can’t believe MainFT beat @theonion.com to this scoop www.ft.com/content/b7f6...
Fifa to award new ‘peace prize’ in Washington next month
Head of football governing body is close ally of Donald Trump, fuelling speculation that US president may be first recipient
www.ft.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Can’t believe MainFT beat @theonion.com to this scoop www.ft.com/content/b7f6...
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This is a really good piece from @joshglancy.bsky.social. Far from “whataboutery“, it’s a genuine attempt to to wrestle with a disturbing and peculiar feature of contemporary politics, namely “why is the world quite so obsessed with Israel and Palestine?” www.jewishnews.co.uk/the-world-wa...
The world was outraged by Gaza. So why doesn’t it care about Sudan? - Jewish News
Sudan’s horror is plain to see. The hypocrisy and indifference is harder to watch
www.jewishnews.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This is a really good piece from @joshglancy.bsky.social. Far from “whataboutery“, it’s a genuine attempt to to wrestle with a disturbing and peculiar feature of contemporary politics, namely “why is the world quite so obsessed with Israel and Palestine?” www.jewishnews.co.uk/the-world-wa...
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"Sometimes you have to ask yourself: How did I get here—sitting in Saudi Arabia, listening to Louis C.K. do jokes about Barely Legal magazine?"
I went to Riyadh to see the transformation of a country with the world's biggest cultural chequebook. Gift link:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I went to Riyadh to see the transformation of a country with the world's biggest cultural chequebook. Gift link:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
How Many Comedians Does It Take to Change a Country?
What it’s like to watch Louis C.K. do stand-up in Saudi Arabia
www.theatlantic.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"Sometimes you have to ask yourself: How did I get here—sitting in Saudi Arabia, listening to Louis C.K. do jokes about Barely Legal magazine?"
I went to Riyadh to see the transformation of a country with the world's biggest cultural chequebook. Gift link:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I went to Riyadh to see the transformation of a country with the world's biggest cultural chequebook. Gift link:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
In Ireland and I’ve been saying all day how it’s now really obvious Ireland is richer than the UK, and people have been surprised. Then in the airport, a robot brought me my food! Too rich for human waiters!
October 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
In Ireland and I’ve been saying all day how it’s now really obvious Ireland is richer than the UK, and people have been surprised. Then in the airport, a robot brought me my food! Too rich for human waiters!
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How Trump companies made $1bn from crypto. Outstanding investigative reporting from a crack FT team.
on.ft.com/47bNR2L
on.ft.com/47bNR2L
FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto
[FREE TO READ] The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies
on.ft.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:43 AM
How Trump companies made $1bn from crypto. Outstanding investigative reporting from a crack FT team.
on.ft.com/47bNR2L
on.ft.com/47bNR2L
After ages wondering why there are no luggage racks on the Elizabeth line, I’ve just twigged that you’re meant to put your suitcase under your seat.
October 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
After ages wondering why there are no luggage racks on the Elizabeth line, I’ve just twigged that you’re meant to put your suitcase under your seat.
I’m so glad other people hate what audible did to Pratchett’s books.
“May your favourite authors get big enough that their audiobooks get a cast of more than one actor.” - ancient Cockney curse.
October 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I’m so glad other people hate what audible did to Pratchett’s books.
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It's hard to know how best to mark the death of Jilly Cooper - there is no Concorde to bonk on and I don't have a horse to go and pour out my feelings to in the stables while being groped by an aristo. Perhaps just a glass of fizz and a bracing walk with an unusually sensitive dog.
October 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
It's hard to know how best to mark the death of Jilly Cooper - there is no Concorde to bonk on and I don't have a horse to go and pour out my feelings to in the stables while being groped by an aristo. Perhaps just a glass of fizz and a bracing walk with an unusually sensitive dog.
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On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
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First time this guy has ever made me laugh
September 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
First time this guy has ever made me laugh
Interesting piece on why we have so many potholes, and why the M40 doesn’t. Poor construction supervision and no maintenance. www.thetimes.com/uk/transport...
The real reason Britain has so many potholes
Hardly anyone noticed the change, but it put our roads in such trouble that no amount of hole-filling can fix it. Luckily there are other solutions
www.thetimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Interesting piece on why we have so many potholes, and why the M40 doesn’t. Poor construction supervision and no maintenance. www.thetimes.com/uk/transport...
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Only @timharford.ft.com could use the fact that he was Liz Truss’s tutorial partner as a throwaway paragraph in a piece about the mathematics underpinning economics. Lesser columnists would have squeezed ten articles out of this coincidence by now
on.ft.com/4ntbSJC
on.ft.com/4ntbSJC
September 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Only @timharford.ft.com could use the fact that he was Liz Truss’s tutorial partner as a throwaway paragraph in a piece about the mathematics underpinning economics. Lesser columnists would have squeezed ten articles out of this coincidence by now
on.ft.com/4ntbSJC
on.ft.com/4ntbSJC
Just had a Pret sandwich which didn’t have enough mayonnaise in it, and I think that’s one of the signs of the apocalypse
September 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Just had a Pret sandwich which didn’t have enough mayonnaise in it, and I think that’s one of the signs of the apocalypse