Jilly Cooper forever. Devastated.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Michael Crick, journalist: ‘Today's accusation by David Lammy about Farage & the Hitler Youth probably stems from a story I did years ago about a teacher at Dulwich College writing to the headmaster to say Farage was unsuitable to be a prefect since a colleague said he had "neo-fascist" views.’

Hello good people of Bluesky, would anyone have access to a PDF of this pls:
Victorian Crime Fiction in the Twenty-First Century: A Review Essay, 2015–2024 Available to Purchase
Michael Harris-Peyton
Dickens Studies Annual (2025) 56 (2): 311–358.
doi.org/10.5325/dick...

tempt them back to room with banana

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An update on the nuns on the run.

I have rarely seen such unadulterated bollocks. I loved Twitter, it was so important for my job. Then a mad megalomaniac took it over and made it so no one would see my posts unless I paid him money - and even if I did that I would be submerged in nazi hate. But yeah this is our fault.

Ppl keep saying he’s functionally a King now but listen my country has an actual literal monarchy and no constitutionally mandated freedom of speech and they still let a prince ruin himself live on the state run television channel

well, they’ve done it. they’ve forced us to all dress up as a sexy Jimmy Kimmel for Halloween in protest

*waits for all the men to rush in and defend Corbyn as they do every. single. time.*

Vomiting my way thru the PM’s speech. www.gov.uk/government/s...

Look who came with

What’s the opposite of anti-fascism?

Thank God we don’t have the cancellation of satirical comedy in this country. I can’t wait to see how they deal with the Trump visit on The Mash Report, Mock The Week and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order!

just breathtakingly awful

“I don’t think the government can afford to bury our heads in the sand about the fact that trans people in our country today feel less safe than they did 10 years ago.”

Do you think he practiced that in the mirror?

HACK. THE. PLANET.

Surely the most shocking news to be reported today was that Number 10 had a Director of Strategy.

[ me watching all the comments saying it doesn't matter, when, as a bisexual (and a historian of sex), seeing Mary Shelley's lived reality is fundamentally COOL ]