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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 2d

Oh Jilly, you were just fabulous. And you gave me my name. I stole "Caitlin" from "Rivals." You were my name mother. I just wanted to be like you: www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

Jilly Cooper: the woman who taught me about sex

She invented the British bonkbuster and inspired Caitlin Moran to change her name. When they finally met, the author lived up to her legendary reputation

www.thetimes.com

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 3d

Another great series. You get the feeling with so many podcasts that the presenters have not really done the reading, with Origin Story it feels like they've done too much reading, if anything. Always wonderfully digested.

Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 7d

“Nobody explains capitalism better than Marx.”

@iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss how Karl Marx's ideas stayed relevant even after the fall of the Soviet Union.

#originstory #politics #podcast #marx

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Martha Gill @marthagill.bsky.social · 3d

The second is on a little noticed counter to the narrative that social bonds are unravelling. By almost every indicator we are becoming more isolated, polarised and antisocial. Except one. Absolutely loads of people are volunteering observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Altruism is holding Britain together | The Observer

Volunteers keep vital services afloat and offer an antidote to our ever more isolated society

observer.co.uk

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Matt Rudd @mattrudd.bsky.social · 5d

Beautiful, upsetting, maddening, heartwarming interview

What happened when @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social met her heroine Kathy Burke

www.thetimes.com/article/89f8...

What happened when Caitlin Moran met her heroine Kathy Burke

She grew up in poverty and went on to become a comedy icon and best actress winner at Cannes. Now Kathy Burke has written a shocking memoir about her childhood. Caitlin Moran meets her heroine

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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 6d

Sometimes my job reaches new levels of wish-fulfilment. This week: I finally got to meet my comedy hero, Kathy Burke. Yes, we smoked fags. And talked about her childhood, which was ... intense: www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

What happened when Caitlin Moran met her heroine Kathy Burke

She grew up in poverty and went on to become a comedy icon and best actress winner at Cannes. Now Kathy Burke has written a shocking memoir about her childhood. Caitlin Moran meets her heroine

www.thetimes.com

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 13d

Mackenzie Crook puts all the correct birdsong in the stage directions of Detectorists. Respect.

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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 13d

Girl we all do what we need to do to survive

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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 13d

Maybe I've just trained my alorithm to be spectacularly factual and progressive, but ALL I see is endless think-pieces explaining WHY immigration is a no-argument economic necessity, and HOW RADICALLY it's already been cut. How is this not crossing over into "known facts"?

Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 13d

These false beliefs do not arise in a vacuum. Yet we seem collectively incurious about their origins.

Joe Twyman @joetwyman.bsky.social · 13d

Nearly half of British adults believe a majority of immigrants to this country in the last year came here illegally.
Just under a third (32%) believe the majority came here legally and a further one in five (20%) don't know.

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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 13d

babe, if you haven't Connected by 10am it's game over

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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 13d

"Dirty pool"? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU UP TO AMERICA? WHY IS THIS A THING?

Once more, "New York Times Connections" has a BAFFLING entry: this time claiming that "Dirty pool" is a well-known "thing"

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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 13d

Any London bird-watcher would be THRILLED to spot a Redstart. Except if it was somehow madly trapped between two panes of glass in your window, and singing because it thought it was dying. This week's column: www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

I bet Martin Amis didn’t have the same WFH problems I do

‘We might have to get ready for the bird to die,’ I tell my daughter. For the rest of the day there’s an opera-sized drama — and I get no work done

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 14d

What the country needs right now to bring us all together is a disappointing Winter Wonderland.

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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 15d

I hope the Berghain is "techno techno techno"

Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 15d

Wondered if any what3words addresses consisting of a repeated word actually hit something related to the word.

It only took three attempts to find that nature.nature.nature is slap bang in the middle of Whitaker Ponds Nature Park

A screenshot of the what3words website lookup for nature.nature.nature, showing it resolving to Whitaker Ponds Nature Park in Portland, OR, USA.

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 15d

Wondered if any what3words addresses consisting of a repeated word actually hit something related to the word.

It only took three attempts to find that nature.nature.nature is slap bang in the middle of Whitaker Ponds Nature Park

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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 16d

It's on days like this that New York Times Connections really alienates the British audience.

The answer is, apparently, some mad piece of American folklore in which "Rubber baby buggy bumper" is a thing

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Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 16d

This must at least partly be due to the unwritten media rule that bad news is (almost always) bigger than good news

Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 16d

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds

open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 17d

The government is, y’know, the government. They could announce policies of their own in Monday’s papers, which the media would cover.

But instead they just leave an endless news void, and end up chasing their tails trying to keep up with Reform on its strongest issue. It’s woeful.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 17d

Reform hold a press conference every Monday, for which they trail a policy announcement in that morning’s papers. Given Monday is a slow news day, that often means they lead the papers – and so the breakfast shows, and so they set the agenda for the week.

It’s a good trick, but easy to counter!

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 17d

If you write professionally in the UK, make sure to sign up to ALCS for your fair share of royalties

ALCS @alcs.co.uk · 17d

🥳 This week, we will pay 31,487 members their share of £11,588,572!

Find out more:
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Your distribution questions answered

This week, we will pay 31,487 members their share of £11,588,572. Get answers to your most pressing questions about our latest distribution.

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 19d

[Withnail, close to tears] “I have become vulnerable in the night-time economy”.

Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 21d

Wake up Babe, a new euphemism for students getting drunk just dropped

Screenshot of a post from South Wales police. Text reads:
We are operating some additional Safety Buses in #Cardiff as the city welcomes new and returning students. So far this week more than 10 people, who have become vulnerable in the night-time economy, have been provided support and transport to a safe place.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 19d

Some people would think OK, my name's Farley Funk, that's a pretty good name for a pop star. It takes real vision to add "Jackmaster" to a name like that. #totp

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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 20d

I feel like this should pop up on everyone's computer screen or phone when they're about to start an argument online.

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20d

Why you should never argue online iandunt.substack.com/p/why-you-sh...

Why you should never argue online

Even if you win a mud fight, you're still covered in mud.

iandunt.substack.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 22d

coates is genuinely a generational writer

What are we to make of a man who called for the execution of the American president, and then was executed himself? What are we to make of an NFL that, on one hand, encourages us to "End Racism," and, on the other, urges us to commemorate an unreconstructed white supremacist? And what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk's death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don't know. But the most
telling detail in Klein's column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself.

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