Bethany Elliott
@bethanyaelliott.bsky.social
Words in Unherd, Guardian, Politico, New Statesman, The Spectator, New Humanist, The Fence, The Critic, The Daily Mash, Jamestown Foundation. Usually about Russia-Ukraine. Voice/face on BBC radio/TV and Times Radio.
My kingdom to see some of the emails Samantha Niblett MP must be receiving right now.
‘A gradual but steady loss of friends may eventually make Putin question whether grinding away for more Ukrainian territory is worth the cost.’ | Bethany Elliott unherd.com/newsroom/mod...
Modi’s Ukraine rebuke shows Putin is losing his friends
A whisper of reproach from a friend can wound in places that an enemy’s fiercest blow could never reach. That is the lesson learned by Vladimir Putin this week at the Shanghai Cooperation…
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Me for @unherd.com on Modi’s comments on the Ukraine war unherd.com/newsroom/mod...
Modi’s Ukraine rebuke shows Putin is losing his friends
A whisper of reproach from a friend can wound in places that an enemy’s fiercest blow could never reach. That is the lesson learned by Vladimir Putin this week at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation...
unherd.com
THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth
Colleague is astounded that I went to Notting Hill Carnival and didn’t dance. I was there alone, I explain. I had zero desire to get photographed and become a meme.
Is anyone else watching Mastermind 1977 on BBC4? This guy’s specialist topic is Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which does seem like cheating considering that he *is* Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Tough on the other team, that if they win a couple don’t get married #onlyconnect
The yelp I gave when Gabriel named himself ‘Sebastian Melmoth’. #bookish
*To the tune of the coca-cola advert* Carnival is coming, carnival is coming!
You know in USSR where you’d go to the store and ask “What do you have?” I just did that with the TfL woman at the tube station. ”Do you have any Circle Line today? Perhaps a lil District? And if I were to place this crisp banknote in the top pocket of your handsome fleece would that make a change?”
"This is like explaining cheese to the Taliban." - Me, in the coming months, to increasingly baffled colleagues.
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 7d agoUnbelievable: The Taliban is suppressing images of an official visit to Belarus because they showed women describing cheese and baby formula to the delegation www.rferl.org/a/taliban-ch...
I do like ‘The Rest is History’ but that Reverend Ian Paisley impersonation was almost libellous.
Report: Tim Curry's death to be investigated by suspicious group of eccentrics gathering at his house
Report: Tim Curry's death to be investigated by suspicious group of eccentrics gathering at his house
LOS ANGELES - Following the death of beloved 80-year-old British actor Tim Curry, observers have noted a coterie of anonymous upper crust suspects arriving at his mansion in order to investigate the m...
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Anyway: Beautiful Corners vinyl listening bar, Dalston.
In today’s edition of ‘Men’, one of my dining companions just asked the weirdest thing I’d ever seen on the tube and I replied - honestly - that it was a man snatching my high heeled shoe directly off my foot and making off with it. He replied quietly “Mine was two blokes transporting a fridge”.
Everyone on Bluesky should leave a sample of their voice so you can hear their posts in it while you read them.
Had French class on zoom and stepped out of office to find a man speaking French on his phone immediately outside the door. Is this like when sheepdogs hear each other? Have I accidentally summoned him?
Rewatching Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Astonishing that they thought a reference known and appreciated by late 90s children would be Davy Jones from The Monkees. There’s a Fidel Castro joke in the same episode.
The groom is booed by the bride’s female friends as he approaches as he must ‘fight’ to gain access to her. Oh fiiine. When *I* boo at weddings…
At wedding. It’s daughter of family friend, the owner of my father’s fave Indian restaurant on Canvey Island. As the groom arrives, all the bride‘s friends hold up signs demanding to see his money & know how much he has. Oh fine. When they do it, it’s adorable. But when *I* did that on first dates…
Wait, Andy Burnham sang a Smiths song in Ukraine?! Have they not suffered enough?? I love The Smiths, but we need to do all we can to make the Ukrainians’ lives happier, not sadder.
Concert. I just walked past a woman saying loudly to her group “Does anyone know what the encore is?“ and I was so tempted to stop and say “It’s when the musicians come back on to perform some more music”.
“Putin hopes we are tired. We know he is mortal.” President Zelenskyy. ㅤ He said Putin still imagines an old Ukraine that would stay silent and endure. “That Ukraine no longer exists.” ㅤ Europe once told stories of knights who faced dragons. Today Ukraine is the country doing it for real.