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Of all the things to admit on the internet, “I don’t know how bananas work” is one of the funniest

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 15h ago

Spoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.

RAIN in Crystal Palace! For at least 30 seconds!

The lovely Mo Starkey would have been 80 yesterday. I'd bet she'd still be the Beatles' number-one fan.

Favourite quote: "When it comes to meeting world leaders, they’re not going to go, ‘Oh, he likes The Smiths, so we’ll do a deal with him’."

“He might be hopeless, but he seems genuine”: My focus groups on the early days of Andy Burnham - Lord Ashcroft Polls

My latest focus groups took place in Wallsend, Norwich and Lowestoft, where recently disgruntled 2024 Labour voters – and some opponents – told us what they made of Andy Burnham’s first days as prime ...

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Well done to the PR team at Godshill Model Village.

Vicki Wickham decided she deserved the lifetime achievement award – "for being the only person who ever managed Morrissey and got paid". Lovely and fascinating tribute by Simon Napier-Bell. open.substack.com/pub/simonnap...

VICKI

MEMORIES OF MY FRIEND VICKI WICKHAM WHO DIED A FEW DAYS AGO

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The borders of the U.K. have been in place since 1922.

Pascal Jacquemain@jacquep.bsky.social · 24h ago

Rosindell is mad as a box of frogfaces.

This weather is costing me a fortune in iced coffee

Back when I had Twitter I used to offer free headshots for low-income authors, not sure I have much reach here but the offer is still there. London or Birmingham (although I’m in Glasgow and Edinburgh at the end of Aug and can fit in a session. Will have lights so can be indoors).

No, AI subtitle generator, Tom Waits is singing not clearing his throat.

Might try this line if I ever miss a deadline, see how far I get.

Blue Tapes@bluetapes.bsky.social · yesterday

Gonna start saying “you just need to embrace that because I tried my best” whenever questioned

Popping out to buy a wax tablet and stylus.

A liquid eyeliner pen called One-Day Tattoo, which I bought in a panic in Tokyo for about £3 and turned out to be infinitely better than Chanel's £45 gunk.

Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social · 2d ago

What is your favorite example of when the cheap version of a product is legit better than the expensive one?

Eduardo Paolozzi, Wittgenstein in N.Y. (1964) MoMA Object number 2395.1967

Steelworks, West Hartlepool, 1963, photo by Colin Jones (1936-2021).

'The hat-mad Ferrari collector' @secondmentions.com

what's next? my taxes paying for roads I may never drive on?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

And they all email every pitch three times "in case this got buried." Girl who do you think buried it

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 2d ago

There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I’m not a massive Jazz fan but this seems a bit extreme

My abiding memory of 1976 is climbing into a dodgem in Mold, North Wales and finding that the floor of the car is a roiling, seething carpet of ladybirds.

'Or that, if they only chose, They could alter things back to when they danced all night' www.independent.co.uk/voices/phili...

A PM who reads Philip Larkin is exactly what Britain needs

Andy Burnham’s admiration for a conservative poet often dismissed today as curmudgeonly reveals a prime minister who is more complicated than he may appear, says Rosie Millard

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It's weird reading John L Williams' (v good) Heatwave, about the summer of 1976, and seeing temperatures over 32 described as so extreme that people lost their minds. At least it seems they invented road-building material that doesn't melt. And we don't have a ladybird plague.

Sorry but unless you, as a media outlet, have managed to get someone from the Navy (probably a former sailor because those currently serving maybe disbarred from commenting) to explain that this is extremely unlikely to happen for legal reasons, then, arguably, you haven't really done your job.

Politics latest: Reform wants to use Navy to stop small boats after Burnham vows to be 'relentless' in tackling crossings

Reform UK says a Nigel Farage-led government would send the Royal Navy into the Channel to intercept all migrant boats - and is accused by Labour of "reheating" old proposals. Follow the latest.

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Morocco counts its dead and missing after mass swim to Ceuta ft.trib.al/AlyerwG

Morocco counts its dead and missing after mass swim to Ceuta

Families search for children not seen since 60,000 people crossed into Spanish enclave, as death toll rises to 72

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At the start of 2026 there were two print outlets at Brixton tube. The kiosk inside the station closed in January due to tfl rent rises. Now what was WH Smith’s is going. Yes ‘old man shakes fist at clouds’ vibe. But also it’s sad. Buys sub to @privateeyenews.bsky.social and @thefence.bsky.social

No.

At least 67 people died on the Ceuta border.

This by my old Army buddy @stuartmaconie.bsky.social is wonderful and surprisingly moving.

Ed Ruscha's Los Angeles roof-top series, part of the Portrait of a City exhibition of 20th-century American photography at the Dulwich Picture Gallery.