Why on earth does this BBC piece on Burnham telling an interviewer the UK security services confirmed Russian interference in the Brexit referendum require a response from a pro Brexit pressure group? It's literally our Prime Minister telling us about election security. It's nothing to do with them.
A beautiful, compassionate, moving book by @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social Full of hope, he highlights people who are fighting for children, and society. “There are days when it seems the last decade or so has been a war on childhood….They were policy choices. They can be reversed.”
I too want to visit Lyme Regis after reading Remarkable Creatures. Inspirational book.
EUwatch 🇪🇺@euwatch.live · 2mo agoHow novelist Tracy Chevalier was bitten by the fossil-hunting bug
Our autumn guide is updated and free to read for another couple of weeks: www.slowtravelberlin.com/slow-travel-...
A Reform councillor is appearing in a comedy show funded by Nigel Farage. Top investigative reporting by @mrhenrymorris.substack.com For more details on this shocking show : rosieholt.seetickets.com/tour/rosie-h...
Looks like my favourite film of the year so far is another British comedy set on an island… The Incomer For all the weirdos.
Great (year old) episode with Mark Gatiss, in time for Bookish series 2. Also, a year on, Count Binface doesn’t seem so absurd… open.spotify.com/episode/5p1i...
Mark Gatiss
Trash Talk... with Count Binface · Episode
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Almost exactly ten years ago I wrote for the @bigissue.com about the work being done in Bradford backed by Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library literacy project. www.bigissuenorth.com/features/201...
Bookkeepers of Bradford - Big Issue North
Jaydon, who is four, loves hearing the clatter of the letterbox and the slap of mail on the mat at the home he shares with his dad James Lawlor on Bradford’s Canterbury estate. “He gets really excited...
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An excellent adaptation of one of one of my favourite novels on the radio 4 today. A J L Carr’s A Month in the Country. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
A Month in the Country by JL Carr (Omnibus) - BBC Sounds
A war veteran finds healing in the golden summer of a Yorkshire village.
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Another fun evening with @thepantaloons.bsky.social with The Almost Complete History of Britain. Thoroughly recommend - they are also doing Twelfth Night all around East Anglia. Perfect summer evening. thepantaloons.co.uk
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
I love books about bookshops, and this is an excellent one. Shelf Life by Michael Robb
End of tour cocktails at the Festival Hall, and a proper end of term feel to the gig - what a celebration! @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social can be in no doubt how much they are loved.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce on what childhood looks like now - ‘We’ve treated a generation of children now at school with carelessness’
Frank Cottrell-Boyce: ‘We’ve treated a generation of chil...
The children’s laureate has spent two years visiting schools, libraries, prisons and communities to discover how Britain’s young people live now. He sets out what we are losing from childhood and expl...
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Up close and personal with the owls of Eden Falconry at their Owls by Candlelight evening - gorgeous.
They should build loads of data centers all over the place that contain huge quantities of books that people can borrow for free if they fill out a form to get a data center card and promise to return the books on time and don’t make too much noise in the data center.
The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.
Couple about to sign divorce papers… WOMAN: I wish I'd never joined that Star Wars dating app MAN: You were looking for love in Alderaan places WOMAN: And I wish I'd never married a guy addicted to Star Wars puns MAN: It was a wookie mistake WOMAN: Just sign it MAN, SIGNING: May divorce be with you
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the RSC - vibrant, relevant, chilling. The cast is excellent, I really enjoyed the staging, and Mark Gatiss is transformed, superb, and repulsive.
There's a tradition of film directors and studios congratulating each other for beating their box office records. In 1977, when STAR WARS beat Jaws to become the highest-grossing movie ever, Steven Spielberg took out the below ad for George Lucas in @Variety 1/11
Romped through Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash, a story of family and conspiracy, relevant, absurd, warm, funny.
