Sam Wollaston
@samwollaston.bsky.social
Feature writer at the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/profile/samwollaston
Dining across the divide: ‘He didn’t change my mind on anything – but he did give me a lift to my car’
Dining across the divide: ‘He didn’t change my mind on anything – but he did give me a lift to my car’
A prospective Restore Britain voter and a Green-supporting Chinese immigrant found some common ground over small-boat crossings, but where did they land on foxhunting?
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Interesting but no surprise that the Argentinian football robot goes for the Spanish robot's shins rather than the ball. AI was clearly watching last night's game
His mother, María Arthuer, crossed the Sahara Desert barefoot in 1994. She climbed over Melilla’s border fence penniless and pregnant with Iñaki. Today, her son is a world champion. #respect
Luis Endera@luisendera.bsky.social · 2w agoSu madre, María Arthuer, cruzó el desierto del Sahara a pie y descalza en 1994. Saltó la valla de Melilla embarazada de Iñaki y sin recursos. Hoy su hijo, es campeón del mundo. #respect
The Battle of the Peasants, by M.D. Hout, 17th c
“there’ll be no fucking rowing in New York” is the best chant
My allotment harvest this morning. A tribute to TS Eliot.
Spare a thought for Trump during the Spain v Belgium game Friday, he won't know who to have shafted by Infantino in his next corruption call
Colombia v Switzerland being referred to as Charlie v The Chocolate Factory.
v bored of norway rowing now. shut up, yr not vikings, you work in the oil industry
make the BBC games more exciting by taking bets on the number of times Alan Shearer says "pace" and "space"
Nice piece about Burnham and how politics and literature don't have to be mutually exclusive. Shame the novels of N Dorries didn't get a mention tho... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
At a poet’s memorial, I saw how Andy Burnham could be a different kind of prime minister | Blake Morrison
The putative PM-to-be explained how one of Tony Harrison’s poems gave him a new outlook, says poet and author Blake Morrison
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Wish they’d also sent off the Turkish guy when he mimed what Almiron did
@dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social Hi Dawn, I know it's an important issue for you, so I hope you're getting behind the campaign to stop yet another gambling place in Brent? In the old Lloyds bank in Willesden (don't save your money, lose it!) Thank you, Sam (Dollis Hill)
"a great artist and a great human" - lovely piece by Jonathan Jones www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘David Hockney caught the look of the modern world’: a tribute to the artist whose work was a feast of visual pleasure
He was subversive and bold, yet also playful and accepting – putting the fun into pop art and finding freedom and fulfilment amid the blue skies and pools of California. David Hockney, who has died ag...
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We always pay to sit away from our children
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoRyanair investigated over charging parents to sit with their children
I did something about a house www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
It was Britain’s most expensive house. Why is its only resident a homeless man who lives on the porch?
2-8A Rutland Gate had jewel-encrusted bathroom suites and gold wastepaper bins in its 45 rooms, but has lain empty for years. With many people desperate for secure housing, what does the abandonment o...
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YES! Cape Verde in the office sweepstake. Cmon you… Blue Sharks!
if my calculations (asking AI) are right, the earliest USA and Iran can meet at the World Cup is in the 1st knockout round on July 3 🙏
Blue tits fledged from the nest box. Some joyous flight practice (with me shoeing off magpies and cats), now they're gone, and the garden is silent. Bereft.
neighbour just came round to warn he was hosting a drumming workshop this weekend....
