Shelley Harris

Both episodes have been brilliant, and illuminating. Thanks so much to all involved.

Extract from the Becket biography, mentioning the ’infinitude of knights or foreigners’ in the city.

The Becket biography on the goods brought into London ’from every nation that is under heaven’.

The general right-wing freakout about London as a multicultural city doesn’t stand up very well to … an actual awareness of history, does it? This twelfth-century text (William fitzStephen’s biography of Thomas Becket) sees it as part of what makes the city thrive.

Last week: we roll out the red carpet for a fascist.

This week: our Health Secretary has to go on morning television to reassure the public that, counter to that same fascist’s claims, paracetamol does not *checks notes* cause autism.

Gutted not to be at the anti-Trump march today. If you’re going - thank you! Please shout for those of us who won’t be there. No quarter for fascists.

There’s just no other way to describe this. It’s a man standing next to a cat. Which seems to be levitating. Neither party seems unduly concerned.

Please enjoy my mother-in-law’s painting, which I like to call ‘Man with Levitating Cat’.

Sky News headline: ‘More than 500 people arrested after Palestine Action protest - with almost half aged 60 and above.’

Yeah, not quite what I expected when a human rights lawyer became PM. Thought he might mind a bit more about genocide, but OK yeah, yeah , cool.

Herbs steeping is n cream & milk.

Annie Leibovitz’s 1984 photo of Whoopi Goldberg in a bath of milk.

Unexpectedly beautiful pommes dauphinoise prep making me think of Whoopi Goldberg.

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Is it starting?!

Not just one, a triptych.

You’re really kind - thank you.

Flash fiction inspired by the Hoxne Hoard (in the British Museum).

It was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2021, and in theory is … somewhere on the website…? You’re welcome to read it in teeny tiny point size below, though.

As someone also born overseas, it strikes me that quite a few Times journalists probably were.

I love this piece so much I once wrote a flash fiction about it.

We’ve adorned our bodies since forever. This would look utterly banging on anyone in the twenty-first century.

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Episode title for the ‘Leading’ podcast: ‘Gary Stevenson: From Teenage Drug Dealer to Millionaire Trader’.

Are we meant to consider this a big leap?

Oh, yes. These are incredible.

*whispers*

*triple*

Photo of an orange ’Club’ biscuit.

I think there are only a few centres nationwide - and one is in the town where I work.

Update: have moved onto the Mint Club. Haven’t even donated yet. Living it large.

Photo of a Biscoff two-pack.

@isabelrogers.bsky.social Donating plasma. Look at this beauty. (Mint Club also available.)

Love it, and virtually everything he has to say about writing. (I teach Creative Writing and have to forcibly hold myself back from just making all my modules Saunders stan modules).

Chabon.

These are bangers.

Always a pleasure.

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Son2 lives in Manchester - has suggested 186 (oneeightsix.co.uk) as a cool night out.

Weird question implying a very different sort of night out: does she play chess? If so, Son2 goes to a social chess club most weeks - Wednesdays at the Waldorf pub, 12 Gore Street, M1 3AQ from 6pm (Upstairs).

Maria, I’m so very sorry. X