Rachel McCormack

It’s telling how some male columnists and commentators have reacted to Riot Women as ‘man-hating’ when it’s simply depicting average everyday experiences women have with men all the time. If seeing the world through a woman’s eyes makes you hate men too the I guess you see our problem.

IT'S WEDNESDAY!

It's #buyastrangerabook day.

The best of all the days.

I'll give out TWO books.

FOR FREE.

If you'd like one, let me know.

Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.

It's a thing! Look.

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That answers the question.

I have been out at an event full of young people and I am here to inform you that moustaches are back. Some are a throwback to the heyday of Magnum PI and sadly others, the height of Vichy France.

(You all may know this but I might as well live in a cave in Assynt for all the street life I see)

A celebration of the South's rich — and messy — heritage, delivered on a plate In a new cookbook, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty pays homage to the rich tapestry of cultures that have shaped Southern cuisine — and keeps a gimlet eye on the region's complicated history.

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#RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth
On NPR!!! please share!

You in a tie is the most shocking thing tbh

It generally goes quite badly wrong.

Still better than the Londoner uttering “wouldn’t it be great to sell up and move to a croft on a Scottish island?”

I am really sorry you have to write this kind of thing Sathnam.

Jubilee year. It was full of nuns in April.

Well, are you?

That is also an interesting concept.

Yes that is a very good point.

selfies. If you take them can you tell me why?

Is this about Mexico and the Narcos? Or Canada?

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This spot on and good phrasing. Now let’s see the response.

IT'S WEDNESDAY!

It's #buyastrangerabook day.

The grooviest of all the days.

I'll give out TWO books.

FOR FREE.

If you'd like one, let me know.

Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.

It's a thing! Look.

www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

UK only

It‘s the entire culture, not the political one.
The world is London and the costal US for almost everything and everyone, except Melvyn Bragg.

and we are only beginning to appeciate the unintended consequences of these things

It‘s also the total depersonalisation of it all so there’s no connection to the people in the place when a large part of the hospitality industry is that they are hospitable.

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A mob of angry drunken men screaming abuse outside an asylum hotel have defended their actions, saying all they want is for women and girls to feel safe walking the streets.

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Can you adopt me? I am TIRED of cooking

Can you imagine how many bams we’ll need to take in Scotland when they extend this English repatriation policy to white people?

I managed to take him somewhere without telling him where we were going as I had told him in my head and my mother thinks this is the best revenge served cold she has witnessed.

I had to inform the Patriarch this afternoon about the fleg wars with the saltire hanging from houses and flags.
“Well at least we know where the arseholes live, but could they not just have stuck with the Union Jack?”
What a time to be alive. . .

I mean people also share links on THREADS for God’s sake.

I think that’s habit. Substack is its own ecosystem now.

I think it gives journos the illusion of reach and a bigger readership tbh.
It might be worth checking where your readership actually comes from nowadays rather than the social media vibes.