Marguerite

Incredible quote in the article

Follow the money, always follow the money.

My sexuality is Charlotte Church saying she hopes to be 'a formidable traitor hunter' #celebritytraitors

Here’s what every woman knows and what many American women are compartmentalizing:

Men will do 10% of whatever they want to do to you in front of others. This is why the cardinal rule is to never be caught alone.

Now apply this to what you’ve seen ICE do to women while you’re watching.

I had cassette tapes (I am very old) of Fry reading Jennings and Darbishire - every time I hear him talk on The Traitors I am transported back to them. His Matron voice was amazing.

One of the best things about my Dad is his ability to Do The Voices when reading out loud to kids. He did recently admit to me that having to ‘do’ a talking umbrella in a Rupert The Bear story nearly finished him off.

Tens of thousands of people killed. An entire state reduced to rubble and he acts like it's the Apprentice final.

oh god no he hoovered up his own brain

I know someone who lives in rural Somerset and sends her kids to a private school - told me in all seriousness they couldn’t go to the local comp because ‘they’d get stabbed; all kids in state schools get stabbed.’ The arguments have become detached from all reality.

This is fully bananas. I went to a middling state school where we had all our maths lessons in porta cabins in a car park.

One of the things I like the most about the current government is that the vast majority of the cabinet went to normal schools. The people making decisions grew up in the real world and not like this:

Yep, I went to a state school where we had 33 people in our IT class and only 25 computers. So every lesson a random eight kids just had to sit and look over someone’s shoulder for an entire lesson. Which of course meant they did no work, and distracted everyone. And that wasn’t even a bad school.

Divorcing parents sitting on each opposite bench, seething as their child rocks forlornly back and forth on the chicken.

Some people might laugh but there's something actually important in this as I have heard others talk about how a fear of dying is palpable among fascists. They carry hell with them in real life.

What policy themed visitor trail would you do upon retirement? I would pilgrimage to visit the 100 Rishi Sunak outdoor chess sets around the country. I genuinely think it would be one of those fun random things that would take me to places I’d never otherwise go to

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I’m rather pleased that, in this digital age, there are still scalpers outside the gig venue trying to sell tickets. They even seem to be the same dudes from the gigs I went to in the 90s.

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

"anti semantic"

I once had a straight Anglican woman tell me, in all seriousness, that gay Anglicans ‘didn’t mind’ the fact that they can’t get married in church. Nothing I said - as a gay Anglican who can’t get married in church - would convince her otherwise. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Black and white portrait of Edith Stein seated with hands clasped, wearing a dark blouse and a wristwatch, looking directly at the camera.

Black and white photo of Edith Stein wearing a traditional Carmelite religious habit, featuring a solemn facial expression.

12 October 1892 | Edith Stein was born in Wrocław. She was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism & became a theologian & a Carmelite nun.

She was murdered in #Auschwitz in August 1942.
Stein was beatified in 1987 and canonized in October 1998.

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

Patti Smith with her hair blowing majestically in the wind

I’m off to see Patti Smith play tonight - she’s been my musical guru and obsession since I was 16. I’m so excited!

God love Kew, this is incredible

Not the main takeaway from the article – a sidenote, really – but this is why the Internet of Things concept terrifies me.

Hard agree - funny, clever, interesting, self knowing without being annoying about it and Claudia Winkleman’s clothes are incredible.