Depressing realisation that FIFA, in expanding the World Cup, have effectively shrunk it. V little jeopardy in the group stages, with only 16 of 48 teams eliminated. A competitive tournament begins in earnest in the ‘round of 32’, preceded by a 72-match procession. Nice for the advertisers though!
06.12.2025 11:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
02.11.2025 13:05 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For sale: baby Crocs, too ugly
29.09.2025 16:57 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Excellent liquid-to-biscuit ratio
18.07.2025 10:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Fantastic stuff. Side note: I saw Phil Wingfield play many times. He was really good!
16.07.2025 17:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yes!! A bit of a cheapskate move imo
04.07.2025 08:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s giving Partick Thistle
04.07.2025 08:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Link pls
24.06.2025 14:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of bird guidebook, two birds labelled 'immature' and 'juvenile'
wasn't expecting this bird book to be so harsh on the birds
24.05.2025 19:34 — 👍 169 🔁 27 💬 4 📌 1
What does this say
22.05.2025 10:48 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Another Pope we can work to death because of his idiosyncratic refusal to unionise.
08.05.2025 20:24 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I had this same thought! The wording is odd
03.05.2025 12:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Would be most unfortunate if we ended up banning potted summaries by mistake
07.04.2025 13:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
With this name + face combo, absobloodylutely
17.03.2025 20:25 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I had the very same thought!!
15.02.2025 12:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yes!!
07.01.2025 16:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sold!
11.12.2024 14:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is wonderful
04.12.2024 19:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Critical race theory is it
22.11.2024 18:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Home truths more like
19.11.2024 11:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Surprisingly often
11.11.2023 13:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I can’t eat those I’m afraid
01.10.2023 15:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oh don’t get me started on this
14.08.2023 07:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Cultural talk and typing. And singing.
Biographer of Stephen Sondheim.
Variety, London theatre critic.
The Stage, Associate writer.
Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers.
Somewhat gay.
Theatre, politics and football mostly. I write about theatre (not football!) for the Financial Times.
Author of the debut novel Thirst For Salt and senior editor of NOON. Dog person.
I write stuff (i Paper, Empire, Sight & Sound, Guardian, Line of Best Fit, Indicator Blu-ray). I like old movies, old books, old buildings and new music. Rep’d by The North Lit Agency.
Contributing reporter to the New York Times in London, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
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Writer from Aotearoa New Zealand, based in London
Deliverywoman (2025, Influx Press)
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Writer, lecturer, broadcaster, happily bestriding London and Dublin. Classical music/Opera Editor of The Arts Desk, author of seven books including Prokofiev: From Russia to the West (Yale). Running two Zoom courses, one on opera, the other on concert rep.
post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Lecturer in English @ Georgia State | co-director of @nysnetwork.bsky.social | editor of books w/ Fonograf & City Lights | book with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
I write about books for The Washington Post.
Writer, mostly about books.
writer and critic - book marketer - long suffering Mets fan - “talentless discourse guy” - LARB, Review31, Full-Stop, elsewhere
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Meat blood, bees, things of that nature
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Arts admin & advocate. US theatre columnist, The Stage. Author, "Another Day’s Begun.” Enthusiast, not critic. Anti-censorship. Ayckbourniac. Lifelong theatre kid.
Political science professor. Teacher/researcher of terrorism and extremism with a focus on the far-right.
Posting through it.
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Known to offer tea or coffee at the end of In Our Time episodes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_In_Our_Time_programmes
Eclectic.
Writer, poet, “refreshingly honest” critic, tutor. Poems: Way More Than Luck (2018), Same Difference (Seren Books 2022). Criticism: Don Paterson (LUP 2021). Writing has appeared in Guardian, New Statesman, Spectator, TLS, etc. Lifelong Red. Likes a jog.
Books: Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching/Stakes is High/one in progress about Virginia. Smoking cigars, drinking coffee, playing chess. I dunno man, what even matters now?
Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute
Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social
Publications: www.markgraham.space
Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
