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Air crew safe. But no word, obviously, about the poor bastards the planes actually fell on.

I guess if these F-15s were shot down with an air defence system sold to the Kuwaitis by the US they can write the $300 million loss off as “advertising”.

It's good...and touching.

Farce projection...

Covers of Lottie Moggach’s Mrs Pearcey and Margaret Busby’s Part of the Story, on a studio table.

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Also: the best on screen role for a gas cooker since Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Day Out.

Really enjoyed Dennis Kelly’s Waiting For The Out. Drama ABOUT something, instead of yet another synthetic Netflix mystery. And a great performance from Josh Finan.

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There is always a tweet.

Waking to light rain, gentle breeze and hurricane force lying.

Watched How To Get To Heaven From Belfast. OK, if you like that kind of thing. But wouldn’t it be so much better if they turned the volume down from 11? If you don’t oversell I’d be likelier to buy.

You'd think the oven would have told it you're not to be messed with...

It looks as if it’s been forced to get out of the shower by an Evri delivery.

Everybody knows it’s in a crater on the moon. James Cameron just CGI’d that thing in the Atlantic.

Was it designed by Anish Kapoor?

Yes. There’s a LOT of blood in the show. And quite a bit of rage too.

Life mask of Tracey Emin in patinated bronze (titled “Death Mask”)

Painting of a female figure, vaguely bridal, face obscured by black paint and upper body silhouetted by blood red paint. With the following text: “You made me like this all of you - you - You men that I so instantly loved so much You are the ones that made me feel so alone All of you each of you in your own individual way I - I - I was all fault to keep loving you Like a fool I followed live to the end Like the Sad Haunted Soul that I am I followed you to THE END

Death Mask (2002) and I Followed You To The End (2024). Definite Wuthering Heights vibes at times. A haunting.

The phrase “THERE IS NO MORE ME” in silvery blue embroidery on white linen.

Seen halfway through Tate Modern’s Tracey Emin exhibition. Not true. There’s a LOT more her.

Colin Robinson, the Energy Vampire from What We Do In The Shadows, has a job with the Trump Administration!

So a "near-food" may not be junk-food -- but an over-engineered 'health-food'. See also protein balls and low-sugar everything...

Fascinating. I assume that "Battle Crook" is the white flour industry's dismissive version of Battle Creek -- where Kellogg had developed cornflakes (with the idea that they would curb masturbation and other sexual vices). Very entertainingly explored in T.C. Boyle's novel The Road to Wellville.

What the hell are "near-foods"? (a specific against gambling apparently)

There really should be.

Rock Against Racism celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Beginning to think it's needed more now than in 1976...

Very sorry to hear this Moose.

Sessions with my editors have sometimes been like this

“It's not conducive, our Mort, it's not concomitant".

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Kafkaesque? Oh, I see, you mean Trumpian…

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@hallierubenhold.bsky.social Thanks so much for joining us last night. Very glad to have covered that subject.