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Yakking. Tippy tappy typing. More yakking. Politics. Education. FT columns, Political Fix podcast and videos here https://www.ft.com/miranda-green - please check out Not Another One https://open.spotify.com/show/7u4nlhVNmzzZrLjmB7z137?si=dcf00d7580444ccb
When I asked Zack Polanski about his brief if memorable career as a breast size-enhancing hypnotherapist, he told me that it was never about actual breast size, just body image.
This was not the case, and this new BBC article - and audio clip – makes that plainer.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ivan Krastev always thought provoking
hordes of teenage girls have just descended after early school chuck out and now I can hear them PRACTISING THEIR FRENCH CONVERSATION - even if it doesn't last, like, hallelujah!
we dare you to find a museum more ready
Larry the cat on the fiver, Geronimo on the tenner, Cecil the lion* on the twenty and Paddington the Grim Reaper on the fifty.
*yes, I know Cecil was a lion and therefore not British, but *bangs table* CECIL THE LION.
The strange broadcasts began in the hours after the US and Israel attacked Iran. Strings of numbers recited in Farsi, transmitted from western Europe, at 5.30am and 9.30pm every day. What are these mysterious missives ... and who are they for?
Read the story in today's #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/6xBuiGA
The publishing industry's lack of confidence in authors and its own ability to create careers for them is pathetic and, in the end, self-defeating.
yes re the big picture on £ but the promise was implicit to hypothecate because it was linked to using the money to boost teacher numbers - it's a minor point given the sitch but think these sleights of hand don't help longterm trust
never our finest hour
did the DfE actually get the money Sam? do you we know? I thought I saw something that it was a totally duff promise to hypothecate across to state school teaching staff
cost of living is main theme (one assumes on the whiteboard at the easy-to-satrise strat meetings) of every party. My hunch is its way more useful to opposition parties during campaigns local and national. (Agree re @chriscurtis94.bsky.social excellent blog and @profjanegreen.bsky.social ur-text !)
Paris may have an immersive exhibition of Renaissance artists such as Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphaël, but it doesn't have a fuzzy felt Last Supper does it?
that has made my day
not sure fair to say we concede - true to say currently avoid an almighty stramash. don't worry, we're aware that we have to take it head on soon - as you can imagine, you can't stop every episode to object every five minutes esp where implacable disagreement. Thanks so much for listening!
strong agree on Ukraine - been worrying about this
Here @chriscurtis94.bsky.social tells the sequence, thinking and analysis actually behind ‘hero voters’, inc. how my research @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social on economic insecurity w/ @rosedegeus.bsky.social informed understanding of the economic basis of electoral coalitions pre-2024.
Hauling my ancient carcass off to a lovely friend's 60th feeling defeated - but this is very consoling - love this whole album actually open.spotify.com/track/4Hb16k...
🚨 Iran shock for Starmer
The latest Political Fix has just dropped 🎙️ 📻🎧
This week @robertshrimsley.bsky.social, @greenmirandahere.bsky.social & Sam Fleming join to discuss war in the Middle East, the Spring forecast & the govt’s new immigration policy
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Vernon Bogdanor for the Weekend FT on why FPTP can't cope with our new multi-party politics - a good read with a nice @robfordmancs.bsky.social quote in there too www.ft.com/content/38d8...
oh god
v much doubt it
me too
so so so agree - my view: is your book idea really a column? Also: if someone can revive the idea of short books, they are great, why not publish more? Short Books as in Rebecca Nicolson's outfit was a great idea but they seem to have become only health and lifestyle.
... having now (I think) read all of them, there are a couple of slightly less good ones in the middle (Stolen Lake I didn't like much) but then return to form with Is and Cold Shoulder Road and also Dido and Pa which is great - these are sort of like Hard Times on acid. So many dark satanic mills.
Yan Tan Tethera! It's a great book, so creepy
Omg my daughter Flo has gone and released a new single WITH A VIDEO!!
youtu.be/VytNsdTkoAI?...
She would like to thank you for attention to this matter.... Enjoy!
utter twattery - but twattery abounds, my friend. Congratulations to your daughter: as they say in Four Weddings, you must be very proud (though I mean it!)
very - you wouldnt' think that from the new generation of Labour MPs though, and maybe that is more significant right now? - they are, in the parlance, "kicking off"
oh FABULOUS
I was a big fan as a child but have hung on to them and totally failed to get my kids to read beyond Black Hearts in Battersea (which remains my favourite too though I like Night Birds very much too)
she is/was a brilliant writer and brilliant stylist - during Covid I reread the whole Wolves series (Dido Twite - a heroine for the ages!) and was delighted to find there are loads of out of print brilliant thrillers and romances too