Great culture can save lives. Literally.
Amazing letter in todayβs @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
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Writer @newyorker. Author of "The Moth and the Mountain" and "Two Hours".
Great culture can save lives. Literally.
Amazing letter in todayβs @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
V good interview and discussion, thank you
24.11.2025 14:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Make it even more vulgar.
24.11.2025 14:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I would watch: "inspired by mythical events..."
21.11.2025 08:47 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"Based on a story by..."
21.11.2025 08:05 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Really hoping Cricket BlueSky flourishes...
21.11.2025 08:02 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0*gasp*
#cricket
Really interesting development, grateful to @harrystopes.bsky.social for highlighting it. Read the thread...
20.11.2025 09:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0vv good. Been digging back through this period and finding so many gems. Also - how about this compilation from 2001? A find! www.discogs.com/sell/release...
19.11.2025 11:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thank you!
17.11.2025 07:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Beautiful piece by @TimAdamsWrites on the brilliant Observer journalist Rachel Cooke who could write wonderfully about anything, has died tragically young and will be hugely, hugely missed by so many people.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The two men thought to be working for the "Irish" are British nationals...
14.11.2025 06:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Was sent this bit of news overnight. "Irish mafia" arrested in Colombia, during Clan del Golfo raids. Eagle-eyed readers of @newyorker.com will note that Clan del Golfo has recently worked with the Kinahan group.
14.11.2025 06:29 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Woman in a purple hat, Manchester, 1985, photo by Shirley Baker (1932-2014).
12.11.2025 08:34 β π 51 π 9 π¬ 5 π 1You should have said hello! Love that.
08.11.2025 13:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0so many! Thank you. I love the ones like Flatcap, because he always wore a flatcap. Cutting room floor included famous ones like "The General"
07.11.2025 11:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Fantastic piece
06.11.2025 15:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair...
Amazing piece about NEOM, The Line, and where fantasy meets reality in Saudi Arabia. Chapeau @financialtimes.com
A rail worker credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing on a train has been named as Samir Zitouni.
The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic".
It's so good!
03.11.2025 07:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0thank you @henrymance.ft.com
02.11.2025 17:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So fun to write this short tribute to a classic @newyorker.com story: Up and then Down, by Nick Paumgarten.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...
But don't read that read the original. It's about eight thousand words long and it will make your day better.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
Honoured.
31.10.2025 07:34 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0No More Kings, by @willoyd.bsky.social -- an essay very much worth your time. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
29.10.2025 09:39 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you to the Sunday Long Read... Kinahan and many other delicious treats in this week's buffet.
27.10.2025 18:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Heaney, by @fotoole.bsky.social : observer.co.uk/culture/book...
27.10.2025 11:43 β π 14 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
24.10.2025 06:53 β π 8776 π 3297 π¬ 362 π 399Thank you!
23.10.2025 05:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you
22.10.2025 07:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The best investigation ever... thank you for doing it
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