Very much enjoyed the first two seasons of Slow Horses, more than the books actually, it adds a lot more tension and darkness in there. And that cast. Fantastic
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Today it is worth mentioning that I wrote a book on the weird history of the green belt, and one on the origins of postwar new towns
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If the predicted Portillo moments occur I wonder if we will be inundated with twee TV formats. Rees-Mogg’s Victorian Chimneys, Mordaunt’s Munitions, Sunak’s Follies
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New @backlisted.bsky.social! Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot, with Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social John, Nicky and me. This episode is stronger than Mensa, Miller (no relation) and Mailer, spits out Plath and Pinter etc. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/215...
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A very beautiful set I thought
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LCD Soundsystem doing Dance Yrself Clean at Glastonbury, a rousing reminder of the possibility of good things in the world
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As Elvis Costello sang back in 1978, ‘You think they're so dumb, you think they're so funny
Wait until they've got you running to the
Night Rally’
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I love this Jesse Ware album, that luxury Chic disco hippy Hair funk sound
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Something just lovely about Orbital bringing out Mel C there, a very generous moment
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Flags with Blistered on fluttering in the breeze, Ski Head the anthem of the age.
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Looking forward to Frazier Chorus’s headline set at Glastonbury
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‘Sandra, what’s your position on Biscoff?’
‘I don’t.’
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Broadstairs golem
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Not long before some of the celebrities on Who Do You Think You Are can trace their families right back to someone who appeared on the first series
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This highlights of Glastonbury 2023 has featured two of my favourite brand new songs only just out, There’d Better Be A Mirrorball and The Girl is Crying in Her Latte.
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I passed my Meldrew Point a few months ago
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Had a fanboy moment about the Pompidou, which is about to have a big old refit www.independent.co.uk/voices/paris...
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Accidentally updated my Twitter app to X this morning and am gutted
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Going back to bed now
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God save the ping
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Junior sparrow being fed by parent in the garden and it feels too heartwarming for 2024
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Glorious x
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I’ve never been able to cope with the angry uppity snark of those forums. It’s a bit sad not to have anyone to geek out with
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Stephen Sondheim's original Blackwing pencils just sold for $10,500. www.doyle.com/auction/sear...
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Sent my postal vote in. Disappointing lack of dogs.
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New from liars!
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I see the betting thing has thrown up another of those amazing ‘It would not be right to comment until Sue Gray has reported her findings’/‘Now Sue Gray has reported her findings it’s time to move on’ scenarios
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It’ll have been SOMETHING won’t it?
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While Sunak will have done lots of preparation for the debate it will later emerge he spent the afternoon biting Dame Judy Dench’s cat on the face
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Double Indumbnity
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Thank you love! The interviewees have been incredible
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Submitted my draft manuscript to the publisher. Having a coke zero.
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I have the deeds to the old Blackbird mine here
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Nothing if not niche
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One of the things I enjoyed most about Godzilla Minus One was the music was a bit like the dramatic score from Miss Marple when a vintage police car might be chasing another vintage car perhaps containing Peter Davison down a country lane
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Completely charming and silly trip round Milton Keynes as a scooter boy and a delivery robot by Ogmios in Zen Motoring www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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Cheers, it was fun to write…
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Tory leadership races these days are a bit like when the soaps went 5x a week
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Cor! Love that!
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