Ah yes, the DPRK which famously spends much of its time chatting about its leaders’ dress sense
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Ah yes, the DPRK which famously spends much of its time chatting about its leaders’ dress sense
Near Wild Heaven says youth and yearning and nostalgia to me which is a heady cocktail
Has led me to discover they did this… variety.com/2025/music/n...
Near Wild Heaven
Diagonally! That didn’t happen in 80s Cornwall
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
I read this as ‘thousands turn out and tumble’ which would be sub optimal - were the streets very wet etc? - then read again
Why is this morphing into the Cornish flag?
a decision i should also have made
oh yes, you're right, I ignored the (very operative in this case) word 'further'
i liked Oslo but their brown cheese is the worst thing ever
You jogged 15 miles in an hour? You could have called me... (except I think the car here is out of action)
Tourists in #Cornwall! PSA! You are not a ‘grockle’ you’re an ‘emmet’ #kernow
my fear is that what I'm actually looking at is reflected IN MY GLASSES
Yes, I hate the whole 'seeing your face on Zoom/Teams' thing. Perhaps I'll invest in a ring light...
My respect for all my onscreen colleagues is immediately doubled, how can they bear it
I have appeared on a podcast which was briefly visualised so now I need to spend the next six months completely changing the way I speak and having multiple facelifts etc.
DO A SCREENGRAB FOR THE SOCIALS SCOTT
I’m so glad you posted this as it prompted me to actually pick this up and start reading it and I’m thoroughly enjoying the fact it’s both a period piece and quite timeless in its observations of scheming and intrigue. Thank you
I have no idea if I wore tights on any of my many bridesmaid outings. One was in (a classy bit of) Florida so I doubt that one
wasn't the Princess Charlotte row about whether the bridesmaids would wear tights or not (I hate that I know this but...), they are obviously massively symbolic
It’s annoying me that surfed is in quotes and net isn’t
Ugggghhhhh it’s so creepy and horrible, agree it lives with you for ever after, I wish it didn’t…
This makes less sense if you read it as ‘an MDMA gym’
Yeah but go on Monday and it’ll be tribute CEOs who are having affairs with their tribute co-workers
oh what a great idea for a piece
...because they'll tire themselves out before the real thing?
Yay English degree
Like a Shakespeare play I mean with Carrie left on stage as the strange character or the fool giving the final soliloquy
It would follow the show’s internal logic, they are totally still in each others’ lives, not atomised, we have seen them go to [other people’s] kids’ shows, Friday night dinners, parents’ funerals, it’s just weird to split them all up for the very end, going off in couples like Shakespeare…
Well that’s another thing that made AJLT so annoying, they paired everyone off except for Carrie, left singing karaoke by herself like Bridget Jones, when it was *right there* for them to do a ‘families and love come in all shapes and sizes’ Thanksgiving with actual long-term friends together
Ohhh that’s good
I was surprised how affectionate I felt towards its (very flawed) return…
Yeah I was thinking of the bit in White Lotus where she makes the speech about time being the important thing which has held those ‘friends’ together and I think I feel like that about SATC… but it was too on the nose to have literal shit engulf the finale
So weird and random
(It’s Waterloo Sunset, obvs). 🎵Terry meets Julie, Waterloo Station, etc 🎵
Imagine if, when you died, people could instantly quote a line about you from an absolutely classic pop song www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Oh that’s a very lovely photo
Quick glance shows me this could also be described as ‘a BBC education’, no?
Thank you, it seems worth a try…!
I know this one as luckily I’ve just had an 18 year old staying with me. K pop band.
hooray, incredible, now he can be photoshopped into the other picture!
I can only imagine how much you enjoyed writing this caption
With a cast including Cherie Lunghi and Nigel Havers, how could it be otherwise...
I enjoyed the Radio 4 adaptation of the Palliser novels (not currently available) but have found the books (well, first book) heavy going
oh interesting! (its existence not NYT opinion)
Thank you!!! obvs I could have googled that myself so thanks...
There's one called The Affair hanging round at my dad's house - I wonder if that's part of the series? I keep picking it up when I run out of books and then I never read it (I've just realised I'm asking the same Q as you, is it worth it)
I have to say, full marks to whoever did the sunflower/agapanthus combination for the 'coffee in garden' photos www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj...
German word for when you think of a *hilarious* joke then read the replies to find everyone else has got there before you with some variant or other?
I mean why would you not just do this
Poor old Emma
Pal if you can share the secret of how to control a group of 3yos that’ll make you more cash than any AI project
that's enlivened my morning, thank you!
Clearly Mr Hinton has never ever met one
You unaccountably missed 4. Collector of stamps from the Isle of Man
I read that as ‘nobody’ which makes for a nice but questionable aphorism
Hang on I have a Netflix rom com idea, this is the ‘meet cute’
Yes! I stayed there for an UNGA once & it's a quick journey from 'oooh I'm staying at the Waldorf' to 'oh actually it's just slightly fancier than a Premier Inn'
it's a good adaptation
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Update: The BBC has now clarified that their story came from their own FOI, not ours. (We’d shared ours with them a week before: they’d declined to comment, or tell us they had the same story). We’ve updated the record and apologise for the error. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-did-ta...
*JOURNALISM 101*
Sorry what
I think EIGHT YEARS has been mentioned which does seem quite a while. Especially as it sounds like the kind of pitch that you might make up in a panic when someone asks what you’re working on and you haven’t thought of anything
Oh it’s become… grown up? And thoughtful? And elegiac?
Interesting. The most common baby girl name in Hackney? Sarah. Yes, Sarah - if you're my age you had at least two Sarahs in your class at school & now I'm so old it's coming back round www.timeout.com/london/news/...?
right I'm going to watch right now
oooh interesting
Aw, look! A wedding.
Good piece! I hope the 🦊 was ok
It’s not yet nine thirty on a Tuesday night yet there was a man on the superloop bus singing Elvis songs
HOW did you not say anything, I just couldn't have resisted
what a beautiful disclaimer
I'm not saying I need to think about my language but my phone auto-corrected the word 'ducking' this morning
It’s the licence fee with a c not an s.
They’re also using average viewers instead of weekly reach, by which measure the BBC News channel is comfortably ahead
Ok fair point. Hired.
I’m not sure ‘it’s so hard’ gets you the job
Well unless your sole lens is the effect women’s behaviour has on men, one could argue…
Not sure they’re cutting the mustard
“I may have missed a deadline but you’ve given me a new lifeline” ok now this HAS to end #AndJustLikeThat
I’m not that old and i vividly recall how terrifying AIDS and HIV used to be…and we pretty much figured it out
It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”
Sadly I’m finding Carrie’s Very Special Dress a bit M&S Per Una #AndJustLikeThat
But it’s just getting FUNNY. I am properly LOLing at the hair wash scene
Ahahaha another one
Didn’t have ‘Carrie is consultant for a biography of Margaret Thatcher’ on my #AndJustLikeThat bingo card I must say
Yeah now I’ve read the post… but agree, I don’t think this is as mad or sexist as the tennis thing
@emmavj.bsky.social
WHAT #AndJustLikeThat deadline.com/2025/08/and-...
but why was there a choir in his dressing gown
film or it didn't happen
Then again, I (& a female friend) have voluntarily been to Train World in Belgium so who am I to talk
Hang on, I think I can see... A WOMAN?!?!
My go-to is treatment for HIV/AIDS. Remember what a terrifying death sentence it was (terrifying even for impressionable teens who were pretty low risk since they never had sex). And now...!
oh I meant to message you, my train was dressed up as Paddington in Peru the other day
Breaking: BBC have reunited with the Met Office for its weather forecasts. The BBC ditched Met Office in 2015 and had partnered with Meteogroup (with Met Office for weather warnings.) The partnership is now back again.
yes but Marie's not very old
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) 
