If you're in Belfast at 5pm today, pop over to the Lanyon Building at QUB for Mark Drumbl's British Academy lecture on Child Soldiers: Coming of Age in Atrocity. Free and open to the public. #Skystorians
Philippa Islington-Smythe - aka my cat Roscoe - hanging out on her favourite armchair, but mentally trapped in a reverie about the summer of 1995.
THREAD. In her exclusive interview in today's Daily Telegraph Magazine, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world...
This year, I am only going to five. Or maybe six.
And there was I hoping to do some work today...
The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...
Proms announced today! Very exciting.
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
I'm actually quite nice. I am retiring early, just so I don't have to be reviewer 2 any more.
Home made sourdough
Work/loaf balance
💖 Hope this Quokka brings ya
joy 🌿 Happy Everything 💚🤎
LOL.
The bastards.
Well, that's a first. I have never before concluded a paper refereeing by saying to the journal editor "I beg you, do not publish".
Today, I mostly read "Shine on, bright and dangerous object" by Laurie Colwin, and I adored it.
Oh Jess, you are the loveliest of people, clever, funny & kind. I think your relative must be in a very bad place if they think otherwise.
Please don't use speaker phone while in library. Ask for headphones at the front desk.
Only a fallen society needs this sign
I love this so much.
Barack Obama sat down with Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a Bronx child care center, reading “Alone and Together,” a book about connection, community, and belonging to preschoolers.
Sidebar: Not sure these little-ones knew who Obama was 😂
Fun fact that lying UK journalistic hacks won’t tell you because they hate Labour: Boris Johnson did not pass vetting when Theresa May appointed him Foreign Secretary. #UKPolitics
Cancer.
Oh no! Andy Kershaw has died.
Now I have finished my marking, it can only get brilliant!
I did once, when I had a persistance dog: to have a pub lunch with a friendly politician.
A photo of Dunn from 1966
An image of the first page of Dunn's article available via the link
Now online and open access! An autobiographical essay by John Dunn (Cambridge) entitled "The History of Political Thought as Window on the World" @global-ih.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Always worth having - trains to Europe are great, accommodate wheelchairs etc
Happy listening! Keith, the actor who reads The Ends, is terrific.
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-FDR, 1937
Well, TBH, I call it a lot of other things first, but I will not repeat those.
