You can have no rage, Republicans, when you lit the fuse.

You just got outplayed

Roscoe and some flowers.

Roscoe and my friend Helen Jones.

Roscoe posing for the cover of the first of the seven LPs she made with Ralph.

Roscoe on a walk, looking truly shit hot.

"... but what it translates roughly to is 'she made a difference and did her not hide her abundant gifts away stingily'. I think most of those who have known me will admit that fits me pretty well.”

Roscoe looking even more excellent, beside another, bigger window

"... saying I once heard which is applied to only the wisest and most venerated women in the continent of Japan, and actually also sometimes to those in neighbouring Africa. I won’t try to say it, as my Japanese is yet to reach the advanced level that I trust it one day will..."

Roscoe looking imperious and solid, by a window

"You mightn’t expect it but I’m not a great one for ceremony, or awards. To be perfectly honest, when I am gone I'm not even sure I want a headstone, let alone a statue. How would I like to be remembered? I can’t give a precise answer to that question.But I can’t help thinking of an old Japanese..."

Roscoe in the autumn of 2020, with a puffball mushroom I found on the Cornish coast.

"Of course, since the spiritual awakening that turned my life around in 2015, I have done my best to forage all my food, aside, naturally, from those weeks when I am committed to uncancellable appointments in Paris, Milan or New York."

Roscoe with a squash from my mum and dad's garden.

"... There’s the sweetest little farm across the road where I purchase organic milk and vegetables. It’s really just a place a long way from anywhere that I can go and be totally in my head.”

Roscoe on high alert, outside the cottage I rented in Somerset in 2018-19

“The houses have been greatly exaggerated. There are three, not seven, as has been claimed in some sections of the media. And one is really awfully small. You’d probably never imagine I was living there if you were passing..."

Roscoe with our other cat Professor Charles Cardigan, a few months ago.

"It horrifies me now to think that, for a moment, at the agency, when I first saw his face, I almost changed my mind about adopting Result. He has become my whole planet and, as he approaches his university gap year, is a shining example of what every young man should aim to be."

Roscoe doing some really impressive yoga outside my house in 2018.

Roscoe doing some even more impressive yoga in the living room, a year or so earlier.

"My yoga strengthens my mind in precise correlation with the way it strengthens my body. It is absolute, overwhelming. Each day I practice it I feel more capable of spreading my wisdom to those less fortunate than me and designing better rucksacks for every social rank of civilian to enjoy."

Roscoe with my other cat Ralph (RIP) in spring 2017.

"Did I feel exposed by some of the things Jude wrote in his weekly newspaper column about our relationship? Without doubt. We bickered about it dreadfully at the time. Of course, that came to all seem very silly and meaningless when he fell ill, and seems even more so now he’s gone, bless his soul."

Roscoe staring at a pheasant. Side note: this pheasant was called Clarence, was very lovely, and starred in my book Ring The Hill.

"Why am I here? I ask myself that every day. I'm not sure I know, but I feel it's best that while I am, I put as much love out into the world I can, whether that be via my acting skills, my pheasant feather mini rucksacks, new ranges of personalised stationery or just being a generally good person."

My cat Roscoe, punching a tiny version of herself (made by my mum, Jo).

"It’s a fact of life, isn't it? You grow up and find ways to alchemise your negative trigger points into positivity. Otherwise you are ultimately just fighting with yourself.”

My cat Roscoe, looking more insouciant than Steve McQueen in his prime, while reclining on a William Morris cushion.

"And, although it’s taken decades for me to come to terms with my part in it, I can now finally say I feel genuine remorse about the incident backstage at Glastonbury 1999 which hospitalised Sir David Attenborough. Thankfully I have mellowed a lot since then."

My cat Roscoe, looking kind of fucked off, and probably the most like Batman she has ever looked.

“Have I been an angry person at times in my life? Who hasn’t? If you’d crossed me at the peak of my tabloid notoriety, you soon would have known about it. I will hold my hands up & say I was mean to some people. Jennifer Aniston did not call me ‘that tiny scuttling slag with the ears’ for nothing."

My cat Roscoe, hanging out on a bench, whilst at her most gloriously round.

"Bob was kind to me at a singularly lost and lonely juncture in my journey through the universe, when a lot of people weren’t. But then I discovered hot Bikram yoga, my faith and the 97% cheese diet that I maintain to this day, and everything changed forever.”

My cat Roscoe with her tongue out, staring at a fly

"You are right: the late 1990s was a strange period for me," says Islington-Smythe. "Britpop was over, I was feeling enormously directionless & I found myself spending a lot of time with the actor Bob Hoskins, who I’d met several years earlier during auditions for the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit."

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...

There is something wrong with the asylum process for LGBTQ+ people – but it’s not fake claimants A new investigation is likely to cast suspicion over LGBTQ+ claims more broadly.

"The BBC investigation exposes a handful of cases, but there is no credible evidence that fraudulent claims in this category are widespread. When similar allegations were made by former home secretary Suella Braverman in 2023, the Home Office was unable to provide evidence of systemic abuse."

And this should be painted white and be an art gallery

People you've never met, places you'd like to have seen, years ago... mound-builders (I'd like to go back to Chilicothe)

I Fucking Love Australia (@ifloz) I had to pause the dishwasher to make sure I was reading it right. 150 veterans. Some in wheelchairs. Some on crutches. Carrying folded flags of friends who didn't make it home. Standing in the Canno...

substack.com/@ifloz/note/...

I’d like to say it’s unbelievable but with this regime it isn’t.

Mostly harmless.

mock tudor house behind a fence its night a sign reads This area is slightly haunted but manageable Monitoring active. Christchurch

www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN Head of UN’s humanitarian agency frustrated that $2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets

US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

besides all the science and math, i could never be an astronaut because i would simply never stop sobbing at the BEAUTY of the cosmos

Lots of blue alkanet and white sweet rocket and yellow rapeseed

Garden fully in meadow mode.

If you don't laugh... 😂

Bit of a British TV reference that's probably lost on Bluesky 'Murica but here you go anyway 😉 😂

We're surrounded by animal noises & dung.

#WW2 Tunisian Campaign. Around this time. British war artist Edward Ardizzone produces this sketch of 'Troops resting among the wild flowers of Tunisia'.

www.edward-ardizzone-archive.org/archive/war-...