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Posts by Chitra Ramaswamy

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Booze, drugs and Egg in the buff! How This Life sexed up the world of TV Thirty years since the cult show about sweary lawyers swaggered on to our screens in a fug of cigarette smoke, creator Amy Jenkins talks F-bombs, fellatio … and giving Ricky Gervais his big break

And it's up on @bbciplayer.bsky.social! Will be activating my nostalgia for the mindless sex and drugs fest that was the 1990s TONIGHT! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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1610 at the Globe Inn restaurant review — a historically good meal Exceptional Scottish produce cooked by virtuoso chefs in a setting steeped in history — my only regret is that I couldn’t stay longer

My @thetimes.com restaurant review of 1610 at the Globe Inn, Dumfries. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

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Sign the Petition Save Trongate103 from closure

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Sign the Petition Save Trongate103 from closure

Please share, sign and save Trongate 103 👇🏽

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Thanks Chris!

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Thank you!

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This is so devastating...

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Is Glasgow losing the spaces that made it an arts powerhouse? The closing of a cluster of leading creative venues has led to dismay and intensified fears the hubs that fostered Glasgow’s celebrated arts scene are disappearing

““Glasgow is slowly becoming a hollow shadow of the thriving, radical and creatively edgy place it once was. At a certain point you have to ask what kind of city we are choosing to become”

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Great piece about the reprehensible and avoidable hollowing out of Glasgow’s once thriving arts scene

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Turning over a new Leith | The Observer Fiercely independent, Edinburgh’s historic port district is fighting back against big business

My @theobserveruk.bsky.social feature on my beloved Republic of #Leith observer.co.uk/style/travel...

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I love this so much! And thoroughly concur! A magnificent restaurant. Already feels like such a titan of the Edinburgh dining scene, I love it so.

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Zack Polanski has best approval rating of any major party leader The Greens are also up three points in the voting intention figures

Zack Polanski has the best approval rating of any major party leader.

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Migration is part of what makes this country great.

We're not an island of strangers - we're an island of neighbours.

The Green Party will always support fair & managed migration.

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So smooth, so round, so creamy.

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a white orb covered in black speckles and spots rests on a dark sofa cushion. the left side is a dalmatian’s face, tucked in toward her haunches with her thin tail wrapped up to hug her face. she is looking at the camera with one sleepy brown eye.

a white orb covered in black speckles and spots rests on a dark sofa cushion. the left side is a dalmatian’s face, tucked in toward her haunches with her thin tail wrapped up to hug her face. she is looking at the camera with one sleepy brown eye.

This is Koyuki. Please do not disturb her. She's in ice cream scoop mode right now. Needs to focus. 12/10 (IG: fuji_bull)

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a bright orange canvas jacket with bright blue, green, and magenta letters in a 3x4 pattern reading a b c d e f u c k i c e

a bright orange canvas jacket with bright blue, green, and magenta letters in a 3x4 pattern reading a b c d e f u c k i c e

finished embroidering my jacket :)

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BrewDog bought by US cannabis and drinks firm for £33m, costing nearly 500 jobs Many early-stage crowdfunders left empty-handed as Tilray acquires beer company’s UK and Irish assets

Nearly 500 immediate job losses and legions of Brewdog’s early-stage crowdfunders left empty-handed. Totally punk

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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This book is a beacon. Beautiful writing and thinking from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social at the height of her powers. I'm reviewing it for @writersmosaic.bsky.social and it's a stunner.

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It's publication day! (I signed 240 of these yesterday, before an event with the inimitable Jeff Chang, at San Francisco's Booksmith at the Internet Archive).

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Lanark Book Three Chapter Six - Oliver Pearse
Lanark Book Three Chapter Six - Oliver Pearse YouTube video by Alasdair Gray Archive

Sharing the second of our Gray Day animation commissions ✨
Oliver Pearse, one of five artists selected by The Alasdair Gray Archive and @canongate.co.uk, reimagines Chapter Six of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981) for the Alan Cumming audiobook—first screened at Gray Day 2026 at Òran Mór.

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Green crab surrounding green, pink and yellow seaweed

Green crab surrounding green, pink and yellow seaweed

Colours of the ocean #Shetland

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Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.

Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.

Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

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A mug depicting KC Green's This Is Fine dog comic, but tragically faded

A mug depicting KC Green's This Is Fine dog comic, but tragically faded

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames

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While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.

www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

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Everything seems awful and chaotic and powerless, so I am left to do what I can only do: share some beauty with the world. I have no wise words or platitudes, but I do have a camera and empathy. A shot from my first global geomagnetic storm (2024) 💛

#iceland #northernlights #aurora
#peace

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When you think about it for more than 5 seconds, it really is both insane and outrageous that *HILLARY CLINTON* - a woman who apparently has never met with nor corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people deposed.

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Tracing Light Film Screening • Words • Kings Place Award-winning director Thomas Riedelsheimer works with light. It is his medium. Mysterious and beguiling. In this film, in remote island settings and hi-tech laboratories, he brings together art and s...

Our latest Film Tracing Light at Kings Place; Kings Cross. I'll be there for a Q&A with Dr James Fox and Julie Brook. London friends, do come. Thursday 19th March.
www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...

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Successive interviews by Nick Robinson this morning perfectly sum up the BBC:

with Zack Polanski: sneering, aggressive, constantly interrupting.

with David Bull, Reform's Chairman: polite, nodding along, barely any interruptions.

Amazing. Will share the link when it's up so you can listen too.

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Now there is hope! It's no longer a choice between grim and grimmer. We can vote for who we want and win. Anywhere.
It's just one constituency, but the Green victory in Gorton and Denton is an electric shock to our political system.

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BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

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