Louise Alder ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

It struck me earlier that Dick Turpin’s name was actually Richard Turpin

Is Ralph Fiennes going to be Pope now?

Hamlet is up & running - and people seem to like it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

@charlottemendelson.bsky.social So lovely to see you on the bus today! Xx

My interview with Theatre Weekly about my forthcoming production of Hamlet theatreweekly.com/interview-fi...

Love this idea

Coming soon! To Wilton’s Music Hall. (I am so proud of this show.)

Trump FIRES US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Too “woke”. Too “diverse”.

Exactly this

@lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social Hi Lyn - I’d like to invite you to an event. What is the best way of contacting you? Fiona

#MAAD (Make America a Dictatorship)

In 53 days Hitler destroyed a constitutional republic through constitutional means. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

She knew this would happen. That's what courage looks like. By contrast, look at the people in this shot. (With the possible exception of Vance's wife.)

Big UP BISHOP MARIANN! 👊

So according to Donald Trump Jnr, Greenlanders desperately want to belong to the USA. What happens if the US actually *do* invade Greenland? What? We back Denmark & go to war with the USA???

So, if Donald Trump wasn’t about to be sworn in as US President he’d be going to prison? Is that right? If it is, then WTAF? 🤯🤯🤯🤯

I’ve just read in The Times that we, the UK, are “triggering” Elon Musk. Yes, you read that correctly.

🤦‍♀️

Thanks to @jamesomalley.co.uk for endorsing this idea on his Substack (which you should follow, btw). open.substack.com/pub/jamesoma...

The best day of the year because from now the days get LONGER. From today we gain 2 minutes of extra light a day and by the middle of February that becomes 3 minutes 🎄🎄🎄👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

The show I have been working on for three years is finally happening. Hamlet: one actor: 1hr 40mins. Possibly the best work I have ever done… wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/the...

I was lucky recently to see a preview of @fionalaird.bsky.social’s production of Hamlet, which will work with men in crisis. My latest column at @thestage.bsky.social argues that with prisons & social services collapsing, this work by artists is ever more vital www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/shak...

This should really worry the living #### out of us all. It’s going to happen if we don’t do something

"We have no idea how many of the 2.1m people who have signed it would be eligible to vote were Starmer to suddenly decide to acquiesce. For that matter, we have no idea if they are real people at all." Me on petitions, direct democracy, and tea with Elon Musk www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

‘Tis done. F### you Elon Musk Seeeee ya

Ok I win London’s “things the storm has blown into your garden” contest.

I find this genuinely terrifying. Musk is trying to overthrow UK democracy???? WTAF?? www.thetimes.com/article/76f8...

This is horrifying. The poor man. Dear god what is wrong with people?

Long live the mighty Ian Hislop

How long would your commute take in 1680? Mine would be about a day and a half. @camunicampop.bsky.social has a brilliant tool for calculating travel times in Roman, 1680, 1830, 1911 and 2024. 🗃️ www.travelintimes.org/journey/52.2...

The glorious Ted Honderich has left us. He taught me at UCL in the 80s. He was an inspiration, in his green corduroy three-piece-suits. I am sad. He was a terrific force for LIFE and enquiry and moving things ON. Lovely obit by @timcrane.bsky.social

61 years ago today. Colour film photography from that time is just extraordinary.

My 1980s. (All Gary Kemp’s fault but he’s not on here yet so I can’t berate him.) Happy days at UCL, and nights in Camden and Soho

19 November 1929 | A French Jewish boy, Charles Kaplon, was born in Montreuil. On 14 August 1942 he was deported to Auschwitz from Drancy. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

V v good piece

I was walking Jassy and @marikacobbold.bsky.social ‘s dog, Wilbur, last week (photographed here at our coffee stop) and someone asked me if they were BROTHERS

From the salon and the scarf dance … to silence: the music of Cécile Chaminade

Naomi Beinart, 16: "We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman...Where the body I haven’t fully grown into may no longer be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me, just woke up on a Wednesday."

I really don’t understand this whole ‘stay on Twitter and fight’ thing. You’re jousting with bots and reply guys and wading through ads it’s not Waterloo.

Another Brexit benefit? If only there was a way to make all this red tape dusappear... www.theguardian.com/food/2024/no...

Twitter is dead. Long live BlueSky. iandunt.substack.com/p/twitter-is...

@marikacobbold.bsky.social Eat your cheese

Loving listening to my genius and fabulous pianist friend Charles Owen (clearly not yet on Bluesky) on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social #InTune 🎶 🎵 🎹 ❤️

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,655,131 apparently

I must tell you all that I am having the most marvellous holiday. We have driven round France for FOUR WEEKS and seen beacoup des good chums, and also hung out together a deux 😍🇫🇷❤️

Interesting and worrying article www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...