At the start of my terrorism studies course, I ask students what most terrorists have in common. They always say: 1- Mental illness 2- Religion. They are, of course, wrong. The two most common traits of violent extremists are: 1- Gender 2- History of domestic violence and online mysogyny.

Oh my god it’s happened, it’s finally happened. My husband and my ex have sorted the dog handover between them without involving me at all. One of them just messaged the other one. It’s a miracle.

Meant to be writing a 'why move to Brighton?' blog for an estate agent client and they really should have thought this task through before giving it to me. I know you didn't want a fucking BIBLE of Brighton, lads, but that's what you're going to get

I’d say the tedious fucking ashtray disqualified himself from Desert Island Discs with this interview in March 2015. See also: not being invited on A Good Read or Front Row. The man’s got nothing. He is the Archbishop of Fuck All.

Much is made of how if you have lots of siblings, you learn to eat fast because if you don't, you simply don't eat, but this also seems to be true of living with just one adult man.

Some kid just cheered across the road and got booed by his own dad. This has to be football related

The impossible question is "are you still beating your wife?" "Do you beat your wife" is actually a really easy question to respond to with a simple answer. Much like "how much of your book was written by AI?" is a really easy question to answer. www.wired.com/story/future...

Never in 30-odd years of flying have I heard the cabin crew remind us of the safety procedures before LANDING, so thanks for that, Wizz Air

At the airport, popped to the loo, returned to find J brandishing his phone saying “HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEWS??” Jesus Christ Liverpool I was gone for two whole minutes

Having a drink with J and one of his art historian friends and they’ve just turned to me and asked what I thought of the gallery I visited today. This is bullying of non-art folk!! I’ll not stand for it!!

Saw this Brancuşi scholar speak today. Got a lot to say for himself but I think he’ll go far

I am the only visitor in Bucharest’s Museum of Maps and Ancient Books

I have brought Patrick Radden Keefe on holiday but my brain is operating more at Jilly Cooper level, this is quite the error

I have — alas — had a conversation with Laurence Fox about guinea pigs

Tempting brunch option here in Bucharest

Flying out of Luton feels so… unchic

I saw that M&S employee video and while good for him maintaining composure, it's wild we have accepted filming strangers without their consent as a normal part of life now.

I will not look at my work emails while I’m away I will not look at my work emails while I’m away I will not look at my work emails while I’m away I will not look at my work emails while I’m away I will not look at my work emails while I’m away I will not look at my work emails while I’m away

Rivals I adore you but there’s no way Rupert would be doing his own combine-harvesting, come ON

When we've all got our lovely summer dresses on

Heads-up that I'm blocking anybody who complains about a paywall. Paywalls suck, writers hate them as much as you do, but you gotta live in reality with the rest of us. Journalism is a skeleton of its former self. If readers refuse to pay for the work, bingo, there's less writing worth reading.

J is giving the keynote at a Brancusi conference in Bucharest (hence why we’re going; I’m being an art WAG). His talk is largely about “the gaze”. Naturally I keep deliberately mishearing him and saying “I don’t think you should call them that” and I swear he’s ready to commit murder

My main man is NINE today. We gave him his birthday whale for all of five minutes because he was definitely going to overheat with excitement

Speaking to a friend last night and her concern for her trans son's welfare was so upsetting to hear. He's just not leaving the house. If you have or work in a pub or bar, please can you make it clear to customers that you run a safe space? People are scared and your support isn't taken as a given.

We’re going to Bucharest on Wednesday and I’m in the office tomorrow so I can’t really sit in the garden and do nothing today. Trouble is, every chore requires a sit-down and a pint of iced water once it’s done

I hattttttte the perimenopause content industrial complex, I'm 34 and getting suggested posts explaining I'm about to start menopause *all the time*, another friend in her mid-hirties recently had a panic attack having convinced herself she was already infertile because of them, evil evil evil

Is Wasp-Eze still a thing? Feel like that stuff used to get me through the summer

I think everyone's energy would be better used talking about how awful Threads is.

No one on any team I have ever watched has given me more joy than Mo Salah. One the premier league’s best ever players. I will miss him so dearly

Mo ♥️♥️♥️

Bro I'm on Bluesky cause the timeline is fucking readable and not some convoluted mess of ads and tweets not related to me

Gaslighting has been through the same process. It used to mean ‘lying consistently in a way that makes someone doubt their grip on reality’. Now it just means ‘not being entirely truthful’

You can dig through the political implications of all of it, but frankly, I do think we should be honest: Reform is just a licence to be cruel. Their whole politics is built on facile grievances, extrapolated into a loose hatred that attracts not idealogues but just nasty people.

Cried through the ceremony and speeches and have sweated my make-up off four times over

This Saturday a year ago I was alone in a Brighton hotel room, looking out at some damp grey weather, feeling nervous to the point of dread but more than anything else looking forward to seeing this guy at the town hall later that afternoon.

Finally on my way into London for my pal’s wedding and the train is packed with people who should have been made to complete some sort of rail travel competence test first

Lovely people of Bluesky! My amazingly talented wife @gailmyerscough.co.uk is a most talented artist/designer. Being a one woman band can be really tough, it’d be really great if you could go have a look at her fabulous website and online shop and have a look around! Please pass this on! Many thanks

What the government is doing to trans people is a society-wide version of Section 28. It is a level of bureaucratic cruelty that utterly decimates a whole group of people’s rights and puts anyone who doesn’t ‘look’ right in the eyes of others under constant surveillance. It’s a horrific thing.

I have two (2) working days left of the month and at a conservative estimate, about five days of actual work to fit in, including a tonne for our difficult client. I am... not feeling tip-top about it. BUT the hot sunny weather is here and one of my best mates is getting married tomorrow!!

Also (sorry, but honestly) if I had to make a list of places cis men couldn't go to because a cis man had made a women "uncomfortable" there, it would be very long and there would be literally nowhere for men to go.

I am so furious about the toilet BS, which creates a totally bizarre environment in which nosey people can stop anyone from having a wee. What sort of govt feels good about creating the means to stop people having a wee? We need more free public toilets, not ways to make it harder to go to the loo

lol I forgot to delete this but the client has ignored emails from my colleagues so I just had to be the one to call him to get some sort of answer about working out the duration of our contract

Man in a yellow blazer and pink trousers is murdering - and I mean *slaughtering* - Oliver’s Army in Worthing town centre

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

Being intensely, aggressively awake at 5am is less than ideal. Being downstairs alone in peace, however…

Wobbly dumplings with chicken soup.

Client's had the copy since Wednesday, the print deadline was 3pm today, they've just come back with amends, why are people like this??

Google's steered away from its 10 blue links before only to come back to it, so let's just see, shall we

With hindsight I probably shouldn't have gone into the office today. Came home, got into bed, fell asleep listening to an old Desert Island Discs episode. It's not conventional but it works!!

Watched my friend slice into our lawn with a nifty tool on Sunday and in trying to find out what she used, I've just done a very nervous search for "edging tool"