Sorry what

Yes, Zohran, yes, I too had this *exact* revelation, just remove the New from New England

“Sorry I’m going to Kathmandu” wasn’t just my least convincing ever excuse to avoid journalist phone calls

POV: you’re going for a dinner date but you’re just not romantically interested

omg the number of people who think they're making a point about JL not selling vinyl when the actual article says they're gonna sell the record I am more taken with what appear to be the mum & daughter in the background quietly doing household chores while the lads listen to their music

BBC journalist barred from leaving Vietnam and repeatedly interrogated

The BBC is deeply concerned about the wellbeing of our colleague in Vietnam... statement www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

I do a French conversation class where we talk about what’s happening in that country and we’re not exactly short of topics at the moment

Watching #TheMorningShow and it’s very unrealistic, a search of emails on an iPhone revealed something relevant right away, where did they get this super machine from

Sure, the 🐌 stuff is good but for pure bathos you want this: “When two factions of the same Naples crime family were at war in the mid-2000s they asked Ball to mediate, which he refused — so they had a summit at the local Lancashire caravan park instead.”

If someone I know says they’re doing something for charity I always sponsor them

A story in three parts

“How stupid are we?” Enough with the plural love, you alone pulled that lever #celebritytraitors

Is one of the perils that girls are endlessly objectified and judged on their looks and clothing?

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Amongst the small demographic checking out the new #TaylorSwift album who realise ‘oh yes this is the song they played on the Today programme’

Not really sure how helpful a message this is

ME ON A TRAIN: Oh no, I accidentally clicked a video with sound! Oh god, people heard a second of loud sound from my phone. I have torn the social contract. EVERYBODY ELSE ON TRAIN: Shit yeah, train time, time to watch the loudest TikToks

GenX: simply can’t be arsed even knowing what our generation we’re in. #pride #slackergeneration.

BBC, with AFP, AP, Reuters, launch film calling on Israeli authorities for access to Gaza www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Perfect nominative determinism

Also the first time the three great offices of state (FCDO, Home, CX) have all been held by women at the same time.

Ah yes, the DPRK which famously spends much of its time chatting about its leaders’ dress sense

Has led me to discover they did this… variety.com/2025/music/n...

Near Wild Heaven

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

I read this as ‘thousands turn out and tumble’ which would be sub optimal - were the streets very wet etc? - then read again

Why is this morphing into the Cornish flag?

Tourists in #Cornwall! PSA! You are not a ‘grockle’ you’re an ‘emmet’ #kernow

I have appeared on a podcast which was briefly visualised so now I need to spend the next six months completely changing the way I speak and having multiple facelifts etc.

This makes less sense if you read it as ‘an MDMA gym’

...because they'll tire themselves out before the real thing?

Imagine if, when you died, people could instantly quote a line about you from an absolutely classic pop song www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have to say, full marks to whoever did the sunflower/agapanthus combination for the 'coffee in garden' photos www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj...

German word for when you think of a *hilarious* joke then read the replies to find everyone else has got there before you with some variant or other?

Pal if you can share the secret of how to control a group of 3yos that’ll make you more cash than any AI project

Update: The BBC has now clarified that their story came from their own FOI, not ours. (We’d shared ours with them a week before: they’d declined to comment, or tell us they had the same story). We’ve updated the record and apologise for the error. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-did-ta...

Sorry what

Interesting. The most common baby girl name in Hackney? Sarah. Yes, Sarah - if you're my age you had at least two Sarahs in your class at school & now I'm so old it's coming back round www.timeout.com/london/news/...?

Aw, look! A wedding.

It’s not yet nine thirty on a Tuesday night yet there was a man on the superloop bus singing Elvis songs

I'm not saying I need to think about my language but my phone auto-corrected the word 'ducking' this morning

It’s the licence fee with a c not an s.

“I may have missed a deadline but you’ve given me a new lifeline” ok now this HAS to end #AndJustLikeThat

I’m not that old and i vividly recall how terrifying AIDS and HIV used to be…and we pretty much figured it out

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

Sadly I’m finding Carrie’s Very Special Dress a bit M&S Per Una #AndJustLikeThat