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Sad to hear this about Morten Harket www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Had to stuff my hand luggage *very hard* into the Easyjet sizer, for the first and only time justifying the gym work 💪

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Yes CMAT! What an icon www.theguardian.com/music/ng-int...

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Just when you're looking for someone to soften the blow of having to return from 33°C / €4/500ml wine Greece... archive.is/vkt7n

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RIP Edmund White 🤍

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Don't make me leave! 😭

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Night night from Crete 🧡

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Admitted, I don't watch a huge amount of TV, but Somebody Somewhere is the best thing I've watched in at least a decade 💯 this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Night night from Crete 🐐

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Gail's door news! www.theargus.co.uk/news/2519857...

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What is the UK Govt's policy on Israel? A mere five days after claiming to suspend trade talks with Israel the UK has sent its trade envoy to Israel. Meanwhile the RAF continues to assist the IDF with its ongoing brutality & indiscriminate killing in Gaza.

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Love this New Yorker cover “I wanted to pay tribute to the most celebrated cyclist in the nineteenth century—the first African American superstar of any sport—and to the epic six-day indoor cycling event in 1896 at Madison Square Garden’s velodrome, where Taylor competed” – Kadir Nelson

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Lad in the gym just asked me for advice on building his chest (what do I know!?), then took his top off to show me his current chest (erm!), then fell backwards over his bench. Mate, you're in a gym, not a sit-com 😂🙃

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Somebody Somewhere is terrific

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New Substack piece on (not) remembering how this mad decade began, through the prism of five years and 'Five Years' open.substack.com/pub/davidbra...

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Gaza officials says killing children has ‘become a pastime’ for Israeli soldiers.

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"If I consistently saw my blindness as something wrong with me to be fixed – or if I was waiting on a cure – I'd have never embraced all of who I am" open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

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He made some great programmes - the kind of stuff the BBC seems to have given up on, sadly

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New Substack piece: on the difficulty of remembering Covid, lockdowns and all that 🌻 open.substack.com/pub/davidbra...

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New Substack piece on (not) remembering how this mad decade began, through the prism of five years and 'Five Years' open.substack.com/pub/davidbra...

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Mary Bourke's series on becoming a carer for her husband is a real gem. But it did make me cry mid @gozwift.bsky.social ride which was awkward 😬 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

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New Substack piece: on the difficulty of remembering Covid, lockdowns and all that 🌻 open.substack.com/pub/davidbra...

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Happy birthday to my dad, who would have been 80 today And to Harvey Milk, who would have been 95 An unlikely celebratory duo, but there we are

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Harvey Milk would've been 95 today. If.

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Israel blaming the UK for the killing of its embassy staff - is it fair, asks BBC #wato FFS, this endless pandering to genocidal war criminals

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Hard to grasp what's happening in Sudan - but this is exceptional reporting www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Sad but true. In the race for clicks, editing is too often cast aside in favour of volume, speed and (false) economy

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Devastating, damning testimony from Graeme Groom, surgeon working in Gaza, on today's #wato www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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This is cool: ponies instead of sheep (no need for latter, as we're all vegans in Lewes) www.lewes-tc.gov.uk/2025/04/land...

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Delirious to see we've priced out all the unhappy folk from Lewes 😏 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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"Here are the genial announcers saying ‘bitch’ over and over: obedience bitch, limit bitch, postgraduate bitch, this magnificent young bitch from Venice, this famous bitch from America" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Intrigued by the theory that unaffordable housing is NOT caused by lack of supply but by taxpayers subsidising private rents to the tune of >£20bn 💡

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Loved this. But no longer quite so sure I want to go and live by a remote Irish lake

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