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Media lawyer, feminist, news junkie, bookworm, domestic soigneur, retired kitten fosterer, alto II. Lookin' for a mind at work.
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@winchesterlunch.bsky.social just read your bio - how absolutely brilliant! Is this the book you shared with me in about 2017/18? I read a few early chapters and have thought about the characters so often since then.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Pete Hegseth using the nuclear codes as his password on Pornhub, both parties have ignored our nation's security.

submitted 63 days ago • 366 comments

This is an exceptional piece of writing by an anonymous barrister recently diagnosed with ADHD. www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/adh...

submitted 102 days ago • 34 comments

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. Cycling ending on ITV4 and going behind a £30.99 Discovery+ paywall is a travesty.

submitted 107 days ago • 26 comments

Look, obviously my emotional reaction to that press conference is to punch a wall so hard either it or my knuckles break. But let put that on hold for a moment and ask, very dispassionately and calmly: What American national interest objective or foreign policy goal was served by that shit-show?

submitted 118 days ago • 189 comments

A lawyer’s resignation letter for the ages, and that penultimate paragraph is an absolute corker.

submitted 132 days ago • 26 comments

saw this circulating on Instagram the other day and I can’t stop thinking about it. “Who cares anymore what particular knot they used in the binding?” is such a perfectly expressed repudiation of the “economic anxiety” framing

submitted 140 days ago • 9 comments

How long until Musk decides Trump is a hindrance/liability and deposes him entirely, rather than merely continuing to use him as his useful idiot? Not long, I’d imagine.

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

I'm struck by the near-total failure of leadership across civil society, in a country that fetishizes the concept. Whole sections of leadership books at every bookstore. Named, endowed "leadership" institutes and curricula across higher ed. Awards and special recognition for "leaders." AND YET

submitted 146 days ago • 177 comments

Isn’t this a coup?

submitted 145 days ago • 13 comments

Hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past

submitted 167 days ago • 175 comments

it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories

submitted 170 days ago • 713 comments

For the UK there is a real opportunity here to attract global talent and investment simply by displaying commitment to the rule of law, basic liberal principles and sound economics. Projecting competence may seem a low bar but it’s one others will struggle to meet.

submitted 169 days ago • 8 comments

No idea why you’d faff around giving Sarah Lancashire a CBE when she’s so clearly destined for Damehood.

submitted 178 days ago • 2 comments

I suggested to the 10yo that he put Christmassy snacks into small bowls and position them “here and there”. Now there’s a bowl of Quality Street on the side of the bath. God bless us, every one!

submitted 184 days ago • 0 comments

Time for my favourite Christmas Eve tradition - scrolling by candlelight through the offerings of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas.

submitted 184 days ago • 0 comments

Instagram has just shown me a woman doing a dance to a Bruno Mars song in her dining room, accompanied by a caption explaining that her son has been diagnosed with coeliac disease. Some social media stuff is just baffling to me and I’ve been terminally online for 25 years.

submitted 193 days ago • 2 comments

In dark times, this is such wonderful news.

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments

Has someone sent for BBC Dad? #SouthKorea

submitted 205 days ago • 0 comments

Has anyone else cooled rapidly on The Rest Is Entertainment in recent weeks? Not sure if it’s them or me. I have loved it (I’ve heard every episode) and now…. it’s just different.

submitted 209 days ago • 0 comments