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Best political commentator you've sort of heard of. Award-winning playwright you've never heard of. It just goes to prove what I've always said...
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submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

Today is my 50th birthday. So I said some nice things about myself and my life.

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

Today is my 50th birthday. So I said some nice things about myself and my life.

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

Hmm they say your brain deteriorates as you age but on this, my 50th birthday, I got 99% skill on Wordlebot. So there!

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

And here it is. 50.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Just seen & loved The Years. Perfect play to see on the eve of my 50th birthday. Thanks so much @katebevan.com for the recommendation!

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

50 and fabulous. Reflections on a life accidentally well led.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

50 and fabulous. Reflections on a life accidentally well led.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Given that the theme of my weekend is '50 and fabulous' I am offering a fabulous 50 per cent discount on an annual subscription to my newsletter! Sign up here

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Have had my lashes done for my birthday party. I look like an Instagrammer's Gran.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Leopards/face latest:

submitted 2 days ago • 107 comments

I make 15% of 28% to be 4%

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Not a time for bantz, but it does strike me as amusing - and we have to find the dark humour where we can - that if the far right manage, as they seem to be doing, to destroy NATO, it does increase the likelihood of their much-feared pan-European army.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Listen to @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social and I discuss 'Brian and Maggie - the drama about the interview that may (or more probably may not) have brought down a PM.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Even Tory Whips are right sometimes... www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

About a million years ago, the Fabian Society published the absolutely seminal report series Southern Discomfort. As Kemi decides to wave goodbye to ever winning swathes of seats in the Home Counties and South West I wonder the Tory equivalent will be called? Perhaps 'It's all gone south'?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

*Updates Audible wish list*

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I simply could not tell you what McSweeney believes in. I know what he doesn’t believe. But I have literally no idea what he wants to do with the power he so accurately and purposefully sought. My response to Get In.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

I was trying to think of the right cliché to describe myself and got mixed up between Bluestocking and Greybeard accidentally calling myself a Bluebeard. So now I must become a pirate. Avast Me Hearties! You fight like a cow!

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments