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Something uplifting on Radio 4 now after a week in which everyone who isn’t a white man seems to have been fired from US positions: a service celebrating 25 years of LGBT+ personnel being actively allowed to serve in the UK Armed Forces. Let’s celebrate them and give thanks. And no going back.

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Tonight's contestants on Gladiators include Frank Bruno's daughter, and a former Team GB tae kwon do member and supply teacher competing in her hijab. I LOVE this show!

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Sad news for Tooting Common: Roger the Great Dane died this week. The local dog group is now a roll call of people paying their respects to a true gentleman blessed with arguably the greatest name for a puppy there has ever been.

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This is just the loveliest and happiest piece. The essence of Tom from Four Weddings: "Cor, thunderbolt city!" www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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I went to see my parents today. The weather was so grim that after lunch we all just…fell asleep. At one point, the dog woke herself up with her own snoring, clambering instantly to her feet and chuntering like a colonel.

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Jilly Cooper is 88 today so please stop what you’re doing and enjoy this JC-themed cryptic crossword! 😍🥳🥂

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Idea for those now with creative control of James Bond. Re-film each of the stories in their original 1950s and early 1960s period settings. Do not update them. And make Bond as unsympathetic and unlikeable - indeed nasty - as the original. It may give quite a lot of people a useful jolt.

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God I just have so many questions about the length of JD Vance’s tie and trousers

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I can recommend this highly. The disturbing, awful stuff is lightened by things like…

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Extremely entertaining extracts from the diaries of former chief whip Simon Hart in The Times today. Kemi, Suella and myriad others come off about as well as you’d imagine. www.thetimes.com/article/e25f...

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Assuming they call it spring cleaning because it’s only when the natural sunlight comes through the windows that you realise how horrifically dusty your house is 😬

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I think I'd probably draw the line at having relationship therapy filmed by Netflix – but if that sounds like something you'd be up for, they're casting for 'Blue Therapy' (based on a 2021 YouTube series) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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I went to see my aunt and her share horse today. Despite clearly being a little baby who has never done anything wrong, Asbo is 25 and a retired eventer who likes to go up vertically at poles on the ground and who once jumped over a child and her pony rather than wait for them at a fence.

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At first I was decayed. I was putrefied. Kept thinking I could never liiive without formaldehyde.

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I’ve fed Sybil enough kibbles now that we can catch up on the new series of The Dog House in peace without being worried about dogs appearing in her room

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The modern phenomenon of the Haunted Cereal Bowl has bothered me for years

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Went to see Bridget Jones and oh my God what a COMPLETE joy! The man next to us had taken his mum, and really got into it. Impossible not to, what a wonderful film.

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And I shall be dressing up as her for Halloween.

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Letters: Under Musk and Trump, the US is no longer a serious country www.independent.co.uk/voices/lette...

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I’ve been given arguably the greatest Valentine gift: my husband showed me how to get WhatsApp to automatically transcribe voice notes blog.whatsapp.com/introducing-...

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I love reading people's thoughts on hitting milestones, and this in @theipaper.com, from Rev Kate Bottley on turning 50, is a really good one. Am now eagerly anticipating my first gossip and scandal-fuelled Saga holiday. inews.co.uk/opinion/dont...

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I had no idea the Guardian had a quick cryptic crossword! This is a lovely clue from today’s, shared in our Only Connect group in honour of Mothers Ruined www.theguardian.com/crosswords/q...

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This last line by Dina Nayeri: ‘It is an important book, a must-read, if only for the reminder that history always comes down to one simple question: “When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?”’

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This is making me feel increasingly guilty that I have only celebrated Sybil's approximate birthday once (she wore a hat, she removed the hat, we did not speak of it again)

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According to Letterboxd it's Gromit's birthday. Not sure how they know it's February but who am I to argue with the internet's premium film app. Happy Birthday, old pal!

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Cats Protection is asking anyone in south London with a large and safe garden, or businesses with outdoor spaces, to consider rehoming the animals in pairs before they are effectively evicted. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Perhaps because of the sheer uncertainty of everything, I have embraced chaos still further and become wholly fixated on the idea of microblading my incredibly wonky eyebrows (genetically so, rather than 90s plucking). If anyone has a reco for someone who's very good on fair brows, hit me up.

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In a statement, AP editor Julie Pace said the White House told the AP if it did not align its editorial standards with Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, it would be barred from accessing Trump's executive order signing

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I spend more time than is healthy thinking about how I would rearrange the BM’s collection, and it really should be curated around life experiences: sex, complaints, worship, and so on.

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In extremely cheering news, Sort Your Life Out is back on BBC One tonight at 8pm. I cannot recommend it enough: it is restorative, uplifting and very right-sizing. Tonight's family finds 99 odd socks, 2,000 greeting cards, and 118 spoons in their clearout. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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These accounts are so starkly upsetting. I desperately wish that British governments would prioritise the foundations that make for a good upbringing: healthcare, libraries, schooling, housing and support. Healthy children become healthy - and alive - adults.

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