Starting Kate Atkinson’s Transcription here tomorrow…@TillyLovesBooks

Must see. theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

Loved Dr. Strangelove at the Noël Coward theatre last night. For a play full of men I found it to be highly feminist! Loved the line that was something like “we are a room full of men, together we can find a peaceful solution” 🤣 Armando Iannucci

'Putin relies on more than just violence and repression to stay in power. He also presides over a vast, wildly dysfunctional bureaucracy.' Katie Stallard: How ageing, paranoid dictators are looking to undermine the West the-tls.co.uk/politics-socie…

We’ve got a Calendar coming out*, this is September. *we don’t really Late Bloomer show 204. Excellent crowd in Southampton tonight. Thanks for coming if you did. My ace support was Lou Conran (give her a follow). Mugs etc are via the shop page of my website and my podcast is

I have a new job (with a v long title) - I'm now Chief Culture Writer and Contributing Culture Editor The i Paper! Excited to be writing lots more

I mean, come on! #UniversityChallenge

It’s PUB DAY for The Rhino Keeper The novel that inspired the rejection fence is out in the world! 📚🦏 I am so grateful for the early readers, friends, and partnership with @HtFiction that got me here. Go, Clara the rhino, go! 🎉 #WritingCommunity #histfic #debutnovel

Well that escalated quickly. Last supervisor meeting next week. Can't stop fiddling and fine tuning. #sentenceobsession

Zoltan Kodaly. When he sat to write his Intermezzo, did he also have someone in an empty coffee shop talking as if he needed to be heard across the other side of a motorway? Headphones and Georgia Mann. Thank God.

Have you seen the phoenix take flight? yorkminster.org/whats-on/event…

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I very much enjoyed Dr. Strangelove at the Noel Coward Theatre last night. Beautifully staged and a brilliant performance from Steve Coogan. Do see it if you can.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy amongst other Penguin Classics spotted in Waterstones Hampstead

#UniversityChallenge. Machine.

Baron’s Court underground courtesy of Julia Arning

Superb. theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

Last piece of music I listened to yesterday, was this. That voices can combine to great such warmth. youtu.be/DwujOGSLv6M

My column on celebrities leaving the United States, people leaving Twitter, and the desirability or otherwise of "the resistance" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great Timothy Snyder. 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…