Never forgotten

Liz Truss got a book advance of £1500.

Robert Gates on visiting Russia as CIA director: 'One of my most vivid memories, they have this wonderful guest house at KGB headquarters where they have their dinners...We sit down and I ate the worst piece of beef I’ve ever had in my entire life' millercenter.org/the-presidency…

Killer quote from one participant in Lord Ashcroft's Thanet and Portsmouth focus groups: conservativehome.com/2024/03/22/lor…

Shout out to all the mums celebrating with lunch at a restaurant your kids like

Such a great show by Matt Green last night at 21Soho - he really is on fire at the moment. The perfect election year set

New Slow Horses filming near Barbican

Just wrote a nonsense paragraph at the end of my 2nd draft so I could see this magic number

Not online yet but I need you to read my ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of Nigella Lawson’s Amsterdam Christmas in today’s i newspaper because IT IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER WRITTEN

As if Afghans have not suffered enough, Pakistan now forcibly expelling as many as 2 million as world turns a blind eye, distracted by Middle East

Our possibly electrical fire. Very unclear.

Fire at Smithfield Market. Sirens blaring. Ahead of refurb by ⁦Museum of London⁩

“When I receive a manuscript from a writer I’ve been working with I’m consumed by curiosity … But easy or not, one’s first job is a swift and honest response—tempered, of course, by tact.”

We’ve unlocked our interview with Robert Gottlieb. theparisreview.org/interviews/176…

The greased piglet - Johnson's resignation before prevented him having to resign in disgrace today, makes him look a tiny bit more principled. And being removed from office last year prevented him being driven from office this morning.

Commons privileges committee says Boris Johnson should be permanently stripped of his Parliamentary pass and would have been suspended for 90 days for 'deliberately misleading' MPs and 'impugning the committee'

Loved Yellowface. Clever, funny, sharp, current

.Anton Troianovski on Dubai as a hub for 🇷🇺 capital & emigres:
Palm Jumeirah lined w 🇷🇺restaurants & clubs. On a recent Weds, guests ordered $1200 🍾 of Dom Pérignon, delivered by waiters w sparklers.
When a guest yelled “Glory to Ukraine!” bouncers saw him out
nytimes.com/2023/03/13/wor…

Outlandish titles! Improbable pseudonyms! Lurid covers! Stumbled upon this brilliant collection of vintage crime novels Barbican Library

Never believe anyone who says life was safer in ye olden days

Happy paperback publication day to Marianne Levy's brave, funny and fearless memoir DON'T FORGET TO SCREAM 📚👏

A brilliant and honest read for mothers everywhere. Get your copies at the link below! 💜

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