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Were Mary and Bert DtF? Just one of the important questions tackled in this week's Rated or Dated.

This is a really interesting think piece from Simon Cottee on why not all of the recent rioters are created equal. unherd.com/2024/08/meet-t…

This is lovely. And a good reminder to value our pals, which sometimes means putting the work in.

Such a brilliant episode and The Instrumentalist is out now Bloomsbury Books UK !

Still crying.

Afghan women are responding to the Taliban's ban on women speaking in public by launching a campaign and singing out loudly.

🎥 RATED OR DATED 🎥 There's a lot on the line this week, because Mickey Noonan's picked one of her and hannah dunleavy's favourites: 1999's Bowfinger, starring Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy x2. Has she finally pushed her luck? bit.ly/3OJWglr

Mick and Hannah are talking about the dystopian horrors happening to women in Afghanistan in this week's Bush Telegraph. This interview Mickey Noonan did previously with Zan Times's Zahra Nader is well worth your time. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sim…

Don’t want to beat the gender drum but if a nation of men were stripped of their basic human rights I’m pretty sure there’d be a louder chorus of disapproval. We can’t abandon Afghan women. No talking in the street: how the Taliban silenced women like me thetimes.com/article/85c5b3…

This is a brilliant interview from hannah dunleavy, chatting to Layla Wright about her experiences spending time with far right-wing women in America. I'll be watching it tonight BBC Three. Join me.

At the risk of blowing the "rated or dated?" answer, what a total joy to revisit Muriel's Wedding.

BUSH! Telegraph hannah dunleavy and Mickey Noonan have looked at the news, had a big scream and are now ready to talk Noasis, no-brainers and why Boghossian (et al) can do one. And @sarahmillican75's tale of unwelcome visitors for our £5+ Patreons 🐁🐁 bit.ly/3OJWglr

Congratulation's to English Teacher on there Mercury Prize win.

Yes indeed, come and see me in Marlborough in just a few weeks' time! Talking to the excellent Mickey Noonan about women, walking and place. I'll also be in Bridport and Yeovil very soon (note that all of these are places on ancient tracks!)

Award-winning poet Vanessa Kisuule is, in her own words, “a recovering Michael Jackson obsessive”. She chats to Mickey Noonan about the pleasures and perils of fandom, the problem with "monsters" and her debut non-fiction, Neverland. bit.ly/3OJWglr

Feminism isn't women's moral obligation. It is a response to men failing in theirs. I am so sick of men telling feminists they're not doing enough about x or y (usually because they haven't noticed what feminists *are* doing)

Every woman I know is consumed by one or both of these news stories. (It's not all grim AF though, promise.)

NYT Spelling Bee openly scorning British players this morning by disallowing the very obvious rude pangram here

We've got loads of cracking stuff coming up this week. Like what? Like this.