Always a pleasure to dive into the headlines with these guys 🙏

Wrote about Taylor Swift inadvertently causing a geopolitical spat in Southeast Asia for the The Observer this week theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

'The problem with Jesus of Nazareth is that he seems more concerned with woke ideas like 'feeding the poor' and harassing money changers and merchants – good, upstanding business folk who are contributing to the Roman economy'

I'm old enough to remember that Mario Testino once told Dev Patel 'ugh, but you're so normal-looking' when he found out he was dating Freida Pinto theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/…

If you're planning on binge-watching 3 Body Problem this weekend, I wrote this Vulture piece about the books and how the series remixes and adapts it (arguably for the better) vulture.com/article/3-body…

“…you just get to a stage where you think, What else? That’s one of the big painful things in life for me, where you can’t quite live all the lives.”

‘Hot priest’ Andrew Scott in this lovely interview to Zing Tsjeng

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It's giving 'we got a £150 budget for Getty stock video and an intern who says they're really good at CapCut', I'm afraid

Richard Branson made his first million off The Exorcist soundtrack?? Check out our new #GoodBadBillionaire episode on Mr Virgin himself today bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

I know a bunch of aspiring podcasters follow me, so heads up! If you're based in the UK, Spotify is offering a scholarship to the MA Podcasting course at City, University of London starting this September. They're looking for people from marginalised communities to apply. Apply!

Between this and Olivia Rodrigo handing out the morning after pill at gigs... the next-gen pop girlies are showing everyone else the way

Unpublished LGBTQ+ writers from The North of England- the tempest prize is open for entires for a couple more weeks

£1000, mentoring and ongoing support. Me and Patience Agbabi are really excited to see your work!

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So my friend was just literally escorted off Women in Data Science Geneva campus because security refused to believe she was attending their IWD conference. And they say irony is dead...

Have you heard the new BBC Podcast 'Good bad billionaire' with Simon Jack and Zing Tsjeng? Do you think it's a case of good or bad 'billionaire discourse'? Here's my take on what we can learn from it about inequality ⁩dynamics LSE Inequalities
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Rishi Sunak could deliver a speech saying he's going to deport your nan and he'd still sound like the company accountant telling people off for not filing expenses properly

The website for that Glasgow Willy Wonka is absolutely sending me. Best bit is the AI-generated text on these images of the Twilight Tunnel™ willyschocolateexperience.com