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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 1h

He’s deep in prep for his role as Mr Gower in Paul Thomas Anderson’s upcoming remake of IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Reminder that Wes Streeting has a Bachelor’s degree in history. That’s it. Not a doctor. Not any health experience. Just a career politician, hollow as a gourd.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 21h

Viv and I are booked for In a Lonely Place! Can't wait!

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 23h

It is vanishingly rarely that you gotta hand it to Westminster Council, but this seems encouraging. Since moving back to London I’ve been appalled by these awful things, whether strewn over pavements or being ridden recklessly by dickheads.

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More than 1,000 dockless bikes seized in Westminster

Dockless bike regulation was discussed at a London Assembly Transport Committee meeting on Thursday.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 23h

After months of trying to sell me on their hate-adjacent Potter audiobooks - of interest only in compiling lists of actors who are dead to me - Audible is now aggressively promoting The Ricky Gervais Show. My algorithm must have done something very bad in a previous life.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

OBVIOUSLY Pet Shop Boys are the greatest band in the history of the world...BUT. Sometimes when performing Always on my Mind, Neil gets overexcited and throws in an 'Oh Yeah!' like at 3:20 of this otherwise flawless performance. It doesn't suit him, it's embarrassing and he should stop doing it.

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Pet Shop Boys - Always on My Mind/ The Pop Kids (Inner Sanctum #15) ▾

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Perhaps they could consider cutting them to none? They could chuck in Laura Kuenssberg and Chris Mason as well for good measure.

Staff were told of proposals including ending Radio 4's The World Tonight, and reducing the number of permanent presenters on Today from five to four, with a single anchor on Saturdays.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It is horrifying and heartbreaking how far and how fast the US has fallen into lawless, brutal barbarism. I don’t know how it can be recovered, and I fear for what it means for the rest of the world. Democracy and civilisation are turning out to be terrifying fragile.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I know this isn’t news, but oh my god, I just love them so much. I bought the issue of Attitude in which Neil came out in 1994, and read it around a thousand times. Being a PSB fan has brought me endless joy, and they’ve never milkshake ducked (except for being pals with Frances Barber).

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Pet Shop Boys receive the "Legend Award" at the #AttitudeAwards 2026

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

#OnThisDay, 8 Oct 1952, USAF 2nd Lt Nurse Abbie Sweetwine uses military triage at the Harrow and Wealdstone train crash in London. She saves lives and paves the way for the UK’s use of paramedics. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory 🗃️ 1/2

Abbie Sweetwine preparing a plasma infusion at the site of the crash. She is a black woman, surrounded by white men.

A photo of the Harrow and Wealdstone crash, showing three passenger trains that had run into each other. There is debris two storeys high, and people searching the wreckage.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And now they’re putting up lights celebrating the monstrous bigoted bully Rowling. Sadiq Khan is a liar and a hypocrite, and as morally bankrupt as the rest of Labour. They’re rotten to the core.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Iron Dome, really? The Tories still haven’t moved on emotionally from Portillo’s SAS speech. Impressive for the Badenoch Tapestry not to be the most toe-curlingly embarrassing part of their conference.

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Counterpoint: he deserved less.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thank you, that’s super helpful!

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have never seen any of the 28 DAYS/WEEKS/YEARS LATER films but I am interested to see THE BONE TEMPLE. Will it be remotely comprehensible with no prior context?

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’ve never seen a BBC correspondent try to build such a huge mountain out of such a tiny molehill. Chris Mason’s hysterical quest to undermine Andy Burnham, based on a few noncommittal words: Chris Mason: Why Andy Burnham's about-turn on Manchester City matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Chris Mason: Why Andy Burnham's about-turn on Manchester City matters

The prime minister's comments on Man City were revealing on several levels - and leapt on by many in football, the BBC's political editor writes.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026

I implore all cis people to read this.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(TLOTM is really the only Michael Mann film I like at all, but I love it enough to indulge a whole career of his windy disquisitions on sad and angry men.)

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am mildly annoyed that everyone is talking about the new cut of MANHUNTER because it’s only going to validate Michael Mann, who has been disgracefully holding the superior theatrical cut of THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS hostage for thirty years.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trophy Wife! So much better than it seemed it was going to be, with lovely performances from Malin Åkerman, Bradley Whitford, Michaela Watkins and Albert Tsai. It deserved better.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It does seem that London‘s cultural institutions - along with much of its infrastructure - have been unable to keep pace with its growth.

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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

BBC website. Me me me it’s all about me Chris Mason. Mason has deliberately turned a none issue over Burhan’s comments about Man City into a major event when no such issue existed. Mason is a snivelling little runt who should be sacked.He’s a nasty little man.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I saw the trailer for DIGGER again tonight and I remain fascinated by the concept of a free-wheeling satire by Alejandro G Iñárittu and Tom Cruise, probably the two men most visibly lacking a sense of humour in recent history. It’s going to be a proper fiasco, and I can’t wait.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seriously, what is going on with tube ads? They’re all just gibberish. Is this simply what getting old feels like?

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The BM unfortunately has form in this respect; I remember both the Babylon and The Vikings exhibitions as being horrendously overcrowded, making them unpleasant to navigate and impossible to enjoy. Disappointing but unsurprising that they’ve shot themselves in the foot (or perhaps their eye) again.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What has happened to Christa Pike is an obscenity but this horrific implementation doesn’t change the fundamental moral proposition of the death penalty - which is a crime against humanity and civilisation, always and irrevocably, regardless of all other context and practicality.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Based on his appearance on Elis James and John Robins’ podcast - and his long friendship with Neil and Chris - Johnny Marr seems to be a really nice, humble and generous man. It makes his managing to coexist with Morrissey for five years all the more extraordinary.

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943) and BLACK NARCISSUS (1947) are streaming free w/ ads on YouTube and Tubi if you'd like to celebrate Deborah Kerr's birthday (and Michael Powell's, too). #FilmSky #BOTD

Deborah Kerr in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943)

Deborah Kerr in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's BLACK NARCISSUS (1947)

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

George Mackay delivers in both charming and noble suffering modes. Willoughby gives Pete Doherty vibes which rather undermines his appeal, and Herbert Nordrum would be an excellent Colonel Brandon in terms of brooding, but should probably ask for a refund from his dialect coach.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I enjoyed SENSE AND SENSIBILITY well enough, especially the available light photography. It’s all very consciously modern period piece - muddy hems and drab colours - but that distinguishes it from the Ang Lee, which is sunnier, broader and more classically mounted.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A country that will not fix its mistakes is a country that has given up on the future. And Brexit was, it’s now clear, a terrible, terrible mistake inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

IMDb would have me believe this is an actor called Colin Prockter. HOW IS THIS NOT STEVE PEMBERTON?

“Colin Prockter” allegedly in Dempsey and Makepeace

“Colin Prockter” once more “in” Dempsey and Makepeace

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is it good for a Prime Minister to have taken less than two months to be satirically established as a shallow, preening narcissist with no convictions? Because it doesn’t seem very good.

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(What's the Story) Andy Burnham? | SNL UK

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A brutal verdict by omission on All Change. (I think it’s just as good as the others, even if it’s not what people wanted.)

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have literally no idea what this is advertising.

A tube poster for - I think - a product called Zoho. It says ‘Zoho CRM. Grab Value. Enterprise power not enterprise price. Be the game-changer. A woman in a white shirt and grey skirt, standing in front of an illustration of a ball pit marked with ‘Flexible’ and ‘Simple’ seems very happy about whatever Zoho is.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Being anti-woke just seems exhausting. So many things to be performatively mad about, and so many wafer-thin justifications to be concocted. And after all that effort you still need to say ‘no, it’s not racist to say this.’

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Many people have legitimate concerns about things. The moment you choose to express them by joining a violent mob of vigilantes, there's no longer anything legitimate about you, your concerns, or the unprincipled grifters cynically exploiting them.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is very hard to satisfactorily describe just how badly the BBC's journalistic standards have collapsed in recent years. Quite completely fucking useless.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I appreciate I’m falling for ragebait but…the wrongness! All of his films are good (ok, bits of GIANT are a little wobbly) and REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE is a masterpiece. The fact that he was also phenomenally handsome and stylish is merely a bonus.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I appreciate I was ten years old at the time and at a boarding school on the south coast, and that it was an unrecognisably different information environment, but I am still a little shocked that I had never heard of this awful crime before today.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wes Streeting is a truly, truly awful person. The damage he's done to trans people, to neurodivergent people, to people with mental health issues... all because of his "reckons".

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

GB News should be stripped of its broadcast licence. I can’t think of a similar scenario to this.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There couldn’t be a more exquisitely multi-faceted summary of the extent to which BBC News has lost its way.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What an absolute mess the new developments around Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms are. So much money spent on a dog’s dinner with no clarity, no sight lines, no character and no atmosphere. There aren’t even any memorable buildings.

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I guess there must be people out there going noooo I can’t give up David Walliams books they’re part of my identity I always wondered if the sorting hat would make me a gangsta granny or a chav

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Shakespeare wrote two or three plays a year for twenty years - but he looks like a slouch compared with James Graham. The dude grinds out topical drama like a machine, even if it does feel a little bit like he chooses his subjects by closing his eyes and jabbing randomly at the Guardian front page.

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Kate Phillips @andanotherkate.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Twenty three years on, I think we can admit the truth: Will Young’s decision to perform his terrible Jazz Club version of Light My Fire torpedoed his chances of winning World Idol. Kurt Nilsen went for certified banger Beautiful Day and the rest was history.

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