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Laura Silver

@laurasilver.bsky.social
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Journalist. I like sad soup and rocks.

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That Barbara Cartland book is brilliant. As I believe Nigella already pointed out on here, a wild ride through British social history as much as anything.
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Rat Race cycles in Nunhead is so good, just fixed my broken brakes for free because it only took a couple of mins. Just so consistently helpful and nice and not dicks.
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Robot football www.youtube.com/live/FkiwNYy... is remarkably similar to Father Ted football www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z7O...
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LIVE: World Humanoid Robot Games 2026 in China | Day 4
YouTube video by Associated Press
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The eclipse has absolutely sent people, I love it www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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WhatsApp ‘drops’, price hikes and queues in scramble for solar eclipse specs
Amid doubling prices and fraying tempers, shoppers hunt for elusive eyewear to prepare for rare eclipse of sun
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Of all the places to do a massive excavated basement, a former gravediggers cottage is prob not the one www.telegraph.co.uk/money/proper...
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Cancelling my tv license because they haven’t shown any Beckhams in this game.
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Sat outside having pizza in Nunhead and 9/10 women who have walked past are wearing adidas shorts and a nice vest. 100% the look of apocalyptic London summer. (I too am wearing adidas shorts and a nice vest 😎✌🏻)
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henrimurison.bsky.social @henrimurison.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Read @hannahalothman.bsky.social @priyabharadia.bsky.social with a long read on #No10North. Grateful to be able to give my thoughts on why it’s necessary & also practicable as after all much of media, including #BBC & @theguardian.com already here themselves & it is hugely beneficial to both
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
If you listen to the audiobook of Andy Burnham’s Head North you can hear him do a (frankly, terrible) Gordon Brown impression
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Really outstanding choice of image/caption from MEN.
A bollard in manchester with a sad face.
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Why not re-live the Brexit referendum with this whirlwind tour of the lows and lows of the whole campaign?! Featuring angry Boris, his contrite sister and more! (Seriously, do, it’s really good!) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Canaries in the coalmine of populism’: an oral history of the Brexit campaign, told by those with a front row seat
How five months in 2016 that encompassed Boris Johnson siding with Vote Leave, Jo Cox’s murder and David Cameron’s resignation shaped the UK’s future
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Two views on This Life: 1) it’s essentially gentrified Hollyoaks (pedants do not bother telling me it was on first). 2) is the traffic noise a style choice or was it that cheaply filmed?
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A load of royal pageantry taking place in the rain while the government shits the bed again is true British spirit.
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Queen www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
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‘I was shunned, laughed at and underdogged’: Jane McDonald on her wild ride from clubland to cruises to country
She has survived heartbreak, death threats and nauseating sexism. In her Mayfair club, the Yorkshire star talks about superfans, viral hits, running away to sea – and her bid to become a Nashville ico...
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Bruce Springsteen’s cover of A Rainy Night in Soho is very good, isn’t it?
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Cats are such little arseholes, just love them apple.news/AMOGr4PfDRxq...
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How Lena Dunham’s Cats Gave Her a Reality Check — Vanity Fair UK
After moving to London, the writer’s growing posse of British felines took a walk on the wild side—and taught her a lesson in independence.
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Pie Jesu closing Desert Island Discs, a hymn I can no longer her without thinking of Michelle Bass's iconic rendition www.tiktok.com/@classicbbuk...
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Replying to @Rachel Hunter Scott Michelle sings Pie Jesu 💒 🤣🤣 #bigbrother #bigbrotheruk #celebritybigbrother #CBB #2000s #britishtv #weddingday #piejesu
TikTok video by Classic BBUK 👁️
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I watched it! I liked it. The Samin Nosrat episode is genuinely delightful, they really vibed apple.news/AYe0dfhdbTb6...
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Second season of With Love, Meghan fails to reach Netflix’s top 1,000 — The Guardian
Duchess of Sussex’s lifestyle programme will reportedly not return for third series
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Shout out to The Independent for not even waiting until the second mention to unleash this delightful gem #wintrybeast
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Workout of the beast
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Swingers are getting the guy who played Jay from The Inbetweeners to do them welcome videos on Cameo
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
It's beginning to look a lot like... conflict? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Santa at war: ‘home’ town in Finland hosts Nato soldiers as Russian threat looms
Christmas tourists are noticing a growing military presence in Lapland, where Santa Park doubles as a bomb shelter
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
For anyone who wasn't listening to Radio 4 at 6 o'clock this morning (why not, weirdos?) this was v lovely www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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BBC World Service - Heart and Soul, Finding my true self through Druidry
Welsh witch and Druid Mhara finds belonging and peace with her true self through Druidry
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I am once again asking that we ban the word ‘febrile’ from Westminster coverage
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Cauliflower soup with a bit of miso paste and sesame oil is not unlike Heinz cream of chicken, in case you were wondering.
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Really interesting post on how Keir Starmer could/should become a social media star peterhyman21.substack.com/p/how-to-mak... I've long thought he should lean into his strong embarrassing dad vibe - the Airport Dad meme of British politics www.tiktok.com/discover/air...
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How to make Keir Starmer a social media star
Five ways for the PM to connect with voters, without tap-dancing naked down Camden High Street
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Massive claim when Jim already sets the bar so high www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/...
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Why "I'm The Bishop Of Southwark" Is The Christmas Slogan We Need
It's what he does.
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A monkey with absolutely no time for Dirty Three (from here apple.news/AaswATsN8Qce...)
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Actually, Dermot O'Leary talking about his (beautiful!) cats is prob all you should bother reading today apple.news/A6sJfQ-56Q2m...
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Dermot O’Leary: ‘Toto the cat is blind but has lightning-fast reactions’ — The Times and The Sunday Times
Dermot O’Leary met Toto, the inspiration for his Ninja Cat stories, when a stray gave birth to kittens in his pillowcase. Then Socksie came along, a tabby that he took in as “an eight-week-old psychop...
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This is very good. England, by comparison, seems like it is probably not apple.news/AEN3caxdkTZ2...
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It’s the Happiest Country in the World. I Spent a Week There. I Wish I Could Unlearn Its Secret. — Slate
The truth is both simpler and more complicated than it seems.
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Just don't understand why they didn't simply bury the really not very old Diana time capsule elsewhere
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Perfect summary of everything that's besmirched Sex and the City's good name www.thecut.com/article/and-...
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Would you need a selfie stick in heaven? Fair to expect divine floating phone imo. Yet another AI fail.
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Really good new album alert. Sounds like if Patti Smith spent a summer on the 1970s British folk scene. open.spotify.com/album/3Eg0fx...
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The New Eve Is Rising
The New Eves · Album · 2025 · 9 songs
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I've admittedly not been keeping up with zoo news, but are zoos... OK? Baboons being fed to lions in Germany?? www.thetimes.com/world/europe... 'Unwanted' pets on the menu in Denmark??? apple.news/AMsAIis73RDu...
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‘Baboon massacre’: German zoo feeds culled primates to the lions
While other zoos defended the ‘unavoidable’ killings, protesters have rallied against the move in Nuremberg, which was intended to alleviate enclosure overcrowding
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Rat the size of cat is a classic of the bollocks that won't wash in newsrooms genre, but that, well... really is a rat the size of a cat apple.news/APkr70gFXT7a...
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‘Cat-sized’ rat found in Teesside town puts focus on pest control cuts — The Guardian
Rodent said to be 22in (56cm) long from nose to tail found in Normanby, where rat problem is said to be worsening
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Distinctly remember being furious not to be at this (I was 11) www.thetimes.com/culture/phot...
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Oasis at Knebworth during the Britpop summer of 1996 — in pictures
Noel and Liam Gallagher’s unwavering confidence and sense of mischief was on full display during their record-breaking concerts in Hertfordshire to 250,000 fans
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Tell me this happened in the late 90s without mentioning the year.
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Deeply sorry to defend anything about AJLT but I think a load of shit beauty products is pitch-perfect Carrie: she of messy hair and chain smoking. High fashion people often cba with beauty and vice versa www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The very worst thing about And Just Like That? The contents of Carrie Bradshaw’s bathroom cabinet| Emma Beddington
Cheap sunscreen, sponges, old soap … it’s laughably off-brand. And I’m not the only one who has noticed, writes Emma Beddington
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Burnham for PM discourse comes around earlier every year, it's getting so commercial. (really good piece though!) apple.news/AkfY3tvKsQhm...
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'The only one who can save Labour': How King of the North Burnham could become PM — The i Paper
Mayor of Greater Manchester has been critical of his own party's government
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
One can always rely on @robfordmancs.bsky.social for a belter of a quote apple.news/AnBLwd3hQQ6S...
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Honestly, anything to end the scourge of cargo shorts man apple.news/AXgqFbMd-Txq...
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As M&S banks on short shorts, are you ready for a ‘thigh guy summer’? — The Telegraph
Men, channel your inner Paul Mescal with this season’s wardrobe essential that’s turning heads (and raising hems)
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
What a brilliant, forensic, unforgiving-yet-thoroughly-celebratory book this is! Highly recommend, for fans or otherwise www.waterstones.com/book/travell...
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I reckon Cast No Shadow is the thinking person's Champagne Supernova (obv CS still bangs)
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Is it too much to ask that we could stop saying 'bunker buster'? Sounds like an apocalyptic Hungry Horse special.
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Former foreign office cat Palmerston was 'recently brought back to take up an overseas diplomatic posting in Bermuda as "feline relations consultant",'????? Pics or that's diplo for 'went to live on a farm' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cats ruled out as Parliamentary pest controllers
Parliament has been advised cats would face risks, including from construction and self-closing doors.
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Trump and Keir doing the sketch writers a solid, chucking the freshly signed trade deal papers all over the floor
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Good morning to Emily Thornberry only apple.news/ATHlXdL0ZSEm...
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Emily Thornberry on her garden: ‘My son’s pet rat died – I dug it up the other day’ — The Telegraph
The Labour MP recounts the ups and downs of building a garden, her battles with the slugs and the long-lost ring she found in the compost
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
FINALLY
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Have always disliked 'revealed' and 'unveiled' in news copy as they seem too jazz hands to refer to government policy etc but am seeing a real proliferation of 'disclosed' lately, which won't do – it's a bit suburban gossip coded. Bring back nice dry 'said' and 'reported' imo.
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