Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026dear M&S - when I call by for a quick sarnie I do NOT need a subsequent email demanding I 'rate my experience' ffas 5341
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026thanks to this fabulous piece, have just bought my first ever Jackie Collins book (ht @helenlewis.bsky.social excellent newsletter) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comJackie Collins Wrote Her Own RevolutionThe novelist imagined women enjoying equality in the bedroom and the boardroom. Are we any closer to living in that world? 152
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Caller into R4 Any Answers: 'I'm not a racist, I'm a mathematician' How Anita Anand keeps a straight face... 5130
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Just used ai to suggest restaurants to a pretty tight brief between points A and B and on the basis of the results am pretty confident they're not taking over the planet any time soon 1240
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Why don't they do a crowdfund for the Kennedy Centre? Pretty sure it'd raise the necessary loot 250
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026PSA: Party Down is coming to Netflix! Hilarious stuff - the mushrooms episode nearly ended me www.netflix.com/gb/title/701...netflix.comWatch Party Down | NetflixWhen they're not hustling for tips, the employees of a Los Angeles catering company struggle to make their Hollywood dreams come true. 051
Reposted by Marina O'LoughlinHelen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This made me howl (thanks, @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social). 0233
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Me on my beloved Margz for @ftweekend.com giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comThe magic of MargateArtists, galleries and restaurants have remade the Kent seaside town, but its real appeal is in the collision of old resort pleasures and new coastal cool 0110
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026From yesterday's ridiculously excellent @ftweekend.com Festival 190
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is brilliantly dystopian and darkly funny about being at 'the vanguard of AI displacent' 170
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It's shoo in not shoe in (Today's very minor irritation. Major irritation is still that repulsive Trmp holy sainted Dolly abomination) 1220
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Queen. Goddess. Excellent human being. RIP 💔🖤 1604
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I couldn't eat! Never happened to me in my life before - who even was I?? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comThe strange hunger of hospital lifeFive days in hospital made food feel impossible until one sticky, buttery Instagram fantasy lodged in my mind 5152
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Favourite thing about '26 fashion: it's basically cool - in both senses - to go out in your pyjamas 4110
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I need something mindless and engaging. (Just finished DTF St Louis which bleaked me right out...) Thinking Superstore, Nobody Wants This... light, warm, funny, unbleak! Suggestions? 1620
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026There is nothing - nothing - I love more than being lightly toasted on a long London bus journey home 1140
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 16/07/20262 ridiculous Wordles in a row. They're trolling us 1120
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Pals, I went back to Bistrot Paul Bert this eve for the first time in more than a decade and accidently ate a wasp. How's your night going? 4150
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026www.ft.com/content/de24... The unbeatable duo 🍸🥪 (Well, maybe a burger and martini too) But where to find?ft.comMy death-row meal? A martini and a Dublin pub-style toastieMarina O’Loughlin searches for the elusive places where rigorous cocktail-making meets white bread, melted cheese and no gourmet ideas 1101
Reposted by Marina O'LoughlinThe Maths Bazaar @themathsbazaar.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Colleague (teacher) swears by hers. It looks a bit heavy to me. But the Japanese have embraced them, the UK is exactly 12 months behind. And for London, great relief to be found at UCL in the Olympic Park, LSE Marshall Building, Wellcome Library tips from helenbarrett.substack.com/p/cool-place...helenbarrett.substack.comCool places to work when London is hotAir-conditioned pubs, cafes and libraries (mostly) with architectural flair and where you can hear yourself think 002
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 09/07/20262 heat-related q's - anyone found a not-overrun, aircon'd central London spot for working? And anyone tried one of those neck fans? 🥵🥵🥵 661
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Binface might pull it off - back in 2010 Farbage lost to Flipper, a man dressed as a dolphin 4353
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Oh no! He couldn't do his one song! #TrumpFyreFestival variety.com/2026/music/n...variety.comVanilla Ice’s Freedom 250 Concert in D.C. Canceled Due to ‘Inclement Weather’ That Doesn’t MaterializeVanilla Ice was one of two performers still scheduled to go on with Freedom 250 concerts, but his show was canceled, citing a possibility of showers. 109960130
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Am very much enjoying Trump's Fyre Festival 1202
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Time to get aff yer yacht, hen www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBaroness Mone among individuals sued to recover PPE Medpro millionsThe Baroness and her husband Doug Barrowman are among individuals being sued in a bid to recover some of the money owed to the government by the business. 1160
Reposted by Marina O'LoughlinEd Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I've got a long read about how "Heatherwickism" is the common thread that knits together our post-2010 societal malaise if you or anyone else wants it 002
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Annual post: pray for me, am on Heatherwick hellmouth no 55 bus 🥵 9220
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Further meat for my latest from @ftweekend.com - with Bouchon Racine just winning best restaurant in the UK. BR perfectly defines Magnus Nilssen's definition of 'the perfectly ordinary restaurant' www.ft.com/content/57e4...ft.comIn defence of the perfectly ordinary restaurantSometimes ‘fine’ really is absolutely fine 2121
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Dazzling collection of super-spangly/ultra-pink clad gals in town tonight. What gives? Could be Dolly? Could be Tay-Tay? 230
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Have we reached the era of 'fine'? (I'm down) 0123
Reposted by Marina O'LoughlinKatie Mather @katiematherkm.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Marina this has been a rollercoaster 131
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Pal just told me this and I couldn't believe it. But... 560
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026www.ft.com/content/d29a... Man, there IS some sanity!ft.comDonald Trump’s $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponisation’ fund and Kennedy Center revamp blocked by judgesAdministration ordered to halt actions linked to legal fund and separately remove president’s name from arts complex 0161
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Love travelling but bloody hell hate the actual travel 270
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Hokum is a blast and Damian McCarthy is a horror legend 030
Reposted by Marina O'LoughlinFT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 10/05/2026.@marinaoloughlin.bsky.social's inner cynic says, no mystery. Hospitality is struggling, pizza is cheap to make, with high margins and fast table-turnover. Not to mention the appeal of cheese-pull social media posts. But her non-cynical side thinks there's more to it ft.trib.al/9Ui2zwZ 031
Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026I love pizza you love pizza why do we all love pizza? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... 331