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Marina O'Loughlin

@marinaoloughlin.bsky.social
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
dear M&S - when I call by for a quick sarnie I do NOT need a subsequent email demanding I 'rate my experience' ffas
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
thanks to this fabulous piece, have just bought my first ever Jackie Collins book (ht @helenlewis.bsky.social excellent newsletter) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Jackie Collins Wrote Her Own Revolution
The novelist imagined women enjoying equality in the bedroom and the boardroom. Are we any closer to living in that world?
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Caller into R4 Any Answers: 'I'm not a racist, I'm a mathematician' How Anita Anand keeps a straight face...
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just 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
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Why don't they do a crowdfund for the Kennedy Centre? Pretty sure it'd raise the necessary loot
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
PSA: Party Down is coming to Netflix! Hilarious stuff - the mushrooms episode nearly ended me www.netflix.com/gb/title/701...
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Watch Party Down | Netflix
When they're not hustling for tips, the employees of a Los Angeles catering company struggle to make their Hollywood dreams come true.
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This made me howl (thanks, @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social).
new businesses: there's the poignant story about the owner of a tiny gallery who installed a show dedicated to actor Pedro Pascal. Pascal came to Margate and found the exhibition - on the one day the owner wasn't there and the gallery was closed.
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Me on my beloved Margz for @ftweekend.com giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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The magic of Margate
Artists, 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
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yo Sushi has always been naff af
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
From yesterday's ridiculously excellent @ftweekend.com Festival
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is brilliantly dystopian and darkly funny about being at 'the vanguard of AI displacent'
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Perfect
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today's Connections was just MEAN
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's shoo in not shoe in (Today's very minor irritation. Major irritation is still that repulsive Trmp holy sainted Dolly abomination)
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
💔💔💔
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Queen. Goddess. Excellent human being. RIP 💔🖤
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I couldn't eat! Never happened to me in my life before - who even was I?? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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The strange hunger of hospital life
Five days in hospital made food feel impossible until one sticky, buttery Instagram fantasy lodged in my mind
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Favourite thing about '26 fashion: it's basically cool - in both senses - to go out in your pyjamas
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I 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?
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Pleasure all mine!
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Would happily go back any time!
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
There is nothing - nothing - I love more than being lightly toasted on a long London bus journey home
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
2 ridiculous Wordles in a row. They're trolling us
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Pals, 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?
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
www.ft.com/content/de24... The unbeatable duo 🍸🥪 (Well, maybe a burger and martini too) But where to find?
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My death-row meal? A martini and a Dublin pub-style toastie
Marina O’Loughlin searches for the elusive places where rigorous cocktail-making meets white bread, melted cheese and no gourmet ideas
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The Maths Bazaar @themathsbazaar.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Colleague (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...
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Cool places to work when London is hot
Air-conditioned pubs, cafes and libraries (mostly) with architectural flair and where you can hear yourself think
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Thank you!
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
2 heat-related q's - anyone found a not-overrun, aircon'd central London spot for working? And anyone tried one of those neck fans? 🥵🥵🥵
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Binface might pull it off - back in 2010 Farbage lost to Flipper, a man dressed as a dolphin
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Oh no! He couldn't do his one song! #TrumpFyreFestival variety.com/2026/music/n...
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Vanilla Ice’s Freedom 250 Concert in D.C. Canceled Due to ‘Inclement Weather’ That Doesn’t Materialize
Vanilla 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.
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Am very much enjoying Trump's Fyre Festival
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Time to get aff yer yacht, hen www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Baroness Mone among individuals sued to recover PPE Medpro millions
The 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.
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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I'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
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Yep
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Annual post: pray for me, am on Heatherwick hellmouth no 55 bus 🥵
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Further 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...
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In defence of the perfectly ordinary restaurant
Sometimes ‘fine’ really is absolutely fine
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
aHAH
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Dazzling collection of super-spangly/ultra-pink clad gals in town tonight. What gives? Could be Dolly? Could be Tay-Tay?
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Have we reached the era of 'fine'? (I'm down)
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Katie Mather @katiematherkm.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Marina this has been a rollercoaster
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Oh, right
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Pal just told me this and I couldn't believe it. But...
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
www.ft.com/content/d29a... Man, there IS some sanity!
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Donald Trump’s $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponisation’ fund and Kennedy Center revamp blocked by judges
Administration ordered to halt actions linked to legal fund and separately remove president’s name from arts complex
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Love travelling but bloody hell hate the actual travel
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Hokum is a blast and Damian McCarthy is a horror legend
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FT 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
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I love pizza you love pizza why do we all love pizza? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Of course!
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