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Editor of Observer New Review, London; believer in untrodden ways and Invisible Cities, dawn choruses and last-minute winners.

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Graham Snowdon @gsnowdon.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Wonderful and moving tribute by @timadamswrites.bsky.social to Rachel Cooke, the brilliant Observer journalist who also frequently lit up the pages of the Guardian Weekly, who has died at the age of 56. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
A radical rural manifesto trib.al/nc20H1B
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A radical rural manifesto | The Observer
The best-selling author of The Shepherd’s Life grew up thinking the Lake Poets had nothing to say for working people. Then he moved to the city and had a...
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Clare M @clarem.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The wonderful Bill Nighy being wonderfully Bill Nighy observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
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‘What shorts should I wear? The shorts that go down and a...
Bill Nighy has strong opinions on the art of living. And now he is imparting his wisdom as an agony uncle. Choice tips: become a glory hunter, shake you...
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Jen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I cannot believe I am just now learning that Bill Nighy has an advice podcast, whoever failed to inform me about this is fired
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Ah Bill Nighy.
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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Bill Nighy has started giving advice to people. observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
I have started dating a man who is very nice but does not share my politics. Any advice?

“You just have to get the fuck out of there. What are you thinking? He must be incredibly attractive-looking. I mean, what is it? Is he tall? Does he remind you of your father? There’s only two kinds of politics these days, and you can’t breathe the same air as the other kind.”
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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
fascinating that Bill Nighy gets what a lot of romance authors do not.
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Flashman @crankgriems.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Bill Nighy coming in with an admirable generosity of spirit observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Thoroughly enjoyed this whole interview but also slightly surprised that I appear to be married to Bill Nighy.
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⚔️Pauline Bock⚔️ @paulinebock.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
thank god for bill nighy
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Hula Noob @hulanoob.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
This is a wonderful read with poignant replies and a whole bunch of charmingly British fashion opinions. Bill Nighy should do this on a regular basis, this is delightful.
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GibbertyFlibbet @thecorrection.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
@jeffrivett.net there are half a dozen laughs in this, what a treasure Bill Nighy is
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Jack Fraser @muninnherself.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
This is a delightful interview, you should read it. Lucky Miranda Sawyer, who got to 'waste some time' with Bill Nighy.
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NM 💛🤍💜🖤 @nm0nm0.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
This whole article is beautiful 🥰 Bill Nighy, eloquent and hilarious.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 19/10/2025
“Also, how clever is anyone supposed to be? How interesting is anyone supposed to be? Just open up your heart and let him walk around there for a while.” There is no better way to “squander” your time than this delightful interview with Bill Nighy ⭐️
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‘What shorts should I wear? The shorts that go down and a...
Bill Nighy has strong opinions on the art of living. And now he is imparting his wisdom as an agony uncle. Choice tips: become a glory hunter, shake you...
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Tim Adams writes @timadamswrites.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
More weekly brilliance from @lauracummingart.bsky.social her description of Prince dancing is worth the price of the Observer on its own
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Laura Cumming @lauracummingart.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Pete Townsend and Prince in this ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ show from the great Arthur Jafa at Sadie Coles HQ and Karma Ashadu at Camden Arts Centre...loved these shows @theobserveruk.bsky.social @timadamswrites.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/art/...
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Arthur Jafa is a sound-and-vision genius | The Observer
The multimedia artist creates hypnotic, cinematic forms of homage to music greats from Pete Townshend to Prince. Plus, Karimah Ashadu’s meditation on men
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today! observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
I have started dating a man who is very nice but does not share my politics. Any advice?
"You just have to get the fuck out of there. What are you thinking? He must be incredibly attractive-looking. I mean, what is it? Is he tall? Does he remind you of your father? There's only two kinds of politics these days, and you can't breathe the same air as the other kind."
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I adore Bill Nighy, this is such a great interview
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Tim Adams writes @timadamswrites.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The inimitable Bill Nighy, agony uncle, on boring friends, football fans and tge optimum colour of sock. In the @ObsNewReview ://observer.co.uk/culture/interviews/article/what-shorts-should-i-wear-the-shorts-that-go-down-and-arrive-at-your-shoe
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‘What shorts should I wear? The shorts that go down and a...
Bill Nighy has strong opinions on the art of living. And now he is imparting his wisdom as an agony uncle. Choice tips: become a glory hunter, shake you...
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
It's Bill Nighy, so obviously it's a joy, but there's also some brilliant advice in here: observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
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‘What shorts should I wear? The shorts that go down and a...
Bill Nighy has strong opinions on the art of living. And now he is imparting his wisdom as an agony uncle. Choice tips: become a glory hunter, shake you...
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Fiona Maddocks @fionahmaddocks.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
observer.co.uk/news/columni... Well worth reading this
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It’s not opera that’s elitist but the idea that art is to...
The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book
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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I've long felt that the generosity of Cosey Fanni Tutti's work is overshadowed by the 'transgressive' reputation of TG, and that her art / porn actions and music have been rather siloed. It was a pleasure to try and put that straight in this profile for The Observer observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
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Cosey Fanni Tutti reveals all | The Observer
An exhibition in the pioneering artist's hometown sees the Throbbing Gristle co-founder celebrating 50 years of baring her soul
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I wrote an opinion column for the Observer! I never do opinion columns but I was just really annoyed by cultural vandalism and Kemi Badenoch. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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In praise of “rip-off” degrees | The Observer
Kemi Badenoch’s attack on the arts and humanities isn’t just culturally short-sighted, it’s economically illiterate
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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Laughing in Joe Rogan land trib.al/wC3iMuJ
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Laughing in Joe Rogan land | The Observer
At the podcaster’s Comedy Mothership, you can hear the authentic voice of Trump’s America. How did comedians get so much political power?
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Tim Adams writes @timadamswrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Unmissable report from @milesellingham in this week’s Observer, which brings to life the surreal and tragic new normal for young people in #Kyiv observer.co.uk/style/featur...
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24 hours in Kyiv | The Observer
Art, raves and four-minute warnings: how the city’s young are clinging to normality while war rages on
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Gail Parker @gailp.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Something cheerful for a Monday observer.co.uk/style/featur...
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What’s that coming over the hill? | The Observer
The first passenger rail journey, from Stockton to Darlington, took place 200 years ago this week – and it changed the world for ever
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Laura Cumming @lauracummingart.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The most significant trip I've ever taken in terms of a new history of art. Ancient Egypt as we've never seen it before! @theobserveruk.bsky.social @nealspencer.bsky.social @timadamswrites.bsky.social rhttps://observer.co.uk/culture/art/article/face-to-face-with-the-pharaohs-tomb-artists
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Face to face with the pharaohs’ tomb artists | The Observer
The painters and stonemasons of ancient Egypt have been erased from history, but a groundbreaking new exhibition brings them fully to life
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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This is horrifying and an example of just what is going on right now. #USDemocracy
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George Walkley @georgewalkley.com · 08/09/2025
I like the new Observer more and more. Naomi Alderman's review of Nick Clegg and Tim Berners-Lee's new books is a wonderful piece of writing. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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Nick Clegg and Tim Berners-Lee: the battle for the soul o...
The ex-deputy PM toes the line of his former Meta paymasters, while the web's inventor shares his vision of a utopian digital future
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LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
A few weeks ago I mentioned Orison for the Curlew by Horatio Clare. Now the Slender-billed Curlew has finally been declared extinct - Simon Barnes wrote about this #extinction in The Observer yesterday observer.co.uk/news/science...
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Why we should all mourn the slender-billed curlew
A bird that hasn’t been photographed since 1995 has now been declared extinct. Its fate is cause for wider alarm
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Erica Wagner @ericawgnr.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
St Paul’s Pool on Pitcairn Island. I wrote about my strange visit there for @theobserveruk.bsky.social — observer.co.uk/news/interna... Follow me…
A dramatic rock pool on Pitcairn Island, bright blue water, sharp volcanic walls
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Laura Cumming @lauracummingart.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Four new pairs of shoes a week: Marie Antoinette - vacuous spendthrift or style icon? Find out soon... Meanwhile, my verdict...@V_and_A observer.co.uk/culture/art/...
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Marie Antoinette: fashion revolutionary or vacuous spendt...
A magnificent exhibition at the V&A tries to capture the woman behind the possessions
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Fantastic, devastating piece on Pitcairn Island by @ericawgnr.bsky.social. TW: rape, child abuse observer.co.uk/news/interna...
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Can Pitcairn Island ever escape its grisly history?
The mutineers’ island still bears traces of its violent origins and recent catalogue of sexual crimes
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
These are amazing. Humanising migrants, imagine that. Bravo the Observer, the photographers, the helpers. God bless those sleeping children and their parents. observer.co.uk/news/interna...
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Riding the Beast to America | The Observer
Millions of migrants passing through Mexico have risked their lives riding north on the cargo trains known as La Bestia. That number has dropped since Tr...
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Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Thank you to @observeruk.bsky.social for this thoughtful review. “Berners-Lee is clear-eyed about the benefits and the dangers. This Is for Everyone contains some very sharp thinking about what we need to do now.” We must fight for the web we want. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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Nick Clegg and Tim Berners-Lee: the battle for the soul o...
The ex-deputy PM toes the line of his former Meta paymasters, while the web's inventor shares his vision of a utopian digital future
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Nicola Crockford @numenini.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Great piece today by Simon Barnes, one of last to see a Slender-billed Curlew observer.co.uk/news/science... following research confirming extinction @rspb.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @naturalis.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
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Why we should all mourn the slender-billed curlew
A bird that hasn’t been photographed since 1995 has now been declared extinct. Its fate is cause for wider alarm
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I have reviewed Nick Clegg's book 'How To Save The Internet' and Tim Berners-Lee's book 'This Is For Everyone' for The Observer. I, er, really really did not like Nick Clegg's book: observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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Nick Clegg and Tim Berners-Lee: the battle for the soul o...
The ex-deputy PM toes the line of his former Meta paymasters, while the web's inventor shares his vision of a utopian digital future
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Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Great interview … “It’s so much more enjoyable when the audience are dancing and not thinking,” he says. observer.co.uk/music/pop/ar...
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Baxter Dury: ‘I attract the madness’ | The Observer
The indie provocateur’s tales of menace and failed male ambition have been turned into an album of dancefloor bangers
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
'Startlingly contemporary . . . still burn[s] with a cool flame.' Read Anna Leszkiewicz's write-up in the Observer for The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson, originally published in 1961 and reissued this Thursday by Faber Editions. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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Jennifer Dawson’s lost chronicle of a crack-up
The Ha-Ha, a newly reissued 1961 novel about a young woman’s time in a mental hospital, is startlingly contemporary
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Matt Deegan @mattdeegan.com · 28/07/2025
Lovely write up from @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social about the new @funkidslive.com show 360 Seconds. observer.co.uk/culture/audi...
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What should we make of the HS2 fiasco? | The Observer
Radio 4 airs an unmissable investigation of the high-speed rail network debacle – although ‘debacle’ seems too strong a word for the contained emotions i...
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Mike Curry Photography ©️ 📷 @mikecurryphotography.com · 28/07/2025
Fascinating article on early photography practices observer.co.uk/culture/phot... William Notman and the invention of Canada @flakphoto.news
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William Notman and the invention of Canada | The Observer
The pioneering Scot documented the wildernesses of the young nation through the embryonic medium of photography. But it was in the studio that his true g...
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kerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Never been a fan of heavy metal, but I do love the writing of Elif Shafak. Having read her tribute in @theobserveruk.bsky.social‬ to Ozzy Osbourne, I'm thinking maybe I need new ears: observer.co.uk/news/opinion....
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Good piece by @annaleszkie.bsky.social in today’s Observer (and online soon, I presume) about Jennifer Dawson’s 1961 novel The Ha-Ha, about a young woman’s time in and out of a mental institution—and the latest Faber Editions reissue.
First few paragraphs of Leszkiewicz’s piece in the Observer today Cover of Faber Editions reissue of The Ha-Ha
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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
“Tragedy exerts its hold upon our imaginations because it reminds us that justice is an illusion. Hiroshima is the great tragedy of our age from which we continue to seek understanding and yet can never understand.” observer.co.uk/style/featur...
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‘My God, what have we done?’ | The Observer
The words of the co-pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima still echo 80 years on. Could the devastation it wrought ever be justified?
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Laura Cumming @lauracummingart.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
How a title can ruin a picture’s future. Obsessed with this portrait for decades, elated to see a whole ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️show centring upon it, curated by fellow obsessive Fiona Tan observer.co.uk/culture/art/...
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Portraits of a one-track mind | The Observer
What can and cannot be seen in a face is the crux of a singular show exploring obsession, revolving around a Géricault painting more mysterious than the ...
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JOHN NIVEN @nivenj1.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Excuse the endless self promotion, but I have a new book out. In fact, I wrote about self promotion for the Observer today…. observer.co.uk/news/columni...
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Hi guyyyys! Just here to share my authentic self
I was asked to ‘do more in the Instagram space’. Cue anger – and a stilted speech to camera
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
‘[A] comprehensive, critically intelligent, challenging and original book, which genuinely breaks new ground in mapping the religious history of Europe.’ Thank you to Rowan Williams for his amazing review of ‘Silence of the Gods’ in @theobserveruk.bsky.social 📚 observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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The deep roots of paganism | The Observer
A revelatory study shows how pagan traditions not only survived the spread of Christianity but also made its practices their own
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