Might also be that they are in awe of the number of books he has sold so assume he must know something they don't.
However short or long, that the person who asks six questions at PMQs, whose proxies get guaranteed slots on our broadcasters, will have done a 'you know the type of cultures I'm talking about' pitch in their campaign and will major on it heavily is bad, not good, for the UK's politics.
I would pay good money for a podcast where John Cusack explains his understanding of historical events with no access to Google or books
A BBC article today made me furious www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...open.substack.com/pub/christin...
I feel like the next stage of this is going to be accusing anyone who attends a dinner party at Lord Alliās house of not paying a market rent for the 3 hours they sit at his table, or for 30 minutes if they just pop round for a cuppa
Hot tip for authors when querying agents: include your email address! If you don't fill it in on the submissions form I have no way to contact you!
This is ridiculous. A judge has sentenced an activist who threw tomato soup in the National Gallery to two years in jail. The same judge decided not to jail a policeman who gave a drunk woman a lift in his patrol car, then had sexual contact with her. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just Stop Oil activists Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland threw tomato soup over Van's Gogh's piece.
Can't really think of a more reasonable case for accepting money for accommodation than this. news.sky.com/story/politi...
Sir Keir Starmer has revealed a more than Ā£20,000 donation he took from Labour donor Lord Alli was to help his son study for his GCSEs during the election. The revelation comes with the prime minister...
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This section of Jim Carrey's wikipedia article cracks me up
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āIn April 2022, Carrey announced that he was considering retirement from the film industry, explaining, "I have enough. I've done enough. I am enough." When asked if he would ever come back, his response was, "It depends. If the angels bring some sort of script that's written in gold ink that says to me that it's going to be really important for people to see, I might continue down the road, but I'm taking a break."|115] In February 2024, it was announced that Carrey would reprise his role as Dr. Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog 3.ā](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/bafkreicy5n4szaxglusctmeu6r3i3lf62jd3dg7mwo2zm6wkcu3ywd7auq@jpeg)