@sarahchurchwell
Public Humanities Prof, School of Advanced Study, Univ London. American abroad. Journalism, US politics, cultural & literary history esp 1920s & 30s & F. Scott Fitzgerald. Podcast: Journey Through Time with David Olusoga. @throughtimepod.bsky.social
In a talk to young writers last night I showed this viral tweet as an e.g. of public engagement
I was gobsmacked when a number of people came up & said they had already seen it loose on the internet (w/o my name, obviously)
Clearly drunk cat is my true & most enduring legacy, & I wish him well 😽
I remember drunk cat from the old days! That is brilliant.
(And I have a story about the Dutch national English exam to tell you when I have a moment … )
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Apparently, Kegseth hasn’t destroyed their ability to drop truth bombs.
Point is I think y’all likely have at least grounds for exploring action. I’m not sure what minimum threshold is for class action etc (cf not being lawyer) but they are using your professional name to sell a product without your permission. This isn’t murky.
Sadly.
Non lawyer but my sister is ex IP law and has explained all this at length to me (as a writer scraped by Anthropic though not named here) - surely it’s right of publicity?
I've been struggling with how to express my dismay at the war coverage by our top newsrooms, and how it dances around the central fact that Trump is deranged and unfit to command. I finally wrote something. Please read it. presswatchers.org/2026/03/the-...
“94% of my best friends despise me but like profiting from me because they too are greedy pieces of shit.”
Three brothers, including two of the nation's most successful luxury real estate brokers, were convicted of sex trafficking Monday after a five-week trial. n.pr/4ll3dbB
It has been a DECADE how are we still having to explain this shit.
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
“You are asserting your primacy, unique in the complexity of your desires, and stand apart from your nation’s simple rituals. No wonder you’re alone.”
Dude hit on her and she said no.
Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other
I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.
What a sick fucking joke this country has become.
We spent approx. $9B to murder those Iranian schoolgirls so now we can declare victory.
Money does not equal art.
how can this be so hard? He is a vile racist fascist, a thundering dolt...and he's enormously unpopular! Just oppose him, you quisling motherfuckers!
Trump's a genocidal lying fascist who is also an incompetent dolt. You cannot go wrong by simply opposing everything he does.
I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well
The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?
It’s a joke for International Women’s Day. I like Hillary!
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.
No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.
Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.
“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”
Christ this is all so very tiring.
So we’re all going to Spain, right? Who’s in for the biggest anti-Trump protest in the world, and the mother of all fiestas?
💯 I only learned about it when I moved to the UK
