Tom Sutcliffe
@tds153.bsky.social
Presenter, Radio Four’s Front Row and Start the Week.
If only *one* reporter had the nerve to follow up with “Why do you feel the need to be so rude and personally offensive when you’re asked a polite question?”
Trump to ABC's Rachel Scott: "You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place. Let me just tell you -- you are an obnoxious-- a terrible reporter. And it's always the same thing with you. I told you."
December 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
If only *one* reporter had the nerve to follow up with “Why do you feel the need to be so rude and personally offensive when you’re asked a polite question?”
Been watching the second series of The Rehearsal. Very funny ha-ha (if you stick with it). But also funny (very, very) peculiar.
December 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Been watching the second series of The Rehearsal. Very funny ha-ha (if you stick with it). But also funny (very, very) peculiar.
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Excited to announce that my wife Karen has taken up the bagpipes
December 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Excited to announce that my wife Karen has taken up the bagpipes
Fascinating stuff on Start the Week this morning: The Peasants War, the last known victims of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the neurology of selfhood, all in the words of prize-winning authors. Join Lyndal Roper, Hannah Durkin @masudhusain.bsky.social and me just after 9:00 on Radio Four.
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Fascinating stuff on Start the Week this morning: The Peasants War, the last known victims of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the neurology of selfhood, all in the words of prize-winning authors. Join Lyndal Roper, Hannah Durkin @masudhusain.bsky.social and me just after 9:00 on Radio Four.
I'm sorry to hear that Martin Parr has died. This is good on him and his work...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
I Am Martin Parr
Discover the maverick behind some of the most iconic images of the past century on an intimate and exclusive road trip with a photographer whose work has revolutionised contemporary photography.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I'm sorry to hear that Martin Parr has died. This is good on him and his work...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
In a statement Mr Flashman said that if he had roasted small boys in front of an open fire it was never in a malicious or unkind way.
December 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
In a statement Mr Flashman said that if he had roasted small boys in front of an open fire it was never in a malicious or unkind way.
New cheese shop in Crouch End. Excellent if you love cheese. Not so good if you find it agonising to queue behind the indecisive.
December 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
New cheese shop in Crouch End. Excellent if you love cheese. Not so good if you find it agonising to queue behind the indecisive.
Bonfire of the Dignities…
December 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Bonfire of the Dignities…
Should you be curious about what happens when the tea towel you’re using to strain pumpkin puree splits at the moment of maximum pressure….
Basically it looks as if I’ve murdered a pumpkin and it wasn’t a quick death.
Basically it looks as if I’ve murdered a pumpkin and it wasn’t a quick death.
December 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Should you be curious about what happens when the tea towel you’re using to strain pumpkin puree splits at the moment of maximum pressure….
Basically it looks as if I’ve murdered a pumpkin and it wasn’t a quick death.
Basically it looks as if I’ve murdered a pumpkin and it wasn’t a quick death.
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Quote for today's negotiations:
"The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed."
Carl von Clausewitz in "On War," 1816-1830
"The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed."
Carl von Clausewitz in "On War," 1816-1830
December 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Quote for today's negotiations:
"The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed."
Carl von Clausewitz in "On War," 1816-1830
"The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed."
Carl von Clausewitz in "On War," 1816-1830
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An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
This is a great read... "Florida is where you go when you’ve done something wrong. California is where you go when you’ve done something wrong and want to be pretentious about it."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Tell-Nothing Memoir
Can “American Canto” turn scandal into literature?
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This is a great read... "Florida is where you go when you’ve done something wrong. California is where you go when you’ve done something wrong and want to be pretentious about it."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
If that’s true shouldn’t someone wake him up?
December 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
If that’s true shouldn’t someone wake him up?
Coughing. Overrated pleasure.
December 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Coughing. Overrated pleasure.
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I see America has invented the roundabout
Keene, NH has been replacing their stop-lighted intersections with roundabouts, resulting in big reductions in pollution, accidents & injuries, and costs. “Slowly moving is better than waiting at a light any day.” [nytimes.com]
Cutting Emissions, the Roundabout Way, in New Hampshire
Despite its small stature, the city of Keene, has become an example of the safety and climate benefits of swapping traffic lights for roundabouts.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I see America has invented the roundabout
Sad to hear of the death of Andreas Whittam-Smith. A great editor to work for — omnivorously curious, enthusiastic and eccentric in all the right ways.
December 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Sad to hear of the death of Andreas Whittam-Smith. A great editor to work for — omnivorously curious, enthusiastic and eccentric in all the right ways.
A very big tree has fallen. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A very big tree has fallen. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Bending my mind with this today for Start the Week. I currently exist in a superposition of dawning comprehension and complete bafflement. But hey, even Einstein found it hard to get his head round the idea. Collapse of my wave form on Monday at 9:00 on Radio Four.
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Bending my mind with this today for Start the Week. I currently exist in a superposition of dawning comprehension and complete bafflement. But hey, even Einstein found it hard to get his head round the idea. Collapse of my wave form on Monday at 9:00 on Radio Four.
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Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
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The Twitter/X account geolocation feature should be treated with scepticism (FREE TO READ!)
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-twitte...
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-twitte...
The Twitter/X account geolocation feature should be treated with scepticism
And surely BBC Verify should actually... verify... things?
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The Twitter/X account geolocation feature should be treated with scepticism (FREE TO READ!)
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-twitte...
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-twitte...
The only circumstances in which it’s acceptable to wear pajamas on a flight.
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The only circumstances in which it’s acceptable to wear pajamas on a flight.
I didn’t like Wicked back when it wasn’t fashionable.
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I didn’t like Wicked back when it wasn’t fashionable.
Grok? Is Elon more like Beavis or Butthead?
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Grok? Is Elon more like Beavis or Butthead?
Such a useful quantity the “drove”. How many entrepreneurs does it take to form a stampede? Don’t worry, you don’t have to say!
www.thetimes.com/article/ecdc...
www.thetimes.com/article/ecdc...
Entrepreneurs are leaving the UK in droves, minister admits
The business secretary says tax rises have led to an exodus of the wealthy but he claims others are attracted to Britain because of ‘excitement’ in the economy
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Such a useful quantity the “drove”. How many entrepreneurs does it take to form a stampede? Don’t worry, you don’t have to say!
www.thetimes.com/article/ecdc...
www.thetimes.com/article/ecdc...