Kate Phillips
@andanotherkate.bsky.social
Look what your god has done to me
How are we doing Francis Fukuyama discourse again? He is probably the most ostentatiously, epoch-definingly incorrect academic in history. He should have spent the last 24 years hiding in the shed in embarrassment, not sharing his needy thoughts about ChatGPT.
December 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
How are we doing Francis Fukuyama discourse again? He is probably the most ostentatiously, epoch-definingly incorrect academic in history. He should have spent the last 24 years hiding in the shed in embarrassment, not sharing his needy thoughts about ChatGPT.
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Really feels like UK is about to find out why first past the post really is a terrible system
Huge new poll puts Plaid ahead of Reform with Labour and the Conservatives on just 10% each. willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/bombshell-...
Bombshell polling for Wales
If this is correct we are seeing a seismic shift
willhaywardwales.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Really feels like UK is about to find out why first past the post really is a terrible system
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
I appreciate they are (presumably) more soundalikes than lookalikes, but yeesh. Even Mike Love’s Zombie Beach Boys look more like the real thing, and I don’t say that lightly.
December 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I appreciate they are (presumably) more soundalikes than lookalikes, but yeesh. Even Mike Love’s Zombie Beach Boys look more like the real thing, and I don’t say that lightly.
Off to see Sarah Millican play Stockholm’s worst building, Waterfront, with its design aesthetic of someone having described Frank Gehry to a friend on a limited budget. I can see this monstrosity from my office and it makes me sad every time.
December 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Off to see Sarah Millican play Stockholm’s worst building, Waterfront, with its design aesthetic of someone having described Frank Gehry to a friend on a limited budget. I can see this monstrosity from my office and it makes me sad every time.
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It only took ten years for a dedicated bunch of well-connected weirdoes to get the entire UK elite to unite against a tiny minority of the population that they previously barely noticed.
The few to resist, like Robin Ince, deserve our lasting gratitude and respect.
The few to resist, like Robin Ince, deserve our lasting gratitude and respect.
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
It only took ten years for a dedicated bunch of well-connected weirdoes to get the entire UK elite to unite against a tiny minority of the population that they previously barely noticed.
The few to resist, like Robin Ince, deserve our lasting gratitude and respect.
The few to resist, like Robin Ince, deserve our lasting gratitude and respect.
I’m all for taking a fresh look at things, but I’ve seen a couple of people arguing on social media that LAST CHRISTMAS (the film, not the song) is not terrible. This is taking revisionism too far.
December 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I’m all for taking a fresh look at things, but I’ve seen a couple of people arguing on social media that LAST CHRISTMAS (the film, not the song) is not terrible. This is taking revisionism too far.
The Safdie Bros solo sports movie showdown turns out to be an unequivocal knockout victory for Josh. MARTY SUPREME crackles with the same hectic abrasiveness of GOOD TIME and UNCUT GEMS. (Benny is the better actor, so there’s that.)
December 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The Safdie Bros solo sports movie showdown turns out to be an unequivocal knockout victory for Josh. MARTY SUPREME crackles with the same hectic abrasiveness of GOOD TIME and UNCUT GEMS. (Benny is the better actor, so there’s that.)
What a (thankfully temporary, though we'll see if it ends up actually hitting its deadlines) loss to London. I hope this renovation will not undermine its legendary incomprehensibility...getting lost in the Barbican is a Londoner's rite of passage!
artreview.com/barbican-to-...
artreview.com/barbican-to-...
Barbican to close for renovation in 2028
The first phase of construction is expected to be completed in 2030, ahead of the Barbican’s 50-year anniversary in 2032
artreview.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
What a (thankfully temporary, though we'll see if it ends up actually hitting its deadlines) loss to London. I hope this renovation will not undermine its legendary incomprehensibility...getting lost in the Barbican is a Londoner's rite of passage!
artreview.com/barbican-to-...
artreview.com/barbican-to-...
A brilliant and undervalued show, although they accidentally used the perfect series ending for the penultimate season and then - presumably to their surprise - got recommissioned and had to undo it all slightly messily.
After much consideration I have made the formal decision to rewatch the American procedural drama Elementary from the start. There will, of course, be times when I am compelled to compare it to the significantly inferior Sherlock but I will try and keep those outbursts to a minimum.
December 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
A brilliant and undervalued show, although they accidentally used the perfect series ending for the penultimate season and then - presumably to their surprise - got recommissioned and had to undo it all slightly messily.
The Goldfinch’s rubbishness notwithstanding, I think it’s about time we got a nice new Donna Tartt book. I am also ready for new work from Sarah Vowell (last published in 2015) and Becky Chambers (last full novel in 2021…her novellas are glorious morsels but I am craving something more substantial).
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The Goldfinch’s rubbishness notwithstanding, I think it’s about time we got a nice new Donna Tartt book. I am also ready for new work from Sarah Vowell (last published in 2015) and Becky Chambers (last full novel in 2021…her novellas are glorious morsels but I am craving something more substantial).
I am always bemused by the high regard in which The Goldfinch is held. The Secret History is perfect, The Little Friend is really good, The Goldfinch is long and boring and sometimes incredibly stupid, with some beautiful writing occasionally sprinkled in like tasty fruit in a sawdust panettone.
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I am always bemused by the high regard in which The Goldfinch is held. The Secret History is perfect, The Little Friend is really good, The Goldfinch is long and boring and sometimes incredibly stupid, with some beautiful writing occasionally sprinkled in like tasty fruit in a sawdust panettone.
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Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
I adore the character, and find something to enjoy in most adaptations, but Christopher Reeve is Superman and the others are playing Superman.
December 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I adore the character, and find something to enjoy in most adaptations, but Christopher Reeve is Superman and the others are playing Superman.
Thinking about Colossal per my last reskeet made me dig out my list of my favourite films of the 2010s that I made for a friend a couple of years ago. I still stand by all of these!
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Thinking about Colossal per my last reskeet made me dig out my list of my favourite films of the 2010s that I made for a friend a couple of years ago. I still stand by all of these!
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We should talk more about this terrific movie
December 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We should talk more about this terrific movie
I feel like my fellow fifty year olds and I have an unfair advantage with this one.
December 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I feel like my fellow fifty year olds and I have an unfair advantage with this one.
ZOOTROPOLIS 2 doesn’t quite have the snap and crackle of its predecessor, but it shares its delightful world-building and pacy plotting. Its core message is depressingly timely (though the state of the world is making me wonder if progressive morals in kids’ films are actually making a difference).
December 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
ZOOTROPOLIS 2 doesn’t quite have the snap and crackle of its predecessor, but it shares its delightful world-building and pacy plotting. Its core message is depressingly timely (though the state of the world is making me wonder if progressive morals in kids’ films are actually making a difference).
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*Love is an Open Door cadence*
Abolish the House of Loooo oooo ooords
Abolish the House of.... LOOOO OOO OO OOORDS!
Abolish the House of Loooo oooo ooords
Abolish the House of.... LOOOO OOO OO OOORDS!
December 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
*Love is an Open Door cadence*
Abolish the House of Loooo oooo ooords
Abolish the House of.... LOOOO OOO OO OOORDS!
Abolish the House of Loooo oooo ooords
Abolish the House of.... LOOOO OOO OO OOORDS!
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When even Disney adults boycotted Disneyland in protest of the fucking Jimmy Kimmel thing, you're left with no other conclusion than 'Harry Potter' fans being a special kind of cozy fascist, okay with any degree of harm to undesirables so long as it's out of their sight, for the sake of nostalgia.
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
When even Disney adults boycotted Disneyland in protest of the fucking Jimmy Kimmel thing, you're left with no other conclusion than 'Harry Potter' fans being a special kind of cozy fascist, okay with any degree of harm to undesirables so long as it's out of their sight, for the sake of nostalgia.
Happy 65th birthday to Kenneth Branagh, seen here at his hottest as Roman Strauss in DEAD AGAIN.
December 10, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Happy 65th birthday to Kenneth Branagh, seen here at his hottest as Roman Strauss in DEAD AGAIN.
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Oscar information and websites should be organized by the year in which the awarded films were released, NOT the year the ceremony was held, and on this hill I will die.
December 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Oscar information and websites should be organized by the year in which the awarded films were released, NOT the year the ceremony was held, and on this hill I will die.
It’s well acted and beautifully directed but for some reason, HAMNET just didn’t quite click for me. I never really liked the book either, so I think I’m the problem. My Shakespeare movie power ranking:
1 SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
2 ALL IS TRUE
3 BILL
4 HAMNET
(Gap of galactic proportions)
5 ANONYMOUS
1 SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
2 ALL IS TRUE
3 BILL
4 HAMNET
(Gap of galactic proportions)
5 ANONYMOUS
December 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It’s well acted and beautifully directed but for some reason, HAMNET just didn’t quite click for me. I never really liked the book either, so I think I’m the problem. My Shakespeare movie power ranking:
1 SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
2 ALL IS TRUE
3 BILL
4 HAMNET
(Gap of galactic proportions)
5 ANONYMOUS
1 SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
2 ALL IS TRUE
3 BILL
4 HAMNET
(Gap of galactic proportions)
5 ANONYMOUS
I used to work for BBC News, and was incredibly proud to do so, and I've always given them the benefit of the doubt - but their performance over Brexit, and their magnification of Reform, and now their disgraceful mischaracterisation of the Peggie case have absolutely eroded my trust.
December 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I used to work for BBC News, and was incredibly proud to do so, and I've always given them the benefit of the doubt - but their performance over Brexit, and their magnification of Reform, and now their disgraceful mischaracterisation of the Peggie case have absolutely eroded my trust.
It’s a minor point, but I despise the presumptuousness of the Taxpayers’ Alliance. I’m a taxpayer*, and I disagree profoundly with everything they have ever said or done.
* Admittedly not in the UK these days, but my point still stands.
* Admittedly not in the UK these days, but my point still stands.
December 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
It’s a minor point, but I despise the presumptuousness of the Taxpayers’ Alliance. I’m a taxpayer*, and I disagree profoundly with everything they have ever said or done.
* Admittedly not in the UK these days, but my point still stands.
* Admittedly not in the UK these days, but my point still stands.