Laura Silver
@laurasilver.bsky.social
Journalist.
I like sad soup and rocks.
I like sad soup and rocks.
I am once again asking that we ban the word ‘febrile’ from Westminster coverage
November 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I am once again asking that we ban the word ‘febrile’ from Westminster coverage
Cauliflower soup with a bit of miso paste and sesame oil is not unlike Heinz cream of chicken, in case you were wondering.
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Cauliflower soup with a bit of miso paste and sesame oil is not unlike Heinz cream of chicken, in case you were wondering.
Really interesting post on how Keir Starmer could/should become a social media star peterhyman21.substack.com/p/how-to-mak...
I've long thought he should lean into his strong embarrassing dad vibe - the Airport Dad meme of British politics www.tiktok.com/discover/air...
I've long thought he should lean into his strong embarrassing dad vibe - the Airport Dad meme of British politics www.tiktok.com/discover/air...
How to make Keir Starmer a social media star
Five ways for the PM to connect with voters, without tap-dancing naked down Camden High Street
peterhyman21.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Really interesting post on how Keir Starmer could/should become a social media star peterhyman21.substack.com/p/how-to-mak...
I've long thought he should lean into his strong embarrassing dad vibe - the Airport Dad meme of British politics www.tiktok.com/discover/air...
I've long thought he should lean into his strong embarrassing dad vibe - the Airport Dad meme of British politics www.tiktok.com/discover/air...
Massive claim when Jim already sets the bar so high www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/...
October 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Massive claim when Jim already sets the bar so high www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/...
A monkey with absolutely no time for Dirty Three (from here apple.news/AaswATsN8Qce...)
September 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
A monkey with absolutely no time for Dirty Three (from here apple.news/AaswATsN8Qce...)
Actually, Dermot O'Leary talking about his (beautiful!) cats is prob all you should bother reading today apple.news/A6sJfQ-56Q2m...
Dermot O’Leary: ‘Toto the cat is blind but has lightning-fast reactions’ — The Times and The Sunday Times
Dermot O’Leary met Toto, the inspiration for his Ninja Cat stories, when a stray gave birth to kittens in his pillowcase. Then Socksie came along, a tabby that he took in as “an eight-week-old psychop...
apple.news
September 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Actually, Dermot O'Leary talking about his (beautiful!) cats is prob all you should bother reading today apple.news/A6sJfQ-56Q2m...
This is very good. England, by comparison, seems like it is probably not apple.news/AEN3caxdkTZ2...
It’s the Happiest Country in the World. I Spent a Week There. I Wish I Could Unlearn Its Secret. — Slate
The truth is both simpler and more complicated than it seems.
apple.news
August 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This is very good. England, by comparison, seems like it is probably not apple.news/AEN3caxdkTZ2...
Just don't understand why they didn't simply bury the really not very old Diana time capsule elsewhere
August 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Just don't understand why they didn't simply bury the really not very old Diana time capsule elsewhere
Perfect summary of everything that's besmirched Sex and the City's good name www.thecut.com/article/and-...
August 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Perfect summary of everything that's besmirched Sex and the City's good name www.thecut.com/article/and-...
Would you need a selfie stick in heaven? Fair to expect divine floating phone imo. Yet another AI fail.
August 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Would you need a selfie stick in heaven? Fair to expect divine floating phone imo. Yet another AI fail.
Really good new album alert. Sounds like if Patti Smith spent a summer on the 1970s British folk scene.
open.spotify.com/album/3Eg0fx...
open.spotify.com/album/3Eg0fx...
The New Eve Is Rising
The New Eves · Album · 2025 · 9 songs
open.spotify.com
August 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Really good new album alert. Sounds like if Patti Smith spent a summer on the 1970s British folk scene.
open.spotify.com/album/3Eg0fx...
open.spotify.com/album/3Eg0fx...
I've admittedly not been keeping up with zoo news, but are zoos... OK? Baboons being fed to lions in Germany?? www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
'Unwanted' pets on the menu in Denmark??? apple.news/AMsAIis73RDu...
'Unwanted' pets on the menu in Denmark??? apple.news/AMsAIis73RDu...
‘Baboon massacre’: German zoo feeds culled primates to the lions
While other zoos defended the ‘unavoidable’ killings, protesters have rallied against the move in Nuremberg, which was intended to alleviate enclosure overcrowding
www.thetimes.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I've admittedly not been keeping up with zoo news, but are zoos... OK? Baboons being fed to lions in Germany?? www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
'Unwanted' pets on the menu in Denmark??? apple.news/AMsAIis73RDu...
'Unwanted' pets on the menu in Denmark??? apple.news/AMsAIis73RDu...
Rat the size of cat is a classic of the bollocks that won't wash in newsrooms genre, but that, well... really is a rat the size of a cat apple.news/APkr70gFXT7a...
‘Cat-sized’ rat found in Teesside town puts focus on pest control cuts — The Guardian
Rodent said to be 22in (56cm) long from nose to tail found in Normanby, where rat problem is said to be worsening
apple.news
August 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Rat the size of cat is a classic of the bollocks that won't wash in newsrooms genre, but that, well... really is a rat the size of a cat apple.news/APkr70gFXT7a...
Distinctly remember being furious not to be at this (I was 11) www.thetimes.com/culture/phot...
Oasis at Knebworth during the Britpop summer of 1996 — in pictures
Noel and Liam Gallagher’s unwavering confidence and sense of mischief was on full display during their record-breaking concerts in Hertfordshire to 250,000 fans
www.thetimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Distinctly remember being furious not to be at this (I was 11) www.thetimes.com/culture/phot...
Tell me this happened in the late 90s without mentioning the year.
July 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Tell me this happened in the late 90s without mentioning the year.
Deeply sorry to defend anything about AJLT but I think a load of shit beauty products is pitch-perfect Carrie: she of messy hair and chain smoking. High fashion people often cba with beauty and vice versa www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The very worst thing about And Just Like That? The contents of Carrie Bradshaw’s bathroom cabinet| Emma Beddington
Cheap sunscreen, sponges, old soap … it’s laughably off-brand. And I’m not the only one who has noticed, writes Emma Beddington
www.theguardian.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Deeply sorry to defend anything about AJLT but I think a load of shit beauty products is pitch-perfect Carrie: she of messy hair and chain smoking. High fashion people often cba with beauty and vice versa www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Burnham for PM discourse comes around earlier every year, it's getting so commercial. (really good piece though!) apple.news/AkfY3tvKsQhm...
'The only one who can save Labour': How King of the North Burnham could become PM — The i Paper
Mayor of Greater Manchester has been critical of his own party's government
apple.news
July 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Burnham for PM discourse comes around earlier every year, it's getting so commercial. (really good piece though!) apple.news/AkfY3tvKsQhm...
One can always rely on @robfordmancs.bsky.social for a belter of a quote apple.news/AnBLwd3hQQ6S...
July 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
One can always rely on @robfordmancs.bsky.social for a belter of a quote apple.news/AnBLwd3hQQ6S...
Honestly, anything to end the scourge of cargo shorts man apple.news/AXgqFbMd-Txq...
As M&S banks on short shorts, are you ready for a ‘thigh guy summer’? — The Telegraph
Men, channel your inner Paul Mescal with this season’s wardrobe essential that’s turning heads (and raising hems)
apple.news
July 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Honestly, anything to end the scourge of cargo shorts man apple.news/AXgqFbMd-Txq...
What a brilliant, forensic, unforgiving-yet-thoroughly-celebratory book this is! Highly recommend, for fans or otherwise www.waterstones.com/book/travell...
July 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
What a brilliant, forensic, unforgiving-yet-thoroughly-celebratory book this is! Highly recommend, for fans or otherwise www.waterstones.com/book/travell...
I reckon Cast No Shadow is the thinking person's Champagne Supernova (obv CS still bangs)
July 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I reckon Cast No Shadow is the thinking person's Champagne Supernova (obv CS still bangs)
Is it too much to ask that we could stop saying 'bunker buster'? Sounds like an apocalyptic Hungry Horse special.
June 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Is it too much to ask that we could stop saying 'bunker buster'? Sounds like an apocalyptic Hungry Horse special.
Former foreign office cat Palmerston was 'recently brought back to take up an overseas diplomatic posting in Bermuda as "feline relations consultant",'?????
Pics or that's diplo for 'went to live on a farm' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pics or that's diplo for 'went to live on a farm' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cats ruled out as Parliamentary pest controllers
Parliament has been advised cats would face risks, including from construction and self-closing doors.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Former foreign office cat Palmerston was 'recently brought back to take up an overseas diplomatic posting in Bermuda as "feline relations consultant",'?????
Pics or that's diplo for 'went to live on a farm' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pics or that's diplo for 'went to live on a farm' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump and Keir doing the sketch writers a solid, chucking the freshly signed trade deal papers all over the floor
June 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Trump and Keir doing the sketch writers a solid, chucking the freshly signed trade deal papers all over the floor
Good morning to Emily Thornberry only apple.news/ATHlXdL0ZSEm...
Emily Thornberry on her garden: ‘My son’s pet rat died – I dug it up the other day’ — The Telegraph
The Labour MP recounts the ups and downs of building a garden, her battles with the slugs and the long-lost ring she found in the compost
apple.news
June 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Good morning to Emily Thornberry only apple.news/ATHlXdL0ZSEm...