Libby Purves

John Morton's first stage play- ECLIPSE - is a sad serious comedy about death @ChichesterFT . Review up, theatrecat.com

Happy to inform you that THESPIANS - Mischief Theatre’s first musical - has opened at the Colchester Mercury pre-tour and is a banger. Look out for it. Theatrecat.com reports joyfully..

A list of animals Israel has been accused of "weaponizing" against Palestinians over the years Thread 🧵🧵

@nfmusic The word poncey dos as well

Are we the only society in the world that uses the word “posh” like this? “Posh sandwich” = “expensive/ not eaten by builders”

Using Father Ted against Jews is downright evil

@Glen_Binnie @SarahLudford People just use poor old ipswich as a synonymn for "boring town"

@SarahLudford @lib_thinks Who did or didn’t come “from Ipswich”?

Bought a copy of the famous (& amusing) ‘Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain 1942’ on visit to excellent Fort Nelson museum on Portsdown Hill. This section on women is a bit sexist for our times, but I can’t help thinking it was written by an empathetic woman

Quite right. Theatrecat.com says much the same! Is v fine play

1536 @Ambtheatre - three young women, and the doom of a distant queen. Formerly mixed reviews, but I liked it a lot. Brilliant lighting-plot, too! Review up now, theatrecat.com

@BertDalziel Dying is the least of it! Old age is not for sissies, as St Bette said. Just look after your knees, you’ll miss ‘em when they’re gone..

decorative and has not passed on any of those expectations to us. I have seen the scars some of my friends have (sometimes literally) from this from their mothers and I am grateful to her - profoundly grateful. I am quite scared of ageing still because I don’t want to die.

My mum was great for this and I think I now understand why. While she was growing up she was a tomboy, the first born, and fit into the role of her dad’s ’son’ quite naturally. She also went to an all girls school. She wasn’t socialised into the idea girls are primarily

@Timmysofine Septimus: O O and 7

You have 2 children, a girl named Olive, a boy named Oliver. You find out a third child is on the way, what do you name the third child?

@Glinner Of all the shames visited on poor Father Ted this is the worst. And not his fault for once.

I am disgusted that Father Ted is being used as a fig leaf to cover RTE's disgraceful antisemitism.

@michaelscase @bagshaw2112 Not filthy enough man!

@lib_thinks @bagshaw2112 TBF it took me a moment or five to clock it!

Pick who you think was the best Prime Minister from the last 5 ! I know it’s difficult but let’s see what we get !!!

@BertDalziel You shd be reassured that ALICE, the sow matriarch, died elderly and respected ,alone in an orchard of apples, and was buried with ceremony. Though an elderly farmworker coughed his false teeth into the grave, which reduced the dignity.

@lib_thinks would have no problem eating your pigs, Libby x

The arguments for meat eating aren’t very convincing and yet I continue to eat meat.

@michaelscase @bagshaw2112 No. O dear. Innocent me. Dirty old you...

@lib_thinks @bagshaw2112 ...did you erm check the lecterns in those pics? 😅

@CEOHousingOps @lippyent Luxury!

@lib_thinks @lippyent We had two deckchairs, a mattress and a Baby Belling.

What cheap furnishings did you have in your first place? Hmm 🤔?¿

While ordinarily newspapers censor the full horrors of such accounts from Oct 7, today the Daily Mail as hard as it is, publishes the details because unbelievably, some still question the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.  Even certain sections of the established media have suggested that the extent of sexual violence committed by the terrorists may have been exaggerated. The UN, too, dragged its heels in recognising the atrocities committed. It seems 'believe all women' did not apply in this instance. @AndyJehring Read the EXCLUSIVE report: online Link mol.im/a/15807431