Kathy O'Donnell

@kathyodonnell.bsky.social

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Journalist, parent to two grown-ups, LGBT+ rights campaigner, former night editor of The Times, Scotland. Lives in France. [she/her]

Puff for French TV show called Murdaugh, spelled M U R D A U G H ... which riffs on the old line from Taggart.
Hourly weather data from southwestern France showing a current temperature of 40C
Reads:. Don't start anymore! Hello, don't start over night Expecting a carb cleaning New candle bought this morning She has her fill of marlin
Weather forecast for next seven days in southwestern France. Lowest temp is 35C, highest 40C
A very large stag beetle stands on a workbench
Large pan of cherries, ready to make jam.
Sexton 25pdr D1 "Dunmow' of 431 Battery Essex Yeomanry 147 RHA in 1944.
Weather forecast for the week ahead showing temperatures up to 35C
Ghastly puppet that bears a resemblance to Wes Streeting.
Highlighted quote from Starmer speech: "Strength through fairness, it's a core Labour argument ..."
Photo of the intro to a piece by Wes Streeting for Pink News
Keir Starmer hugs a child.
Xmas biscuits on a baking tray
A Beauceron dog lays exhausted on a couch
A Beauceron dog lays lazily on a sofa.
Herald headline: Billionaire brothers the Easdales blast SNP focus on fender ideology By Kelvin McKenna (the twat). Picture shows two middle aged white men in matching grey suits.
Norman Rockwell's painting 'Freedom of Speech' with the faces blanked out.
Poster for Treasure of the Sierra Madre, starring Humphrey Bogart.
A Beauceron dog lays on his back on a sofa
Long excerpt from 2014 Guardian interview with UKIP founder Alan Sked, where he gives examples of Nigel Farage using racially abusive language, including two variations on the 'N' word.
John Sweet and Eric Portman in a scene from A Canterbury Tale, Powell & Pressburger 1944.
Did women ruin the workplace? Headline from article and podcast in the New York Times
From The Onion. Mike Johnson: "My Christian faith is more about not jacking off than feeding the poor."
A large Beauceron dog lays asleep on his back on a sofa, his head dangling down, his eyes closed.
Image of Starmer tweet saying he wants to rewire the state, unlock potential of everyone, rebuild public services.
UK government website page NHS population screening: information for trans and non-binary people.
Terrible courtroom sketch of Amy Winehouse
King Charles and Queen Camilla are pictured talking while standing in a group with the Trumps.
A long-eared dog rudely pokes out his tongue
London Street packed with some of the 100,000 trans people and allies attending Trans Pride.
Sun newspaper splash 'Mum's home' which is sympathetic towards Lucy Connolly, jailed for inciting racial hatred and calling for arson attacks on refugee hostels.
Newspaper cutting of Telegraph story headlined Rowling: Boycott M&S over trans bra 'horror'
Image of the poem Fight to a Finish, by Siegfried Sassoon, which imagines troops returning from the trenches bayonetting yellow press journalists and bombing parliament.
A paragraph published by Mail Online that acknowledges the paper's claim that two doctors at GIDS "doled out puberty blockers to a generation of vulnerable children" was false.
Ventriloquist puppet with a resemblance to Wes Streeting.
Book jacket of Parachute to Berlin by Lowell Bennett