Laura Silver

@laurasilver.bsky.social

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Journalist. I like sad soup and rocks.

A bollard in manchester with a sad face.
Cover image of Goblinhood by Jen Calleja
More confounding is that Williams is portrayed by a CGI chimpanzee, and voiced by the real Williams. As one person on X put it: “Robbie Williams had a huge hit here in 1999 … So Brits need to understand that to us this movie is like a Lou Bega biopic but for some reason he’s an iguana
Screengrab of text from The Times reading: Indeed, in and around government, the election analogy game has subtly altered. Where once ministers talked of the Tories achieving a 1992-style ­comeback they are now pinning their hopes on Starmer suffering a Theresa May-style fall from grace. As one senior minister put it: “In 2017, at the start of the campaign, the polls were showing a majority of 140 — but when the result came in it was: “How do you get hold of the DUP?” The minister added: “In politics things can get worse and things can get better — but they never stay the same.”
An Instagram post showing Dirty Three announcing long-awaited new shows in Melbourne
A 1970s poster advertising a Fiat car with the caption “if it were a lady, it would get its bottom pinched”. Someone has graffitied “if this lady was a car she’d run you down” below it.