Feature writer at The Telegraph, author of Looking for Eliza
Joined May 2012
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Why?
Because Brand (and his then-girlfriend, Jemima Goldsmith) obtained a permanent, life-long, injunction against her.
Brand/Goldsmith said Ms Berki's accusations amounted to harassment, which caused them "anxiety and distress".
leafarbuthnot retweeted
“You hear so much about the negative stuff like loneliness at railway stations. They’re associated with bad things and people jumping in front of trains. It’s nice that this is something really positive.”
Britain, in short, has gone a bit nuts for station cats. Tap below to read about the station cats that have become social media sensations ⤵️
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
I had a lovely time traipsing around interviewing station cats. Special shout-out to Betty, the black charisma bomb of Sutton Coldfield. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
i luuuuuurve emily's writing.... look at how quietly funny it can be. "I couldn't think of any trouble". Damn. It's just a shame she doesn't write every week.
I wrote about Restore and the ever-splintering radical right for this week's @NewStatesman cover story
leafarbuthnot retweeted
To me, the intriguing aspect of the John Lewis advertisement is that grandma lives alone in a five-bedroom house within easy reach of a John Lewis.... whereas you couldn't film the ad in the children's flat, as it would be too small to accommodate the camera crew.
leafarbuthnot retweeted
The best explanation of why Shabana Mahmood's cave-in is such a disaster comes from Shabana herself:
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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Michigan's Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed confronted @jamesmatthewsky, telling him he wouldn't answer his questions as he wants "zero" votes in the UK.
Watch the heated exchange between the two.
Watch our live coverage of the US midterms➡️ trib.al/BikRSb2
really hope so
CALLUM TURNER is rumored to have been cast as the next JAMES BOND (via @showbiz411)
tinyurl.com/35hnzcur
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All three surviving Traitors in the flame-lit final episodes of the BBC's Celebrity Traitors pronounced the word 'traitor' as 'trai'or'. They'd been 'recrui'ed', for better or for worse, and had 'had the hea' pu' on them' at various times throughout the series.
'This is the final murder and it's really impor'an,' said Maya Jama at midnight in the turret. 'I'm not goin' down wivou' a figh'. I'm ge'in' shivers,' said Kenny.
✍️ Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Article | spectator.com/article/celebr…
banger of a word
I wrote my column this week on a pleasing German word that Andy Burnham and Donald Trump have in common: fingerspitzengefühl, a feel for the electorate and how to talk to it in a distracted age.
But can it be converted into meaningful political change?
thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
leafarbuthnot retweeted
Hard to believe there’ll ever again be a contestant on The Traitors quite as self-serving and egotistical as Acaster.
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A movie is dull and one moves on; but I saw one so arrantly, actively bad (every aspect, from images to script, from performances back to the basic idea, misjudged, inflated, ponderous, vague, banal), that it besmirches the cinema itself, makes the tools and the very format of...