At Conversations with Nick Cave. Best question so far: “Hi Nick. I live in your old flat in Hove. Do you know where the stopcock is?”
Fiona Sturges
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Fiona Sturges
@FionaSturges
Interviewer & arts reviewer @guardian @FTweekend @independent @theipaper
"Rampant feminist snowflake" - Piers Morgan
"Well known lunatic" - Man on the internet
- *taps glass* Announcement to people who drink: please don't "hilariously" recoil in horror when someone says they don't drink, and then ask them why not (it's none of your business). And definitely don't try to get them to have a drink anyway. (Are you actually insane?) 1/2
- Posh white actor, Laurence Fox, shouts down brown woman in audience for observing racism in M&H's press treatment. "It's got boring now," he jeers, before deciding she is in fact racist towards him. Christ alive. Get in the bin, Question Time #bbcqt
- I've no idea if it's true, but the word here in Brighton is that the fascists will be met off the trains by drag queens and a samba band. You don't have to be an idiot to bring white supremacy to the most welcoming and inclusive city in the country, but it sure helps 😜 🏳️🌈 🎉
- My teen is about to do some work experience set up by her 6th form college. The idea is to match students with jobs that reflect their skills/interests. My girl is deep into the arts - she loves music, art, photography, making stuff. Her allocated job? Gravestone maintenance
- To clarify: in Texas, a man (an abusive spouse, say) can report a woman for having an abortion & be paid $10k. And a woman could get a longer sentence for aborting a baby conceived via rape than her attacker will for raping her. Yet still we’re told the patriarchy doesn’t exist
- Replying to @FionaSturgesAlso, to people who drink: you do not have the monopoly on fun. There endeth my announcement. 2/2
- I’ll tell you what. Mark Lanegan *really* doesn’t like Liam Gallagher
- Let's not forget that it is within the powers of big bands to keep tickets affordable, rein in resales and exorbitant fees and generally kick @Ticketmaster's arse for its venal behaviour – as demonstrated by Robert Smith. Many simply choose not to.
- Replying to @rosstmillerIf there's a horse on screen, it'll be whinnying madly just to let you know there's a Horse On Screen. Horses are, in fact, very quiet.
- Replying to @StuartEdwardsThis is an excellent question and I wish more men would ask it. Cross the street to avoid walking behind a woman. Give all women space. Never run close to them when jogging, esp in the dark - I'm endlessly astonished at how many men do this. Offer to walk female friends home.
- Yesterday morning I submitted a piece to an editor at a monthly magazine. Roughly two hours later, she told me to send over my invoice - which was paid into my bank BY THE END OF THE DAY. In over 20 years of journalism, this has never happened before. More of this please.
- Orlando Bloom's early-morning routine. Another one for the "Oh do fuck off" folder. thetimes.co.uk/article/orland…
