Timothée Chalamet’s suggestion that ballet and opera are outdated while cinema remains culturally relevant is, let’s say, a bold reading of history.

For the better part of a decade, the dominant energy in women’s business culture was: Hustle harder. Sleep when you’re dead. Act like a lady. Think like a man. Work like a boss.

JFK’s only grandson and - not all together unexpectedly - the internet’s newest political main character.

It’s early March. Which means the Canva templates are out. The empowerment quotes are pre-scheduled. Someone (probably the junior female EA) has been tasked with ordering cupcakes.

 “Difficult.” Such a tidy word. Such a polite little muzzle.

Everything I ate, drank, watched, read, followed, bought, listened to + what’s on repeat.

This past couple of weeks I’ve been preparing to deliver a keynote I first gave last year. 

Same title. Same premise. Technically the same talk. But it doesn’t feel the same.

Occasionally, history hands you an image so perfectly composed it doesn’t even need a caption.

If I’m honest, at the start of 2025 I didn’t give much thought to what the Year of the Snake actually meant - beyond clowning for Reputation (Taylor’s Version) 🐍

There’s something deeply satisfying about a joke so niche that only the politically online understand it, yet somehow the entire internet decides to participate anyway.

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show today was loud, confrontational, and retired idea that marginalised people must perform suffering to be taken seriously.

Everything I ate, drank, watched, read, followed, bought, listened to + what’s on repeat.

I don’t have the luxury of waxing lyrical right now. I’ve got shit to do.

Like every millennial who once arranged their entire evening around a 7pm daily show, I approached the 2025 reboot with a mix of nervous excitement and cultural muscle memory.

One of my life’s greatest achievements is absolutely nailing The Duck Cake for my daughters first birthday.

They’re there for families on the worst days of their lives, 365 days a year and provide a home away from home for families in need.

I’ve worked in tourism and destination marketing for long enough to know this: the things that actually move the needle on a place brand are almost never the brochures, the taglines, the campaigns or the slogans.

Holly Rankin AKA @jackriver for delivering the 2025 Speaker's Lecture in Parliament last week.

Everything I ate, drank, watched, read, followed, bought, listened to + what’s on repeat.

The universe has been delivering me Threads references this week. By the bucketload. Well - three times…which in the social media universe counts as a certified cosmic sign.