"I had a sense that everyone was waiting, not just for a performance of the same songs they'd heard for 35 years, but also for something different" - me, in Unherd
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"I had a sense that everyone was waiting, not just for a performance of the same songs they'd heard for 35 years, but also for something different" - me, in Unherd
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The best thing I learned from Macaulay Culkin at last night’s Home Alone screening is that his 4yo son loves the movie, thinks of himself as Kevin, and has no idea that that’s his dad. Culkin is attempting to hide that fact for as long as possible
a young boy is smiling and says `` i made my family disappear '' .
ALT: a young boy is smiling and says `` i made my family disappear '' .
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The best thing I learned from Macaulay Culkin at last night’s Home Alone screening is that his 4yo son loves the movie, thinks of himself as Kevin, and has no idea that that’s his dad. Culkin is attempting to hide that fact for as long as possible
Off to see My Bloody Valentine. I'll try to use value-neutral expressions and avoid controversial language like "music" and "enjoyment".
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Off to see My Bloody Valentine. I'll try to use value-neutral expressions and avoid controversial language like "music" and "enjoyment".
There's a new, better kind of podcast, where the words are all written down and you can decide what voice reads them out in your head
www.discontinuednotes.com
www.discontinuednotes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
There's a new, better kind of podcast, where the words are all written down and you can decide what voice reads them out in your head
www.discontinuednotes.com
www.discontinuednotes.com
In order to appeal to Reform voters, Reeves will announce VAT on French mustard while exempting English.
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
In order to appeal to Reform voters, Reeves will announce VAT on French mustard while exempting English.
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Everyone is doing this ironically, but someone has to state it plainly. Chris Mason is exactly what is wrong with BBC politics coverage. Infantile coverage via soap opera and constant fawning over Reform and the archetypal Reform voter's supposed views.
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 25, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Everyone is doing this ironically, but someone has to state it plainly. Chris Mason is exactly what is wrong with BBC politics coverage. Infantile coverage via soap opera and constant fawning over Reform and the archetypal Reform voter's supposed views.
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
I'm going to carry on using the term even though I accept all this is true.
Wow - debunking “When Prophesy Fails” - the canonical foundation of cognitive dissonance theory onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I'm going to carry on using the term even though I accept all this is true.
Kent & The Gang
🔴 Reform UK’s ‘Cost Cutting’ Council Prepares to Raise Taxes After Presiding Over £46 Million Overspend
Farage’s flagship Kent County Council, which promised to “reduce waste and cut your taxes” is set to raise bills on local taxpayers, after spending tens of millions of pounds over its budget
Farage’s flagship Kent County Council, which promised to “reduce waste and cut your taxes” is set to raise bills on local taxpayers, after spending tens of millions of pounds over its budget
Reform UK's 'Cost Cutting' Council Prepares to Raise Taxes After Presiding Over £46 Million Overspend
Nigel Farage's flagship Kent County Council, which promised to "reduce waste and cut your taxes" is set to raise bills on local taxpayers, after spending tens of millions of pounds over its budget
bylinetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Kent & The Gang
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Thread on criticism*, well worth your time if you dabble or consume. 👇🧵
*critiquing (sic) can GTF...
*critiquing (sic) can GTF...
I took out a guest special offer subscription to the NYRB for C for her birthday. We both miss that kind of longform writing. It's great having access to their archive again. There's a really good recent piece by Matthew Aucoin on the future of criticism. I might quote a passage or two in a bit.
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Thread on criticism*, well worth your time if you dabble or consume. 👇🧵
*critiquing (sic) can GTF...
*critiquing (sic) can GTF...
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Very sad news about Udo Kier, one of those actors who you thought would live forever, introducing himself to one generation after another.
A filmography full of cult classics (and Ace Ventura), and he was never less than perfect in all of them. In his own amazing way.
A filmography full of cult classics (and Ace Ventura), and he was never less than perfect in all of them. In his own amazing way.
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Very sad news about Udo Kier, one of those actors who you thought would live forever, introducing himself to one generation after another.
A filmography full of cult classics (and Ace Ventura), and he was never less than perfect in all of them. In his own amazing way.
A filmography full of cult classics (and Ace Ventura), and he was never less than perfect in all of them. In his own amazing way.
It's time for Jim Broadbent to answer some questions.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
It's time for Jim Broadbent to answer some questions.
Pretty poor show for Britain that we weren't top at the game at making fake MAGA tweets. We've got a great tradition of sitcoms and sketch shows and topical panelists doing cartoonish American stereotypes. Just train an LLM on the Not The Nine O'Clock News script archive.
November 24, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Pretty poor show for Britain that we weren't top at the game at making fake MAGA tweets. We've got a great tradition of sitcoms and sketch shows and topical panelists doing cartoonish American stereotypes. Just train an LLM on the Not The Nine O'Clock News script archive.
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Beautiful stage direction from the pilot episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show:
TED BAXTER ENTERS, AND AS ALWAYS, THERE IS THE FEELING THAT HE EXPECTS APPLAUSE.
The entire character, summed up in one line.
TED BAXTER ENTERS, AND AS ALWAYS, THERE IS THE FEELING THAT HE EXPECTS APPLAUSE.
The entire character, summed up in one line.
November 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Beautiful stage direction from the pilot episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show:
TED BAXTER ENTERS, AND AS ALWAYS, THERE IS THE FEELING THAT HE EXPECTS APPLAUSE.
The entire character, summed up in one line.
TED BAXTER ENTERS, AND AS ALWAYS, THERE IS THE FEELING THAT HE EXPECTS APPLAUSE.
The entire character, summed up in one line.
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Chaos on TwitterX as they roll out a new change which shows the location of the user and inadvertently reveal how many fake accounts there are and how much foreign interference.
Earlier a vocal Scottish independence campaigner was outed as an Iranian account. Then there’s this pro Trump one:
Earlier a vocal Scottish independence campaigner was outed as an Iranian account. Then there’s this pro Trump one:
November 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Chaos on TwitterX as they roll out a new change which shows the location of the user and inadvertently reveal how many fake accounts there are and how much foreign interference.
Earlier a vocal Scottish independence campaigner was outed as an Iranian account. Then there’s this pro Trump one:
Earlier a vocal Scottish independence campaigner was outed as an Iranian account. Then there’s this pro Trump one:
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I was the assistant editor on MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO. I have 9000 stories from that time, and many of them feature this man who passed away this morning, Udo Kier. He would talk about Fassbinder, Warhol and Paul Morrissey for hours. I was so lucky to get to know Udo and he will be missed by so many.
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I was the assistant editor on MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO. I have 9000 stories from that time, and many of them feature this man who passed away this morning, Udo Kier. He would talk about Fassbinder, Warhol and Paul Morrissey for hours. I was so lucky to get to know Udo and he will be missed by so many.
Surely the last hope for western strategic goals is to get China saddled with Thames Water
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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www.telegraph.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Surely the last hope for western strategic goals is to get China saddled with Thames Water
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
While the rest of the elite were doing their elite things, I was out in the real Britain where Britain is really real.
Yeah, I went to Runcorn. Had a meal in a pub with some relatives. There was a kids party in the background. The DJ fashioned balloons and did sing-songs.
It was very real.
Yeah, I went to Runcorn. Had a meal in a pub with some relatives. There was a kids party in the background. The DJ fashioned balloons and did sing-songs.
It was very real.
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
While the rest of the elite were doing their elite things, I was out in the real Britain where Britain is really real.
Yeah, I went to Runcorn. Had a meal in a pub with some relatives. There was a kids party in the background. The DJ fashioned balloons and did sing-songs.
It was very real.
Yeah, I went to Runcorn. Had a meal in a pub with some relatives. There was a kids party in the background. The DJ fashioned balloons and did sing-songs.
It was very real.
Of course this means we're now days away from Farage attempting an electoral pact with Zack Polanski.
November 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Of course this means we're now days away from Farage attempting an electoral pact with Zack Polanski.
Go on, tell us he's sacked his team and appointed Zohran and AOC as People's Commissars For Bringing Funky Times. @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social is First Secretary For Elite Groove Capture. Will Stancil is Top Dude For Doing The Math Thing.
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Go on, tell us he's sacked his team and appointed Zohran and AOC as People's Commissars For Bringing Funky Times. @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social is First Secretary For Elite Groove Capture. Will Stancil is Top Dude For Doing The Math Thing.
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*Pops over to X* Has he? Has he been? YES! He's published an 1,835-word tweet rebuttal of a report he hasn't read!
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
*Pops over to X* Has he? Has he been? YES! He's published an 1,835-word tweet rebuttal of a report he hasn't read!
Fyi @dickon-edwards.bsky.social @thatdocphoenix.com @luketurner.bsky.social @piercepenniless.bsky.social housmans.com/event/book-l...
BOOK LAUNCH: THE LOG BOOKS: VOICES OF QUEER BRITAIN AND THE HELPLINE THAT LISTENED with Tash Walker &Adam Zmith
THE HISTORY OF SWITCHBOARD An intimate history of LGBTQ+ life over four decades, discovered in a stash of forgotten, handwritten notes. Switchboard was founded at Housmans, and operated out of our …
housmans.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Scintillating
November 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Scintillating
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An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”