Jon Dennis
jondennis.bsky.social
Jon Dennis
@jondennis.bsky.social
Never have a motto — that’s what I always say.
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"My most vivid memories of my school life is Farage repeatedly coming up to me, knowing that I was Jewish, saying 'Hitler was right' and 'gas em' and that was frequently followed by imitating the sound of escaping gas."

Peter Ettedgui, ex classmate of Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage.
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
1. Roadrunner - Modern Lovers
2. A Hard Day’s Night
3. Sunday Morning - V.U.
4. A Love Supreme
5. I Feel The Earth Move - Carole King
Top 5 Side 1, Track 1s
November 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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"Who did you expect, honey? Ringo Starr?"
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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It's 2029, and a Reform government has sworn in its first batch of politically appointed judges. Suddenly, the Labour Party remembers why jury trials mattered.
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Tell me you’ve used AI to tweak an archive photo without telling me you’ve used AI to tweak an archive photo. Breeds musnuey, indeed.
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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#NowPlaying One of the most incredible albums that I have ever heard. It's like a time machine that takes you back to the womb. #5debutalbums7074

@sallystardust1.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Japanese jazz at the Barbican was a sublime thrill.
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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I have a limitless appetite for Beatles alt takes and outtakes anyway, but in era of AI-generated music I’m finding the new Anthology release especially poignant as reminder of how humans create things, collaboratively, iteratively, being silly, making mistakes …
November 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
November 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Anthologytime Is Here Again …

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
NIR Reissue: Mark Lewisohn Talks Beatles Anthology
Podcast Episode · Nothing Is Real - A Beatles Podcast · S8, E19 Bonus · 24m
podcasts.apple.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Betty Mackereth, Philip Larkin's feisty long term secretary, immortalised in the 1962 poems Toads Revisited, has passed away today aged 101. Betty was a great supporter of the Philip Larkin Society. We send our condolences to her family.
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Nine years ago my son drew this for his homework. Other artists failed to capture Stalin's cheeky grin.
November 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Here silence stands like heat. #nowplaying
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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"No, Flavor, I said pose with a massive *clock*."
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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A Handful Of Earth is, pound for pound, the greatest UK folk album ever recorded. One of the few albums my dad deemed good enough to have on tape for the car end to end.
November 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This battle to get these recordings released is important just for admirers of Dick Gaughan’s music, but for music fans in general. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan s...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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We are doing our best not to dismember any more journalists with bone saws www.ft.com/content/dc11...
November 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Now the late C.U. Later.
November 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM