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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 9h

'Jordan Peterson, an even more famous soothsayer of the so-called Christian revival, not only ignores facts, he openly disdains them. Drunk on symbolism, he seems sincerely not to care whether something is factually true or not'

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But is it true? (Let’s hear it for reality)

Tom Holland’s book Dominion is much touted these days by those proclaiming a “Christian revival”.

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 17h

'How we might interpret class conflict in a non-Marxist way, the deranged individualism of the English, and why generosity can so easily generate resentment'

Louise Perry and Nina Power discuss The Yookay

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Louise Perry and I discuss The Yookay

In this episode, Louise and I spoke about the state of ‘The Yookay’ – how the colonial instinct turned inwards, how we might interpret class conflict in a non-Marxist way, the deranged individualism o...

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 1d

'It was OK to be sensitive, pleasant and shambolic. In our ingenuous and artless marginal lives, validation was just another pleasurable exotic encounter'

Where do I begin with... The Lemonheads

Simon Harrison in The Line Of Best Fit

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Where do I begin with... The Lemonheads

As the first Lemonheads' album of original material in nearly two decades hits the world, Simon Harrison guides us through the best – and worst – records of one of indie rock's most troubled bands

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 1d

"The thought occurred that this kind of ‘Anglofuturism’ was the actual Dadaist-style counter-narrative to the social progress mode of art in pretty much every establishment art gallery going"

Based in Kings Cross - Power & Intimacy Exhibition

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Based in Kings Cross - Power & Intimacy Exhibition

Sitting outside the pub on the corner of the street near the pop-up gallery where the Power & Intimacy exhibition was held, one punter shouted at the barman to ‘f*ck off’ when he was told to leave due...

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 2d

'My fear about The Life Of A Showgirl era is that the relatability and kinship that made her so initially successful is fading'

The Line of Best Fit on new Tay Tay album

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The Monday Meeting

What to make of The Life Of A Showgirl

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 5d

Delighted that my painting Eggheads & Cocktails has been included in the Through The Eyes Of A Child 3D exhibition by Culturally Arts Collective

Catalogue also available in link. Thank you CAC!

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 6d

New album: The Believe Years

Non-album singles, live tracks and other miscellanea, 1993-2018

'Wonderful...the songs are as heartfelt as they are intelligent' - Alain de Botton

Available via @routenote.bsky.social and all online stores

Listen here: open.spotify.com/album/17o8M6...

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In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction @inshortlit.bsky.social · 7d

@seanbwparker5000.bsky.social's "Artists at Work" worked wonders with linework and composition.

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In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction @inshortlit.bsky.social · 7d

We love your work, Sean! Best of luck and thank you for sharing with us 😊

Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 9d

Delighted that my painting Artists At Work (2024) has been nominated for the Best Of The Net Awards by In Short Literary Journal

Thank you @inshortlit.bsky.social!

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 6d

'What we see here is a new national philosophy that is a course-correction the sensible left, right, and middle can agree on; a rebalancing of liberty and equality in favour of fraternity'

Unity is Coming - National Liberalism, by Postwoke Pete

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Unity is Coming

National liberalism is the way through our fake divide

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 7d

My 2023 portrait 'Jonathan King' has been included in the recent 'Faux' issue of Massachusetts based Meat For Tea - The Valley Review

Thank you MFT!

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 8d

I was interviewed by jl-interviews recently, and thought they did a very good job

Alongside my Harold Pinter portrait (Judge's Choice winner at this year's Worthing Open Exhibition)

Read in full here: www.jlinterviews.com/sean-bw-park...

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 8d

'We are here to talk about Kim and Kim famously left The Pixies. In my mind it's because they couldn’t sustain her need to create'

Where do I begin with... Kim Deal - by Luis Felber in The Line of Best Fit

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Where do I begin with... Kim Deal

Luis Felber – aka Attawalpa and the co-creator of Netflix's Too Much with Lena Dunham – gives his own take on getting to grips with the work of legendary bassist and songwriter Kim Deal.

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 8d

'Bentham’s design was never directly used, but the idea took hold as a symbol of state overreach and control, most famously in Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish'

Andrew Doyle on Starmer's digital ID as 'Panopticon'

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Why we shouldn’t trust digital ID

The government wants us to live in a condition of perpetual surveillance.

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 9d

'I don’t particularly care where my art comes from,” he added. “It doesn’t bother me if someone wears a For Britain badge [Morrissey] or is an anti-semite or whatever and they’re making extraordinary music'

Nick Cave has no shits left to give

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Nick Cave says he is "neither on the left nor on the right" and "finding both sides indefensible and unrecognisable"

Nick Cave has shared insight on his political outlook, and said that he is "neither on the left nor on the right” as he finds both sides “unrecognisable”.

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 9d

Delighted that my painting Artists At Work (2024) has been nominated for the Best Of The Net Awards by In Short Literary Journal

Thank you @inshortlit.bsky.social!

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 9d

'Of course, there are differences between the IRA and Hamas. They both aimed to defeat a larger neighbour, but the IRA never believed that the UK or the British people did not have a right to exist'

PEACE IN GAZA? I'VE BEEN THERE - Phelim McAleer

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 10d

Sadly I wasn't able to attend the opening night of Arrival Gallery's exhibition this weekend at Kings Cross - but see if you can spot my The Execution of Holofernes amongst London's art-loving finest in their pics below

Thank you @ArrivalGallery!

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London was amazing! — ARRIVAL

Dive in and have a quick glance to see how our opening night on the 26th of September was! Great vibes, amazing music, lovely art and some truly talented people attended our King’s Cross venue from 1...

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 11d

'Great art, as this show demonstrates, raises more questions than it answers - or rather, it answers questions in a way that unveils deeper mysteries'

BoloXology review of new Simon Evans show The Devil’s Work

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 11d

Ed Davey & Paula Vennells At The Post Office (2025)

More paintings here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbw...

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 16d

Video for new Ed Harcourt singe A Ghost Walked Through Me, from his forthcoming album Orphic, out November 12

Photo of me joining Ed to sing his Shadowboxing at Babylon club, Istanbul, circa 2010

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 13d

'Tolhurst’s quirky humanity comes through every page, and it’s clear that he brought much colour to the band’s creative high-point run of albums through the 1980s, to his ejection just before the release of the band’s Disintegration'

@loltolhurst.bsky.social

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Cured — Lol Tolhurst — a review

Nine years late with this review, but since The Cure have been going since 1976 or so, who’s counting? I remember The Cure tantalising my…

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 13d

My painting The Execution of Holofernes (2025) is included in exhibition at Arrival Gallery, 114 Kings Cross Road, London until Sunday 27th September

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 15d

"Britain’s establishment church leaders are squirming. In an open letter published this weekend, luminaries including Lords, Bishops, and a former Archbishop of Canterbury, warned against the ‘misuse of Christianity’"

Joanna Williams

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The politicisation of Christianity

Why is the iconography of Christianity becoming entwined with Conservatism?

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Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social · 16d

Video for new Ed Harcourt singe A Ghost Walked Through Me, from his forthcoming album Orphic, out November 12

Photo of me joining Ed to sing his Shadowboxing at Babylon club, Istanbul, circa 2010

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ4Y...

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