Ian Wood
@ianawood.bsky.social
A child of the 1960s. Living in London, drinking good coffee, reading for fun, education and work and taking a few snaps everyday that I see something that I find interesting.
Enjoyed this, not sure that I want to track down a copy of Rope to watch the film but intelligent conversation
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Today is the 1st in our series of live eps recorded at the Regent St Cinema in London: David talks to crime writers Nicci Gerrard & Sean French (aka @niccifrench.bsky.social) about Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948), based on Patrick Hamilton’s play.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today is the 1st in our series of live eps recorded at the Regent St Cinema in London: David talks to crime writers Nicci Gerrard & Sean French (aka @niccifrench.bsky.social) about Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948), based on Patrick Hamilton’s play.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Enjoyed this, not sure that I want to track down a copy of Rope to watch the film but intelligent conversation
I do hope that this take is correct, but so far to much of what comes out of the mouths of Starmer's people sounds like a plan by Baldrick's cunning plans.
🔴Keir Starmer Is Setting a Trap for Nigel Farage With Foreign Interference Inquiry
As Reform opens the door to crypto funding, the Government is finally starting to take action against the threat of foreign political interference, reports @adambienkov.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/17/k...
As Reform opens the door to crypto funding, the Government is finally starting to take action against the threat of foreign political interference, reports @adambienkov.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/17/k...
Keir Starmer Is Setting a Trap for Nigel Farage With Foreign Interference Inquiry
As Reform opens the door to crypto donations, the Government is finally starting to take action against the threat of foreign financial interference in our politics, reports Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I do hope that this take is correct, but so far to much of what comes out of the mouths of Starmer's people sounds like a plan by Baldrick's cunning plans.
When they called the party Reform was it done with the knowledge that they were going to be joined by ex-Conservatives that were too toxic for Thatcher's party?
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
When they called the party Reform was it done with the knowledge that they were going to be joined by ex-Conservatives that were too toxic for Thatcher's party?
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This is worse than Panorama's drama because:
(1) Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history” - beyond Nixon or Harding
(2) Trump did incite the January 6th riot. Any country with a functioning legal system would've jailed him, like Bolsonaro
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
(1) Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history” - beyond Nixon or Harding
(2) Trump did incite the January 6th riot. Any country with a functioning legal system would've jailed him, like Bolsonaro
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Reith lecturer accuses BBC of censoring his remarks on Trump
Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This is worse than Panorama's drama because:
(1) Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history” - beyond Nixon or Harding
(2) Trump did incite the January 6th riot. Any country with a functioning legal system would've jailed him, like Bolsonaro
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
(1) Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history” - beyond Nixon or Harding
(2) Trump did incite the January 6th riot. Any country with a functioning legal system would've jailed him, like Bolsonaro
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Jazz OTD: Miles Davis and Gil Evans's reimagining of the first movement of Joaquín Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez" is an iconic moment in 20th-century music, stretching the boundaries of jazz contributions. They recorded it on November 20, 1959 for the landmark album "Sketches of Spain." #jazzsky
Concierto de Aranjuez: Adagio
YouTube video by Miles Davis - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Jazz OTD: Miles Davis and Gil Evans's reimagining of the first movement of Joaquín Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez" is an iconic moment in 20th-century music, stretching the boundaries of jazz contributions. They recorded it on November 20, 1959 for the landmark album "Sketches of Spain." #jazzsky
There are times when BBC Radio 4 does something that demonstrates what they did that meant that I could turn in one when I woke up and turn if off when I went to bed. Today, @wintersonworld.bsky.social and @sowetokinch.bsky.social where kind & curious promoting new work www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Start the Week - Storytelling: Jeanette Winterson, Rory Stewart and Soweto Kinch - BBC Sounds
Jeanette Winterson, Soweto Kinch and Rory Stewart, with Tom Sutcliffe.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
There are times when BBC Radio 4 does something that demonstrates what they did that meant that I could turn in one when I woke up and turn if off when I went to bed. Today, @wintersonworld.bsky.social and @sowetokinch.bsky.social where kind & curious promoting new work www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Listening to @quietriotpod.bsky.social today and would suggest that @sturdyalex.bsky.social take a look at current New Statesman and listen to one of their podcasts last week when they did tackle the possible end of the UK's largest benefits family. #notmyking
NO MORE KINGS by Will Lloyd
Why we should abolish the monarchy.
Why we should abolish the monarchy.
November 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Listening to @quietriotpod.bsky.social today and would suggest that @sturdyalex.bsky.social take a look at current New Statesman and listen to one of their podcasts last week when they did tackle the possible end of the UK's largest benefits family. #notmyking
Went to the Montblanc boutique today to pick up my first fountain pen from them that had been serviced and this Limited Edition model caught my eye (not that I would want to buy one).
#luxurypens #fountainpens
#luxurypens #fountainpens
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Went to the Montblanc boutique today to pick up my first fountain pen from them that had been serviced and this Limited Edition model caught my eye (not that I would want to buy one).
#luxurypens #fountainpens
#luxurypens #fountainpens
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It tells you everything you need to know about British politics that the only people who have ever had to apologise for Nigel Farage's long history of racism are the people who dare to call it what it actually is
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage Is a Racist
The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
www.adambienkov.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
It tells you everything you need to know about British politics that the only people who have ever had to apologise for Nigel Farage's long history of racism are the people who dare to call it what it actually is
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
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35 years ago today this happened. I’d grown up in the belief it could never happen, but then it did. It’s not been easy and even now reunification is an ongoing process. However, it makes me wonder what good things may be just around the corner that we currently think are impossible.
October 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
35 years ago today this happened. I’d grown up in the belief it could never happen, but then it did. It’s not been easy and even now reunification is an ongoing process. However, it makes me wonder what good things may be just around the corner that we currently think are impossible.
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Design as Argument • Unrelated books, connected covers: repeating forms with a single disruption—a visual metaphor for society and the outlier, 1959…1970.
September 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Design as Argument • Unrelated books, connected covers: repeating forms with a single disruption—a visual metaphor for society and the outlier, 1959…1970.
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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So the Geneva convention is woke now
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
So the Geneva convention is woke now
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Two glimpses of Conor Gearty
A master in promoting the public understanding of law
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/two-glimps...
Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/09/two-...
A master in promoting the public understanding of law
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/two-glimps...
Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/09/two-...
Two glimpses of Conor Gearty
A master in promoting the public understanding of law
emptycity.substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Two glimpses of Conor Gearty
A master in promoting the public understanding of law
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/two-glimps...
Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/09/two-...
A master in promoting the public understanding of law
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/two-glimps...
Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/09/two-...
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We are immensely saddened by news of the death of Tony Harrison, aged 88, who had been unwell for some years. A tribute has been published on our website.
www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...
www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...
September 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
We are immensely saddened by news of the death of Tony Harrison, aged 88, who had been unwell for some years. A tribute has been published on our website.
www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...
www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...
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RIP Tony Harrison.
Listen to his extraordinary poem ‘v’ which scandalized 80’s Britain.
Highly relevant today.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FA3A...
Listen to his extraordinary poem ‘v’ which scandalized 80’s Britain.
Highly relevant today.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FA3A...
September 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
RIP Tony Harrison.
Listen to his extraordinary poem ‘v’ which scandalized 80’s Britain.
Highly relevant today.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FA3A...
Listen to his extraordinary poem ‘v’ which scandalized 80’s Britain.
Highly relevant today.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FA3A...
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We’re sorry to hear that Tony Harrison has died aged 88.
Tony won The National Poetry Competition in 1980 with the moving poem Timer, about the loss of his mother. poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/timer/
Tony won The National Poetry Competition in 1980 with the moving poem Timer, about the loss of his mother. poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/timer/
September 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We’re sorry to hear that Tony Harrison has died aged 88.
Tony won The National Poetry Competition in 1980 with the moving poem Timer, about the loss of his mother. poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/timer/
Tony won The National Poetry Competition in 1980 with the moving poem Timer, about the loss of his mother. poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/timer/
Given the evidence of the last ten years you could replace Farage with Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, and Starmer in terms of ability to do the job when given the opportunity. That said I suspect that he would be worse than all that have gone before him.
Farage may be riding high in the polls, but he has no idea of what it is to be prime minister www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uk/...
Nigel Farage has no idea how to be a prime minister
The Reform leader undoubtedly has charisma, but lacks the judgement, gravitas or respect for truth needed to lead a country
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Given the evidence of the last ten years you could replace Farage with Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, and Starmer in terms of ability to do the job when given the opportunity. That said I suspect that he would be worse than all that have gone before him.
Listening to this was struck that @arusbridger.bsky.social would have more success nailing jelly to a tree than he did getting Nandy to accept that GB News needs regulation to comply with the rules. Not his faulty she just was closed to even speaking about it 😒
Lisa Nandy is on Media Confidential talking about the future of the BBC, GB News and how to regulate Big Tech, whatever Trump says open.spotify.com/episode/3Xf9...
Lisa Nandy: We’re not afraid to regulate US big tech, no matter what Donald Trump says
open.spotify.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Listening to this was struck that @arusbridger.bsky.social would have more success nailing jelly to a tree than he did getting Nandy to accept that GB News needs regulation to comply with the rules. Not his faulty she just was closed to even speaking about it 😒
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A snapshot of Silicon Valley in 2025 is Mark Zuckerberg, now a MAGA-friendly mixed martial arts fan who doesn’t worry much about hate speech on his platforms and complains that corporate America isn’t masculine enough.
I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
www.wired.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A snapshot of Silicon Valley in 2025 is Mark Zuckerberg, now a MAGA-friendly mixed martial arts fan who doesn’t worry much about hate speech on his platforms and complains that corporate America isn’t masculine enough.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: The 2 people used in American Gothic by Grant Wood stand next to the iconic painting. They were Wood’s sister, Nan Graham, and his dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby (1942). 📷 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Archives
September 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
PHOTO OF THE DAY: The 2 people used in American Gothic by Grant Wood stand next to the iconic painting. They were Wood’s sister, Nan Graham, and his dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby (1942). 📷 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Archives
This was the first time I came across Conor Gearty and was left thinking that we would be in a better place if he was given the same level of air time as Far Right Reform speakers are.
Listen to this and weep for who we have lost. Just before he died the great Conor Gearty spoke with learning & passion about what his friend K Starmer must do to defend democracy. Try from about 35’ in if you’re pressed for time - but the whole episode is worth it open.spotify.com/episode/27xX...
Are we losing our civil liberties?
open.spotify.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This was the first time I came across Conor Gearty and was left thinking that we would be in a better place if he was given the same level of air time as Far Right Reform speakers are.