Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Luke Turner

@luketurner.bsky.social

9.5K followers 1.4K following 3.3K posts

Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️‍🌈

linktr.ee

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 24d

Back from an ace We Have Ways festival, I was blown away by the response to my talk on WWII as sexual revolution. At the last minute I added material about the far right march - I believe telling the diverse truth of those who fought in the war is a powerful tool in combating the far right now (1/4)

3 3 52

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 4h

all solid gold Benson & Hedges right there!!

Reposted by Luke Turner

Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 4h

'The Port of London' (1920-24) by William Patrick Roberts

(Tate)

1 15 90

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 5h

currently looking around primary schools for my boy and was highly triggered, as they say, but seeing these things still exist. And the hideous jumping boxes.

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 5h

the right wing ones all sound like this and the left wing ones are all really whiny.

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 6h

YES! I thought you'd like that. What's your current Top Three, Claire?

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 6h

Everything Will Flow is so good, there's a lot of great stuff on the much-maligned head music – Can't Get Enough and Elephant Man are such brilliant shaggers, I love Down and He's Gone too.

1 3

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 6h

(to be honest The Asphalt World shouldn't really be an option as it is one of the greatest songs ever written by anyone)

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 6h

Oooo here we go....

1. Life Is Golden
2. The Asphalt World
3. Chalk Circles

1 1

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 8h

oh no I hope they don't fuck it up – that's the best bit of the museum, loads of things! Models! Yes!

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 8h

perhaps all three, which is awful to consider

1 1

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 8h

Arteta is so Partridge

The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 9h

🔺 Clear code words
🔺 Hand signals
🔺 ‘Train hard, fight easy’

After Mikel Arteta revealed he invited the RAF to help Arsenal improve their communication, @dansheldon.bsky.social spoke to former fighter pilots to find out what they might have learnt ⤵️

What Arsenal can learn from the Red Arrows: Code words, hand signals, ‘train hard, fight easy’

Mikel Arteta is the latest example of a leadership figure in sport looking to the British armed forces for new ways to seek improvements

www.nytimes.com

3 1 12

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 10h

it is indeed a beast. You could mount a Bren gun on the front and attack enemy positions in that.

1 3

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 10h

my in-laws have one of these in Sweden, where they seem incredibly popular (not sure if they have better subsidies). Bugger is they're so massive – you need a lot of space to store the things. I got on it but didn't really understand the power of the motor and nearly flew into the Baltic.

1 1

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 10h

This is great, had never heard of this film but @danieldylanwray.bsky.social AKA Mr Sheffield is fascinating on its connections with Pulp and the writing of Jarvis Cocker

The Quietus @thequietus.com · 10h

Daniel Dylan Wray argues that the depiction of Steel City life in a little-known 1995 film acts as a "companion and contrast piece" to Pulp's commercial breakthrough, released the same year

How #Sheffield Film Tales From A Hard City set the Scene for #Pulp’s Different Class

buff.ly/3wbyKiR

Black and white photograph with three young people in it. One is wearing a baseball cap and a bandana over his mouth.

2 7

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 11h

Give him the House of Commons mace and I reckon he could still do Farage

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 11h

Once again, during my life as a teenager and beyond, the places dominated by one ethnicity where I have felt most unsafe, threatened and vulnerable have *always* been those dominated by white people. Or white blokes, to be precise.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13h

"You go to some places like Handsworth.. parts of Dewsbury, Bradford, Leicester, where you see.. a single ethnicity.. we don't think that's healthy thing"

Kevin Hollinrake is MP for Thirsk and Malton, which according to the 2021 census is 98% white.

1 1 31

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting they have to protect the Thatcher mannequins with wipe-clean vitrines in case any of the Faithful get carried away with themselves.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

"Thatcher theatre" - pretty much sums up cul-de-sac into which the Conservative Party has driven itself in the decades since her defenestration. And now it too, risks becoming a museum piece, fit only for two or three glass display cases rather than a return to office.

1 10

Reposted by Luke Turner

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 1d

Very strongly recommend this articulate explanation of things that front bench politicians of a party of government shouldn't need to be told.

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

1 10 47

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

It is both physically and psychologically deeply awful! And yet it is somehow considered not on to complain about the heat - this country!

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

I adore Storm In Heaven, it’s what makes the Gallagherification of Ashcroft such a tragedy

4 6

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

@harrysword.bsky.social

1 1

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

"Oasis are back from the dead. They’ve resurrected their old support act... History repeats itself; first as tragedy and second as farce. Big pungent farce, of the strength Jim Royle would expel after a particularly sprouty Xmas dinner." @spinal-bap.bsky.social 💯👞🥧

thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Richard Ashcroft – Lovin’ You | The Quietus

The Verve singer returns, but he's treading water and long out of ideas, finds J.R. Moores

thequietus.com

5 15

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

This looks fantastic – and I love a lot of the samples of the work that'll be sold. Paintings! Of things! Yes!

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

outsidersartsclub.com

1 3

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

same here, it is very odd. I would love someone to do a study of the engine sound and its resonance with music, there was a Spit at We Have Ways fest and it didn't sound quite right, didn't quite do it for me, and I wonder if it was Griffon-powered

1 1

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

This is beyond @accidentalp.bsky.social. In fact, a few reasonably-priced public speaking lessons with Alan Partridge would count as a wise investment – and be tax-deductible too.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

If I cringe any harder at the Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp's stand-up comedy routine, I may fold in on myself, collapsing into a PSR-J0952–0607-style neutron star of vicarious embarrassment. ~AA

1 1 15