Simon Fellowes
@simonfspeak.bsky.social
Paperback writer. Former singer.
If it wasn't for end-of-year lists, newspapers and news sites in December would dry up.
December 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
If it wasn't for end-of-year lists, newspapers and news sites in December would dry up.
Stop stealing Palestinian land. https://youtu.be/G957oaAZwhc?si=3ha9qys29uui-jQ0
December 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Stop stealing Palestinian land. https://youtu.be/G957oaAZwhc?si=3ha9qys29uui-jQ0
Just watched Joseph Losey’s Pinter-scripted film ‘Accident’. Jesus, it feels almost Edwardian.
December 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Just watched Joseph Losey’s Pinter-scripted film ‘Accident’. Jesus, it feels almost Edwardian.
Just watched Godard’s Masculin Feminin again. Who’s making such films about today’s Gen Alpha? https://youtu.be/2DZ2gJLSbzc?si=ZhUgoIGMrd7daaWT
December 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Just watched Godard’s Masculin Feminin again. Who’s making such films about today’s Gen Alpha? https://youtu.be/2DZ2gJLSbzc?si=ZhUgoIGMrd7daaWT
The fact that Labour is still running scared of a Right Wing Press which dumps on them on a daily basis anyway, is baffling. #r4today https://hackinginquiry.org/campaigns/leveson-part-2/
December 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The fact that Labour is still running scared of a Right Wing Press which dumps on them on a daily basis anyway, is baffling. #r4today https://hackinginquiry.org/campaigns/leveson-part-2/
All My Sons at The Wyndham’s is good. Not £400 a seat good but well worth seeing if you can.
December 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
All My Sons at The Wyndham’s is good. Not £400 a seat good but well worth seeing if you can.
Following on from the Australian ban on all social media sites for the under 16s, one wonders when video games that promote the use of weapons will also be regulated.
December 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Following on from the Australian ban on all social media sites for the under 16s, one wonders when video games that promote the use of weapons will also be regulated.
New blog post. Thoughts on George Clooney's new film 'Jay Kelly' and whether he threw an egg at my house. simonfspeak.substack.com/p/egg-on-his...
December 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
New blog post. Thoughts on George Clooney's new film 'Jay Kelly' and whether he threw an egg at my house. simonfspeak.substack.com/p/egg-on-his...
Hollywood caught between a rock and a hard place. They hate Netflix but the alternative is a Trump backed, dubiously funded consortium of equally suspect players. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/opinion/netflix-warner-bros-hollywood.html
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Hollywood caught between a rock and a hard place. They hate Netflix but the alternative is a Trump backed, dubiously funded consortium of equally suspect players. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/opinion/netflix-warner-bros-hollywood.html
So glad I was just too old for video gaming (and Star Wars for that matter).
December 9, 2025 at 7:54 AM
So glad I was just too old for video gaming (and Star Wars for that matter).
This was as good as I expected and hoped. https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/lee-miller
December 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This was as good as I expected and hoped. https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/lee-miller
‘Return hubs’. Rwanda schemes in other words. If the EU tightens up on immigration will this give Starmer leverage to shift towards rejoining a SM & CU? https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251208-eu-migration-return-hubs
December 8, 2025 at 9:03 AM
‘Return hubs’. Rwanda schemes in other words. If the EU tightens up on immigration will this give Starmer leverage to shift towards rejoining a SM & CU? https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251208-eu-migration-return-hubs
The absence of mother figures (apart from the one tracking her daughter like “the Russians”) in the film Jay Kelly is clearly intentional, but it does beg the question why?
December 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The absence of mother figures (apart from the one tracking her daughter like “the Russians”) in the film Jay Kelly is clearly intentional, but it does beg the question why?
Knausgaard as a young man in other words. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/t-magazine/forensic-art-knausgaard-school-of-night.html
December 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Knausgaard as a young man in other words. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/t-magazine/forensic-art-knausgaard-school-of-night.html
Thanks to Trump the US is unrecognisable now. https://news.sky.com/story/white-house-europe-unrecognisable-in-20-years-or-less-13479931
December 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Thanks to Trump the US is unrecognisable now. https://news.sky.com/story/white-house-europe-unrecognisable-in-20-years-or-less-13479931
Jay Kelly. Clooney channelling Cinema Paradiso and Stardust Memories. A high bar. Too high sadly.
December 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Jay Kelly. Clooney channelling Cinema Paradiso and Stardust Memories. A high bar. Too high sadly.
Two minutes of Infantino and I hit the off button. #FIFAWorldCup2026
December 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Two minutes of Infantino and I hit the off button. #FIFAWorldCup2026
Now that it’s accepted Farage was a vile little racist well into his late teenage years, we’re suppose to believe this in no way affected the anti-immigrant rhetoric he’s espoused the rest of his adult life.
December 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Now that it’s accepted Farage was a vile little racist well into his late teenage years, we’re suppose to believe this in no way affected the anti-immigrant rhetoric he’s espoused the rest of his adult life.
Watching Modi cozy up to Putin and agreeing business deals, you know Trump must be seething that he can't be doing the same.
December 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Watching Modi cozy up to Putin and agreeing business deals, you know Trump must be seething that he can't be doing the same.
Happiest parts of London to live in a new survey? Camden and Richmond. No doubt because they’re next to bloody big parks.
December 5, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Happiest parts of London to live in a new survey? Camden and Richmond. No doubt because they’re next to bloody big parks.
So you finish the Sean Combs documentary. Then today you check Google‘s most searched list of 2025. Top music artist is D4VD. Who you then find out is a suspect in a murder case of a 15-year-old girl. And you think…
December 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
So you finish the Sean Combs documentary. Then today you check Google‘s most searched list of 2025. Top music artist is D4VD. Who you then find out is a suspect in a murder case of a 15-year-old girl. And you think…
Where would sports television be without adverts for junk food, booze and gambling?
December 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Where would sports television be without adverts for junk food, booze and gambling?
Watched the Sean Combs doc. Never liked the fucker. Always found it perplexing why people ever did.
December 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Watched the Sean Combs doc. Never liked the fucker. Always found it perplexing why people ever did.
Kind of weird that ‘ragebait’ has only now become word of the year when the right wing media and newspapers have been trading in such behaviour for decades. #r4today
December 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Kind of weird that ‘ragebait’ has only now become word of the year when the right wing media and newspapers have been trading in such behaviour for decades. #r4today