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Writer, broadcaster, host of @papercutsshow and other chatty bits, I HAVE A BOOK OUT! Uncommon People - Britpop and Beyond In 20 Songs here it is https://amzn.eu/d/g2WxjyS
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Don’t try and make us call Trump Daddy. Just… don’t

I love Andy Murray but this is the dullest quote ever. Love that The Guardian think it’s worth putting on the front page

Hello people, here’s my audio review: mistresses, pirates (the radio kind), football chants and “radical thinking”, enjoyyyyyy observer.co.uk/culture/podc...

Genuinely shocked by this, Martha would probably be alive if he’d done his job, and… no sanction at all?! Nothing? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Not even the most rampant hedge funder can say that private ownership of water has worked out brilliantly so why not try nationalisation? Just to see www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Genuinely have no idea how to find this on the Observer website (!) but Annabel Deas has located my audio review for last week, here it is observer.co.uk/culture/podc...

Hello book festival people, I’m talking about my book Uncommon People - Britpop and beyond in 20 songs tomorrow at the actual HAY FESTIVAL!! Please come so I have people to talk to/at. 7pm Tues, here is the link for tickets www.hayfestival.com/p-23688-mira...

And here is my audio column, featuring the most terrifyingly gripping episode of audio I’ve heard all year, enjoyyyy observer.co.uk/culture/podc...

Hello, I interviewed the fabulous PULP for @theobserveruk.bsky.social here ya go observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.

More of this please. Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to “what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”

"You scumbag. you maggot You -

Here’s my audio column, featuring Diddy, Gaza and AI. More fun than that sounds, honest

Ahhhhh football 😍

MASSIVE legal verdict just in for festivals in London parks.... Questions over whether Mighty Hoopla and Field Day and can go ahead this month.... residents won legal challenge arguing they need planning permission... implications for all other London parks. www.londoncentric.media/p/mighty-hoo...

This is a great piece about the Sycamore Tree case by Andrew Hankinson observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

This time next week: Looking For The Perfect Beat Arthur Baker with @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social 🎟️ tinyurl.com/PerfectBeatW1 📕 🎧

“Simultaneously gentle and devastating… the excellent production and @joedunthorne.bsky.social’s humour and self-deprecation lift this tale way above the ordinary…” Delighted to see this glowing review from @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social of our new podcast Half-Life! observer.co.uk/culture/podc...

Hello friends, here’s my Observer audio column, there’s some good stuff this week, including @joedunthorne.bsky.social and @audreygillan.bsky.social enjoyyyyy observer.co.uk/culture/podc...

The Bee Magazine launches TODAY. It has been created to redress the class imbalance in literature, and features an array of writing talent. Big respect to editors Richard Benson, Claire Malcolm and all at @newwritingnorth.bsky.social. Please support it if you can. Go to TheBeeMagazine.com.

We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.

Ok two pieces in the Observer today. First is about Hamlet Hail To The Thief - it uses the @radiohead.wastehq.social album as a way into a new interpretation of Hamlet, frenetic and twitchy. I interviewed @thomyorke.wastehq.social Steven Hoggett & Christine Jones here! observer.co.uk/culture/thea...

*NEW* LOOKING FOR THE PERFECT BEAT ARTHUR BAKER book launch event in conversation with @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social 22 May London 🎟️ on sale 9am Sat 25 April via @eventbrite 🔗 tinyurl.com/PerfectBeatW1

This is a lovely interview with Bella Ramsey for Obs New Review by Tim Lewis www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

This was so much fun to do, Yasi is a don

the reporting on it didn't really do it justice. the way he talks about race and class diversity, and how you build a shared identity through connection, is a message we don't hear enough of people in his position. everyone who works with young people in the UK today should watch this