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I write about pop culture. Bylines include The Scotsman, Radio Times, The Big Issue, Classic Rock, Broadcast. Frequent contributor to Afternoons on BBC Radio Scotland. Black cat enabler. paulbwhitelaw.blogspot.com/
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Sure, the villain’s convoluted plan didn’t make a lick of sense if you thought about it for more than two seconds, but hats off to #DoctorWho for taking on alt-right conspiracy grifters with all the anger and disgust they deserve.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

This afternoon. Not often that a bona fide film masterpiece gets shown on TV these days, never mind one that is almost 60 years old. Watch on a big screen if you can - the jokes are all around the edges!

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

How can we endure four more years of Starmer’s failure handing the country to Farage? Labour hasn’t the balls to oust him, and even if they did they don’t have the brains to protect and provide for ordinary people which is the only course of action that’ll end the rise of Reform. It’s a death spiral

submitted 14 hours ago • 13 comments

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

If you want to feel a bit better about the world right now, please watch episodes one and two of this new series, in which Danny Dyer and David Tennant are interviewed by a group of neurodivergent people. It's absolutely wonderful in every single way.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Dolly Parton's 1966 single Don't Drop Out suggests an alternate reality where she eschewed country music in favour of Spector-esque pop. I like this a lot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p54K...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Louis Theroux's latest documentary, The Settlers, is excellent. A powerful, angering and informative piece of investigative journalism. Brave, too. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

A brand new four hour episode of the magnificent @chartmusictotp.bsky.social has just been released for Patreon subscribers. So that’s my evening sorted.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

My @scotsman.com review of Wrest at the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow. www.scotsman.com/whats-on/art...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I missed the Pope's funeral. Did Nick Cave turn up?

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Had no idea this existed! From April 1967, Paul, Jane Asher, and Mal Evans’ home video for She’s Leaving Home (sadly, ruined because of the huge watermark text - but good to know that it got made) youtu.be/h5ZymdrwVOU?...

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

Tonight's episode of #DoctorWho, The Well, is outstanding. Tense, dark, creepy and powerful, it's the best RTD2/Gatwa episode yet.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I have only just this minute learned about the existence of a 2022 sequel to The Man Who Fell to Earth starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and, playing the role of Thomas Jerome Newton, Bill Nighy. What?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqM5...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

This is magnificent

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Hello! 👋 I’m Gail, a one woman design studio, based in #Manchester My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares and stationery. Go on, have a nosy gailmyerscough.co.uk

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

On BBC Radio Scotland's Afternoons show earlier I chatted to Michelle McManus about Celebrity Traitors, Race Across the World, the jolly travelogue Joe Lycett's United States of Birmingham, and the deeply annoying ballet comedy-drama Etoile. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

In 2000, John Waters donated 372 pieces of his art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. They named a rotunda after him in their gallery. He requested an all-gender restroom be named for him instead. #BOTD

submitted 11 days ago • 74 comments

Hands down the single greatest performance of anything by anyone ever.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

This is my Pope

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I am begging anyone with the ability to commission articles in my industry: let trans people write about what is happening to us right now.

submitted 11 days ago • 28 comments

I love the fact that Hal Ashby, who was born in 1929, spent much of his adult life looking like this. He wasn't a shaggy arriviste, he didn't adopt that hippie look to get with the changing times, he was inherently countercultural, a born bohemian.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

It's 9 years today since Prince died and this happened on Twitter. Sometimes sadness can still bring laughter.

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

My @scotsman.com review of Brooke Combe at the Barrowlands, Glasgow. www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

As a child of the 1980s AIDS crisis and media panic I liked the capsule-sized history lesson about Rock Hudson in this weekend's Dr Who, it was organic and not intrusive and enough to prompt anyone too young to know who he was to look him up on Wikipedia.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Easter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKmv...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The most nail-biting rock saga of our time continues. variety.com/2025/music/n...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Pure nightmare fuel.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Highly recommended. Soundtrack by Ravi Shankar. A key British psychedelic text, broadcast to the nation during the Christmas holiday.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment