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I always keep an eye on Richard Williams’s blog The Blue Moment because he’s a really good writer, and he’s interested in lots of things. Here’s one now. thebluemoment.com/2025/04/18/t...

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Excellent new piece by @culturedoug.bsky.social on the wrongs of public museums restricting access to images: "...by throttling access to digital reproductions, museums limit the range of perspectives and narratives that can be shared about art and history..." douglasmccarthy.com/2025/04/muse...

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Let me add something on the new Harvard letter story. The Times portrays it as they'd been negotiating in a kind of inconclusive and then Harvard was shocked at the extremity when it arrived. I had heard a subtly but significantly different version of events. As it was conveyed to me the ...

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The great backbencher job creation scheme

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I AM a lawyer And if I were trying the contempt case This might well be Prosecution Exhibit 1

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Bought OTD in 1969: ‘one fine morning we went walkin’ down by the old graveyard’ - nothing tougher than this in 1965, harder R&B than even the Stones. Mystic Eyes, some cool Bert Berns songs, and the incredible one two punch of Gloria and You Just Cant Win, a sour,stinging tale of Swinging London.

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One of my favourite articles I’ve written. I ADORED Ryan Coogler’s #Sinners and for @digitalspy.com, I took a look at how Coogler used the vampire genre to explore Black history and the blues. Warning: spoilers ahead! www.digitalspy.com/movies/a6450...

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Long accustomed to moral and cultural ascendancy, liberalism must now defend itself against Trumpian values of hierarchy, dominance and submission to authority, writes Sasha Mudd. www.prospectmagazine...

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My review of Bob Dylan’s show on Tuesday in Kalamazoo - with extended thoughts on how his live sound has evolved over the “Rough and Rowdy era” - has been published at the essential @dylan.thefm.club S*bstack: open.substack.com/pub/thefm/p/...

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I'm gripped by the ever-increasing bling in Trump’s Oval Office. What does it mean? Yes, Trump has bad taste. But also something else. Here’s an art historical view. 🧵 1/

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👇🎯 They. Are. Breaking. Signed. Contracts. For. No. Legal. Reason. You want to pass legislation not funding this stuff going forward? Fine. Epically idiotic, but legal. This is something else. Shredding the basic foundations of the rule of law. Textbook authoritarianism.

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Back in 1934, Malcolm Cowley, then literary editor of the New Republic, asked some of America's best writers to nominate a few "good books got lost in the shuffle." John Dos Passos, Edmund Wilson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others came up with an eclectic list of candidates. neglectedbooks.com/?...

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Trump suggests UK state visit set for September. A felon, dictator, liar, violator of treaties and court judgements, opponent of civil liberties, threat to global peace with delusions of extending US borders rewarded with state visit. Shameful. Mass demonstrations are certain.

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While blaming Zelenskyy and abandoning Ukraine to Russia, as was always the plan

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An extraordinary statement, which effectively says that the authors of the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the US constitution aided and abetted terrorists.

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@iammilliam.bsky.social Your Boundless piece was great, but then I would think that, having grown up in 50s and 60s outside Walsall, with estates, a canal, scrappy fields, the 1944 Education Act. Not lived there half a century and it’s always part of me. Why I was so moved by John and Paul’s houses

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Every day looking at the news and thinking about Labour’s majority I think if not now when. They could pass most things they wanted, tax the wealthy. Who is mysterious Morgan McSweeney and why does he have such power over us and Starmer. (Normal service trivialities will return shortly.)

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"When suburbia features in British fiction, if it features at all, it is usually as somewhere that isn’t the countryside and isn’t the city, a location which only exists to be escaped from." @iammilliam.bsky.social www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/millions-u...

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Bought OTD in 1971: the second side is a percussion jam but the first is the sound of LSD - time warps, ellipses, ecstatic fragments, metaphysical lyrics, thick air. Definitely higher key psych with a hint of garage (Born Cross-Eyed), definitely the Dead I prefer

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Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

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Journalists quite often get emails written in exactly this style, often sent to scores of recipients on multiple publications, and the sadly reliable assumption is that the irate sender is miserable, paranoid and probably unwell.

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@rsmythfreelance.bsky.social Call yourself a twitcher. Present yourself in this getup at once.

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Craig Coben is a very successful banker who made a pile of money and retired young enough to enjoy it. His brother is Harlen (Netflix) Coben another is a CEO. If you can get past 'huh first world problem', his essay on the luxury of wondering what to do with himself is fascinating on.ft.com/4lAPk8X

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Whenever I walk into IKEA I feel like I’ve stepped into a Douglas Coupland novel.

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This professor studies dictatorships. He helped convince Harvard to stand up to Trump

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The US higher education system is the envy of the rest of the world. Destroying it in the service of Trumpism will not make America great again, quite the reverse. We may not see its like again.

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a very big deal if it passes. this is what would enable an exponential increase in detention, tent camps, upgrade to mass surveillance technologies, etc

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Trump's Project 2025 wants to eliminate public schools. Biased, greedy businesses want personal profits & Christian Nationalism instead of free, non-religious education. Fight back against attempted destruction of federal education dept. Keep showing up!

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The Central European émigrés who fled fascism and settled in Britain in the 1930s quietly revolutionised cultural life in their new home. Owen Hatherley talks to Apollo about their achievements in photography, publishing, art and architecture

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The descent into fascism is always marked by the normalisation of crimes by the state. Trump’s shakedown of law firms has been pure extortion. A blatant crime. That mainstream media won’t say that should be a flashing warning sign.

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In honor of Henry Mancini's birthday, here's a short selection of his rockin'-est tunes, starting with this one from the soundtrack to Two for the Road: youtu.be/GPHhI3IyQMw?...

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The return of scientifically illiterate billionaires - Gatsby’s careless people arutherford.substack.com/p/gatsby-whi...

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Bought OTD in 1970: terrific album, Byrds meet the Stones transmuted through an integrated group led by Arthur Lee, the Sunset Strips pop art politician. Love the jangle rush of I Can’t Explain, My Flash on You and Gazing, but the quieter songs really make it, Signed D.C and Mushroom Clouds Falling

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Weirder than you can imagine and I can imagine really weird www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

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“Under pressure from the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, nearly all the staff of the Defense Digital Service — the Pentagon’s fast-track tech development arm — are resigning over the coming month” www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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This is a must-read article, by @corbintrent.bsky.social znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

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Marina, always able to find the words they can’t www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I know Janet Malcolm was hung up on writers' failures, but I think this dissection of the failures of Plath's biographers is a minor masterpiece. Anyway, I've never read anything quite like it.

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There were three men came out of the West Their fortunes for to try ... Traffic From #JohnBarleycornMustDie (1970) Trad. arr. Steve Winwood www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYMW... Names like Robert Burns and Ralph Vaughan Williams featured in the song's history prior to Winwood getting his hands on it

I always keep an eye on Richard Williams’s blog The Blue Moment because he’s a really good writer, and he’s interested in lots of things. Here’s one now. thebluemoment.com/2025/04/18/t...

Excellent new piece by @culturedoug.bsky.social on the wrongs of public museums restricting access to images: "...by throttling access to digital reproductions, museums limit the range of perspectives and narratives that can be shared about art and history..." douglasmccarthy.com/2025/04/muse...

Let me add something on the new Harvard letter story. The Times portrays it as they'd been negotiating in a kind of inconclusive and then Harvard was shocked at the extremity when it arrived. I had heard a subtly but significantly different version of events. As it was conveyed to me the ...

The great backbencher job creation scheme

I AM a lawyer And if I were trying the contempt case This might well be Prosecution Exhibit 1

One of my favourite articles I’ve written. I ADORED Ryan Coogler’s #Sinners and for @digitalspy.com, I took a look at how Coogler used the vampire genre to explore Black history and the blues. Warning: spoilers ahead! www.digitalspy.com/movies/a6450...

Long accustomed to moral and cultural ascendancy, liberalism must now defend itself against Trumpian values of hierarchy, dominance and submission to authority, writes Sasha Mudd. www.prospectmagazine...

My review of Bob Dylan’s show on Tuesday in Kalamazoo - with extended thoughts on how his live sound has evolved over the “Rough and Rowdy era” - has been published at the essential @dylan.thefm.club S*bstack: open.substack.com/pub/thefm/p/...

I'm gripped by the ever-increasing bling in Trump’s Oval Office. What does it mean? Yes, Trump has bad taste. But also something else. Here’s an art historical view. 🧵 1/

👇🎯 They. Are. Breaking. Signed. Contracts. For. No. Legal. Reason. You want to pass legislation not funding this stuff going forward? Fine. Epically idiotic, but legal. This is something else. Shredding the basic foundations of the rule of law. Textbook authoritarianism.

Back in 1934, Malcolm Cowley, then literary editor of the New Republic, asked some of America's best writers to nominate a few "good books got lost in the shuffle." John Dos Passos, Edmund Wilson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others came up with an eclectic list of candidates. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Trump suggests UK state visit set for September. A felon, dictator, liar, violator of treaties and court judgements, opponent of civil liberties, threat to global peace with delusions of extending US borders rewarded with state visit. Shameful. Mass demonstrations are certain.

While blaming Zelenskyy and abandoning Ukraine to Russia, as was always the plan

An extraordinary statement, which effectively says that the authors of the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the US constitution aided and abetted terrorists.

Every day looking at the news and thinking about Labour’s majority I think if not now when. They could pass most things they wanted, tax the wealthy. Who is mysterious Morgan McSweeney and why does he have such power over us and Starmer. (Normal service trivialities will return shortly.)

"When suburbia features in British fiction, if it features at all, it is usually as somewhere that isn’t the countryside and isn’t the city, a location which only exists to be escaped from." @iammilliam.bsky.social www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/millions-u...

Bought OTD in 1971: the second side is a percussion jam but the first is the sound of LSD - time warps, ellipses, ecstatic fragments, metaphysical lyrics, thick air. Definitely higher key psych with a hint of garage (Born Cross-Eyed), definitely the Dead I prefer

Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

Journalists quite often get emails written in exactly this style, often sent to scores of recipients on multiple publications, and the sadly reliable assumption is that the irate sender is miserable, paranoid and probably unwell.

@rsmythfreelance.bsky.social Call yourself a twitcher. Present yourself in this getup at once.

Craig Coben is a very successful banker who made a pile of money and retired young enough to enjoy it. His brother is Harlen (Netflix) Coben another is a CEO. If you can get past 'huh first world problem', his essay on the luxury of wondering what to do with himself is fascinating on.ft.com/4lAPk8X

Whenever I walk into IKEA I feel like I’ve stepped into a Douglas Coupland novel.

This professor studies dictatorships. He helped convince Harvard to stand up to Trump

The US higher education system is the envy of the rest of the world. Destroying it in the service of Trumpism will not make America great again, quite the reverse. We may not see its like again.

a very big deal if it passes. this is what would enable an exponential increase in detention, tent camps, upgrade to mass surveillance technologies, etc

Trump's Project 2025 wants to eliminate public schools. Biased, greedy businesses want personal profits & Christian Nationalism instead of free, non-religious education. Fight back against attempted destruction of federal education dept. Keep showing up!

The Central European émigrés who fled fascism and settled in Britain in the 1930s quietly revolutionised cultural life in their new home. Owen Hatherley talks to Apollo about their achievements in photography, publishing, art and architecture

The descent into fascism is always marked by the normalisation of crimes by the state. Trump’s shakedown of law firms has been pure extortion. A blatant crime. That mainstream media won’t say that should be a flashing warning sign.

In honor of Henry Mancini's birthday, here's a short selection of his rockin'-est tunes, starting with this one from the soundtrack to Two for the Road: youtu.be/GPHhI3IyQMw?...

The return of scientifically illiterate billionaires - Gatsby’s careless people arutherford.substack.com/p/gatsby-whi...

Weirder than you can imagine and I can imagine really weird www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

“Under pressure from the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, nearly all the staff of the Defense Digital Service — the Pentagon’s fast-track tech development arm — are resigning over the coming month” www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

This is a must-read article, by @corbintrent.bsky.social znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

Marina, always able to find the words they can’t www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I know Janet Malcolm was hung up on writers' failures, but I think this dissection of the failures of Plath's biographers is a minor masterpiece. Anyway, I've never read anything quite like it.

There were three men came out of the West Their fortunes for to try ... Traffic From #JohnBarleycornMustDie (1970) Trad. arr. Steve Winwood www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYMW... Names like Robert Burns and Ralph Vaughan Williams featured in the song's history prior to Winwood getting his hands on it

The "Complete Unknown" as he really appeared

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

I’ve been poeming about how my nouns keep conversioning to verbs.