Tomorrow's gig at the legendary Hope & Anchor on Upper St is Sold Out. So is our next gig at the 100 Club, Oxford St (Sustainability Rocks) on 1 October. 🤘🏻 Drop an email to: hello@psychopomo.band if you'd like to get onto our mailing list to hear of future gigs in good time! 🤘🏻🎵🎉

The "Pythagorean comma" is a tiny interval between notes that are enharmonically equivalent in modern tuning, e.g., G♯ and A♭, but have slightly different pitches in Pythagorean tuning. It's roughly a quarter of a semitone. Just... what?!?!?! 🤯🎼

[1/4] Understanding decibels is, it turns out, categorically impossible unless you have a degree in equations with Greek stuff. Add 10 dB and the sound has 10 times the intensity, but apparently only sounds twice as loud. Fine.

Second load of human garbage to smash into the moon and give it a new crater, flytipping our junk onto other planets. 😳 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Drifting SpaceX rocket heading for accidental collision with moon

Scientists and sky gazers will watch intently as rocket’s upper stage slams into lunar surface on Wednesday

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Vocal and guitar rehearsal for gig at Hope & Anchor on 5 Aug going well! Today we decided on a little tribute to Toyah and Robert Fripp’s lovely videos in lockdown!! Tickets a steal at £12 for three awesome bands! And the pub has AIR CONDITIONING!!! Find us on FB and Insta @LondonPsychopomp

My piece today in The Spectator on the dramatic cuts proposed at Exeter University and the real perils of sacrificing the humanities.

I have said it before. Use the cathedrals. Move government around like in the past. Bring the money caravan to all cities. We have stunning empty cathedrals. Use them for government as before. Get MPs into them for debates. PMQs around the nation. Who wouldn't enjoy that?

An artillery salute to honour our new PM on his first day?

When Britain Brexited a leading German newspaper said life without British humour was possible but meaningless. 10 years later the only person who will stand against Farage in his phoney by-rlection is the chap with a dustbin on his head. Come on Clacton, make us proud!

When Britain Brexited a leading German newspaper said life without British humour was possible but meaningless. 10 years later the only person who will stand against Farage is the chap with a dustbin on his head. Come on Clacton, make us proud!

It's coming home! ROCK is coming home! Psychopomp is playing the awesome 100 Club again for the incredible Sustainability Rocks battle of the bands that raises tens of thousands of pounds for charity at each year's unmissable gig!

It turns out 'holibobs' go back to the 14th century, Even the hardworking Green Knight made time for one.

Panama seriously need to up their national anthem game. youtu.be/fuKDBPw8wQA?...

Van Halen - Panama (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Van Halen

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One of the joys of taking books off the shelf is stumblimg across old price stickers.

British military footwear has had some pretty spectacular fails over the years. But these ... for a swordsman?

My essay is on Saladin, who achieved that rare honour of being respected and admired by his own side and his enemies. In honour of the occasion I have got my old mess kit out to add a splash of British Army Red Coat. A fabulous book that takes us from Sun Tzu to David Petraeus!

View from my seat the other day. This new programme is going to be really, really fun! :-) #medieval

My computer has just tried to change 'more irate' to 'irater'. This ubiquitous AI word salad is making me iraterer by the minute . . .

Hilarious! The philosopher G A Cohen on his supervisor at university, Gilbert Ryle.

I was immensely pleased to participate in this debate to argue for the survival of museums - places where we appreciate that we all have far more in common navigating this life than what we are encouraged to believe divides us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUsV...

Should Museums Repatriate Cultural Artifacts?

YouTube video by Open to Debate

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It's 10 years since Brexit. The biggest debate in Scotland, Wales and N Ireland is whether or not to remain in the British union. It's not just the Tory-Labour hegemony that's passing. It's the c19th/20th structure of what the United Kingdom is and what it stands for.

How the Falkland Islanda came to be British, and the full story of the militarily astonishing achievement of a decisive sea-air-land war (Op Corporate) fought 9,000 miles from Britain, April-June 1982. All in 'Anatomy Of A Nation', now a steal on Amazon!

Join me with Iain Dale on LBC radio at 9pm tonight to discuss all things Saint George! Special to England, Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Ukraine, Malta, Ethiopia, Catalonia and Aragon, Moscow, Beirut, etc. Yet now a polarizing figure in the British culture wars.

ChatGPT has invented a new way of saying “I’m spouting ripe tosh”. When challenged it replies “You’re right. My previous answer was too categorical.” What bilge. It was not “too categorical”. It was arrant cobblers.

Trump threatening the pope is nothing new. In 1303 Philip IV of France kidnapped Pope Boniface VIII over an argument. It killed the pope. Philip then put the pope on posthumous trial for heresy, blasphemy and immorality. Y'all going to need some popcorn for this one.

Klaxon! 🚨 There is a petition 📃 to rescue Gentleman's Relish. There simply cannot be anything more important today calling for two minutes of your precious time! 🍞☕🐠 Please do sign and share! www.change.org/p/reverse-th...

Medieval crusaders believed they had a divine mandate for governing, democide, erasure and kleptocracy. But holding power proved impossible. As the same themes dominate again across the Middle East history is more helpful than dogma.

As the democratically elected leader of the US threatene civilizationcide, the media who put him there don't offer judgement. Nor do world leaders looking after their own skins. Historians of democracy will have a real job to unpack how the world broke so profoundly so quickly.