‘The scores for both 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘢𝘯 and 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘰 are the work of a composer who recognises that his task is to seek out the essence of the material on screen and to express that rather than himself.’ @jonathancoe.bsky.social on Hitchcock’s composer Bernard Herrmann. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jonathan Coe · Where was the drum kit? Hitchcock’s Music
The music Bernard Herrmann wrote for The Wrong Man is diffident, sometimes almost unnoticeable. His score for Hitchcock...
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My pleasure to inform you that The National Theatre of Brent's "All The World's A Globe" is being repeated at the moment. Episodes 1-4 up to listen again. Everything that ever happened of any importance, recounted by Desmond Olivier Dingle and Wallace, with help from Mr Barker.
BBC Radio 4 Extra - All the World's a Globe, 1. The Creation
The chaotic and noisy story of life on Earth from the National Theatre of Brent .
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I was holding it together - just about - until Sweep asked "where's John Peel?"
Richard Brooks@thebrookso.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is amazing. youtu.be/qT_TO_GWgj0?...
Who could ever have imagined that Nigel Farage had Russian connections?
Jane@localnotail.bsky.social · 10mo ago2014 "The UKIP leader (Nigel Farage) has appeared so frequently that he is cited in literature for the TV station Russia Today as one of their special and "endlessly quotable" British guests. "He has been known far longer to the RT audience than most of the British electorate," Russia Today claims."
IT'S TODAY!! Tune into BBC Radio 4 at 9am to kick off the new series. We're getting inventive in ancient Alexandria, with professors Islam Issa and @adamrutherford.bsky.social ⚗️🥽 I'm so happy to finally share these episodes with you 🥰 🎧 Listen back on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
It's not going to become 'the norm' though, is it? That's what so fucking terrifying about it. It's going to become a lot worse, very quickly.
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last wk.Would you be happy if this summer's weather became the norm? Happy: 38% Neither: 22% Unhappy: 38% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
So, Farage has another hissy fit about ‘the establishment’ not including him in social care talks even though he excluded himself by sticking his snout so deep in the trough he triggered several investigations into his insatiable greed. Pipe down you utter clown. www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...
Reform MPs complain that Farage was not invited to social care reform talks - but his resignation means he is unable to | LBC
The Reform UK leader hit out at Mr Burnham for ignoring his party which 'led over 300 national opinion polls and represents thousands of councillors and millions of Britons across the country'
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Karst.systems is my new platform for instrument-building, launching in private beta today. Go play with now at app.karst.systems ! Standalone app and plugin coming later this year.
People need to step back and understand what they are seeing. After a few months of war, the USA is running out of munitions and options fighting a country with no air force, no navy and a damaged infrastructure. US decline is real and self-inflicted.
This inquiry will be worth following.
David Anderson@bricksilk.bsky.social · last wk.The House of Lords Constitution Committee is starting a wide-ranging inquiry into strengthening our constitutional safeguards - as proposed by (Lord) Peter Hennessy. Look East, look West, and see the urgency. Written evidence requested by 28th of September. committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...
Long overdue for The Spectator's Islamophobia to come under the microscope. Excellent piece from Peter Oborne here doing just that. It is now, he writes, just "an upmarket version of GB News" (same owner, of course)
Exposed: The Rabidly Islamophobic Magazine at the Heart of the British Establishment
For almost 200 years, 'The Spectator' stood for civilised, bravely heretical discourse. But a new report reveals how it now spews out anti-Muslim hatred week after week to its upmarket audience
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This is an actual holy grail.
Gary Brannan@garybrannan.bsky.social · last wk.Ach, you know what? Why not. Here’s Alan Bennett’s closing monologue from ‘On the Margin’, missing for nearly 60 years, and found on a Sony CV2000 tape in the Galton and Simpson archive You, dear viewer, are one of the few people ever to have seen this. Enjoy! discover.york.ac.uk/collections/...
don’t get too excited, but most of this week’s newsletter is a LONG READ on a BIG QUESTION: whatever happened to airships…?
Lost futures
This week’s big question: whatever happened to airships? First though, on Starmer, Burnham and the audacity of hope.
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If I was Prime Minister - and thank goodness I'm not, because I've been the length and breadth of Downing Street and never spotted a decent wool shop.
'New Towns Mark One' by the late Elain Harwood, edited by me, is now available for pre-order at £32 via www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10..... It explores the origins of the new towns programme & the 'mark one' towns begun in the 1940s, concluding with Cumbernauld, the first mk 2 town.
New Towns Mark One | Home
Architecture and Planning in Post-War Britain
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Meta glasses ad vandalized in London https://manualdousuario.net/en/they-live-meta-glasses-kylie-jenner/
Meta glasses ad vandalized in London
Everything about this story is wonderful, from the activist group’s name to the surgical vandalism to the not-so-subtle nod to the classic ”They Live”, John Carpenter’s 1988 film…
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Every one of the Argentinians should be assigned his own referee
The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.
As someone who used to teach news media and politics: I *highly* recommend subscribing to @ppfideas.bsky.social to listen to someone work through why asking 'what's new?' about an issue can be a lot less useful than asking 'what's true?'. Or find a subscriber friend and ask to listen.
Past Present Future Podcast@ppfideas.bsky.social · 3w agoBONUS EPISODE OUT NOW! In this PPF+ bonus episode David discusses what’s wrong with the idea of the news. How does news have its origins in gossip, rumour and travellers’ tales? Why does it put a premium on new information over true information? Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
Reform and their supporters now trying to reframe all journalistic scrutiny of them as being dangerous political attacks, bordering on terrorism. A preview of what we could expect from a Reform government
“Using air and sea drones, the Ukrainians have turned the Sea of Azov into a Ukrainian lake. Think about that for a minute.”
Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 4w agoWeekend Update, starts with the notable and strategically important Ukrainian campaign to stop all Russian shipping in the Sea of Azov. This is not receiving the coverage it deserves. Also, Trump did not help Ukraine, he gave Putin time. And Ukraine attack Omsk-wow. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
It’s crackin' flags in Manchester. If you're going to melt, you might as well do it in one of my T-shirts. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/t-shirts
Can’t be denied that Ann Widdecombe leaves a colossal cultural footprint. As in: I now have an earworm of Victoria Wood’s Ann Widdecombe song from All The Trimmings.
Being 'the most attacked politician' isn't the same as being 'the politician most people think is a cunt'.
It's worth stressing that we have rules around political funding to protect our entire democracy. The voters of one constituency might be fine with their MP breaking those rules. But they can't release their MP from them, because a single MP on the take is a danger to the whole system.
Robert Hutton@roberthutton.co.uk · 4w agoCalling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.
A jaw-dropping investigation by the @thetimes.com. George Cottrell, the crypto "banker" propping up Nigel Farage is also the man at the heart of a High Court case involving Brighton's owner Tony Bloom.
Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals
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