@danigaravelli
Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
Liza Minnelli is 80 today. This is a very obvious choice but it is right, simply because it is one of the greatest things humans achieved during the otherwise dreary 20th century. Mein Herr from Cabaret. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgjO...
Yes, I saw it. It was excellent
"Doctor, I have trouble sleeping."
"Go and see the great singer Morrissey, you'll be asleep in no time."
"But Doctor..."
His accompanying documentary is on BBC 2 at 9pm tonight.
This book by Stephen McGinty is the definitive, forensic, deliberately unsensational telling of a tragedy that destroyed lives, devastated a town & - thanks to the tireless campaigning of the parents- changed the law/ the country. It feels important that events have been recorded so meticulously.
The older you get the more you realise how little you know ;)
I like this thought; it feels exactly right
He thinks he’s invincible just like his creator did. Imagine the audacity required to take that on at 25/26.
I think what I like most about the David is the way it captures the absolute self-assurance of youth. He’s handsome, he is fit, he is perfectly proportioned and he doesn’t harbour a second’s doubt that he is going to vanquish Goliath.
I mean the SPS and the government both
They just don't seem willing to do the things that might stop this
It's *so* good - perfectly structured, full of latent anger but, as you say, restrained; full of lines I'd cut off my right arm to have written. Brilliant intro, brilliant outro...
Oh WOW! Hermione Lee is publishing a biography of Anita Brookner!! Sound the @backlisted.bsky.social klaxon!! www.penguin.co.uk/discover/art...
Do you like excellence about his ex-excellency? Then this piece of brilliant writing is for you. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Issue 48.05 is now online, featuring:
Andrew O’Hagan on Andrew Windsor
Susan Pedersen on Epstein
Nicholas Spice on Schubert
@shreir.bsky.social on Chantal Akerman
@tomstevenson.bsky.social on the war on Iran
and Joanna Biggs on Solvej Balle.
Read online now at www.lrb.co.uk
The publishing industry's lack of confidence in authors and its own ability to create careers for them is pathetic and, in the end, self-defeating.
Off topic, but this cheered me up
no end - @edwyncollins.bsky.social with a cat in Sefton Park. Perfection.
HAVE MET A VERY TALKATIVE SHEEP CALLED MURIEL. SPENDING MUCH OF MY TIME IN DEEP DISCUSSION ON MATTERS OF THEOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY.
Ha, she's actually an American on the run from Trumpland, but everyone from Tuscany has been very kind to me too (apart from one woman in Florence who shouted at me today in Santa Croce).
Characteristically detailed and humanising report on what's happening to people in Beirut on C4 News this eve. 'Displacement' tends to sound benign but it is brutal and devastating. Heart-breaking.
I don't know this - thank you!
Hope you have warmed up now hopefully with some hot chocolate
They have hung it close to Caravaggio’s Sacrifice of Isaac to show his influence in terms of portraying violence. Like you, I think it’s amazing.
Got caught in a storm, had to walk for half an hour with lightning flashing, got soaked to the skin, arrived back to find a note on my door from my new flatmate. "I hope you're not too wet. I have made a tart. Knock on my door & I'll heat it up for you. We will drink wine." Feel like I'm 19 again.
@reblambert.bsky.social One for you, Rebecca
Fife can be beautiful in the spring!
Think the first one was taken there. The last two were taken from the roof terrace.
Feeling quite smug ;)
