I bought Monstering the Rocketman (which is brilliant) & It Walks Around the House At Night (which is also brilliant).
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I bought Monstering the Rocketman (which is brilliant) & It Walks Around the House At Night (which is also brilliant).
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social
review of The Swansong, Eve Nicol & Finn Andersonβs new lunchtime musical about a broken hearted woman who goes on a bender with a swan
www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
Oran Mor Glasgow until March 14:
Traverse Edinburgh March 17-21;
Ayr Gaiety March 26-28
One day to go
MAKING SENSE OF OUR TIMES
POWER, PEOPLE & DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
Mike Galsworthy, in conversation with:
Alexandra Hall Hall, Former UK diplomat, Washington DC
Anouska de Georgiou, Epstein survivor
Ben Meiselas, Meidas Touch Network
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Documentarian Louis Theroux talked to @davidgilbert.bsky.social about his new Netflix manosphere doc and what a grift the whole thing is. I found this exchangeβabout why being a good person is bad for businessβilluminating, if not surprising: www.wired.com/story/louis-...
I'm on the side of the snow crab.
TONIGHT! Join Jack Holden (Kenrex, Cruise) for The Show People Podcast: LIVE
Weds 11 March 2026 | Two Brewers, Clapham
We'll explore Jack's life, career and the lesson's he's learned.
Only 100 tickets. All profits support LGBTQIA+ projects.
#theatre #actor #lgtb #writer #kenrex
Fair play, 'the mad emperor started compulsively buying shoes for his court, guessing their foot size & his courtiers were too scared not to wear them even when they didn't fit' is some classic, on the nose End Days Of The Empire stuff
They dominate the union so they'd be losing some authority rather than gaining independence - which is harder to get people enthusiastic about.
Stephen Miller is worse than I thought - it's also very sad for his family.
To launch the reissue of 'The Greenwood Faun' via Snuggly books, I was asked to write about 3 things that had influenced my writing for the splendid Wyrd Britain website....Arthur Machen, M.R James & the Rolling Stones song 'Child of The Moon'. Let the Faun begin.
#OnThisDay 10 March 1963 #CoronationStreet
SIX STEPS TO ENA
"My name is Violet Carson. I'm as old as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth. I have arrived at the studio and I'm smiling. . . Here we go, then. On with the hairnet. Ena just wouldn't be the same without it."
Reporter seeking freedom of speech in the US arrested for exercising freedom of speech in the US
Reminded of buying a second hand copy of the 2003 Donald Barthelme's *Sixty Stories* in Penguin Classics and finding this. Guess which website no longer exists?
quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend
www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...
He's not smart enough for right-wing grifting. It's the same with Lawrence Fox who keeps thinking he's hoisting his enemies with their own petard & then wonders why he's the one who got blasted.
No principles, no morality, no information, no expertise, just endlessly appeasing Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and assorted billionaires and foreign oligarchs or chasing the next headline, until suddenly colliding with reality. Bang, oof.
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
If you'd told me maybe three years ago that a UK news channel would be platforming someone to set out openly racist, far right, violent conspiracy theories, I'm not sure I'd have believed you. And yet here we are.
"Drukpa Kunley" on X claims he was the one that made "Pakistani rape gangs targeting white girls" a mainstream issue. I'd like to know who he is.
"A beautiful old phrase from northern England"
Meet the brightest rising stars ahead of the Glasgow International Comedy Festivalπ
NEW | THE DARK HISTORY OF THE TELEGRAPHβS NEW OWNER
Analysis in the British press focuses on Axel Springer's attitude to Brexit but a closer look suggests its worldview is just Right for the Telegraph's existing editorial approach
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-dark-h...
We're always firefighting open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...
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Politicians should close their accounts.
X is - without exaggeration - a racist far right app & you can't - & shouldn't - appease these views.
"Itβs become increasingly, painfully clear: They didnβt think there was going to be a *war*." Trump's confident blunder is now our problem.
Today's Morning Shots from @eggerdc.bsky.social and Ben Parker: lnk.thebulwark.com/4lfT5Ru
My book on the history of British South Asian political activism is out this September!
Available to pre-order now from all good bookshops and online.
Listening to a podcast where someone is claiming to have been cancelled for a reasonable tweet but the last time I looked her Twitter/X timeline was a riot of far right talking points.
Nice people fall down these rabbit holes & I don't think they should be shunned but it needs honest discussion.
Bold red text announces one week left to complete the first-in-a-decade Panto Survey shaping the future of panto, with a link in bio prompt.
π₯ Last chance to take our panto survey.
If youβve worked in pantomime in the last 12 months as a performer, stage manager or in the creative team β whether you're an Equity member or not β we want to hear from you. .
The Blue Lagoon is gone!!!
So many people have staggered into that chippie drunk before staggering on to a train.
It absolutely stinks & a farmer near us got fined for not ploughing it into the Earth properly.