The idea that Charlie Kirk was some kind of free speech crusader is fundamentally at odds with the fact that what he really he wanted to publicly air his innermost prejudices and darkest desires without accountability. This isn’t (and was never) free speech www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#silksong This is me still in Act 1. Skill issue? Definitely, but it won’t just be me, and no one can say I didn’t try. Biggest disappointment ever.

Here’s a guitar piece I wrote a few years ago. It’s about change and aspiration azenguitar.bandcamp.com/track/she-ch...

Fuuuuck

Stop the killing. Anywhere it’s happening, stop the fucking killing.

Before we all lose our shit about 3I/Atlas’ ‘insane’ speed and potential as a hostile alien craft, it’s worth remembering it would take 20,000 years to have travelled from the nearest exoplanet at 140,000 mph. A useful dead cat story for the Epstein / Trump situation though.

“Every note in a piece of music is a link to what's coming next. We can colour it in ways that make it interesting and expressive. But we have to express it and be able to think, how will it continue?” Lessons for life as well as piano, courtesy of Edna Golandsky. The Taubman technique rocks

Apparently Nigel Farage hates this caricature. So, obviously no one should share it at all…

I love the moon. Spooky bitch

I’m consistently impressed with the fortitude of dogs. I’ve been interrogating this one for hours and he still won’t tell me who’s a good boy…

Happy “Oswald Mosley Getting Knocked on His Arse by Anti-Fascist Protesters” Day Assuming you celebrate it, of course…

In a spirit of optimism, rather than describing global temperatures as the hottest in the past hundred years, we say that they’re the coolest in the coming hundred years…

My other socials reminded me of the work of Joel Nakamura today…you’re welcome

Anyone ever think that the incontrovertible meaning of life is just to be sat where you are, feeling whatever you’re feeling at that moment?

Slowly getting there with ‘Both Sides Now’.

This bit is HARD

The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from off the goose The law demands that we atone When we take things we do not own But leaves the lords and ladies fine To take things that are yours and mine c.1750

Netanyahu is an indicted war criminal. Just in case anyone had forgotten.

…and even though the monkeys had tech that could cure disease and travel to the stars, they still sat on top of massive piles of bananas, distributing more bananas to the monkeys that already HAD all the bananas. The monkeys that had no bananas were too distracted by other poor monkeys to notice…

Nigel Farage has received over a hundred grand’s worth of gifts since the election. Filthy lucre, Nige. Filthy.

Let’s be clear about language here. Criticising Israeli foreign policy is not anti-Semitic. Similarly, using a correct definition of ‘Semitic’, the current Israeli government is the most anti-Semitic agency on the planet right now.

But I got a distinction for grade 2…

Grade 3 is HARD

Are Palestine Action terrorists or vandals? Genuinely interested…

So now Russia AND Israel have their fingerprints on American foreign policy. One question for Donald - who’s actually in charge? Asking for 7 billion worried people.

This is a piece I wrote called ‘L for Lullaby’. About the baby that never was…

A gander neutral wedding. Note, the contents of someone’s underwear is none of your fucking business, and if observing someone’s pronouns is an inconvenience, then you’re ill-suited to modern life.

Far be it from me to comment on American politics, but #nokings seems to ignore a lot of kings

I’ve never been convinced about the likelihood that AI will take over the world. Far more likely is it’s already weaponised by the people in control and is just another conduit for propaganda and behaviour change. Still optimistic about its potential, but I’ll always follow the money trail first

Anyone else noticed the spelling mistakes creeping into modern journalism?

RIP Brian Wilson, but Jesus - his psychiatric regimen sounds like a lifetime of therapists making it up as they went along…

I was a guitar player long before I was a pianist…

Fuck Team Cherry. The most sustained diss of any fan base in the history of gaming. I’m not going to buy Silksong on principle now. (not really)

The narrative about Reform being doomed if it can’t keep ‘talent’ in the party ignores the fact you could put a Reform rosette on a lime flavoured wine gum, and people would vote for it. Farage IS the idiot’s choice. Policy? Economics? Diplomacy? They don’t care…

If you know, you know…

I’m now officially qualified as a Buteyko instructor. If this interests you, hit me up

Until Farage costs his fairytale policies, he should be roundly ignored.

I should update this with an older version of Farage, but I can’t be bothered with the cunt

I’d love to be a fly on the wall in Farage’s brain. To hear the inner narrative, the spite, the connivances, the disdain for his audience, the feeling of victory when another six figure bank transfer drops. All he has to do is parrot what he’s told. Climate denial, racism, bile, division…

Musing on meaning today. In a universe of 6 septillion planets or more, why is anything important? Answer: uniqueness. No matter how similar I am to someone (twin, parent, partner), no-one has lived my life, had my experiences or felt my feelings. I am utterly singular. So are you.

And now, the actual sunset…

Nearing sunset in Cornwall

Here’s an idea. Let’s normalise pathological anger when world leaders engineer market crashes for personal gain. Liz Truss and Trump should be fucking tarred and feathered.

You’ve heard of a camel toe, I’m sure?

Apparently, Greece is cutting exports of taramasalata and hummus to the US in response to tariffs from the Trump administration. These are the first signs of a double dip recession...

Five years ago today. This was how I did story time for my son during Covid. His mum was high risk, so this is as close as I could get…

Controversially, ‘Adolescence’ was hideously overrated. Not because the themes weren’t important, but because they weren’t what the show sought to explore…

This is a modification of an old meme, but it works: Trump is governing like a pigeon playing chess. He’s knocking all the pieces over, shitting on the board and without a single clue as to what’s going on. Inexplicably, he’s still strutting around pumping his neck like he’s winning the game…