Very proud to review Peter Oborne's book, 'Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza' for @bylinetimes.bsky.social. A forensic indictment of Britain’s political and media establishment. History will judge them. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/complicit-...

RIP Béla Tarr, one of the great, great directors This scene, from Sátántangó (1984), is just one of his many great treasures. I knew he was never to make another film but what a loss.

RIP to Béla Tarr, an artist who made beautiful (often haunting) films on his own terms and took no prisoners when talking about them. Truly one of the best to ever do it. Full interview: www.filmcomment.com/blog/intervi...

If Nicolás Maduro stands trial in the United States and gets convicted of 34 felonies, does that mean he’s qualified to be our next president now? Just checking what the standards are these days.

"Prompt Thieves in the Al Art Community"

This is extraordinary, heartbreaking, and a red alert warning sign for our democracy. These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6. They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".

I don’t think we as a society have thanked @papapishu.bsky.social for obtaining, ripping, and uploading a master copy of the essential Ricky Jay And His 52 Assistants, Jay’s 1997 HBO special and the best distillation of his one of a kind talent archive.org/details/rick...

'Gabriel Josipovici is one of the leading writers and critics of his generation. He has been astonishingly prolific.' From 'Gabriel Josipovici at Eighty-Five' by David Herman, published in PN Review 286, our latest edition.⭐ Read for free here: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/gabr...

Is the tide turning? New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Renewed talk of a customs union may well come to nothing, but rapidly changing geo-politics mean the UK needs urgently to face up to the failure of the entire Brexit ‘strategy’: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-t...

I talk about this a bit more here: thepartyanimal.substack.com/p/is-labours...

When stubbornness becomes wilful stupidity.

Please support CB Editions. It's a serious, pioneering Press run by one unconventional guy. Offer a book, or a hint, to a friend, if possible. List of their books here: cbeditions.com/books.html You can read excerpts from each book too...

As mentioned in "The Ways of Paradise" by Peter Cornell, first published in the UK last year by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social A book which deserved more attention than it has so far recieved.

this shit is just beyond parody, man

'Train Dreams' is afraid of its own shadow: defector.com/train-dreams...

"Gabriel Josipovici at Eighty-Five" www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/gabr...

Moment Israeli forces shoot dead surrendered Palestinians – video report

Brexit reminders. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Brexit may not be in the headlines, but many current news stories carry reminders of it, including the Hallett Inquiry report, the Gill scandal, the Budget & the latest net migration figures: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/brex...

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Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says

A lovely (and funny) anecdote out of Ronald Johnson’s 1976 Vort interview, conducted by Barry Alpert (reprinted in _Ronald Johnson: Life and Works_ (National Poetry Foundation, 2008)). I would love to read a collection of the letters exchanged between Ian Hamilton Finlay and Johnson.

New on the podcast: Ed Atkins discusses his first work of non-fiction FLOWER with Holly Pester Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: lrb.me/78d442 @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

🔴Morgan McSweeney, 'The Fraud' and The Takeover of the Labour Party Investigative journalist Paul Holden joins @ollyhaynes.bsky.social to talk about his new book, 'The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and the Crisis of British Democracy' www.bylinesupplement.com/p/morgan-mcs...

‘Palestinians are told to wait for the next stage of the plan, while Israel’s gains become the baseline for the next round of negotiations. And the waiting never ends. Each phase is temporary, but every loss is permanent.’ Zinaida Miller on Gaza’s ‘Yellow Line’. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

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New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk A chart mega-thread follows 🧵

This is a vital essay by @johnspringford.bsky.social & @acjsissons.bsky.social - diagnosing the British malaise and providing a set of clear policy solutions. You will be much better informed for having read it getting-out-of-the-hole.uk

Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example: It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally) It shows no understanding of why there is AS www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

Morally awful, administratively impossible & expensive.. and politically, the reverse of Starmer's panicked conference speech. A govt completely at sea, terrified & incoherent, throwing basic principles overboard in desperation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

@muhammadshehada.bsky.social chronicles the history of the decades-long siege on the people of Gaza.

Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.

"What draws readers to Guyotat and the other writers of the transgressive tradition is that they are candid about violence. Violence may not be the totality of life, but it is closer to the core of it than spurious humanisms would have us believe." Ryan Ruby on Pierre Guyotat in @thebaffler.com

No paywall. Nice bit of Hamlet and Pog. open.substack.com/pub/nedboult...

Immigration, indecency, and incompetence. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. The ever-more indecent terms of the immigration 'debate' are another failure of Brexit, which links to the ever-more obvious incompetence of Reform in local government: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/immi...

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

In memory: Ian Hamilton Finlay, b. October 28, 1925

Sixteen detached blog posts on Ian Hamilton Finlay some-landscapes.blogspot.com/search/label...

Was especially excited to write a bit about the sleeper hit of this year's festival: Lucrecia Martel's Nuestra Tierra

Generative AI has made Amazon’s knockoff problem more inescapable than ever. Authors tell Rolling Stone it’s leaving them frustrated— and the internet worse in the process.

'Vote Reform to die horribly in a sovereign Britain increasingly cut off from the world'. Old people need to start understanding that Farage's immigration approach would directly impact the health service upon which they rely.

This is how you blurb

Israel still fires on Lebanon almost a year after a ceasefire. Some predict the same for Gaza My look at the Lebanon "lessfire" model, with interactive map courtesy of the @apnews.com graphics team apnews.com/article/leba...

Claudio Abbado, Luigi Nono and Maurizio Pollini, ca. 1970s.

I've never seen a word-to-insanity ratio like this before

This is a complete abdication of journalistic responsibility. A president posting something this insane and disgusting should be front and center in the news.

The most utterly crass, classless, tasteless, tacky, toxic, trashy, low grade, low rate, vulgar, vile, vain, vomit inducing, nauseating, nasty, noxious, bilious, boorish, brutish, creepy, corrupt, gross, greedy, sleazy and selfish human being - and he’s the President? C’mon America, seriously?