if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

"Siri, show me a real life example of the idea of 'the survival of the fittest'."

A text from my mum. The general population appear to be losing their minds

Pretty weird that these Republicans don’t seem to think there will be any voter backlash to stuff like this. Almost like they don’t think they’ll actually face democratic accountability mechanisms.

#Sundayafternoonlistening Works on many levels. Sofa and dance floor. Today: sofa.

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

All of them impeccable. Both albums and Thompson's contributions.

Happy 35th birthday to Cocteau Twins' 'Heaven Or Las Vegas', released #OnThisDay in 1990. A dreampop masterpiece that sounds as magical and wondrous as the album cover looks. #MusicSky #OTD

Happy 43rd Birthday to Simple Minds' 'New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84), released #OnThisDay in 1982. The perfect midpoint between the band's polar opposite bookends, Jim Kerr described New Gold Dream as the band's holy grail, and it shines through on every single listen. #MusicSky #VinylSky #OTD

Fuck yeah #Andor — this Dan Gilroy script just won the #Emmy for Outstanding Writing

youtu.be/MG_npaLydKg?... Great new Gotillaz feat. Sparks

I snorted

UK PEOPLE: If you start watching Threads at 2.12pm, the bomb will go off at the same time as the Emergency Text alert.

The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists

80s/90s style spoken sample based records (Mark Stewart/No Sell Out etc) a thing of the past ? Not any more youtu.be/g1A-aGf-31w?...

He can still be fun. Hear me out, instead of King Charles providing hospitality and the state visit for Trump in September, Andrew should be the one that greets and hosts Trump. That would be fun.

All artists invest a piece of themselves in their work. As long as their work remains, that piece does too.

“The only democracy in the Middle East”, they always tell us. But what kind of democracy murders journalists it doesn’t like? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

The FTSE 100 hit an all-time high today. Not long ago that would have led all the news bulletins as a feel-good story.

Reminiscent of one of the funniest promo pics of all time, when the Manics got their own Sunday night detective show.

I love a) this cover and b) how Suede now look like the cast of a gritty ITV crime procedural. (l-r) Mat - Beleaguered boss Richard - Life-hardened sidekick Brett - Detective who plays by his own rules. Neil - Undercover drugs operative Simon - Forensic pathologist 1/2

It's the fourth anniversary of that time I tweeted the wrong Sisters Of Mercy

The problem with this ‘let’s weaken our commitment to the ECHR so as to fend off Farage’ plan is that when it doesn’t work, we end up with Farage *and* a weakened commitment to the ECHR at exactly the moment we need the ECHR the most.

#totp on catch up. Bloody loved the first 3 Marillion albums. Don't laugh. Rayleigh was a huge hit but its on possibly the proggiest of those early albums. Couldn't get more conceptual if it tried. Which also sold loads andnot just to Genesis fans. Which I still find it hard to get my head round.

#totp on catch up. Axel F always sounds distinctly pedestrian when you think about Harold Faltermeyer's role as Giorgio Moroders right hand man and what they made together. Although given his involvement in some of the best bits of PSB's Behaviour I'm happy to forgive him pretty much anything.

#totp on catch up. Scritti Politti The Word Girl. Perfect record. And a dub version on the b side featuring Ranking Ann that I loved just as much as the a.

Always forget about it but there are some really good tracks on this.

How insane that two of the most perfect pop albums of all time were both released 40 years ago today?!?… To be a teenager in the 80s was god tier.

Other things the public have been brainwashed by the media into believing are bad things: - immigration - welfare and social security - public spending on infrastructure - health and safety - taxes - especially taxes for the wealthy that they’ll never oay

Best merch of the year so far

Unintentionally, the greatest advert for a cinema I’ve ever seen

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Good grief. Tickets bought for gig at Koko for the sum of £38.25. Gig cancelled and rescheduled for date I cannot make. Refund offered. Now transpires that the refund will be £30. Clearly will not be buying tickets for anything there again.

youtu.be/LMa7iqPaKPk?... Still got it. This has always reminded me of FGTH more than anyone else which is obviously no bad thing.

Describe your Dad in four words

And it wasn’t just the Crick… we had huge institutional expertise in the UK as the pandemic washed up on our shores, and it was all buried. Buried beneath no plan, and then a plan that would involve companies with no track record pocketing our past taxes and future taxes.

Kõlnfidence Man

#eurovision www.unicef.org.uk/donate/child...

youtu.be/447LKTYDv4Y?... It's that time again. Hands down, best Eurovision song, don't @ me. Edwyn's cover even better but obviously that wasn't actually in the contest.

A good post day youtu.be/9T2twJHxiRo?...

In the days of lovely Twitter I often put out a call for help with research in writing my books. So here goes, Bluskiers. I'm looking for a social worker (adoption/fostering preferably) and a probation officer who worked between 2008 and 2012, the more senior the better. Please share :)

Friday night. "If your names not down your not coming in" moment at Focus Wales

These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.

All I will say on the matter is that Rotten Boroughs in Private Eye will make compelling reading for the rest of the year.