Sean Bw Parker
@seanbwparker5000.bsky.social
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Artist-writer-musician Saatchi Art site:
https://www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbwparker
My âmusic paintingsâ from the last couple of years - with handy track links Featuring @nickcave, @rickygervais, @kristinhersh, @LozzaFox, @KenStringfellow, @Glinner, @DominicFrisby, @thestoneroses, @Damonalbarn and more
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Music Paintings
November 2025
https://open.substack.com/pub/seanbwparker/p/music-paintings?r=1md0lo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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"An observation of the day was that the ÂŁ500K fine levied at Sussex Uni appeared to have mysteriously focussed the minds of some other universities. As Spinal Tap once said so eloquently: âMoney talks and bullshit walksâ" Me on the AFAF conference 2025
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âWe Need To Burn The Whole Thing Down And Start Againâ
Sean Parker's personal view of the AFAF Conference 2025
https://www.afaf.org.uk/we-need-to-burn-the-whole-thing-down-and-start-again/
1 day ago
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'Goyaâs macabre still life starkly contrasts with Thiebaudâs pristine depictions of meat. A comparison of how the two artists approached the genre reveals how bloody revolutionary Europe has been polished over time' Ella Nixon at the The Courtauld
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Baloney with Substance: Wayne Thiebaud at The Courtauld
The still life genre recast under blue Californian shadows
https://open.substack.com/pub/ellanixon/p/baloney-with-substance-wayne-thiebaud?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
1 day ago
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Delighted to report after a few weeks of listening that The Last Dinner Party's second album From The Pyre is just as good as their classic debut Prelude To Ecstasy Both utterly compelling, all the way through
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2 days ago
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'I have long been a writer who spends a good deal of time sprawled typing away on a chaise longue, with frequent outings to places of libation and mastication; apart from the fact that I canât walk, not much has changed since a year ago' Julie Burchill
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HALFLING: A FAREWELL TO LEGS - Part 20
The twentieth instalment about my collapse, surgery and subsequent life in a wheelchair, and the attitude of society towards the disabled - not quite humans, but 'Halflingsâ.
https://open.substack.com/pub/julieburchill/p/halfling-a-farewell-to-legs-part-01a?r=1md0lo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
2 days ago
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'I haven't travelled on a train or walked in a straight line for 40 years' Jeremy Bamber on Heidi Blake's New Yorker podcast Jeremy is the only prisoner serving a whole life order in the UK to consistently maintain their innocence
3 days ago
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Delighted that my Nick Cave - Wild God has won a Creative Excellence Award in Circle Arts' Paris Contest Prints proving popular since Nick himself shared it on his Red Hand Files website recently. Get your own here (various sizes and materials):
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5 days ago
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'The exhibitionâs vitality, in other words, wasnât only aesthetic but civic - proof that a culture can still generate form without institutional sanction' Power & Intimacy in Pimlico Journal - by Lana Starkey
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London's new vitalism
REVIEW: Power & Intimacy
https://www.pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/londons-new-vitalism?r=1md0lo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
6 days ago
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Lovely art summary here from London's ArtFlow Studio Thank you ArtFlow!
www.artflowstudiofficial.com/seanbwparker
11 days ago
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Beethoven's 7th Symphony, 2nd movement (Speaking Unto Nations) Listen along here:
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Prints available here:
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#beethoven
11 days ago
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My painting Mars: The Bringer of War has been on quite a journey this year, and is now included in The Palimsest of Memory exhibition (alongside my favourite living artist, Don Bergland...wow) Thank you Culturally Arts! Explore here:
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12 days ago
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'The filmâs themes of parental absence and emotional substitution resonate uncannily with social shifts of the 1980s - no-fault divorce, career-driven parenting, and even the idea of surrogacy' Labyrinth as social commentary - who'd have thought it?
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Prominent Antagonists: Jareth the Goblin King ("Labyrinth")
The Goblin King, Glam Rock, and the Art of Temptation
https://open.substack.com/pub/isaacbashevissyndrome/p/prominent-antagonists-jareth-the?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
12 days ago
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My new painting Richard E. Grant and Helena Bonham Carter at Christmas will be in the Chinwe Russell Christmas Auction from November 16th to December 7th - Lot 0377 Register and get ready to bid here:
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Richard E. Grant & Helena Bonham Carter At Christmas Sean Bw Parker Oil Pastel And Mixed Media On Auction
SHIPS FROM Worthing, UK Portrait impression of actors Richard E Grant & Helena Bonham Carter at Christmas, at a piano. Sean Bw Parker (MA) is a British {ellipsis}
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/219559057_richard-e-grant-and-helena-bonham-carter-at-christmas-sean-bw-parker-oil-pastel-and-mixed-media-on-doncaster-dn2-south-yorkshire
13 days ago
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'Scottish judges have violated the rights of rape suspects, the UK Supreme Court decided yesterday The courts of Scotland are now under a duty to modify their current approach to the admissibility of evidence in sexual offences cases' Joshua Rozenberg
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Suspects have rights too
Scottish judges told they have been handling rape trials wrongly
https://open.substack.com/pub/rozenberg/p/suspects-have-rights-too?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
13 days ago
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'It is particularly horrible to see that even in a discussion specifically focused on menâs pain and alienation, womenâs demands and presumed needs remain central' Janice Fiamengo is unconvinced by Tucker Carlson and Chris Williamson feminism chat
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Women Are Wonderful, Men Can Be Useful
Tucker Carlson and Chris Williamson nibble on, but donât swallow, a red pill
https://open.substack.com/pub/fiamengofile/p/women-are-wonderful-men-can-be-useful?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
14 days ago
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'Not unreasonably, Trump is demanding a retraction and apology. He is not likely to be satisfied with what Samir Shah told the Commons culture, media and sport committee yesterday about the Panorama programme' Will Trump sue? - by Joshua Rozenberg
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15 days ago
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'Is the growing divide around the sexes now an issue to take seriously â perhaps in ways that class or racial divides might once have been addressed in the past?' Living Freedom
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Don't let the fight for freedom go into hibernation! Forthcoming Living Freedom events
Living Freedom is discussing the gender divide that has emerged in politics â and having a Christmas party with a serious-but-fun balloon debate. PLUS: other freedom events over the coming weeks.
https://open.substack.com/pub/clairefox/p/dont-let-the-fight-for-freedom-go?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
16 days ago
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Received this lovely card on behalf of Ashley Cumberpatch this week (in prison maintaining innocence) Sometimes we receive our reward in heaven, sometimes it comes through the letterbox! Read about Ashley's case here:
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17 days ago
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'Feelings of deprivation lead marginalised minority members to perceive the political system as rigged, stimulating belief in both identityârelevant and irrelevant conspiracy theories' Fascinating history of media-fuelled sex panics, by Jay Beecher
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THE 'EPSTEIN CLIENT LIST' - AN ORIGIN STORY
The birth of the 'Epstein client list' myth is far more complex than you may think, conceived from conspiracy theories with age-old roots. Let's take a VERY deep dive...
https://open.substack.com/pub/jaybeecher/p/the-epstein-client-list-an-origin?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
17 days ago
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Various printed miscellanea of my 'artist paintings' - specifically Nick Cave, Ricky Gervais, The Famous Artist Birdy Rose and Ozzy Osbourne (for now) - available at @redbubble From very cheap to prohibitively expensive
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seanbwparker Shop | Redbubble
seanbwparker is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.
https://www.redbubble.com/people/seanbwparker/shop?asc=u
18 days ago
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When ETI met APMI Dr Michael Naughton of Empowering The Innocent spoke to Danny Barrs of the Association of Prisoners Maintaining Innocence about Danny's wrongful conviction and wider justice reform Including notes for James Timpson, Deborah Meaden and more
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Dr Michael Naughton in conversation with Danny Barrs, Chair, Assn Prisoners Maintaining Innocence.
YouTube video by Empowering the Innocent TV (ETI TV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2snn_VPtA0
18 days ago
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The Famous Artist Birdy Rose (2025) Prints available here:
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19 days ago
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"Scottish children are being educated about their âwhitenessâ and âwhite privilegeâ, or alternatively, their victimhood" Why Scottish education matters â even if you don't live in Scotland 15/11/25
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Why Scottish education matters â even if you don't live in Scotland
Labour's new curriculum review has left many of us worried it will lead to dumbing down in England and Wales. Here, Stuart Waiton explains why we have much to learn from the disasters in Scotland.
https://open.substack.com/pub/clairefox/p/why-scottish-education-matters-even?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
20 days ago
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Removing counter-intuitive and punitive licence conditions for those consistently maintaining innocence would save HMPPS many thousands of pounds - and be the right thing to do Fighting crime needs funding - Joshua Rozenberg
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Fighting crime needs funding
Peers say probation needs more money while police predict more crime
https://open.substack.com/pub/rozenberg/p/fighting-crime-needs-funding?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
20 days ago
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'Not only do I have a rock solid alibi now, but proof that Essex police covered up Milbankâs evidence by faking a witness statement to mislead the courts' Jeremy Bamber via Simon Hattenstone in
@theguardian.com
But will the CCRC refer Bamber's case?
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The Jeremy Bamber twist: does Britainâs most notorious murderer finally have an alibi?
This week, audio footage was released by the New Yorker magazine, which seemed to exonerate Bamber, who has been in prison for 40 years. Could this lead to his release?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/02/the-jeremy-bamber-twist-does-britains-most-notorious-murderer-finally-have-an-alibi?CMP=share_btn_url
21 days ago
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reposted by
Sean Bw Parker
Richard E. Grant and Helena Bonham Carter at Christmas (2025) Prints available here:
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@curtisbrownltd.bsky.social
#Christmas2025
25 days ago
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'This internal threat is hostile to the key tenets, principles and foundations that sustain us as well as our communities - havens in a heartless world - our families, our freedom' Bruno Waterfield and Claire Fox on Orwell and Patriotic Renewal
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22 days ago
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'Iâve been back to the Brighton hospital twice (a suicide attempt and a pressure sore) and Iâm back in the Haywardâs Heath hospital this week for a battalion of tests on my failing kidneys' Sending love and good vibes to Julie Burchill
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HALFLING: A FAREWELL TO LEGS - Part 16
The latest in the series about my collapse, surgery and subsequent life in a wheelchair, and the attitude of society towards the disabled - not quite humans, but 'Halflingsâ.
https://open.substack.com/pub/julieburchill/p/halfling-a-farewell-to-legs-part-4dc?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
23 days ago
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Thanks for the SOCIETY - portraits shout-out
#LitUpEvents
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24 days ago
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Richard E. Grant and Helena Bonham Carter at Christmas (2025) Prints available here:
www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/print/...
@curtisbrownltd.bsky.social
#Christmas2025
25 days ago
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'In one artwork, they adopt the persona of âWhite Bastardsâ, which, in fact, boosts their street cred to a gangster level, as suggested in the iconography they borrow from films' Gilbert & George at the Hayward Gallery - by Ella Nixon
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25 days ago
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'What we have is a shift in feeling but not in meaning Altering this situation requires a willingness to engage in a cultural revolution against the holders of cultural power' Frank Furedi on the 'vibe shift'
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25 days ago
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Since Nick Cave shared my recent portrait of him as the cover for the recent missive of his Red Hand Files, prints for it have been flying out (relatively for little old me anyway). Available in various sizes here:
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And
#HappyHalloween
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26 days ago
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'An increasingly wide range of distressing life experiences now have the potential to be categorised as traumas' - Lucy Foulkes Awareness raising of MH creates more difficulties than solutions - Joanna Williams on new Foulkes book
@lucyfoulkes.bsky.social
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Why are so many people convinced they have a mental health problem?
Awareness raising creates more difficulties than solutions
https://open.substack.com/pub/cieo/p/why-are-so-many-people-convinced?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
26 days ago
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'Probably because of her downmarket Sybil Fawlty persona, many do not realise what a grand dame she actually was in real life. Quite the woman of the theatre' Dominic Frisby memoriam of Prunella Scales - plus an ultra-rare sitcom
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Remembering the Prunella Scales You Didn't Know (And the Sitcom You've Never Seen)
A personal remembrance, plus a rediscovered episode of Lucky Feller starring Scales and David Jason
https://www.frisbys.news/p/remembering-the-prunella-scales-you?r=1md0lo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
28 days ago
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I recently guested on Read My Lips - The Creativity Show on Radio Red, alongside US novelists Peter J Stavros and John Bukowski 'The Nature of Creativity'
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29 days ago
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Me: A painting I just finished of you. Do you like it? Nick Cave: Yes Well that's my 2025 sorted. October's Nick Cave's Red Hand Files, where Nick directly answers questions from 'fans' (even if it's often 'go f*ck yourself')
@nickcaveart.bsky.social
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75 QUESTIONS No. 5 Iâm disappointed (with 50 Questions No. 4) that you only answered once with âgo fuck yourself.â Whatâs up with that? Were the 50 questions rigged? Itâs suspicious to say the least....
Go fuck yourself You can tell me to go fuck myself all day, but both the Elvis movie and the song Tupelo still suck. ANON, ANON, ANON Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself Go fuck yours...
https://www.theredhandfiles.com/75-questions-no-5-im-disappointed-with-50-questions-no-4-that-you-only-answered-once-with-go-fuck-yourself-whats-up-with-that-were-the-50-questions-rigged-i/
29 days ago
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Artists: @Freedom_in_Arts survey Have you faced pressure, censorship, or fear when sharing your work? We want to understand whatâs really happening - the everyday realities of artistic life in 2025 All responses are confidential and anonymous
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29 days ago
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'The album, upon reflection, almost moves beyond âconfessionâ and into testimony. A friend pointed out rightly that the lyrics feel closer to prose than poetry' The Line of Best Fit on Lily Allen's divorce album West End Girl
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The Monday Meeting
How we digest West End Girl and confessional pop
https://open.substack.com/pub/bestfitmusic/p/the-monday-meeting-27-10-25?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
29 days ago
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My portrait of Janice Fiamengo was shown at The Secret Salon in Hackney recently - where I discovered the work of Adarsha Ajay She has very much a new fan
30 days ago
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I'll be on a panel on Radio Red's The Creativity Show on Monday 27th October, 5pm EST (9pm UK) - talking about The Nature of Creativity, no less Join us here:
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BonnieDGrahamRadio akaRadioRed
Welcome! Bonnie D. akaRadioRed has created, produced and hosted more than 55 radio series since 2011 for global enterprises, trade organizations, tech entrepreneurs, creative humans and for herself an...
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about 1 month ago
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'The field that frightens me most is the law. All of us depend on a functioning legal system, and the rule of law will not survive the legal profession becoming majority female' Helen Andrews in
@compactmagazin.bsky.social
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The Great Feminization
In 2019, I read an article about Larry Summers and Harvard that changed the way I look at the world.
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-great-feminization/
about 1 month ago
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My poem A Baptismal Feast has been included in the Vexatious Verse issue of 4LPH4NUM3R1C by Zoetic Press - narrated and written My debut poetry collection Panopticon is published on December 12th by Close To The Bone Thank you
@zoeticpress.bsky.social
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AN 06 Vexatious Verse â Zoetic Press
https://www.zoeticpress.com/an-06-vexatious-verse
about 1 month ago
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'The judge said those responsible for âshooting in the back unarmed civilians fleeing from them in the streets of a British cityâ should âhang their heads in shameâ' But no conviction in Bloody Sunday trial Was justice done? - by Joshua Rozenberg
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Was justice done?
Two men were murdered but nobody has been convicted
https://open.substack.com/pub/rozenberg/p/was-justice-done?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 1 month ago
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Do you remember one of the BRITs' finest years, 1991, when The Cure, Happy Mondays et al played, and it all seemed very relevant? Produced by Jonathan King, 'a highpoint' he says. Right is my portrait of JK in the recent Faux issue of Meat For Tea, available here:
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about 1 month ago
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"Shouldnât writers be remembered for the âbeauty of their writing, the brilliance of their storytelling, and the power of their ideas?â" The Battle Book Club by Emma Gilland - referencing John Boyne and Oldspeak Books
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The Battle Book Club: what a way to kick it off!
Our literature discussions at the Battle of Ideas festival will continue online as we discuss John Boyne's Water on Wednesday 12 November.
https://open.substack.com/pub/clairefox/p/the-battle-book-club-what-a-way-to?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 1 month ago
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"The Law Commission proposed that the RPT be replaced with a âpotential miscarriage of justice testâ, but this would need a change in the law. Was there sufficient political will in the room to make this happen?" My report in Inside Time
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Frustrations with CCRC aired at Westminster meeting
Since 2023, Drs Lucy Welsh and Amy Clarke at the universities of Sussex and Brighton respectively have been compiling their report into applicantsâ experiences of the Criminal Cases Review CommissiâŠ
https://insidetime.org/newsround/frustrations-with-ccrc-aired-at-westminster-meeting/
about 1 month ago
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My long time filmmaker pal Karl Ertunc has made a multi-part documentary on The Rolling Stones. He's a lifelong fan - and it shows Subscribe to Indiestanbul and have a watch/listen of Part One, below
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The Story of the Rolling Stones - Part 1: 1962-1964
YouTube video by Karl Ertunc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2mokCIdDaQ
about 1 month ago
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'I spoke on a panel at the Battle of Ideas titled âWhat does post-woke art look like?â I took issue with the title and criticised reactionaries on both sides' - Ella Nixon It's that journalese 'look like' expression that irritates me
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Viewing Pains
The vulnerable act of artwork encounter in the company of others
https://open.substack.com/pub/ellanixon/p/viewing-pains?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 1 month ago
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"The new evidence in this is showing that half of all of the figures relied upon in Robin's trial have now been shown to be invalid" - Dr Michael Naughton BBC's Mark Denten on Postmaster Robin Garbutt's alleged wrongful conviction
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Horizon sub-postmasters call for retrial in Post Office murder case
They are backing calls for the case of a sub-postmaster convicted of killing his wife to be re-examined.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2d77wrgd6o
about 1 month ago
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