James Bembridge (2026) Writer, humorist, editor and all round London-flaneur Prints and more artworks available here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbw...

Had enough of pretending to enjoy AI slop? My drawing ARIA is included in the new Animal Artspace drawing exhibition, alongside many wonderful pictures of various fauna Virtual stroll (but no AI): www.artsteps.com/view/69ca35e...

10:50am TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social The 1967 #Western film🎥 “THE JACKALS” directed by Robert D. Webb from a screenplay by Harold Medford It’s a remake of the 1948 film🎥 “Yellow Sky” based on a WR Burnett novel📖 🌟 Vincent Price, Diana Ivarson, Robert Gunner, Bob Courtney

For the curious, a selection of live music videos from my time in Istanbul, plus videos by Jennifer Thetford Kay - Counter Visions www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_F6...

Happy Easter X! From me and Christopher Hitchens (currently awaiting a much needed resurrection)

Honoured that my recent painting Josh Tillman and the Accidental Dose, inspired by the Father John Misty song of the same name, is included in The Distance Between Us exhibition at Pixel Aura Explore here (JTATAD is directly on the right): pixelauragallery.com/pages/previo...

'It is exciting to see this new initiative from The Adam Smith Institute: a proposed new rigorously drafted and legally sound Freedom of Speech Bill' Baroness Claire Fox open.substack.com/pub/clairefo...

The Last Meeting of the Tech Bros (2026) Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 100cm x 70cm Prints and more paintings here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbw...

Delighted that my recent painting Gull (2026) is included in the new Cista Arts exhibition After the Rains, on until 30th April View here: www.cistaarts.com/groupexhibit... Exhibition book available here: www.cistaarts.com/product-page...

Dr Michael Naughton of Empowering The Innocent calls for action on CPS policies on 'voluntary intoxication' in this month's Inside Time - with response from Ciara Bergman of Rape Crisis Please share and get in touch if you or anyone you know has been affected: [email protected]

'The fact that Scott Mills spoke to police many years ago means nothing in itself. It should not even be news. We cannot rush to punish people on the basis of an allegation alone' Luke Gittos www.spiked-online.com/2026/03/31/w...

My poetry collection Panopticon has 'migrated' to Hunsbury Press, a better fit strand of Close To The Bone Publishing What on earth am I talking about? Find out here: hunsburypress.com/books/panopt... 'This erudite volume deserves to be widely read' - Joanna Williams

'“’Offender’ is a terrible word for numerous reasons” said @shaddmaruna.bsky.social, highlighting how the term keeps these individuals locked within a psycho-social label from which it is hard to escape' On desistance theory and the arts empowerinnocent.wixsite.com/website/post...

'It is an unsafe prosecution and he should never have been convicted. To me, it is an open-and-shut case' Chief investigator in the Horizon scandal Ron Warmington on the case of Robin Garbutt Report by Jeremy Armstrong www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

New Kristin Hersh track, Sundial Listen: open.spotify.com/track/7Hzk7p... @kristinhersh.bsky.social

'Men never argued for a future that was completely male – to claim a future that is completely female, catering only to women’s wants no matter how unreasonable, is misguided at best, societal suicide at worst' Felicity Stryjak in EmpoweringTheInnocent empowerinnocent.wixsite.com/website/post...

Shared for #WindmillWednesday

'Whether he’s defending the Gospel of Thomas from accusations of heresy due to it being a gnostic wet dream, or whether he’s draping the Cross with the Progress flag, Talarico is Making Jesus Queer Again' Bible studies with Benjamin Morse open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...

Honoured that my painting Malkinson's Iceberg was chosen to accompany Pugilism, this excellent short story by @barrettbowlin.bsky.social, in @mudseasonreview.bsky.social mudseasonreview.com/2026/03/crea...

It's taken me a long, long time to write about my parents' deaths, but I'm incredibly thankful to the good folks at @mudseasonreview.bsky.social for giving "Pugilism" a wonderful home. [accompanying collage c/o the awesome @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social] mudseasonreview.com/2026/03/crea...

Salvington Windmill, West Sussex, inside and out

Delighted that my recent portrait of Mary Shelley is included in the Creativity Continues exhibition at Colonnade House on Warwick St, Worthing until April 4th - surrounded by a host of other weird and wonderful foot-square works Prints available here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/print/...

'The Sunday morning plenary discussion will be hosted by actor, podcaster, hip hop and spoken word artist, Scroobius Pip' Stammering in the Media - at this year's STAMMAFest, 23rd August at Northampton University @stamma.bsky.social

'Oscar Wilde got there first. In his essay The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891), Wilde imagines a future in which technology will have advanced to such an extent that poverty will be eliminated and work will be obsolete' Andrew Doyle - Wilde on AI open.substack.com/pub/andrewdo...

My 2010 album Culture, recorded at a studio on Istanbul's Istiklal Caddesi, has been reissued by YouAux Hear ye: open.spotify.com/album/59TAAR...

'“Mapping the Neo-Manosphere(s)” strongly suggests that gender studies academics need to confront their own anxieties and irrational hatreds before they turn their attention to others' Janice Fiamengo on the 'male supremacism' panic open.substack.com/pub/fiamengo...

Salman Rushdie Prepares His Lecture (2026) On August 12 2022 author Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times on stage before a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York Prints and more artwork available at my Saatchi Art page: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbw...

"The Arts and Society Forum podcast talks to the author of 'Strangers and Intimates: the rise and fall of private life' about how art has reflected ideas of privacy and intimacy" Tiffany Jenkins on art and the evolution of private life - in Academy of Ideas open.substack.com/pub/clairefo...

'The British justice system does not like to admit that miscarriages of justice occur, as that suggests fallibility, lack of public confidence, and hence compensation' On a recent meeting of the APMI empowerinnocent.wixsite.com/website/post...

Ten years ago, 2016, the first Trump election and Brexit infuriated the progressive movement so much that it went insane. In the same year the music world lost David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, George Michael, and Prince Just finished this great little book www.amazon.co.uk/Prince-Purpl...

Honoured that my painting After The Battle Of Ideas (2025) has been published in January House Literary Journal: Volume 1, Issue 4 - along with many other excellent poems, short stories and paintings @januaryhouselit.bsky.social Read, and order, here: januaryhouselit.com/wp-content/u...

My 'Transport EP', recorded in Istanbul in 2008, has been re-released by @routenote.bsky.social Our bassist on the cover is the wonderful Mr Kemal Eren Olgac, from a gig at the Haymatlos venue Features previously unreleased Spirits (Rework), with Fehmi Suda Here: open.spotify.com/album/4p8v0Q...

'If the target of the Schindler's Post-It joke is about Jews, then the target of “The King's Tweet” joke is about those afflicted with a stammer' Stephen Knight says ch-ch-chill the fck out about Nanjiani quip (quote by I, Stammerer) open.substack.com/pub/sknight/...

Aw that's nice. Welcome mini-Ozzy everybody

My short story of a couple of years ago The Peacehaven Ghost, based on real-life experiences, now in YouTube narrated form www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXAY...

Gull (2026) To the landlocked, seagull cries mean holidays, adventure, a break, relaxation, rejuvenation, the seaside. To others they are the definition of unpredictable, chip-stealing anarchy in avian form Prints and more paintings here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbw...

'The CEO of the FASO, Margaret Gardener, said: "This case is very unusual and even though the men have been exonerated that is not the end of the story for them. They've been named and shamed as have their families"' Margaret Gardener on Stacy Sharples - ITV www.itv.com/news/granada...

Honoured that my (very large) painting Dartmoor is featured in MEANS 5: Dissonant Laws, available here: meansmag.bandcamp.com/merch/means-... Thank you @meansmagazine.bsky.social!

'The actions and behaviour of Jihadists only makes sense once you grant that they truly believe what they say' Stephen Knight on an 'iconic' moment in New York - that the MSM still don't seem able to grasp open.substack.com/pub/sknight/...

200 years of photographing paintings 'The first paintings to be photographed were likely reproduction studies of Dutch master paintings, captured by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce around 1826–1827 using his heliography process'

'Those enduring the longest waits have been clear - they would sacrifice the wait for a jury if it meant timely justice' - Claire Waxman, Victims Commissioner But there are no 'victims' before verdict? Lammy's Big Day - report by Joshua Rozenberg open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...

Delighted that my recent paintings John Cleese, 1980s Dinner Party and The Night In Question are part of 13b gallery's 3rd digital exhibition Visit here: www.spatial.io/s/13b-3rd-Vi...

Old British Artist Stanley Spencer pushes a pram carrying easel and umbrella around his beloved hometown of Cookham, Berkshire

Charlotte Gill - British journalist (2026) Prints and more paintings here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbw... #InternationalWomensDay2026

Seems like a bit of a stretch but my last book Panopticon has been nominated for a World's Best Book Award! How d'you like them apples, Granny Smith? See what all the fuss is about here: www.close2thebone.co.uk/wp/books/pan...

Artist and Writer Sean Bw Parker: 5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I First Became An Artist by @ChayaWeiner medium.com/authority-ma...

'Surveys show most women in this situation are very unsure that these young guys deserve to be sent to prison for regret sex that so easily results from these alcohol-fuelled adventures' TV becomes our feminist preacher - Bettina Arnt open.substack.com/pub/bettinaa...

“'Bless me Father, for I have sinned.' Highly unoriginal, & redeemed thru his baptism, tho given his stench I wondered if any part of him had ever been in contact w/water." Read "Saints Preserve Us and We Them" by Amy Bitterman w/art by @seanbwparker5000.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/sundial...

Saints Preserve Us And We Them (2026) Honoured to have been asked to illustrate this short story by Amy Bitterman in @sundialmagazine.bsky.social Read here: sites.google.com/view/sundial...

'Into all this plumber Hannah Spencer brings an almost cult-captured positivity borne of in-group mutual boostering' Hannah Spencer and the New UK Sectarianism - by Sean Bw Parker open.substack.com/pub/seanbwpa...