I'm so fatigued by all of this. None of it feels good. None of it feels useful. Our politics has been completely subsumed by the post-Zuckerberg digital disinfo-commentariat sphere that it's tantamount to a spectator sport, designed for maximum clicks, not governance.

@4hundredblows.bsky.social I've been interested in the Kennedy assassination for years and your book was exactly the book I wanted to read on the subject! Made me feel like I was in Dealey Plaza that day & the stories are all so fascinating!

Twist. This is who is going to deactivate Tilly Norwood

For the music people: Over the years I've used improviseforreal.com to learn how to improvise but more than that it has given me a much better understanding of how music 'works'. It's such an intuitive and fun method of learning. I highly recommend checking it out :)

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

There is always a tweet.

Your definitive guide to the sports of the Winter Olympics

Cunning plan at the ready

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Anti-autism campaigner, Karen Hoyland, 40, commented: “I love my child but I hate his autism. The other day I came home to find him lining up his guns, instead of playing with them like a normal kid.”

Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok

I think failure undersells what has been a conscious and malicious effort to demonise and scapegoat immigrants of all kinds.