#SEND parents will not give up without a fight. #SaveOurChildrensRights www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The invincible Andy Miller. Providing a reason to check your social media every Wednesday. These Neko Case entries are lightning in a bottle.

A joy to discuss Withnail & I with @juderogers.bsky.social for tQ's pod: masculinity, the complexity of Uncle Monty, the lie of the Nature Cure, the grim 90s & how the film is relevant today in our age of oomska, still "shat on by Tories, shovelled up by Labour..." thequietus.com/subscriber-a...

🎨 #GeraldHoltom, English artist and graphic designer (Nuclear Disarmament (ND) logo, which later became an international peace symbol), #DOTD 18 September 1985. #Art #GraphicDesign

This is what she’s like…

#nowplaying This has 80 tracks on it, or 80 singles in old money, every one of which is very good to great, perfectly sequenced and mastered. You can buy it for a tenner. Fiftysomething friends, this is the time for action.

You can listen back to the Hounds of Love feature here www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

"Echobelly pissed all over Oasis as a live band" A choice quote of @jamesbpcook.bsky.social's in this double interview we did for @drownedinsound.org about the *other* Britpop... 🙌 www.drownedinsound.org/inside-the-o...

New: 30 years on from the britpop wars, two authors in the thick of it, one a teenage fan, the other in a band you’ve somehow never heard of @annadoble.bsky.social and @jamesbpcook.bsky.social on The Other #Britpop www.drownedinsound.org/inside-the-o...

I wrote about Caroline Elton's 'Looking After', a vitally important addition to the tiny corpus of literature about autistic adults, for the new-look @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/lives/biogra...

This installment is about searching ... for a music scene, a sense of home and something much deeper. My favorite INVENTORY yet.

Two authors speak out about Britpop! My joint interview with the brilliant @annadoble.bsky.social www.drownedinsound.org/inside-the-o...

“Britpop’s best foundational band. From day one – in the post-perestroika summer of Italia 90 – their approach to music, lyrics, and films has always crossed borders, been open-minded, and kept time-travelling.” Thank you Jude Rogers. thequietus.com/interviews/s...

'Rights matter'. Essential reading from @johnharris1969.bsky.social about the proposed changes to SEND provision. #autism

New episode up now. The Tombs of Atuan (1970) by Ursula K. Le Guin, the second part of Earthsea, with guest Frank Cottrell-Boyce in conversation with Una McCormack and Andy Miller. @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0sc5...

The days of asking are all gone as LA LA LAND RECORDS announce a two-disc dive into the unreleased cues and alternate songs of THUNDERBALL! With only 5000 copies available, go break your turntable's heart without regret... lalalandrecords.com/thunderball-... #Thunderball #JohnBarry #JamesBond

I reviewed Benjamin Wood's lyrical, Hardyesque @thebookerprizes.com 2025 longlisted novella, Seascraper, in @guardianbooks.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

A late-August Substack from me: an essay about writing my second novel, Jacob's Advice (2020). Paris In the Blood: How To Research a Novel. Read for FREE here 👇 judecook.substack.com/p/paris-in-t...

You say it's your birthday . . . #birthday

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener and you’ll get this plus a bunch of other stuff, all while supporting the podcast. This week: the Canterbury Scene pt. one - Kevin Ayers and Caravan. www.patreon.com/backlisted

A look at the copies of 168 SONGS OF HATRED AND FAILURE, @keithcameron2.bsky.social's epic, definitive history of Manic Street Preachers, written with the band's full co-operation. Available 11 September geni.us/168Songs

Not at all jealous that @elizabethalker.bsky.social got the artsy McCartney interview we’d all like to do. Apart from that, this is great writing. And that’s a really good suit he’s wearing. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

On this day 30 years ago, Blur beat Oasis and reached number one in the Battle of Britpop. I bought Country House. But there was another Britpop... Feat. @jamesbpcook.bsky.social foryoursavageamusement.co.uk/2025/08/20/t...

Graphic designer Joe Caroff passed away yesterday at age 103. Responsible for absolutely legendary posters and typefaces. www.printmag.com/daily-heller...

Latest from me: long investigative read Not so Totally Rad: the UK music tuition firm leaving pupils in the lurch and teachers in despair www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Terence Stamp used to be a regular costumer in my bookshop when I worked in central London. We would fight over who got to serve him. He once asked me where the poetry section was. I wish I'd said "In your eyes" instead of "fifth floor".

It's #SharingSaturday again! 🎨 Show us your fave 'August' art in the comments – here's Ivon Hitchens' 'August Flowers' to start things off...

If you're going to @greenmanfest.bsky.social next week... on Friday at 3.15pm in the Talking Shop bit, I'll be talking to the great @richardhywelking.bsky.social about my book Maybe I'm Amazed, music, neurodivergence & more

New blogpost/newsletter here. If anyone wants to sign up, it's free, rarely gets updated and you won't get spammed with shite; but once it all kicks off with Keshed this is where you'll find all the info about events, upcoming publications etc. open.substack.com/pub/stuhenni...

New Backlisted! A Taste of Honey, and what Shelagh Delaney did next 🎈 with @davehaslam.bsky.social @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social and me. @backlisted.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/245...

New episode up now. A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney, with guests Dave Haslam and Melanie Williams in conversation with Andy Miller, Una McCormack and Nicky Birch. @davehaslam.bsky.social @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/245...

Andy says: A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener and you’ll get this plus a bunch of other stuff, while supporting the podcast. This week: Caedmon Feel the Noize: spoken word recordings, pt two. www.patreon.com/backlisted

This Saturday (2 August) on BBC2

Hermelindo Fiaminghi, Alternating 2, 1957 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137703

Make it dirty and make it like a western - Stephen Frears's suggestions to Hanif Kureishi in writing My Beautiful Laundrette. And how Daniel Day-Lewis was influenced by Clint Eastwood and, perhaps, Marlene Dietrich: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Congratulations to Jeff Young, winner of this year’s TLS Ackerley Prize for his highly original and exhilaratingly written memoir ‘Wild Twin’, published by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social‬

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener and you’ll get this plus a bunch of other stuff, all while supporting the podcast. This week: Caedmon Feel the Noize: spoken word recordings, pt one. www.patreon.com/backlisted

RIP

Richard Skinner gave me free rein to write about cinema for his forthcoming anthology The Carbon Arc. Having already revisited two of the films that made an indelible impression on me when I was young (What a Carve Up and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes) this was a chance to discuss the third.

If you enjoyed this, do consider buying the anthology. The full version of my piece is twice as long as the one The Observer has printed: but more importantly, the other contributions sound great.

🚨 MISSING PERSON 🚨 Anthony was last seen heading south on the 176 and likely alighted in Waterloo, Elephant & Castle or Walworth. Anthony is non-verbal and has severe autism. Any sightings, dial 999 quoting CAD ref 6954/16July. Please share this and help find Anthony!

Next! 10 August Walthamstow www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/im-with-pu...

Thrilled to announce the wonderful @saltpublishing.com are to publish my new novel, TIME BEING, in September 2026. I can't think of a better home for my book! #indiepresses www.thebookseller.com/rights/salt-...

Fabulous evening at 21 Soho for Fiction First! Thanks @jackaldane.bsky.social & @bookingclubpod.bsky.social for a nuanced exploration of the novel with 6 brilliant debut writers: Harriet Armstrong, Lisa Smith, Rowe Irvin, Thomas Peermohamed Lambert, Nicolas Padamsee & William Rayfet Hunter👏

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener and you’ll get this plus a bunch of other stuff, while supporting the podcast. This week: The Rubáiyát of Marshall Chess: Cadet Records and Cadet/Concept. www.patreon.com/backlisted

If the govt stubbornly presses on with its apparent quest to remove educational rights from SEND kids in mainstream schools, this is what the fight will look like: cold bureaucracy and Treasurythink v raw humanity (from today's Mirror, thanks to @carriegrant.bsky.social)

There's a lovely and empathetic review of my new book Maybe I'm Amazed in this week's TLS by James Cook: "an extraordinarily powerful memoir... a heartfelt demand for autism awareness, acceptance and inclusivity."

July Fields, 1959 by painter Joan Eardley #WomensArt