From the worldwide premiere of my documentary to performing for the London Jazz Festival in under a week! I can’t wait to be back at the Royal Festival Hall this Saturday 15th of November. Final tickets available at the link in my bio - be there… or be an oblong! 😉

❤️ Was thrilled to meet one of cinema idols Rita Tushingham at the premiere of ‘ How Tanita Tikaram became A Liar ‘ @BFI She is as lovely as you would imagine & told me she had dined with James Baldwin who I mention in the doc a couple of times 🙌🏼🎬🍿

Other work of the Ladybird artists. The Beech Wood Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

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Donald Trump is not going to sue the BBC for $1 billion The real story today is both Reform/Farage and the Conservatives/Badenoch talking today about radically changing the BBC This is the real agenda

Barely mentioned but that now notorious Trump Panorama *wasn’t made by the BBC* It was an indie production (as so much is) Even if was BBC, head of news or DG would wouldn’t have been involved in edits

I think somehow it's going to take a lot more then that. But yes, that would be welcome.

“Nobody at the BBC is sweating about displeasing Zack Polanski or the Guardian or even the current prime minister.” Very good on the deeply cynical and dangerous right wing manoeuvres to compromise and ultimately destroy the BBC. “Because everything is stupid” www.thenerve.news/p/bbc-tim-da...

Nigel Farage said their flagship council in Kent would be a "shop window" for how they would run the country. Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...

Farage has dropped out of BBC film following BBC row. Good. Access journalism is client journalism. The BBC should make a film about Reform whether or not Farage chooses to ‘sit down’ with Laura Kuensberg. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So there’s one aspect of the BBC story that has received zero attention: Robbie Gibb’s potential financial conflict of interests. According to @arusbridger.bsky.social, he was just the bagman for the purchase of the Jewish Chronicle. 1/ www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

In 1996 I did a little in internship at BBC Westminster. At the time, Robbie Gibb was one of the producers there. Even in that period, he was self evidently a pro-Tory apparatchik, who made no attempt to hide his agenda from his colleagues or even from the little work experience kid.

🔥"It is estimated that more than 400 women and girls were abused and exploited within Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods enterprise. I am one of them." A survivor's account of the structural failure of British justice when confronted with money and power.

A normal reaction to today's news, dear Nancy, would be to express shock and horror at the significant possibility that the president of the United States is a child molester.

The Epstein saga is the biggest political cover-up in modern history.

'Camden Town, London' (1940) by Priscilla Ann Siebert (Dresden State Art Collections)

Manolo Prieto cover, “Los dioses de Marte” (The Gods Of Mars) by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Spanish Edition), 1947

🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier. The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12

Broadcaster and writer Afua Hirsch explaining how Tim Davie the now former BBC Director-General looked her in the eye and said Black staff supporting anti-racism “breached impartiality” www.instagram.com/reel/DQ4fxa6...

From the worldwide premiere of my documentary to performing for the London Jazz Festival in under a week! I can’t wait to be back at the Royal Festival Hall this Saturday 15th of November. Final tickets available at the link in my bio - be there… or be an oblong! 😉

❤️ Was thrilled to meet one of cinema idols Rita Tushingham at the premiere of ‘ How Tanita Tikaram became A Liar ‘ @BFI She is as lovely as you would imagine & told me she had dined with James Baldwin who I mention in the doc a couple of times 🙌🏼🎬🍿

Thank you BFI, Doc N Roll, Nikki Bedi & everyone who came out to support the premier of ‘How Tanita Tikaram Became A Liar‘. It was such a lovely evening, and such a thrill to see the film, made by the talented Natacha Horn, in the beautiful BFI cinema ❤️

Thank you BFI, Doc N Roll, Nikki Bedi & everyone who came out to support the premier of ‘How Tanita Tikaram Became A Liar‘. It was such a lovely evening, and such a thrill to see the film, made by the talented Natacha Horn, in the beautiful BFI cinema ❤️

What a birhday gift. Looking forward to hearing this modest and original songwriter.

So excited for the show tonight at the stunning NCH Dublin ❤️ Lucy McWilliams opens the show ☀️👍🎶 #singersongwriter #livemusic

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

The great @tanitatikaram.bsky.social in the @irishtimes.com yesterday. Tanita plays the National Concert Hall tomorrow Monday 10th November. Her new LIAR (Love Isn’t A Right) is out now on Cooking Vinyl www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

DOCUMENTARY UK PREMIERE ‘HOW TANITA TIKARAM BECAME A LIAR’ SUNDAY 9TH NOVEMBER BFI, SOUTHBANK 6-7.30PM Tickets: www.docnrollfestival.com/films/how-ta...

🎉 So excited for the world premiere of ‘ How Tanita Tikaram became a Liar ‘ BFI cinema #London tomorrow ( Nov 9 ) 6 pm 🕕 closing the @docnrollfilms.bsky.social festival 🙌🏼 🎶🍿Find out more in Flicker Magazine’s Interview with me & director @natachahorn.bsky.social 🙌🏼❤️

‘Warm mysterious folk pop ‘ I’ll take that ☺️🙌🏼✨ Tonight in #Eindhoven’s beautiful #Muziekgebouw 🙌🏼 #singersongwriter #livemusic 🙌🏼🎶🧡

I bought these old RSPB magazines for their CF Tunnicliffe cover pictures. They look so good together (with that delicious typeface!)

The Symphony of the Cat, Moritz von Schwind, 1868. #Caturday

Amongst the assorted curiosities described in Olaus Magnus' 1555 tome on Nordic life was the morse — a hirsute, fearsome walrus-like beast, that was said to snooze upon cliffs while hanging by its teeth: publicdomainreview.org/essay/d...

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

"Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the West" Two words: algorithms and incentives. Mostly incentives. Until we modify or eliminate incentives, all we can do is watch as the fabric of society is pulled apart, strand by strand. www.ft.com/content/5060...

Andrew Lownie wrote an explosive book about Prince Andrew Then came the backlash. Legal threats. Palace sources told journalists not to speak to him Anonymous social media accounts accused Lownie of visiting sex workers. New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Have a great weekend everyone! 💛

Zack Polanski was brilliant on The Last Leg tonight. So relatable, a breath of fresh air 👏👏👏

How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...

Degenerates all: The Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition, sponsored by the Nazis, Germany, 1936

The Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition, sponsored by the Nazis, Germany, 1936

#GVerse Um. WTF??? Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings." This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.

There is zero excuse for police, in a free society, to wear a mask. Cowards

‘Warm mysterious folk pop ‘ I’ll take that ☺️🙌🏼✨ Tonight in #Eindhoven’s beautiful #Muziekgebouw 🙌🏼 #singersongwriter #livemusic 🙌🏼🎶🧡

Looking forward to performing tonight 🙌🏼☀️🎶This was the welcome on our snack table 😂❤️🙏🏼 #Eindhoven #livemusic

🎉 So excited for the world premiere of ‘ How Tanita Tikaram became a Liar ‘ BFI cinema #London tomorrow ( Nov 9 ) 6 pm 🕕 closing the @docnrollfilms.bsky.social festival 🙌🏼 🎶🍿Find out more in Flicker Magazine’s Interview with me & director @natachahorn.bsky.social 🙌🏼❤️

😀 🎶 🥰 Thrilled to play the Royal Festival Hall with my fab band as part of the London Jazz Festival on Saturday November 15 🥳 !! Both venue & festival have given me some of my most magical musical experiences & I'm humbled to be invited ❤️ Ticket Info 🎫 👍 efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk/events/tanit...

DOCUMENTARY UK PREMIERE ‘HOW TANITA TIKARAM BECAME A LIAR’ SUNDAY 9TH NOVEMBER BFI, SOUTHBANK 6-7.30PM Tickets: www.docnrollfestival.com/films/how-ta...

"I count Tikaram as one of those important artists that … can change your appreciation of what the human voice can do". - Read Luke Turner's review of my new record LIAR (Love Isn't A Right) on The Quietus at the link below! thequietus.com/interviews/b...

Children dancing in Harlem, NY, c.1940 by photographer Helen Levitt #womensart