Jon Dennis
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Never have a motto — that’s what I always say.
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I wrote about Jim Windolf's excellent new book Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other – and the World.
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f859fe5...
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How the Beatles and Dylan went from musical rivals to creative soulmates
While Bob Dylan longed for the Fab Four’s popularity, they coveted his lyrical prowess – but envy quickly morphed into a lifelong rapport
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f859fe52829694d0
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jamelle
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it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter
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These are the last three books I’ve read in my quest to divine the mysteries of Kind of Blue. They were all excellent. Yes, the cover designs are kind of similar.
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Helen Barrett
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'A kind of cinematic big bang' My review of Samira Ahmed's new book on 'A Hard Day's Night' is in this week's Spectator.
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The nightmare of filming A Hard Day’s Night
It would be easy to dismiss A Hard Day’s Night, the Beatles film made in 1964, as a throwaway period piece. The plot hurls the Fab Four into a meta narrative, playing themselves while a director – a s...
https://spectator.com/article/the-nightmare-of-filming-a-hard-days-night/
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Otto Saumarez Smith
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I’m so angry about this. Bull Yard (1963-9) was a humanely civic-scaled square, with elegant bronze clad mullions, good lettering, the splendid William Mitchell sculpture, & local shops. Coventry council’s advertising their net zero aims in front of the utter vandalism they’ve wrought is grotesque.
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I love them but this doesn’t fill me with joy.
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Postcard From The Past
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Ugh.
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Helen Barrett
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How did 'house won't sell for asking price' make it into a national newspaper?
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At 70, I'm trapped in my £850,000 family house - I can't sell it
Maureen Evans, 70, wants to downsize and give some money to her children
https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/trapped-850000-family-house-cant-sell-4351737
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@quantick.bsky.social
Ringo Narwhal and his All-Narwal Band
#WhaleSupergroups
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"The traits that should have disqualified Mandelson from the job were mistaken by Starmer for credentials." - spot on by
@rafaelbehr.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The rush to appease Trump led Keir Starmer into this ethical void | Rafael Behr
Mandelson’s flaws were mistaken for credentials to represent Britain in the court of a rogue president, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/22/donald-trump-appeasement-peter-mandelson-keir-starmer-ethical-void?CMP=share_btn_url
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Aaron Rupar
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WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein? KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed
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Hugh Morris
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a crazy framing in the times here this is a wider access foundation year for talented kids who didn't have the opportunities as their privately educated peers, and who have been let down by the systemic downgrading of music education for state schools...
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
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Private school pupils banned from conservatoire course
The Royal Academy of Music’s ‘widening participation’ programme has stirred up discord with its application requirements
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/private-school-pupils-banned-from-conservatoire-course-nxr09pspg
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO CLYDE McPHATTER
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Dorian Lynskey
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Reform: The Party Made by the Worst People in Britain For the Worst People in Britain
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Des
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Monday
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Raider
5 days ago
Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.
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I’ve literally not heard any of these tracks before. Another Soul Jazz Records triumph. Fingers crossed for a British volume.
#nowplaying
#rsd2026
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Private Eye Magazine
9 days ago
Hungary: Orban loses historic election The new Private Eye is out now.
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Adam Bienkov
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Bereaved family members of Covid victims write to Nigel Farage urging him to sack his Croydon candidate who said COVID was a "staged event" by the US military, with vaccines used to control the population. Reform has not responded to our story revealing his views
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Helen Bamber Foundation 🧡
7 days ago
Recent BBC articles highlight misconduct by a small number of unscrupulous advisers who charge thousands to fabricate asylum claims. This is fraud & must be stopped. But the coverage is selective, harmful & risks obscuring the wider reality of access to legal advice. 🧵
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Helen Barrett
8 days ago
Outrageously good writing
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ian Penman · I’m just a sound: Back to the Beach Boys
To an extent rivalled only by the Beatles, the Beach Boys have become the tales told about them, the ever expanding...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n07/ian-penman/i-m-just-a-sound?utm_campaign=4501805_20260415NewIssue&utm_medium=email&utm_source=LRB%20email&dm_i=7NIQ,2OHM5,2IPWR0,64SQ2,1,0,0,0
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Postcard From The Past
10 days ago
Life is full of surprises, most of which can't go on a postcard. (Card courtesy of
@jondennis.bsky.social
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I wrote about Jim Windolf's excellent new book Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other – and the World.
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f859fe5...
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How the Beatles and Dylan went from musical rivals to creative soulmates
While Bob Dylan longed for the Fab Four’s popularity, they coveted his lyrical prowess – but envy quickly morphed into a lifelong rapport
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f859fe52829694d0
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Marcy Gall
10 days ago
Should be part of his next test.
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"Brigitte Bardot", Antonio Saura, 1959
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Helen Barrett
11 days ago
A great moment to remember why Scruton's FT column came to an abrupt end.
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Phil Tinline
11 days ago
Time to read this
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
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What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses?
Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
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It’s a great night for the Leftist chatterati
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jamelle
11 days ago
i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain
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Missing The Point
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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦
13 days ago
Bruce Springsteen is making me a fan... Opening his concert in Los Angeles yesterday, worth the wait to see the transition to the opening song 90 seconds in. ✌️❤️🇺🇸
#Resist
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LondonLee
13 days ago
Oh shit
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Monica
13 days ago
Ok. Who made this? 🤭😅🤣🤣
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Mina Kimes
13 days ago
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
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Postcard From The Past
14 days ago
We are overwhelmed by friendship & gaiety. I cannot describe it here. (Card courtesy of the estimable
@jondennis.bsky.social
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Bloke on Discogs dismissing this as elevator music - it is light and has catchy tunes - but I was happy to pick it up for a tenner the other day. Marcos Valle on guitar and produced by Creed Taylor.
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Dana Houle
14 days ago
“Little progress in cease fire negotiations with Israel”
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Marissa Rothkopf
15 days ago
Congratulations to Homer on his new book
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Adam Serwer
15 days ago
I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to.
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Adam Bienkov
16 days ago
A reminder that this is the same "unhinged" war and President the Daily Mail has spent weeks berating Keir Starmer for not joining and following
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Michelle M.
16 days ago
A really special event at the
@britishlibrary.bsky.social
on Saturday .. it was a fascinating story and a unique opportunity to listen to The Beatles on the cusp of their success in April 1963. Close your eyes and it felt just like being there.
#TheBeatles
#StoweSchool
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Skye
16 days ago
AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”
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Postcard From The Past
2 months ago
The temptation to buy loads of books is too great.
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Mr Too Damn Bueno 🎉
17 days ago
One of the very best from Clickhole
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
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Aaron Rupar
18 days ago
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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RM
20 days ago
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
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Jeremy Blackmore
19 days ago
Incredible day at
@britishlibrary.bsky.social
hearing a playback of the earliest recording of a
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UK concert, 63 years ago today. Beautifully hosted & curated by
@samiraahmeduk.bsky.social
&
@marklewisohn.bsky.social
Lasting gratitude to John Bloomfield for capturing the gig for the nation.
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This event was special. Now listening to the BBC session they recorded in the morning before heading for Stowe. George’s sore throat in evidence.
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Just watched Truffaut’s Stolen Kisses (1968). There’s an intense scene with the lead character talking to himself in the mirror. Influence on “You talking to me?” in Taxi Driver?
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