BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Escape to an oasis of calm Now Playing Steven Poole Imperial Bedrooms

my new album, MUSIC FOR SLEEPING CATS, is out today album.link/musicforslee...

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

😥 www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-int...

look, poverty simply can't be an important driver of crime, because i know some honest poor people

here i am in the Graun on reasons to be cheerful about the climate www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

why are Americans obsessed with going out and "hunting" deer with rifles? like, if no one did that, would the entire country be overrun with deer?

it's interesting to compare the trajectories of Alastair Campbell and Peter Mandelson, one of whom merrily propagandized for an aggressive war that killed hundreds of thousands of people, while the other had regrettable taste in friends

Q. Who aligns the aligners? A. alignmentalignment.ai Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

what if America, but they don't keep shooting each other

This feels like the biggest story from the Guardian's Boris leaks... he took £240k from a Venezuelan hedge fund after meeting Maduro. And having denied he was paid. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

an interesting example of the euphemism treadmill being put into reverse. Departments of Defen(c/s)e have always been departments of war, and were so named up until the mid-C20

why do they call it a "reshuffle" when it's just a shuffle

Armani, Armani, Ah-Ah-Armani 🤘🏻🖤https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/sep/04/giorgio-armani-elegant-determined-a-little-unknowable

I can

An intrinsically hallucinatory technology carried along by an intrinsically hallucinatory financial-media complex

this is superb, as is everything i've ever read by DC

as an author, i find nothing more heartwarming and inspirational than the CEO of one of the imprints that has published my books sending me a round-robin letter expatiating fondly on his own personal journey in the business

here i am in the Graun on a nice book about music www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: A soundtrack for peaceful nights Now Playing Steven Poole Rue Cortot

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

the fact that you could earn $80k to be Bret Stephens's assistant but you very likely won't earn $80k a year actually writing stuff that is better than Bret Stephens's stuff is definitely a new couplet that Alanis Morrissette should add to "Ironic"

The return of Clegg provides an opportunity to re-share this beautiful anecdote, from David Runciman's review of Cameron's memoir

here i am in the Graun on some books that have been BANNED within living memory www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

summer 2023 throwback: my tune "Hypersleep Kit" youtu.be/W0TEg9Muyrk?...

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

you don't put a Dyson sphere around the solar system ffs

just checking in with one of the most influential philosophers alive today

Alien: Earth is cool i guess except a nerdy medic can fall from 12 feet literally onto his face on a concrete ledge then immediately get up and outrun a xenomorph who doesn't understand corners but definitely looks more like a dude in a rubber suit than in any previous production

ouch, this is bad if true, but then why wouldn't they kill Scholar like they killed Reader?

here i am in the Speccie on which risks we should regard as "existential" www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

if you don't want to be accused of xenophobia, don't say something that is literally and precisely xenophobic. Why is the BBC bending over backwards to placate these people even when they're no longer in power? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

normally a back-formation becomes necessary when some new species of a thing has become the default, so after email became popular we began to say "snail mail"; but where are all the newfangled radios that don't live on a tabletop?

THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTINGGG

BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Nod off with this relaxing soundtrack Now Playing Steven Poole Everything In Time

“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said. “Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.

here i am in the WSJ on what came before the Big Bang: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: A serene soundtrack for cosy nights Now Playing Steven Poole In Silent Circles

yes! before the lamentable developments of 3000BCE, humans simply "venerated" nature rather than killing the parts of it they could catch for food (the review goes on to be properly sceptical of what sounds like an extremely stupid book) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

who are the good writers who are bad thinkers? inasmuch as they were thinking about how to write their writing, they must have been thinking that well

Mr Fist wishes you every success in your battle for liberty open.spotify.com/track/5azWTB...

While it’s Alison Pearson day, I have fond memories of her period as a lockdown sceptic, which peaked with her posting “has anyone actually MET someone with Covid, or is this all just BBC news?” before admitting in replies that all of her children had it

here i am in the Graun on whether trees are good www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Wrap up, settle down Now Playing Steven Poole Hymn

here i am in the Graun on why opinion polls should be BANNED www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

new tune out today: open.spotify.com/track/1AIWvd...

no one who is not comfortably insulated from worrying about how much basic things for living actually cost could call the minimum wage "high". the problem is obviously that teacher salaries are low

BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Fall soundly asleep with dreamy classical music Now Playing Steven Poole Au Bistrot

here i am in the graun on a sprightly history of emoji www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

here i am in the WSJ on whether you need to break up with your phone www.wsj.com/arts-culture...