Guyz! If you’re Sheffieldable on 10th Oct, why not come and see me and the amazing Ensemble 360 do a breakneck run through some absolute bangers in our Incomplete Guide To Chamber Music. Perfect for noobs and lifers alike. I’m so excited about the playlist. musicintheround.co.uk/events/chris...

Can I massively recommend the current ep of the always great No Balls podcast? Incredible honesty and brilliance from both Kate Cross and Alex Hartley. A remarkable listen. They really are something.

Reading that most august, serious and proper of newspapers The Financial Times reporting on Trump’s UN speech. In the comments section below someone has simply written: “What a nob.” Spat me cornflakes.

Refusing to take responsibility for my own catastrophic misjudgements and hugely selfish decisions over a course of decades.

23 September 1927 | French Jewish boy, Jacques Dresner, was born in Paris. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Beaune la Rolande on 5 August 1942. He did not survive. --- VIDEO: first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau - Bunkers I & II: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

22 September 1936 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Agnes Deutsch, was born in Mór. In 1944, she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- VIDEO: gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

People of Yaaaarkshire! I'm dead excited to be coming to Sheffield on October 10th to play out with fantastic music outfit Ensemble 360 at the Crucible and present our Incomplete Guide to Chamber Music. Incredible bangers for noobs and lifers alike. Join us! musicintheround.co.uk/events/chris...

Ohhhh, Lanky Lanky! Lanky Lanky Lanky Lanky And I Cannot Stress This Enough Lancashheeeeeer! Season double! What a team! Hugely thrilled for them and Crossy and Ellie T in particular. 🌹🏏 #OneDayCup

People of Yaaaarkshire! I'm dead excited to be coming to Sheffield on October 10th to play out with fantastic music outfit Ensemble 360 at the Crucible and present our Incomplete Guide to Chamber Music. Incredible bangers for noobs and lifers alike. Join us! musicintheround.co.uk/events/chris...

21 September 1906 | A Polish man, Wojciech Jankowski, was born in Zbiersk. An accountant. In #Auschwitz from 14 May 1942. No. 35448 He perished in the camp on 26 May 1942. --- "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

Saw quite a lot of England Flags as I was driving today that had been put as high up on lamp posts as the patriots involved could manage and I'm now considering referring to Reform supporters as Titchy Ladders.

We domesticated the fox twice. It's clearly a cat in the shape of a dog.

Attempts to curb freedom of speech are ever so fashionable right now, aren’t they? Here’s one we can do something practical to counter.

20 September 1922 | Dutch Jew Benjamin de Brave was born in Amsterdam. In September 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.

19 September 1909 | A Polish Jew, Majer Wajntraub, was born in Radom. A mechanic. In #Auschwitz from 20 February 1942. No. 23106 He perished in the camp on 2 March 1942. --- Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

I see someone got cancelled for giving an opinion about a free speech warrior, then.

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

“15m downloads a month and more than half their audience is under 35.” Good read on the success of The Rest Is History pod. Strikes me that mainstream broadcasters dumbing down history to “OMG #iconic” spoon-fed shite left a huge gap that they’re filling www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

And can our government please stop using twitter to post comms on. Its owner has literally incited a call to violence against them.

This is, as is Ian Dunt's wont, a terrific piece of writing. Realistic, terrifying, hopeful and a call to arms. I commend it to conference.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Once again listening to RAYE, this time on a nice new vinyl of her Albert Hall gig and my God. I mean, MY GOD. She's just the best.

It’s a filthy day outside, so why not head to A CINEMA to watch the now-playing rockumentarequel, Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues? In fact, the running time is admirably short, so why not see it twice?

13 September 1887 | A Jewish man Abraham Boruchowitch was born in Baldone (Latvia). He emigrated to Belgium. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 14 Sept 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Malines/Mechelen. He was registered in the camp where he perished on 11 October 1942.

English people really need to stop talking like Americans now it’s so fucking embarrassing. Watched a TikTok this morning of a man walking round a retail park in Ashford going on about ‘antifa’. What are you doing.

It was great. I laughed the whole time. Brought back fond memories of what made music great. And cheese. It is a damn shame that Spinal Tap are not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. How does anyone take the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame seriously?

I just left the theater, it was worth the wait.

I have one of these! It’s brilliant!

The band, the barely competent manager and the shitheel promoter. I had some of the most fun in my life dicking about with these four.

Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.

Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues is out today! I insist that you go and see it in the cinema as I’m interested to find out whether my deal involves residuals. Please to enjoy this unprofessionally framed picture from the premiere on Tuesday. To paraphrase Sir Denis Eaton-Hogg, Tap into a… cinemaaaa!

11 September 1917 | A German Jewish woman, Lotte Josephs, was born in Neuss. She emigrated to The Netherlands. In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

10 September 1940 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Freidi Rozenfeld, was born. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- Learn about deportations of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zyd...

I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, put them in this van.”

I hope this ishmael finds you whale

9 September 1937 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Kató Nisel, was born. In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

Gail’s stuff is SO brilliant. Have a look.

In other ‘Look At Me!’ news, Radio 3 are repeating the Satire & The Stave series I made with them earlier this year and it was Pick of The Week on Radio 4, no less. Ep 2 went out on Saturday. Some great music in this - yer Bernstein, yer Smyth, yer Britten. Get on it. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

And while you’re waiting, please to enjoy this documentary/puff piece, presented by the great but not late @shaunwkeaveny.bsky.social in which Nigel Tufnell, David St Hubbins, Derek Smalls and Marti DiBergi are very funny indeed and me, Kerry & Nina are all giddy. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

To Los Angeles (transl: The Angeles)! For the premeeeer of Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues WHICH IS IN CINEMAS THIS FRIDAY AND ALSO ON IMAX IN CASE YOU WANT TO SEE GUITARS WITH STRINGS THE SIZE OF INDUSTRIAL GUTTERING GET YOUR TICKETS NOW PLEASE THANK YOU

I bet he wishes he’d thought of that

Why is Trump there? This must be like his idea of torture - a stadium filled with thousands upon thousands of people who are all looking at - and cheering! - somebody else. #USOpen

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Guys, we… we know.

What a hugely enjoyable innings that was to watch. Also, I bloody love the Rose Bowl. Nowhere better to watch international cricket, really (apart from The Oval, obvs). The intimacy of a county ground with the feel of a big venue. Wish I was there etc etc.

Disappointing lack of shenanigans.