🎧 An episode of joy with @daverowntree.bsky.social and @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social. I smiled all the way. Thanks for the stories. Defo check this one out. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... And follow @talk90stome.bsky.social.

Having done a brilliant Oasis episode, @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social has now done an episode about Blur with actual Blur bloke @daverowntree.bsky.social Well worth a listen for the story of the band. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Before Britpop & Cool Britannia, Blur were just 4 lads from Colchester finding their feet. On Talk 90s To Me, @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social chats with @daverowntree.bsky.social about those chaotic times and his brand new book of pics from the band’s early days! Listen linktr.ee/talk90stome

What a great Bjorn Borg interview by the master Simon Hattenstone www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-int...

News! At 4.30pm today, MPs will debate the Save Our Children's Rights petition calling on the Government to retain the legal right to assessment and support in education for children with Special Educational Needs. This matters

In the 90s, the Material Girl grew up, invited the world into her bed, Vogued her way through the record-breaking Blonde Ambition tour and even pissed off The Pope. @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social is joined by the fabulous John Sizzle to talk the one and only Madonna. Listen: linktr.ee/talk90stome

Hello blue skyers, here’s my Observer audio column, which is a lot about music this week enjoyyyy observer.co.uk/culture/audi...

June 29, 1994. Diana steps out in that little black dress and the world never looked at her the same way again. @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social explains what the “Revenge Dress” really meant? Listen: linktr.ee/talk90stome #PrincessDiana #90sFashion #RevengeDress #VintageStyle #IconicLooks

Hello 90s fans here’s an in-depth discussion of Princess Di’s lewks for your delectation and delight ENJOYYYY

In ’98 George Michael turned a tabloid sting into a global coming-out party and changed pop culture forever. @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social and @jackguinness.bsky.social reminisce about his wit, rebellion, activism, love songs in our latest episode. Listen here: linktr.ee/talk90stome

What does George Michael's music mean to you? @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social and @jackguinness.bsky.social get emotional as they discuss the soul singer's lasting legacy. Listen here: linktr.ee/talk90stome

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Over 30 years on, why does Nirvana still feel like the most exciting band in the world? Yasi Salek of the Bandsplain podcast joins @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social to unpack Nirvana’s rise, their influence on rock, and the legacy that carries on today. Listen➡️ linktr.ee/talk90stome

💊 ”The final scene of #Trainspotting with ’Born Slippy’ is like a perfect reprise of the whole movie…” 💊 Don’t miss our deep (toilet) dive into the greatest movie of the ’90s with @irvinewelsh.bsky.social & @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social – listen: linktr.ee/talk90stome 💊 youtu.be/5pHcdJMKYMA?...

New episode, more 90s funnnn

Why did an entire generation of lads worship at the altar of Oasis? Find out in the debut ep of Talk 90s to Me with @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social & special guest @tedkessler.bsky.social 🎸👊 Listen here: linktr.ee/talk90stome

So excited about this!

Had great fun recording this - not least as it contains some innovative ideas from @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social about how to address people feeling disconnected and fragmented in today's Britain and improve social cohesion, inspired by 90s rave culture...

Back in the day, @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social interviewed Oasis and sparked an international PR crisis. Get the full scoop here: linktr.ee/talk90stome #Oasis #Blur #Britpop #90s

V excited about this, I heart Suede

OMG! @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social has a new podcast! And it’s about the 1990s! 💖💖💖

Hello friends, I have a NEW PODCAST! It’s about the 90s (of course it is) and the first episode is out today!! Here’s a link open.spotify.com/episode/6ob8...

imagine telling the columnists who wanted to send in the army on some inner-London kids in 2011 that fifteen years on they'd actually be pro-riots

Now in Tel Aviv: Thousands of Jews and Palestinians are marching together against the starvation in Gaza and for an immediate ceasefire deal to end the annihilation and return the hostages

Jesus. Football #football

Oh yes, here's the link! I am SO GOOD at book promo haha

Hello thrifty reading friends, my book is 99p on Kindle, so why not “invest”? Look!

Just finished 'Uncommon People' by @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social . Smashing read with some great insight into some great records including a couple that I never really listened to much at the time. Can't possibly be 30 years or so since though 😂.

Enjoyed Pulp at Glastonbury? Missing 1995? Relive the nineties with @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social ‘s excellent Uncommon People - Britpop and beyond in 20 songs Properly whizzed me back in time.

Don’t try and make us call Trump Daddy. Just… don’t

I love Andy Murray but this is the dullest quote ever. Love that The Guardian think it’s worth putting on the front page

Hello people, here’s my audio review: mistresses, pirates (the radio kind), football chants and “radical thinking”, enjoyyyyyy observer.co.uk/culture/podc...

Genuinely shocked by this, Martha would probably be alive if he’d done his job, and… no sanction at all?! Nothing? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Not even the most rampant hedge funder can say that private ownership of water has worked out brilliantly so why not try nationalisation? Just to see www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Genuinely have no idea how to find this on the Observer website (!) but Annabel Deas has located my audio review for last week, here it is observer.co.uk/culture/podc...

Hello book festival people, I’m talking about my book Uncommon People - Britpop and beyond in 20 songs tomorrow at the actual HAY FESTIVAL!! Please come so I have people to talk to/at. 7pm Tues, here is the link for tickets www.hayfestival.com/p-23688-mira...

And here is my audio column, featuring the most terrifyingly gripping episode of audio I’ve heard all year, enjoyyyy observer.co.uk/culture/podc...

Hello, I interviewed the fabulous PULP for @theobserveruk.bsky.social here ya go observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.

More of this please. Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to “what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”

"You scumbag. you maggot You -

Here’s my audio column, featuring Diddy, Gaza and AI. More fun than that sounds, honest

Ahhhhh football 😍

MASSIVE legal verdict just in for festivals in London parks.... Questions over whether Mighty Hoopla and Field Day and can go ahead this month.... residents won legal challenge arguing they need planning permission... implications for all other London parks. www.londoncentric.media/p/mighty-hoo...

This is a great piece about the Sycamore Tree case by Andrew Hankinson observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

This time next week: Looking For The Perfect Beat Arthur Baker with @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social 🎟️ tinyurl.com/PerfectBeatW1 📕 🎧

“Simultaneously gentle and devastating… the excellent production and @joedunthorne.bsky.social’s humour and self-deprecation lift this tale way above the ordinary…” Delighted to see this glowing review from @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social of our new podcast Half-Life! observer.co.uk/culture/podc...

Hello friends, here’s my Observer audio column, there’s some good stuff this week, including @joedunthorne.bsky.social and @audreygillan.bsky.social enjoyyyyy observer.co.uk/culture/podc...

The Bee Magazine launches TODAY. It has been created to redress the class imbalance in literature, and features an array of writing talent. Big respect to editors Richard Benson, Claire Malcolm and all at @newwritingnorth.bsky.social. Please support it if you can. Go to TheBeeMagazine.com.

We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.

Ok two pieces in the Observer today. First is about Hamlet Hail To The Thief - it uses the @radiohead.wastehq.social album as a way into a new interpretation of Hamlet, frenetic and twitchy. I interviewed @thomyorke.wastehq.social Steven Hoggett & Christine Jones here! observer.co.uk/culture/thea...