Stephen Troussé
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Movies & music at Uncut magazine + charity comms.
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It's Friday, it's five to five, it's the only chart that counts: my top 10 for the last week in May 26 includes new writing on McCartney, McKellen and Köln 75.
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Ankle-deep in ducks
McCartney, McKellen, Rohrwacher and Barthelme star in our top 10 for 29 May 2026
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It's Friday, it's five to five, it's the only chart that counts: my top 10 for the last week in May 26 includes new writing on McCartney, McKellen and Köln 75.
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Ankle-deep in ducks
McCartney, McKellen, Rohrwacher and Barthelme star in our top 10 for 29 May 2026
https://trousse.ghost.io/ankle-deep-in-ducks/
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Bizarrely, I suggested that Rohrwacher should film Baron in the Trees when I reviewed La Chimera for
@uncutmagazine.bsky.social
two years ago!
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Thanks to
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for enchanting the morning with a little Elizabeth Poston on
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just now
21 days ago
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Sam Wetherell
29 days ago
Somewhere Wes Streeting is weighing up whether the humiliation of being Prime Minister for four months is worth the prize of being on the board of six different private healthcare companies for the rest of his career.
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annalisa dinnella
about 1 month ago
Delighted to be writing episode 4 of this beautiful beast 🐉
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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New BBC drama Dragon Slayers to explore the work of legendary newspaper editor
The six-part series stars Matthew Rhys as Harry Evans, whose team broke some of the biggest stories in UK history
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2026/bbc-drama-dragonslayers-explore-work-of-legendary-newspaper-editor
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Something wonderfully Pynchonian, a couple of days before his birthday, about this article on the marshwort and dragonflies flourishing in an old V2 crater in Walthamstow 🚀
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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From V2 rocket-scarred London to Ukraine: how nature thrives in bomb craters
In the UK capital, Bomb Crater Pond is full of wildlife, while scientists studying land obliterated by recent Russian blasts 1,500 miles away have seen ‘how quickly nature begins to heal itself’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/06/london-to-ukraine-how-nature-is-thriving-in-bomb-craters
about 1 month ago
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"joy, caught unawares" 🍃
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about 2 months ago
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Shane Parish
about 2 months ago
Avril 14th by Aphex Twin. Cheers. Love u.
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Association for Scottish Literature
2 months ago
“This poem was written when my father was very ill, dying of cancer, & I was coming home from the hospital. Suddenly this line ‘I am the resurrection & the life’ came into my head & then the poem began to emerge from the line.” —Edwin Morgan on “Message Clear”
#Easter
#poetry
#concretepoetry
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Quinn Slobodian
2 months ago
Whenever you feel you're not tech-literate enough remember that Frederic Jameson used a mouse with two hands.
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Love this dreamy French indie rap + video - feels like spring arriving after a long winter
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miki - ça pik un peu quand même
YouTube video by Miki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1At5s0YLSs
3 months ago
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The best music writing I have read this year
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
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The Docteur Is In | David Beal
In January 1960 Brussels hosted a “Round Table” conference of Congolese and European leaders to negotiate the future of the Belgian Congo. Anticolonial
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/03/11/the-docteur-is-in-nico-congolese-rumba/
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“… She has outlasted tyrants’ speeches, felt the bejesus they squeeze out from the organs of appetite that keep us running like a business.” Loved the metaphysical warp, woof & weft of this little review poem by Timothy Donnelly (scroll down a fair bit)
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Submissions: Why we reject Writers
Like a klatch of backslapping gerbils
https://open.substack.com/pub/thelittlereviewuk/p/submissions-why-we-reject-writers?r=22vek&utm_medium=ios
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Pete Paphides
3 months ago
Here she is in 2026! This neatly bobbed, elegantly coutured lady in her 60s, steps forward in the manner of someone who might just as easily address an international conference held to improve the efficacy of PPE rollouts in future pandemics. And then she sings: “It’s a fine day/People open windows”
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This neatly bobbed, elegantly coutured lady in her 60s, steps forward in the manner of someone who might just as easily address an international conference held to improve the efficacy of PPE rollouts...
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annalisa dinnella
3 months ago
I have also just had my grant cut. We, as a community, are in shock, picking up the pieces and trying to work out what to do next. These callous, devastating and nonsensical cuts cannot and must not be allowed to continue.
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Uncut Magazine
3 months ago
Morrissey: live in London. He appears crooning the opening lines of Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love Is” in a pink shirt, unbuttoned to the waist, like a Quorn beefcake Tom Jones, his collar extravagantly popped à la Eric Cantona, with perhaps a hint of Ming the Merciless and Dick Emery.
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10 things we learned from Morrissey's London O2 Arena show
10 things we learned from attending Morrissey's show at London's The O2 Arena on Saturday, February 28, 2026
https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/10-things-we-learned-from-morrisseys-london-o2-arena-show-153481/
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Loved this superb essay on the tango of perplexity and burstiness in post-LLM poetry
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Metrics: Machine-Tooling a New Human Poetry
NSP Guest Post! Joey Connolly on perplexity, burstiness and the strange new light AI is turning on our all-too-human art form
https://open.substack.com/pub/northseapoets/p/metrics-machine-tooling-a-new-human?r=22vek
3 months ago
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Graeae Theatre Company
4 months ago
Graeae has been informed that our artistic director, faces swingeing cuts to Access to Work support on the same day we close our survey asking for feedback on the scheme. Read the full story on our website with a statement from Jenny Sealey:
graeae.org/resource/acc...
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Access to Work cuts - Statement from Jenny Sealey - Graeae
https://graeae.org/resource/access-to-work-cuts/
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Outstanding
@piercepenniless.bsky.social
LRBpod with
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social
and
@ethanshone.bsky.social
on scale of political capture - with a passing mention of Oborne's MacIntyre namedrop on last week's
@secondcaptains.bsky.social
#ultimatecrossoverevent
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On Politics: Mandelson and the Private Life of Power
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 02/11/2026 · 1h 7m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-politics-mandelson-and-the-private-life-of-power/id510327102?i=1000749194620
4 months ago
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Uncut Magazine
5 months ago
It's a crash course for the readers: the 20 best books about David Bowie Comic books, illuminating analyses, worthy biographies… Bowie continues to contain multitudes for authors to draw on
www.uncut.co.uk/features/lis...
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The 20 best David Bowie books
Comic books, illuminating analyses, worthy biographies… Bowie continues to contain multitudes for authors to draw on
https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/lists/the-20-best-david-bowie-books-152664/
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My Uncut review of Marty Supreme - an irresistible epic of screwball chutzpah
www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/mart...
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Marty Supreme reviewed: Timothée Chalomet's street-smart hustler leads screwball caper
Marty Supreme reviewed: Timothée Chalomet brings it all back home again as a street-smart hustler in Josh Safdie's screwball caper
https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/marty-supreme-reviewed-timothee-chalomets-street-smart-hustler-leads-screwball-caper-152553/
6 months ago
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The Edwin Morgan Trust
6 months ago
Orphean sprig! Melting baby! Warm chihuahua!
#EdwinMorgan
reading “Trio”, published in The Second Life (1968) and recorded by Ewan McVicar in 1990 at Tower Studio, Glasgow 🎄❄️
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"Jesus Christ the Apple Tree" by Stevo legend Elizabeth Poston played on
@bbcradio3bot.bsky.social
and my own version of Whamageddon comes to an end.
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www.uncut.co.uk/features/sof...
Pleased to see that
@uncutmagazine.bsky.social
have shared my 2018 interview with Dave & Marc. One of the very greatest British pop groups. 🙌
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Soft Cell: “I suppose you could say it was a strange career path. But there were some amusing moments…”
Soft Cell's Marc Almond and Dave Ball confess all: “It was sex, drugs and electronic rock’n’roll!”
https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/soft-cell-i-suppose-you-could-say-it-was-a-strange-career-path-but-there-were-some-amusing-moments-151815/
8 months ago
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I reviewed the new Bruce biopic
www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/film...
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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere – a sentimental take on Bruce’s own private Nebraska
Jeremy Allen White brings wildness and wonder to this solid Boss biopic
https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/film-reviews/springsteen-deliver-me-from-nowhere-sentimental-take-on-bruces-own-private-nebraska-151757/
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I reviewed the new Bruce biopic
www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/film...
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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere – a sentimental take on Bruce’s own private Nebraska
Jeremy Allen White brings wildness and wonder to this solid Boss biopic
https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/film-reviews/springsteen-deliver-me-from-nowhere-sentimental-take-on-bruces-own-private-nebraska-151757/
8 months ago
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Ivor and RB united at last
youtu.be/Oxl2sWuKjJ0
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9 months ago
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I wrote about One Battle After Another - the breakneck blockbuster that 2025 deserves
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9 months ago
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Uncut Magazine
9 months ago
One Battle After Another reviewed: Paul Thomas Anderson's sensational and hysterical take on Thomas Pynchon’s counterculture yarn.
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One Battle After Another reviewed: sensational and hysterical take on Pynchon’s counterculture yarn
With his new film, One Battle After Another, director Paul Thomas Anderson rises to the challenge of his times
https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/one-battle-after-another-reviewed-sensational-dangerous-and-hysterical-take-on-pynchons-counterculture-yarn-151470
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Philippe Auclair
9 months ago
A very moving column by one of the most elegant of our music and sports writers, Richard Williams.
thebluemoment.com/2025/09/09/e...
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Every beat of my heart
This is the bass-drum head from the kit I used as a member of an R&B band in 1964-65. Last week, two days after I’d taken it to the recycling centre as part of a general clearout of super…
https://thebluemoment.com/2025/09/09/every-beat-of-my-heart/
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annalisa dinnella
9 months ago
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Greatly enjoyed raving about the very gothic new
@suedehq.bsky.social
album in
@uncutmagazine.bsky.social
www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/sued...
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Suede's Antidepressants reviewed: Britpop outliers on exhilarating, grandiose form
Brett and the boys set the controls for the heart of darkness on resurgent 10th album
https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/suedes-antidepressants-reviewed-britpop-outliers-on-exhilarating-grandiose-form-151272/
9 months ago
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Was an absolute pleasure talking to
@bradmehldaumusic.com
about the enduring magic of
#elliottsmith
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9 months ago
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The Edwin Morgan Trust
10 months ago
The summer grows late, cool, ragged, precious. Clouds like ungainly brooms are sweeping showers across the slates ... — ‘A Crow’ by
#EdwinMorgan
, published in Sweeping Out the Dark (Carcanet, 1994)
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Gorgeous new issue of
@uncutmagazine.bsky.social
includes my words on Bowie in the USA, Suede, Stevie Wonder and this month’s best movies 🎉
10 months ago
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Kid Congo Powers
10 months ago
✊🏽
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Kendrick and SZA last night the best partnership a Spurs stadium has seen since the glory days of Kane & Son, Keano & Berbs, Gilzean & Greaves. My review in Uncut is here
www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/live...
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11 months ago
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“Rodrigues gives us the fairy story: how a sickly boy from Middle England heard voices in the hedgerows, dived headlong into the 1970s art scene and eventually, through the power of love, transformed themselves into a pandrogynous international art monster. “ - my review of the new GPO doc 👇
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11 months ago
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What a perfect evening with Stevie and
@annalisadinn.bsky.social
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11 months ago
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Paolo Sandro
11 months ago
I expect this thread to become national news this week. Excellent, as well as infuriating, public service
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David Wheatley
12 months ago
If Liverpool sign this chap from Naples and he sets up a goal for the reds’ Colombian striker, can I just say (in advance): ‘Osimhen… Diaz… look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.’
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Hamilton Nolan
12 months ago
Cops-- pathetic. Fuck off.
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You're a Bunch of Cowards!
We're all laughing at you.
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bunch-of-cowards
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Uncut Magazine
about 1 year ago
Reviewed! Pulp - More "Jarvis and co return with some aplomb on their eighth and perhaps finest album..."
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Pulp - More
Jarvis Cocker and co return with More, which is Pulp's first album of new music since We Love Life back in 2001
https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/pulp-more-150009/
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J.A.Tallon
about 1 year ago
Howard Hawks during the filming of "Bringing Up Baby" (with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn) - BOTD
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Alasdair MacIntyre’s hitherto under-acknowledged role in breaking up the Beatles
www.wordonfire.org/articles/rem...
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Is this an elegy? A prose poem? A list? Whatever it is I absolutely love it.
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There Is Another World, But It Is This One by Luke Allan
May 13, 2025 – “The last time I saw my mum was at a Mexican restaurant in a shopping mall.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05/13/there-is-another-world-but-it-is-this-one/
about 1 year ago
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Praise be to Chris Beans Geddes’ organ, sounding particularly blessed this golden Sunday afternoon
youtu.be/DzL0cNmk-n8
#songsofpraise
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Belle and Sebastian - I Know Where the Summer Goes
YouTube video by Jeepster Recordings
https://youtu.be/DzL0cNmk-n8
about 1 year ago
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A pleasure to review
@philippeauclair.bsky.social
in the new
@uncutmagazine.bsky.social
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about 1 year ago
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“a bulky 1920s solicitor’s cabinet arrives, which, for no clear reason, has been embellished with a jazzy black and white design reminiscent of dazzle camouflage. It stands in the gallery like some big fat vorticist elephant.” Loved this Adrian Searle review
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Richard Wright review – a hectic, hallucinatory journey into a mind-boggling world
The artist’s largest solo show since winning the Turner prize is a mind-bending and mesmerising visual adventure that often defies comprehension
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/apr/18/richard-wright-review-camden-arts-centre-london
about 1 year ago
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