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. trousse.ghost.io/ankle-deep-i... You can sign up, if you're so inclined here: trousse.ghost.io

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. trousse.ghost.io/ankle-deep-i... You can sign up, if you're so inclined here: trousse.ghost.io

Bizarrely, I suggested that Rohrwacher should film Baron in the Trees when I reviewed La Chimera for @uncutmagazine.bsky.social two years ago!

Thanks to @tommckinney.bsky.social for enchanting the morning with a little Elizabeth Poston on #bbcradio3 just now

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.

Delighted to be writing episode 4 of this beautiful beast 🐉 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

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/...

"joy, caught unawares" 🍃

Avril 14th by Aphex Twin. Cheers. Love u.

“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 1/3

Whenever you feel you're not tech-literate enough remember that Frederic Jameson used a mouse with two hands.

Love this dreamy French indie rap + video - feels like spring arriving after a long winter www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1At...

The best music writing I have read this year www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

“… 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) open.substack.com/pub/thelittl...

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”

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.

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.

Loved this superb essay on the tango of perplexity and burstiness in post-LLM poetry open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

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...

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 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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...

My Uncut review of Marty Supreme - an irresistible epic of screwball chutzpah www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/mart...

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 🎄❄️

"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.

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. 🙌

I reviewed the new Bruce biopic www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/film...

I reviewed the new Bruce biopic www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/film...

Ivor and RB united at last youtu.be/Oxl2sWuKjJ0

I wrote about One Battle After Another - the breakneck blockbuster that 2025 deserves

One Battle After Another reviewed: Paul Thomas Anderson's sensational and hysterical take on Thomas Pynchon’s counterculture yarn.

A very moving column by one of the most elegant of our music and sports writers, Richard Williams. thebluemoment.com/2025/09/09/e...

Greatly enjoyed raving about the very gothic new @suedehq.bsky.social album in @uncutmagazine.bsky.social www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/sued...

Was an absolute pleasure talking to @bradmehldaumusic.com about the enduring magic of #elliottsmith

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)

Gorgeous new issue of @uncutmagazine.bsky.social includes my words on Bowie in the USA, Suede, Stevie Wonder and this month’s best movies 🎉

✊🏽 #peterperret

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...

“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 👇

What a perfect evening with Stevie and @annalisadinn.bsky.social

I expect this thread to become national news this week. Excellent, as well as infuriating, public service

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.’

Cops-- pathetic. Fuck off. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...

Reviewed! Pulp - More "Jarvis and co return with some aplomb on their eighth and perhaps finest album..."

Howard Hawks during the filming of "Bringing Up Baby" (with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn) - BOTD

Alasdair MacIntyre’s hitherto under-acknowledged role in breaking up the Beatles www.wordonfire.org/articles/rem...

www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05... Is this an elegy? A prose poem? A list? Whatever it is I absolutely love it.

Praise be to Chris Beans Geddes’ organ, sounding particularly blessed this golden Sunday afternoon youtu.be/DzL0cNmk-n8 #songsofpraise #b&s

A pleasure to review @philippeauclair.bsky.social in the new @uncutmagazine.bsky.social

“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...