Cappadocia is an unreal, utterly unique landscape.

Have arrived at frankly obscene cave hotel in Cappadocia. Not pictured: 9 hour van journey to get here.

Staying overnight in Pamakkale. It is famous for its thermal spas. The town centre has an enormous steaming rock, which unfortunately looks like an elephant stopped by.

Cats: In Turkiye you are never more than three feet from a cat. Every photo I have taken has a furry assistant wrapped around my legs.

The extraordinary amphitheatre and springs at Herapolis.

Ephesus: magnificent. Not pictured: subsequent career as leather model.

Troy and Troy and Troy and Troy and Troy. Not Pictured: Troy and Troy and Troy and Troy and Troy.

Profoundly affecting trip to Gallipoli. I blubbed. Not pictured: Mini van full of flies.

Istanbul: Mosques and mystery. Not pictured: inconvenient Popes, fighting tour guides.

Save the Moth Club. Again. c.org/PpJGRqmyXh

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

TWO PROSECUTORS is a Kafkaesque nightmare of bureaucracy and menace. Reminded me of working at the Treasury. Tales afterwards about the Director's working methods very funny. #LFF2025

THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB leaves you upset , then angry. It should be seen by everyone. #LFF2025

Is there absolutely nothing these useless pricks can get right? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

THE SECRET AGENT is a masterpiece of complex storytelling. Set in Brazil in 1977 in a time of corruption and death squads, it's full of humour and dread. Not so much shaggy dog, but it does involve a rampant severed leg and three eyed cat. #LFF2025

ROSE OF NEVADA is an extremely Mark Jenkin film. Many timbers are shivered. #LFF2025.

Even by her own standards, Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND is a slight and muted affair. A film in various shades of brown that leaves you cold as autumn. #LFF2025

FRANKENSTEIN is gorgeous to look at, very sympathetic to its monster, and goes on way too long. Ups the gore and the bore. ##LFF2025

Greatly enjoyed THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE. Baneen Ahmad Nayyef outstanding as little girl Lamia and a rooster performance for the ages. The second of the Festival so far. ##LFF2025

SIRAT at the BFI imax is mind blowing. Also several of the most Holy Fuck! moments I've seen in a cinema. Outstanding. #LFF2025

Lots of BIG ACTING from Jessie Buckley in HAMNET. Not subtle, but a powerful performance. #LFF2025

Very much enjoyed THE LOVE THAT REMAINS even if I didn't understand all of its Icelandic surrealism. A great dog performance and a terrifying rooster. #LFF2025

BUGONIA is gratuitous and unpleasant. I'm not really a fan of women being brutalised for laughs. #LFF2025

Call of the Wyld: 2025: July to September Youtube and longer Spotify mix youtube.com/playlist?lis... open.spotify.com/playlist/3st...

Holy Shit this Geese album is good!

Am due to see this at the London Film Festival. Should be a hoot.

Season 7 of Homicide: Life on the Street.

And of course, we did Cabaret Voltaire.

Football! The only ground with a crematorium.

Truly Madli Deeply

Zurich. A place of weird statues and nice toilets.

Basel is full of skeletons, skulls and sinister signs. I'm currently sat in the hotel bar and instead of football, they're showing a documentary about a graveyard. Still, the restaurant next door seems OK...

Basel is really into hosting the Women's Euros. Not only a great game last night between France and Germany, but already a statue commemorating Ann-Katrin Berger's amazing save.

The problem with standing near Lake Geneva is that after a while, you need the loo.

Here we go!

My Geneva hotel room doubles as a Bond villain's lair

Chelsea take to weird new football competitions like a cat does to a new cardboard box.

Think they should simply rename the film 'The Salt Pathological Liars.'

Call of the Wyld: April to June 2025. Some absolutely cracking stuff. Youtube: youtube.com/playlist?lis... Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/3p6...

I don't understand the outcry over AI. If I bullshit my way through a job, I feel pretty cocky. When a computer does it, there's outrage.

This is a fantastic article, and the last line is a kicker, as I skulk at home literally hiding from the summer sun. reactormag.com/lets-talk-ab...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... There is nobody as petty as these miserable pricks. Politicians who can only make things worse, lost in a bubble of their own craptitude. Who the hell are they trying to impress?

Eurovision just dodged a literal bullet there.

🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...

Watching the first episode of Malpractice. Ooh, that's a lot of malpractice.

This is just terrific youtu.be/jGv7xBdgtk0?...

Lettuce Speak www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Just come out of Becoming Led Zeppelin and it was predictably great. And I just keep thinking "Wow! Shirley Bassey!"