BREAKING: God this is good: check out the new Banksy sculpture, just appeared in London!…

Contemplating voting Tory in next week's locals which makes me feel itchy and, frankly, a bit sordid. But I can't actually see a progressive vote working to keep Reform out where I live. And I want to do everything I can to temper whatever victory they'll claim next Friday. Grim.

This man is not a friend of the Jewish community and neither is anyone in his fetid pool of a business masquerading as a political party.

The Two Trumps

Since watching someone - quite literally - tumble down the Q Anon hole during the pandemic, I sometimes check in on what some of the accounts he was into are posting… they’re all back on Twatter, obviously.

Counting down the weeks now

Oh god… not the rubbing thighs over ‘Anglo Saxon blood’ thing again… *whacks out giant book of British history*

Makes the Brexiter blue passport brigade seem comparatively rational.

We've still not reached the stage where *anyone* who voiced an ounce of praise for Trump is now completely disregarded because of their staggering lack of judgement and foresight.

Oh god. This US trip is going to make me want to defend the King, isn't it? I don't want to defend the King.

'We could have thought this through but we just didn't...'

Well done sir, they're calling it your best interview yet

You can tell *this* one wasn’t staged because the manifesto would have been something like ‘I have to kill this hugely handsome and brilliant president before all this winning and hotness kills my radical left lunatic dream of borderless medical care for women’s sports and also Satan.’

It’s absolutely bonkers how often they set him up with a complete softball and he’s like, “Yeah, the thing is, I don’t care about other people. Like, at all. LOL.’

Oh, did you think he was referring to you?

Also, since I just bring this up periodically, did right-wing commentators (let alone Trump) ever mention Kirk's killer again after he was arrested? He was supposedly trans and killed Kirk to impress his roommate (? I think that was the story?) so you'd think they would have milked that forever

The problem with the public is that at times, they absolutely fucking suck. No blaming anyone else for this one. (Just in the same way there are no excuses for America electing Trump a second time.)

Nailed it! Exactly what he was like. Great work!

Truly… a cult.

Made it through that crime-ridden London this weekend without being shot at…

Anyway. I’m glad nobody was hurt and I’m sure the journalists who attended the WHCD will not center themselves and their personal experiences and instead remain focused on holding the powerful accountable and informing the people about their government.

Scraping the bottom of my cold dead heart for any credulity or empathy and it’s empty.

Karoline Leavitt being interviewed by FoxNews: “There will be shots fired” tonight.

I don’t know what I was thinking. The cat stays.

Stupid walk for stupid mental health felt positively summery today.

Trump is just posting through it like the rest of us.

Discovered an Insta account run (allegedly) by someone who has a doctorate in palliative care for dementia patients and he keeps posting videos promising that *it* is imminent and I am finding myself clinging to every one as the days pass like a fucking life raft...

PabloReports: Who do you think Trump should fire next? AOC: Is he out of women? Trump only seems to have the capability to fire female secretaries. If you’re a man in the Trump administration, it seems that they reward misconduct.

Dan Reed was a documentary filmmaker who specialized in terrorism and war when he detoured into very different terrain, explosive in other ways entirely: the accusations of child sexual abuse that have followed Michael Jackson since 1993.

I’ve listened to Prince pretty much for two days solid. I’ve not done that since the nineties. There’s stuff happening (obviously) and there are people I love I’m worrying about right now, but… I feel positive and I think it’ll be okay. Listen to music. Support music. (Not AI because fuck that shit)

Priceless post from the official White House social media

Everyday I see someone post something that the President has posted or said or done and I think to myself that it must be satire or AI or *somehow* not real (goddamit)... and it's always real.

Is there a way you can mute the seemingly unstoppable wave of promo for the abomination that is the Jackson biopic?Because I've just gone to transfer some files to a colleague and that bastard is moonwalking across the screen like the nineties never happened.

“Minnesota remembers Prince 10 years after his death”

Some of the other stories I gathered here include the time Prince invited me to his house, a glimpse at the Myst-like CD-ROM game he released in the 90s, some digital artifacts that I had the only copy of—including Prince’s own notes on his greatest hits, and the message behind his Super Bowl show.

Anyway. Represent today and everyday 💜

Today usually sucks for me but BBC 6 Music has been playing Prince most of the day and Craig Charles is currently doing a special on Wendy and Lisa and it is making everything better.

I wish some of the people in the media who suddenly seem very concerned about national security had given half as many fucks about Boris Johnson losing his security detail to party with an ex-KGB agent and popping that man’s son into the House of Lords…

we've noticed and i'm glad he's getting help

I will never forget the experience of seeing LEAVING NEVERLAND at its Sundance premiere. For @avclub.com I wrote about a devastating, definitive documentary about surviving sexual abuse that cannot be erased.

Hearing next door cheering the football and realising they definitely heard the (near-perfect) rendition of the opening of the overture from Don Giovanni ten minutes ago… 😬

Formulating my novel where two stars of a cult teen show reunite in later life, fall in love and team up with the rest of the remaining teen-drama cast to bring down the evil cult that one of them accidentally married into, and free the imprisoned wife of the cult leader in the process.

PSA: Prince and the Revolution live in NY, 1985 is on iPlayer right now.

Uncovered in one of my books - a message from Minneapolis artist, Dan Lacey, whose art hangs in my office/garden room. I never met Dan and he died in 2022 from brain cancer. During his illness he painted some truly beautiful psychedelic works featuring Prince and Paisley Park.

I did a round on the eighties for our pub quiz on Thursday and one of the questions was why Pope John Paul II asked people to boycott Madonna in 1989. The answer was, of course, because the Like A Prayer video was ‘blasphemous’. The eighties… when blasphemy fucking meant something, man.

Between Woke Pope and Sabrina Carpenter’s backing dancers wearing Blonde Ambition Tour black cassocks for ‘Like A Prayer’, I am giving serious consideration to joining the Catholic Church.