"The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself." William Blake

In the mid 90s I spent some time in Bosnia, towards the end of the war there. What I absolutely learned is that people DO die defending a multiculture.

Man, I miss Berlin.

Just bringing this to your attention. Because it (she) is wonderful. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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This was officially the start of the 1990s.

"I am a writer and therefore, automatically a suspicious character." ~ Alfred Hitchcock

Brighton and its infinite stories

Seen on Mastodon. This is by Dutch cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards.

After Islam, the system was supposedly lost.

Alan J. Pakula's ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman airs tonight at 8pm ET on Pluto TV 70s Cinema: pluto.tv/us/live-tv/5...

This is making me think about cross-subsidy, which used to support a lot of writers. AutoTrader used to subsidise the Guardian's journalism. Bestselling books subsidised all the others. I'm sure even the BBC's best dramas subsidised its more niche offerings. But then people got all excited about...

Morning all. Photographer Homer Sykes. London, 1970's.

The Scream 1895 https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25142

This is incredibly moving and tells you a lot about who Renee Good was.

This is a poem about the B word. About the Hostile Environment. About those bl**dy flags. It's taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't, my second full collection. Drop me a DM if you'd like a signed copy...

Define "punk"...

I managed to finish my year as President and am now enjoying a long awaited holiday.

My 7yo son is such an inveterate bookworm that pals regularly ask me for reading recommendations which might get their kids - especially boys - reading too. So this week, I turn the reins of my column to the man himself, so he can give you his BOOKS OF THE YEAR. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

My partner wonders why our toddler prefers me, it's simple just sit on the floor while they play and PUT YOUR FUCKING PHONE DOWN

On iPlayer now, campy noir fans! 88 minutes of crackling genius

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

7am on New Year’s moning, #Berlin by László Moholy-Nagy (1930).

"It was filmed exactly as written. I know because I was on the set, watching, unable to believe that any of this was truly happening. An author was seeing his work treated with respect." — Charles Beaumont, writer of "Perchance to Dream" #TwilightZoneMarathon

iPlayer 📽️ Back To The Future 1-3 Blue Velvet Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid Casablanca Challengers Chicken Run Death on the Nile Elvis Get Carter Godfather 1&2 Jaws Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Mission: Impossible North By Northwest Paddington 1&2 Raging Bull Rear Window The Third Man Unforgiven

Today is the day a very special man was born, sent to us many years ago to tell fantastic tales and bring messages of peace and understanding. Happy birthday Rod Serling!

This time of year can be hard for some of us. Nine years ago a good friend of mine put his kids to bed on christmas night, said goodnight to his wife, went to a local park and committed suicide. Help is out there. spuk.org.uk

Wrath, envy, treason, rape, and murder’s rages, Thy heinous hours wait on them as their pages.

4OD 📽️ Apocalypse Now Broker Carol Chopper Die Hard Enys Men Everything Everywhere All at Once Home Alone Local Hero The Long Good Friday Mean Streets Memento Memoria The Missionary Monos Mrs Harris Goes to Paris Open Range A Room with a View Shame

In 1953, Sands Hotel dancer - Sally McCloskey - climbed to the top of Mount Charleston in Nevada to perform an interpretive dance. Meanwhile less than 40 miles away behind her an atomic bomb explodes on a Nevada Nuclear Test Site.

If you work with freelancers, pay them on time. This is especially important at Christmas. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Look, you can have low taxation or you can have functioning public services. You can't have both. Lots of people, including the UK government, seem to have forgotten this fact. Taxation isn't theft. It's the foundation of society.

Know anyone in the Brighton (UK) area who'd love to be a part of a funky film? Please spread the word. We're shooting in January and need supporting artists. (The contact email- [email protected]) Grateful if you can share it. Thanks.

getting people back into theatres requires two things: a greater diversity of well-produced and marketed films, along with exhibitors working to build community around the idea of moviegoing

Martin Parr, absolute mensch. From Colin Wilkinson, founder of Bluecoat Press, on FB

Please boost...people need to see this. 😭💔 A translator in the European Parliament burst into tears during the speech of 11-year-old Roman, who miraculously survived the Russian shelling of Vinnytsia 🎞: Radio Liberty

Know anyone in the Brighton (UK) area who'd love to be a part of a funky film? Please spread the word. We're shooting in January and need supporting artists. (The contact email- [email protected]) Grateful if you can share it. Thanks.

I love this one.

Let's not do fireworks any more. We have lasers now. Just do laser shows without the bangs. Even loud music would be better than the bangs.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

I swear the Labour gov are consciously preparing the ground for Fascism. Classifying opinion as terrorism, restricting the right to protest, digital ID, hostility to migrants, ending of trial by jury etc. They're not idiots, they know what they're doing.

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I highly recommend this thread.

Let us first see peace

The BBC, the press, the Universities, who next? The UK's key and core institutions are consciously preparing the ground for Fascism. Enabling, abetting, collaborating.

I have discovered a pile of Nigel droppings under my bed tonight.