Well, fuck that. We need to stop intellectualising it. No more tolerance for intolerance. We won the debate years ago. Let's stop litigating, because every time we do racists like Farage, Trump or Robinson steal a tiny shred of legitimacy. And that way disaster lies.

Just found (or been found by) bsky.app/profile/film... which looks like a terrific film resource, for those who'd want to know.

If you're into #screenwriting (or a user of an older Macbook Pro that won't run newer operating systems as Apple have ceased support) here's a link for "Open Core Legacy Patcher" - the operating system hack that "mysteriously" brings your machines more up-to-date. dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Leg...

You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QMh...

It's 15:30 on 4th October 2025. Britain is getting almost 90% of its electricity from clean energy sources. grid.iamkate.com

Because its so windy there is excess power in the system Green-energy supplier Octopus is giving customers free electricity between 12 and 2 today and between 11 and 12 tomorrow. Deform UK don't want you to know that. Their fossil fuel paymasters don't like it.

59 years ago, Seconds (1966) redefined identity and paranoia. Frankenheimer’s masterpiece still haunts. Explore it ➡️ cinephiliabeyond.org/limitation-l...

Look after each other.

As a rule I keep politics off here but sometimes an incident needs highlighting, an experience needs to be seen, a person needs their voice shared. I'm sixty years old and this country is in a worse place than I've ever seen.

This has caught me tonight.

Very sorry to hear of Brian Patten's death. He was the first contemporary poet I can remember reading and the magical clarity and simplicity of his voice was a revelation. Rest in Poetry.

Post a fictional comedian who definitely would accept an invitation to the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

Say, has our general met the enemy?

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

Let's move this deck chair over here, you get a great view of that iceberg.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Invest in drama for young people. Drama in schools. It isn’t about making ‘stars’. It’s about widening horizons. Human empathy and understanding. A bigger world. It saved my life. It should be there for everyone.

Helsinki went a full year without a single traffic death #UrbanDesign #yyj www.politico.eu/article/hels...

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Wayne Shorter often composed with the TV news in the background. Why? “I need to know,” he said, “what I’m writing the antidote for.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/a...

When people say "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear." the correct response is: "I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are."

This is why I'm on here. Read one Calvino, loved it, forgot about him. A couple of lines posted on here and I'm getting this book tomorrow.

Translation: you need to give all your personal information to Palantir and Labour will still lose the next general election.

My take on idea protection in film. There is none. You pitch a great idea, they say no thanks and a few years later your film is made by them with discrete changes - eg the blitz evacuee is a boy rather than a girl etc- but all your other ideas are there. And you can do nothing. I have stories.

There really is a look for these guys, isn't there.

Farage again.

Be careful what you wish for. It won't get better.

Imagine having a government which is in favour of children having brain cancer.

This is Englanad. It really is.

I would suggest it's the other way around. Calling Fascism a legitimate voice in democratic debate is the gravest error we can make.

AI that!

Leicester Goalkeeper Gordon Banks dives to catch a dog in a game against Manchester United, 1965.

I have been seeing mass shedding all summer and wondering what is going on. This is what is going on.

No frickin way #allythepiper #piperally #freebird

I’ve documented protests for decades. The asylum hotel protests I’ve photographed have all been very small. When I first turned up at the Newcastle protest, and asked the police where the protesters were, they pointed to one man and said he’s over there.

"Three's a crowd".

Brexit. (Haven't done one of those in while.)

God I hate these people.

This was the super-secret intelligence Yvette Cooper had on her desk but which she couldn't possibly tell the general public about which meant she had to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group, by the way, in case that wasn't already clear.

Like Jeremy Corbyn and Sophie Ellis-Bextor, I grew up in Woodcraft Folk. Here’s how it changes children’s lives | Phineas Harper

When you're in a race to the bottom, there really is no shame.

Please dm me if you can help.

Picard: Computer! What can you tell me about the lifeform attacking the ship? Preppy voice barely audible through static hiss: A fantastic and insightful question! Now you're really thinking like a starfleet captain. This query really gets to the heart of the thorny issue of xenobiology.

I once had a writing residency in a major university where they paid consultants more than my yearly stipend to demonstrate why I couldn't do a project at the low cost I proposed.

Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to pass to a foreign government, simply because they happen to live near where a US politician wanted to have a holiday observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

How can you arrest FIVE HUNDRED PEOPLE at a single event, find zero legal justification for having done so in one of those hundreds of instances, and not expect people to think you’re totally bent as an organisation?

My favourite kind of film is the one that plays for its brief duration on the screen, and then keeps playing (and evolving, and revealing itself) in your head for days or even weeks afterwards.