Jack Kavanagh Homan

I honestly feel many people are sick of performatively confrontational presidential candidate debates.

The constant interruptions, prickly haranguing, random hypotheticals, repetitive dredging of controversy instead of hearing about values, character, vision.

We deserve smarter discourse.

#Aras25

every day that Heather Humphreys is not asked why she refused to meet with disability activists during the Scrap the Green Paper campaign is another day of ignominy for the Irish press. she's running on her record, yet she's not questioned on it any substantive way

No no. No, we won't be doing that. We won't be brushing the last two years under the carpet just because there is a current ceasefire. This is appalling, Israel should not be allowed to participate until Palestine is free and Netanyahu is behind bars for war crimes, where he belongs.

My first thought was Knocked Out by Paula Abdul.

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

YouTube video by Belinda Carlisle Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Official HD Music Video)

Diane Keaton could have directed Annie Hall but Woody Allen could NEVER have directed the music video for Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven is a Place on Earth"

No amount of big budget trailers can pique my interest like a poster for this stuff.

"Saying the quiet part out loud doesn’t make it brave; it makes it bleak. It teaches [...] campaigners that integrity is a liability and that reputational violence is a sign of savvy. It tells the public that truth is optional, empathy expendable, and that politics is just performance warfare."

It’s certainly the George album I reach for most. Even if Older is a more cohesive statement, there’s something about the way he bares his soul on LWP that really resonates with me. I remember your piece, it was a vivid snapshot of a fraught time and a suddenly changed world and I really liked it.

1990 the winner by a country mile tonight #TOTP

Show Me Heaven (Turtles Get Real) #TOTP

This song is cool again with Gen Z thanks to them discovering it through David Lynch, there’s a real unironic love for it #TOTP

Blame Nivea #TOTP

Donington Monsters of Rock festival had only happened a few weeks earlier, and I suspect a few releases were timed to coincide with it - Megadeth, AC/DC, Thunder etc.

Traditional wisdom says that 1990 pop took a bit of a nosedive in the second half of the year, but this is an absolutely cracking Top 40 all in all #TOTP

Absolutely inspired sample choice tbf #TOTP

“Oh booo who even needs the album chart anyway?”
*sees 10 seconds of George Michael*
“never mind 🥰” #TOTP

Saw Deacon Blue live this week, they were great. So there. #TOTP

'We've both given up smoking cos it's fatal/So whose matches are those?' - one of the great lines in pop. #totp

Love all these songs individually, but this megamix is so much less than the sum of its parts #TOTP

So Hard, aka the only really commercially viable single from Behaviour. Still my favourite PSB album, grown-up melancholic pop at its absolute best #TOTP

LOVE for the ANIMALS

Also the follow-up Are You Dreaming is probably the funniest record ever made. #TOTP

Younger me was OBSESSED with I Can’t Stand It, he thought it was the coolest thing ever. Probably still does #TOTP

I bloody love 1990. I’m probably gonna be overly generous to some of this but I don’t care, this is MY era #TOTP

In fairness to Simon, they are still married after nearly 40 years #TOTP

Never much cared for True Blue I’m afraid, but then again, I never liked synthy 80s approximations of girl group records (e.g. Frankie by Sister Sledge) #TOTP

Indeed it is. Hugely dispiriting viewing. A whole generation sitting idly by waiting for Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley to give pop a kick up the backside.

We could’ve had Suburbia??? #TOTP