Mark Adams

“I felt plutocrats grasping at my grief, gathering it like clay for the foundation of a new city — a worse city.” Brilliant writing

Are you watching Rupert Lowe, Matthew Goodwin, Konstantin Kisin? Your theories took a hell of a beating!

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Now I want to know what Nina does next!

Love this ❤️

Seeing Grieg's piano concerto mentioned made me yearn to watch THAT sketch again.

The whole thing is 12 minutes and massively benefits from being given room to breathe.

The timing and acting remains equisite. and "Andrew Preview" is SO good at not breaking character.

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South’s largest antebellum mansion burned to the ground, igniting debate on social media The mansion in Iberville Parish, La., was built in 1859 and was currently being used as an inn and event venue. Reaction to the loss has been mixed.

Time to read (or reread) Tiana Clark's poem "Soil Horizon" about being asked to take a family portrait at a plantation: poems.com/poem/soil-ho...

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If we only frame this as a partisan crisis, we miss the structural threat: a breakdown in how truth is recognised, shared, and defended. That’s the deeper fight.

Done! Love the music & the joyful exploration of these brilliant stories

Really moving. Beautifully devastating.

Guardian image of Nigel Farage being triumphant in Runcorn

I repeat my appeal to any picture editors who don't want to promote Farage: stop using images that project gleeful, gurning isn't-it-all-a-great-laugh energised triumphalism.

Also - this need to know more stuff increasingly makes me feel I know nothing as you define yourself by what you don’t know

“I think the humanities could do with more of a balance between the people who know more than anyone else about one thing and the people who see connections between vastly disparate things.”
I think this is true of science too - the connections & relationships are where the interesting stuff happens

Wrote about this many years ago on Twitter, but your actual goal should be 5 trains/buses an hour - so a 12 minute interval.

This breaks a couple of important psychological barriers for people, based on research by TfL (London's transport operator). Will explain. 🧵 /1

A selection of Richard Scarry animals in their strange vehicles, including a baboon in a shoe car, several mice in a cheese car, a clown cat in a rhino car, a cowboy dog in a...well, it's just a car, a pig in a pickle car, a dog in a hot dog car, another dog in a pickup truck with potted plants falling out of it, three pigs in a corn car, a worm in an apple car, a cat in a doughnut car, another baboon or perhaps a mandrill in a banana car, a rabbit in a carrot car, another rabbit in a crocodile car, a chicken in an egg car, and what I assume in a beetle in what appears to be a VW Beetle.

If you can't handle me at my 🛻🪴🪴 you don't deserve me at my 🪱🍎.

🧵In March I wrote about how Trump's attacks on science & universities followed the authoritarian playbook & set out Qs as warning signs for escalation.

🚨 THESE ARE NOW HAPPENING

This 🧵is on how those warning sign Qs have been realised

full post:
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I am having the worst day and I would like to thank the man who is sitting parked in his car jamming out to music with a pair of maracas just absolutely getting down for giving me a smile and turning my whole afternoon around thank you sir

"Did you get your unlimited breadsticks like in Dachau?"

Bridget with The Beatles on Abbey Road.

Bridget hanging out in Grant Wood's American Gothic.

Bridget in Bruegel's Hunters In The Snow (with a freshly caught mouse).

The Cat With The Pearl Earring.

A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

24 years ago I was sent to a London pub by a newspaper to interview and drink whisky (no “e” over here) with Lemmy, who was in the band Motorhead and, before that, slightly less famously, Hawkwind and, before that, much less famously, Sam Gopal. We had a good chat: about being from the part of the Midlands north of the River Trent, about books, and about roadying for Hendrix in the mid-60s (him, not me; I was minus nine at the time). When the record company PR sidled over to tell me my time was up, Lemmy waved him away. “No, no, I’m enjoying this,” he said, commandingly. I realised at this point that I had another question I’d been meaning to ask but hadn’t. “Are you scared of anything?” I said to Lemmy. “Nothing,” he replied. Then he paused and frowned for a moment, as if an idea had suddenly occurred to him. “Oh, maybe snakes,” he said. “It’s because they’ve got no shoulders.”

I remember all too little of the interviews I did with rock stars when I was briefly employed as the music critic for a national newspaper, but there is this.

Matchday - "Isn't it just poetry?!" - BBC Sounds Colin Fray's commentary of the moment Forest made it into the FA Cup semi-finals.

I'm sharing Colin Fray's awesome commentary because the recording runs out on BBC Sounds right after the first Brighton pen!!
Can you have a word @emilymaytv.bsky.social ?
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1/7. In case you haven’t been following, here is a short summary of the misnamed Russian-American "peace process" regarding Ukraine.

Growing queasiness about benefit cuts…Here’s my own MP @marykfoymp.bsky.social going public.

Nicholas Hopkinson | The Disease of Tobacco Smoking and Its Cure In the spring of 1942 Dr Lennox Johnston, a Merseyside GP, took the train to London, intending to pluck Winston...

tour de force from @ashorguk.bsky.social chair @copddoc.bsky.social here. LRB piece tells the story of one of the pioneers of the tobacco control movement: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma... Though I don't intend to inject myself with nicotine anytime soon there is much to admire in his tenacity

Once again for the love of god just put taxes up, you'll have to anyway before this parliament is out so do it now, cite defence as the reason, lean into the fact the world has changed & govt must too. (Me and @johnharris1969.bsky.social discussed this on the Guardian Politics Weekly pod btw..

Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.