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What a superb book by @ianleslie.bsky.social, and great to have the Spotify playlist whilst reading. So many familiar songs listened to in a different light.
I saw this on Friday and agree with every word here
01.03.2026 17:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0So Gorton was a vote in favour of a more liberal immigration policy? bsky.app/profile/catn...
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Cover of the book ‘John & Paul A Love Story in Songs’ by Ian Leslie. Lennon and McCartney sit together on railings looking at each other.
Just finished ‘John & Paul A Love Story in Songs’ by @ianleslie.bsky.social
I can’t put this well … a profoundly beautiful book that brought back many memories of childhood listening. Memories…but I heard the songs anew.
Finished it, listened to ‘Here Today’ by McCartney, rarely felt so moved.
You put it very well and it's lovely to read that, thank you
28.02.2026 09:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That’s great. Going big.
27.02.2026 15:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0'John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs' by @ianleslie.bsky.social is the best book about the Beatles I've ever read and I've read them all! Highly recommended for super-fans and casual fans, alike. Illuminating and deeply moving. (note: the Audible edition performed by Chris Addison is superb).
24.02.2026 17:17 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0That’s very kind, thank you! Agree on Chris A.
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Clocked this in Dalston last night.
You can read my review of @ianleslie.bsky.social’s terrific book here: johnearls.substack.com/p/hanging-ou...
You don’t have to like the Beatles’ music to find @ianleslie.bsky.social’s writing about it fascinating open.substack.com/pub/ianlesli...
21.02.2026 10:57 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0am reading the @ianleslie.bsky.social book on John & Paul and it’s a real page-turner, am enjoying it so very much
21.02.2026 18:51 — 👍 28 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 0Great to hear that, thank you!
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The Ruffian has LANDED. A brilliant guest post from
Aled Maclean-Jones (free to read) plus a bumper Rattle Bag from me, with thoughts on Starmer's persistence; those "AI is taking all the jobs' posts, and more... www.ian-leslie.com/p/bodies-beh...
„For Bakhtin, the classical body is closed, smooth, complete: the ideal we present to the world. The grotesque is open, rough, imperfect: who we actually are. You cannot have one without the other. The contradiction makes the whole.
From this unholy union comes truth…
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The Ruffian has LANDED. A brilliant guest post from
Aled Maclean-Jones (free to read) plus a bumper Rattle Bag from me, with thoughts on Starmer's persistence; those "AI is taking all the jobs' posts, and more... www.ian-leslie.com/p/bodies-beh...
This is magnificent!
13.02.2026 00:15 — 👍 395 🔁 40 💬 10 📌 0I tried to make this point in a (bad) undergraduate essay on Middlemarch in 1993 but my supervisor didn’t buy it. I feel seen!
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The Ruffian has LANDED. ianleslie.substack.com/p/george-eli...
31.01.2026 10:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0Glad to hear that!
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Here is @ianleslie.bsky.social on the feverish hallicination www.ian-leslie.com/p/george-eli...
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The Ruffian has LANDED. ianleslie.substack.com/p/george-eli...
31.01.2026 10:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
My TED talk on why an ‘arms race’ is the wrong way to think about AI is now available online.
In it I argue:
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He almost certainly won’t get into parliament this side of an election
26.01.2026 12:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0100%. I'm totally bemused by talk that this has made Andy Burnham stronger. It's where vibes collides with actual politics. He's been the main character for the past few days, and months, (vibes) but is definitively not going to be an MP when only MPs can challenge Starmer (actual politics)
26.01.2026 08:53 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I can't see how this is anything but a bad outcome for AB (who admittedly didn't have good options). Whether his 'legend' grows or not he is now shut out of any leadership challenge this side of an election. bsky.app/profile/gaby...
26.01.2026 08:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1Right but he would have had at least a 50% chance of winning it (according to polls/those who know the seat). He's now got zero chance - and therefore zero chance of becoming leader.
26.01.2026 08:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I don't see how this could possibly be optimal. It would be better to get selected and win the seat. As it is he is shut out of parliament and therefore out of contention for the leadership. bsky.app/profile/stur...
25.01.2026 21:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
The Ruffian has LANDED. This week, thoughts on human work inspired by James Fox's 'Craftland' (free to read) plus much, much more... ianleslie.substack.com/p/all-hail-t...
24.01.2026 10:26 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
This is great.
Are teachers also 'putterer-togethers'?
'It takes years to become a master putter-togetherer. Why - isn’t it just a matter of screwing two parts together? Well, no.'