Real life dystopian piece that contains the memorable phrase “needs less heads”.
4000 people made redundant screaming “Fewer!” into the night.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Real life dystopian piece that contains the memorable phrase “needs less heads”.
4000 people made redundant screaming “Fewer!” into the night.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Took him a disappointing 10 minutes. But he did ask without prompting.
27.02.2026 12:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BRING ON LEBANON-ON-THAMES
Signed,
A Lebanese-on-Thames
Waiter in Czech railways restaurant car just told me to put away my laptop as “this is a restaurant, not an office”.
Fair enough. Awaiting my svíčková, fuck the deadline.
The Tuttle fiasco has ominous echoes of the Documenta art festival in Kassel - another major creative event that was meant to open up Germany to the world and the world to Germany. Once authorities realised that there are corners of the world that are not on the same page as Germany, for example when it comes to Gaza, they rush to stamp the whole thing down. Perhaps hosting a major festival that tolerates the world's contradictions is too much to ask of Germany's government at this stage. It may be wiser to retreat to its comfort zone for a decade or two and host a festival of nonpolitical film in a more peripheral city, such as Bonn. I'm sure other festivals waiting in line, Locarno in Switzerland and San Sebastián in Spain for instance, would be pleased to hear it.
That last paragraph is quietly savage and true:
27.02.2026 08:57 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
While we’re here v good @philipoltermann.bsky.social column about the Berlinale disaster:
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
Non-UK followers confused about previous repost. This is what it’s about…
Welcome early death to Biden-type “it’s me or the fash” strategy for Starmer.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
My favourite bit about ethnonationalist Matt Goodwin complaining that he lost to Muslim sectarianism is that Muslims voted for a party led by a gay Jewish man.
Sectarianism eh.
I wrote this for @fm4.orf.at about how the British aristocracy is just another oligarchy.
And how abuse is part of the system of both (auf Deutsch)
fm4.orf.at/stories/3052...
Bonnie Prince Billy & Catherine Irwin! One of many highlights in @robertrotifer.bsky.social's "Heartbeat", also feat. Dolly Mixture, @lesuperhomard.bsky.social, Salamirecorder, Hide & Seek, White Fence, Georgia Ruyi, @sarahnixey.bsky.social, Benji Knight, Sorry, Glyders.
fm4.orf.at/player/20260...
Here’s the playlist for tonight’s @fm4.orf.at Heartbeat, from 22:00 CET / 9pm GMT, my recommended place to hide away from all the unremittingly awful stuff for a couple of hours.
www.instagram.com/p/DVG4o6ijNr...
Read this key paragraph thinking surely it can’t be as simple as that to get away with a giant scam to rip off both tenants and local authorities. But it probably is.
23.02.2026 07:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Something depressing about the Barbican promoting their Marianne Faithfull thing with AI slop aesthetics
21.02.2026 17:08 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I’ll be in Vienna in March for this, Gratiskarten jetzt reservierbar
ticket.wien.gv.at/M13STB/uspt8/
"The death of truth is the birth of evil," he said. "I have confidence the righteous will rise up against this aberration. I have many dear conservative friends who are as worried about the far right as my democratic ones are worried about the far left. Surely the world needs a 'radical centre' that draws from both traditions."
The Unforgivable False Equivalence there from Bono…
18.02.2026 20:23 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Last month with Gina Birch, Helen McCookerybook, Ruth Tidmarsh, Katrina Townsend (from left to right, Lester Square’s right arm visible behind me). Tomorrow night Ruth and Helen are going to be in my band at The Spice of Life, just off Cambridge Circus.
18.02.2026 11:16 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Funny kind of "Labour" party, if you ask me.
16.02.2026 10:34 — 👍 111 🔁 27 💬 5 📌 1
I don’t know if it makes sense to mention gigs here, but this will be the first and last Rotifer band gig in a while, in one of my favourite London venues on a bill with one of my favourite London bands. Would be lovely to see you if you’re in town.
wegottickets.com/event/687241/
Die Ausgabe hab ich wo, unter Stößen von Zeug.
13.02.2026 09:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Magnificent edition of @robertrotifer.bsky.social's Heartbeat, feat Special Friend, Anja Om Plus, Follow The Zebra, @themonochromeset.bsky.social, The Bevis Frond, waterbaby, Monsterheart, Jane Weaver & @emmatricca.bsky.social, The Notwist, Pictish Trail, Alice Costelloe.
fm4.orf.at/player/20260...
Gut!! Ist auch eine gute Sendung, falls ich das sagen darf
09.02.2026 16:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Tonight’s @fm4.orf.at Heartbeat (from 22:00 CET/9pm GMT) playlist looks much like the one from 2 weeks ago due to the mishap with the mixed-up shows that needs undoing and exorcising before we can all move on (random train window shot, not even that allegorical)
www.instagram.com/p/DUiwxyeDJi...
Helps if you speak German, but do yourself a favour and watch this gorgeous doc about pianist Anatol Ugorski, filmed just after he arrived in post-Wende Berlin.
youtu.be/C0qwErV_DSM
While we're talking about the ethics of taking part in the World Cup and Eurovision...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Just a German paper celebrating the annihilation of a “fake Jew” (imagine even typing the word “vernichtet” in that context) while making sure to publicly name and shame him in the process.
03.02.2026 12:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
31.01.2026 20:03 — 👍 4638 🔁 1997 💬 90 📌 104Auf deutsch, wie immer
30.01.2026 17:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I wrote this for @fm4.orf.at about the pop world’s reaction to Minneapolis including that Springsteen song, and how trying to conjure up a decent sort of patriotism only repeats the cardinal mistake that got us to where we are now.
fm4.orf.at/stories/3052...
But that’s just the personal part of my grief. More generally, it’s just a shame there doesn’t seem to be a market for a paper like this in Austria today. Prove me wrong, please.
30.01.2026 10:07 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Having run the Austrian part in the French résistance at enormous personal risk, Marek was a close friend of my grandfather who I wrote my first piece for the new Tagebuch about a few years ago.
tagebuch.at/2022/03/ein-...