Adam Gent

The Music Works is a Gloucester based outreach charity that works to transform the lives of young people through music. It doesn’t matter what skills you have or what you’re passionate about; as long as you want to make music, they can help you make it happen.

I visited last week and loved it.

TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker review – satire that sees right through you This brilliantly over-the-top comedy about an unworldly heckler explores art and authenticity – being tripped up by it is part of the fun

Bit of a treat when one of your favourite authors reviews another of your favourite authors.

Will get

Reading the Value of a Whale by @adriennebuller.bsky.social has made me wonder how much time and effort is being wasted in the academic sphere on research that aligns closely with green capitalism, and what knowledge could have been produced instead

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them.
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Well this by @nicolaz.bsky.social was very good indeed! Feel like I less read than moved in and lived there. Hild herself is an extraordinary creation and to see C6 Britain through eyes mesmerising. The evocation of nature and the complex politics equally accomplished. It made me read so late!

Emerson, AI, and The Force Notes from the Laude Institute Summit

This a great article and it made me remember this open.substack.com/pub/nealstep... by Neal Stephenson on AI and self reliance which is typically thoughtful (and everyone should read The Diamond Age).

Right will put that on my list. Have to say maps and glossary on a Kindle are a real pain!

Wow, good luck! I’ve just started this and it’s very good

Coming as I do from a BBC comedy background, I have a shitload of suggestions for how to make great television programmes more cheaply (such as not budgeting them at $10m+ per episode) none of which anyone is interested in.

They don’t want cheaper TV. They want cheaper people.

What an extraordinary novel, deeply satisfying, beautifully written. Can only hope the oligarchs and oil executives get to pick it up.

I am writing a policy pamphlet. Here are all the ways to demonstrate I don't really have a policy answer, that I need to avoid:

a. You call for a "national conversation or debate"
b. You suggest that what is needed is “a change in culture”
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Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White

In Deep League: A Conversation with B. Catling | Swan River Press Conducted by Timothy J. Jarvis Peopled with richly drawn Dickensian grotesques and filled with bizarre and comical incident, Munky is as compelling as it is antic. Catling transports the reader to an ...

Great interview with B Catling, love this on Blake: For me he is not a frocked dreamer wafting about and talking to angels. He is a grafter, a working man, whose small factory was crowded with other beings while he daily had to make crappy prints for other artists.

Drama on 4 - John from Hemel - BBC Sounds Drama exploring life on England’s margins and the delicate threads holding us together.

This is a lovely radio drama www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I’d like to propose an end to embracing uncertainty and beginning to make the weather.

2. We need to do four things all at the same time.
A. Ensure that 8, 9 or 10 billion people receive a healthy and sufficient diet.
B. Do so without destroying Earth systems.
C. Rewild as much land and sea as we can, to stop and reverse 6th Great Extinction drivers.
D. Prevent food system collapse.

I must have first read this when I was 18, very excited to be tuning in to a live channel!

In all this Bob Vylan pearl clutching some are conveniently forgetting the IDF is committing genocide.

Because I’m an idiot I’d probably never have picked this up if it wasn’t for book club and I’m so glad I did. Sharp and precise and true, funny and sad. And the men are nearly all fantastically awful. Good choice @phillimilne.bsky.social

Hyper-realistic baby dolls spark moral panic and legislation in Brazil About 30 bills concerning these figurines, known as ‘reborn’ dolls, have been introduced across the country

Never a good sign when another @greatdismal.bsky.social prognostication manifests… www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Engineered Estrangement | An Interview with Cory Doctorow The author, activist, and technology critic Cory Doctorow on reckless broligarchs and what their 'enshittified' platforms are doing to our future

🔴Engineered Estrangement | An Interview with Cory Doctorow

The author, activist, and technology critic Cory Doctorow on reckless broligarchs and what their 'enshittified' platforms are doing to our future

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/engineered...

Students in England now graduate with average debt of £53,000, data shows Student Loans Company figures show 10% jump in a year as individuals increase borrowing to meet cost of living

Students in England graduate with average £53,000 debt.

Total debt £266bn, up to 7.3% interest.

Most European nations don't charge university tuition fees, England does.

What was public debt, is now personal debt.

People penalised for education, can't start family, business.

Abolish uni fees.

God this is an unbearably lovely book, very good review here www.theguardian.com/books/2023/n...

Menswear and the World System w/ Derek Guy The Dig · Episode

Sounds like faint (or niche) praise - which it isn’t, but this is the best podcast on menswear and class politics you’ll ever hear. Thanks @joseph-gent.bsky.social for flagging. open.spotify.com/episode/1yF0...

This is absolutely lovely.

STACKED WONKY

Really great 2 days in Somerset seeing Stacked Wonky www.stackedwonky.com East Quay Arts (huge thanks to @jessprend.bsky.social for the tour and conversation), Taunton Brewhouse www.tauntonbrewhouse.co.uk and a last minute visit to the amazing @museumofsomerset.bsky.social. Looking forward to more!

Fantastic book!

Top read, highly recommended. Great story, fantastic insight and lovely writing - plum rain! @garyseconomics.bsky.social

Fantastic book, taken me too long to get to, highly recommend.