Adam Gent

Extraordinarily enjoyable book! Just does everything well: ideas/characters/plot/lovely writing - strong recommend, and looking forward to more from Jordan Prosser and @deadinkbooks.bsky.social

This is a measured, weary, cutting piece. I won't cherry-pick a screenshot, there's enough disdain in here for everyone involved. Read the whole thing.

making a living vs making a life or "can you earn money from your art?" (and is that even the right question?)

This is lovely and wise

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

British.

Yes, which has just me think of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, obvious parallels, which was extraordinary

It is!

Loved this! A clever book about class, identity politics, media which unwraps them in thoughtful layers while remaining incredibly entertaining.

Musical prodigy Charles Yang breaking into a heart-rending and soulful cover of Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come.'

Yang is an American violinist, composer and singer, and a graduate of the Juilliard School.

#music #blues #vocals #soulful

I love that Beckett is still confounding people after all these years. It’s like “I went to see The Rite of Spring. I don’t know what the hell that was but it sure wasn’t music. I felt like rioting. One star”

Don Quixote (is a very big book) - The Wardrobe Theatre A brand new one-man puppetry and clowning epic loosely based on Miguel de Cervantes' classic, presented by Opposable Thumb Theatre (Coulrophobia, Big Boys Don't Cry) and Nordland Visual Theatre (Norwa...

Just seen the very talented Dik Downey in Opposable Thumb’s new show Don Quixote (is a very big book) and it is Very Funny & Excellent .Catch it at Wardrobe Theatre next thewardrobetheatre.com/shows/don-qu...

R. S. Thomas, ‘The Bright Field’, from Laboratories of the Spirit (1975) #NationalPoetryDay

Spent this morning with lots of great people who are doing lots of great cultural things in Gloucester. Really energising to see the impact ACE funding can have.

Just started this and really enjoying it - reminds me of David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten

‘It’ll be fine!’ Meet the visionary who invented the car: the Stephen Collins cartoon Random members of the public will pilot these things – it’ll be fine

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I’ve had to look up an Arnold Bennet Omelette now and that is a mighty meal! Enjoy.

This sounds amazing!

Really lovely get together at Salisbury Arts Centre to remember Jill Low today. Catherine’s piece below is perfect. Jill gave @stephaniejalland.bsky.social and I a home for Hoodwink and the Arts Centre felt like home again today with staff, volunteers and artists all there, so good to see everyone.

William Gibson - start anywhere but I loved The Peripheral which is more recent.

“Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles” from the Hayward Gallery has arrived at The Wilson in Cheltenham and it’s a wonderful exploration of textiles in contemporary art. Really want (need) the wallpaper by Marc Camille Chaimowicz.

‘The storm for Lear is inside him’: Crossing choppy seas to bring Shakespeare to Isles of Scilly RSC touring troupe stage King Lear in a school hall on St Mary’s before continuing to the Isle of Wight

Great to see ACE supported work of the best quality getting to our most far flung communities www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

Well done @bsidefest.bsky.social on the launch of The Portland Dress as part of the Big Weekend. Hundreds of local stories embroidered in a very special community textiles project. And beautiful choral work led by Destination Opera to mark the launch at the Old Engine Shed tonight. (1/3)

Enjoyed Pagans by @jamesbluecat.bsky.social very much, highly recommend. Read after the excellent Hild and Menewood by @nicolaz.bsky.social and had a very pleasing historical fiction/alt history continuity

Holiday accommodation lamp winner for all time.

Cycling in Suffolk yesterday, we stopped outside house with an unmanned stall selling jams and marmalades and bought Dark Horse, ‘finely treacled’ marmalade and Oh My God why did I not know about this before?! Absolutely fantastic.

Hey UK, my reality-bending mother-daughter-found-family-multiverse novel is on sale on Kobo. It's about being lost, trying to find the best version of you (literally), the mysteries of our parents, neuroparasites, murder and features two of my favourite characters I've ever written in Dom and Amber

This is my flag.

Looks good!