Alasdair McKillop

Secretary Sean Duffy tweets: "No better way to bring in the Christmas spirit than at the @WhiteHouse with the legendary Andrea Bocelli!🎄 Even luckier to have my stunning wife as my date❤️" There's a photo of him and his wife at the White House

A close-up of Sean Duffy's shoe. There appears to be a big gap between his foot and the shoe

when you're a size 8 but the 10 was on sale

🎙️ New Episode! 🎙️

We're walking through the airwaves! @ghibliotheque.bsky.social has returned with a festively fused new season exploring the adapted works of Raymond Briggs, beginning here with perenial TV favourite: The Snowman. ⛄

🎧 Now available wherever you find your podcasts! 🎧

I’ve been taking my time reading Peter Doggett’s book over the past couple of weeks, soundtracked by the music he describes. Superbly written as you would expect, shocking, revelatory, and often profoundly moving. Highly recommended.

Amen

John Lennon 1966

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Paul McCartney in Rome 1965

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Pony Boy / Emma Swift release split single covers of Neil Young on COSMIC THUG RECORDSAvailable for pre-order NOW: https://cosmicthugrecords.bandcamp.co...Na... Mellow My Mind (Neil Young cover) by Emma Swift

A very happy Neil Young's birthday to all who celebrate 💜

I no longer live in this house
I have no idea where this much loved bootleg Smiths t-shirt went
But I still have the records! And I still love Neil Young! 

Saying happy 80th to #NeilYoung on the radio show tonight. Some roots flavoured tunes from the man himself and a few classy covers from #CowboyJunkies #DollyParton #kdlang and more. #bbcradioulster & #Sounds from 8. #neilyoung80 #neilyoungbbc #ralphmcleancountry

Our #NeilYoung At 80 show is off and running. First 2 tracks..Tonight’s The Night and Birds. NP Down By The River. Gotta a feeling this is going to be quite the show! Come join me on the BBC Radio Ulster airwaves. #NeilYoung80

George Harrison

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George Harrison photographed by Gered Mankowitz in an outtake from the cover shoot for ‘Cloud 9’, 1987.

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

YouTube video by J.R. Cunningham The Flying Burrito Brothers - Older Guys

Remembering Gram on his birthday
youtu.be/ibuUU9uxT8I

Francis Gooding · Hoodoo Man: Dr John and ‘Gris-Gris’ Beyond or beneath the theatrics there is a disconcerting sense that something much more serious is going on, that all...

‘There is a disconcerting sense that something much more serious is going on, that all the hokum and stage magic might be misdirection of the sort that enables something secret to enter the room.’

Francis Gooding on Dr John’s ‘very strange record’ ‘Gris-Gris’.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul McCartney George Harrison and John Lennon with George Martin 1966

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Chatting to Ralph McLean about the @johnlennonofficial.bsky.social and @yokoono.bsky.social ‘Power To The People’ box set.

If you missed it, catch it here …

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Haha yes.

I think I'm not a huge fan, then I hear a track from Freewheelin'and remember how much it floored me when I first heard it.

Vive le France 🇫🇷

Paul McCartney 1965

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Haters of the Dodgers may complain about payroll disparities, but you can’t love baseball and not be in awe of Shohei Ohtani—perhaps the greatest player who has ever lived, Louisa Thomas writes. https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/shohei-ohtani-and-the-dodgers-are-a-sight-to-behold

the #Beatles 1967

The genius of Seamus Heaney (plus Swallows, an exclusive new poem) As a new collection of the Nobel Laureate’s complete poetry is published, Laura Hackett meets friends and family in his home town of Bellaghy

Lovely read on a very Heaney morning - autumnal, light shifting with the wind.

www.thetimes.com/article/619b...

Gore Vidal: American prophet The writer understood better than anyone how far the United States was going to fall

Gore Vidal: American prophet

📕 Will Lloyd on the writer who understood better than anyone how far the United States was going to fall

Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl review – dull razzle-dazzle from a star who seems frazzled Far from the Max Martin-assisted pop juggernaut fans expected, this soft-rock paean to domestic bliss is slight on tunes and still seethes with grievance. And the less said about her fiance’s ‘magic w...

Thoughts and prayers with Alexis Petridis, who will shortly be going into hiding. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth - Episode 1 - BBC Sounds Richard Schiff reads Roth's chilling alternative history of a far right-leaning 1940s USA.

BBC Radio 4 has adapted Philip Roth's Plot Against America with the great Richard Schiff reading. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Harbour in Trieste (1907) by Egon Schiele

J. Robert Lennon · Never use your own car: Elmore Leonard’s Superpower I don’t think there’s anyone on today’s bestseller lists as accomplished on the page as Elmore Leonard was; he...

‘Leonard understands the dramatic satisfaction of coincidence and comeuppance and delivers them in unexpected ways, within a matrix of crossed wires and shifting allegiances.’

J. Robert Lennon on Elmore Leonard: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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i've been watching videos like this for over 20 years and don't know a single word of japanese. i just nod along bc the videos are so pleasing