Russell Cunningham

Grey, wet, breezy, and so what did I do today? Went for a swim ofc … outdoors 🥶

Love this 😎

Saw it waaay back, in a Sydney cinema – time to revisit it…

For @theguardian.com: If this is what a broken sport feels like, don’t fix it.

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Am eating smoked tofu. It feels like a moment.

All Hallows fireworks: the tradition continues 🤷‍♂️

Bells Beach bigger than Nazaré? Pleeeease.

First time watching Point Break. Good? Doesn’t matter … it’s Sydney surf days thing.

“…a whole detestfest.”

Time to get a ukulele.

“…you’re missing out on followers and sales.”

Hearty congratulations Graeme, I look forward to reading.

Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr It is the right way to go, but taking the long way round to such an obvious point has cost Labour precious time and credibility, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

On Starmer and Reeves stiffening their Brexit posture www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik It’s easier for politicians to blame others than to face the truth: Britain has been stripped of the spaces and opportunities that allow for true social integration, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Ma...

“Britain really is that island of strangers, yet the sense of social alienation that is now a quintessentially contemporary British experience has been forged by economic and political decisions, not immigrants.” Spot-on @nesrinemalik.bsky.social
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Never mind Uber Cash, I’m interested in Uber Pension.

Starting to ref Emily D like bible bits … “The reading today is Dickinson 254:1-4”, etc 🐦‍⬛

A mushroom omelette supper feels a bit Phantom Thread 🫤

Bryan Ferry is 80 today 😵‍💫

Spot-on.

Agree 100% … the first draft of history is dark enough and, sadly, compelling.

It pays to be mean 🫤

I’m running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors! Voting closes 22 October! 🗳️ 📖

Text: What to do? Stay green. Never mind the machine, Whose fuel is human souls. Live large, man, and dream small.

R. S. Thomas, from “Lore.”

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'Self-Portrait as Psychology' *after two paintings by Soheila Sokhanvari* The straps on my shoes make an X across my feet. My eyes snap open and shut like a purse. *Plink plink*. The way we depart from ourselves when the moon comes out. The way a cat shows its claws when picked up and held. If this is the slow kind of hell, I’m used to it— My hands are folded the wrong way, the cat sits on the bed Like a limpet, the sun drops out of the sky, inexorable As a chandelier earring. I don’t believe in forgiveness Or holding hands or the kind of people who keep treasured Figurines. Sometimes the truth is impossible as a bodice Spilling over with boobs, it just can’t be contained. What do you have to do to get arrested around here? The pictures on the wall look back with no pity. Sometimes The truth is unpalatable as a stain. Even the cactus Judges me from its corner, arms raised like it’s giving up.

Thanks to the Best American Poetry blog for reprinting my poem 'Self-Portrait as Psychology' as their Pick of the Week! (It originally appeared in the NYRB.) Thanks also to the wonderful artist Soheila Sokhanvari, whose paintings initially inspired it.

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What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

will be doing some more general columns for the guardian going forward. this one is on remigration and the evolution of a far-right pipe dream into mainstream discourse. I promise they won’t all be this depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

kingfisher from behind looking sideways

kingfisher from the side

kingfisher in flight over a gate

James Tomlinson spends most his spare time birding & 'sometimes gets wow moments.' This was one of them at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve - Kingfishers relocating back for winter.

Art, life and the other thing Arts Podcast · Updated daily · 'Art, life and the other thing' is the controversial self-portrait that won artist Brett Whiteley the Archibald Prize in 1978. In this six-part series, acclaimed arts pr...

Those who know me know of my love for the art of Brett Whiteley. This is a good pod 🎨 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

“What do you mean, ‘Christmas is coming’?”

Kaveh Akbar though 🔥

Tuchel may scorn politics, but his England team cannot escape their symbolism | Jonathan Liew As toxic nationalism spills over into our shared spaces, the England shirt is freighted with meaning for better or worse

england v the flag. a column

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