Matthew Sweet

You’re right about that tail of course…

Remembering that time the late Queen set off from the Shire to take a ring to Mordor.

Reading Antiquities of Athens & Attica Vol. 2 - my fav book @porticolibrary.bsky.social as part of a movement workshop.

Daily Mail owner DMGT has just signed a deal to buy the Telegraph, which would unite the UK’s two strongest right-wing papers under one owner.

It will almost certainly trigger a competition probe. Another major moment coming for Lisa Nandy as culture secretary.

Clueless is so great. Why didn't they make a 90s version of every Jane Austen novel? Persuasion would be perfect, Louisa could be injured skysurfing

Declinists younger than policemen these days

I am curious about his relationship with anti-vaxxers. He was one of the few MPs who attended when Andrew Bridgen invited Aseem Malhotra to the Commons. And Reform has said Malhotra helped write their health policy. Would bear a bit of investigation.

lmao, but aside from that: 👌

YouTube video by BBC Archive 1969: Marty Feldman - What is Comedy? | One Pair of Eyes | Comedy Icons | BBC Archive

Hello. This is marvellous x

This whole series is magnificent. There’s one about Kenneth Tynan on Oxford with child versions of Michael Rosen and Gyles Brandreth. That man giving Marty his award here is Dr Who’s first script editor.

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Rocks How can earth sciences like geology transform our understanding of history and society?

On Free Thinking: geology considered as one of the humanities and everything you wanted to know about Object Oriented Ontology but were afraid to ask. With Rosemary Hill, Sarah Jackson, @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social @objectoriented.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

New: Major UK retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews say they endure beatings, gruelling hours and inadequate food. Some spend years at sea without visiting port.

Our latest visual investigation by @upyorkshire.ft.com, Dan Clark and @inari-ta.bsky.social

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Sound of Cinema - A place for ideas - BBC Sounds Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.

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Only 3 days left on BBC Sounds to catch @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social last ever edition of Sound of Cinema. A love letter to the movies and to the joy of looking deeper, of complexity.
There are fewer and fewer programmes of this depth on R3 so grab it while you can.

this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself

it is also free to read

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A cute lizard with four frog-like claws and a squat tail. The skin is patterned with small white dots and larger brownish patches.

Unpacking after getting home from Vietnam and Hong Kong and there was a stowaway! I think he (or she) is a four-clawed gecko (and therefore not rare or endangered). Does anyone have any ideas what to do for this appealing little creature?

may Andrew Wakefield be paid back exactly what he has put into the world... multiplied by seven

X is in clear + systemic breach of its legal duties in the UK to remove unlawful content from its platform.

Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported.

A new thread documenting this.

Debbie's Story - The Menopause Charity Debbie's story shares how her experiences have shaped her sense of self, and how openness, talking therapy and friendship have helped her.

Thought alot about doing this but ultimately glad I did share my menopause story: themenopausecharity.org/debbies-meno...

This is one of the clearest examples of a disordered counterpublic capturing an institution I've seen. It's nice to have your work proven on a regular basis, but also very bad.

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It’s the nearest the British sitcom movie got to Eric Rohmer

Vocal frying tonight

done

“We all know why,” says Matt Goodwin.

And we do! It’s because the methodology for estimating emigration changed! I’m sure that’s what Matt is getting at here, right?

I adore Flash Gordon in all its major incarnations but especially love how Mike Hodges transmuted its 30s orientalism & racial essentialism into pervy Fellini opera for kids.

And a Catholic midwife … or whatever role we’re assigning to Anthony Coburn …

Also: Sil in Dr Who.

I think “conspiracy group”is a fair description of Together UK. One of its leading members has harassed grieving widows at the National Covid Memorial Wall and published it online.

Yuja Wang’s VR concert is a retrofuturist spectacle — Ravel would have approved ‘Playing with Fire’ at Paris’s Musée de la musique places the pianist inside a volcano, beneath the sea and on an ice floe

Went to Paris for some immersive Ravel. on.ft.com/3XEmgTa Yuja Wang’s VR concert is a retrofuturist spectacle — Ravel would have approved

It’s great. So are her Munch and Strindberg!

Lovely to see that the Choral is a prequel to A Cream Cracker Under the Settee.