Steve Hanson

Annwn read from 'turbulent/boundaries' which I've had for years in pamphlet form and think is genius.

Good to see Tim Allen again as MC. Better than most standups, sorry @adrianslatcher.bsky.social could not make it! Hope you are convalescing in comfort.

Peter Barlow's Cigarette experimental poetry event of legend, not attended for too many months due to the arrival of the little one, but there was a manifestation of David Annwn: utterly brilliant, sorry but the camera focused on the backs of heads, if that's your hair it didn't sign a release form.

Neoreactionary architecture.

But imagine being called Anemona.

As I said to someone else today, the default map of accolades, prizes and names - contemporary or past - only occasionally matches my own.

Yep. Agreed. I opted for the searing satirical novel rather than name-and-shame, it's in here: www.erratumpress.com/last-days-of...

I once sat in on a lecture to dissertation students which told them to do just that...

Stoke Ceramics Biennial. Great work, plus nostalgia for a benign boom that probably never existed (as represented) and a sort of Farageist imaginary in Stoke's mix of flags, pawn shop and what gets called gentrification + art tourists, wilfully deranged youth stopped by police, ruin and new build.

New York Times: as above, so below.

Alasdair Gray: 'Work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation.' Who could do that now without first being brainwashed?

Wars and Wisdom A. A. Milne – Happy Half Hours (Notting Hill Editions) A. A. Milne’s cricket team included Arthur Conan Doyle and P. G. Wodehouse. Milne knew H.G. Wells. He was one of those people, ste…

Here it is: manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2020/09/30/w...

Nowt up wi a bit o AA Milne I reviewed some… link to follow…

'The solid mass consisted mainly of wet wipes held together by fat, oil and grease.' The Fatberg is perhaps the Ur-metaphor of our era.

This was excellent! Book looks great.

"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage

Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch

Neoreactionary architecture.

Firm linked to Baroness Michelle Mone must pay £122m after breaching Covid PPE contract, judge rules The government wins its case against PPE Medpro - a consortium led by Baroness Mone's husband - after it supplied non-compliant gowns in 2020.

Putting the 'Y' back into Mone. Good news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

Flat-u-lent.

The Pontipines are flatulent.

Remember to turn everything they say upside down, before reading.

Banging it down out there.

Woe the old vessel is spent, yea, scraped unto its depths and lo, the dregs of margarine cling to its walls like the sins of the stubborn peoples. Great shall be the lamentation and wailing of the toast-eaters so Repent! Cast out the crusted remnant! Lest ye be consumed in the judgment of grease.

The stuffquake was coming to an end. Just bits of debris at the surface then suddenly CONEMELT oh my heart my heart.

This deep clear-out is excavating layers from the 1980s nobody wants to see, the fucking teeth are enough to have you reaching for the lighter fluid.

UK set to recognise Palestinian state on Sunday Keir Starmer expected to confirm move after concluding the situation has worsened significantly in recent weeks

Right at the moment there's barely anything left of it. Slow handclap. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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It should also be clear by now that the monarchy are as otiose as they get: all Charles' supposedly deep ecological principles and here he is. They belong together in some way though, because they're both as mad as a balloon. An end to all this courtly horseshit and chests full of unearned medals.

All that effort, expense and rictus grinning. A week later and he'll be slapping the back of some other dodgy geezer and Putin'll be his mate again. They swap something that might have at least looked like principled governance for this?