Jim Baxter

It's great. Probably my favourite.

Bobby Ball?

If you were looking for an exposition of what British values *could* be you could do a lot worse than Ian McKellen wielding Shakespeare like a rapier.

Peter Mandelson is telling the truth on one thing: the idea he was bought for a $4k “bursary” or a $75k gift is ridiculous

The real incentive was a post-government payday - one so big he *rejected* a $3–5m-a-year offer

And Epstein enabled that payday

Here’s the evidence. 🧵

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Apologies, just noticed you framed this as a 'question for people who use the phrase "reactionary centrist"'. I don't, but feel like Leslie might be a prime example for people who do.

Ian Leslie?

Just needs chips to be a sandwich Americain

For Jim Moir/Vic Reeves' birthday, a reminder it's thirty years this year since this advert.

Ooh, "pop music".

I read Tony Visconti's book and in the early 70s Marc Bolan would go round his house for a bath because he had hot water.

So sorry.

Say what you will about Hitler, at least he knew which countries he was invading.

Pray you once more,
Is not your father grown incapable
Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid
With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear?
Know man from man? Dispute his own estate?
Lies he not bed-rid? And again does nothing
But what he did being childish?

Today’s Connections was an absolute SHAM! #IYKYK

This is a vg list if you don’t want to live in an echo chamber (polite reminder that if you never want to hear from another Tory again, there is always the option to just go on your merry way without feeling the need to say so)

also, you cannot just roll out AI - or worse, have people using it as a side thing - you absolutely have to do the work of training people. Train them on how it works, what its limitations are, how to use it *responsibly*. Have processes in place for disclosure; have guardrails, have leadership.

Maybe something like:

Letter to Hermione
Life On Mars?
Aladdin Sane
Sweet Thing
Young Americans
Station to Station
Warszawa
DJ
Love is Lost (DFA remix)
Lazarus

No Good (Start the Wank)

Musk: "Why is the government so fascist?" (10/1/2026)

Musk: Calling non-violent people fascist "should be treated as incitement to murder" (26/11/2025)

Musk: "Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die, that’s the truth, I think.” (13/1/2025)

This is just stunning.

James Murphy turning in an epic remix with a lovely nod back to Ashes to Ashes.

#Raveyardshift

youtu.be/VpXleysIs90?...

It's brilliant

An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Deep into my Christmas cake era

Babysitting is my main opportunity for watching horror films.

Manchester renaissance 2016

Tomorrow marks 10 years since the greatest piece of art of our generation

Deludedly believing myself to be a knight errant.

YES!

How many other people have spotted that APT by Rosé and Bruno Mars shares a good chunk of its melody with Suppose You Gave a Funeral and Nobody Came by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine? Double figures globally? Single?

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls