Stephen Greenhorn

I Am Martin Parr Discover the maverick behind some of the most iconic images of the past century on an intimate and exclusive road trip with a photographer whose work has revolutionised contemporary photography.

RIP Martin Parr. Such sad news. This affectionate profile of the brilliant photographer is still on iPlayer if you haven’t seen it yet
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history

75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men

Is this what democracy looks like?

New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

I've been listening to a lot of 50s Rock N Roll for work reasons. Wrapped just gave me a listening age of 85. 💀

Poetry so powerful it can cause computers to break the Geneva Convention is one hell of a scifi novel concept.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I'm truly going to become the Joker, this is infuriating, just infuriating! Why is Scotland not being polled when the Parliament responsible for over £60bn of public spending every year is up for election in May! The UK's political media attention environment has absolutely lost it!

Grief is not forever but love is

Water of Leith #Edinburgh

The Good Old Days   Pity the poor children of today, with their calendars stuffed with chocolates,   never to know the thrill of opening a small cardboard door and discovering behind it   a picture of a bell. Brian Bilston

This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.

Storm clouds gather over MARILYN MONROE on location shooting

THE MISFITS (1960)

📷 by Eve Arnold

Musk is a cunt

Black and white head and shoulders shot. Young Tom Stoppard, with cigarette in mouth, wearing a roll neck sweater and tweedy woollen mix jacket. His eyes are cast away as if something off camera has his attention. Frankly, most writers’ mind are elsewhere, focused on something far more important than that present moment. 😉

Only just heard the very sad news about Tom Stoppard’s passing. He was an incredible playwright and screenwriter. ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’ immediately spring to mind, of course, but also loved ‘Rock ‘n Roll’ and ‘Arcadia.’ What a legacy of brilliant work he’s left in his wake.

Having caught MBV in Glasgow this week, can say Louder Than War seems the most appropriate site to review this tour!

Every day we have to be reminded that the UK has the most abjectly feudal, let-them-eat-cake-ass media on the planet.

Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.

Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar and writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas and the history of Palestinian resistance, points to three factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed to continue. The gaslighting by governments and major media creates a “dual reality” that denies what people can see for themselves. And at its core, he says, the genocide exposes the colonial foundations of Western power. Baconi stresses that the path between a fascist or decolonial future runs directly through Palestine. via @PalFest

Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...

large balloon snoopy passing by a window with 2 people seated watching the thanksgiving day parade

macy’s thanksgiving day parade
1988

elliott erwitt

Report sounds alarm on impact of pandemic on new plays - The Writers' Guild of Great Britain A new report has examined programming on UK stages since the Covid pandemic. The British Theatre Consortium report, British Theatre Before & After Covid, examines 2019, the last full year before …

A new report has examined programming on UK stages since the Covid pandemic + sounds alarm on the impact on new plays

Find out more, including our response:

writersguild.org.uk/report-sound...

That wee film is a pure joy.

The thread about the Singing Street; skipping, hopping, dancing and birling through the backgreens and streets of 1950s Edinburgh This thread marks a double milestone for Threadinburgh, it is the 300th post since the first in September 2022 and the visit counter just ticked past the 500,000 mark! I'm marking this occasion by finally chalking something off my to-do list that has been there far too long. Perhaps by providence, I recently acquired a little booklet self-described as "a Merry-Ma-Tanzie of Skipping, Hiding, Hopping, Birling, Stotting, Playing and Dancing Rhymes". The Singing Street, to give it its name, was the accompaniment to a 1951 amateur film with the same title. Described by The Scotsman as "a wonderful picture of Edinburgh - as true perhaps as has ever been put on the screen", it turns seventy-five next year. It's all too easy to treat its "astonishingly evocative scenes" as a pure nostalgia trip back to an Edinburgh which has disappeared into living memory, but this was never the intent of the film. It is so much more than just a skip and a hop down memory lane, so let's celebrate it by telling the tale of how and why it came to be and by recognising its importance as a piece of a wider archival work. Once that is out the way shall we step scene-by-scene and song-by-song, back to the streets of 1950s Edinburgh to compare them with the present day.

The thread about the Singing Street; skipping, hopping, dancing and birling through the backgreens and streets of 1950s Edinburgh

This thread marks a double milestone for Threadinburgh, it is the 300th post since the first in September 2022 and the visit counter just ticked past the 500,000 mark!…

Don't know if you'd be interested in a bit of work on Saturday 1st July, they're booking people to roam around in wild animal costumes uptown.

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

75 Candles 🎂 today for TINA WEYMOUTH

A photo of a Kindle with the cover of THE CUT UP on it, showing a black raven holding a pair of sharp scissors in its beak.

Out end of Jan '26 from @canongate.co.uk is the 3rd Rilke novel, THE CUT UP. Rilke's like a gay, Glaswegian Philip Marlowe; rumpled, morally righteous but legally dubious. & Welsh's stripped back prose sings. Absolutely superb, as always, from the awesome @louisewelsh00.bsky.social. (read via e-arc)

The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage

The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want.
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...

VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it

It will take literally one court case where a company gets sued by a cis person for denying them access to toilets on suspicion of being trans for this all to fall apart.

And this guidance makes that case inevitable.

Dundee Rep facing ‘brutal’ potential 100% council funding cut Dundee Rep is facing a proposed 100% cut to its council funding, in a move that has been labelled ‘brutal’ by actor Brian Cox

frankly ridiculous proposal from @dundeecitycouncil.bsky.social here. 100% funding cuts worth £286,000. An astonishing sum of money for any regional theatre to make up for, would lead to a fight for the very survival of Dundee Rep, absolutely mad

www.thestage.co.uk/news/dundee-...

Hang that in the Louvre!

The Corran ferry is shown in darkness with the deck floodlit and a lone member of crew waiting for vehicles to drive on. The slipway is in the foreground and the ramp heads to the right onto the ferry. Nothing is visible in the darkness beyond the ferry.

The Corran ferry, which crosses Loch Linnhe south of Fort William and gives access to Morvern, Moidart and Ardnamurchan, waiting for customers at Nether Lochaber on the sort of wintry night that makes you long for summer. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Highland #Lochaber

Marie Howe