Gavin Hinks

As a young man there were weeks I thought the BBC owed me a refund because of the dross they put on #TOTP and some of those weeks were when Nick Berry was singing the intolerable Every Loser Wins.

And here’s a very healthy recipe.

More songs should include the musical saw.

Pete Hegseth’s jet forced to land in Suffolk after distress call The American secretary of war was returning from a meeting in Belgium when a crack in the Boeing’s windscreen caused depressurisation

Did they make last orders? www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

I mean, are there no progressive billionaires?

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Are AK47s now available at the SU bar?

Morph should be in the national gallery.

They are clear about their purpose.

This won’t cause leaks, no way.

Writing up an interview where the word “curious” crops up a lot. Only, auto correct has turned it into “circus”. My subject has a “circus mind”. I’m leaving as is.

I hope it’s not On Chesil Beach.

That bit in Phenomemology of Spirit! Been 30 years and still gives me the shivers.

America is sucking in growth from the rest of the world Global FDI is flowing west — this may well be one of Trump’s biggest legacies

This a little worrying for the UK and Europe. AI and appeasing Trump is sucking in foreign direct investment. www.ft.com/content/4c6e...

Parenting a teen: pride, anxiety and terror in equal measure.

Yes. Not worth leaving the pub.

Just got to say, I have never heard a remix of a favourite tune, least of all a remix album, that I like. It’s just endless fiddling with something that didint need it.

214 tabs open on my phone. Is that a record?

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize Leader of country’s opposition receives award after scrutiny surrounding committee and comments by Donald Trump

Well, at least some people can make decisions that have integrity. Never before has the peace prize meant so much to so many. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Billie Nomates at the Electric Ballroom in Camden.

Billie Nomates tonight at the Electric Ballroom. I highly recommend.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Greatest regret of my life is not staying in uni to continue studying political philosophy.

Conservatives conserving ignorance.

Did he eat the other three?

Jenrick accused of racism over ‘no white faces’ comments as he also claims ‘collapse of old order is in sight’ – UK politics live Labour mayor of the West Midlands says Jenrick’s comments about Handsworth were racist

Jenrick’s gone full MAGA. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

So now we’re in the realm of not being able to hold a politician to account? Just winding up the gears of UK MAGA every single day.

Dear fucking God. Have we not done enough damage? I mean, could they all just taking a fucking break from traumatising the country?

I here you.

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Cast of Romans at The Almeida, London

Took daughter, 18, to see Romans at the Almeida. Reflecting on the way home she was so moved she started crying and I apologised for choosing the play. “No,” she said, “this is what art is supposed to do.”