Luke Turner

Nice to see him squeal and squirm for once.

!

Not sure why I always want to put a ! after thank you messages.

ha thanks Manu

ha! That's just not on

which are the massive ones?

aha! I will check those out. Now Old Town aren't doing the wonderful Stovepipes any more I need a new trouser.

thank you!

Cheers Matt!

cheers Owen! Hope your week goes OK

Yeah I love the look of the Real McCoy stuff but it's a bit £ for me at the moment, and probably a little too American – I always prefer the British and French clobber

‘It’s an acceptance of where my body is now’ – the modern-day appeal of workwear Its popularity is as enduring as its fabrics – and it allows men to age stylishly without worrying about their waistlines. One collector delves into the reasons the ordinary clothes of workers past li...

A probably rare reference to Mulligan & O'Hare in a fashion article: for The Guardian, I've written about the enduring appeal of workwear, with a focus on how the generous cuts and boxy shapes suit the sportswear-averse, expanding & ageing male body:

www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...

so they had to pay that tax bill. mostly covered by the £93k ISA that they discovered seemingly just lying around, and are going to share a million quid between them that they've done fuck all to earn? These people!!!

A shaft of bright winter sun pierces through low rain cloud, illuminating an otherwise heavily overshadowed piece of Dartmoor.

100% worth the complete soaking that inevitably follows being caught out on the moor in light conditions like this.

God, I love the moor this time of the year...

Oof they do a full breakfast? I’ve only ever been to their cafe in the Bill Moz gallery

How it started / how it’s going

(The Deeney’s haggis cheese chutney bacon toastie is a work of genius but has consequences)

(I entirely believe careers are based on luck as much as anything else, especially in the arts, and my luck was meeting John, us being asked to start tQ & then our backers pulling out, and later having one editor, Jenny Lord, who believed in my writing. Other writers’ luck was being born rich lol)

Getting absolutely mangled in a pirate ship with @jahduran.bsky.social after Throbbing Gristle at Pontins Camber Sands during ATP 2004 led to us reinforcing that we’re top pals and then starting @thequietus.com, without which I would now be working in admin. An argument against clean living!

I made his Basque chicken for dinner, so good

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

An absolutely harrowing investigation into the “free birth” and “wild pregnancy” movement, appalling, lethal, social media-fuelled woo woo grift. The poor families duped into this, unthinkable.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

What I’ve heard thus far under the new leadership has not been encouraging. O for left wing politics that isn’t weird and cranky about NATO and Russia! Is it too much to ask?

Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

Doh! Corrected

US tells Nato if Zelenskyy does not sign peace deal Ukraine will face worse in future US army secretary briefs ambassadors at ‘nightmare meeting’ in Kyiv on Friday after talks with Ukrainian leader

This is so depressing, Ukraine now then with Russia’s military support from China, Iran, N Korea what tomorrow? And still I feel there’s little concern about the future threat here in the UK, with Reform and potentially the Greens dangerous about the issue.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Remembering Mani, by Gordon Moakes | The Quietus There’s a real nostalgic binary when it comes to the present-day view of Mancunian music from the 80s and 90s: it’s easy to see it as an amorphous blob of naive youth culture, macho posturing, retrogr...

A lovely tribute to Mani, “the bass player’s bass player”, by bass player Gordon Moakes, praising his “tiptoe-light touch – something delicate but propulsive, an anti-rock energy that had heart, and was dreaming of something”

thequietus.com/news/remembe...

Amen. Same goes for “drop” for a record.

Nathan Gill, Voloshyn and the Kremlin’s European Network The sentencing of Reform UK's former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison should open the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network that infiltrated European politics, ...

LOOK HERE YOU LAMPOST FLAG FUCKING DONUTS, REFORM ARE THE LAW HAW HAWS OF OUR AGE! TRAITORS TO OUR NATION!

ffs.

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...

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

youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...

Sunlight shines through hornbeam pollards in Epping Forest, Hale End area

frozen tree stump in Epping Forest, Hale End area

frosty oak leaves in Epping Forest, Hale End area

V-2 missile impact crater, South Woodford area of Epping Forest

Proper and perfect weather up in Epping Forest on the morning constitutionals this week, colour washed out save the green blast of the grass in the V-2 crater

indeed

In my corner of the bass-playing universe there was life pre- and post-Mani. He brought a liquid, melodic funkiness that EVERYONE copied. And when I finally met him he was exactly how you imagined him: joyful, generous, unstarry (& more of a star because of it) and wickedly funny. A life well lived