Looking forward to listening to this
I was interviewed by @coldwarpod.bsky.social on Friday regarding my new book. That episode will be released nearer publication but, in the meantime, do follow them and delve into their archive. Ian is a tremendous host - knowledgable, thoughtful and generous.
Your heart may well not bleed for a neutral civil service, but I guarantee you’ll miss it when it’s gone.
The edited proofs are in. It’s starting to look like a book!
🎞️ Champions League last-16 Memories...
The Reds come from behind thanks to Craig Bellamy and John Arne Riise, earning Liverpool a 2-1 away win, in a famous night at The Nou Camp back in 2007 ✊
Delicious salty Pringles
And oh how BEIS enjoyed having to develop that support package with barely any expertise and not enough resource to do so. Fun times
Yes lads!
Maybe there’s a big find waiting out there, nobody knows for sure, but all the evidence suggests it’s pretty unlikely and what’s left will be increasingly expensive to get at.
It’s not just that little can be done by this autumn. Little can be done this side of 2030 and it’s highly probably little can be done, full stop, given the maturity of the N Sea basin. This much shared Carbon Brief graph says it all.
Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.
A reminder that destroying historic/heritage sites is a war crime. It is, to put it bluntly, a terrorist tactic, deployed by deplorable groups such as the Taliban (Bamiyan Buddhas) and ISIS (Palmyra).
Boys and Girls in America!
My new book will be getting a hardback US release on the 14th July. Pre- orders are available now via the link below.
shorturl.at/qCLMd
Thanks to @gauthamrao.bsky.social for the nice words
Like almost everything in this subject, Toni’s quote can be interpreted multiple ways.
Regardless, the book is available to pre-order below, from your bookseller of choice
linktr.ee/4hundredblows
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
🧵 1/5
This is superb, as ever from @bbcrosatkins.bsky.social who should be in charge of political content in the BBC.
Head and shoulders above all domestic political commentators.
Unemotional fact based unpeeling of bullshit
"Was Markwayne *really* a name?" one will ask.
"Why was Kemi Badenoch?" will ask another.
"What did Hegseth put in his hair?" will ask a third.
In decades to come, hundreds of historians will pore over documents from March 2026 desperately searching for, yet consistently failing to find, the tiniest clue as to what in the living fuck was going on.
Safe to say that 2028 growth forecasts are meaningless at this point.
Board of Peace - Season 1
“Hi, it’s me, the guy who blew up the last group of guys I was negotiating with. Would you all be willing to get together, ideally in a compact room above ground under good cloud conditions at daytime to talk this over?”
Denmark has *far* worse outcomes - economic, social and integration - than the UK.
Just a fantasyland for those who want an excuse for their own xenophobia and/or are incapable of doing the hard work of confronting the UK's real problems.
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
So presumably this Daily Mail campaign against "foreign-born" voters will quickly be applied to their foreign-born star columnist, Boris Johnson, and their own France-based for tax purposes non-dom owner?
This the actual final cover👌 an as I’m helping review edits I’m being freshly reminded how brilliant this book is. Do yourself and @4hundredblows.bsky.social a solid and preorder a copy.
He was ace! Have you been to the South Pole Inn in Kerry that’s dedicated to him
i'm going to pick the following hill to die on: i do not think it is the government's business how grown adults fuck or do not fuck
Important thread
If you’ve not read anything by @4hundredblows.bsky.social before like his brilliant Ruth&Martin’s Album Club blog/book, he’s SUCH good writer.This book is fascinating, fun & about much more than *just* the most studied 6 seconds in history. You won’t regret preordering now especially with discount!
The original War is Hell poster from the Texas Theatre still hangs inside. It’s signed by Tony Russell, one of the actors from War is Hell - “my first movie, Oswald’s last”
Spectacular on-brand birthday present from @pforpapa.bsky.social - an original 1963 lobby card set for War is Hell. Lee Harvey Oswald was watching War is Hell at the Texas Theatre when the Dallas Police arrested him. It’s a terrible film.
