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Invasive Species - Chloé Zhao's 'Hamnet'
This week, I’ve been worrying that I’ve been harsh on Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet . My bugbear was that I f...
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Trailers can put you in a bad mood. As can drafting in the wrong raptor. Thoughts on Chloé Zhao’s adaption of 'Hamnet'.
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Falstaff me regarde! 😳
January 24, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Falstaff me regarde! 😳
Watching The Traitors for the first time so I can gather round the water cooler on Monday and jibber-jabber. All I’ve got to say so far is that ‘I love a turret’!
January 23, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Watching The Traitors for the first time so I can gather round the water cooler on Monday and jibber-jabber. All I’ve got to say so far is that ‘I love a turret’!
Trailers can put you in a bad mood. As can drafting in the wrong raptor. Thoughts on Chloé Zhao’s adaption of 'Hamnet'.
somemelodiousplot.blogspot.com/2026/01/inva...
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Invasive Species - Chloé Zhao's 'Hamnet'
This week, I’ve been worrying that I’ve been harsh on Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet . My bugbear was that I f...
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January 23, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Trailers can put you in a bad mood. As can drafting in the wrong raptor. Thoughts on Chloé Zhao’s adaption of 'Hamnet'.
somemelodiousplot.blogspot.com/2026/01/inva...
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Loved my spontaneous trip to Wigmore Hall last night to see The Jerusalem Quartet. The highlight was Ravel's String Quartet and the frantic pizzicato in the second movement. The January blues temporarily dispelled.
@wigmore-hall.org.uk
@wigmore-hall.org.uk
January 22, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Loved my spontaneous trip to Wigmore Hall last night to see The Jerusalem Quartet. The highlight was Ravel's String Quartet and the frantic pizzicato in the second movement. The January blues temporarily dispelled.
@wigmore-hall.org.uk
@wigmore-hall.org.uk
Do I read this or the piece on Britney Spears first? I think you know the answer. Hit me, baby, one more time! @lrb.co.uk
‘For Auden, the time before he wrote his poem on Yeats’s death and the time after it are separated by the way he invokes the words “England” and “English”. After moving to America, he became more uneasy about naming his nation.’
Colm Tóibín on Yeats, Eliot and Auden.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín on Yeats, Eliot and Auden.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín · Yeats, Auden, Eliot: 1939, 1940, 1941
Who was English; who was American? If Auden was English, was T.S. Eliot American? Or was it the other way around?...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Do I read this or the piece on Britney Spears first? I think you know the answer. Hit me, baby, one more time! @lrb.co.uk
Some calm amidst the storm. At Wigmore Hall for the Jerusalem Quartet. Mozart, Ravel and Shulamit Ran.
January 21, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Some calm amidst the storm. At Wigmore Hall for the Jerusalem Quartet. Mozart, Ravel and Shulamit Ran.
Faint silver linings.
Hope the Moth Club manages to stay afloat too.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
Hope the Moth Club manages to stay afloat too.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
UK grassroots music venues show lowest decline since 2018 as sector stabilises post-pandemic
The number of small venues shrank by just nine in 2025, but more than half of them reported making no profit, while employment in the sector dropped almost 22%
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:44 AM
Faint silver linings.
Hope the Moth Club manages to stay afloat too.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
Hope the Moth Club manages to stay afloat too.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
A second viewing of David Lynch's Inland Empire last night, and - though I know better than to try and make full sense of it - it's still a glorious fever dream. Rewatching this scene in isolation today offers a key. Laura Dern's face is ours in the movie theatre.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRh2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRh2...
Inland Empire Locomotion
YouTube video by Krister Bertilsson
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January 19, 2026 at 2:22 PM
A second viewing of David Lynch's Inland Empire last night, and - though I know better than to try and make full sense of it - it's still a glorious fever dream. Rewatching this scene in isolation today offers a key. Laura Dern's face is ours in the movie theatre.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRh2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRh2...
Horrid and dramatic start to the week. Stepping out for my morning run and within a minute a piece of metal going through the sole of my barefoot trainer and piercing my heel. To the Royal London for a tetanus jab! Still, the week can only go uphill (with a limp) from here!
Look at the bastard!
Look at the bastard!
January 19, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Horrid and dramatic start to the week. Stepping out for my morning run and within a minute a piece of metal going through the sole of my barefoot trainer and piercing my heel. To the Royal London for a tetanus jab! Still, the week can only go uphill (with a limp) from here!
Look at the bastard!
Look at the bastard!
Here for Inland Empire, but if I’d been a bit quicker off the mark I could have made it an amazing double bill, Withnail himself doing the Q&A.
January 18, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Here for Inland Empire, but if I’d been a bit quicker off the mark I could have made it an amazing double bill, Withnail himself doing the Q&A.
Hamnet is a very dirty film. Not in that way, Matron! :-) Rather fingernails and hands, the sides of Tudor houses, filthy streets.
January 17, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Hamnet is a very dirty film. Not in that way, Matron! :-) Rather fingernails and hands, the sides of Tudor houses, filthy streets.
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STOP.
We have a major news story in our house. It's been building up for a few days and this afternoon came the denouement.
It's the story of a banana.
We have a major news story in our house. It's been building up for a few days and this afternoon came the denouement.
It's the story of a banana.
January 16, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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Taxidermied Tories is rather beautiful (in a bad taxidermy way). Very harsh on Bucks Fizz though.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mystic Nigel has seen the future: a country run by his cabinet of taxidermied Tories | Marina Hyde
By welcoming ‘Honest Bob’ Jenrick into the fold, the Reform seer is embracing the uniparty chaos he claimed to be seeing off, writes Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Taxidermied Tories is rather beautiful (in a bad taxidermy way). Very harsh on Bucks Fizz though.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Get your weekend off to a fine start by watching this, and gasping in wonder as Jeff and the gang nail the noodly bit in Turn To Stone. #ELO
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpj...
Jeff Lynne's ELO - Turn to Stone (Live at Wembley Stadium)
YouTube video by ELOVEVO
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January 16, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Get your weekend off to a fine start by watching this, and gasping in wonder as Jeff and the gang nail the noodly bit in Turn To Stone. #ELO
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpj...
I watched The Greatest Night in Pop last night. All about the recording of We Are The World. I don't really like the song, but loved this documentary. All that was missing was a permanent Bob Dylan cam. He was utterly lost until Stevie Wonder sorted him out.
January 16, 2026 at 11:23 AM
I watched The Greatest Night in Pop last night. All about the recording of We Are The World. I don't really like the song, but loved this documentary. All that was missing was a permanent Bob Dylan cam. He was utterly lost until Stevie Wonder sorted him out.
The glory that was Phoenix Nights, and memories of my own nights out in Clubland (Goose Green Labour Club ... not that Goose Green, sunshine!)
A quibble on this Guardian piece though ... it doesn't half read like it's been generated by AI.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
A quibble on this Guardian piece though ... it doesn't half read like it's been generated by AI.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Phoenix Nights: 25 years since Peter Kay’s record-breaking TV comedy like no other
The eccentric, sharp-eyed sitcom was so loved that it was once the fastest-selling DVD ever. A quarter of a century on from its Channel 4 debut, why has it fallen so far off the radar?
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:15 PM
The glory that was Phoenix Nights, and memories of my own nights out in Clubland (Goose Green Labour Club ... not that Goose Green, sunshine!)
A quibble on this Guardian piece though ... it doesn't half read like it's been generated by AI.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
A quibble on this Guardian piece though ... it doesn't half read like it's been generated by AI.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
October 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
"AI will have mowed the lawn and washed the dishes, assuming that some remnant of ordinary life persists. This seems optimistic."
Marilynne Robinson on AI and affordability. @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Marilynne Robinson on AI and affordability. @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
At What Cost? | Marilynne Robinson
New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani plans to absorb individual costs into the collective life of the city, but whether that will be enough is an open question.
www.nybooks.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:36 PM
"AI will have mowed the lawn and washed the dishes, assuming that some remnant of ordinary life persists. This seems optimistic."
Marilynne Robinson on AI and affordability. @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Marilynne Robinson on AI and affordability. @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Afternoon parts one and two.
January 13, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Afternoon parts one and two.
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Either thick or pretending to be thick. Neither is good…(unlike the amusing examples of correlation in the replies)
January 12, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Either thick or pretending to be thick. Neither is good…(unlike the amusing examples of correlation in the replies)
Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.
January 11, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.
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This week in London included: Cirque du Soleil at Albert Hall, Hamnet, Infinite Bodies at Somerset House, lunch in a French restaurant, dance class, gym, lunch with friends, beautiful London parks in winter ice, hosting friends, wassailing in community orchard. One week in this 'dangerous city' LOL
I wonder what Londoners know that the rest of the country don’t?
January 11, 2026 at 11:16 AM
This week in London included: Cirque du Soleil at Albert Hall, Hamnet, Infinite Bodies at Somerset House, lunch in a French restaurant, dance class, gym, lunch with friends, beautiful London parks in winter ice, hosting friends, wassailing in community orchard. One week in this 'dangerous city' LOL
“Dad, Lego are releasing an inferior Daily Bugle!”
“Smaller than the one in your bedroom?”
“Yep, that one has 25 mini-figures and the new one only has 7!”
“Well, print journalism is dying!”
“Smaller than the one in your bedroom?”
“Yep, that one has 25 mini-figures and the new one only has 7!”
“Well, print journalism is dying!”
January 11, 2026 at 11:17 AM
“Dad, Lego are releasing an inferior Daily Bugle!”
“Smaller than the one in your bedroom?”
“Yep, that one has 25 mini-figures and the new one only has 7!”
“Well, print journalism is dying!”
“Smaller than the one in your bedroom?”
“Yep, that one has 25 mini-figures and the new one only has 7!”
“Well, print journalism is dying!”
