Makes you proud to be British.

Is Richard Brody subtweeting Richard Brody?

Don't be like Tom Hunt. Don't all of a sudden bring up a disability in a disingenuous attempt to make genuine criticisms of you sound like bullying the disabled.

I hope all these people tweeting about Bill Nighy know that his greatest role is on radio, as the actor-detective Charles Paris: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… and bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0…

Genius.

..and here’s part two, if you’re wondering what happened next!

That time Havergal Brian’s ‘Gothic Symphony’ was written into the plot of an American crime drama series

A thread: I have only read this article and NOT the book from which it derives, but as the author of the standard biography of Anthony Blunt, I feel inclined to comment. The main contention is that not only was Blunt spying for the Soviets, but that he was/

I've begun to think, from the way he bangs on about it, that he genuinely believes he is an exceptionally hardworking prime minister. (I suppose having Johnson and Truss as direct predecessors makes it kind of understandable.)

Just found this dramatisation of Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell – produced by the great and lovely Piers Plowright for Radio 3 in 1991 – sitting on YouTube: 30 years on, I still think it's one of the best things I've heard. youtube.com/watch?v=6Bqmpm…

Every dog with Republican owners today.

The cult of Tim Dee spreads.

My Phil Baines obituary is in today’s The Guardian - the ink and paper version. You can find online version here: theguardian.com/artanddesign/2… Thanks to Catherine Dixon for her help.

OK, hands up, which idiot thought it was a good idea to tell him about Nietzsche?

Robert Hanks wait till he finds out there are two countries called Congo

People are being very mean. It’s not as if he had no idea at all that Congo and Rwanda are different countries. He was just a bit vague on the details.

Just call it British Railways. The obsession with shoving 'great' in front British (which, to be fair, was a Tory thing before it was a Labour thing) projects weakness, not greatness.

Here’s the review: nybooks.com/articles/2011/…