Ooh No Direction Home and Shadow Kingdom on BBC2 this Saturday!

Love Ken Payne’s wit in suggesting how British fans might imagine Dylan being proselytised by a prosaic CoE instead of a more exotic Californian Vineyard Fellowship. From the enthralling Michael Gray ‘s co-edited All Across the Telegraph: A Bob Dylan Handbook (‘87)

Can you imagine a Wilbury-esque album by the My Back Pages 30th Anniversary line-up? The arrangement here lends more to McGuinn’s interpretation than the Another Side original and suits the occasion magnificently for it:   youtu.be/rEoZfu-XNZc?si…

Wishing you Liam -"as Irish as Leprechaun’s teeth"-Clancy’s sage advice to Dylan on this St Patrick’s Day: "Bob – no malice, no fear, no envy". Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh☘️ youtu.be/te5TUg1bdqM?si… youtu.be/CP-uIQL4_LQ?si…

Such a necessary article, read on a visit to my Irish hometown where 4 of my school mates have since taken their own lives. What about Men? Is a uch a tonic to the toxicity my 22 yr old has been exposed to & what I fear my 11 yr old will face. Maith an bhean! Caitlin Moran !

A Geordie sits down at a barbershop in Ashington and asks the barber if he can have a perm. The barber says "alreet" and clears his throat... “… Ah wandered lueernly as a clood…”

" … people in comfy restaurants 30 miles away … I don't think … this should really be called a war… war has rules. And this is the destruction of a society, brick by brick, child by child.” James Elder on Claire Byrne RTÉ Radio 1 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tod…

"Time for something sweet": an apt, witty and tongue-in-cheek ‘neurodivergent diagnosis’ of the Hundred Acre Wood’s dramatis personae. Lashings of honey for Matt Haig & Hay Festival

Fogbound grounded plane in Alderney so sent to the harbour to get a ferry to Guernsey, very surprised to be put on a boat built by Safehaven Marine in my hometown

Enhorabona Pep for speaking out when and “where bad news is no longer news” bravely ignoring “the tight gag of place” and showing solidarity and sympathy with the ever increasing swathes of victims allpoetry.com/poem/11014161-…

“There was the child who brought in the Harry Potter wand that wasn’t. “And the kid was like: ‘I tried to get it working but it just kept buzzing.’” … And the second world war gas mask that was “a full-on, PVC gimp mask” theguardian.com/education/2025…

As CS Lewis was believed to have remarked "we read to know we are not alone" and all teenagers wants to find their tribe

It was all yellow like "A host, of golden daffodils"

⁦The Blindboy Podcast⁩’s authentic, and often hilarious, account of a late autism diagnosis: the succour and security it provides for selfhood was revelatory and riveting podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

Hoping this will get an 11/10 from the critics! theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/…

An Irish surgeon’s succinct and searing analysis of the situation in Gaza from the operating theatre. Maith an fear Morgan P. McMonagle

Honest, hilarious & heartfelt episode of Desert Island Discs with Ash Atalla. Family still quote him from IT Crowd cameo in The Work Outing (S2E1) & it was lovely for us all to know more about the man & his many accomplishments on our long drive home ❤️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/des…

Carver’s masterpiece expertly read to a live audience, the humour, tenderness and epiphany expertly delivered. "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver, as read by James Naughton youtu.be/QjDZV92jX44?si… via YouTube