Tuchel agrees deal with FA to be England manager thetimes.co.uk/article/thomas…

All this desperate nonsense because nobody dared say we might possibly have to tax some fairly well off people

The Prodigy’s Leeroy Thornhill on fame, raves and his late best mate Keith Flint: ‘I love him and I always will’ theguardian.com/music/2024/oct…

I was 14 when The Prodigy Experience came out, and actually did dry a banana skin and try to smoke it. Maybe explains why I am the way today Tim Jonze Leeroy Thornhill 🫠theguardian.com/music/2024/oct…

Nice to read about Hope Of The States again after all these years. Saw them a couple of times in the olden days and they really felt/meant it. 🎶 Guardian Saturday Tim Jonze Sam Of Herlihy amp.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct…

RIP Quincy Jones

‘George Clooney? Who cares?’ I wrote about why celebrity endorsements didn’t help Kamala Harris theguardian.com/culture/2024/n…

Scathing statement from Bernie Sanders on the election results “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them…”

David Coote's next set of fixtures

I’m also escaping the fascists, transphobes and porn bots onto Bluesky - same name as here

Some very sad news justgiving.com/crowdfunding/j…

A scientist treated her own cancer, then published the findings. 🧵1/12

50 years ago this month, Kraftwerk’s Autobahn changed pop music forever. I drove from Bonn to Hamburg to capture the road's sights and sounds – and work out why nobody in Dusseldorf seemed bothered about the band (and yes this WAS a dream commission!) theguardian.com/music/2024/nov…

For those enjoying Orbital: wonderful images of astronauts/cosmonauts taking off for the International Space Station - and returning to remote grassland in Kazakhstan in their little pods theguardian.com/artanddesign/g…

My little obit for James McMahon – a funny, creative, passionate and occasionally maddening friend who I had an absolute blast with in my early NME days. RIP Jam x theguardian.com/music/2024/nov…

I will be joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours over the sale of the Observer. I will be back at work on Friday. For more information please follow @GoNUJ93 and NUJ or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver

RMT Liverpool Lime Street closed to passengers. We've known this would be the demand for a month. Emblematic of our disgusting national train failure. Merseyrail on the way up a disgrace too

I’ve just been into the city centre to pick up a friend and his young son who were completely stranded due to the issues at Lime Street. I’m aware that there’s been a major incident and the resources of the emergency services will obviously be stretched, but the situation at

The BBC really thought they had it all covered by not live streaming Kneecaps set 😂 Then comes along Bob Vylan 🎤 #Glastonbury2025