You could look at this and think, Michael is being a good sport. It's beyond that and rightly so. I think it was an educative, beneficial experience, which he took on board with immense grace and humour, humility and real admiration for his interlocutors. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Yep. An awful loss. A stab wound in the slow killing of London.

My new book Futuromania is out today in the UK via White Rabbit Books ! Details at my blog, including the NTS Radio show I just did around the book
blissout.blogspot.com/2024/04/futuro…

Cabaret Voltaire performing Just Fascination live in 1983. The single features on this Punk Funk Disco playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/2XIrV…

Best stop everyone under the age of 25 from having kids then, because absolutely nothing is more irreversible & life-changing than that

Leeds city centre, 8.50am this morning. Rush hour. Choc a bloc. As a Londoner, I find this gridlock quite shocking.

Why does this advert end with a brusque injunction to desist from paedophilia? youtube.com/watch?v=tJGsag…

What happened to Allison Pearson? I remember her, decades ago as an urbane, vaguely left of centre columnist, married to respected film critic Anthony Lane, on BBC's Culture Show. Then, at some point she turned into this. Why? Money alone? Why destroy your decent self like this?

I'm doing this, next Sunday, It's going to be fun, arsequakey and LOUD. dice.fm/event/6gmw7-my…

Brilliant as ever from David Squires. theguardian.com/football/pictu…

A 17-year-old trans boy who killed himself on a mental health ward felt “worthless” and “could not think of anything positive about himself” shortly before he died, an inquest heard.

Thing is, The Beatles, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Stones, they were modern. This track, this brilliant track, well over 40 years old, is postmodern. It's a relic of postmodernism.youtube.com/watch?v=PH5JvU…

Remember this - absolutely terrifying.

The form of extremism that frightens me the most right now is extreme centrism.

Nothing says 'social justice campaigner' like being a White billionaire with fourteen million followers and targeting women of colour for nothing other than being trans.

Solidarity with Munroe, Mridul and other victims of JK Rowling's frenzy of hate.

For years I had to put up with inane Dawkins cultish fans insisting to me that Dawkins wasn’t an Islamophobe because he hated all religions equally.

Nope. He’s an Islamophobe. I was right.

Absolute fire.
About time the “developed” world got the truth told to them.

I very much like @TimmyMallet. He always related to kids energetically, in a way they could relate to, in a way most adults can't. He explained the world to them, including, memorably, apartheid. Perhaps those kids are still listening to him, as here.

Nick & Gabrielle Drake - ‘All My Trials’, home recording.
youtu.be/IW08i71hOdI?si…

Thinking about Prince's 'I Wanna Be Your Lover'. 'I wanna be your brother/I wanna be your mother and your sister too/There ain't no other/That can do the things that I'll do to you.' Surely her brother, mother and sister wouldn't be doing these things to her, would they?