Why you should spend less time here + on no account use the site's 'For You' tab (most people's default) unless you're determined to descend into the cess pit of evil that is the depraved consciousness of the site's owner.

Poking my head up here to share this fine Richard Lapper obituary of my friend and fellow Sheffield born author @GeoffNicholson9 who died suddenly, after a long illness, last month.

RT @politicalbeauty: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin - right now!. In cooperation with @ByDonkeys

The Cineworld closure news is especially bad for members of the Indian, Pakistani, Korean, Chinese/World communities in Nottingham, who are currently pretty well served. See, for instance, the offerings currently listed on the CW website. Hope @BroadwayCinema can do more here.

Sad to receive an email saying @cineworld is closing its Nottingham cinema on February 2nd, having failed to secure a rent reduction. Their unlimited card has given great value for more than 20 years. Still, has to be good news for my favourite Nottingham cinema @BroadwayCinema.

RT @manwithbooks: Isobel Hardman in the Observer belittling prison libraries. Annoying when writers use cheap throwaway remarks on what the….

RT @carla_denyer: Sending solidarity and birthday wishes to Gaie Delap, a peaceful climate protester who is spending her 78th birthday behi….

The new @uncutmagazine has four acts I have tickets for in #Nottingham (The Weather Station, Richard Dawson, Delines & Nadia Reid) so I'm obviously in the right place. Hope BPB will tour too. Btw shouldn't Uncut be in the blue place by now?

As a lifelong @LFC supporter, couldn't think of anything that'd stop me supporting the club - until I read this.

Six minutes of decency, intelligence and common sense as Starmer denounces lies& praises Jess Philips while eviscerating Musk and Bad Enoch without stooping to name them. And yeah I like the way autocorrect makes me spell the Tory leader's name.

RT @Cartoon4sale: Cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigns from Washington Post

R.I.P. David Lodge, who I knew a little. A fine novelist, lovely man & big influence on me: as a Catholic novelist & on my career as an academic, where his work on writing (especially the columns published as The Art of Fiction) was so lucid, insightful & helpful to my students.

R.I.P. Jimmy Carter, the first rock'n'roll president, cruelly defeated, the most dignified of men, friend of @bobdylan Hunter S. Thompson & all who needed help.

Outstanding instore by White Denim at @RoughTrade Nottingham. The band were wearing in a new bassist, Dan, and played a full 95 minute set featuring the new LP, 12, bangers & requests. James Petralli in rare form.

2024: the sleeve notes (or skip straight to the playlist: .

Delighted to receive this beautiful anthology of Record Mirror columns, edited by Mike Atkinson (aka @miketd the late James Hamilton's stepson) in the post today. A good read, valuable history & great reference book. Volume 2 to follow. You can order here

RT @IMcMillan: My Christmas sonnet for my dad, broadcast on ⁦@BBCRadio3⁩ this morning.

Happy first birthday to Nottingham's new City Library, home to @NottmCityOfLit and, as of yesterday, Stanley Middleton's Booker Prize statuette (in Local Studies for the next two years). Proud to talk about Holiday with Stanley's family & @nigelhawkins12 Thanks, all who came.

Today at 2pm in Nottingham Central Library, celebrate the 50th anniversary of Stanley Middleton's Booker Prize win for Holiday. The prize statuette will be on display. Free talk. Here's my @DawnoftheUnread Stanley story, Shelves, illustrated by Ella Joyce.