We lost one of the all-time greats in documentary and street photography today. Martin Parr is an inspiration to a lot of my work. RIP Martin Parr, 1952-2025.

Saddened by the news of Tom Stoppard’s passing. Possibly the greatest playwright of his era—definitely the most playful. ‘Shakespeare in Love’ is full of clever tributes for Bard fans, plus this gem: for anyone who’s acted, it’s the truest line about theatre ever written.

Pope Leo on cinema, today at the Vatican, could not be more right (and, dare I say, holy): https://t.co/ae4o67MrwJ

Let's talk about class and this race: If you move beyond exit polls and look at the places each candidate won, and who lives there, Mamdani won most precincts where residents don't have college degrees, as well as those who do. He won working class and renter precincts, while

Absolutely insane. Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani. Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo. The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

Zohran Mamdani quotes Jawaharlal Nehru in his victory speech: "A moment comes rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance."

RIP to one of the film artists who could rightly be called "radical". His most conventional piece pushes the boundaries of the cinematic form more than some could ever dream of. One can only hope he was made aware of how his film's legacies have sustained after all these decades.

And now, the reality: - Cambodia and Thailand: it was a border conflict that ended thanks to mediation by Malaysia. All Trump did was a phone call threatening tariffs. - Kosovo and Serbia: there was no war - DRC and Rwanda: war did not end, violence continues - Pakistan and

these four albums being recorded all at the same time and in the same studio always fascinated me what i would do to be a fly in 1998 buzzing around getting to hear all the magic being made

BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

These people are insane. Saying Tony Blair should rule Gaza because “he’s done a lot of work in the Middle East” is like saying Harold Shipman should run a care home because he has experience with pensioners.

The Starmer ID card thing is his ‘leadership style’ all over: Petty authoritarianism, instantly unites all against him, no natural base of support, reheated New Labour, incoherent, not part of any wider vision or idea, hobbled from the beginning by association with him.

The revelations in this article are shocking and unacceptable. From Mandelson in Washington to Blair’s TBI writing NHS data policy with Oracle’s billions, to corporate lobbyists sitting on departmental boards - we are watching a state quietly repurposed to a degree not seen

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Not a peep from the PM about yesterday’s far right demo. Instead he’s doing PR for Blackrock and US financiers. Irresponsible at best. Actively dangerous at worst.

Wheelchair-bound RAF Veterans & elderly lady vicars arrested, while Israeli President Herzog, who has issued a steam of genocidal comments against Palestinian civilians & is specifically named in the @CIJ_ICJ Israel genocide case, is invited to meet Labour ministers

Bragg is the last of the Reithians i.e public service ethos, intellectually serious, committed to making complex cultural subjects available to a broad audience. This stands in contrast to what TV has become in the modern-era: wall-to-wall quiz shows, soaps and reality TV.

I imagine Sally Rooney believes it’s more meaningful to fund efforts to frustrate a genocide than to only treat its symptoms

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