Emmy award-winning gardener. Previous episode BBC Newsnight, next episode in developmental hell. Facts not my own.
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On the 10th anniversary of The Bataclan attack, here’s the @BBCNewsnight piece I made with @alesbon detailing what happened inside the Bataclan that night. It’s still a very difficult watch.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=8K1lv7…
Are there better songs in the 3 minute pop canon that have so much richness of character, and such melancholia, than McCartney’s Eleanor Rigby and Lou Reed’s Take a Walk on the Wild Side?
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is really worth (re)reading; a universal story of the human condition, a parable for many of today’s most contentious issues, and all stimulated by a gem of what Stevenson discovered in his research:
This is a great piece by @BBCDanielS, rich in fascinating details, on how the Wagner Group recruits small-time London criminals into Russia’s war on Ukraine. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czjk…
If you have a garden pond, don’t forget the wildlife in this hot weather. Even the frogs will love a freezer block or ice pack floating nearby…
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It’s one month until the summer solstice, and so begins the most glorious time of year.
Until late July daylight lasts til at least 9pm, and then comes the long magic of twilight.
Time for a favourite line from @TheMontyDon: Go outside and fill your boots with light.
Great, mad, deservedly overlong and completely brilliant interview with Marxist royalty Slavoj Žižek on @BBCNewsnight, which means it’s time for his best quote ever.
Goodness this is shameless.
Very proud to be in the House today to see my colleagues @jreynoldsMP and @LabourSJ standing up for British steelworkers and industry. This Government is delivering the muscular industrial policy this country needs in uncertain times.
Rewatching the movie The Creator, I really liked it even tho many didn’t, and it’s still one of the few films to realise the cinematic beauty of Radiohead. youtu.be/siz0q75zYKk
Is Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying bill one of the worst pieces of legislation to even get to Committee stage? It’s so ignorant of the law, of end of life care and of medical ethics, I’m beginning to think It was drafted by her opponents to freeze the debate for years to come.
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When we arrived in Bucha just a day after it was liberated in April of 2022 this is what we found: 8 men executed in an alley with their hands tied behind their backs. Ukrainians have no other choice but to keep fighting because this is what will happen across the nation if they capitulate to Russia. If American abandons Ukraine it will soldier on because a ceasefire with Russia with no security guarantees is no ceasefire at all.
“I never had any large goals as an actor, all I ever wanted to do was work.”
RIP Gene Hackman, one of the very few screen actors who made every single one of the movies they were in, worth watching.
Yet another reason why the Chagos Islands deal makes no sense.
China's message to Australia and NZ: we can cut off your air and sea links in the Tasman without warning.
🇨🇳 aggressive act is a shot across the bow to 🇦🇺 and 🇳🇿, but also the countries of the South West Pacific.
My latest @Diplomat_APAC
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Really important and moving account of state failure by @miss_marriage: ft.com/content/f94a71ee-0c42…
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Excellent summary by former head of MI6, Sir Alex Younger, of this new era in geopolitics…adapt or die
