Still buzzing about the Garrick news!

My 13-year old’s son’s favourite acts continue to be The XX and GoGo Penguin. Otherwise he’s entirely normal. Do *not* play tasteful music as a background to family meals when your children are at an impressionable age.

Another reason to support trades unions

This beggars belief. Theft from the state with the connivance of government members on a scale that recalls Russia in the 90s. Except it’s Britain 4 years ago

“Movement, that’s their best album, just like Joy Division. Successful formula. Then what do you get? Everything’s Gone Green, Blue Monday, all that disco nonsense. Should have stuck to the system. Embarrassing ” #NewOrder #Fact50 #RoyKeane The Overlap

Françoise Hardy, rock critic:

"Creatives" is a shit word, just like "content" It's businessman-speak, with a tinge of contempt

Isabelle Adjani, 69 today.

"Mankind’s self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order." - Walter Benjamin, Illuminations

'Eden Rock' by the Cornish poet Charles Causley. I've posted this before, but here it is again, five short verses long, and just about perfect. 'They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock: My father, twenty-five, in the same suit Of Genuine Irish Tweed, his terrier Jack

I’m second to very few in my admiration for Bielsa but Uruguay’s defending against corners is just as poor as ours was. #LUFC

Am on the Trans-Pennine Express to Liverpool with Luca. He’s just opened his Cadbury’s Twirl before his Walkers crisps. I suddenly doubt that’s he’s my son. #TransPennineExpress #notright

"I'm proud to be working class, and I'm proud to be anti-racist working class as well!" Love this woman - interviewed by Novara Media in Barnsley today ❤️

Kenan Malik consistently writes the most clear-headed analyses of UK socio-political issues that I see. ⁦Kenan Malik⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

It's September 1. That means only two more months of summer in Tokyo.

I’m old enough to remember the days when you could buy an Oasis ticket and another for Aston Villa and still have change from £420