Luke Turner
@luketurner.bsky.social
Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
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Cosey Fanni Tutti reveals all | The Observer
An exhibition in the pioneering artist's hometown sees the Throbbing Gristle co-founder celebrating 50 years of baring her soul
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I've long felt that the generosity of Cosey Fanni Tutti's work is overshadowed by the 'transgressive' reputation of TG, and that her art / porn actions and music have been rather siloed. It was a pleasure to try and put that straight in this profile for The Observer
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observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
Listened to Dandy Hooligan, a new song by Babyshambles. Dear Lord. The hooligan and the dandy are fascinating historical concepts, always evolving through the Englands they've existed – rich creative source material but *how* does he keep getting away with this clichéd lorrrrluvvaduck drivel?
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Listened to Dandy Hooligan, a new song by Babyshambles. Dear Lord. The hooligan and the dandy are fascinating historical concepts, always evolving through the Englands they've existed – rich creative source material but *how* does he keep getting away with this clichéd lorrrrluvvaduck drivel?
I don’t even think Otto is OTT in saying this. Farage consistently works against British interests, whether Brexit, Russia and praising Putin (including his mate being bribed by them) or now conspiring with a proto-fascist foreign moron to destroy a flawed yet still vital national institution
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I don’t even think Otto is OTT in saying this. Farage consistently works against British interests, whether Brexit, Russia and praising Putin (including his mate being bribed by them) or now conspiring with a proto-fascist foreign moron to destroy a flawed yet still vital national institution
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Well this is a bit of a dream meeting – 3:16 of gothic pop excellence:
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Charli XCX & John Cale Unveil Noisy Wuthering Heights Collab | The Quietus
Charli XCX and John Cale have released a video for gothic pop dirge belter ‘House’, written to appear on the soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming adaptation of Emily Brontē’s novel Wuthering H...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Well this is a bit of a dream meeting – 3:16 of gothic pop excellence:
thequietus.com/news/charli-...
thequietus.com/news/charli-...
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The Shirley Bassey Show (10th November 1979). Les Dawson gives some of his favourite jokes another airing whilst Shirley attempts (and fails) to keep a straight face.
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The Shirley Bassey Show (10th November 1979). Les Dawson gives some of his favourite jokes another airing whilst Shirley attempts (and fails) to keep a straight face.
Got round to reading the epic essay on epic masturbation AKA gooning. It's fascinating, bleak, the endpoint of porn saturation and online culture (and though a lot of the participants deny it, it reads like sex/porn addiction). And also, cracking one off to MEME?!
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The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz
Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation
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November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Got round to reading the epic essay on epic masturbation AKA gooning. It's fascinating, bleak, the endpoint of porn saturation and online culture (and though a lot of the participants deny it, it reads like sex/porn addiction). And also, cracking one off to MEME?!
harpers.org/archive/2025...
harpers.org/archive/2025...
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Prescott's claims that the BBC has a pro-trans bias are even flimsier than you might imagine. He thinks all positive stories about trans people represent bias unless some ghoul from Sex Matters is invited to say that they are awful actually. Crackpot green-ink stuff
So the Telegraph’s “BBC bias dossier” - supposedly written by ex-BBC adviser Michael Prescott - is being used to claim there’s a rogue LGBT+ unit “censoring” gender-critical voices inside the BBC.
Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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For reference - Here’s the Telegraph article with the Prescott memo complaining about the BBC published in FULL.
Obviously, it’s an archived link which circumvents their paywall - as there’s no way I’m gonna give that transphobic rag any clicks or coin! 😣
👉 archive.ph/mJIsB
Obviously, it’s an archived link which circumvents their paywall - as there’s no way I’m gonna give that transphobic rag any clicks or coin! 😣
👉 archive.ph/mJIsB
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Prescott's claims that the BBC has a pro-trans bias are even flimsier than you might imagine. He thinks all positive stories about trans people represent bias unless some ghoul from Sex Matters is invited to say that they are awful actually. Crackpot green-ink stuff
YOUTH SECTION sounds like the name of a really aggy power electronics duo whose politics are troublingly obscure
Uk political parties keep trying to do youth branches, it's amazing. No matter how many times it ends in horrifying disaster
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
YOUTH SECTION sounds like the name of a really aggy power electronics duo whose politics are troublingly obscure
"There is more realness in Dennis Potter’s weirdness than in the majority of overwrought series striving for authenticity" An excellent @thequietus.com long read by Darran Anderson on one of the greatest writers ever to work in television
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How Dennis Potter's TV Plays Were Guides to the Purgatory of the Modern Age | The Quietus
Darran Anderson gets to grips with the brilliant body of work created by revolutionary television playwright Dennis Potter
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November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"There is more realness in Dennis Potter’s weirdness than in the majority of overwrought series striving for authenticity" An excellent @thequietus.com long read by Darran Anderson on one of the greatest writers ever to work in television
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
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This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
@fergalkinney.bsky.social are you still after big mug? I think it was you who was saying a Le Creuset one had bust? Half off!
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www.lecreuset.co.uk/en_GB/p/ston...
www.lecreuset.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
@fergalkinney.bsky.social are you still after big mug? I think it was you who was saying a Le Creuset one had bust? Half off!
www.lecreuset.co.uk/en_GB/p/ston...
www.lecreuset.co.uk/en_GB/p/ston...
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One of these slipping off meant Death by Fire or Ice for whoever was at the tap end
November 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
One of these slipping off meant Death by Fire or Ice for whoever was at the tap end
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After a fourth successive heavy annual defeat for Restore Trust, we should (but won't) have Telegraph reporters descending on the scone-eaters at historic properties to ask why they weren't in touch
This is an assymetry between the liberal left and the culture warriors of the metropolitan right
This is an assymetry between the liberal left and the culture warriors of the metropolitan right
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
After a fourth successive heavy annual defeat for Restore Trust, we should (but won't) have Telegraph reporters descending on the scone-eaters at historic properties to ask why they weren't in touch
This is an assymetry between the liberal left and the culture warriors of the metropolitan right
This is an assymetry between the liberal left and the culture warriors of the metropolitan right
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Siegfried Sassoon
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Siegfried Sassoon
Once again the reactionary & mysteriously funded Restore Trust have been defeated in the National Trust’s memberships elections - a good breakdown of it all here. As ever, despite harrumphing culture warriors of a certain age, Britain is open to discussing our complex history
National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign.
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Voting results from the AGM
Read about the National Trust's 2025 Annual General Meeting and the results from the day.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Once again the reactionary & mysteriously funded Restore Trust have been defeated in the National Trust’s memberships elections - a good breakdown of it all here. As ever, despite harrumphing culture warriors of a certain age, Britain is open to discussing our complex history
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JUST RAISE TAXES. MAKE AN ARGUMENT FOR SOLIDARITY AND SHARED SACRIFICE FOR ONCE
I’m with Vince.
And 2p on income tax plus 2p off NICS to raise £6bn feels like being hung for half a lamb.
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And 2p on income tax plus 2p off NICS to raise £6bn feels like being hung for half a lamb.
www.ft.com/content/9e56...
November 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
JUST RAISE TAXES. MAKE AN ARGUMENT FOR SOLIDARITY AND SHARED SACRIFICE FOR ONCE
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The farming of men's anxieties is very lucrative business and one done with very little care for the actual men it targets. Mens wellbeing discussion often comes served with a huge side order of biological essentialism, often leaving out the actual wellbeing bit
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Social media misinformation driving men to NHS clinics in search of testosterone they don’t need
Endocrinologists warn taking testosterone unnecessarily can suppress the body’s natural hormone production
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The farming of men's anxieties is very lucrative business and one done with very little care for the actual men it targets. Mens wellbeing discussion often comes served with a huge side order of biological essentialism, often leaving out the actual wellbeing bit
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
I tend not to think life was better in the past, most of what I’ve experienced in my 46 years suggests there has been immeasurable improvement. One thing I do lament however is the invention of kids soft play areas. These I swear were not a thing in the 1980s. I dislike them intensely.
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I tend not to think life was better in the past, most of what I’ve experienced in my 46 years suggests there has been immeasurable improvement. One thing I do lament however is the invention of kids soft play areas. These I swear were not a thing in the 1980s. I dislike them intensely.
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Claude Francis Barry’s paintings of WW1 are amongst the most accomplished of his works, with his images of searchlights across London being the most evocative - here (1918) he used small concentrated dots of colour to create an atmospheric haze of light.
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Claude Francis Barry’s paintings of WW1 are amongst the most accomplished of his works, with his images of searchlights across London being the most evocative - here (1918) he used small concentrated dots of colour to create an atmospheric haze of light.
Good to know Noel Gallagher has been too
Popped along to the V&A East storehouse for a rummage through Bowie's stuff. Most jarring was the Who Inspires You? section where patrons are invited to answer the question and some numbnuts scrawled down "Weller & Farage".
November 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Good to know Noel Gallagher has been too
Gentle Jesus Make It Stop 🙏
Does this mean you're all going to stop going on about that frikking TV show now? Is it over? Please tell me it's over.
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Gentle Jesus Make It Stop 🙏
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new danny brown out today and it rules – fizzy collabs with hyperpop artists and a sly wink at sobriety album tropes. i reviewed it for @thequietus.com!
Danny Brown goes hyperpop, calling in a bevy of younger collaborators (Jane Remover, Frost Children, 8485, Issbrokie, femtanyl, and more) for the Detroit artist's most joyous album to date
#DannyBrown - Stardust
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#DannyBrown - Stardust
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November 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
new danny brown out today and it rules – fizzy collabs with hyperpop artists and a sly wink at sobriety album tropes. i reviewed it for @thequietus.com!
Autumn is the most Enya of seasons, and it's ten years this month since I interviewed Eithne Ní Bhraonáin together with Roma and Nicky Ryan (the other 2/3 of the Enya project) about their avant-garde roots, Celtic Futurism, and 2015's wonderful Dark Sky Island LP
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Space Celts & A Voyage Into The Avant-Garde: Enya Interviewed | The Quietus
Back in 2013 The Quietus published an article on the 25th anniversary of Watermark. It was a defence of both album and Enya against the prevailing view of her as a dated, patchouli car-freshener relic...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Autumn is the most Enya of seasons, and it's ten years this month since I interviewed Eithne Ní Bhraonáin together with Roma and Nicky Ryan (the other 2/3 of the Enya project) about their avant-garde roots, Celtic Futurism, and 2015's wonderful Dark Sky Island LP
thequietus.com/interviews/e...
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Poor Larry 💔
Cheryl Hines was once one of the most prolific environmental activists in Hollywood.
Look how far she's fallen:
Look how far she's fallen:
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Poor Larry 💔