Adam Gent
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Extraordinarily enjoyable book! Just does everything well: ideas/characters/plot/lovely writing - strong recommend, and looking forward to more from Jordan Prosser and @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Extraordinarily enjoyable book! Just does everything well: ideas/characters/plot/lovely writing - strong recommend, and looking forward to more from Jordan Prosser and @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
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This is a measured, weary, cutting piece. I won't cherry-pick a screenshot, there's enough disdain in here for everyone involved. Read the whole thing.
Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew
Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew
Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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October 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
This is a measured, weary, cutting piece. I won't cherry-pick a screenshot, there's enough disdain in here for everyone involved. Read the whole thing.
This is lovely and wise
making a living vs making a life
or "can you earn money from your art?" (and is that even the right question?)
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October 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This is lovely and wise
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Loved this! A clever book about class, identity politics, media which unwraps them in thoughtful layers while remaining incredibly entertaining.
October 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Loved this! A clever book about class, identity politics, media which unwraps them in thoughtful layers while remaining incredibly entertaining.
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I love that Beckett is still confounding people after all these years. It’s like “I went to see The Rite of Spring. I don’t know what the hell that was but it sure wasn’t music. I felt like rioting. One star”
TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it
October 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I love that Beckett is still confounding people after all these years. It’s like “I went to see The Rite of Spring. I don’t know what the hell that was but it sure wasn’t music. I felt like rioting. One star”
Just seen the very talented Dik Downey in Opposable Thumb’s new show Don Quixote (is a very big book) and it is Very Funny & Excellent .Catch it at Wardrobe Theatre next thewardrobetheatre.com/shows/don-qu...
Don Quixote (is a very big book) - The Wardrobe Theatre
A brand new one-man puppetry and clowning epic loosely based on Miguel de Cervantes' classic, presented by Opposable Thumb Theatre (Coulrophobia, Big Boys Don't Cry) and Nordland Visual Theatre (Norwa...
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October 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Just seen the very talented Dik Downey in Opposable Thumb’s new show Don Quixote (is a very big book) and it is Very Funny & Excellent .Catch it at Wardrobe Theatre next thewardrobetheatre.com/shows/don-qu...
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R. S. Thomas, ‘The Bright Field’, from Laboratories of the Spirit (1975) #NationalPoetryDay
October 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
R. S. Thomas, ‘The Bright Field’, from Laboratories of the Spirit (1975) #NationalPoetryDay
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Spent this morning with lots of great people who are doing lots of great cultural things in Gloucester. Really energising to see the impact ACE funding can have.
October 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Spent this morning with lots of great people who are doing lots of great cultural things in Gloucester. Really energising to see the impact ACE funding can have.
Just started this and really enjoying it - reminds me of David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten
September 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Just started this and really enjoying it - reminds me of David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten
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This sounds amazing!
Thank you Plymouth Culture for this interview! tinyurl.com/3pedeckk
Night Bloom: Deaf-Led 360° Immersive Art Blooms in Plymouth’s Market Hall Dome — Plymouth Culture
Discover Night Bloom, a deaf-led 360° immersive artwork in Plymouth’s Market Hall Dome. Cathy Mager shares the story behind this groundbreaking piece.
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September 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This sounds amazing!
Really lovely get together at Salisbury Arts Centre to remember Jill Low today. Catherine’s piece below is perfect. Jill gave @stephaniejalland.bsky.social and I a home for Hoodwink and the Arts Centre felt like home again today with staff, volunteers and artists all there, so good to see everyone.
Jill Low: "A Force to be Reckoned With" | Wiltshire Creative
Jill Low, news of whose sudden, tragic death has been announced, had a profound impact on the artistic landscape of Salisbury and way beyond. She was a hig
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September 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really lovely get together at Salisbury Arts Centre to remember Jill Low today. Catherine’s piece below is perfect. Jill gave @stephaniejalland.bsky.social and I a home for Hoodwink and the Arts Centre felt like home again today with staff, volunteers and artists all there, so good to see everyone.
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“Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles” from the Hayward Gallery has arrived at The Wilson in Cheltenham and it’s a wonderful exploration of textiles in contemporary art. Really want (need) the wallpaper by Marc Camille Chaimowicz.
September 19, 2025 at 6:38 AM
“Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles” from the Hayward Gallery has arrived at The Wilson in Cheltenham and it’s a wonderful exploration of textiles in contemporary art. Really want (need) the wallpaper by Marc Camille Chaimowicz.
Great to see ACE supported work of the best quality getting to our most far flung communities www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...
‘The storm for Lear is inside him’: Crossing choppy seas to bring Shakespeare to Isles of Scilly
RSC touring troupe stage King Lear in a school hall on St Mary’s before continuing to the Isle of Wight
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September 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Great to see ACE supported work of the best quality getting to our most far flung communities www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...
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Well done @bsidefest.bsky.social on the launch of The Portland Dress as part of the Big Weekend. Hundreds of local stories embroidered in a very special community textiles project. And beautiful choral work led by Destination Opera to mark the launch at the Old Engine Shed tonight. (1/3)
September 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Well done @bsidefest.bsky.social on the launch of The Portland Dress as part of the Big Weekend. Hundreds of local stories embroidered in a very special community textiles project. And beautiful choral work led by Destination Opera to mark the launch at the Old Engine Shed tonight. (1/3)
Enjoyed Pagans by @jamesbluecat.bsky.social very much, highly recommend. Read after the excellent Hild and Menewood by @nicolaz.bsky.social and had a very pleasing historical fiction/alt history continuity
September 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Enjoyed Pagans by @jamesbluecat.bsky.social very much, highly recommend. Read after the excellent Hild and Menewood by @nicolaz.bsky.social and had a very pleasing historical fiction/alt history continuity
Holiday accommodation lamp winner for all time.
September 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Holiday accommodation lamp winner for all time.
Cycling in Suffolk yesterday, we stopped outside house with an unmanned stall selling jams and marmalades and bought Dark Horse, ‘finely treacled’ marmalade and Oh My God why did I not know about this before?! Absolutely fantastic.
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Cycling in Suffolk yesterday, we stopped outside house with an unmanned stall selling jams and marmalades and bought Dark Horse, ‘finely treacled’ marmalade and Oh My God why did I not know about this before?! Absolutely fantastic.
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Hey UK, my reality-bending mother-daughter-found-family-multiverse novel is on sale on Kobo. It's about being lost, trying to find the best version of you (literally), the mysteries of our parents, neuroparasites, murder and features two of my favourite characters I've ever written in Dom and Amber
September 2, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Hey UK, my reality-bending mother-daughter-found-family-multiverse novel is on sale on Kobo. It's about being lost, trying to find the best version of you (literally), the mysteries of our parents, neuroparasites, murder and features two of my favourite characters I've ever written in Dom and Amber
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This is my flag.
August 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This is my flag.