David Hartwell
@davidhartwell.bsky.social
Former UK MENA MoD/Jane’s now OSINT. Cornish and European. Music is life; “Bit of a legend” - Tom Ravenscroft; Spurs for life; views my own; RP not endorsement.
The BBC is institutionally biased, just not in the way its right-wing critics think. Right-wing Tories, especially Robbie Gibb, control all the key levers of editorial and institutional power.
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The BBC is institutionally biased, just not in the way its right-wing critics think. Right-wing Tories, especially Robbie Gibb, control all the key levers of editorial and institutional power.
Hard to disagree.
October 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Hard to disagree.
Oh God. Awful news. RIP Dave Ball, without whom Soft Cell and The Grid would not have been 💔
October 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Oh God. Awful news. RIP Dave Ball, without whom Soft Cell and The Grid would not have been 💔
RIP Drew Struzan 💔
You probably don’t know his name, but you’ll know his movie posters. The best to ever do it.
You probably don’t know his name, but you’ll know his movie posters. The best to ever do it.
October 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
RIP Drew Struzan 💔
You probably don’t know his name, but you’ll know his movie posters. The best to ever do it.
You probably don’t know his name, but you’ll know his movie posters. The best to ever do it.
Just discovered this magnificent compilation. Crammed full of quality late-era disco and early house, electro, and hip-hop from a cracking independent New York record label. Very strong recommend.
October 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Just discovered this magnificent compilation. Crammed full of quality late-era disco and early house, electro, and hip-hop from a cracking independent New York record label. Very strong recommend.
Happy to acknowledge this is not a verbatim quote by Hannah. That’ll learn me. This however is, from an interview she gave in 1973, which says something very close in spirit and impact. Doesn’t alter the fact that she should still be compulsory reading right now.
September 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Happy to acknowledge this is not a verbatim quote by Hannah. That’ll learn me. This however is, from an interview she gave in 1973, which says something very close in spirit and impact. Doesn’t alter the fact that she should still be compulsory reading right now.
Hannah Arendt should be compulsory reading for everyone right now.
September 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Hannah Arendt should be compulsory reading for everyone right now.
So glad Trump brought an end to this terrible war 😉 America walks tall once more 😎
September 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
So glad Trump brought an end to this terrible war 😉 America walks tall once more 😎
Doubt it’s made him poorer 🙄
September 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Doubt it’s made him poorer 🙄
Damn. RIP Robert Redford 💔
September 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Damn. RIP Robert Redford 💔
Good job Reform is the party of the people and not a rich boys club exploiting working class prejudices for their own ends.
September 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Good job Reform is the party of the people and not a rich boys club exploiting working class prejudices for their own ends.
Can’t wait for the right-wing press, BBC, and Sky to be all over this like a cheap suit in the way they are with other politicians. Or maybe not 🙄
September 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Can’t wait for the right-wing press, BBC, and Sky to be all over this like a cheap suit in the way they are with other politicians. Or maybe not 🙄
God bless you Terence 💔
If life is ever treating you badly, watch Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Life-affirming in every way.
If life is ever treating you badly, watch Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Life-affirming in every way.
August 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
God bless you Terence 💔
If life is ever treating you badly, watch Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Life-affirming in every way.
If life is ever treating you badly, watch Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Life-affirming in every way.
Goddamn. RIP Terence Stamp.
Watch The Limey. Fabulous movie.
Watch The Limey. Fabulous movie.
August 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Goddamn. RIP Terence Stamp.
Watch The Limey. Fabulous movie.
Watch The Limey. Fabulous movie.
RIP Michael Madsen.
Dangerously cool in almost everything he was in.
Dangerously cool in almost everything he was in.
July 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
RIP Michael Madsen.
Dangerously cool in almost everything he was in.
Dangerously cool in almost everything he was in.
Free speech MAGA-style latest. How Vance ever had the gall to lecture Europeans about free speech remains beyond me.
June 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Free speech MAGA-style latest. How Vance ever had the gall to lecture Europeans about free speech remains beyond me.
The “we don’t do regime change” narrative isn’t holding up so well right now.
June 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The “we don’t do regime change” narrative isn’t holding up so well right now.
LCD Soundsystem at Brixton tonight. Absolutely killing it with North American Scum. They were fucking brilliant.
June 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
LCD Soundsystem at Brixton tonight. Absolutely killing it with North American Scum. They were fucking brilliant.
The Establishment on one table and the pretend anti-Establishment on the other. It’s all larks, innit?
June 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
The Establishment on one table and the pretend anti-Establishment on the other. It’s all larks, innit?