Jon Dennis
@jondennis.bsky.social
Never have a motto — that’s what I always say.
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Delighted to have had the chance to write about Beatle ‘historiography’ in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
The long and winding road: Stuart Maconie on why our opinions about the Beatles keep changing
Fans and historians have spent 60 years debating what the band means – and which member is greatest. Will the returning Anthology project and Sam Mendes’s planned biopics create new arguments?
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Delighted to have had the chance to write about Beatle ‘historiography’ in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
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Tell me you’ve used AI to tweak an archive photo without telling me you’ve used AI to tweak an archive photo. Breeds musnuey, indeed.
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Tell me you’ve used AI to tweak an archive photo without telling me you’ve used AI to tweak an archive photo. Breeds musnuey, indeed.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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#NowPlaying One of the most incredible albums that I have ever heard. It's like a time machine that takes you back to the womb. #5debutalbums7074
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November 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
#NowPlaying One of the most incredible albums that I have ever heard. It's like a time machine that takes you back to the womb. #5debutalbums7074
@sallystardust1.bsky.social
@sallystardust1.bsky.social
Japanese jazz at the Barbican was a sublime thrill.
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Japanese jazz at the Barbican was a sublime thrill.
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I have a limitless appetite for Beatles alt takes and outtakes anyway, but in era of AI-generated music I’m finding the new Anthology release especially poignant as reminder of how humans create things, collaboratively, iteratively, being silly, making mistakes …
November 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I have a limitless appetite for Beatles alt takes and outtakes anyway, but in era of AI-generated music I’m finding the new Anthology release especially poignant as reminder of how humans create things, collaboratively, iteratively, being silly, making mistakes …
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Betty Mackereth, Philip Larkin's feisty long term secretary, immortalised in the 1962 poems Toads Revisited, has passed away today aged 101. Betty was a great supporter of the Philip Larkin Society. We send our condolences to her family.
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Betty Mackereth, Philip Larkin's feisty long term secretary, immortalised in the 1962 poems Toads Revisited, has passed away today aged 101. Betty was a great supporter of the Philip Larkin Society. We send our condolences to her family.
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Nine years ago my son drew this for his homework. Other artists failed to capture Stalin's cheeky grin.
November 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Nine years ago my son drew this for his homework. Other artists failed to capture Stalin's cheeky grin.
Here silence stands like heat. #nowplaying
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Here silence stands like heat. #nowplaying
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"No, Flavor, I said pose with a massive *clock*."
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"No, Flavor, I said pose with a massive *clock*."
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A Handful Of Earth is, pound for pound, the greatest UK folk album ever recorded. One of the few albums my dad deemed good enough to have on tape for the car end to end.
This battle to get these recordings released is important just for admirers of Dick Gaughan’s music, but for music fans in general. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan s...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
A Handful Of Earth is, pound for pound, the greatest UK folk album ever recorded. One of the few albums my dad deemed good enough to have on tape for the car end to end.
This battle to get these recordings released is important just for admirers of Dick Gaughan’s music, but for music fans in general. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan s...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This battle to get these recordings released is important just for admirers of Dick Gaughan’s music, but for music fans in general. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
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We are doing our best not to dismember any more journalists with bone saws www.ft.com/content/dc11...
November 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We are doing our best not to dismember any more journalists with bone saws www.ft.com/content/dc11...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Now the late C.U. Later.
November 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Now the late C.U. Later.
“It happens sometimes — people just explode.”
November 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“It happens sometimes — people just explode.”
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“she was thin”.
They tell him, “you’ve missed off the E” and he returns the next day with the stone reading
“Eee, she was thin”.
(It’s better told by him)
They tell him, “you’ve missed off the E” and he returns the next day with the stone reading
“Eee, she was thin”.
(It’s better told by him)
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
“she was thin”.
They tell him, “you’ve missed off the E” and he returns the next day with the stone reading
“Eee, she was thin”.
(It’s better told by him)
They tell him, “you’ve missed off the E” and he returns the next day with the stone reading
“Eee, she was thin”.
(It’s better told by him)
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Just remembered a joke I heard Alan Bennett tell:
A very pious Yorkshire churchgoer dies. The family ask for the inscription “She was thine” on her gravestone.
When it’s delivered the mason has mistakenly written
A very pious Yorkshire churchgoer dies. The family ask for the inscription “She was thine” on her gravestone.
When it’s delivered the mason has mistakenly written
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Just remembered a joke I heard Alan Bennett tell:
A very pious Yorkshire churchgoer dies. The family ask for the inscription “She was thine” on her gravestone.
When it’s delivered the mason has mistakenly written
A very pious Yorkshire churchgoer dies. The family ask for the inscription “She was thine” on her gravestone.
When it’s delivered the mason has mistakenly written
not to sound like a goldwaterite, but voters want a choice and not an echo.
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM