These New Puritans tonight: murky, defiant, romantic, rattling; still they dig emotion out of unlikely places. In a recent review @katefmkatefm.bsky.social wrote that they “weigh up man and machine, medieval and modern, pastoral and industrial, and decide to keep it all.” I think that nails it.

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Pls, PRs, I beg you, stop sending emails with enormous image files

Adding tequila to my electrolytes is my most Gemini trait

As an asthmatic I find Starburster deeply triggering

No greater feeling than exiting an overly air-conditioned freezing supermarket into the warm air

Enjoy it, our brief time. Soon enough it’ll be back to nine months of grey and the other team will be posting ‘thank the Lord, all semblance of cheer has vanished from the air again’.

Tube station announcer just said, “there is no need to conjugate at one end of the platform”

Same old male faces reviewing Springsteen, I see. God forbid a young woman should ever write about him.

Aged well

Teenage girlhood lasts a lifetime. When you turn 13 you become a teenage girl for the rest of your life.

Last week I wrote about home and all that that means in London in 2025

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