Always a tough afternoon in the David Cameron household I imagine

First epiphany of 2025: find a jacket as cool as Dick Van Dyck’s in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Will be reporting to the Committee for Crimes Against Confectionary in due course

Principal Xmas gifts: a bottle of mescal, three classic albums, and a rowing machine. Will start with the mescal and work my way up. Christmas as a mid-life miniature

Happy Birthday to The Country Girl. Gone but never forgotten xxx

‘It is dark blood magic that distinguishes fascism from conventional hard right governments’ - one of many on the nose sentences in this excellent and timely book @induct.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social

The OG #MD #23 @memorialdevice.bsky.social @weare1of100.bsky.social @reversediorama.bsky.social

Two @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social titles selected as the Guardian’s Music Books of the Year. Hip hop, punk, afrobeat, jazz, reggae: essential reading for fans of all these genres. Also big hugs @jonsavage.bsky.social whose book I commissioned and reluctantly left behind

51 going on 76

Beautiful review of Vivien Goldman’s new book in today’s @theguardian.com - ‘Inspiring from start to finish’ @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

When a passion for t shirts goes too far 😂… looking forward to visiting @weare1of100.bsky.social HQ early in the New Year

Make it stop

One of the FT’s Best Music Books of the Year: Never Understood by William and Jim Reid, the story of The Jesus and Mary Chain