Luke Turner
@luketurner.bsky.social
Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
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Cosey Fanni Tutti reveals all | The Observer
An exhibition in the pioneering artist's hometown sees the Throbbing Gristle co-founder celebrating 50 years of baring her soul
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I've long felt that the generosity of Cosey Fanni Tutti's work is overshadowed by the 'transgressive' reputation of TG, and that her art / porn actions and music have been rather siloed. It was a pleasure to try and put that straight in this profile for The Observer
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I am very much here for excellent historians cheerfully posting pictures of themselves looking mighty fine in shiny skirts, so massive respect to Guy Walters (I mean shiny skirts *and* taking a shotgun to an irritating printer - men containing these multitudes always so good to see) x
November 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I am very much here for excellent historians cheerfully posting pictures of themselves looking mighty fine in shiny skirts, so massive respect to Guy Walters (I mean shiny skirts *and* taking a shotgun to an irritating printer - men containing these multitudes always so good to see) x
Had a lovely walk round the local bit of Epping Forest earlier with Inside The Rose in the headphones, still buzzing from this gig. Turns out there were at least three of us there from Pride Of Irons, West Ham’s LGBT+ group, which I like a lot. ⚒️🏳️🌈🌳🔥
November 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Had a lovely walk round the local bit of Epping Forest earlier with Inside The Rose in the headphones, still buzzing from this gig. Turns out there were at least three of us there from Pride Of Irons, West Ham’s LGBT+ group, which I like a lot. ⚒️🏳️🌈🌳🔥
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Working on a presentation and...JFC, we need to shut down the pulpy "[Thing] of Auschwitz" machine until we can figure out what's going on.
These things are just stealing the oxygen of important Holocaust histories.
These things are just stealing the oxygen of important Holocaust histories.
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Working on a presentation and...JFC, we need to shut down the pulpy "[Thing] of Auschwitz" machine until we can figure out what's going on.
These things are just stealing the oxygen of important Holocaust histories.
These things are just stealing the oxygen of important Holocaust histories.
see also gay culture back then often being "oh grown adult men having sex with teenage boys is an education / what the Greeks did / shouldn't be judged". I love a lot of what the Gay Mens Press published in the 80s, but there was *a lot* of that. Also in Derek Jarman's diaries.
You see people say this type of thing sometimes and tbh i think its symptomatic of the fact that if you grew up in the 90s-00s, adults going out with 16 year olds was way way more socially accepted
It’s monsters all the way down.
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
see also gay culture back then often being "oh grown adult men having sex with teenage boys is an education / what the Greeks did / shouldn't be judged". I love a lot of what the Gay Mens Press published in the 80s, but there was *a lot* of that. Also in Derek Jarman's diaries.
I must admit I never quite understand why TNPs aren’t so much bigger - eg all those who didn’t get Radiohead tickets, why not this? I feel they operate in a similar sphere, but arguably more elegant and soul, certainly less dry mithering.
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.
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I must admit I never quite understand why TNPs aren’t so much bigger - eg all those who didn’t get Radiohead tickets, why not this? I feel they operate in a similar sphere, but arguably more elegant and soul, certainly less dry mithering.
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.
November 13, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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.
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‘Hey, my girlfriend saw you from across the bar and we really dig your vibe’
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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One of my favourite regulars on @thequietus.com is deputy ed @paddyclarke.bsky.social's folk column, this month opening with fine reflections on a recent event devoted to Martin Carthy. Looking forward to digging into the ten contemporary selections that follow too:
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Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Autumn, by Patrick Clarke | The Quietus
The room that is now Dalston’s EartH Theatre first opened as a cinema in 1936, five years before the birth of Martin Carthy. In the decades since both man and room have endured swings in fortune. One ...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
One of my favourite regulars on @thequietus.com is deputy ed @paddyclarke.bsky.social's folk column, this month opening with fine reflections on a recent event devoted to Martin Carthy. Looking forward to digging into the ten contemporary selections that follow too:
thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
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I'm not sure if others have noticed this, but interesting that one of the Prescott criticisms of the BBC is based on those of the 'History Reclaimed' group, which is also associated with the 'Restore Trust' group's attacks on & so far unsuccessful attempts to take control of the National Trust. 1/3
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I'm not sure if others have noticed this, but interesting that one of the Prescott criticisms of the BBC is based on those of the 'History Reclaimed' group, which is also associated with the 'Restore Trust' group's attacks on & so far unsuccessful attempts to take control of the National Trust. 1/3
The latest @thequietus.com column looking at US music scenes/communities reaches the Big Apple: "There’s a lot to be mad about and there’s a lot to fight for. I love this city, and I genuinely believe that we will continue to adapt and make great art no matter what."
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North American Music: tQ in New York City, by Maxelle Talena
New York isn’t dead, says Maxelle Talena in the latest of tQ’s dispatches from the North American underground. It’s being killed.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The latest @thequietus.com column looking at US music scenes/communities reaches the Big Apple: "There’s a lot to be mad about and there’s a lot to fight for. I love this city, and I genuinely believe that we will continue to adapt and make great art no matter what."
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Listened to Dandy Hooligan, a new song by Babyshambles. Dear Lord. The hooligan and the dandy are fascinating historical concepts, always evolving through the Englands they've existed – rich creative source material but *how* does he keep getting away with this clichéd lorrrrluvvaduck drivel?
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Listened to Dandy Hooligan, a new song by Babyshambles. Dear Lord. The hooligan and the dandy are fascinating historical concepts, always evolving through the Englands they've existed – rich creative source material but *how* does he keep getting away with this clichéd lorrrrluvvaduck drivel?
I don’t even think Otto is OTT in saying this. Farage consistently works against British interests, whether Brexit, Russia and praising Putin (including his mate being bribed by them) or now conspiring with a proto-fascist foreign moron to destroy a flawed yet still vital national institution
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I don’t even think Otto is OTT in saying this. Farage consistently works against British interests, whether Brexit, Russia and praising Putin (including his mate being bribed by them) or now conspiring with a proto-fascist foreign moron to destroy a flawed yet still vital national institution
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Well this is a bit of a dream meeting – 3:16 of gothic pop excellence:
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Charli XCX & John Cale Unveil Noisy Wuthering Heights Collab | The Quietus
Charli XCX and John Cale have released a video for gothic pop dirge belter ‘House’, written to appear on the soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming adaptation of Emily Brontē’s novel Wuthering H...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Well this is a bit of a dream meeting – 3:16 of gothic pop excellence:
thequietus.com/news/charli-...
thequietus.com/news/charli-...
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The Shirley Bassey Show (10th November 1979). Les Dawson gives some of his favourite jokes another airing whilst Shirley attempts (and fails) to keep a straight face.
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The Shirley Bassey Show (10th November 1979). Les Dawson gives some of his favourite jokes another airing whilst Shirley attempts (and fails) to keep a straight face.
Got round to reading the epic essay on epic masturbation AKA gooning. It's fascinating, bleak, the endpoint of porn saturation and online culture (and though a lot of the participants deny it, it reads like sex/porn addiction). And also, cracking one off to MEME?!
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The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz
Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation
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November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Got round to reading the epic essay on epic masturbation AKA gooning. It's fascinating, bleak, the endpoint of porn saturation and online culture (and though a lot of the participants deny it, it reads like sex/porn addiction). And also, cracking one off to MEME?!
harpers.org/archive/2025...
harpers.org/archive/2025...
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Prescott's claims that the BBC has a pro-trans bias are even flimsier than you might imagine. He thinks all positive stories about trans people represent bias unless some ghoul from Sex Matters is invited to say that they are awful actually. Crackpot green-ink stuff
So the Telegraph’s “BBC bias dossier” - supposedly written by ex-BBC adviser Michael Prescott - is being used to claim there’s a rogue LGBT+ unit “censoring” gender-critical voices inside the BBC.
Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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For reference - Here’s the Telegraph article with the Prescott memo complaining about the BBC published in FULL.
Obviously, it’s an archived link which circumvents their paywall - as there’s no way I’m gonna give that transphobic rag any clicks or coin! 😣
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Obviously, it’s an archived link which circumvents their paywall - as there’s no way I’m gonna give that transphobic rag any clicks or coin! 😣
👉 archive.ph/mJIsB
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Prescott's claims that the BBC has a pro-trans bias are even flimsier than you might imagine. He thinks all positive stories about trans people represent bias unless some ghoul from Sex Matters is invited to say that they are awful actually. Crackpot green-ink stuff
YOUTH SECTION sounds like the name of a really aggy power electronics duo whose politics are troublingly obscure
Uk political parties keep trying to do youth branches, it's amazing. No matter how many times it ends in horrifying disaster
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
YOUTH SECTION sounds like the name of a really aggy power electronics duo whose politics are troublingly obscure
"There is more realness in Dennis Potter’s weirdness than in the majority of overwrought series striving for authenticity" An excellent @thequietus.com long read by Darran Anderson on one of the greatest writers ever to work in television
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How Dennis Potter's TV Plays Were Guides to the Purgatory of the Modern Age | The Quietus
Darran Anderson gets to grips with the brilliant body of work created by revolutionary television playwright Dennis Potter
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November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"There is more realness in Dennis Potter’s weirdness than in the majority of overwrought series striving for authenticity" An excellent @thequietus.com long read by Darran Anderson on one of the greatest writers ever to work in television
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
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This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
@fergalkinney.bsky.social are you still after big mug? I think it was you who was saying a Le Creuset one had bust? Half off!
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www.lecreuset.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
@fergalkinney.bsky.social are you still after big mug? I think it was you who was saying a Le Creuset one had bust? Half off!
www.lecreuset.co.uk/en_GB/p/ston...
www.lecreuset.co.uk/en_GB/p/ston...
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One of these slipping off meant Death by Fire or Ice for whoever was at the tap end
November 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
One of these slipping off meant Death by Fire or Ice for whoever was at the tap end
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After a fourth successive heavy annual defeat for Restore Trust, we should (but won't) have Telegraph reporters descending on the scone-eaters at historic properties to ask why they weren't in touch
This is an assymetry between the liberal left and the culture warriors of the metropolitan right
This is an assymetry between the liberal left and the culture warriors of the metropolitan right
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
After a fourth successive heavy annual defeat for Restore Trust, we should (but won't) have Telegraph reporters descending on the scone-eaters at historic properties to ask why they weren't in touch
This is an assymetry between the liberal left and the culture warriors of the metropolitan right
This is an assymetry between the liberal left and the culture warriors of the metropolitan right
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Siegfried Sassoon
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Siegfried Sassoon