Robert Rotifer
@robertrotifer.bsky.social
Still the same one I was over there and there and there. (It’s not my bike!)
Posting mainly from Canterbury.
Posting mainly from Canterbury.
Wrote this for @fm4.orf.at about the suspicious Tory-on-Tory weirdness of the BBC “scandal”
fm4.orf.at/stories/3050...
fm4.orf.at/stories/3050...
"Nichts weniger als ein Putsch" - fm4.ORF.at
Eine feindliche Zeitungskampagne und ein ehemaliger Premierminister haben zum Sturz des Director General der BBC geführt. Aber die Gegner der weltgrößten öffentlichen Rundfunkanstalt kommen nicht nur ...
fm4.orf.at
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Wrote this for @fm4.orf.at about the suspicious Tory-on-Tory weirdness of the BBC “scandal”
fm4.orf.at/stories/3050...
fm4.orf.at/stories/3050...
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Beyond Man City, other clubs which profit directly from emirati patronage should ask themselves some inconvenient questions; and if they do not of their own accord, we fans should be pressuring them into doing so. These other clubs very much include Arsenal FC.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?
Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Beyond Man City, other clubs which profit directly from emirati patronage should ask themselves some inconvenient questions; and if they do not of their own accord, we fans should be pressuring them into doing so. These other clubs very much include Arsenal FC.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Continental arte watchers, I was going to tell you that Die Super-Küche, a 1/2hr doc about the Frankfurt kitchen also featuring myself and my 2008 tribute song to Grete Schütte-Lihotzky, is on today, but seems they already played it this morning. Anyway, it streams here: www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...
100 Jahre Neues Bauen - Die Super-Küche - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
Die vor 100 Jahren von einem Architektenteam um Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky gestaltete Design-Ikone "Frankfurter Küche" ist das Vorbild aller späteren Einbauküchen. Exemplare werden in großen Museen de...
www.arte.tv
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Continental arte watchers, I was going to tell you that Die Super-Küche, a 1/2hr doc about the Frankfurt kitchen also featuring myself and my 2008 tribute song to Grete Schütte-Lihotzky, is on today, but seems they already played it this morning. Anyway, it streams here: www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...
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60 London Underground staff some who have worked on tube for years could face deportation under tightened visa rules bit.ly/3XpfRuZ
Dozens of TfL staff to lose right to remain in visa rule change
‘Rail travel assistants’ were removed from a list of ‘shortage occupation’ exceptions in July, but the London mayor’s office condemns the move
bit.ly
November 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
60 London Underground staff some who have worked on tube for years could face deportation under tightened visa rules bit.ly/3XpfRuZ
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Nipped over to Vienna this week, went to the opening of the Isotype/Otto Neurath exhibition at Wien Museum, highly recommend for a dose of socialist optimism (even if it’s from 100 years ago). One thing to see reprints of those pictorial statistics, quite another to see the originals in the flesh.
November 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Nipped over to Vienna this week, went to the opening of the Isotype/Otto Neurath exhibition at Wien Museum, highly recommend for a dose of socialist optimism (even if it’s from 100 years ago). One thing to see reprints of those pictorial statistics, quite another to see the originals in the flesh.
Bought the cut & paste Wings book for light relief from the state of the world, and before you know it 63 pages in Sean Ono Lennon drops the pub bore’s Never-heard-of-Oskar-Schlemmer bomb…
![PAUL McCARTNEY: I did get depressed. I was getting slagged off by everyone and that does make you question if you've still got it. It makes you think, 'Can I still do this? Can I make a decent record?' I did seriously consider packing it all in on a number of occasions.
SEAN ONO LENNON: I always return to [that quote]: Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g4mvqk2lwudnqtwnfs32slfq/bafkreiae7tvhydlgp37sukifgm2ctd4d3rifzpeszf2av232c7jdy7r3ge@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Bought the cut & paste Wings book for light relief from the state of the world, and before you know it 63 pages in Sean Ono Lennon drops the pub bore’s Never-heard-of-Oskar-Schlemmer bomb…
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Our favourite radio show w @robertrotifer.bsky.social and Monsterheart, Soft Cell (RIP Dave Ball), Mozart Estate, @annacalvi.bsky.social, Lemonheads, Stella Donnelly, @chrissiehynde.com, Simon Joyner, The Barr Brothers feat. Land of Talk, doppelfinger, Stefan Geissler.
fm4.orf.at/player/20251...
fm4.orf.at/player/20251...
Heartbeat vom 3.11.
Neues und Spannendes aus den Weiten des Indie Pop mit Eva Umbauer und Robert Rotifer
fm4.orf.at
November 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Our favourite radio show w @robertrotifer.bsky.social and Monsterheart, Soft Cell (RIP Dave Ball), Mozart Estate, @annacalvi.bsky.social, Lemonheads, Stella Donnelly, @chrissiehynde.com, Simon Joyner, The Barr Brothers feat. Land of Talk, doppelfinger, Stefan Geissler.
fm4.orf.at/player/20251...
fm4.orf.at/player/20251...
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UK universities are being driven to bankruptcy because of Tory sledgehammer legacy and the Labour government's apathy and ineptitude.
Of course they'll seek funding abroad, and good luck with expecting them to live up to their humanistic rhetoric.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Of course they'll seek funding abroad, and good luck with expecting them to live up to their humanistic rhetoric.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
UK universities are being driven to bankruptcy because of Tory sledgehammer legacy and the Labour government's apathy and ineptitude.
Of course they'll seek funding abroad, and good luck with expecting them to live up to their humanistic rhetoric.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Of course they'll seek funding abroad, and good luck with expecting them to live up to their humanistic rhetoric.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Tonight’s @fm4.orf.at Heartbeat, on air & stream from 22:00CET/9pmGMT will pay tribute to the late great Dave Ball (pictured) and join up all sorts of musical universes.
Playlist link below, hope you'll enjoy:
www.instagram.com/p/DQmL0n7DKw...
Playlist link below, hope you'll enjoy:
www.instagram.com/p/DQmL0n7DKw...
November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Tonight’s @fm4.orf.at Heartbeat, on air & stream from 22:00CET/9pmGMT will pay tribute to the late great Dave Ball (pictured) and join up all sorts of musical universes.
Playlist link below, hope you'll enjoy:
www.instagram.com/p/DQmL0n7DKw...
Playlist link below, hope you'll enjoy:
www.instagram.com/p/DQmL0n7DKw...
November 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Seeing the dubious stuff being posted about Gaza (here too, mostly elsewhere), I’ve long told myself not to join in, but this seems crucial news to me:
Fancy not allowing in DNA testing equipment while at the same time calling the handing over of the wrong bodies a breach of the ceasefire agreement
Fancy not allowing in DNA testing equipment while at the same time calling the handing over of the wrong bodies a breach of the ceasefire agreement
November 3, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Seeing the dubious stuff being posted about Gaza (here too, mostly elsewhere), I’ve long told myself not to join in, but this seems crucial news to me:
Fancy not allowing in DNA testing equipment while at the same time calling the handing over of the wrong bodies a breach of the ceasefire agreement
Fancy not allowing in DNA testing equipment while at the same time calling the handing over of the wrong bodies a breach of the ceasefire agreement
Almost making it sound like the one follows from the other.
November 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Almost making it sound like the one follows from the other.
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Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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RIP Peter Watkins: his film The War Game is the most frightening I’ve ever seen: it changed my life when I saw it at 15. Nothing was the same afterwards. I wrote about it at length in 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded
November 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
RIP Peter Watkins: his film The War Game is the most frightening I’ve ever seen: it changed my life when I saw it at 15. Nothing was the same afterwards. I wrote about it at length in 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded
Austrian speaking: Hate to have to say this but stripping aristocrats of their titles has only very limited effect on their power.
October 31, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Austrian speaking: Hate to have to say this but stripping aristocrats of their titles has only very limited effect on their power.
Now here’s a rare good thing: New global-minded online medium @equatormag.bsky.social
just launched, looking extremely promising.
www.equator.org/
just launched, looking extremely promising.
www.equator.org/
October 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Now here’s a rare good thing: New global-minded online medium @equatormag.bsky.social
just launched, looking extremely promising.
www.equator.org/
just launched, looking extremely promising.
www.equator.org/
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Keir Starmer, who insisted last month that leaving the ECHR “would be a profound mistake" that should be resisted at every turn, has told MPs to abstain on the Reform bill to do so
I’m told Labour MPs have been told by whips to *abstain* in the vote on Nigel Farage’s ten-min rule bill on leaving the ECHR, which has left some furious. Whips’ arguments seems to be to just ignore it. Labour MPs worry it leaves Lib Dems/Greens looking like only they care on this.
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Keir Starmer, who insisted last month that leaving the ECHR “would be a profound mistake" that should be resisted at every turn, has told MPs to abstain on the Reform bill to do so
BBC News resumé on Gaza talking about “a truce without trust, counted in bombs and bodies.” I’m not sure this sentence works in any way, semantically or otherwise. We live in a world now where reality is bent way beyond what language can take.
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
BBC News resumé on Gaza talking about “a truce without trust, counted in bombs and bodies.” I’m not sure this sentence works in any way, semantically or otherwise. We live in a world now where reality is bent way beyond what language can take.
The Springsteen movie: Landau character is both brilliant as being the first positive manager figure in biopic history and involuntary parody, especially when explaining troubled Bruce to his wife in bed.
I liked it.
I liked it.
October 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The Springsteen movie: Landau character is both brilliant as being the first positive manager figure in biopic history and involuntary parody, especially when explaining troubled Bruce to his wife in bed.
I liked it.
I liked it.
Essential book that should be translated into English.
Debunks most of what you thought you knew about German post-war atonement or whether it actually happened at all.
Debunks most of what you thought you knew about German post-war atonement or whether it actually happened at all.
October 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Essential book that should be translated into English.
Debunks most of what you thought you knew about German post-war atonement or whether it actually happened at all.
Debunks most of what you thought you knew about German post-war atonement or whether it actually happened at all.
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God, this extended version is magical.
youtu.be/oDiJFNtUIC0?...
youtu.be/oDiJFNtUIC0?...
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Extended Version)
YouTube video by Soft Cell - Topic
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
God, this extended version is magical.
youtu.be/oDiJFNtUIC0?...
youtu.be/oDiJFNtUIC0?...
Only going to happen when all residents also have voting rights. How quickly politics would change if they did.
They always say "your neighbours", don't they? Never "you". Even when they're saying the right things. They're never talking to immigrants, only the immigrants' neighbours.
October 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Only going to happen when all residents also have voting rights. How quickly politics would change if they did.