not to be all man-who-has-just-read-Lonesome-Dove but why aren't all books more like Lonesome Dove

i had the pleasure of profiling Virgil van Dijk for @gqmagazine.bsky.social

www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/virg...

yet to meet a single person with a solitary nice thing to say about Emilia Perez

with great shame, i am struggling to fill the Vanderpump Rules-shaped void left in my life

The English Disease by @samdiss.bsky.social explores violence not as tabloid mythology, but a prism for understanding how football's darker subcultures emerge from societal fault lines. A profound meditation on belonging, identity and the ghosts of working-class experience. Essential listening

A fantastic piece from @stuartmcgurk who went inside Sainsbury's Christmas ad campaign to tell the story of the ad execs that spend the whole year working out how to make the nation cry. Its ... joyful? on.ft.com/3Bv9y1I

i had a lovely time taking Omari Hutchinson to the Marshes with GQ for a chat about being a celebrity at 12, jaded by 15, and still wearing shoes that don’t quite fit you at 22. www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/omar...

Started listening today. Well worth checking out.

Insightful cultural criticism without the sneery cynicism you get from those who are disconnected from working class culture.

we have finally evolved past the need for The Rock and he will be looked upon by future scholars as a kind of folksy curiosity, like the Lindy Hop or a dog who was once made the deputy sheriff of a midsize Minnesotan town

i think some of this is just Ridley Scott being bad and old but also that self-referential humour and “call backs” of 2010s TV was metabolised on a industrial scale by the MCU to created an irresistible template and now “how many of these things can you recognise?” is the only metric that matters

great to see The Hare in here, a lovely pub with a good pool table. massive Hackney underrepresentation, however: The Gun, The Kenton, Prince Arthur, Prince George, The Chesham Arms, Biddle Bros…

for a whole year, we worked on The English Disease and the response has been amazing. i don’t use Apple Podcasts but when i saw they had review functionality, i have become morbidly fascinated by the spectrum of reaction.

jet lagged, i went to watch Paterson in a cinema in Kyoto and fell asleep before the film came on and woke up as the credits rolled. i felt great.

if you think about “meetings” as just “hanging out” then your whole day becomes far less stressful.

Loved this podcast. Thoughtful and compelling. Particularly the episode about female football fans. Great work @samdiss.bsky.social

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really torn between doing my already-late VAT return, and watching The Apartment. one of those moments in life that leaves you at a real crossroads.

Listening to Season 2 very interesting podcast.. @samdiss.bsky.social

Doesn't glamorise the violence but I think tries to frame it in today's terms.

Dr Lisa Mackenzie brings direct opinions... from Sutton In Ashfield now at University of Bedford

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My recommendation this morning is for 'The English Disease' podcast, looking at why people got into football hooliganism and what this has morphed into. Particularly relevant given the riots over the summer.

big fan @samdiss.bsky.social

lnk.to/englishdisease

who do i have to become drunkenly boisterous with to get my podcast nominated for some awards then