George Morley

The loveliest evening celebrating my dear departed friend Joe Roberts & Eland's reissue of his first book, which I edited waaay back in 1994. #Three-QuartersofaFootprint www.travelbooks.co.uk/shop-online-...

Saw Naza last night, at a sold out East Dulwich Picturehouse. Measured, beautifully made, damning and pretty gruelling, but very glad to have seen it.

Put the living room back together post the decorators and added a massive gathering of dahlias.

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Hurrah!

Everything about the raid on Rep. Omar’s residence is shameful. Everyone involved should lose their jobs. For a start.

Latest far right malign effect - unfounded accusations of immigrants stealing wild birds to eat have led to a physical assault on a volunteer rescuing a cygnet. The Greenwich Wildlife Network statement is long, but worth a read - it's thoughtful, courageous and impeccably argued:

Arrest and prosecute “Danny Tommo” or lose the country to the Fascists. That’s the choice here

Old ladies immediately arrested and imprisoned for holding up signs to protest the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent civilians. Far right thug uses what looks like an illegal knife to slash a boat, endangering a life. And here I am many hours later waiting for any kind of police action.

It’s time for a zero tolerance crack down on far right thugs. They’re costing the taxpayer, soaking up police resources, intimidating peaceful communities & delaying the measures that are reducing the asylum backlog & its cost. Enough is enough. End the menace. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Bruce is everything that's good in the world. #70Up

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.

Fuck me, but it's all awful. Again. Taking consolation from having sorted things out in the cellar, moving a pot of dahlias in the garden and planning a(nother) trip to Mexico. We take our comfort where we can.

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

In news that should surprise precisely no one I follow or who follows me, Furious is absolutely bloody brilliant.

I'm biased, since this was one of the last books I edited before retiring last year, but it is really very good indeed.

Spent much of today reading Carlo Gébler's excellent and moving memoir of the decline and death of his mother, Edna O'Brien, No One Tells You, out next week.

There are other eighty year olds. Just saying.

Well that sucks.

I am annoyed that this is now my most popular post here on Bluesky. If you want more, I wrote a book about scientific racism called How to Argue With a Racist, and another one called Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics. www.adamrutherford.com/allbooks

This.

The palaver of updating addresses with every institution is quite something. They all do it very slightly differently but almost without exception the process is extremely circuitous. And if you're not phone or computer literate, god help you.

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I genuinely cannot understand how the Labour government has now had two, genuinely cultured prime ministers who both looked at Lisa Nandy’s record there and went “I’m pleased with this. I want this to continue.”

Thank fuck for that!

This is insane! So yes please Mr Burnham. Tax the buggers who should pay but don't.

What Dan said

Oh well

Oh

The prettiest sky tonight here in Whitstable.

Farewell, dear Tess. Pretty, vain and characterful. Seen here in the waste paper basket. I did say characterful.

I've signed and sent a letter - from authors, broadcasters, journalists, artists, scholars and performers - to express our deep concern at @exeter.ac.uk’s troubling plans to make mass redundancies within the Humanities Dept @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social. I would love it if you read and shared widely.

A people vs the establishment by-election. So he's resigning and re-standing. Hey ho.

Is there even a point to this?

Is he simply going to bore us all to death?

Permit a retired person a moment's boasting. So very pleased that my lovely former author @susannahstapleton.bsky.social won the non-fiction dagger last night & I was there to see her do so! #ThatDarkSpring is a perfect summer read too. So off you go ...

This is remarkable.

Just trudged upstairs to find that the fan in our bedroom which shows the temperature is reading 31 degrees ...

Thank the lord for Brindisa's gazpacho, prosciutto and melon straight from the fridge.

F*ck.

My friend (& former author) @proffrancesca.bsky.social is set to lose her job, along with her colleagues across the humanities. That successive governments & now even the Russell Group cannot value these vital subjects is a disgrace. We need the humanities even more than ever.

Guess what? I’m at risk of redundancy. My job - and those of my colleagues in my department and across our wider faculty of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences - is one of those currently targeted for cuts. I received a personal letter today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mickey Mouse ramekins? Jesus, the tragic paucity of ambition and imagination. I mean - a Rolex; a Cartier tank; a diamond ring; a Ferrari ffs. But £39 ramekins, Mickey Mouse ramekins at that.