Author of David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God, out January 15 2026 via Bloomsbury | Ents editor for NationalWorld
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Jun 13
Lovely to see my book in the Guardian's Brilliant Books for the Summer - thanks to those who compiled the list and to those of you who've bought the book
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Jun 13
Lovely to see my book in the Guardian's Brilliant Books for the Summer - thanks to those who compiled the list and to those of you who've bought the book
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Jun 11
Wondering what God - that's God - makes of this
A prayer for the World Cup 2026. ⚽
ALT A prayer for the World Cup God of glory, as the world gathers to celebrate the beautiful game, we pray for a harmonious and joyous World Cup. Bring safety and security for players and officials on the pitch, fans in the stands, and spectators at home. May we see and celebrate the hand of God in the creativity of every curving free kick, silky pass or impossible save. May we have compassion and perspective on the miskicks, missed penalties, and muddled VARs. Every winning team needs a losing team – even if you were the better team. Let the journey to World Cup glory be not only for the nation that wins. May we see something more of the world you want us to be: a gathering of every nation and people who share your glory. Amen.
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Jun 11
It was a pleasure to be interviewed by Mike Warwick of Do Radio about my book and a whole load of other things, including my childhood, Christianity, my slightly weird but lucky life as an opinion writer and all sorts really
doradio.uk/where-to-next/?ep…
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Jun 9
'I do not feel very confident that I can make anything satisfactory of Middlemarch. I have need to remember that other things which have been accomplished by me, were begun under the same cloud.'
George Eliot, 1869
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Jun 9
Eliot's journals are well worth reading and it's great they're online
georgeeliotarchive.org/journ…
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Jun 6
Paul McCartney SLAMS modern politicians and expresses SOME SCEPTICISM about the SDP–LIBERAL ALLIANCE
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Jun 6
(Incidentally I've always thought that David Steel should have been called David Owen and David Owen should have been called David Steel)
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Jun 4
So patronising to excuse Kenyon's inarticulacy on the grounds that he's a working-class man. You can be a working-class man *and* be highly articulate, as various MPs (and countless others) have shown over the decades #BBCQT
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Jun 4
It's astonishing that this needs to be said but it evidently does
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Jun 4
Marjane Satrapi died today.
Her work incredibly matters, she showed millions of people what the regime hides.
In fact, Persepolis was so controversial that Iran’s government sent a letter to the French embassy in Tehran to protest it and pressured organizers of the 2007 Bangkok Film Festival to remove it from the lineup.
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Jun 4
'This is what mastery looks like'
The new Tempest at @TheRSC is packed with talent that has nothing left to prove. The result is a production of utter assurance and belief in the text
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Jun 1
New music by me! It's a pretty big electro kind of thing. Can't shake the influence of C64 loading music but I'm actually quite happy about that
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May 30
Still think I was basically right about this! There was so much clamour last season for a 'proper' centre-forward but I still reckon Arsenal might have been better without one
8 May 2025
But they might not have made those chances if they'd had a 'proper' centre-forward. And they've plenty of players who can score goals. It's like how Lukaku was the final piece in Chelsea's jigsaw, until it turned out that he was actually from the wrong jigsaw and it all broke
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May 26
Pretty amazing to see and hear the great @DonnyMcCaslin at @PrestoMusicCom in Leamington tonight. Aside from anything else, what a privilege to hear him play a tribute to Sonny Rollins on this day of days
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May 26
Obviously the conversations around Bowie were astonishing - McCaslin was to Blackstar what Ronson was to Ziggy - but McCaslin's own work is fantastic too and deserves to be heard far and wide. Great to meet him and get my copy of his latest album signed. And he's v nice!
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May 25
New Bowie/God bits from me! Some pictures, some videos, a response to the thoughtful review in @firstthingsmag and more besides
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