Consultant planner, facilitator, writer. Co-editor of @alonginglook - love letters to lyrics. Stuff on art & culture jamescaig.substack.com/ MD ANT
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26 Jan 2024
Aerial turned 18 in November. My son did the same in January. A time for reflection then. On being on the cusp of change, and how Kate Bush shows us the true meaning of life can be found in the everyday.
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29 Nov 2024
What it's like to go California when there's an election on.
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22 Nov 2024
New post on the complexities of being a contemporary @MassiveAttackUK fan and also a Bristol resident - the unspoken tension between solidarity with their activism and a hometown nostalgia for early 90s afterparties.
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11 Nov 2024
Can't retailers just do more with less / not have so many employees if they can't afford them / spend less on avocado toast etc. Or is that purely for marginalised citizens we choose not to help rather than huge corporates who choose to look after themselves?
10 Nov 2024
Following Rachel Reeves’ rise in employers’ national insurance contributions - this is the additional costs to business per year
Tesco - £250m
Sainsbury’s- £140m
M&S - £120m
BT - £100m
Morrisons £75m
Everyone’s bills will be going up & wages will be deflated.
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10 Nov 2024
Never mind football, LIFE is seen VAR. But as in sport, access to endless replays from all angles seemingly fails to get us to any kind of agreed, objective truth. Tribal loyalty frames what we see. And yet we will never step back from the technology now we have it. Game's gone.
10 Nov 2024
Mehdi Hasan is justifying a pogrom against Jews in Amsterdam. Yet make no mistake: mainstream media will continue platforming Hasan because America no longer treats antisemitism as a moral line that should never be crossed.
A society that fails to stigmatize antisemites will get more of them.
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10 Nov 2024
(I have not seen the footage. Only the takes. I don't know what the 'truth' of this story is but that's not my point. My point is that knowing of different interpretations might once have prompted attempts to clarify or confirm. But no longer. I know you already know this.)
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9 Nov 2024
To narcissists, anything other than fawning adoration is an attack. They can't be wrong, at fault, or laughed at. They will swallow the world in order to prove it wrong. But it's never enough: they're hollow. So they pick new fights, over and over again. As we're finding out.
6 Nov 2024
The shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand is the most significant historical event in our modern history.
This is the second….
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7 Nov 2024
Imagine being this good
7 Nov 2024
happy 81st birthday to the incredible joni mitchell!
here’s joni playing “coyote” with roger mcguinn and bob dylan at gordon lightfoot’s home in toronto, canada, 1975.
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7 Oct 2022
We recently started a thing for/with our 11 yr old daughter: female excellence on display, an album cover calendar placed prominently in our hallway. She’s chosen the first three. This was August.
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6 Nov 2024
"Democracy is ragtime on the corner..."
Waking up to Winter In America this morning, looking to Gil for succour and hope, again.
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5 Nov 2024
Channel 4's coverage is wild. Logan Roy arguing with Boris Johnson, and now Michael Cohen meeting Stormy Daniels IRL for the first time. MLK III bearing witness. I have a (fever) dream.
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5 Nov 2024
So weird how it was all 'she will be queen consort' because of all the Diana/Queen sycophants and also cos Charles was scared of mummy actually, and now she's all The Queen and no even even blinks, not a peep in fleet street, I mean is there a superinjunction or something?
5 Nov 2024
Got this and immediately thought someone had mistakenly pressed a two-year-old newsflash button. Then thought, oh they mean Camilla #AbolishTheMonarchy
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5 Nov 2024
I have a gig review up at @bristol247 - the spellbinding folk-jazz of @arooj_aftab in her "sexy villain era", from @Bristol_Beacon on Friday.
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5 Nov 2024
Oh good, Justin Webb's talky bit.
Kamala worries people, apparently. There's "a fissure."
Also "there will always be people who use violence" and we can't really know for sure what will happen with it, so 🤷... (Let's not mention Trump's explicit triggering of it.)
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2 Nov 2024
Goodbye to a Scottish legend
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1 Nov 2024
And yet trauma is, and so is wealth, and so, it appears, is the capacity to fight extremely hard for the status quo and for the wealth of some over the dignity of others.
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24 Oct 2024
"My natural world is a biblical paradise, within which I set my human dramas of suffering & transcendence. A world of metaphor, where nature comes alive with the promise of God & the stars hang in the air like questions.”
On Nick Cave's best album at 20.
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22 Oct 2024
So, here's some thoughts on Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus at 20. Yes, 20. Writing this helped me work out why There She Goes, My Beautiful World makes me cry, and reminded me bands should have at least two of every instrument. What a fucking record.
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21 Oct 2024
Can't believe I missed Gilbert and George live.
21 Oct 2024
A nice review of our @TheRestHistory Royal Albert Hall show in @thetimes - thank you @nfmusic.
I see you deducted a star for Tom's singing. Sad.
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