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It looks like one of those ‘shirt sales’ moves where they’re going to take back the money that way, otherwise it makes no real footballing sense. If you’re Rashford, Greenwood, Martial you might start thinking about your future. Spurs just about got away with this with Bale but only towards the...

Yes. He made many stupid choices indeed and got so obsessive that lost all moral sense. For someone who probably had never thought himself in the wrong it must’ve been a sobering moment.

The Pisan Cantos are like a sudden explosion of radiance - enormity of his situation: prison camp, possible death sentence have been the impetus for our emotions to be engaged. Much of the previous 10-15 Cantos were erudite, intellectual and dry and even when he tells us his feelings it doesn’t...

Read Richard J Evans Hitler Conspiracies recently in which he takes apart 5 key conspiracies and shows how patently untrue they are. It’s not hugely exciting to read - it is good old fashioned scholarship but I remember reading it and thinking how important it was that people like him are...

This will do for a starter for anyone wondering what all the fuss is over Charlie Watts - Sway on its own should be enough.

I enjoyed the ZBC - decidedly quirky which very much fits Pound - she’s not blind to his faults but does a really good job of tying in ideas from earlier works into Cantos. Also read Stock’s very grumpy short guide to the Cantos which reads like some act of revenge. I’m now deep into the Pisan...

Wicked Messenger starts a bit ragged and then they find their feet and it takes off.

This just been loaded onto YouTube. I wish Merl had just gone ahead and joined the Dead

I remember hearing that Jonestown clip via some PTV mad mate and even then I knew it wasn’t transgressive but just plain wrong and I was 17.

Made me think of the Portsmouth Sinfonia from the 70s that Bryars was involved with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Sinfonia

Odd about the complaints. Because I would suggest even at her most mysterious she is still very much aware of power and (more to the point) the powerless. Her work is always very arresting, even in those dream like pictures where things don’t quite fit and create something very disconcerting. I...

It was a really decent retrospective - well curated. I can’t say I’ve seen many good things at the Barbican but this was definitely worth the visit.

Went to see the Dubuffet at the Barbican the other day - reproduction doesn’t do justice to the textures of his work at all.

I show this to my A level language students every year - the bit relevant to this thread starts at about 36 minutes in - zebra finches and their song

Read this last year as it was published by Galley Beggar and I really liked his book based on Lucia Joyce - very much outside of my genre zone. Not read something so plot heavy for a very long time. Kind of gripping and propulsive but also rather silly - at times felt more like YA fiction. I’ll...

So long ago as to be useless. It’s on the list of re-reads as I have quite an interest in this period and particularly over-looked women writers - Mirless, HD, Cunard etc.

Who reads the rules?

What no Beatles’ Rain?