Reposted by Alwyn Turner@C20Cymru @c20cymru.bsky.social · 8h**ONLINE TALK** Join us tomorrow, online, for One hundred years of Portmeirion, a C20 Cymru talk from curator Rachel Hunt featuring archival highlights and unpublished material. Thu 8 Oct, 6.30pm buff.ly/w0WtfhW 042
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerTube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 15hPRINT OF THE DAY Today’s print of Southgate Station is one of my favourite photographs. It perfectly captures why we call it the Tube, just look at how tight that space is! If you like this photo, or would like to see more from the collection, check out the attached post. 413520
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15hKemi Badenoch wants a left-right argument about the economy. She sees an opportunity on identity "against the identity politics of the left and the right" to oppose ethno-nationalism on the right, with a conservative case for high expectations on integration that migrants + minorities can pass 1136
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerJack Mendel @mendeljack.bsky.social · 14hThe outpouring of antisemitic conspiratorial bile on the streets of London really shames this City. This is what has been enabled by a political environment that says it's OK to harass and discriminate against Jews - because Jews are a rich and powerful class so you must rail against them 3165
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerDavid Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 17hWe're now on 1,883 signatures. One more push! And think how good you'll feel, and you'll have taken a stand for something special. www.change.org/p/save-our-p... Please re-post to your followers!change.orgSign the PetitionSave Our Pottery Studio: Help Pothole stay at The Viaduct 012
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerCity A.M. | London's Business Newspaper - News, Opinion, & Anal… @cityam.com.web.brid.gy · 07/10/2026cityam.comThree years on from October 7, British Jews are asking: Are we safe here?Three years on from the October 7 massacre, Benjamin Bell writes how life has changed for him as a Jewish Londoner. 022
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerJack Mendel @mendeljack.bsky.social · 21hThis is what I wrote in 2024 on the first anniversary of October 7. A year on from 7 October, British Jews are being targeted for Israel’s actions Unfortunately, it's not just still largely true.. but worse. #October7 www.cityam.com/a-year-on-fr...cityam.comA year on from 7 October, British Jews are being targeted for Israel's actionsFor British Jews, 7 October wasn't just a massacre that started a war, it was the moment the politics of the Middle East were imported to the UK 053
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerLion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 23hThe best British albums of 1974, as chosen by @benfinlay74.bsky.social. Warning: may contain "some far-out jazz-prog shit". thelionandunicorn.com/2026/10/07/t...thelionandunicorn.comTop ten: 1974From Robert Wyatt to Robert Palmer, it’s BEN FINLAY’s selection of the best British albums of 1974. Expect blues, prog and folk. 142
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerBirmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Remembering Millie Small on her birthday. Here's a joyous clip of her rehearsing Be My Guest and Daydream with Norwegian band The Vanguards in 1966 08016
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerAdam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Just two days until the haunting begins. 231
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerAdam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Which is still available, if you'd like to catch up fully: amzn.eu/d/0h1R375Yamzn.euThe Lies of the Land: An Honest History of Political Deceit : Macqueen, Adam: Amazon.co.uk: BooksThe Lies of the Land: An Honest History of Political Deceit : Macqueen, Adam: Amazon.co.uk: Books 2225
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerAdam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Just as a counterpoint to some of the obituaries this morning, here's the start of the Archer chapter in my history of political lying, The Lies of the Land: 29400103
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerJason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's that one day of the year where Dan Hodges has written something that's correct. 5133
Alwyn Turner @alwynturner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Remembering Archer's bid to be the Conservative candidate for London mayor. 262
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerAndy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Best thing you'll read - and listen to- all morning 295
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerLion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Happy birthday to Bob Geldof - he's 75 today. Apart from the music and the charity stuff, here he is in his acting days in snooker movie Number One, alongside Mel Smith, Alison Steadman, Alfred Molina, Ray Winstone and Ian Dury. thelionandunicorn.com/2025/03/22/f...thelionandunicorn.comFinal Cut: Number One (1985)SIMON MATTHEWS watches Bob Geldof, Alfred Molina, Ray Winstone & Mel Smith in a dark movie about snooker. 012
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerMark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 05/10/2026If I were a member of a political party which wanted to police my choice of place of worship I’d be out the door before you could finish the sentence. But it’s not place of worship, is it? It’s synagogue. Nobody care about my choice of Catholic church. It’s just “the Jews”. As always. Hateful. 0173
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerAndy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What I suspect has happened is that they've run out of bombs, and there's no point in forward deploying your most expensive aircraft if there's nothing to hang on them. It'll suit the USAF to cite "security concerns" at Fairford, rather than say their magazine's empty or their logistics are shit.- 33015
Alwyn Turner @alwynturner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Holborn and St Pancras ... has exceptionally low numbers of car owners, home owners, white residents, old residents, working class residents, and families with children." 010
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerAdrian Goldberg @goldbergradio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A free extract from my book - 'Where's The Money Gone? The Battle For The Soul of English Football.' wheresthemoneygone.substack.com/p/the-state-... 083
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerJWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It is now essential Zack Polanski does not win the Holborn & St Pancras by-election. Say no to racism, Camden. 4465
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerRobert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Old Greens, meet your new masters and future. This response to Caroline Lucas says everything about where the party is going 6020772
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerJonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026In 1979 I attended many screenings at the NFT's Billy Wilder season as an awestruck teenager. Now Wilder's back at the bfi, and I'll be on stage to talk about him ...whatson.bfi.org.ukBuy cinema tickets for Billy Wilder: America’s Witness with season curator Ruby McGuigan, film writer Christina Newland and author of Mr Wilder & Me, novelist Jonathan Coe | BFI Southbank2026-11-04T18:15:00.000, Screen NFT1 0728
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerJames Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"What then is the meaning of Zionism? It is just producing a framework for Jewish existence" (Yeshayahu Leibowitz, 1976) Unacceptable to the Green Party membership, apparently. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukGreen Party members back 'Zionism is racism' conference motionThe vote has caused divisions among figures at the top of the party at its conference in Brighton. 1111
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerLion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"It’s quite daunting," remembered Biddu; "suddenly here’s this little kid from India and he’s got the BBC orchestra and he’s on Top of the Pops." @alwynturner.bsky.social on Britain's king of disco. thelionandunicorn.com/2026/10/04/b...thelionandunicorn.comBiddu: the albumALWYN TURNER on Britain’s first disco-king, with music from Carl Douglas and Geno Washington to the Playthings and the Electric Dolls. 073
Alwyn Turner @alwynturner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I wrote a bit about disco producer/composer Biddu - and selected a dozen of his best tracks. thelionandunicorn.com/2026/10/04/b...thelionandunicorn.comBiddu: the albumALWYN TURNER on Britain’s first disco-king, with music from Carl Douglas and Geno Washington to the Playthings and the Electric Dolls. 261
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerWest Branch Labour @westbranchlabour.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In the 1951 general election Alf, Lord Dubs campaigned in Holborn & St Pancras. Seventy-five years later he’s back to campaign for Sagal! 0137
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerNick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Any Green member who participated in Jewish communal life could be denounced as a racist – as indeed could members of Polanski’s family. Needless to add, the Greens have no plans to denounce Muslims who attend mosques controlled by reactionary imams, or Christians who attend homophobic churches"nickcohen.substack.comZack Polanski and the shadow of antisemitismThe Jew will get the blame 52812
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerJames Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It's not a great idea to turn up at a Cable Street commemoration loudly proclaiming that you're a really enthusiastic supporter of the British Union of Fascists' Palestine policy... www.thejc.com/news/uk/mob-...thejc.comMob vows to wear keffiyehs and confront ‘Zionists’ at Cable Street 90th anniversary event - The Jewish Chronicle‘Shameful’ protest call by anti-Israel activists prompts outrage among Zionists planning to mark Jewish fightback against 1930s antisemitism 174
Reposted by Alwyn Turnerlazytrader.bsky.social @lazytrader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026One of those names who seemed everywhere in about 1974 and then nowhere. I'll be very intrigued to read this 001
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerSam @samkarlharrison.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"The lingering image of the prime minister this year will not be that of a ‘dead woman walking’ (as George Osborne called her, following the disastrous 2017 election) but of her mum-dancing at the Tory conference" #OTD in 2018 thelionandunicorn.com/2018/12/30/2... 021
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerLion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"I understand that Alex Horne and Greg Davies, the hosts of the show, are the subjects of a disproportionately large amount of slash fiction online. Each to their own..." thelionandunicorn.com/2026/10/01/h...thelionandunicorn.comHate watch: TaskmasterBEN THOMAS takes exception to a below-par series of Taskmaster. 012
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerLion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Coming soon to Lion & Unicorn, @alwynturner.bsky.social on Britain's first disco-king. 162
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerAlwyn Turner @alwynturner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'll be at the Cuckfield Bookfest tomorrow, in conversation with the very wonderful Juliet Nicolson. It was sold out, but they've moved the event to a larger venue and tickets may still be available. cuckfieldbookfest.co.uk/event/alwyn-...cuckfieldbookfest.co.ukAlwyn Turner - Cuckfield BookfestAlwyn Turner on A Shellshocked Nation, his definitive history of 1920s Britain, from the General Strike to the rise of fascism. 052
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerAndy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"It is outrageous that a mandatory submission platform can change their terms and propose using our hard work to train their AI models… This is not what we signed up to, nor do we consent to this." Justine Pedussel: President NUS Scotland WONKHE on the ownership & use of Student's IP in #AI LLM's.wonkhe.comA supplier shouldn’t be able to rewrite who owns students’ essaysSam Dickinson looks at Turnitin’s paused plan to put student essays to work on AI – and finds that neither anonymisation nor university regulations answer the copyright question 025
Alwyn Turner @alwynturner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'll be at the Cuckfield Bookfest tomorrow, in conversation with the very wonderful Juliet Nicolson. It was sold out, but they've moved the event to a larger venue and tickets may still be available. cuckfieldbookfest.co.uk/event/alwyn-...cuckfieldbookfest.co.ukAlwyn Turner - Cuckfield BookfestAlwyn Turner on A Shellshocked Nation, his definitive history of 1920s Britain, from the General Strike to the rise of fascism. 052
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerDavid Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you are around central London on Monday evening, I’ll be speaking at the IHR French History Seminar in Senate House about once-democratic socialists who saw progressive potential in Nazism. Do come along! 21910
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerJonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Andy Burnham calls the voters' bluff; suddenly the Brexit debate is different; what would a National Care Service look like?; Britain's first black voter?; I, Claudius as a model for the future of TV drama; in praise of perryliberalengland.blogspot.comThe Joy of Six 1585"Burnham’s speech was, in some ways, an exercise in calling the electorate’s bluff. 'I have given you what you often say is missing from pol... 074
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerFinlay McLaren @finlay24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026At Lion & Unicorn I write longer essays on television and cultural memory, such as this piece about the chat show clash between Kenneth Williams and Clydeside trade unionist Jimmy Reid. thelionandunicorn.com/2025/10/23/l...thelionandunicorn.comLast night on YouTube: ParkinsonFINLAY McLAREN watches Kenneth Williams and Jimmy Reid going at it (ooh matron). 121
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026'Sussex has moved away from Turnitin, UEA has indicated that it will, and in private conversations I’ve had with SU colleagues, other universities are signalling that a Southampton-style exit is on the cards.'wonkhe.comA supplier shouldn’t be able to rewrite who owns students’ essaysSam Dickinson looks at Turnitin’s paused plan to put student essays to work on AI – and finds that neither anonymisation nor university regulations answer the copyright question 14925
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026When you've got senior members trying to find places to hide and are having to rule out physical violence from proponents... ...maybe a motion is slightly dodgy? 2013728
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerLion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026ATTENTION hacks & their editors! Spare a few moments to peruse the oeuvre of our Finlay. He's a stylish, sharp-witted pen for hire👇 032
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerSam @samkarlharrison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"He may look like a seven-foot golem made of reclaimed chicken, but on stage he’s mercurial, giggly and has an appetite for self-abasement that would make the Marquis de Sade blush" It's @summers2theb.bsky.social on Greg Davies and TASKMASTER for L&U👇 thelionandunicorn.com/2026/10/01/h...thelionandunicorn.comHate watch: TaskmasterBEN THOMAS takes exception to a below-par series of Taskmaster. 143
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerFinlay McLaren @finlay24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hello, editors! Finlay McLaren here. Just to say: you should follow me, commission me and, if the stars align, hire me. I write about modern British politics and pop culture with bylines in the Times, UnHerd, Lion & Unicorn, the Daily Sceptic and the Critic. Thread 🧵 131
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerJames Heale @jaheale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This week's @thespectator1828.bsky.social column: a succession of ministers referenced Wilson, his rhetoric and achievements. Just like the dominant figure of the pre-Thatcher age, Burnham shows a similar appreciation for both Labour values and Labour interests. spectator.com/article/haro...spectator.comHarold Wilson is the new Labour lodestarAfter Andy Burnham’s speech at the Labour party conference on Tuesday, one veteran factionalist declared: ‘We are all Burnhamites now.’ Romantics love the rhetoric; cynics respect the ruthlessness. ‘G... 031
Reposted by Alwyn TurnerLion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"I have to confess when me and my friends used to run through the fields of wheat, the farmers weren’t too pleased about that." Happy birthday to Theresa May, who reaches 70 today. thelionandunicorn.com/2019/07/13/i...thelionandunicorn.com‘I like my shoes’: The wit & wisdom of Theresa MayThe life and career of the former prime minister, in her own words. 134
