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David Bennun

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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As someone who is (assuming I make it there) close enough to his pension to lose out substantially on the end of the triple lock, I'd like to remind everybody that just because something is to your specific disadvantage, that does not in itself mean it is either wrong or unfair.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If there remained the slightest doubt that Pep Guardiola is a tactical genius, his choosing to leave Manchester City at the end of last season surely puts an end to it.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Disappointed by this decision, mainly because now I can't get a black and white dog and tell everybody the licence was cheaper.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Surely the most sublime fusion of folk-pop and jazz ever created, an LP that lives in its own world of rapture and melancholy." Delighted to have contributed a 50th anniversary retrospective of my favourite album by the peerless Joni Mitchell to ace new Brighton mag, The Beat.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hoopla! The September edition of Under The Sun, showcasing the best new music of the month on @slackcityradio.bsky.social , is up now on @totallyradio.bsky.social. Link in reply, natch. Featuring music from @baba-zula.bsky.social, @chasingabbey.bsky.social, @immersionhq.bsky.social...
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Well, I suppose that answers Edward Albee's question.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Not usually a "look at this cat" guy, but c'mon, I mean ... LOOK AT THIS CAT.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cthulhuphiles everywhere, have I got a product for you.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Great to see fan favourite Lisandro Martinez showing unerring marksmanship with a goal in last night's Champions League fixture at Old Trafford.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The latest edition of THREADS is up, on @slackcityradio.bsky.social via @totallyradio.bsky.social, and it's all about PROUSTIAN RUSHES - the songs that call up a memory so vivid and powerful they instantly transport you to another time and place. Link in reply, natch.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Just tell them you were present but not involved."
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Amnesty needs to choose between its founding "defend human rights" premise, and the "up the resistance!" narrative by which it has been captured. Contrary to what it may believe, it can't combine the mainstream credibility of the former with the edgelord performativity of the latter.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
*chef's kiss* to whichever force in the universe controls poetic justice.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A note on Dolly Parton.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
PICK A SIDE, WEATHER
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This press photo for the forthcoming Beatles biopics looks less like a film about the Beatles and more like a weirdly niche Beatles-themed stag do.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Head of institution that fed man to wolves criticises wolves.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Everybody reckons Soundgarden predicted this but I say it's yet another thing we can credit to Stevie Wonder.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My sole contribution to Eclipse Discourse is to note that yesterday's very enjoyable, good-humoured and community-spirited gathering on Hove Lawns looked like a convention of Pastafarians and smelled like a convention of Rastafarians.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
For reasons of her own, the missus has moved this thing into our sleeping quarters, where there is not the remotest chance that glimpsing it during the night while in a 90% dream state will cause me to shit the bed in the half-second before I remember what it is.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
THREADS is 50! After scrabbling my way through a vast pile of congratulatory telegrams heaped from innumerable postbags delivered by a succession of mailmen, I have made it here to post a link (in reply, via @totallyradio.bsky.social) to the milestone episode, on the theme of TOO DARN HOT.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
>Philip Norman puts Epstein at the centre of the Beatles narrative. He takes John Lennon's "Queer Jew" barb as his starting point. These two facets of Epstein’s identity shaped his life for better and for worse. I review a new biography of Brian Epstein for @jewishchron.bsky.social - link in reply.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Did it help?
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
While saving eggshells for her window boxes my wife has sculpted a monument to fragile masculinity and if it doesn't win the Turner Prize I'll have to assume there's been some kind of fix.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Went out for a bop recently but could find only that style of music where they drop a 30-second snippet of some Major Choon over a speeded-up beat before abandoning it and mixing in another, etc., &c. But I did at least think of a phrase to describe the people who play this kind of set: an ADHDJ.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I am not 100% certain what this person is supposed to be doing with this dog in an illustration from the front page of today's Guardian, but I'm guessing it's very much among the Definitely Do Nots.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Ngl, it is a welcome surprise that UEFA has finally grown a pair and stood up to Infantino, but is it too little, too late? I'm in @jewishchron.bsky.social, arguing that FIFA has already sold football's soul. Link in reply.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is indeed a great idea if your wife or girlfriend is around, say, five years old, but that raises other, unaddressed questions.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Burnham reaching out to Tories/Lib Dems on social care while Farage & Polanski (quite correctly, for once) accuse one another of incitement & hypocrisy does make him look like the adult in the room. Whether looking like the adult in the room is a political advantage nowadays is another question.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Just read a long article on what Love Island tells us about contemporary dating, and my only takeaway - this being no shade upon people who watch, appear on or analyse Love Island - is an enormous sense of relief at having to neither know nor care what Love Island tells us about contemporary dating.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Mate, even if I wanted a bow and arrow, your delivery times are terrible.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Apologies to my favourite DJs, I love ya, but I've got a new one now.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Credit to Andy Burnham for this much, he wants his government to hit the ground the running. As compared to his predecessor's, which just hit the ground.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Blimey, and I thought the last bloke was a bit downbeat. Steady on, Andy lad, I'm sure it won't come to that.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Possibly Unpopular Opinion, I Dunno, no. 9,723: I didn't like tiki-taka when Spain/Barcelona won everything with it back when, and I don't like it now. It's skilful and effective, but it's also boring af, and no "victory for football". At least total shithousery has a certain entertainment value.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Mate, that wasn't a 10-goal thriller. It was a 10-goal comedy caper. A whole lot of fun, no question. But a thriller, by definition, requires jeopardy.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trouble came literally to my doorstep when the Crank Left and the Far Right rallied in Brighton. I wrote for @jewishchron.bsky.social about how our justified and urgent fear of the former should not fool us about the nature of the latter. Link in reply.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Total number of Jewish players at the 2026 World Cup: 1. A century ago, Jews were, per capita, over-represented in European national sides. David Bolchover's Digging Deep revisits an era that ended with those players' murders. Here's my review for @jewishchron.bsky.social (link in reply.)
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It's a THREADS Tuesday, y'all! The newest episode is now up, on @slackcityradio.bsky.social via @totallyradio.bsky.social, and the theme is IF LOVE WAS MONEY: songs that track the connection between the wallet and the heart. (Link in reply).
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
If somebody hasn't set the clip of Thomas Tuchel repeating "It is pure mentality, it is pure mentality" to a rave backing by the end of today, and put a donk on it, this isn't the country I know and love.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I see that Spain's attacking line-up of Olmo, Oyarzabal and Yamal once again proved too much for the opposition.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The weird thing about Andy Burnham is the way he always looks AI-generated in photos even when he's not. This strikes me as more than a little symbolic.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Look, he wanted to, but by the time he got there, it was over.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
There's a saying that cheats never prosper, but anyone with the slightest experience of life or knowledge of history knows that cheats prosper mightily. Which is what makes it all the more satisfying when they do come a cropper.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Blimey. It was good, but it wasn't *that* good.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
It wasn't cheap, and I had to fight off some serious competition, but I have finally acquired my perfect evening outfit.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Think David Gilmour might be overdoing this new crash diet.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Hoopla! The latest episode of THREADS on @slackcityradio.bsky.social is up, up, up, just like the spirits of the usually downbeat artists it features, performing atypically cheerful songs - a theme which calls for the summery title GOTHS IN HOT WEATHER. Link in reply, via @totallyradio.bsky.social.
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David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"He now saw the Great Patriotic War as a struggle between totalitarian states that crushed beneath them tens of millions of lives." My review in @jewishchron.bsky.social of From The Front Line, a superb collection of World War II reportage by the great novelist Vasily Grossman. Link in reply.
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