David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Would I rather have less money in my pocket but a functioning social care system for all us prospective pensioners? Absolutely yes. Will this be the actual outcome? Who knows. Is it an injustice that I should be among the many people obliged, one way or another, to pay for it? I don't see how. 021
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 30/09/2026As 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. 110
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If 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. 010
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Follow me for more prehistoric jokes that have out of nowhere become weirdly topical, kids! 000
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Disappointed by this decision, mainly because now I can't get a black and white dog and tell everybody the licence was cheaper. 121
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If you're Brighton way, here's the mag cover to look out for. 010
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. 121
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 23/09/2026... @jaephens.bsky.social, @kristinhersh.bsky.social, @thesickmanofeurope.bsky.social and many more: Linkety: totallyradio.com/shows/under-...totallyradio.com{{siteTitle}}{{ogDescription}} 000
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hoopla! 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... 121
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Well, I suppose that answers Edward Albee's question. 010
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Just to be clear, I am 100 per cent pro cat content, I just don't usually post any myself. BUT FOR HEAVENS SAKE, LOOK AT THIS CAT.^ 000
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 18/09/2026LOOK AT IT. LOOK AT THIS CAT. BEHOLD IT. THE PLATONIC IDEAL OF CATDOM. *LOOK AT IT*. 100
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Not usually a "look at this cat" guy, but c'mon, I mean ... LOOK AT THIS CAT. 101
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"Delivered discreetly, no one sees a thing - BECAUSE IT WOULD HURL THEM INTO THE ABYSS OF MADNESS" 000
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Cthulhuphiles everywhere, have I got a product for you. 100
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Great to see fan favourite Lisandro Martinez showing unerring marksmanship with a goal in last night's Champions League fixture at Old Trafford. 000
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Linkety: totallyradio.com/shows/thread...totallyradio.com{{siteTitle}}{{ogDescription}} 000
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The 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. 111
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"Just tell them you were present but not involved." 011
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Amnesty 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. 021
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Clotho: "Too on-the-nose, do you think?" Lachesis: "Nah, you can't overdo it in this game. I say go for it." 010
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 30/08/2026*chef's kiss* to whichever force in the universe controls poetic justice. 110
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 26/08/2026(Not, by the by, that I have any objections to tacky, frivolous kitsch. I just don't like the idea of great art, and great artists, being boxed into it.) 010
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 18/08/2026OUT: Temperate climate IN: Temperamental climate 010
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 17/08/2026"I know, lads, let's go as the cover of Abbey Road." "But there'll be five of us." "No worries. Geoff can be the zebra crossing. Serves him right for missing the planning meet-up." 010
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 17/08/2026This 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. 110
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Head of institution that fed man to wolves criticises wolves. 010
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Everybody reckons Soundgarden predicted this but I say it's yet another thing we can credit to Stevie Wonder. 010
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 13/08/2026My 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. 000
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026For 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. 000
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Link: www.totallyradio.com/shows/thread...totallyradio.com{{siteTitle}}{{ogDescription}} 000
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 11/08/2026THREADS 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. 100
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Link: www.thejc.com/life/books/w...thejc.comWithout gay Jewish Brian Epstein we would have no Beatles - The Jewish ChronicleThe extraordinary life of the greatest of pop managers is revealed in a new biography 010
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. 231
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 06/08/2026While 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. 010
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Went 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. 020
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I 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. 010
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Link: www.thejc.com/opinion/do-c...thejc.comDo critics of FIFA’s plans to ‘sell off’ the World Cup not remember Qatar 2022? - The Jewish ChronicleGianni Infantino’s new proposal has stirred up controversy – but many will think the beautiful game has sold its soul long ago 010
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Ngl, 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. 111
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 30/07/2026"I dunno, doc, all I did was tell her, 'Sweetie, your stupid little quirks are all over the plot', and now here we are." 010
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 30/07/2026This is indeed a great idea if your wife or girlfriend is around, say, five years old, but that raises other, unaddressed questions. 110
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Burnham 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. 020
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Seriously, good luck to all of you, but I'm so glad none of this is my problem. 010
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Just 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. 120
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Mate, even if I wanted a bow and arrow, your delivery times are terrible. 010
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Apologies to my favourite DJs, I love ya, but I've got a new one now. 010
David Bennun @davidbennun.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I know most of it is optics, but optics matter a lot in politics. Giving the impression of dynamism buys you time for the slower changes you need to make. As to whether he'll actually make them... we'll see, won't we. 010