Thank you!

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You are too kind. I’m very honoured to have such praise from such a source, though. Thank you.

On me podcast’s tenth birthday…

Habemus shortlist 👇

Thank you. I do live in hope!

All part of the service

On my growing gloom about books

Yes, you may be right.

It’s the terrible truth, I’m afraid

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Or is it just, like, pure vibes, from the “it’ll have a secret room full of robot ninjas” school of monumental design?

Triumphal Arch I can sort of get. Triumphal Arch with snipers on top just seems like painting the lily. Is the idea to be able to take out BLM protesters on the Mall?

No (tbh it’s very baffling that the AI is ostensibly talking to itself), but new combinations can create or suggest new meanings, affinities, connotations; which is what I meant when I said it accidentally fits into an interesting literary-experimental tradition. Also why I still prefer Jeff.

It’s amazing, isn’t it? I stand by my view that Jeff’s work from that period is like the VU’s first album

I bloody love Cobralingus. It might actually be a masterpiece. (My first ever book was with the same small press publisher, a year later).

In praise of Jeff Noon and AI hipsters

This seems to me spot on by Danny Finkelstein Banning Reform’s £72m donations breaks the rule of law