Andy Miller

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I like books. Wrote ‘The Year of Reading Dangerously’. Co-host Backlisted podcast @backlisted.bsky.social. No DM please. twitter.com/i_am_mill_i_am

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My son is an enthusiast and during those awful teen years when it's cool to be cynical, he was mocked for it at school. I remember giving him a pep talk along the lines of 'it's the loveliest quality, the world will try to squash it out of you, but it will make the good people want to be around you'

Just seen myself referred to as ‘a professional enthusiast’, an epithet that massively overestimates my professionalism.

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Sunday reading and Sunday listening. The book is for an upcoming @backlisted.bsky.social and the music from a #locklisted recommendation from @iammilliam.bsky.social

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The goodish news - Reform has only 4 seats, the same as the Greens, so the exit polls were badly wrong. The really bad news - Reform has more than 4 million votes, more than Lib Dem on 3.5 and not far behind Tories on 6.7 million and Labour on 9.6.

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Called mum and asked if she’d voted. She said she had voted for Kenny Steamer. #KennySteamer

Whatever its shortcomings - and they are numerous - man oh man I have enjoyed this election campaign.

I’m hoping Sunak goes full Trump tomorrow: demand a recount, refuse to accept defeat, claim the election was rigged and urge his supporter to storm Parliament.

“I VOTED FOR YOU AS AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE!” @backlisted.bsky.social

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I'm not saying Kamala Harris would be a great president or even a good one, but it'd be pretty funny to watch conservatives realize they gave a Black woman limitless presidential power without consequences.

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Bought a bunch of 7” singles belonging to someone who, whilst they may be dead, can rest in peace knowing they had exquisite taste.

#nowplaying

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I am rocking out to the Manics in Trinity College, Dublin having listened to this one on my walk here. A coincidence that will only become apparent by listening to yet another brilliant episode.

New @backlisted.bsky.social! Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot, with Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social John, Nicky and me. This episode is stronger than Mensa, Miller (no relation) and Mailer, spits out Plath and Pinter etc. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/215...

215. Joan Barfoot - Gaining Ground — Backlistedwww.backlisted.fm

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Wenn dein Literatur - Podcast aus dem Nichts anfängt, das Werk deiner Lieblingsband zu diskutieren 🤣

Seriously though, after listening to this episode you'll want to read not just Gaining Ground but also @regretteruane.bsky.social's new novel Birding, plus dig out your old copy of The Holy Bible (Manics album, not confirmation present.) www.backlisted.fm/episodes/215...

215. Joan Barfoot - Gaining Ground — Backlistedwww.backlisted.fm

Bought a bunch of 7” singles belonging to someone who, whilst they may be dead, can rest in peace knowing they had exquisite taste.

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A joy to discuss Manics lyrics as literature laundry list & the criminally underrated glory of Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot with these sweethearts

215. Joan Barfoot - Gaining Ground — Backlistedwww.backlisted.fm

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New episode up now. Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot, with guest Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social in conversation with @iammilliam.bsky.social @johnmitchinson.bsky.social @birchos.bksy.social. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/215...

215. Joan Barfoot - Gaining Ground — Backlistedwww.backlisted.fm

M - Masculin Feminin O - Otley V - Violent Playground I - I Know Where I’m Going! E - Ewoks: The Battle for Endor

Using MOVIE as an acronym, recommend 5 films. My picks: M - Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan) O - Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur) V - Victoria (Sebastian Schipper) I - in the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai) E - Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle)

Whose election coverage do you think you’ll be watching on Thursday night into Friday morning?

I shan’t be watching the England-Slovakia game at 5pm. I’m not having mates over for a barbecue. I don’t care about “Glasto”. I’m going to see this instead.

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Fixed it

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The BBC hasn't lost a star this important to it since Morecambe and Wise moved to Thames.

I would like to thank Nigel Farage for voluntarily deplatforming himself from the BBC, something the BBC itself has been reluctant to do for years.

For a candidate who represents both pride and prejudice, vote:

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Yet another great episode that convinced me to try a book I’d previously had no interest in. (I swear Dr. Laura Varnam is a sorcerer who could probably persuade me to buy the collected works of Ayn Rand if she wanted to.)

New episode up now. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, with guests Dr Martin Shaw and Dr Laura Varnam recorded live at Foyles Charing Cross Road with @iammilliam.bsky.social @johnmitchinson.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social and a great gaggle of boisterous groundlings. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/214

214. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight — Backlistedwww.backlisted.fm

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Heartily recommend this ep of continuously excellent podcast @backlisted.bsky.social about Basil Bunting’s ‘Briggflatts’ - an unbelievable poem. Was lucky enough to be at the Newcastle Irish Centre on Bloomsday to hear Tom Pickard talk about Morden Tower and this was the perfect preparatory listen

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There’s an LRB piece from last week that tots up the damage to the public sphere and the economy from Cameron through to Sunak. It shocks. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tom Crewe · Carnival of Self-Harm: Good Riddance to the Torieswww.lrb.co.uk It would be a mistake to think that what has happened to Britain since 2010 is an accident, an unforeseen side-effect...

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I've wondered what to call the ‘Yellow Submarine’ art style, and who started it. John Coulthart calls it ‘the groovy look’ (nice); it seems to have originated with Push Pin Studios (Glaser), and with Peter Max. www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2... www.itsnicethat.com/news/monacel...

Essential reading from Paul Krugman. The imposition of so-called 'austerity' in the UK resulted neither in short-term gain nor long-term stability. The premise and conclusion may be glaringly obvious - look around you - but the disaster is in the detail. www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

How the ‘unforced error’ of austerity wrecked Britainwww.theguardian.com The Tories’ cuts were an obvious economic blunder, but their disastrous consequences are still piling up – and there is little hope Labour will reverse the damage