Edward Docx

The math on this image is insane. New Horizons transmitted at 2,000 bits per second from 3 billion miles away. Slower than a 1990s dial-up modem. It took 16 months to download all the flyby data. The spacecraft had to hit a target box 100km wide, arriving within 150 seconds of schedule, after 9 years of flight. Miss it and the preloaded observation commands point at empty space. Ten days before arrival, the spacecraft crashed and went into safe mode. Engineers had 72 hours to restore everything. The probe is now 5 billion miles out, still whispering data back to Earth. We got 50 gigabits of Pluto photos using technology slower than your phone’s bluetooth.

Come to Rodzilla. You're invited to a Ho Down and that's a dance you don't walk away from. Slow Horses S5 Episode 4 drops today. There's lots you'll love & the last scene is, I promise, a classic of the SH WTF-have-we-done-genre. #SlowHorses

@bobdylan His Piano Trio no2 - one of the very greatest piano trios ever written. Listen to that cello opening & how Shostakovich brings the violin in under it -- inverting and upending everything. Was written in the final years of the second world war... m.youtube.com/watch?v=5dBO7B…

Happy Birthday Shostakovich. Tea for Two - Fantastic! You won the bet.

Also: am talking with the great Mick Herron at Cheltenham about his new book, adaptation for screen and all things Slow Horses next month: cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/mick-he…

So glad this is finally coming out. You're going to love that Coe/River sequence and the Shirley/Catherine at the Mayoral rally. Is a pleasure to write for such great actors and work into a such a world-class show runner: radiotimes.com/tv/drama/slow-…

Bob Dylan - Desolation Row (Official Audio) - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=hUvcWX…

Slow Horses — Season 5 Official Trailer | Apple TV+ - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=A9BCtr…

This is coming very soon. Check it out. You'll love the Mayoral candidates. m.youtube.com/watch?v=A9BCtr…

The countdown begins. #SlowHorses returns September 24.

Worked on this series so biased. Best writers' room I have been in. Immense show. Immense series. World class cast & crew. So many great scenes and treats in store. Making me smile thinking about it. Check it out. #SlowHorses

Mick & I talking about Slow Horses is this evening but here is Time Out in case there might be anything you want to get along to.... timeout.com/london/things-…

Appearing with the great Mick Herron this evening to talk about adapting his excellent novels and writing episodes of Slow Horses for screen. eventbrite.com/e/slow-horses-…

My complete Chopin Waltzes recording is now complete - with the additional of the newly discovered Waltz. A @hyperionrecords (re)release

V Insightful and v informative. Wish was longer and on more subjects....

If you’re going to read anything by a British journalist on what’s just happened on the other side of the swamp with Donald Trump, try this by Ed Docx. theguardian.com/books/2025/jan…

Terrific piece by @EdwardDocx Packed with insights. About Trump & about us.

@jk_rowling theguardian.com/books/2025/jan…

A noisy part of the left still refuses to step outside their sex-is-a-social-construct bubble and acknowledge that their embrace of gender identity ideology has been a calamity. They were warned the right was capitalising on their betrayal of women and girls. They didn't listen.

@RestPoliticsUS @KattyKay_ @Scaramucci Love the show. This might be of interest -- taking a deeper/narrative and archetype/psychological human- story look at what is going on: theguardian.com/books/2025/jan…

🤔 How long do you think Pete Hegseth will last? @KattyKay_ and @Scaramucci discuss navigating Trump’s world and uncover how many Defence Secretaries he’s cycled through.