Geoff Andrew

geoffandrew.com/2026/03/18/but… Sone lovely new jazz, including a 90th-birthday release by the great Mike Westbrook…

@simon_schama No women?

oh this is so wonderful - ( 81 years old)

@markcousinsfilm C’mon, Mark, why would you expect that kind of recognition for a pessimistic, happily perverse Hungarian maverick from the BAFTAs or indeed of any such commercially/nationistically oriented awards? Do you take the BAFTAs (or Oscars) seriously?

Why was Bela Tarr not in the In Memoriam sequence in tonight's BAFTAs?

This is meant to be a benefit for the UK? Do we really want to vote for a party that aims to emulate the autocratic, racist fascism of Trump’s chaotically, lethally decided America? theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

Two new exhibitions in London – some thoughts and pictures here… geoffandrew.com/2026/02/16/sea…

BREAKING NEWS 🚨‼️ BREAKING NEWS🚨 Pope Leo XIV rejects Donald Trump's invitation to join the ”Trump Board Of Peace” saying Trump has no right to act as the World's Police. In Pope Leo's Words: 🗣“Mr President, what peace do you want to offer the world when your administration has fueled so many world crîses in Gaza, Ukraine, and broader diplomacy? The laws that were set after World Wãr 2 preventing stronger countries from using force on smaller sovereign counties has been undermined. Trump's board of peace cannot offer peace but will only serve as tool of control and intîmidation. I WILL NOT BE PART OF IT.”

Elon Musk's net worth, frequently valued at over $450 billion to $500 billion in late 2025/early 2026, exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 50% of American households (fact check it). So who's got "your money"? It certainly isn't immigrants, though Elon Musk (born South Africa 1971) *is* an immigrant. #USA #America #MAGA #Trump #Musk #Oligarchs #SCOTUS #CitizensUnited #Power #Politics

@SightSoundmag RIP this is as fine and incisive a tribute to this major documentarist as we can expect for now.

Across a filmmaking career spanning more than five decades, Frederick Wiseman – who has died at 96 – refined a uniquely austere, quietly radical form of documentary cinema bfi.org.uk/features/frede…

@RichardBratby I liked him: urbane, relaxed and able to pass off that he actually knew all that stuff. But were you referring to the haircut?

If you were to ask me who was the 21st century equivalent of Robert Robinson, I could not tell you. I simply cannot think of one. That is how far we have fallen.

@RichardBratby Eludes me too. If only that were all all he had reworked. Meanwhile… Hamnet. The horror…

The appeal of Max Richter's music continues to elude me but top marks to him for reworking the "Death of Falstaff" passacaglia theme from Walton's Henry V.

Nigel Farage, has proposed a mass deportation plan called "Operation Restoring Justice," which includes creating a "UK Deportation Command" modelled on the U.S. ICE. Don't vote Reform unless you want innocent blood on UK streets like we see in the USA.

Please don't share this video of @RobertJenrick slagging of @Nigel_Farage - it might add strain on their relationship 😬

Consistent principles? theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

Keep Retweeting please 🙏

My best films, music etc of 2025… geoffandrew.com/2025/12/29/my-…

My first concert of 2026 was by @maofujita_piano @wigmore_hall - a great start to the year, and a welcome antidote to other events in the world.

Rupert Lowe making anti-Semetic jokes on camera - then saying 'career over'.