Nicholas Graham

Still can’t find the perfect present for the #historicalfiction lover in your life? Solomon Eliades solves the problem in The Judas Case – amazon.co.uk/Judas-Case-Nic… Murder & betrayal in 1st Century Jerusalem. @HistoriaHWA @BookGuild

@allrockmusic There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - & extra points for Derek Jarman's wonderful video of the song.

What’s your favourite song by The Smiths?

@ZackPolanski Don't cede an inch to these bastards, who are obviously determined to Corbynise you. They're a disgrace. Stand your ground, push back & don't apologise.

Thanks for all the lovely comments and support from media round this morning. Great to see Green Party membership ticking up as we enter a really crucial week. Let's end Rip Off Britain. Join.greenparty.org.uk

@XMartinsMusicX Greil Marcus' 'Lipstick Traces: A Secret History Of The Twentieth Century' is brilliantly good on punk & the Sex Pistols (& much else). amazon.co.uk/Lipstick-Trace…

Got this for my Birthday the other day Any favourite music related books? 🤔 Always looking for recommendations

@BeatlemaniaUK By: Twist and Shout. Of: With A Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker & The Grease Band.

What is your favourite Beatles cover? #Beatles #TheBeatles

@WritingValentin @Suzierizzo1 Nothing would surprise me...

@ThatNickGraham @Suzierizzo1 I suspect Donald wishes he could speak like Charles III. What do you think? I’m not talking about rhetoric at all. And even less about diplomacy. Just pronunciation. That’s what’s on Donald’s mind, isn’t it?

Describe this decor in one word? 👇👇

@JohnSimpsonNews I attended his lectures as an undergraduate. They were stupendous - alternately fascinating, incomprehensible and profound. His perpetual orange necktie was a thing of wonder.

Sad to read of the death of the poet J. H. Prynne. In 1965 he was Cambridge U.’s overseer of the student magazine Granta, and as editor I had to discuss each edition with him. I couldn’t understand his poetry, and still can’t, but he was a charming, witty, elegant figure.

@GentlyDangerous @PolitlcsUK Should I take that as a 'Yes' from you? (You seem well-informed).

@ThatNickGraham @PolitlcsUK You'd rather they shoot him for refusing to drop the weapon?

🚨 WATCH: Police struggle to detain the 45-year-old suspect after two Jewish people were stabbed in Golders Green

My review of the brilliant Double Indemnity at Opera House Manchester northernartsreview.co.uk/central-north/… Strongly recommended.

@corpseinorbit @trademovies English speaker outside America here. I can assure you it's hilarious.

@trademovies It's hilarious that someone has to live with that name, but for Pynchon, I think it relies too much on real-world events and not enough on the language itself. Like if you're an English speaker outside America, you probably wouldn't notice that this is funny

I'm fucking sick of what you people are calling "Pynchon character names." A gold thief named Guy Stealsgold is not a "Pynchon name," it's a Charles Dickens name. Absurdly obvious and specific. You want a fuckin' Pynchon name? Immanuel Quickley.

@for_fi @DLidington Thank you! It was an international special versus the American champions of College Bowl @DavidsonCollege

@ThatNickGraham @DLidington I like your red roses!

I suspect I have my old friend @DLidington to thank, indirectly, for this, but the sight of myself 50-odd years ago was not what I was expecting over breakfast this morning- University Challenge at 60 (2022) imdb.com/title/tt219844… #universitychallenge

@DLidington I think it was the international match against @DavidsonCollege though don't remember if they sported American buttonholes. All courtesy of Granada TV's wardrobe dept. And mercifully not a kaftan in sight...

I think we must have filmed this show on St George's Day, 1979. Nice reminder that I once had a full head of hair!!

@thewritertype & OK, fair do, Shakespeare then got ripped off by Plautus with 'Menaechmi'. What goes around...

@thewritertype And he ripped off 'The Boys From Syracuse' and turned it into 'Comedy of Errors'. I'm astonished no one seems to have noticed this.

Sure, happy birthday to Shakespeare, but it's a fact that he stole most of his plots. Like, one play is a total ripoff of West Side Story, but set in the olden days.

@sturgios Erm, squirrels are red in Cumbria . . . & yes, I do know that rather spoils the joke (for which apologies in advance).

My sexy squirrel gag made the Times diary

@BooksTeaFilms Stillness and serenity. A place of wonder and content.

The Lady Chapel in Ely cathedral #tracerytuesday

@paranoiacs GP & the Rumour supporting Dylan at the Blackbushe Picnic in 1978 is etched in the memory - they were absolutely stupendous.

Over at my Known Associates podcast, my guest is a personal hero: the legendary Graham Parker! Topics include opening for Bob Dylan and meeting Lowell George, recording with Nick Lowe and Mutt Lange and the anniversary of his perfect debut 'Howlin' Wind'. southwestreview.com/known-associat…

@barttels2 @joergjessen @ArmandDAngour I do hope you stuck around for 'Persuasion'. It really is crackingly good.

@joergjessen @ThatNickGraham @ArmandDAngour Jane Austen was very clever I read almost her entire oeuvre only last year. I had previously avoided it because I thought she was so popular she couldn’t possibly be good.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that even people who use that phrase haven’t read Pride and Prejudice.