warwick harrington

The short afternoon ends, and the year is over - Larkin.

On the 10th anniversary of The Bataclan attack, here’s the @BBCNewsnight piece I made with @alesbon detailing what happened inside the Bataclan that night. It’s still a very difficult watch. m.youtube.com/watch?v=8K1lv7…

For your delectation.

Are there better songs in the 3 minute pop canon that have so much richness of character, and such melancholia, than McCartney’s Eleanor Rigby and Lou Reed’s Take a Walk on the Wild Side?

Man played so ANGRY 🔥🔥🔥 RIP

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is really worth (re)reading; a universal story of the human condition, a parable for many of today’s most contentious issues, and all stimulated by a gem of what Stevenson discovered in his research:

This is a great piece by ⁦@BBCDanielS⁩, rich in fascinating details, on how the Wagner Group recruits small-time London criminals into Russia’s war on Ukraine. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

If you have a garden pond, don’t forget the wildlife in this hot weather. Even the frogs will love a freezer block or ice pack floating nearby…

@TheBillyDuffy Totally rocking the German football manager look. If you’re free next season could you come back to Norwich City and pretend to be Daniel Farke for a season? All you’d need is the centre parting, no actual football acumen required.

Berlin last night was wúnderbar and tonight we’re playing at Poznan… but not doing the Poznan* 🩵   #BillyDuffy #TheCult #Live #Poznan #Poland #MCFC #ThePoznan *Ask a City mate if you don’t understand 😉😉

It’s one month until the summer solstice, and so begins the most glorious time of year. Until late July daylight lasts til at least 9pm, and then comes the long magic of twilight. Time for a favourite line from @TheMontyDon: Go outside and fill your boots with light.

Great, mad, deservedly overlong and completely brilliant interview with Marxist royalty Slavoj Žižek on @BBCNewsnight, which means it’s time for his best quote ever.

Goodness this is shameless.

@mattxiv And that was Apartheid Death Machine.

all of this, mind you, in service of an apartheid death machine. there really are no words. may columbia’s reputation never recover

Rewatching the movie The Creator, I really liked it even tho many didn’t, and it’s still one of the few films to realise the cinematic beauty of Radiohead. youtu.be/siz0q75zYKk

Is Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying bill one of the worst pieces of legislation to even get to Committee stage? It’s so ignorant of the law, of end of life care and of medical ethics, I’m beginning to think It was drafted by her opponents to freeze the debate for years to come.

When we arrived in Bucha just a day after it was liberated in April of 2022 this is what we found: 8 men executed in an alley with their hands tied behind their backs. Ukrainians have no other choice but to keep fighting because this is what will happen across the nation if they capitulate to Russia. If American abandons Ukraine it will soldier on because a ceasefire with Russia with no security guarantees is no ceasefire at all.

@Oneshowywoman One of his few comic turns… and as enjoyable as his subtly menacing ones.

@warwickhs I'm especially fond of his turn in Young Frankenstein. Haven't seen that mentioned much.

“I never had any large goals as an actor, all I ever wanted to do was work.” RIP Gene Hackman, one of the very few screen actors who made every single one of the movies they were in, worth watching.

Yet another reason why the Chagos Islands deal makes no sense.