Lord of the Flies writer Jack Thorne holding his copy of The Big Issue, sat next to Big Issue journalist Adrian Lobb holding his copy of Lord of the Flies
This is us, just after a lengthy discussion of KPop Demon Hunters (which sadly didn't make the final feature)…
"Lord of the Flies looks populism in the eye."
100 years to the minute after John Logie Baird demonstrated the first working television set at Bar Italia in Soho, I sat down with Jack Thorne to talk about his astonishing new Lord of The Flies adaptation.
www.bigissue.com/culture/tv/j...
Thank you! Was a lot of fun to write and research.
This is a really good piece by @adey70.bsky.social for The Big Issue. An accurate assessment of what to expect of Channel 5's new Play for Today, which mentions some of the less often trumpeted greats from the original strand, like Destiny (1978), Sorry (1981) &, actually, The Spongers (1978).
Power cut in the middle of screening of The Hack (new phone hacking and much more drama coming soon to ITV). Clearly some powerful people don’t want us to watch…
This whole thread. Scary times for the arts. We take our brilliant, innovative, skilled (and lucrative) arts sector for granted at our peril. "These planned cuts mean that by 2029, the government is projected to be spending well over a third less per citizen on Culture, Media & Sport in real terms…"
Here is the full article featuring my interview with @academicdiary.bsky.social… www.bigissue.com/culture/musi...
Was great to talk with Prof Les Back about his new BBC Radio 4 documentary exploring the idea of football chants as folk music. Read all about it in @bigissue.com - on sale now. And listen tonight on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds…
Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright.
Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."
More from 100-year-old former Wren Dorothea Barron:
"As soon as the war finished, we were told to go back to the kitchen. It was so demoralising. We were ignored and disregarded, treated as non-people. The moment the war in Japan ended, they wanted mothers, typists, cooks."
#VEDay
"War is an absolute waste of everything – time, money, lives. It doesn’t improve anything. It just proves you’ve got some egotistical man trying to improve his status. Because men start wars, women don’t."
This week's @bigissue.com cover star Dorothea Barron (100)…
www.bigissue.com/life/ve-day-...
We’re proudly working with the V&A on an exciting new project that champions grassroots music venues and their cultural legacy - and you can be a part of it.
Contribute your artefacts from between 1988-2025 by contacting musicvenues@vam.ac.uk before May 31.
The same Tony Blair has been paid to advise oil rich autocratic states including Azerbaijan, UAE and Kazakhstan
This should be included in *every* story about his net zero comments
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
The cover of the Big Issue magazine, and a page showing a news story about Adrian Lobb running the London Marathon…
Bless my cotton socks, I'm in the news (pages of the Big Issue magazine)… 2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/adrian-lobb
I don't DJ very often. I'm rubbish at it. Way too indecisive. But when I do, I always play Non-Alignment Pact by Pere Ubu, whether anyone wants me to or not. RIP David Thomas…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Leax...
The Nanosphere?
I do! Wow, well done Jim! I've got a few toenails that have jumped ship already – expecting a few more casualties on marathon day...
HOLD THE FRONT PAGE etc
“Every sentence flows and dazzles like liquid gold, every paragraph has its own rhythm.” 📘
Big Issue books editor Jane Graham celebrates the centenary of F Scott Fitzgerald’s Great American Novel, first published in April 1925. ⬇️
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Signed...
Former Watford, Liverpool, Aston Villa, Portsmouth and England goalkeeper David James and his interviewer, former FC Merrill, Mickleover Athletic and Littleover Dazzlers inside forward, Adrian Lobb.
He was also the first person I've ever interviewed who wore goalkeeping gloves the whole time.
"I never had a problem with anything other than handling my own obsessions."
Really interesting to talk with David James, who I first saw playing for Watford v Derby County in 1992. 3-1 to Derby. He remembered. He remembers every game, every scoreline.
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“It’s a classic story - a band from the UK who might have reached seminal levels if only they had been from Chicago.”
I interviewed actual Billy Mahonie - whose tour starts tonight - and their old sound engineer, Paul Epworth…
www.bigissue.com/culture/musi...
Meek Raffle!
Very great. Hopefully we won't leave it so long next time…
Wet Leg’s drum kit at Moth Club (it says Uma Thurman on the bass drum)
Wet Leg on stage at the Moth Club during secret gig (playing as Uma Thurman)
Wet Leg (playing as Uma Thurman) at the Moth Club
Wet Leg secret gig at the Moth Club last night was ace, playing as ‘Uma Thurman’. Loads of new songs. First new one was great. And one that might be called Pillow Talk. And the one they played after Chaise Longue. And one near the end. Thanks for reading my gig review.
EXC: How UK's biggest companies lock autistic people out of jobs with personality tests
➡️Morrison's, John Lewis, McDonald's, Co-op +more using tests
➡️"I just don't stand a chance" say autistic jobseekers, as charities tell @bigissue.com tests may be discriminatory
www.bigissue.com/news/employm...
