Richard Cooper

First the Frances Wilson book and soon this. My cup runneth over.

Literally stopping myself from finishing Brideshead tonight. I want another go tomorrow, that's how good it is. I have already seen that some people find the ending rather hollow... I look forward to it anyway!

It’s too bad that IMDb is almost virtually unusable now.

This is the last post in a good thread, but the one I feel LLM boosters most ignore: Business leaders are openly slathering to replace their human workers with tools that do something like their jobs, but at a level of quality they would never be allowed to produce.

Donald Trump, the guy who murdered 160+ Iranian schoolgirls last week?

for today's #ModWrite I'm digging around in the archives for some work on Evelyn Waugh and radio, and enjoying the number of times Waugh sent the BBC one of these pre-printed rejection postcards.

I feel like the silver lining to these endless very dark, very heavy clouds is that it's getting steadily more difficult to not notice what Streeting is doing. He needs (as does Phillipson) to be made as publicly radioactive as Starmer & Mahmood. Not one of them should be in the cabinet come June.

"Agree with us or else" is very much the theme of this anti-trans movement. Or else you will be sued. Or else you will be harassed. Or else you will suffer violence.

I hate the US government with a passion these days.

I think it's specious to say Harris would have been the same but it's ridiculous and offensive to spend so much time browbeating ten imaginary leftists as somehow responsible for everything rather than hold the candidate & political apparatus accountable for their bad positions & worse strategy

Zohran Mamdani was polling at 1% when he entered the NYC mayoral race. He had the NY Times telling people *not to even rank him on their ballots.* The leaders in his own party wouldn't endorse him. It is in fact a politician's job to motivate people to vote & hire people who feel the same obligation

Liz Cheney voted in line with Trump's agenda in around 93% of votes during his first administration, but of course you have your preferences for the white person.

Should have talked to the progressive arm of her party rather than Liz Cheney

We’re descending into fascism deeper each day because her brand of fascism with a more liberal coating failed.

It's what they do.

Why are all the people rising to power in Starmer's cabinet this vile?

Oh wait. I've figured it out.

Thank Christ

Coriolanus, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, The Winter’s Tale, Antony and Cleopatra, Richard II

Prepping "The Dead" for tomorrow and as always it has moved me to tears. Is there a more beautiful and moving passage in English fiction than its final paragraph? I suppose for me it's tied with the ending of Middlemarch.

No self-respecting journalist should attend this.

Donate to the scholarship fund if you want, but steer clear of the event. Nothing good will come from showing up.

Richard Cooper on X: "Justin has said on Bluesky his Twitter account has been hacked, hence the crypto stuff. Please help him and report this." / X Justin has said on Bluesky his Twitter account has been hacked, hence the crypto stuff. Please help him and report this.

posted this, but there doesn’t seem to be a function for reporting a hacked account, only for one account impersonating another…? x.com/richardhcoop...

I’ve been blocked by the asshole who hijacked my Twitter account.

My Twitter account got hacked. This is the push I need to finally bail from that place, but I can’t let that account stay up posting about crypto. What do I do? (I reported the account but ‘X’ already replied saying they can’t do anything)

Kenith Trodd obituary Television producer whose long-running partnership with Dennis Potter resulted in landmark drama serials including Pennies from Heaven and The Singing Detective

RIP Kenith Trodd, one of the great TV producers.

Artworks - v. by Tony Harrison - BBC Sounds The controversial poem by Tony Harrison, to mark his death.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Barber’s shop stroll soundtrack: the marvellous V!

Heinous, racist drivel. This is what forever war is meant to be. We saw this same “shock and awe” playbook in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere after 9/11. “Homeland security,” whether abroad or domestically, comes at the expense of non-white bodies.

Rob Grant. I can’t believe it. All love and respect to his family.

Half of the team that showed teenage me how ambitious sitcom storytelling could be - so well that I made it a career.

I rewatched Red Dwarf: Terrorform tonight. Because it always felt to me like an especially Robbish episode.

Very happy about this.

Lovely final performance from Ferrer.

1) Twin Peaks: The Return 2) Mulholland Dr. 3) Fire Walk With Me 4) The Straight Story 5) The Elephant Man 6) Inland Empire 7) Lost Highway 8) Blue Velvet 9) Twin Peaks Seasons 1&2 10) Wild At Heart 11) Dune