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Thank you to @aiww for creating these two bespoke front pages exclusively for the @evening.standard to celebrate Chinese New Year 🇨🇳 #aiweiwei

Thank you to @aiww for creating these two bespoke front pages exclusively for the @evening.standard to celebrate Chinese New Year 🇨🇳 #aiweiwei

“The most revelatory book about Bowie” - @guardian “Insightful and brimming with anecdotes, David Bowie: A Life is arguably the most intimate portrait ever written of the man behind the artist, the star, the myth.” 📸 @thatwouldbealex #paperback #reprint #davidbowie #davidbowieforever⚡️ #dailybowie

Tony Blair by me in today’s @evening.standard pisode 📸 @mark_harrison_photography @pedros1976 @elliotwagland

The church of @rosalia

The speech of his life 👑 A masterclass in diplomacy, and a modern day history lesson, full of courage and a dedication to unity, this ever-so-careful rebuttal was delivered with humour, charm and an effortless, innateconfidence. Bravo, Your Majesty

The record that changed my life, and changed my world. Immediately. Having read Nick Kent’s review in the NME the only thing I wanted to do was hear it. Oh, and then turn myself into a Ramone, obviously. Which I did, again, immediately. In 1976, punk was a stance that encouraged rejection. And rather than the aggressive guttersnipe persona the media would later encourage (as personified by the Sex Pistols, the Clash and pretty much everyone else), before the movement became commodified, punk literally meant punk – weedy, unformed, an outcast. Unlike most other acts of the mid-1970s – when the Ramones evolved – the band had no interest in being either nice or erudite (they celebrated a Mad magazine world inspired by cartoons, B-movies, bad TV and surf culture). That’s commonplace now, but at the time the Ramones were a law unto themselves: nerdy, recalcitrant and reductive in the best way possible. Using a methodical but instinctive process, the Ramones acted as though they were on a Cordon Bleu scholarship, boiling the rock’n’roll bouillabaisse until it thickened and intensified, allowing any unnecessary vapours to waft away to FM radio. The Ramones basically reinvented their genre through evaporation. Loved them then, love them now. Remarkably, this album was released 50 years ago today, and all the original members are now dead.

📸 @petervg73 for @roadratmagazine 🦺 @theelderstatesman

On love, trauma and art – Tracey Emin talks to journalist and writer Dylan Jones in our conversation of the week on Hay Festival Anytime.

“This month, like every month, will be a good month for David Bowie,” writes Dylan Jones.

“In a few days comes the launch of You’re Not Alone, an immersive Bowie experience in Kings Cross, London, where you’ll be able to revisit his greatest performances. This will no doubt be extraordinary, but we’re also going to see an avalanche of PR for The Bowie Experience, a truly appalling karaoke-style musical which has produced some sublime TripAdvisor reviews (‘3rd rate DJ with some bloke tapping illuminated bongo drums’).

“As a friend of mine said last week, “Bowie is now IKEA.”

“And the Thin White Duke would have hated it. So would Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, and any other of Bowie’s famous characters. Bowie himself – an artist who took great pride in rarely looking back – would have found it preposterous. Bowie’s most urgent creative force was his need for change, experimentation, and almost constant transgression. What bored him above all else was the laziness of looking inquisitively back into the past. Nostalgia? No, it simply wasn’t his tote bag.

At the link in @theipaper’s bio, Jones explains why “Bowie – who died ten years ago at 69 – would have hated the deification he has experienced since then”.

Celebrating Piers’ birthday in the Big Dog Booth in @wiltons_restaurant 🍸 Happy Birthday @piersmorgan and thank you for dinner @tonyparsonsuk 👊

Ow, she’s a brick house
She’s mighty-mighty, just lettin’ it all hang out… @sohohouse @sohohome

Thank you @traceyeminstudio for my weekend in Margate. You’re the best landlady in Thanet ❤️ @turnercontemporary @tracey_emin_artist_residency #traceyemin @dreamlandmargate @dorys_of_margate @bridgetriley71 @danielmalarkey @carlfreedmangallery @robertdiament @talkart @sophievonhellermann @georgeandheart @lulusgelatomargate @thestorecollectiveuk @themargatebookshop @paraphernaliavintage @joline_kwakkenbos