After his near-fatal assault, the novelist talks candidly about his PTSD, coming to terms with losing an eye… and why he feels no anger towards his assailant

Read this exclusive interview between Salman Rushdie and Mick Brown below ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/1…

At this point artists need to let the $$$ go and refuse to play Coachella because …

depressed about all the doom and gloom? Go and see Take That and have a religious experience to Never Forget!! telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts…

No one’s fun anymore! Whatever happened to fun?

I have some thoughts about how Mark Knopfler essentially gave up life as a rock superstar to join the Sultans of Swing, while Poppie Platt is enamoured of debut indie rockers English Teacher in The Telegraph albums roundup telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-…

Love all of this

A proud mum today

happy birthday to MEEEEE

Shout-out to Poppie Platt for the lovely words on Lazy Day's new one 'Bright Yellow' in this week's The Telegraph Best New Songs! telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-…

Reviewed the Jesus and Mary Chain at the Roundhouse. Shoutout to my mum for letting me plaster my bedroom door with a ginormous poster of Jim Reid when I was 14 telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts…

“Dying genre” or the most commercially successful music sector in the US…

Jolene cover should’ve been a Before He Cheats cover I fear…

take the beginning of this chapter: this is entirely just description, as if someone were recollecting a scene from a film in an overly detailed way. this type of writing used to relegated to the fringes of genre, now it's all over literary fiction. this is not creative writing.

Late last summer, the owner of Manchester’s most notorious flat received an unlikely visitor...

This The Mill long read from Jack Dulhanty is a zinger, featuring a celebrity scoop and an interview with a man who felt the wrath of Manchester.

manchestermill.co.uk/p/he-complaine…

Gossip get tongues wagging again, Waxahatchee makes country magic. The Telegraph albums of the week from me 'n Poppie Platt #NewMusic Gossip katie crutchfield telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-…

consistently staggered by just how brilliant Waxahatchee – katie crutchfield – is. The full 5 ⭐️ for Tigers Blood telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-…

Poets: are any of you Taylor Swift fans? Asking for a thing.

Let’s go!! Glastonbury Festival
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See you at Avril gals

Genuinely v impressive how strong Olivia has been on this compared to older pop stars