I like playing the guitar, coffee and books. Beatnik gone to seed.
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When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Tucked in camp collar shirt with flap pockets too, and red socks.
I have seen a few, making notes in case there's time to get round and remove them
There should be GCSE and A Level qualifications in critical thinking. It's what underpins everything else. It needs to be taught and people need to be good at it. Employers should demand good passes from new hires.
When the NHS sadly goes private, it'll still be the same mess that it's in now just you're going get into debt over it.
It has not.
Here's a fact for you all. Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK. Not ONE. This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit. But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.
For @thequietus.com today, I wrote an essay about why we should stop scoffing about morris dancing, and instead view it as something radical, transgressive, and powerful enough to completely alter one's brain
I had forgotten how awful Oasis were.
Motherfucking wind farms…
Comte all the way, daddy-o
They are also the perfect length. Beautiful desert / chukka boots too.
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Great thread
And why has no one mentioned Keith Christmas or Shelagh McDonald?
The more I think about it, it's Folk Blues & Beyond or Smiling Men With Bad Reputations
Also Smiling Men With Bad Reputations - Mike Heron
Could also go with Jethro Tull - Songs From A Wood
Hard to pick one, but.... Davy Graham - Midnight Man or Folk Blues & Beyond (Not sure if double bass disqualifies them but Midnight Man does have electric guitar) Mighty Baby - Jug of Love ( debatable ) Trees - Garden of Jane Delawney Eclection - Eclection Sunforest - Sounds Of Sunforest
Well, the last bottle of vegetable oil I bought cost £1.98 and the last pint I bought was £4.50. That's about the same ratio as ten years ago. Same pub, same Aldi. Everything is expensive. Butter is £2.00 to £2.50 compared to £1.00 ten years ago.
ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻
Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done. I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
In 1997 47 Labour MPs voted against Tony Blair's plans to abolish single-parent benefits, with a further 100 abstaining. Not a single one of them had the whip removed
I hope everyone on this website thinks very carefully about this graph and then considers whether or not they need to reorder their priorities at all.
Hopefully he will be means tested, shown a window and told to get on with it.
MP's are looking at Social Media to see how they should vote on the PIP cuts. They should vote against them, and they should tax billionaires. If you agree spread the message so they see.
We're beginning to get the events established! Send a note to ask for how to create an event in your town... *You do not need the project to tour its way to you. You and your location are the project.*
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Have you ever seen cities from the air at night - they look like jewels in a cave.
I'm ravaged by cheap wine & rich patés.
Some people deny reality because they’re confused. Some deny it because they’re scared. Some because they’re angry. But then there’s something deeper, something more organised. Something I call disordered denial.
Solid Guitar.
Indeed. The position of the strap confused me.
Looks like Gibson SG or a copy of, left handed.
FUN FACT: The top 50 richest families in the UK now hold more wealth than the poorest HALF of the population. Keir Starmer should stop targeting immigrants and introduce a wealth tax on the 1%.
The hysterical reaction of certain commentators to today’s UK-EU agreement is something to behold. The “surrender” of using e-gates when you go on holiday. The contempt for the “will of the people” of making education abroad more accessible. Rigorous debate is good. This nonsense is a waste of time.
Jamal Khashoggi -- remember his name.
Yet again Guardian overlooks Zone Fever. £64 billion of public money is being spent on 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports over the next 25 years. I will continue to highlight why free zones are stealth killers of the commons, they are a costly and inefficient policy. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party. I ask again, what is he playing at?
WTF happened to Kier Starmer? He's gone racist.
Let's all take a moment to think about Nigel Farage on this most difficult of days for him. It can't be easy for him having to watch all the #VEDay celebrations while knowing that his side lost.
Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.
Other than for individual poverty, there’s no silver bullet solution. Understanding this, the JMDF has developed 3 classes of project. These are: - Central projects - Network project (rather like franchises) - Campaign projects Over the coming weeks we’ll be publishing details and guides to each
Very sad that I won't be able to see Wizz Jones play again. He was truly one of the greats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEXi...
Every day this May, we will be running #MayILearn - promoting YouTube videos that teach a useful skill, whether you are on the breadline or not. Additionally, we will be publishing the JDMF projects that are being launched. A number of these aren’t centralised and are intended to be set up & copied
unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
BBC muzzling one of its best presenters from making an excellent, wholly factual programme because heat pumps are “controversial”. An organisation badly in need of new leadership.
We can’t even *convict* foreign criminals. Nor homegrown ones. Because - and I know ministers like to pretend this isn’t true, but we will keep saying it - the criminal justice system is in absolute meltdown. So maybe address that before making little league tables of which foreign is the baddest.
The doubling of the number of motors in 30 years to 41m, increasing by a third in weight and size too, might have something with it. Christ alive. Too afraid to admit or to deal with the problem of there being TOO MANY CARS.
My cello teacher hipped me to the Groovies, she knew a thing or two about punk rock.
Morning Star Music Club LP is out! It's here bfan.link/liminal-zone It's there it's everywhere. Here's a very quick blast through the entire album. Any thoughts which of these clips we should do more of?
I totally agree with this.
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“The ultimate power to change the world does not reside in technologies. It relies on reverence, respect, and compassion—for ourselves, for all people, and for all life.” — Paul Hawken
Boris Johnson sold British Steel to the Chinese for £1 in 2019. Never forget.
You see, boys and girls, that "Donald Trump the great billionaire businessman" had never been a true story, and by the time those American voters who had wanted to believe in him realised their folly, his lack of business understanding tanked the United States economy.
Get rid of your Alexa It’s a spy device for Amazon
@mrjamesob.bsky.social This will blow your mind! I guess in one way we’re not surprised, but seeing it in black and white….(excuse the pun!)….but WOW!😮 #humanrights #justice
This is the most "EP on Ghost Box, limited to 500 copies" image I've ever seen
Morning Star are coming to Northampton on the 19th of April.
All the best Spiritual Guides know - wherever you lay your 🎩 is your 🏡! Bit of arts and crafts with #morningstarmusicclub 💫🎨 (Our recent video for Spiritual Guide had quite an evolution ) #spiritualguides #househats #musiqueparis
Something in this
This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.
Exceptional temperature contrasts this weekend in Europe. 🥶 🥵 It did not rise above -10C in far north of Finland in contrast 30C temps were experienced in Bulgaria, the earliest in history. A snow cover fell down to modest elevations in Massif Central, France.
Pronounced "Spatial"
Post of the day! Thanks Rob.
This is the MOST DELICIOUSLY EMBARRASSING THING you will see all week, if not all month. Richard Tice car crash in Scotland. He doesn't know the full names of the two Reform UK defectors or which council they are from. It truly deserves to go viral.
Breaking: 200-strong Climate Choir stages flashmob in St Paul's Cathedral, demanding that @churchofengland.org - a top ten UK landowner - #rewild 30% of its land. Nature is in crisis. Time to #RewildTheChurch! @wildcard.land #ChurchofEngland #nature #wildlife #choir #climate #whatwouldjesusdo
Dropping faster than a stone.
🇨🇦Morning Laugh🇨🇦
Same, I wish decked them all.
Trump cannot be given a state visit to the UK. It should never have been offered. The invitation must now be withdrawn. You might as well hand it to Putin.
Lots of plane crashes in the US recently.
It's depressing. Especially as they have a massive majority and are using it to do Tory Lite.
We should tax the rich, not cut foreign aid. Repost of you agree.
Almost played What We Did on Our Holidays this afternoon but went for Qualified Survivor by Michael Chapman and Forever Changes instead. Unhalfbricking is ace, A Sailors Life especially.
I don‘t mean to be harsh, but I really think that a fundamental problem of UK Governance is that the entire debate surrounding it is focused on what is *politically feasible* in the short term and not on which issues/ threats need to be addressed, and fast. Your logic relies on a vanishing world.
Exactly this.
I needed that laugh, thanks Guy.
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
Working through Binding Chaos by Heather Marsh, which is heavy but worth the effort.
Is Soon, Soon, Soon one of them? And Butterfly Dance?
Having consulted the booklet in my copy Forever Changes, You Set The Scene is made up from 3 separate Arthur Lee songs.
I bought Forever Changes on CD when I was about 19. It's still a favourite 25 years later.
A great piece of writing about one of my favourite lps. Brings it right up to date, 1967 in 2025. Arthur Lee was a visionary www.hypedonmelancholy.com/amyklein
Sorry, @HeinzUK , but I’m afraid it looks like time to #BoycottHeinz.
W.C.P.A.E.B. version is my fave, blew my mind when I heard that for the first time.
Successful second homes crackdown means homes are £30k cheaper for Cymry, who actually need them.
If you think that Keir Starmer is unpopular now, just wait until next week, when he's sitting sheepishly next to the Orange King and accepting chlorinated chicken and higher drug prices while you live in a country where libraries have gone the way of the Tasmanian fucking Tiger.
Tiffany Aching by Terry Pratchett went down well with my daughter ( 9 going on 13 ) and Katherine Rundel's Roof Toppers and Fantastic Beasts were both really easy to read out loud, they had great plots too. The boy that Dreamed of Dragons series was good too.
This is wonderful, thanks for the recommend.
And once we’re on it: it’s Chornobyl, not chernobyl. Yes you guessed it. chernobyl is how russians call it.
Boudicca, Alan and their six kits - I don't know if there is a class system among beavers, but I can't shake off the suspicion that Boudicca married beneath herself - will be living in a 42-acre fenced enclosure there. liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/02/beav...
He's deranged.
Impossible to convey all the pleasures of this marvellous book in one post. Enough to say that one of the least of its glories is that it spends almost two pages tracing the affinities between Satie and Les Dawson.
Same goes for this, although there's something very British going on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7xi...
There's something very European about it, like Neu! or Can, it's less Prog and more "Kosmiche"?