Enjoy this little snippet of This Perfect Friend, the first single from my upcoming album LIAR (Love Isn't A Right) ☀️🌈
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Enjoy this little snippet of This Perfect Friend, the first single from my upcoming album LIAR (Love Isn't A Right) ☀️🌈
How has the leader of the supposedly ‘ progressive ‘ UK party ended up being interchangeable with the most rabid right winger in parliament, Robert Jenrick 🥴 ? What does Starmer get , unhinged racism 🥴 ?
Back to school (1959) ‘Going to School’ Artist: Harry Wingfield
The more leftwing candidate won the Green Party leadership by a landslide while the not-yet-named leftwing 'Your Party' has more ppl registering interest than there are Labour and Tory members And yet all we hear about is about the 'rise' of that other party as hate is more media-friendly
Sadly , this isn't : ' Asked about people vandalising roundabouts with painted St Georges and Union Jack flags, Keir Starmer replies that "I always sit in front of a union jack and I've been doing it for years" “I’m very encouraging of flags” BBC interview today
Very excited to play Prague on Saturday November 1st with my fab band - na zdravi! 🇨🇿🍻 ❤️ Tanita Link in bio for tickets.
Happy September! 🖼️ Grasset
Joan Eardley, Summer Fields, 1961 #WomensArt #August #LateSummer
Israel bombed and murdered the Prime Minister of Yemen along with several cabinet members, and there is zero outrage in Western media… it’s barely even a story. The level of impunity is breathtaking.
Yeah , so the whole ‘ I accidentally said ‘ island 🏝️ of strangers’ thing was accidentally on purpose. #KeirStarmer
Very excited to play Prague on Saturday November 1st with my fab band - na zdravi! 🇨🇿🍻 ❤️ Tanita Link in bio for tickets.
We're getting ready for tour and rehearsing the setlist with Helen O'Hara, Midori Jager, and Marc Pell - couldn't resist doing a little acoustic take of Good Tradition ☀️ Who's ready to sing along even if I fluff the words? ☺️
Fab day 🙌🏼☀️ rehearsals with amazing @oharaviolin.bsky.social 🎻 Marc Pell 🥁 & Midori Jaeger cello So excited for🍂 the Autumn tour 🎶☀️Tickets & Dates ❤️👉🏽 tix.to/TTikaram #singersongwriter #livemusic #inspiration
The state of things, and brutality coming from the very government that should protect us makes me despair. So where do we find hope? I see it in the people who keep fighting for change, see the beauty around them, and face terrible, terrible things with their head up high. That gives me hope.
Wtf ?No word of criticism for the far right demos over the weekend ,that would interfere with Starmer’s real job of demonising foreigners .He is the most owned, dishonest & disappointing PM in recent history because he won pretending to represent change & something better 😔..
‘Monty the Motor Coach’ (Tootles the Taxi, 1956) Artist: John Kenney
Gregorio Astengo explores the innovations employed in early issues of the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions, the world's first scientific journal — new forms of image making which pushed the boundaries of 17th-century book printing: publicdomainreview.org/essay/m...
Yvette Copper as HASC chair has said numerous times on the record how important family reunification is. How she has children and it’s what every family would want. The mind boggles at how much of a coward she is now.
Today Nick Ferrari asked if treaties like the ECHR & the Refugee Convention that were drawn up in the wake of WWII are still relevant to modern Britain. I said the context of racial hatred towards Muslim immigrants now echoes the hatred of Jewish immigrants in the 20th century. We need these laws.
Curse of private equity. PE has devoured retail, supermarkets, vets, care homes, healthcare. Now it is skateboarding in the US. Staff cuts, up to 90% wage cut, asset stripping, high debt, low investment, price hikes. PE has no long term interest. It devours and is expanding in the UK.
Still staggered that Byline has no less than six contributors named on the Kremlin’s latest stop list - way more than any other UK media organisation. But beginning to wonder if this is as much to do with our investigation of the Levedevs (who still control a raft of UK media)
Repeat after me, there is no such thing as a former KGB agent, only a dead former KGB agent.
BREAKING: Our hearts Our new front page #ProtectJournalistsInGaza #LetReportersIntogaza Www.bylinetimes.com
The Daily Rothno is In The Gutter in Babraham
Trees in a meadow with poppies in bloom, c.1905 by Juliette Wytsman, Belgian impressionist painter #WomensArt #August #UnlockingWomensArt
Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security in which she’ll help oversee election security.
Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier and Jean-Pierre Léaud in, The 400 Blows (1959) Directed by François Truffaut.
Barcelona fue una de las ciudades bombardeadas por el fascismo. Los catalanes tienen memoria y muestran solidaridad con el pueblo de Palestina y despiden así a la Flotilla rumbo a Gaza. Uno de los pueblos más solidarios. Impresionante.
The Global Sumud Flotilla left Barcelona yesterday to break Israels siege of Gaza. Over 50 ships from 44 countries are taking part.
Why is our government giving so much control , money & power to these hideous people ? Aren't they supposed to protect us from extremism , not reward it ?
Palantir just took over the CDC. The head of the UK branch of Palantir UK is Louis Mosley, grandson of renowned British fascist Oswald Mosley. Palantir has 24 contracts with key UK public institutions; the NHS, Ministry of Defence, the police force, the Cabinet Office, and the DLUHC.
Another day, another utterly shameful cruelty against refugees announced. Recognised refugees - so people granted the long term right to stay in the UK because they have escaped real danger - will face new barriers to reuniting with spouses & children safely in the UK #r4todat
Voting for Brexit, stopping the small boats – none of it will ever appease those who wage war on immigration | Nesrine Malik
A coalition of orgs including @rfuk.bsky.social, @migrantvoice.bsky.social, @ramfel.bsky.social, @praxisprojects.bsky.social and @gmiau.bsky.social urges all MPs to participate in the Westminster Hall Debate on 8/9 about gov's plans to extend time needed to reach settlement. Why is this crucial?🧵
Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."
Fear and obfuscation at the Amex stadium 'Roger Wade, founder of fashion label Boxfresh and a 10-year Brighton & Hove Albion season ticket holder, had, it seemed, been denied access to his seat for wearing a Palestine t-shirt.' @jpjoughin.bsky.social @sussexbylines.co.uk
Harry Eccles Last year when Farage dog whistled and whipped up hate on our streets, a Filipino NHS nurse got assaulted. Again Farage whistles, and we see another assault on a Filipino NHS worker today. This is a direct consequence of Reform. It's heart-breaking. We must never let Farage win.
A gentle reminder to UK 🏴 media Black & brown people don’t have to be nursing you or working as carers wiping the backsides of your elderly parents to be worthy of your condescension & entitled to human rights . Human Rights are universal, that’s the point .
Tove Jansson ( 1914 - 2001 ) Cover of satirical magazine 'Garm ' 1944 where Jansson was a leading cartoonist openly criticising the enemy powers & high-ranking political leaders under her own name.
Tove Jansson ( 1914 - 2001 ) ' September ' cover of satirical magazine 'Garm ' where Jansson was a leading cartoonist openly criticising the enemy powers & high-ranking political leaders under her own name.
We're getting ready for tour and rehearsing the setlist with Helen O'Hara, Midori Jager, and Marc Pell - couldn't resist doing a little acoustic take of Good Tradition ☀️ Who's ready to sing along even if I fluff the words? ☺️
Thank you for all your lovely feedback on ‘I See A Morning‘! The lyric video is now available on my YouTube channel. Can’t wait to sing it live for you on the Autumn tour 🍂 ❤️🙏🏼 Love Tanita #newmusic #livemusic
1 million monthly listeners on Spotify! Thank you to each and every single one of you for this milestone. Getting ready for LIAR to come out now, don’t forget to pre save! open.spotify.com/prerelease/1... #newmusic
Fab day 🙌🏼☀️ rehearsals with amazing @oharaviolin.bsky.social 🎻 Marc Pell 🥁 & Midori Jaeger cello So excited for🍂 the Autumn tour 🎶☀️Tickets & Dates ❤️👉🏽 tix.to/TTikaram #singersongwriter #livemusic #inspiration
Idea 62, 1963. Cover design by Stan Stubenberg. designreviewed.com/artefacts/id... #stanstubenberg #ideamagazine #graphicdesign #designmagazine
Happy birthday to Maureen Ann "Moe" Tucker , Born today 26th August 1944 . #photooftheday #ClassicRock #music #photography #MusicSky 📸 © Bill Young
A few of the many exquisite hand-drawn "infographics" produced by students of scholar + civil-rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois, who died #onthisday 1963. More from the series, presented in “The Exhibit of American Negroes” at the 1900 Paris Expo, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #OTD
1960. Cleo Laine performing at the Flamingo Club’s 'Jazz Nursery' on Wardour Street.
Why do European countries never have cool flags like this anymore (the flag of Prussia according to Simon Grunau)?
Finland president Alexander Stubb: “It is a failure of humanity that we have not gained control of the situation in Gaza. What Israel is doing violates all humanitarian law.”
"Bluntly, if the government cannot make the point that it is a bad idea to give money to the Taliban, it is far from clear to me when a better opportunity to attack Farage is going to present itself."- on.ft.com/3HKB1zO via @stephenkb.bsky.social
White Sand, New Mexico, USA - Raymond Depardon, 1982
Back in 1946, the KKK was trying to make a major comeback after World War II. Enter Superman — the Man of Steel exposed their secrets and took them down in his radio show. I asked Rick Bowers, author of Superman vs the Ku Klux Klan, what we can learn from this today buttondown.com/charliejane/...
As I was saying: Modern conservatives love to hate cities... They are threats to the right electorally and because they are hotbeds of tolerance and of cultural, religious, racial and sexual diversity, and most have high immigrant populations.....
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
Some of us have been warning & challenging the mainstream about this for over a decade. It's not the first 'dangerous moment'. If the solution is, as it has been, more legitimisation & moderate versions of far right ideas, it will not work. That is how we got here www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.
Wtf ?No word of criticism for the far right demos over the weekend ,that would interfere with Starmer’s real job of demonising foreigners .He is the most owned, dishonest & disappointing PM in recent history because he won pretending to represent change & something better 😔..
the juxtaposition of 'let's enjoy Paddington bear!' and 'let's deport human migrants to the Taliban!' is too perfect
🔴 NEW 🔴 Nigel Farage plans to hand a massive fracking windfall to a Trump donor. Reform's policies would allow Lincolnshire to be drilled by a firm whose boss has given money to the past two Trump campaigns. 📝 @desmog.com scoop 👇
The thing is Farage and a lot of his followers would like Taliban policies in the UK. The thugs defending "our women", they see women as property as much as the Taliban do.
Standing up for the rights of women and girls by sending them back to the Taliban
The Taliban has said it is “ready and willing” to work with Nigel Farage. Just think about that www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
The thing about human rights is it protects humans. That means everybody who is a human. Not merely the people Nigel Farage decides are human.
Everyone is pointing out the obvious, our national broadcaster is actively promoting Farage & Reform & normalising their extremism But why is it so difficult to get rid of the v small group of people at the top who have transformed the BBC into a propaganda channel ?
Even if the Lib Dems were saying something substantial on any given day, the BBC and SKY News would still cut live to Nigel Farage talking about small boats. One just has to look at the coverage Reform get on Politics Live or Question Time.
BBC News seem suicidally bent on ignoring political parties with many more MPs, more rational policies and more supporters than Reform. Suicidal because one of the first things Reform would do should they ever get near real power is defund and throttle the BBC, founded to be impartial and unbiased.
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
I'm boycotting the state banquet to send a message to both Donald Trump and Keir Starmer that they cannot close their eyes and wish away the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Donald Trump can stop this catastrophe in Gaza and get the hostages released. youtu.be/4MqPsjiage8
The silence from Yvette Cooper , Lisa Nandy & Starmer etc about Far Right 'demonstrations ' & attacks on asylum seekers is shameful. Quick to condemn & criminalise those protesting genocide but unable to string a sentence together against mob racism & vandalism .
Is the BBC Reform UK's mouthpiece? Yup. "Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."
When governments police museums, they are not simply policing exhibitions. They are policing imagination itself. Censorship has taken hold at the Smithsonian. I refused to play along.” —Amy Sherald
The fourth anniversary of the Taliban takeover is a grim reminder of the gravity of the Taliban’s abuses, particularly against women and girls. All governments should support efforts to hold the Taliban & all those responsible for serious crimes in Afghanistan to account. bsky.app/profile/hrw....
🙌 🙂 Thank you Mark Ellen and David Hepworth for inviting me on their excellent podcast www.wiyelondon.com Word In Your Ear You can now watch the interview on full online 📡 🙌 #singersongwriter #podcast #musiclovers #london
1 million monthly listeners on Spotify! Thank you to each and every single one of you for this milestone. Getting ready for LIAR to come out now, don’t forget to pre save! open.spotify.com/prerelease/1... #newmusic
So excited to return to Vienna at Porgy & Bess!☀️🙌🏼🎶 See you there 🥐🧡 Love Tanita #livemusic #singersongwriter #croissant
🙌 🙂 Thank you Mark Ellen and David Hepworth for inviting me on their excellent podcast www.wiyelondon.com Word In Your Ear You can now watch the interview on full online 📡 🙌 #singersongwriter #podcast #musiclovers #london
London in the 1960s (Kodachrome) #Photography #London
Soviet poster for Six Girls Seeking Shelter (1927). Poster design by Vladimir and Georgi Stenberg, 1928.
Beatniks
Czechoslovakian matchbox labels, 1970
In your entire life have you seen anything that goes as hard as this UK House & Garden cover designed by Herbert Matter from May, 1951?
Otl Aicher (also known as Otto Aicher) German, 1922–1991. Work from 1950 via @MuseumModernArt www.moma.org/artists/86
Legendary filmmaker Ken Loach, aged 89, joins an Edinburgh demonstration against the proscription of Palestine Action. The award-winning director stood with activists wearing shirts reading: "Genocide in Palestine, time to take action.'
Girl in a Red Phone Box United Kingdom John Bulmer 1966
They no longer claim to not bomb hospitals - they first bomb patients and then bomb those who come to rescue the injured. Evil beyond words...
But this is *exactly* where the BBC is - politically, consistently - and my genuine question is, why does Labour choose for it to be so?
Mill girls, Elland, west Yorkshire, 1965, photo by John Bulmer.
Radio 4 really ought to ask about Northern Ireland each time this issue of coming out of Human Rights laws is mentioned too. Because the Good Friday Agreement depends on there being an external legal backstop that isn’t just whatever the British government wants.
Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.
Spot on @johnharris1969.bsky.social. The Right are hijacking Englishness with narratives of exclusion, exceptionalism & imperial nostalgia,& progressives haven’t even got onto the bloody pitch. We urgently need to tell more compelling stories of who we are #AnotherEngland👇
10 years since the first Syrian refugees arrived in Bute, it has become a home for people who fled war 🗣️'My best time I spent here, with very good people' Read the full story: www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
Paul Laverty was wearing this very T-shirt at the Edinburgh Film Festival talk I moderated with him, Ken Loach and Rebecca O’Brien on Wednesday. He spoke passionately about human rights, peace and raising your voice for the voiceless. Of course he had to be arrested.
Democracy for Sale has been working w/ @38degrees.bsky.social on a campaign to cap political donations in the UK. Our petition is now at over 49,700 signatures!! 🎉 Can we get it to 50k and send a really strong message? Please share! Ta you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
The silence from Yvette Cooper , Lisa Nandy & Starmer etc about Far Right 'demonstrations ' & attacks on asylum seekers is shameful. Quick to condemn & criminalise those protesting genocide but unable to string a sentence together against mob racism & vandalism .
'Is it time for the Government to drown innocent human beings for political advantage?' and other questions now apparently deemed acceptable in the British media
'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone. This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.
Why is it that 26 women can credibly accuse Trump of sexual misconduct and nobody seems to care. But if sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell says Trump’s a “gentleman,” we’re expected to accept that like it’s the word of God?
Brighton fan and 10-year season ticket holder Roger Wade has been suspended by the club for five games for wearing a #Palestine shirt in the team's last home game. 👇
