"I really want to encourage more people from backgrounds like mine to get into a system that has always shut us out." Hannah Spencer MP: plumber, plasterer, parliamentarian

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

Great news. Please don't ever again describe a vote for the Green Party as a 'wasted vote', things have changed. Well done Hannah.

Trump brings out the worst in people.

#NowPlaying Just put this through the record cleaner and it's come out sounding great. Shame about the battered sleeve, but hey. Great album.

Does anybody have any idea why this cracking Jah Wobble release is classed as a prohibited item on Discogs?

The MERL's LATE events are always worth being on time for!

#NowPlaying A decent movie with a superb soundtrack.

Can we all make sure that we do everything we can to protect Hannah Spencer after she wins the seat in Gorton & Denton. Ghouls like Sarah Vine will do anything they possibly can to deflect the abject misery of their own creepy lives to discredit a young, positive force for change. Thank you x

Portnell junior has his gig at the BMII on Friday. In a twist that makes my heart swell, they're doing a Jeffrey Lewis cover. It's a song I used to play him to help him sleep.

Hear me out. A RSD reissue of Squeeze by 'The Velvet Underground'. I know that it's one of the most reviled albums ever released, but the music is more than decent. I would happily pay 30 quid for a nice copy.

#NowPlaying I've been listening to Gal Costa's 1969 self-titled album so much recently, that I had actually forgotten how good this one really is. Endlessly inventive & uplifting, this is an essential part of the amazing Brazilian scene of the early 1970s.

I have sold around 40 12" singles that have sat in a box for over 20 years! My hoarding powers are finally being broken down. Space and cash, the record collector's dream combo.

This has cheered me right up!

Ron Harris.

I'm trying that 1001 greatest albums generator app. The first one that landed was The Black Keys. Jesus, they're not very good, are they? Like White Denim without the charm or the confidence. After the Goldrush is next, that's more like it.

Not our cat but he has popped by now & again for the last few years. He is now coming round daily & is so horribly skinny. I know that you shouldn't feed other people's cats, but this is concerning. I will buy a cat microchip scanner on payday. He's not even neutered so doubt he's chipped.

I'm driving my autistic friend to a work thing tomorrow. Her - Please don't play any of that shit music you always play Me - What shit music? Her - Songs that go on forever. Songs with no words. Songs with too many noises going on at the same time I'm thinking Nick Drake could work? Dunno.

Hang it in the Louvre

Haha! Farage is such a fucking idiot.

Tyrannosaur.

I genuinely think that this could be the year that Spurs get relegated. West Ham & Forest have both improved and Spurs still have to go to Chelsea, Sunderland & Liverpool amongst others.

The underpass to Katesgrove, specifically the stretch beneath the IDR near County Lock, has had a series of murals installed in it, and I was keen to see it. What apparently used to be a somewhat grim, graffiti-prone passage has been turned into the Time …

No cheating your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist.

youtu.be/eoD8lSDgkas?... This is pretty daft but I really like it. Properly stoned bubblegum power pop.

OK Pastry 6/10 Filling 7/10 Presentation 3/10 Flavour 8/10 Value 9/10 Lessons to be learned, but a pretty good start.

OK, not perfect, but not a bad first attempt. I will focus on my crimping skills over the next few attempts.

youtu.be/5v8Frk_37-Y?... Bloody hell I love this song so much.

I am attempting to make Cornish Pasties from scratch this evening. I hadn't accounted for the pastry having to chill for three hours before putting them together. Surely something in the fridge would be the same temperature after 2 hours as it would after 3?

#NowPlaying This really is a fabulous album. The quality of the playing is easily matched by the first class songwriting. The production is also great, it really brings out the gentler textures, it's not all full throttle psychedelic blues rock.

He looks like the bloated corpse of Bez after being in a canal for three weeks.

youtu.be/S1stZOAIcW4?... Delighted to report that the new Lana Del Rey single is an absolute peach. Pretty dark and very cool. 🎵Whoops a Daisy, ooh ooh🎵

youtu.be/JcgTa-qmvqA?... This is great footage but heavily features the back of a man's head. I suspect that this is the same man that I have stood behind at every gig I ever attended. He must be pretty old by now.

I bet he's sweating now.

#NowPlaying John was out of town when this was recorded. A brilliant album.

On Wednesdays we wear black. Also, happy birthday to Yoko Ono. 93 today. Almost half of her life has been without her beloved John. A brilliant artist and a beautiful person.

If he's not nicknamed Fandab then the game has gone

My 15 favourite Dead Kenedys songs Man With the Dogs Let's Lynch the Landlord California Uber Alles Holiday in Cambodia Forward to Death Terminal Preppie This Could Be Anywhere Halloween Nazi Punks Fuck Off A Child & His Lawnmower Police Truck Soup is Good Food Government Flu Too Drunk to Fuck Riot

There's no media training here. This is just a woman speaking from the heart. She is kryptonite to Reform.

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h... I'm a massive cunt

Fave 15 songs by The Kinks Big Sky Waterloo Sunset Days Shangri-La See My Friends God's Children I'm Not Like Everybody Else Animal Farm This Time Tomorrow Victoria Tired of Waiting for You Village Green Pres. Society Till the End of the Day Lola Autumn Almanac

@mistyswoman.bsky.social Here's another one for you. I think he's picked the wrong woman, mainly because I am not actually a woman.

#NowPlaying For me, the easiest entry into the world of progressive rock. This lot knew how to write songs, the extended instrumental passages were clever, well structured and never outstayed their welcome. Not sure if any singles were released, but there are a couple of dynamite pop songs here.

Everything I see in Tesco puts this song in my head. It's becoming a bother.

You can now add the Buckingham Nicks album to this list. Playing it a lot.

Favourite 10 Doors songs Hyacinth House Peace Frog The Crystal Ship The Unknown Soldier Soul Kitchen Break On Through LA Woman Waiting For The Sun Riders On The Storm End Of The Night

Woke up yesterday feeling fine. By late afternoon I had developed a heavy cold. Now I am at the stage where my ribcage is hurting from all the coughing. This feels like the bastard offspring of Covid. FFS.