My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss. If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tory policy: everybody must speak English but nobody is allowed to study it.

#80sTop30 23. If I Should Fall From Grace With God - The Pogues My actual fave Pogues song is the obvious one, but it's not Christmas, so here's the title song from their third, fantastic album. A band at the absolute peak of their powers, a danceable revolution, extraordinary.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

#80sTop30 24. The Cutter - Echo & The Bunnymen "Conquering myself until I see another hurdle approaching" Euphoric, sky-scraping indie pop, just sublime. That moment at 01:48 when the song kicks up a gear, and the full, symphonic might of the Bunnymen is deployed - it's transcendent 😍

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.

#80sTop30 25. E=MC2 - Big Audio Dynamite Jones, Letts & Co. ( not a firm of solicitors ) pay homage to the genius film director Nic Roeg with a flurry of samples, beats and infectious grooves. "Met a dwarf that wasn't no good / Dressed like Little Red Riding Hood" youtu.be/cHTDkJ-bQqM?...

masterful work. he shows up and you instantly know you would follow sensei to the ends of the earth. generational calm and power. literal ocean waves.

And we all thought that fascism would come from the right. Maybe we should have read 1984 more closely. I don't think I can ever vote for Labour again.

#80sTop30 26. Going Underground - The Jam "You choose your leaders and place your trust / As their lies wash you down and their promises rust" 45 years on, Weller's Th*tch*r-era nuclear nightmare is still scarily, sadly relevant...

Yep. It's the inability to grow up, the constant Disneyfication of everything...

#80sTop30 27. Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft - The Wedding Present This song had to make my list after The Boy Gedge and pals played such an incendiary version of it in Bristol last night 🔥🎵 Observational, street-level, kitchen sink indie at its most insightful 👌

Some ridiculously blurry photos of The Wedding Present's fantastic gig in Bristol tonight. ( Despite the photographic evidence, David Gedge does have a face lol )

Wunderbar!

#80sTop30 28. White Lines ( Don't Don't Do it ) - Grandmaster & Melle Mel "Bass!" Who remembers that scene in Shaun Of The Dead where Shaun and Ed stagger drunkenly down the street, singing this song? Well, that was me & my mate Paul in 1983. Without the zombies, obviously.

#80sTop30 29. Lean On Me - The Redskins Socialist skinhead soul from a band that burned briefly then vanished, leaving some ferociously funky anti-fascist anthems in their wake. "Memories of years gone by / Dashed hopes and a dream that died / Spirit pulled us through"

#80sTop30 30. New Day Rising - Husker Du Starting this challenge with something LOUD from the sadly-missed Minnesota power trio 🔥

#80sTop30 Starts 1st October. Post your favourite thirty songs released in the 80s, one per day (ranked or unranked). #90sTop30 Starts 1st November. Throughout October you can post songs that didn’t make your final 30. The official countdown starts in November.

Awesome album from the Forest posse! 🎵👍

One Battle After Another was a wild ride through the America you hardly ever see in movies. Fantastic performances, amazing visuals, nuns with guns, and top marks to PTA for the phrase "semen demon" 😲

Louise Wener & Sleeper being Statuesque in #Bristol last night 🎵😍

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government. FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

It's Friday ( at last! ) and we're seeing Sleeper & Rialto in Bristol tonight - it's going to be epic!

Everyone: What's government doing about the cost of living crisis, the climate crisis, and the unfolding genocide in Gaza? Labour: "We will mandate people carry Brit cards". This government's priorities are painfully out of touch and increasingly authoritarian.

It must be time... #Autumn

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "You Listened to RFK Jr." sticker. Good news: You have thrown out your Tylenol, successfully avoiding autism. Bad news: You have contracted polio, whooping cough, and several previously undiscovered parasites. You are now dead. collabs.shop/itltcc

Oh, you meant "rapture"? Spelt with an "a", not a "u"? Whoops.

The only rapture I believe in has already happened youtu.be/pHCdS7O248g?...

If you vote for Reform, if you think they have a point, if you are even considering voting for them, you're a racist. No excuses, no exceptions. Fucking sick of it. Own what you are.

What movie do you consider "perfect"?

The last days of Summer in the Shire #Summer #Autumn #Gloucestershire

Americans are always banging on about "no kings", then elect a deranged orange autocrat who turns the White House into a Pound Shop Versailles...

Drop some TELEPHONES ☎️ ( The legendary Withnail & I phone box, Bampton, the Lake District. We made our pilgrimage there this June and, luckily, nothing seems to have changed there since 1987. )

What a breath of fresh air Zack is. No cynical insulting prevarication. Straight to the point, honestly and directly.

Morning Bluesky. We made it to Friday 🥂

I came downstairs this morning to find the cat had crapped in the kitchen. Luckily, we've got some old tabloid newspapers in the garage, used for standing wet boots on etc. I wrapped the offending faeces in the faces of Trump, Epstein & Prince Andrew and threw them in the bin. Seems appropriate.

To quote a favourite song: 'If Adolf Hitler flew in today, they'd send a limousine anyway '

Excuse my rudery ( to quote Carter USM ) but fuck #Trump , fuck the UK government and fuck da police. I think that covers it.

RIP the Sundance Kid "D'you think ya used enough dynamite there, Butch?" #RobertRedford

🗓️ 40th anniversary! (Sept. 16, 1985) 💿 The Waterboys - This Is the Sea 🎶 Once you were tethered/ Well now you are free/ That was the river/ This is the sea #TheWaterboys @mickpuck.bsky.social

🗓️ 40th anniversary! (Sept. 16, 1985) 💿 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love 🎶 And if I only could / I'd make a deal with God / And I'd get him to swap our places #KateBush

Tickets acquired for The Sunshine Underground in Leeds next year! I'm so excited this band have reformed - can't wait for some new New Rave 🔥☮️🕺🎵

What happened to Charlie Kirk is also what happened to 20 children (ages 6 and 7) at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. I don’t remember the right being this upset back then—do you? 🤨

In the UK, there are about 22 firearm homicides per year. In the USA there's an average of 50 every single day.

"A scarecrow and a yellow moon / And pretty soon a carnival on the edge of town / King Harvest has surely come" #Autumn #HarvestMoon

I stand with Talkie Toaster!

Absolutely iconic artwork from a master of his craft 👌 🔥

Welcoming our turbine overlords

one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar

FFS this is a huge gift to the Reform / Daily Mail axis of evil 🙄