#70sTop30 Starts 1st January. Well we’ve covered the 00s, 80s and 90s so my final decade challenge will be the 1970s starting in January. Glam, Prog, Rock, Disco, Pop, Soul, Electronic, Punk, Post-Punk, Reggae, New Wave… a decade stacked with multiple genres and incredible music.

Does Kemi Badenoch do anything as Leader of the Opposition other than call for resignations? How about formulating policy, creating a credible team of ministers, looking like a government in waiting? Too much like hard work when you can be getting angry on TV.

I find it interesting that every single TV political journalist opened with an editorialising comment, while all the newspaper ones just asked questions. I suspect, because the latter know the question won't be in the write-up, while the former are trying to craft a clip that is all about them. ~AA

This is somewhat nerdy/technical but reveals utterly woeful practices at the OBR – where they relied on free Wordpress plugins to protect some of the most sensitive economic data the UK publishes. Absolutely dismal stuff, and not just one junior staffer screwing up.

Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.

the only thing Rachel Reeves needs to do for more favourable coverage on BBC News is threaten to sue them for £1 billion

👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽 Music to my ears. ~AA

Honestly the completely weird Budget coverage is mostly a sign of how pretty much any attack can stick when you’re unpopular enough. Of course Rachel Reeves didn’t brief the full Cabinet on Budget details weeks in advance! No chancellor ever does! It would immediately leak!

Farage rarely turned up to vote when he was an MEP. But, he did turn up to vote against the EU’s anti-Russia interference motion. He said it was a “hoax”. He voted against strengthening Europe’s defences against foreign interference. Why?

Two more Conservative MP rejects hop over to Reform UK. Jonathan Gullis and Lia Nici. More and more, Reform UK looks simply as if the Tories ran off stage, then came back on two minutes lates, wearing a comedy moustache-and-glasses disguise. ~AA uk.news.yahoo.com/former-tory-...

For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million

#LookAndSee (Day 256) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Caught Out There - Kelis youtu.be/N3JFwd1bk4Q?...

I am consistently amazed the Building Safety Regulator isn’t a much bigger story. It’s brought house building in London to a total halt, but it’s also brought cladding remedy works to a halt, too. Which is costing leaseholders FORTUNES, halting sales, and leaving people living in unsafe buildings.

Day 1 of December’s #ArtistFave15 and thanks as always to Drew & Yuri for running this! Gone for a blues legend this month, one of my favourites! Stevie Ray Vaughan! 15. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) [Couldn’t Stand The Weather]

In March 2022, while Russian invasion forces were pouring into Ukraine, Farage was deeply concerned about the welfare of Russian oligarchs. Why was that? Is there something about Farage and Russia billionaires that the public ought to know about?

#NotYourFavourite (185) #MusicChallenge Psycho Killer youtu.be/-Qylhk6jsT0?...

Brexit costs the government around £90bn. Without Brexit we could have tax cuts and spending increases. We would have hope & optimism, not gloom & despair. Brexit harms the British people, especially the poor & vulnerable. No politician can support Brexit and claim to care for ordinary people.

#NCFC are my club but there are many #Canaries around the world.

Last time I’ll shove this in your face as I appreciate how annoying it can be, but didn’t want @fishy808.bsky.social endeavours going unnoticed, he played a blinder. In the middle @julesfoddy.bsky.social comes out of retirement and drops a brief masterclass too xx www.mixcloud.com/bartrax/the-...

Bit late to the party (as usual 😄) but this is a really great mix! Fantastic so far. Thanks @acidgrandads.bsky.social 👍

How Kuenssberg interviewed Rachel Reeves v How Kuenssberg interviewed Kemi Badenoch #bbclaurak

It's completely ridiculous. Pre-budget everyone thought the headroom gap was £20-30bn including policy changes (e.g. on welfare). It was in fact £16bn. It's hardly a massive difference.

I’m enjoying the shuddering 180 from “Rachel Reeves should resign because the economy is in the toilet and we are all doomed” to “Rachel Reeves should resign because the economy is not in the toilet and we are not all doomed”. It really is the perfect reverse ferret.

There is an extraordinary sense of entitlement behind the belief that there ought to be political party that aligns 100% with your own opinions.

Day 30 of #90sTop30 🥇 Thanks again to James for this impossible challenge! 1. Space Cowboy - Jamiroquai (1994)

Last one from me tonight #RaveyardShift and I hope you’ve enjoyed my #BarTrax selections. Please check out the great mix from Danny, Lou, @julesfoddy.bsky.social @gerryoberry.bsky.social & @fishy808.bsky.social www.mixcloud.com/bartrax/the-... The Mexican - Babe Ruth youtu.be/jQlYBhEdPH8?...

Bar Trax night from me tonight on the #RaveyardShift I’m The Baddest Bitch - Norma Jean Bell

Bar Trax night from me tonight on the #RaveyardShift The Truth - Handsome Boy Modelling School

Bar Trax night from me tonight on the #RaveyardShift I Left My Wallet In El Segundo - A Tribe Called Quest

Bar Trax night from me tonight on the #RaveyardShift Return Of The Tres - Delinquent Habits

Bar Trax night from me tonight on the #RaveyardShift Baby I Love You So - Colourbox

Bar Trax night from me tonight on the #RaveyardShift Boops - Sly & Robbie

Bar Trax night from me tonight on the #RaveyardShift The Mighty Hard Rocker - Cash Money & Marvelous

Bar Trax night from me tonight on the #RaveyardShift I Can’t Wait - Nu Shooz

Good evening #RaveyardShift hope you’re all well. Inspired by @dannykelly.bsky.social and his #BarTrax crew I’ve put my own selection of these for you tonight! Hope you like them! 🤞 Good Stuff - Kelis

Live scenes from the Your Party Conference:

1 hour until #RaveyardShift no posting early!! 😂😉

Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist

100K signatures! Thank you! All sorted? Actually, no. So, what's next? 1/ Keep sharing! 100K achieves “considered for debate”. Let’s help them consider this debate unavoidable 2/ Write to your MP to say you support the public inquiry Let's go! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

#LookAndSee (Day 263) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Mystery Train - The Band & Paul Butterfield [The Last Waltz] youtu.be/6-fmqOU8_Uo?...

The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...

don't think this is necessarily guaranteed to be the maddest headline to emerge from Merseyside this weekend tbh

Another way of looking at this, of course, is that if you took the triple lock out of the equation, the benefits bill would very likely roughly be increasing in line with projected inflation *if that*

WE’VE DONE IT! WE’VE WON A GAME!! 🤩🥳🤩🥳 #OTBC #COYY #NCFC 💛💚💛💚

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

NEW What do you do with unlawful orders? The critical - and topical - issue of when the military and security services can refuse to do what they are told By me emptycity.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...

Top headline on Radio 4 just now: "The government is being pressed to explain the real costs of taxis for asylum seekers". There's clearly some misuse of money going on here, but is this genuinely THE most important thing happening in the world today?

Bit windy outside so this #Caturday Phoebe the cat is sat in her box. We’ve bought her other soft beds to sleep in but she seems to love that box, so we put her blanket in it. 😸

The asylum seeker taxi story leads the BBC News. There are many other more important issues in the world. A cynic might think the organisation is parroting an anti Labour agenda.

A fact being ignored even more than usual: 70% of the money from abolishing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work (via @ippr.org).