This sums up what I suspect a lot of people feel at the moment. I know that I do open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...

The depressing thing about today is that it was sold as Starmer's answer to Reform. This is apparently what he has to offer as a vision of a confident diverse nation: ID cards. Just utterly joyless and emotionless.

Any other Mac users having issues with the latest update and how it reacts (or doesn't in my case) to USB drives? The previous version recognised NTFS, but not this one - so no more 80s videos until I figure it out.

Been away on holiday plus lots of DIY work on the new extension. Managing to get back in the HFTH studio this week so painting and music recording for the new album underway again. Here's a new artwork: 'Solan Goose'. Watercolour and ink. 30 x 18.5 cm. Cheers!🎵🎨🍻 www.howfartohitchin.com

Been away on holiday plus lots of DIY work on the new extension. Managing to get back in the HFTH studio this week so painting and music recording for the new album underway again. Here's a new artwork: 'Solan Goose'. Watercolour and ink. 30 x 18.5 cm. Cheers!🎵🎨🍻

De Niro: "I gotta go. A couple cases of Tylenol fell off a truck and now I gotta figure out how to put autism in them."

This is big: Spain's state broadcasters have said they'll boycott Eurovision unless Israel is banned. We need the BBC to do the same to up the pressure on the competition's bosses. Sign the petition now:

Is this really sustainable? Are there really so few journalists and politicians willing to stand up to this wildly undignified and ignorant insanity? I know it’s a captive audience here but why aren’t people standing up at every opportunity and asking him “WT ACTUAL FUCK are you talking about?”

No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy. Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.

I'm not asking for any special treatment. If you hated my book, you hated my book. But if you're one of the hundreds who gave it a 5-star review on Amazon, would you mind adding it to Goodreads to counter the organised right-wing attack on me? #BabysBreath

Apart from despising the whole Trump State Visit I've got to say I'd also just #AbolishTheMonarch 🤷🏻

There's no excuse of ignorance any more. Every single person on that fascist march knew who Tommy Robinson was and every single one of them knew why they were there. This isn't Brexit. People weren't conned. They willingly went out to join in, led by a five times jailed thug. Stop making excuses.

More brilliance from @jonathanpienews.bsky.social 👏🏼 “Labour are fucked!”

Hey Bluesky, October is the month of my 2025 World Tour of England, visiting (count 'em!) THREE cities! How exciting! OK it exactly a tour but still would be lovely to see you at one of these. Deets at stevelawson.net/upcoming_gigs

Whoo! This was a big project! But also a lot of fun (Although I think in going to avoid big projects on black aida in the future. My poor eyes!) Now I just need to frame it… #cats #crossStitch #smokyMountainCats

Imagine if you took a Tube train and when you got to the next station it was …in 1985. Would you get off? I’ve made a video of the 80s #London vibe - so come for a ride, mind the doors please… youtu.be/Thp46AWUpTc?...

Made to make your mouth water... This only took 5 minutes to make....well, give or take 5 hours! Welcome to late 70s-80s British advertising slogans, jingles, & one-liners. Before anyone says, "How could you forget to include....?" there are two more parts to come, so maybe it'll be there. 😊

Another track for the new album finished. Just listening back to the mix.This track is called 'Bees'. Here's a sneaky preview. The new album will be called 'Desire Path'. Cheers🍻🐝 www.howfartohitchin.com

'Storm Geese'. Ink & watercolour. Paul Dews 2024. www.howfartohitchin.com

'Muckle Skerry'. Ink & watercolour. Paul Dews. 2024. www.howfartohitchin.com

How far the Tories have moved. Impossible to imagine Badenoch or Jenrick saying that.

These two original artworks are now up on my website on the store page@ www.howfartohitchin.com 'Storm Geese' Watercolour & ink on paper, 30cm x 45cm. 'Muckle Skerry' Watercolour & ink on paper, 47cm x 20cm. Signed prints are also still available. Cheers.

The irony is that that supposed acclaim barely exists anyway. AI bros complaining that they don't get credit for their "work" are probably not getting significantly less of it than a real artist making real art does. It's all based on some serious misconceptions about art and artists.

This week's Prog-Watch From The Archives is Part Two of my original feature on keyboard wiz Clive Nolan, with more chat, and more great music from Arena, Caamora, and one of his collabs with Oliver Wakeman! progwatch.com/538/

Disabled people are not your enemy. Immigrants are not your enemy. Trans people are not your enemy. We are scapegoats to make people believe they can have a better life at our expense. A better life is possible if you tax the wealthy. If the billionaire class is abolished. If we are cared for.

obviously this is mental in and of itself but man alive it really does suck extra hard when you think about all the ACTUAL CRIMES the police just isn't investigating, because of "lack of resources"

Baron Hain, "Al Qaeda - real terrorism" "ISIS - real terrorism" "This Labour government is treating Palestine Action as equivalent to ISIS or Al Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled, and morally wrong"

Season 5 was a great year for interviews on Prog-Watch! Here's another example: that time I got to speak with the great Martin Barre of Jethro Tull fame! Cool chat with a cool cat and awesome music from all eras of his storied career! progwatch.com/541/

The podcast for last night's (15 June) PROG MILL on Progzilla Radio is now available to stream on demand or download. 2 hrs of superb prog rock. Richard Swan reviews 'Hinterland' by Held by Trees and you can win the new ESP Project album Velvet Crunch. progzilla.com/the-prog-mil...

If you lived in 80s UK, I’ll bet once you start this video you won’t be able to stop - it’s made to make your mouth water… No editing to music involved…just jingles, slogans, and one-liners: youtu.be/evQRx07097Y?...

This is residents in San Diego telling Ice-Gestapo agents to get TF out of their neighborhood. More of this please. 💙👊

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

Shetland Oil on canvas, 8x10 #Art #OilPainting #Painting #Artist #TraditionalPainting #FineArt #ClassicArt #ContemporaryArt #BlueSkyArt #BlueSkyArtShow #ArtShare #ArtYear #ArtSky