Five more gigs to go on my tour with Helen Gentile! 28/10 - Freemantle Community Centre, Southampton 29/10 - The Copperhouse Club, Kenilworth, Warks. 31/10 - St Peter and St Paul's Church, Weedon Bec, Northants. 01/11 - Shires Oast, Paddock Wood, Kent 02/11 - The Castle, Aldgate, London

The majority of people who complain about Sadiq Kahn's mayorship of London comes from people who don't actually live in London.

Will everyone please stop telling Corbyn and Sultana to throw their weight behind the Greens, I’d quite like the Green Party to succeed actually.

Yes Jeremy, ALL marginalised communities, now carry the 10...

I mean, it's Nightswimming, but there are a lot of REM songs I prefer to Religion.

Out comes the biggest suitcase I own, to start August's run of festivals! I'm at @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social this week with Helen Gentile & Lewis Wood, then at Dartmoor, Broadstairs and Whitby with Granny's Attic, and @folkeast.bsky.social with The Danger Ceilidh Band. See some of you there!

Starmer is the kind of guy who’d watch someone choke to death because the polls said Reform voters think the Heimlich manoeuvre sounds both German AND French

I would argue that there's nothing MORE British than sticking two fingers up at a nazi and telling him to fuck off to somewhere nazis are welcome, or failing that, directly into the sea with stones in his pockets

You expect me to believe that the NYC-based sex trafficker who catered to the ultra wealthy is somehow connected to the NYC-based real estate mogul who was his good friend and repeatedly expressed interest in adolescent girls?

If we're doing English devolution proposals again.

Emma Bernard, 33, from Ancoats, finds it difficult to decipher social situations at the best of times – yet has mysteriously managed to last three entire decades without playfully spanking a colleague.

After the welfare vote debacle, this much is clear: Starmer must change. Labour MPs will demand it | Rafael Behr

Nonsense! Spending a whole night just playing "Shortenin' Bread" on the piano over and over without stopping is perfectly neurotypical behaviour, as is quitting touring because you can't handle the sensory overload, or writing songs about how you like being alone in your room.

RIP to Brian Wilson, who gave us many perfect albums but also the perfect interview

By pure coincidence, I listened to Pet Sounds yesterday. It’s about as close to a perfect album as you could hope to make. It’s probably the crowning jewel of popular music, its Sistine Chapel ceiling. Thank you, Brian. Sail on, sailor.

Moreover, cyclists’ selfish insistence on using locks and chains is *crippling* the bike thieving industry.

2-1 Spurs. You heard it here first

The new Granny’s Attic album Could Blows The Wind is out now! www.grannysattic.org.uk/product/cold...

Instead, they've played the same old game as their predecessors: far-right rhetoric, some insulting & painful policies for immigrants, and then, you can bet your life on it, a continuation of immigration flows as an economic necessity. Cowards.

It's true.

Yes

So the message I'm getting from this is that the Tories have fucked themselves and their core base is continuing to just jump ship to Reform. And Labour have fucked themselves as the bigots they're chasing just jump to Reform, while the non-bigots are being driven away to the Lib Dems and Greens.

This is how you do it.

Labour's base-punching strategy reminds of the Seinfeld episode where George is so obsessed with making Jerry's girlfriend like him (she clearly hates him) that he neglects his own girlfriend (who does like him) and she leaves him

Do you reckon the anti-trans stuff might just have been one component of the broader far right, and that by enabling it you've made the far right stronger?

“There is this terrible misconception that disabled people just take, but actually by taking from us, you prevent us from being able to give – we want to be able to participate in life equally the same as anyone else, and that includes going to work.” Disability campaigner Tanni Gray-Thompson

New Granny's Attic album you say? www.grannysattic.org.uk/product/cold...

As it's Wes Streeting saying it I'm pretty confident that it's completely false and his data probably comes from an anti disabled people hate group, without even having to look

Been reading a little mythology and it seems like one of the main cross-cultural themes is, “do not, under any circumstances, get on a boat.”

Oh ok, he really did mean that. Where’s the popcorn?

Who could have guessed that relentlessly pursuing culture wars for financial benefit might lead to suboptimal political leaders?

Well, this is going to make great television…

timeline today absolutely packed with people who think Starmer is Satan and people who think Starmer is Jesus all screaming at anyone who doesn't share their views, and once again I am baffled by the strength of feeling people are capable of about this anthropomorphisation of the colour beige

G'night, people of Earth.

NEW: Just 6% of Gen Z say they actually want a dictator – not over half, as has been recently claimed. Our study finds only a very small minority of 13-27-yr-olds really feel this way, when their views and interpretations are tested with different questioning approaches 🧵⬇️

Can’t wait for this gig!

Brewdog's founders are a great case study in how quickly wrong'uns fall down rabbit holes when they're called out on their BS. Started with some relatively minor criticisms of how they treat staff and now they're going full on Musk.

He boasts about being a sexual predator, he's been accused by 25 women of rape, harassment or assault, a jury found he "forcibly and non consensually penetrated Carroll's vagina with his fingers," he supports banning abortion. But he hates trans people and so the Times calls him "a feminist hero."

The trans community might reasonably hope for a fair trial - but a slew of recent judicial decisions suggest it would be unwise to expect one.

Been tricky to explain Spotify aren’t the *only* problem. It was always ‘Fuck Spotify’ without looking at who the biggest winners are. So Spotify have been mentioned less. But, right now, they seriously need calling out - fake artists, hurting songwriters, defunding etc. It’s pretty horrific.

Trump didn't win because millions of Democrats voted for him. He won because they no longer felt that they could support the Dems, so stayed home on polling day. Labour, with their plans to extend airport building and cuts in spending are making the same mistake www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Cis "allies", I don't know how to make this any more clear - if you deliberately misgender or deadname any trans person, even asshole quislings like Caitlyn Jenner, I do not and will never trust you. I do not believe you support trans rights and you will never convince me that you do

The project, which asked autistic subjects for their saliva for reasons that definitely have nothing to do with eugenics, honest, announced yesterday that it was closing the doors to its creepy basement lab (probably) after autistics responded with a resounding “ew, stop it.”

Zuckerberg's 'masculine energy' got its first big win with Trump declaring there are only two genders. This is an agenda that will see laws passed to push gays back into the closet and women back into the kitchen. Our trans siblings are in the front line of this fight, so now more than ever

Yep.

Some good news…

God Herself could take physical form, float down to Streeting's constituency office, and deposit there a tablet inscribed "The Cass Review is pseudo-scientific bunkum" and still @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social would not shift. Because it's not about the truth - it's about what's good for Wesley. 🧵

You heard it here first…

Hang it in the fucking Louvre.