Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US

If the reporting on the Peggie decision tells us anything, it should be that the way news gets reported in this country has little to do with truth, and much more to do with narrative - as well as whose heavily spun press release lands on journos desks first.

The real victim at the centre of this absurd case is very clearly Dr Beth Upton To witness the way in which she’s been dehumanised and vilified by Peggie and their (Sex Matters) legal team, the tribunal judge, the British media, and UK politicians has been beyond horrifying Solidarity Beth

The institutionally transphobic media are already trying to spin this as an outright victory, but the truth is that most of her claims were dismissed, there’s no trans bathroom ban, and the judge recognised Peggie’s vile comments about Pakistani flood victims & trans people for what they were.

"I was introduced to Herbie Nichols' music when I still considered myself to be a mainstream jazz singer. It was also a moment when I was reconsidering whether or not I wanted to be a mainstream jazz singer." Fay Victor: Giving Voice to Herbie Nichols pointofdeparture.org/PoD93/PoD93P...

Known as Palestine's Nelson Mandela, he has been in prison for more than 23 years and subjected to brutal abuse.

transphobes using money and power to bully little kids is absolutely no different from mobs turning up to intimidate refugee families, and you should treat anyone who so much as excuses either of these things with complete contempt

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions. It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

I've got an EOY essay in here about the dialogue between jazz/improv, underground hip-hop and electronic music, and the exciting new open-genre music emerging from it. Plus a full page of jazz & improv reviews, inc the incredible @xcrswx, Marilyn Crispell, Angharad Davies & John Butcher...

There's not a single anti-trans campaigner or group with a major platform on twitter who haven't posted *horrifying* things and it's a stain on our entire media ecosystem that not a single major outlet has done even basic reporting of it.

What do we keep saying? That the Reasonable Moderates are the midwives of fascism. And what keeps happening? The Reasonable Moderates insist on proving us right

Always nice to find an OG Ogun in the wild. A hidden gem in the vocal jazz section at Newcastle’s Beatdown. Jaimie Cullum it ain’t!

What a rotten state of affairs that a teenage girl had thrust upon her the responsibility of being the only adult in the room because actual grown adults refused to recognise her either as a child or, more importantly, as a human being. A sad indictment of a pitiful society.

"Reform would be worse" is both entirely correct and entirely irrelevant until polling day 2029. What matters right now is that Labour's approach is morally repugnant on its own terms, *and is empowering Reform*. As things stand today, its not Labour or Reform. Its Labour *then* Reform.

Went deep on the awesome new [Ahmed] album @thequietus.com The greatest band in the world. @cafeotodalston.bsky.social thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Everything that’s wrong with Scottish media in one picture.

scottish librarians, academics, writers etc see below

Don Cherry was born in Oklahoma City on this day in 1936 📸 Dany Gignoux, Lyon, France, 1981

It's the anniversary of Section 28's demise. By me: "Section 28 was largely a creation of the right-wing press, and many of the people, publications and proprietors who contributed to the anti-gay panic back then are at the forefront of the anti-trans panic today."

A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Now archived @wfmu.bsky.social Hikmah (Wisdom), Sufism and Free Jazz: Pat Thomas Interview STREAM ▶️ wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.

Truth

Emily Maitlis & Jon Sopel on The News Agents podcast taking credit for getting the GIDS Tavistock clinic closed down. Puffed-up journalists with their sense of self-importance think they can’t be radicalised & biased! History will not be kind to them! 😖

Zohran Mamdani and Catherine Connolly's wins, along with the massive rise of the UK Greens after electing Zack Polanski demonstrate that you can be unapologetically pro-trans rights and get huge support. The Leftists who claimed that trans people should be "pragmatically" abandoned were wrong.

Absolutely insane. Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani. Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo. The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

“This festival is a celebration of improvisation as a global, inclusive, and transformative art form.” Stewart Smith looks forward to a celebration of the gamelan at the seventeenth instalment of the Scottish festival Preview: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra’s GIOfest buff.ly/QM9uFi9

Carla Bley's Escalator Over the Hill Film by Steve Gebhardt (1970) Bits of this have been on YT before, but I've never seen the entire film. youtu.be/w-aSKKWz_QM?...

TFEH presents a triple bill of experimental music & weird science by experimental musicians & weird scientists: ALEATORY MUSIC SYSTEMS / ALISON BEATTIE / VOLE INVASION AT @fruitmarket.bsky.social ON 9/11/25. www.ticketsource.co.uk/tfeh/tfeh-pr... #Edinburgh #ExperimentalMusic #FreeImprov #Noise #Eh

Spoke to the great Neil Charles and Charles Hayward ahead of their Dark Days and Sound Is Now! shows at EFG London Jazz Fest @thequietus.com. Plus a few other top tips including Linda May Han Oh, Izumi Kamura, Tortoise and Mulatu Astatke. thequietus.com/news/the-efg...

Brought to you by the good folks behind Yeah You & People Like Us, it’s Wild Pop @starandshadow.bsky.social I’ll be performing with @kenosist.bsky.social & Toi Guy as our Deleuzian midi power trio howls again! Helluva lineup!

Discovered Husker Du when I was 16, in the wake of Nevermind, and they were my absolute North Star for years, and remain so close to my heart. Thanks so much to @thequietus.com for letting me write this. It’s quite long. thequietus.com/interviews/h...

“One of Europe’s finest improvisors”: Sophie Agnel reviewed The creative scope of French pianist Sophie Agnel is demonstrated across two remarkable albums, writes Stewart Smith in The Wire 501. Read the full review at The Wire website: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

“Nothing ever dies; everything is infinite. We've been taught a watered-down version of what ’time and space’ is, that we're in a three-dimensional reality, which we are not. We're in a multidimensional reality”. Onwards / Upwards to the great Jack DeJohnette.

There was no conceivable world in which the British justice system would find one of their own guilty of war crimes when they're enthusiastically supporting a genocide. But even still, the Bloody Sunday verdict is a slap in the face for all Irish people.

🚨This is an emergency🚨 This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life. Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban @transsolidarity.bsky.social #ScrapTheBathroomBan

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

This is grim & dangerous over reach. This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent. Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Hugely excited to be putting on the great Bhutanese experimental guitarist Tashi Dorji @dorjitashi.bsky.social at @starandshadow.bsky.social on Monday 6 October. A post-colonial disembowelment of guitar traditions RIYL Derek Bailey, John Fahey and Bill Orcutt www.starandshadow.org.uk/programme/ev...

One piece of infallible advice I'd pass on to future generations would be to never trust anyone who says they're neither on the left or the right. They're always on the right.

LORT BURN SPECIALS: 3 Featuring OWEN HATHERLEY, ANDREW HANKINSON, KATE LISTON and music from BEN LOWES-SMITH SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER 7PM @alphabettitheatre.bsky.social MAKE NEWCASTLE MITTELEUROPA AGAIN

Newcastle says no to fascism. The far right brought a hundred or so with them, bussed from far and wide. This city turned out 1000s, from local communities, estates and streets. Geordies of all backgrounds coming together and outnumbering the purveyors of hate by some distance. Newcastle united.

No words.

Whether it is out of sheer incompetence or ideological alignment, this government is doing the far right's work The only consistent thing they have done since getting in power is echo reactionary talking points. There is not one bad faith reactionary tirade they won't lap up and recite.

Where is Keir Starmer? Where is the leadership? Fascists marched on our streets yesterday and he hasn’t said a single word. Instead the Prime Minister spends his time defending the “best pals” of paedophiles. He is a coward. He should resign.

absolutely rotten stuff. horrible. fuck off

For the landmark 500th issue @thewiremagazine.bsky.social I had the honour of interviewing the great vocalist, composer & improviser Fay Victor

'McPhee describes #PaulineOliveros as “a philosopher, a poet, an artist, and the most wonderful person in the world.” Oliveros’ Deep Listening Institute commissioned McPhee to write Unquenchable Fire' First Movement, from Unquenchable Fire (2003) - The Strange World Of #JoeMcPhee buff.ly/dzdMvjo