Farage doesn’t care. Racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia… Reform can go for it. It didn’t make any difference in America. Trump boasted about his own toxicity and won. Farage is hoping he can do the same here. Just disgraceful that he stands a chance. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Great shout

An effort to give a few less recognised #5DebutAlbums2026 playing suggestions to @richards7370.bsky.social & the community Raveloe - Exit Light - 2023 @raveloe.bsky.social Kim Grant’s debut solo project is an album of folk heart, grit & drive, gorgeous vocals, evocative lyrics that ooze atmosphere

A new magical Scottish musical starring two Scottish titans!📝 Alan Cumming & Shirley Henderson star in A History of Paper - a magical new musical of joy, grief & the little bits of paper that make up a life. 🎟️ https://pitlochryft.com/4u200kT

He wants to “give” with one hand and take away with an army of anti worker legislation. Do not fall for it.

Evening @richards7370.bsky.social my picks for #5DebutAlbums9599 are 1- Fiona Apple - Tidal (5pts) 2- Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill 3- Granddaddy - Under The Western Freeway 4- Garbage - S/T 5- The Supernaturals - It Doesn’t Matter Anymore JMO American Football, Beth Orton, Supergrass, Air

This is so depressing. Try to educate people, if you do educate them with actual facts & they still ignore it, that’s their ignorance as a bigoted/racist/ignorant choice. Build on what you have. This reform chasing is a backwards mentality started by the Tories… looks what’s happened to them. 🤦‍♂️

On her debut album, Radhika pays homage to her heroes while asserting her own voice and establishing her dream-pop sound www.theskinny.co.uk/music/review... @glassmodern.bsky.social

If @labouruk.bsky.social &or PLP think Wes Streeting will solve their electoral woes they’re fools. Voters are pissed because of promises vs delivery. ZERO promises have been delivered. Most have been attacked; supported by the PLP. Palantir Pal Wes won’t improve ANY issue. He’s more RW than KS.

Anything you’d like to say, Richard?

call me woke but I don't think people who are explicitly and proudly anti-Islam should be able to organise a national rally in our capital city. Being anti any religion is what we accurately call 'hate'. How did we get here??

Not sure there’s any point having elections any more. We should just ask crypto billionaire, Christopher Harborne, who he’s paid to be the next prime minister and drop the absurd notion that the voters get to decide anything.

Random #5DebutAlbums9599 recommendation: The Supernaturals - It doesn't matter anymore. Won't get many votes, not even from me, but I've always loved this album. Full of sing-out loud choruses and whimsical takes. Worth a play as a pallet cleanser between the big hitters. #CDCollection #MusicSky

#5DebutAlbums9599 1997 The Supernaturals - It Doesn't Matter Anymore Full of hooky songs, big choruses, funny sardonic lyrics, & Scots attitude of resignation, resilience & gallus optimism. Smile, Lazy Lover, Stammer, Dung Beetle, Day Before Yesterday’s… Deserves much more love & praise than it got

Trying to appease a hate filled group always results in losing ground with majority of voters… proven through history numerous times. That Labour don’t see this is astounding… that their ultra rich paymasters are focussed on not paying tax & diverting attention from important issues less surprising.

Yes yes yes! All of this. And now, please.

Ian Hislop on the impossibility of nuance. The Eye has been critical of Israel's actions in Gaza while also covering antisemitism. Holding both positions at once leaves you unpopular on all fronts. ➡️ Watch Page 94, the Private Eye podcast: youtu.be/dKRLlzAFgso

It’s pointless if billionaires can pay for everything and you get away without serious consequence. That’s literally a foreign party buying influence in parliament.

2 minutes of googling to find Catherine West worked under Wes Streeting in Health… not a peep from the press. If she challenges Starmer’s leadership she’ll ‘suddenly’ step aside if Wes Streeting decides there’s enough support that it’s worth HIS while to have a shot at it.

David Attenborough. The only National Treasure that is also a MD Alternative National Treasure 🙏

Once again. It’s not about Reform’s vetting process, it’s about what and who they are… to their very core… Ignorant, racist inadequates and weirdos with a v nasty streak. Happy to be useful idiots for a deeply corrupt, hateful leader who will shaft us all for money. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Nailed on Top 5 for #5DebutAlbums9599 - I’d imagine at this early stage in the tournament that it’ll be UTWF v Fuzzy Logic in the final. Why Gruff is on this cover and not on the other, I can’t quite fathom.

Someone this greedy and corrupt will never act in the best interests of the country. He showed you with Brexit. He showed you with Reform councils. He showed you with his own constituency. He’ll lie to your face and sell you out. Do not let him win because then we all lose. Do not vote Reform.

Anyone voting Reform is knowingly voting for corrupt racists who’ll make all of us poorer and less protected, remove our rights, privatise our NHS, increase fossil fuel dependency, shove children into poverty and threaten our communities… Don’t expect to be forgiven. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Why do we have to tolerate such unadulterated bollox from this hideous man? And why does the media give it all a veneer of potential respectability? Farage is pathologically corrupt and obscenely greedy. He’s a national security threat, a liar and a racist. Just say so. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stop this racist bigot.

A cert for my 5 maybe top spot for #5DebutAlbums9599 is the divine ‘Tidal’ by Fiona Apple. Ridiculously skilful in her writing, playing & singing this is one of my favourite ever albums. The album takes you on a proper journey through love lust & hurt. Then turn it over & start again.

On a day when mega-rich, privileged and safe, Zia Yusuf, pledges to shove asylum seekers in detention centres (in Green constituencies), before forcibly deporting them, this is a v important read. These grim people are frauds. Exploiting ignorance and racism for votes. But only to enrich themselves.

So typical of Farage to try to deflect from the brazen corruption of his £5million gift from a foreign-based crypto billionaire by making a mad and fascist policy announcement so we talk about that, instead of him. We can easily do both. Reform is corrupt and racist. Farage is corrupt and racist.

First up for #5DebutAlbums9599 is the magnificently wonky synthfluenced soundscape songs of Granddaddy - ‘Under The Western Freeway’. A beautiful long player in that golden zone length of 45-50 minutes. Absolutely brilliant production, great songwriting & as a debut it’s a great statement of intent.

@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social is spot on and remember he was happy to take money from Russia and Putin… he didn’t do that for no reason. These people OWN him, and they use him to attack OUR values, OUR country all for money. NF may be filthy, vile & weak, but the people who own him are much worse.

The majority of us see Farage and Reform like this… as a bunch of lying, hypocritical, racist shysters who are totally unfit for office. So why do we have to put up with a media that generally treats us all like we’re the idiotic minority who get taken in by their crap? Be more Private Eye.

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Friends and #live #music fans in #Leeds #London #Manchester and #Glasgow get along to catch the brilliant effervescence & indie pop brilliance of @carlajeaston.bsky.social playing tunes from her new LP and classics from her back catalogue at a venue near you! www.carlajennifereaston.com/dates

Corruption every place you look with Nige and his dodgy pals… that and/or ineptitude.

On this week's update to our New Scottish Music playlist, new tunes from Lizzie Reid, Both Hands, Pippa Blundell, Brontës, @carlajeaston.bsky.social, bogle, Gurry Wurry, Mairi Sutherland, Doom Scroller and Conscious Pilot open.spotify.com/playlist/6r1... #newmusicfriday

No. The big divide in Britain today is between the rich and the poor. Reform are on the side of the rich. Specifically, rich white English racists who hate the poor and the vulnerable and don’t think they deserve to have rights or public services or dignity.

Absolute bop! Another of the best that @carlajeaston.bsky.social has conjured from her magical mind.

Saw this👇🏼 last night & highly recommend it.. gives an eye opening insight into algorithms used by X, FB and TikTok Which proactively push rage triggers, misinformation & far right posts on feeds as they get more clicks & increase $’s Also reveals how far they cut back on moderation & monitoring 😳

#5debutalbums7579 The Kick Inside—Kate Bush Signed at 16, with her first release some 4 years later, it is jaw-dropping just how assured and confident this debut is. It's an artist arriving fully-formed, breaking every rule and producing a masterpiece in the process. #musicsky #nowplaying #vinyl

Dick Tice being a….

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Congratulations to David @brokenchanter.bsky.social on his excellent fourth album out on this very label today. CHEM290 is a fine release indeed and one that we are very proud to have lovingly and carefully chucked into the world on vinyl, CD, and DD. Get yours 👇 chemikalunderground.bandcamp.com

Happy Friday, Richard! My #5DebutAlbums1519 1) Courtney Barnett-Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit 2) Bad Bad Hats-Psychic Reader 3) Flock of Dimes-If You See Me, Say Yes 4) Khruangbin-The Universe Smiles upon You 5) Billie Eilish-When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

Hi Richard #5DebutAlbums1519 🥇 Wishes, RHODES (2015) 2. Carry Your Kin, The Breath (2016) 3. Safety, Luca Fogale (2016) 4. The Girl Who Cried For The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Laurie Cameron (2015) 5. Weather Beaten, Katie Spencer (2019) Thanks! 😊

My #5DebutAlbums1519 Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think ... Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel Soccer Mommy - Clean Snail Mail - Lush Wolf Alice - Visions of a Life

Evening Richard, evening all - so many wonderful options for #5Albums1519 but going with: 1. Phoebe Bridgers 2. The Beths 3. Green Lung 4. Big Joanie 5. The Comet Is Coming

Hi folks, hope everyone is well, it’s time for the 9th of 12 initial rounds to determine the best ever debut album, this time focusing on records released between 2015 - 2019, as we play #5DebutAlbums1519 Your task is to select your top five in order of preference, here’s mine to start us off…

#5DebutAlbums1519 Self titled debut by Broken Chanter - 2019 @brokenchanter.bsky.social David MacGregor’s solo project starts here with an LP full of bouncing melodies & musical power, countered by more reflective songs, all melded together by contrasting lyrical melancholy & optimism. Superb.

#5DebutAlbums1519 go listen to “Homemade Lemonade” by Carla J Easton as Ette @carlajeaston.bsky.social 2016 A glorious, girl group influenced, indie pop LP, lyrically witty, melodically ace, perfect from start to finish, all by an artist doing it their way. A sparkling pop gem of an album!