The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion. So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.

I avoid reposting twitter, but this is well put. Directed at Musk but captures Trump, too. I think it's tragic that such men are so clueless about the beauty of life. I believe their lack of joy is why they try to squash life and light from all of us. Living joyfully is how we will overcome.

Definitely worth a read, a great piece of social history. Teenagers promenading in towns and cities on Sunday evenings, flirting, cruising. It was dubbed the “monkey parade” or the “monkey run”. HERE davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...

New article, definitely something for the social history fans - the monkey parade (or 'monkey run'). Teenagers promenading in towns and cities on Sunday evenings, flirting, cruising. It was dubbed the “monkey parade” or the “monkey run”. davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...

I don't think this is hyperbole btw. Things are spinning out pretty badly across multiple nations, obviously including the US, at a time when the stakes have never been higher. Twitter and elite whatsapps clearly key drivers.

This is a wonderful read.

New article, definitely something for the social history fans - the monkey parade (or 'monkey run'). Teenagers promenading in towns and cities on Sunday evenings, flirting, cruising. It was dubbed the “monkey parade” or the “monkey run”. davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...

Jacob Epstein was born #otd in 1880. His sculpture 'Genesis' can be found at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester @whitworthart.bsky.social

Salute to the writer/poet the great Guillaume Apollinaire who died #otd 9th November 1918 having suffered injury in the Great War & then contracting Spanish Flu. Ginsberg’s ‘At Apollinaire’s Grave’ was put to music by Kramer, released by Shimmy Disc in 2021 youtu.be/Xj4l46-QSXo It's a beauty...

Salute to the writer/poet the great Guillaume Apollinaire who died #otd 9th November 1918 having suffered injury in the Great War & then contracting Spanish Flu. Ginsberg’s ‘At Apollinaire’s Grave’ was put to music by Kramer, released by Shimmy Disc in 2021 youtu.be/Xj4l46-QSXo It's a beauty...

🎯🎯

Just knocked up a wee thing for Blackpool council

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Bonfire Night, Moss Side, 1972. 📸 Daniel Meadows

More on Reform-led Lancashire Council's plans to sell-off council council care homes and move everyone into the private sector, here - www.theguardian.com/politics/202... And coincidentally, Reform’s cabinet member for social care in Lancashire, owns a private care company with his wife.

Review: Life After Dark – A History of British Nightclubs & Music Venues – by Dave Haslam I got excited when this book arrived on my doorstep. At first glance it has all the key ingredients for a great book. Hacienda DJ author, history of British nightclubs - I expected lots of gory detail and…

So much of Labour’s comms is just weird and confusing at this point. Surely it’s really, really easy to decide to offer congratulations/support to a wildly popular left-wing candidate who has just pulled off a historic electoral victory

I'm selling some of my record collection to pay bills as times are tough. Please take a look or consider reposting, thanks chaps x

FAO Matt Goodwin and all the other racist filth who tried to exploit this incident

Anyway, stoked to see how the political tendency that has spent decades cutting mental health funding, advocating for driverless trains and mocking attempts to ban big knives deals with a train driver and guard’s swift action helping end a mentally ill man’s rampage with a big knife.

God knows how many times this has happened: Zero. Much like Vance lying about Haitian immigrants eating people's pets, this is 100% racist bullshit being spewed by an unabashed white nationalist. Congrats to everyone who patronizes the Nazi bar he runs.

Halloween #FacebookNews

What he said: 💯 🎯

Nigel Farage says this summer’s raising the flag movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what @jackdulhanty.bsky.social at the @manchestermill.bsky.social has found... manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

I love Ms Warwick and went to see her when I was pregnant, and cried throughout. She told loads of stories about how much she hates Cilla Black, which is reason enough to love her. #TOTP

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK... 78% are murdered by a partner/ex Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety In fact, they voted against them...

Gerald Brockhurst 'Jeunesse Dorée' (painted 1934) 31st October #otd in 1890, British painter Gerald Leslie Brockhurst was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham. 'Jeunesse Dorée' portrays Kathleen Woodard. It's on show at the Lady Lever Art Gallery on the Wirral.

My review of Johnny Marr live in Paris. davehaslam.substack.com/p/johnny-mar...

My review of Johnny Marr live in Paris. davehaslam.substack.com/p/johnny-mar...

Wherein @davehaslam.bsky.social explains eloquently why you need to see Johnny Marr live. And the. Do it again.

My live review of Johnny Marr in Paris, 22nd October HERE davehaslam.substack.com/p/johnny-mar... #JohnnyMarr

My live review of Johnny Marr in Paris, 22nd October HERE davehaslam.substack.com/p/johnny-mar... #JohnnyMarr

Bet365 CEO Denise Coates paid herself £277,000,000 this year, and £410,000,000 in 2020. This was more than 20,000x the Minimum Wage that she paid most of her workers. The betting industry needs to be taxed, heavily.

December events will sell out very soon 1st December Walthamstow @acertainratio.bsky.social + @davehaslam.bsky.social 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/1635438363169

Dave Haslam shares the story of ‘half forgotten hero of British music’, the pioneering DJ, Guy Stevens davehaslam.substack.com/p/a-half-for...

Wrote this the other month about The White Bus davehaslam.substack.com/p/shelagh-de...

I do think this sort of open, gutter racism becoming normal enough that they feel comfortable saying it on TV is probably the most damning indictment of the last 5 years.

25th Oct #otd in 1938 - Archbishop Beckman in Iowa denounced "jitterbug orgies", warning jazz music was "gnawing away at the moral fibre of the young" Thousands of kids spent the next weekend looking for a jitterbug orgy...

Jitterbug Orgy is a great name for a band.

25th Oct #otd in 1938 - Archbishop Beckman in Iowa denounced "jitterbug orgies", warning jazz music was "gnawing away at the moral fibre of the young" Thousands of kids spent the next weekend looking for a jitterbug orgy...

Johnny Marr at the Elysee Montmartre last night was awesome, really loved it.

'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument

The fact that this is even seriously discussed, by frontbench politicians and in mainstream publications, shows that something fundamental has broken in UK politics. All those who look at Germany with horrified faces because of the rise of the AfD, kindly take a look in the mirror.

22nd October in 1982 Nico guests with Bauhaus onstage at the University of Salford Student Union for a rendition of 'I'm Waiting For the Man'...

This is deranged and dangerous from the Conservatives, and similarly from Reform. If they could enact it, it would rip British society apart, destroy the economy & NHS, & make the UK an international pariah. Every decent politician & political journalist/commentator needs to push back hard.

This is typically excellent. Once upon a time iD (or was it Muzik?) magazine asked me to do a top ten of industrial dance. Test Dept's Fuckhead was top of course, albeit the editorial assistant wasn't happy saying the word when she fact-checked