Amazing news that Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK a mere 194 days since her husband, Rael Braverman, left Reform UK for comments they made criticising his wife.

Recently I asked Drew Daniel of Matmos /Soft Pink Truth to consider a question: what good is making music while the world slides inexorably into disaster. In response he wrote an essay for tQ that should be of great interest to anyone creating art in the face of global events. 🔗in🧵...

If I was Starmer I wouldn't be making dull speeches, I would simply paint a stick of dynamite brown and put it in a box labelled FANCY CIGARS and hand it to Trump, and while he was still dazed from the explosion I'd quickly make America British again

Wonderful promo film that was directed by Perry Henzell to be shown on Top Of The Pops when 007 made it into the charts in the summer of '67... #reggae #reggaesky #totp

The last episode of Ashes to Ashes. Was in bits watching that. Twice.

SPEECHLESS.

I absolutely loved the Arena programme titles, the visuals and the music, when I watched episodes with my dad, and had absolutely no idea that it was Brian Eno who wrote the music. Imagine my surprise/glee when I dug into his early post-Roxy Music work. I’ve just the William Golding episode on.

lolz

Merry New Year! As you carbon-based Earth creatures say. We shall be gravitating to fresh parts of your planet in 2026. Take care of yourselves and your world. It is a precious, beautiful thing. This is the dawning of the Age of Quatarius. Q3 🛸🛸🛸

Looking for a spaced-out soundtrack for pre-party cocktails? Set controls towards the Q3 mothership for a cosmic mix by @skipratmedia.bsky.social 🛰️ These astral waves emanate from our show @thelexingtonlondon.bsky.social earlier this month. 📡 Blast into 2026. 🛸🛸🛸 open.spotify.com/playlist/1pl...

youtu.be/mhg60u3uNUc?... "I just can't take it any more, but then again, a lost cause is the only one worth fighting for" Denise, Jez, @acertainratio.bsky.social ACR some of the most beautiful and fragile souls you could ever meet. This is glorious @dojo007.bsky.social

Merry Christmas

Great pix from Tuesday sent by earthlings. If you are a festival promoter, or a band looking for a bunch of Tinsel Time Lords to support you, or a venue/radio show wanting us to perform live in 2026. 🛸🛸🛸 Get in touch via this satellite.. 📡 @marcrileydj.bsky.social @louderthanwar.bsky.social

my top ten overlooked albums of the year, so I'm glad that, er, you've not overlooked it. :) graphics nerd bonus: great TDR™ artwork too (including totally illegible lyrics, obv.).

We asked 100 people, should the Epstein files be released? Our survey said….

According to EVRI, due to high order volumes, deliveries may take longer than usual. Pray for me.

This piece is… and I don’t use the term lightly… great.

What I’m wearing to the #BlueSky Christmas party

Oh my word. Just, <swoon>

When you get an email from Royal Mail asking "how did we do?" it's difficult to resist the temptation to reply with low key Roy Keane inspired "you did your job."

We are delighted to announce that our support in London on December 16th will be Manchester's NICO HARMONY, described by Louder Than War as "like a Lana Del Ray from a rainy city." This will be Nico's London debut. The stellar skipratmedia will assume DJ duties. 🚀🚀🚀 www.fatsoma.com/p/quatermass3

My Top Five Movie Genres - We know you're only enjoying this film because it looks beautiful and that's fine. - This film reminds you of you. - You wished you'd played a part in this film don't you. - You wish you were in this imagined reality don't you. - It's as if the director can read my mind.

Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.

Christ I’m soo tired of leadership challenges against sitting PMs whatever the party. Nobody cares about your internal fucking popularity contests. Just get on with the job and try not to make quite such an arse of it.

SUBSTACKIN' ACROSS THE UNIVERSE quantick.substack.com/p/comparisons

Did Trump watch the Panorama programme or did someone grass the BBC up? Snitches get stitches.

Funko are well inside my top five Evil Genius brands of the last decade.

There was a dude at the Adam Ant gig in Hammersmith last night, who looked like he posseses everything ever released by Neu!, Can, Kraftwerk, Faust and Cluster nodding along to virtually every song. The gig itself? The band were superb, Adam focused, with his timeless stage presence intact.

Magavaggio

Just boarded a train from Sheffield to Preston (<60 miles) and the return ticket is nearly £50. Seems like a good time to read this account from Mick Lynch of the 30+ year disaster that has been UK rail privatisation tribunemag.co.uk/2023/11/mick...

Ruddy hell its bonfire night. Meanwhile I am listening to Throbbing Gristle on a bus home from work. Might have a toffee apple for tea.

'A decadent album, entirely appropriate to the intersection between art and fashion that Grace Jones has always inhabited.' Many Happy Returns to #GraceJones' Slave To The Rhythm, which turns 40 today! buff.ly/MhmcFtH

@onlyconnectquiz.bsky.social who’s trolling who?! @nytimes.com

Soft Cell, man. RIP David Ball.

Cop Will Eat Itself

Perhaps the most honest thing he's ever said.

I can't claim to being a TV fan back in the day, but I was never going to turn down the chance to speak to Wendy James or review her gig at The Brook. I have a lot of admiration for an artist who still loves what she does and appreciates those who come to watch her do it.

Minton Door Surround #Leek #NorthStaffordshire

If you were born the year after the Specials first split up then you don't get to pass comment on multiculturalism in the Midlands.

"The wallpaper was busier maybe, the world was browner, but essentially it was the same world, where telephones were answered with a string of digits and time flowed begrudgingly forwards like gravy." I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time. madeleinebrettingham.substack.com/p/that-is-wh...

I have just accidentally photobombed (videobombed?) an influencer type video that was *so* Nathan Barley it was either well meta or we are all truly finished, doomed, sunk, cooked.

After a late summer break, Monstrosities Mon Amour is back, and with a seaside special: Blackpool's Golden Mile with the brilliant @seasideferry.bsky.social. And also, discover her passion for 50s wonder-fabric Crimplene! Fun, actual fun. open.substack.com/pub/johngrin...

Thought I’d give Question Time a go. What a dufus.

Ruin a book with a car Keep the Vauxhall Aspidistra Flying

Fucking hell, that broke me. Well done, Brighton.

anyone want an ear worm? Metallica. Enter Sandman. Just take it.

Getting soaked in town, CityMapper directions audible in my headphones whilst listening to the reissue of Fox Base Alpha. As Sarah sang “and the rain pours down” the robot voice told me to turn left in 250 yards. Yards. This felt all very cinematic. The rain has stopped now so I can crack on.

It’s not 1995 and I’m not spangled at midnight, its 2025 and I’m on the top deck of a packed slow bus. Praying for flashbacks.

Anarchy in the UK (obv.).