The rich people of today only have two ideas: 1. Let’s kill everyone 2. I need a bunker so after we kill everyone I can emerge from underground, spread my wings like a peacock, and continue to be rich

The last of the bluebells out in the woods this morning. Still practicing every day, still trying to get this one down without errors, but accepting sometimes the little mistakes form the possibility of good ideas. The wind and the trees get 10/10 for participation today.

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

This song “Awake, A Dream” came out this week. I’ve been practicing it a lot lately. Here was a sunrise moment in Scotland a few weeks back. A little stiff due to VERY cold fingers. Would love you to hear the whole song, it’s a long one but peaceful… AlbertsFavourites.lnk.to/zOwuQK5WPR

Come and join me on this sofa tonight (virtually at least)? A new piece of music. 14 minutes and 55 seconds I would really love to listen to together. Come and be the first to listen to a slice of my new album. 8pm. Bring snacks and something decent to listen on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsZ...

The ‘So’ classic albums docu is one of my favourites and SO worth a rewatch if you have a happy hour free this week.

After 30 years of playing guitar this shouldn’t make me proud… But I’ve managed a month of practicing daily. It’s never been my strong point. But I feel like I’m breaking through a bit. Even through my holiday in Scotland over Easter. And as you’d hope, things are getting better.

I’m lost. Please help me. I’m trying to feel safe enough to just admit “I’m lost”. Then enjoy the moment of saying “please help me”. I’ve spent weeks working up to this. But I’m starting see “lostness” as a useful place. open.substack.com/pub/adamscri...

So very happy for my Hungarian friends who have walked miles, shouted, created and pushed so hard for change for so long now. A turn towards truth and justice and optimism. And a big far-right thread pulled on across Europe. May their reach unravel fast and painfully.

If you want to learn how to support people in Lebanon AND discover music that will make your life better, this will help…

Keeping up daily practice on a borrowed guitar on Arran. Bit chilly out there but couldn’t resist this sunrise play.

Please come and join me in my living room (via YouTube) on 22nd April at 8pm for 14 minutes and 54 seconds (a little more if you’d like to chat afterwards) of new music, shared together. Awake, A Dream - 8pm 22/04/26 www.youtube.com/live/tSsZ0LN...

Huw Marc Bennett is #NowPlaying

Curse of Private Equity US evidence shows: When private equity incentives collide with clinical care, patients—especially those who are sicker, poorer, or harder to treat—are more likely to be killed or harmed. Yet UK handing more of the NHS to PE, enabling it to make profits.

“This is a crime against humanity… no longer just a human rights violation. It is truly anti-human behaviour.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Tax billionaires out of existence.

Did you know my brain tumour is incurable? That's likely because just 1% of the national spend on cancer research has been allocated to brain cancer since 2002. That's why I'm walking 10k steps per day in February to raise funds for @braintumourrsch.bsky.social www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

“Y’all seem so worried,” said Sun Ra, “about playing the notes. But you can play more than just notes on a page, you know. You can play the river. You can play the sun rays.”

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

Your Invasion Is A Lie (2026) feat. Idris Rahman I rereleased this track this week. I made the album it came from Pay-what-you-want including the vinyl but 90% of anything you choose to pay goes to charities: refugee council, MAP, Earth Percent. In 2023 the title and song was about the UK press

I’ve had the privilege of mixing all of Huw’s albums so far and this one is really so special. He has grown more and more into his sound and the importance of his ancestral roots in the vale of Glamorgan. Rarely better shown than in this song. You need it.

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Renee Good, a citizen & mother was shot 3 times in the head, on camera, by a masked gang. She is smeared by Trump & MAGA lunatics. May she rest in peace & her family find comfort. Frankly the only surprise is it took this long. Farage wants “ICE style raids” in the UK. #r4today

From a professional comms perspective, I'd say a good start for Labour combatting far right rhetoric would be to stop repeating it, saying they "understand it" or including its stock tropes in official documents pretty much any time they talk about migration. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

RIP Steve Cropper - one of the greatest guitarists ever

It really is

For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million

Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"

You cant parachute asylum seekers into deprived areas, in completely inappropriate housing, then say those migrants are 'dividing our country'. You divided the country because you can't organise a basic service and process claims in a timely way

So depressing that any political issue in this country is either about immigration or is blamed on immigration. We need someone with a voice brave enough to call this out for what it is; hysteria, deflection of blame and good old fashioned racism. Shame on any party or person involved.

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

From the very same paragraph in Orwell's essay: "England has got to be true to herself. She is not being true to herself while the refugees who have sought our shores are penned up in concentration camps, and company directors work out subtle schemes to dodge their Excess Profits Tax."

The idea that the progressive left used the internet to bully institutions into accepting unpopular, far-left positions is the exact opposite of what has actually happened. The alt-right used the internet for ideological capture and they are now in the White House bragging about it daily

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If anyone fancies a first listen to the incredible new Arjuna Oakes album, we’re streaming it in full on Bandcamp at 7pm (bst) tonight… arjunaoakes.bandcamp.com/merch/while-...

On international jazz day can I recommend this beautiful new record to you? Deeply special debut from Mark Millington AlbertsFavourites.lnk.to/JyPKYLFA

Class Warfare is when top 1% uses the media to instruct you that a slight tax increase on the top 1% is Class Warfare.

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

Facebook may not be good for much but… Today’s Memories has reminded me that it’s a year since my wife called the lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, “Aswad”.

Rachel Reeves is right that the world has changed - so why won’t she change her strategy to reflect it? Rigid adherence to arbitrary fiscal rules & refusing wealth taxes is a political choice that’s causing huge pain & harm, as well as laying out the welcome mat for the populists at Reform UK

Disability is not a moral failing. It’s not a punishment. It’s simply part of being human. If you live long enough, you will likely experience some kind of disability. It’s one of the only minority groups you can join at any time. Stop treating us as less than & help us combat ableism!

Fascism.

WHAT IF I DON'T WANT TO. UNLOCK MY FUCKING PRODUCTIVITY, HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF THAT HM?

Andrew Neil now.... and exactly four months ago. A great example of the British Right finally catching up. Their primary objective of 'owning the libs' has hit brutal reality.