Seema Misra sums it up. "How can the government spend hundreds of millions of pounds on lawyers dragging this out but it's different for the common people to get justice? We need accountability," www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yes, we're all adults who can take our own drink to work and/or buy some on our rounds but people who leave a can of drink out for their postie are diamonds. And don't forget your binmen and women. Go, treat them if you can afford to. #PublicAppeal

At what point does the news stop illustrating UK heatwaves with phew-what-a-scorcher photos of people dancing in fountains to cool off and ladies all in bikinis and that in the park and replace them bits of melted infrastructure and pensioners who died in their unventilated flats of heatstroke?

Another day closer to retirement. Only 3,439 days to go and I can relax.

Googling stuff about diabetes and extreme heat. In the 'people also ask' section there's "why can't diabetics cut toenails". WTF?

Apparently we have an agreement at work that deliveries are suspended if it hits 35⁰C. Let's see if they honour that tomorrow as it my be a bit hotter than today. I'm not holding my breath. In other news, I've found out where the ⁰ symbol is on my phone!

It's Carter USM this morning. My Defeatist Attitude. "I'd fight the system but what's the use? It's fire-resistant and waterproof." youtu.be/cuULm6vxY5o?...

Watching Stinky Turner from the Cockney Rejects interview Animal from Anti-Nowhere League has put a huge grin on my face. They could probably talk non-stop for days about their experiences! youtu.be/4402XBR2Ack?...

Two young ladies, probably teenagers, know every word to every Blockheads song. I love seeing this. Saw it at a Subhumans gig as well. Nice to be at an old band's gig that's not completely full of old farts like me.

I'm at The Boileroom in Guildford. Certainly an apt name, it's sweltering and half the punters are still outside. Blockheads on soon.

Trying to move to another one bedroom flat locally but it's become impossible on my wages. An apartment with no bedrooms is £850 a month. Even one room in a house share is £700 a month. I'm looking at £1200 for what I want. Can't afford that.

London's police asked Big Tech for comms data over 700,000 times last year

Oizone - Melting Pot youtu.be/HbthQVbHwDk?...

I love it when a cover is done in a different style to the original. Apart from Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - they quickly become boring. The Cardigans' version of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. It's the polar opposite in styles. youtu.be/aAOlvbKmU4A?...

One of my brothers was in the music business, writing and producing, and when new technology turned every laptop into a recording studio he worried that everyone could now do what he was doing. A few new people did, but not many. Turned out you needed talent, not technology.

The lazy twats who are younger and fitter than me and live half a mile from Tesco getting their bottled water from Amazon and delivered by us is my favourite. Water is heavy!

I've not taken a huge interest in HS2 but how the fuck can it take 20 to 23 years to build a rail line from London to Birmingham? And that's the guesstimate now. No doubt there'll be more delays before the current guess of 2040-2043 for completion.

Consistent humanism means opposing the genocide in Gaza, AND antisemitism. It means opposing the US/Israeli invasion of Iran AND the Iranian regime's murder of its own people. It means opposing the US/UK invasion of Iraq AND the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It means confronting violence everywhere.

DWP manipulates its own benefit fraud and error data — and the public's perception of the issue — when the vital figures have hardly changed By @rachelcdailey.bsky.social

When you win the league for the 14th time in 15 years

The cynical move by Josh Simons to resign his Makerfield seat to allow Burnham to stand makes a mockery of British politics. I've nothing against Burham, but I hope the Makerfield constituents realise they're being used, and vote Green instead. #Makerfield #Burnham #Simons

I won't be the only one saying it - what makes them so sure Burnham will win in Makerfield?

I've accidentally ordered something that's being delivered by Evri. I know the company use Royal Mail a lot but, for some reason, not for this item. I've had an email today saying it'll be a day late and here's £5 credit. That'll teach them for using Evri. The tracking shows it's their fault.

Just shows he'd make a great parliamentarian. They've all accidentally forgotten to pay taxes etc for decades.

So true.

We've had a price increase at my local. £6 a pint now. I remember when beer was tuppence a loaf etc. *carries on drinking*

Drinks should have an additional tax that varies depending on how often the cans and bottles appear in street litter. This would probably double the cost of Red Bull - strangely it never seems to give any fucker who drinks it enough energy to walk to a bin.

About once a week I get a line from this song rattling around my brain but I haven't heard the full song for donkey's years. "There's brown bread, white bread, all sorts of wholemeal bread, it comes in funny packages with writing on the side" Streetband - Toast youtu.be/WJmKStqugMc?...

I saw some Labour MP say it's Starmer and not the party as a whole people dislike. Wrong. Lammy & Cooper need to go as well for starters.

In my old live sound engineering days this hardly ever happened with 'my' band but the couple of times it did we treated it as a paid rehearsal and I got to experiment with knobs I rarely used. Gotta take the positives.

Yeah because once you’ve practiced your little heart out and shown up to a gig with two people total in the audience, nothing can possibly hurt you

Ooh. I hope they try this at my local polling station. I won't say publicly what I'll do!

Autistic young people have a right to an education, but the mainstream media thinks reasonable adjustments and supports are unnecessary, too costly, or over the top by @charliclement.bsky.social

This is pure profiteering. I live 30 miles from central London and prices around here are £5 to £6 a pint. I've personally witnessed the £8 pint + £1 non-refundable deposit for the plastic glass at The Oval last summer. And it's not very good beer. I'm not going to T20 this year cos it's a rip-off.

This lot should have been bigger. Twister - Brown Paper Bag youtu.be/dutLGSOgxVY?...

I never knew this existed. A sort of anthology of Black Easter. Years ago I asked Richard, original bass player, for a borrow of his old demo tapes but it never happened and we've since lost contact. Glad to see some tracks here. youtu.be/12oLKptvLpY?...

Some secrets will never be passed along... #witchcraft

Newtown Neurotics - When The Oil Runs Out youtu.be/NybcLT_q6oQ?...

Since playing Skycards I've come across some good names of airports & places I've not heard of before but I haven't come across Ponce yet. As a Brit and a Withnail & I geek I would definitely have remembered that name. #PerfumePonce

Christians now make up only 1.5 percent of Jerusalem's population, and that's decreasing every year because of Israeli policies and violence

Influx - Shaved Women. From the Ruptured Ambitions Crass covers LP youtu.be/1gzf7v68sno?...

I was just wondering how many people have sampled or remixed Angine de Poitrine. Youtube handed me one without even searching. youtu.be/lYEOdqyyOyQ?...

Urine Trouble Jeff! Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is chairing the Met Gala THIS Monday. His own workers sued him for being forced to piss in bottles. So while the Met gets ready for his glitzy do, we delivered them OVER 300 bottles of piss* 😘 *Fake piss, obvs. Only Jeff’s into the real stuff.

The Metropolitan Police wants everyone to believe that the right to stamp on a mentally ill man's head is vital and necessary to maintain the public's fragile confidence in police officers, and that no other arguments are acceptable www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The Lurkers don't get mentioned enough these days. Including by me. Heroin (It's All Over) youtu.be/_0pMt7Di6HU?...

"Later I would discover Stoke Newington was where Marc Bolan lived as a teen, where first generation punkers, be it the Sex Pistols, Joy Division or The Lurkers played in local pubs..." N16age Riot: #ThurstonMoore On Stoke Newington Life #ThePortal Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/aztczI9

Bought a new flash drive today. Just a small one. £7.50 from Sainsbury's. Not on special offer or reduced with Nectar. 20 feet away, in the same shop, Argos, owned by Sainsbury's, sell exactly the same one for £17.99. Make it make sense.

I've got three gigs lined up that I'm taking one of my niece's kids to. I've realised these are his first live gigs and the memories are gonna be with him forever. They'd better be good! The line ups are The Blockheads then The Pogue Traders + TR5's, then Subhumans + Inner Terrestrials + The Wipes.