I've always said US-style flag-shagging Taliban Christianity could never take off in the UK, because the vast majority of British Christians are woolly centrists. For the record, I may have underestimated the willingness of British neo-Nazi knobheads to mouth Chrstian formulae if prodded to do so.

My new book THE CRACKS has an accompanying playlist! A darkly comic haunted house novel, a satire on class and a tribute to the power of music, it's published by Titan Books on Oct 8. The playlist is on YouTube, Tidal and Spotify, and links to all three can be found here: linktr.ee/tomhuddleston_

I was honoured and delighted to be asked to pen some Derek Taylor style sleeve notes for the excellent 5th LP GOD SAVE THE KELVIN WHEELIES by Glasgow's finest, U.S. Highball. The record is available NOW from all decent stockists and listenable on your preferred platforms. @lameorecords.bsky.social

It's an English summer now, so cool, so grey. Yet I think of my revenge and hurricanes.

Israel bombed a kitchen that provided meals to the forcibly displaced Palestinians in Gaza, killing three and injuring others. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said Israel has killed at least 871 people since the so-called ceasefire began last October.

A reissue of Eighteenth Day of May album is out on Mon on Circuitry Recordings Double LP including previously unreleased album It’s currently Reissue of the Week in @thequietus with a great review by @willsalmon.bsky.social & tomorrow, it’s featured album on the Freakzone @bbc6music.bsky.social

We absolutely dwarfed the fash yesterday. Thousands more people choosing solidarity and kindness over coked-up bile and violence. I feel like knowing this might make a lot of people in this country feel a bit less frightened and alone. So it'd be lovely if just one major media outlet reported it.

Some wanted a white supremacist ethnostate. Others merely wanted to lynch the Prime Minister A wide range of views

Fascists on the underground, it's going to be lairy getting home. Hopefully there'll be more of us anyway.

Is there a word for 'bragging about how few of those great books I've read / movies I've watched / albums I've heard and they were shit anyway how cool am I'?

Happy 60th today to Pet Sounds. #WhenWasThings

Wes Streeting has resigned to take the job he was born to do…regional sales manager for Moss Bros

I don't really care what positions Streeting tries to cosplay as adopting to make himself palatable to the various Labour factions. The man is a rancid transphobe and that disqualifies him from being considered a progressive.

Again, this is because the overriding priority *at all times* - more important than any other - is keeping the right sort of chaps in power: reliable people who will not try to roll back any part of the Thatcherite consensus, or try to break from America, or talk publicly about historic misdeeds.

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

I just don't see the benefit here. Politically, whatever, it just seems pointlessly, randomly vindictive. Who are they trying to appeal to?

of course all the chaos is funny and I'm glad that Keir Starmer, a bad person, is having a bad time. but jfc what a waste of two years, what a waste of a majority, what a waste of a once in a generation window to improve things. and now it's just 24/7 infighting, briefing, backstabbing. pathetic

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OK, Hackney has declared Green w/ 42 councillors, a gain of 38, from one of the staunchest Labour councils. To celebrate my *other* home council going green, I've booked tix to see **this** at my beloved Hackney palace @riocinema.bsky.social as part of Doc n Roll 💚🎸 bsky.app/profile/rioc...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

The tale of every single last Reform-led council so far is them discovering that there is no secret Net Zero Department for Pronouns that accounts for 45% of council budgets, panicking, ordering an entire budget surplus worth of flags, and then falling apart in acrimony.

They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.

Proud of my borough.

Complicity in a genocide is not a one-term or single election issue. I will never, for as long as I remain breathing, vote for a government or party that sat by while that was going on. If your leaders did not speak out against it, then you can fuck off if you think you will ever get a vote from me.

but the depressing likelihood is that they'll see "Labour loses X seats, Reform wins X seats" and conclude that they've not gone hard enough on racism, transphobia and anti-disability rhetoric

The movie I came closest to walking out of without actually doing it.

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

It's the little things that give you hope.

Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.

Some personal news: book number four is coming :)

I mean my first question would be how far away was he standing

One of my local heroes (Rabbi Gluck not Owen Jones) speaking some truth. You should listen, he's both clever and lovely.

If the seriousness with which you tackle anti-Semitism depends on the identity of the person guilty of it, it does begin to look as if tackling anti-Semitism is not your real priority.

So many great images from this year's #metgala!

Some from other countries may flee to Mexico.

This Friday ASIF KAPADIA introduces THE GODFATHER PART II on 35mm as part of #RIOFOREVER Tickets going quick, available to book now:

Chappie rules. Heaven's Gate is a perfect film. Be Kind Rewind is Gondry's masterpiece. Pulp Fiction starts well but the final third is racist and embarrassing and everything he's done since sucks. Inception is drab, car-commercial sci-fi and Interstellar is the same with a side of Ayn Rand, ew.

"The octopus on your plate can feel pain, delay gratification, and probably outthink a toddler. Just something to consider before you order."

This whole thing - the speeches, the cartoon, the reporting - makes me feel like I'm going mad. Again. It's just so brazen.

Essa Suleiman faces three charges of attempted murder But Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood spend an entire day giving interviews and only mentioned two victims Why did Starmer and Mahmood only talk about the two Jewish victims and ignore the third, a Muslim victim?

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Then DON'T FUCKING MAKE ANIMAL FARM. www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Just Like Heaven Heroes A Day in the Life Sweet Thing (Van) Don't Worry Baby Motion Pictures (Neil) I Dream a Highway (Gillian) Who Knows Where the Time Goes Mexican Home (Prine) The World Spins (Cruise)

Simple but hugely impactful Banksy installation in Regent's Street. Make it permanent.