Oasis' reunion has been the musical event of '25 (never knew I had so many pals into them *Larry David Stare*), thanks to @ehgillett.bsky.social for a thoughtful essay on how they fit into the current British political landscape and what aspects they helped usher in: thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Oasis reflect both the best and worst aspects of modern Britain, which makes the wholly uncritical response to their reunion quietly unsettling. I’ve tried digging into the knottier realities of their legacy for @thequietus.com. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

I know jumping to politically-advantageous conclusions is just what we do now, but its still striking how many right wing folks have immediately jumped to "violent leftist," as if there hasn't been a sustained, decadelong hate campaign against Charlie Kirk from those to his right.

Those “credible policy commitments” in full: mandatory flag-shagging twice a week, refugees and trans people can go fuck themselves, more austerity, every other big decision ducked. And they wonder why people seek out alternatives!

This is both correct, and not radical enough: we should ban 99% of all privately-owned cars from inner cities. Blue badge holders, emergency services, finite number of permits for commercial deliveries, buses, bikes, and that’s it. No able-bodied person in Zone 1 actually needs a Land Rover, sorry.

Three stunning and shaming paragraphs, by Rachel Wolf of Public First, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.

A data breach by the Ministry of Defence put up to 100,000 lives at risk and sparked the largest covert peacetime evacuation in British history – then was kept secret for almost two years by an unprecedented superinjunction gagging the British press, it can be revealed today.

Can you imagine if all this ends up with Raynor Winn so horrifically indebted to her publisher and movie studio that she ends up actually having to sell her house.

Anyone who knows me knows this is a particular bugbear of mine, having seen how stuff works firsthand. A couple of years ago I helped pitch a brilliant feature doc with a huge global artist - billion-plus streams, multiple Grammies - which the BBC turned down because they “weren’t big enough”.

It is mad to me that you can sign up to volunteer with the IDF, fly out to Palestine, commit (or at the very least facilitate) unspeakable, genocidal atrocities and be let back into the UK no questions asked. But criticise that state of affairs, and it suddenly becomes a police matter.

Broadcast Kneecap from Glastonbury, but voiced by an actor

It's notable that the only student speech frequently shut down on university campuses is a) pro-Palestine b) pro-trans-rights. The OfS seems *deeply* unconcerned about that speech being limited. In fact, they want academics who oppose those positions to have the right to 'shock and offend' students.

fantastic evisceration of a widely celebrated, posh gentleman farmer polemic by @lucythraves.bsky.social for Tribune, with perceptive reflections about the Right to Roam campaign

Extremely sobering and informative thread, clarifying the extent to which UK public services have cratered post-2010.

The world of London's music promoters/clubs/festival organisers is a tiny cliquey world, full of people doing business with each other. So it's telling that when @ehgillett.bsky.social was asked to write about a major promoter, the outlet spiked his piece. partylines.substack.com/p/the-battle...

Wooooow. Unbound/Boundless didn't have enough cash to pay their authors, but they did have enough to throw thousands at a Tory's leadership campaign.

So @ehgillett.bsky.social was hired to write about the ‘Battle of Brockwell Park’ and disputes about London’s for-profit music festivals. But the story got spiked due to ‘business concerns’ about criticising festival organisers. So Ed published it himself. partylines.substack.com/p/the-battle...

This is the best documentary I’ve seen on the free party scene, and an essential watch for anyone interested in dance music. It’s finally got a very limited streaming window - buy it today or tomorrow & you get 72 hours to watch it.

This thread, including the astonishing response from the Times, is amazing.

Unless you're prepared to actually redistribute wealth and power the only kind of change you can offer is some variation on "we will improve your lives by making other people's worse".

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

The EHRC has been a busted flush for decades (I can remember countless conversations with actual human rights campaigners in the 2010s about its toothlessness) but at least it wasn’t making things actively worse. This is clearly no longer the case.

Genuinely amazing that Chotiner's One Weird Trick of spending a few minutes reading background on his interviewees and not taking their responses at face value is still, after leaving a trail of bodies behind him for a decade, one that no one sees coming.

Did this today. Here's the link in case you need it. labour.org.uk/membership-r...

All the money in the world, and Zuckerberg builds himself three Barratt homes bolted together. At least Louis XIV had a bit of panache.

I disagree with the assertion here that the Supreme Court were “forensic, balanced and rational” but this explanation is super helpful for understanding exactly what their decision does & doesn’t mean. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

No woman will be made any safer or freer by today's regressive and poorly-reasoned Supreme Court ruling. All it does is make life directly and unnecessarily harder for trans people, and offers a small group of bigots an entirely undeserved sense of moral superiority.

One small piece of good news, at least.

‘The government’s rhetoric – especially around planning – is stepping on the accelerator while its fiscal policy is stamping on the brake.’ John Lanchester evaluates the various ways the British government gets it wrong on growth: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

2010: Boiler Room is founded 2021: Boiler Room is sold to DICE 2025: Boiler Room is sold to Superstruct Entertainment, owned by private equity firm KKR We need cultural institutions and spaces that are community owned and controlled

Incredulous, honestly, at the number of Sensible Centrists who are trying to justify the Met forcing their way into a religious space to arrest people who had not actually committed a crime at the time of arrest

Hello! Do I know anyone who knows anything about Shmail / Shmile / “Rocky” Khan, or Shoreditch Bars Group? Looking into a story about Cargo being refused permission to reopen, trying to get a clearer sense of the people who own it! DM me if you know anything / can put me in touch with anyone!

You're an Iranian intel officer. You've spent months perfecting a PDF that invisibly executes a keylogger on a low-level but highly cleared asset's private machine, which they're not supposed to be using for government work. Pete Hegseth adds you to a chat with the joint chiefs called BRUNCH BITCHES

I wrote a piece for @irishtimes.com about OpenAI’s short story. I feel if we don’t make a concerted effort as humans to help people of all ages gain literacy around AI-generated content, we have no chance at being able to have a consensus reality. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

As someone whose book appears in this dataset, I feel vastly more harmed by Meta exploiting my work for fundamentally evil ends than I do by Libgen for pirating it in the first place. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

HELP US SAVE OUR STREET The other week we shared an article about the threat to artists studios on our street. We have provided full details of how you can help here : tinyurl.com/mkmcb7z9 Together let's do what we can to support artists and retain the unique character of our street.

I’ve made my @residentadvisor.bsky.social debut today, discussing club culture’s post-Covid economic malaise and the need for radically different approaches to it. This was a tricky one to write, but I’m really proud of it & hope it’ll help spark some broader conversations: ra.co/features/4428

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

There are a million ways social media has rotted our brains & drained our energies in society. But one of the biggies for me is the way it’s convinced us we are politically active because we tweet. It excuses us from real action & makes it scarier cos someone is bound to a thread of criticism.

Chappell Roan in the new single promo pic looking like she's announcing an ambitious package of fibre-optic telecoms investment in a traditionally bellweather marginal constituency

Between billionaire developers, rising rents and venues shutting from arbitrary noise complaints, Soho's nightlife is struggling to stay afloat. Could a new plan by the local council salvage its future? We asked @ehgillett.bsky.social to find out. www.the-londoner.co.uk/can-we-save-...

Earlier this week, Westminster Council unveiled their plans for saving central London nightlife. Are they actually going to work, or are they just more hot air? I've written this for The Londoner: www.the-londoner.co.uk/can-we-save-...

It is insanely frustrating when the govt frames attacking disabled people as "taking tough decisions." Cutting support for those least able to fight back is the opposite: cowardice in its purest form, from politicians too scared to confront more wealthy and powerful interests.