If you are sick of the BBC’s lamentable coverage of the Winter Olympics it’s worth remembering that you can watch it for free on Canada’s CBC if you have a VPN. All you need to register for viewing is an email address and a random Canadian zip code. The coverage is way better.

Stranger watching from afar. #cornwall

Just going to leave this here

Early stroll. Birdsong greets my shadow. Deep tyre tracks in mud. The woman in the hi-vis jacket no longer walks up the hill. A dropped coat hanger’s metal question mark. The sky is hosting the reverse fixture of last night’s Darkness V Light match.

I've not heard that before. Just listened to it. Incredibly powerful and moving.

Huge thank you to John Tams for agreeing to let us use his song Orgreave from the Ballads of the Miners’ Strike in the Rebellion! exhibition. His folk songs are wonderful and that one is very poignant.

The San Francisco store printing 'F—K ICE' on everything www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

The lines on my face, One for each year of my life, Map of where I’ve been.

⚡️Ukrainian skeleton racer disqualified at Olympics for helmet honoring athletes killed in Russia's war. Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych was disqualified before his first run at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy on Feb. 12, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced.

Jim Ratcliffe is a prick. I always thought he was. He has done nothing to suggest that he is not a prick. I loathe Jim Ratcliffe and as a result I find it very hard to get behind his cycling team. He was a prick before he got into cycling. He’s always been a prick. I hope that clears things up.

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It’s official! The Homelessness Bill will now become law! 🥳 Crisis has long been calling for changes to the law on homelessness in Wales and yesterday, the Welsh Parliament voted to make this a reality.

ICYMI yesterday, had me head completely bent by this pic of Keshed in - get this - Manhattan. There's a pic somewhere of Ghost Signs being waved by a striking rail worker on a picket line I'll always treasure. This is different in so many ways, but fuck's sake, I'll love it forever just the same.

There’s a murmur that it’s nearly Wednesday. So here’s your late night murmuration. Enjoy. xx 🪶

Huge thank you to @tomrobinson.com for agreeing to let us use his performance of Glad to be Gay from the Secret Policeman’s Ball, 1979, in the Rebellion! exhibition video. It’s fantastic news and a real honour. I have it on vinyl and will never forget the impact it had on me at the time.

Excellent and empoweringe educacioun will nevir be "efficient" yn the waye that a businesse doth stryve to be "efficient." It ys the heighte of knavery to use one standarde to measure everye human activitye. Businesses are ther to make profits. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.

Early stroll. I leave the house a minute later than I usually do. I see someone in the distance; he sees me in the distance. Trees like an audience wanting an encore. Birds scatter song-pepper on Wednesday’s plate. Morning’s slow unfolding.

Tom is the best! Saw him last year and he (& the audience) still belt out that song!

Currently not worth my teacher son getting a pay rise as he will end up with less in his pocket than he currently has due to a rise in the student loan payment. This for a badly paid profession that requires 2 degrees ..... it sucks.

Four more images from downtown L.A., plus one still life and a new post to “From the MM&P Hiring Hall. Some readings too. All on today’s Maybe This Week, Maybe Next Week. robertgumpert.com

Nearly four years since Outsiders was on the front cover of The Big Issue. Loise, pictured here, spent four years street homeless in London with a baby. She had no access to support due to the hostile environment. Imagine for a moment what you would do as a woman alone in London with your baby as

Lovely generous review by #ScottMarson of last Friday's sold-out show in Lichfield with my music partner Adam Phillips and special guest Andy Mort lichfieldradio.org/tom-robinson...

Huge thank you to @tomrobinson.com for agreeing to let us use his performance of Glad to be Gay from the Secret Policeman’s Ball, 1979, in the Rebellion! exhibition video. It’s fantastic news and a real honour. I have it on vinyl and will never forget the impact it had on me at the time.

1/2 A post by @bertrom.bsky.social on John Claridge reminded me @simonblackbourn.net of this 'letter' set to modal #jazz by Koop. It tells of a changing London - the lyrics are key. @richardmortimer.bsky.social @marcdavenant.bsky.social @thejazzsoul.bsky.social You may be interested. #musicsky

It’s Trump’s Gulag Archipelago

I would happily pay more tax to see all student loans written off and the system abolished. Young people should not be carrying a burden like this and university should not be about fuelling capitalism while making students financial prisoners to the system. That’s my unpopular opinion for today.

As an aside, my rates for my services - which include recording, mixing, remixing, restoration and mastering, music & spoken word, in conventional formats and also immersive audio (Dolby Atmos etc) are bloody reasonable considering how much effort goes into it. If you’re interested my DMs are open.

Thread. 🧵 (1/x) On the superiority of water as the primary decontaminant for tear gas and peppery spray on skin and eyes. To make it clear to people, this is a thread. Some of you are not clear on the concept. I will reply this with another post and mark it with a number in (x). And so forth. (1)

No names, no pack drill, but this is what a woefully out of tune (though tastefully & soulfully played) guitar looks like when imported into Melodyne’s polyphonic mode and dragged into something approaching normal tuning. When it was recorded you couldn’t do this. But now you can. Which is amazing.

100s of Bay Area progressives, black and white, rushed to the scene that night, & long thereafter. Among the 1st, from Oakland, the immigrant from Britain Jessica Mitford. Read Steve Early’s review of the new bio: "Trouble Maker: The Fierce, Unruly, Life of Jessica Mitford" at: stansburyforum.com

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Why photography matters.

Early stroll. Locking the door is the stroll’s starting pistol. The huge yawn of that empty house. A man and his shadow wait in a bus shelter. A black and white cat like an animated zebra crossing. The dialogue between silence and a cockerel.

And along side that, learn to get out of the stupid mindset that elevates ‘graduate’ jobs (if they are even real now)and denigrates trades. We could have avoided it if instead of saying ‘everyone should have a degree’ the choice was to invest in valuing and properly rewarding all types of work.

Nearly four years since Outsiders was on the front cover of The Big Issue. Loise, pictured here, spent four years street homeless in London with a baby. She had no access to support due to the hostile environment. Imagine for a moment what you would do as a woman alone in London with your baby as

I would happily pay more tax to see all student loans written off and the system abolished. Young people should not be carrying a burden like this and university should not be about fuelling capitalism while making students financial prisoners to the system. That’s my unpopular opinion for today.

Children need their families. Refugee children are no different. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Final quote in my book!

“Poverty, great wealth and democracy are ultimately incompatible elements in any society…either poverty will use democracy to win the struggle against property or property…will destroy democracy” Nye Bevan, 1952

Idly wondering what Starmer’s moral crusade is 🤔

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Britons' right to protest is under threat like never before. If you value it, speak up now | Imran Khan

A global nuclear war, super volcano or an extinction level asteroid strike are probably the only solutions left.

Dorothy met Dorothy After many long years And amidst the laughter And tears The hugs And high fives They did the Dot-to-dot puzzle Of their different lives.

Early stroll. A pair of dropped socks, halted mid stride. A hopping blackbird defines the path. Someone at the bus stop stares at the sky, trying to magic the bus up. Today: yesterday’s echo. An unlit car passes like a car in dark glasses.

My portrait of Lord Dubs will be in the Rebellion! exhibition. During the photo shoot my camera bag caused panic among the security guards when we left it at the bottom of the stairs in Westminster Hall for a few minutes while chasing better light.

Harold Wilson by Yousuf Karsh in 1963. Wilson famously said “this party is a moral crusade or it is nothing” and he was right.

Spanish Wake, 1950 by W. Eugene Smith from his Spanish Food Project. The photo is real, not staged, and was taken in Deleitosa, a town almost untouched by modern progress with no telephones, drainage or running water.

London street scene, c1965, by Michael Engler. I’ve seen endless attempts to capture the everyday essence of London in the mid-60s. Nothing has ever felt as accurate as this does. This is what it was so often like. Crowded, grey, glamourless, black & white if not grey. I feel terribly nostalgic.

David McCallum as IIIya Kurakin, The Man from UNCLE, 1964. | Photo: Dennis Hopper Photographs 1961-1967 ~ Dennis Hopper Taschen