Continuity Starmer

This is actually an amazing visual explanation for why established parties and governments are so willing to support social media bans for under 16s

This is already happening in at least one hospital I know of thanks to the efforts of the 'Jewish Network' there, which doesn't accept any Jewish members who don't accept the IHRA definition and should be renamed the 'Pro-Israel Network'. I strongly suspect they also contributed to this report.

Wes Streeting was being interviewed too yesterday. Half the panels are pro-AI propaganda.

Incredibly sad news.

End of the day all the “it’s actually left wing people who are the most racist” was allowed and encouraged as a way of smearing any viable left wing alternative for years and now we have serious op-eds saying “what if white people are actually the most oppressed group?” in mainstream publications

This is… not a good response

One that springs to mind is Anne Hathaway's performance in The Dark Knight Rises, specifically the bit early on where she drops the waitress act and flips out of the window. Brings a little buoyancy and grace to an otherwise turgid film.

It's SXSW London time again so Nick Clegg is wandering around Brick Lane with an entourage

all that placating went well then

Some very fine new music to listen to in last night's Rockfort, catch up here >>> www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/ro...

Racists rioted after far right white supremacists leaders incitements to violence

Solidarity with the Sikh community whose turn it is to be demonised today

Disco Inferno by French rapper LinLin is a whole heap of fun, hoovering up and spitting out house, electro (anglo definition), pop & US rap influences music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Done

This gig just got even better. Anthony's bringing so much great music from the French underground to London at the moment.

Éloïse Decazes covering Areski, beautifully

Tonight's Rockfort on @resonancefm.bsky.social at 19.30 (BST) features Agathe Max, Frantx (pictured), Parasite Jazz, Aho Ssan, Jérémie Ternoy and OUTRENOIR www.resonancefm.com

RIP Areski. The superb solo release Un Beau Matin, originally on Saravah, was reissued by Souffle Continu in 2018 soufflecontinurecords.bandcamp.com/album/un-bea...

Rest in power Areski Belkacem, French-Algerian singer and composer who was Brigitte Fontaine's partner for more than 50 years. When I visited Brigitte in Paris, he was in hospital and she kept saying "he should be here". Thanks for the music Areski, including Vous et Nous, one of my favourite albums

Manga fans: my soon-to-be-twelve-year-old nephew seems to be interested in getting into manga. I have an idea of a few classics but what are your suggestions for good, age-appropriate starting points?

References to Palantir have been redacted from the Mandelson files on the grounds that they would be "prejudicial to UK national security or international relations"

They waited until Pride month to post this. Mind rotted, bigoted filth.

#nowplaying this great slice of Franco-Arabic boogie from the 2018 Born Bad compilation France Chébran - French Boogie 1981-1987 volume 2 bornbadrecords.bandcamp.com/track/ettika...

It's only an invasion if it comes from the Invasion region of Eastern Ukraine. Otherwise, it's sparkling incursion.

There are of course 'new trad' things happening in Italy too, like this Sicilian trio on Bolognese label Trovarobato, blending folk with electronics nuhara.bandcamp.com/album/rama

I've had this as an earworm since last Wednesday when it was playing in the Continental Food Exchange in Leytonstone.

Isabelle Adjani season at the Institut Français this summer www.institut-francais.org.uk/festivals-an...

There was a jumble trail around where we live today and it was good. I chatted with neighbours, bought a nice shirt for £5, and a scratchy copy of Remain in Light, Enoch Light's Provocative Percussion (1959) and Vince Staples' Big Fish Theory double vinyl picture discs all for £18.

My initial interpretation of this quote was something like: Murphy tried launching a Romo act in 1996, couldn't get it off the ground and now he thinks that was probably for the best.

Resharing this because... what a voice, what a mood.

Stunning UK debut show from Cocanha at Kings Place, video by @lauradymphna.bsky.social

This is good and my only quibble, again, is that the problem here is not a failure of understanding: they know that they’re probably not going to succeed by trying to impress the most hardcore racist reactionaries *and* they would rather try and get crushed by our new far right masters, than go away

The Golden Girls, which I only had vague memories of, is my new lunchtime viewing and it's so good. It only took them a few episodes to reach sitcom perfection.

Paul McCartney loves getting baked and tripping out, and I love that for him.

'You Retreat in Time and Space' on the new BoC album is the best thing Air have done in ages.

Great album, and 'Stuki' is a special one for me [email protected] & I picked it to open our wedding ceremony www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh8E...

This should go down in infamy.

As Israel intensifies its attacks on Southern Lebanon and forcibly displaces citizens we urge the Government to halt all arms sales to and end military cooperation with Israel. End the impunity.

La Cozna are in Brighton tonight & have a few more UK dates with Mary Hampton, who was also a delight. La Cozna's approach to French folk has more of a jazz/improv flavour than e.g La Nóvia acts while (sometimes) drawing on the same songs. And that's fine, they were captivating last night at Oto.

A, maybe the, reason the political media class is so infatuated with AI & keen to impose it on us, is one of their core principles has always been " reality is whatever I say it is mfers". And AI is the ultimate tool for warping perceptions & constraining reality to their biases & ideological priors

Brilliant, brutal.

Wow, Occitan on 6 Music: Jamz Supernova playing Cocanha

Mandatory pre-Cafe Oto visit to Bánh for very fine bánh mì (I've already had half).

I did not have 'new Durutti Column album' on my 2026 bingo card. pitchfork.com/news/the-dur...

Listen back to the show here >>> www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/ro...

Started watching A Very Peculiar Practice - which I was too young for at the time - on iPlayer last night. The road sign reading 'Caution - Altered Priorities Ahead' felt too on the nose at first but then it also sums up the direction of travel not only of the character but the country so well.

Rowling, Forstater, Davies and your ilk; take a fucking bow you absolute dangers metro.co.uk/2023/05/25/i...

actually gonna be class when he pops his clogs and goes to the great hague in the sky