The claim that Zionism is ambiguous doesn't square with the history, in particular the fact that it was passionately opposed by many Jews from the off precisely because they understood what it meant, namely the rejection of integration & class solidarity. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I got rinsed on social media a while back for wishing BB a happy birthday but I loved her all the same. If for nothing else, she recorded two of the greatest songs of all time (Bonnie & Clyde and Contact), but there was so much else 📷: Terry O'Neill

The last days of Peckham Rye station arcade - once home to the Brian Boru Irish social club (1930s) and Young Communist League (1940s) transpont.blogspot.com/2025/12/last...

Music books from my Dad

Nice

Happy Xmas everyone!

I'm at kier starmer's for christmas. bit worried. he's gone glassy eyed and keeps telling me about his "fuck box". says it's upstairs and I should come and have a look at it.

Remember when every leader wanted their picture taken with Greta? She is still that truth teller, they just can't face the truth of their crimes.

The second Concrete Gazebo album, Fleeting, is available digitally on Anticipating Nowhere for £2 (physical copies all went). I think we did some good work on this one anticipatingnowhere.bandcamp.com/album/fleeting

This was a Ken solo track AFAIK and the first Black Dog Productions track I heard (on that Trance Europe Express compilation) youtu.be/7u5hYWnHvbg?...

Revisiting another fave 2025 release

Love and solidarity to Palestine Action hunger strikers their friends and families.

Listening to this again, it's great and bit xmassy - if you picture yourself spending Xmas in Hawaii

Hymns we sang at my Catholic primary school often pop into my head unbidden. Sometimes it's Make Me a Channel of Your Peace because it was funny to try to get away with singing Make Me a Channel of Your Piss, but also this one because it's a banger www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw_1...

For fans of French new trad & beyond, the essential Pagans label has dropped a 2025 compilation featuring Matèu Baudoin & François Dumeaux, Florian Nastorg, Aèdes, Trucs and the whole single-50-min-piece St-Thomas album paganscompil.bandcamp.com/album/2025

Nearly half of the journalists killed this year were murdered in Gaza by Israel. Since the beginning of its genocide, Israel has killed more than 270 Palestinian journalists and media workers. Read the Reporters Without Borders report: rsf.org/en/2025-dead...

When you look under the bonnet of decent-sounding Labour measures there's always a catch, like the whole thing being underfunded or whatever this is

It's objectively, verifiably incorrect to say that 'any other minority' would get an apology if they complained about the language used about them, and that's without even getting into how this ghoul casually equates Zionism with Judaism (something she'd rightly call others antisemitic for doing).

Stop pretending Jews are a monolithic group, and that people who object to *genocide* are racist. I've been on marches with my wife, participating in chants, marching with the sizeable Jewish bloc because my wife is Jewish.

Ten years of fortress Europe has served only cruelty, profiteers and racists. The next decade is up to us | Maurice Stierl

My top two 'oh no not this again' 6Music tracks of the year: Soulwax 'Gimme A Reason' and Ezra Furman 'One Hand Free'

And that's it for the year! You can listen back here www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/ro...

The big question I'm asking myself as the holidays approach: is it worth committing to the whole of The Trial of a Time Lord?

The new Silvia Tarozzi is utterly gorgeous. You can only listen to one track here but you should just go right ahead and purchase it IMHO silviatarozzi.bandcamp.com/album/lucciole

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This is superb. Wassim Halal solo performance with darbuka & effects www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wbw...

My Dad lent me this to read. Not sure how much I enjoyed it as fiction, but it's quite compelling as a grumpy guide to Italian higher education (and Italian society in general)

The last Rockfort of the year is tonight at 19.30 (GMT) on @resonancefm.bsky.social and features Garenne (pictured), Dééfait, Vox Populi, Dufourd & Demoulin, Che Vuoi, Rough Unit and Eve Risser's Ensemble Ensemble www.resonancefm.com

I initially thought this was a sketch involving Jessica Hynes

Super interesting how he has more energy for this than for those far-right marches where people were calling for his government to be overthrown.

Whether you kill 15 innocent people because you hate all Jews or you kill 70,000 because you hate all Palestinians, your betrayal of humanity is the same. Unreasoning hatred breeds unreasoning hatred. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Francesca Albanese: "The last 2 years have demonstrated the majority of western govts are very fine with the continuous trashing of intl law.. Gaza & Palestine have put [us] in front of the mirror & are telling us who we are as individuals and societies"

I can't help feeling that liberal rage at left-wing positions on Ukraine - whether you agree with those takes or not, I don't necessarily - is displaced anger, an avoidance of the reality that Labour will accept, and most likely applaud, whatever awful 'deal' Trump eventually emerges with

Banging debut EP out today from Dééfait. Traces of Can, Boredoms etc, debut album is apparently being mixed by Paddy from Gnod deefait.bandcamp.com/album/d-fait

I could absolutely have included the Content Provider album in the Rockfort EOY - Dali de Saint Paul is French after all and it's a fantastic album. So I'm really pleased to see it in Daryl's list

#nowplaying What a treat aksakmaboul.bandcamp.com/album/before...

"I stole the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas from the church. It was all whirlwind, heat and flash. Within a week we killed the Pope and hit the road."

Loved Brett's Holmes, in fact went to see The Secret Of Sherlock Holmes in the West End with the family (I was quite young but remember it being pretty good)

Bianca Maria McKenna née Girotto (and also known as Mum) died 20 years ago. She would have been 74 today. Love these old photos (both taken by my Dad I think)

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Like people don't hate her enough already

I tried watching 13 Tzameti en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Tzam... recently and didn't even get through the first watch. Not because of the violence per se, I think it irritated me so much because I teenage me might have thought it was profound

As a sidebar to the Rockfort EOY list, I'm starting a thread here of French rap releases from 2025. While I don't feel it's been a vintage year there have been some superb albums/mixtapes etc

Listen back to the penultimate show of the year here www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/ro...

You don't get to support Starmer for years then tell other people to engage their brain.

My Rockfort EOY is online!