I live in the moment but only because I am organisationally incapable of anticipating beyond today at the moment.

Really good thread (and a really good follow also)

Indeed. In the 1960s many more people held racist attitudes but both the government and opposition were consistent in condemning open racism. We now have am emboldened and tolerated minority by both government and opposition.

Notes on Witches ~ Pip McGough

Just Rosamund Pike casually remaining epic www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #theatre

Crumbs, only just seen this article from last week: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Utterly grim from the 'protect are women' lot.

I recently had a conversation about transgender people. What I have come to believe is that there are two positions in this discussion and you either a) believe that transgender have any choice in how they identify or b) they don't. I fall into 'a' and the other person 'b'.

I have said this a few times now but I really can't recommend Jeevun's substack highly enough. They feel reassuringly thought through and non-partisan. This chap uses his own brain and I like it. I'm grateful for his presence in our government.

So excited to have a few more gigs lined up! And it's been a dream of mine to play at the Boileroom in Guildford. Such a cool venue. It's an open stages night - hopefully more will follow 🤞 @boileroom.bsky.social #newmusic #livemusic #unsigned #guildfordmusic

Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b... No thanks, Putin. This isn't X.

Why is much of the UK media pretending that a grifter like Farage would be perfectly alright as a PM. We are living in a world of lunatics.

So pleased Lara Croft won. #eurovision

Well, colour me surprised...

Harborne gave the Brexit Party £6 million in 2019 and was mentioned in the Panama Papers but luckily the UK has the memory of a goldfish... so nobody talks about that

Apologies for being so shallow, but I'm so relieved that a man with Ford's physical perfection also has a brain that knows and articulates this stuff.

Why exactly would a Thailand-based economic migrant secretly give Nigel Farage £5 million as a 'reward' for delivering Brexit? I won't get to ask either of them this question but every single journalist & broadcaster granted access could...

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

You may or may not be bothered, but now Palantir have been given the go ahead to access NHS data, you can opt out giving them access to yours using this link. your-data-matters.service.nhs.uk

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

Labour has achieved more than Reform UK has even proposed.

What a great concept

Reform UK ran a council for a year. Things went badly ft.trib.al/orbPkmH

Genuinely historic day

Today in Brexit Britain you are being asked to believe that a Thailand-based cryptocurrency tycoon secretly gave Nigel Farage - the person, not his party - five million pounds without any hope or expectation of getting anything in return.

I think it's really underappreciated that a large chunk of people across the world are everyday being served images of the world's worst atrocities, essentially live as they happen, in ways previously only experienced by people on the frontline, who have historically had years of trauma as a result.

seeing parallels with Hannah Spencer and the way Mhairi Black talked about the House of Commons when she started out as an MP. We need this. We need normal people to cut through the reverence people have for that place and its pomposity and absurd traditions

The Times, "Britain should rejoin EU, says man who led Brexit department" "None of Leave's 'heady promises' had materialised"

From Sleeptalk's first gig last week... #guildfordmusic #newmusic #unsigned

Farage thugs manhandle man with pacemaker after he objects to the Reform leader's chauffeur parking in disabled bay that he needs to use. Lovely People. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This reminds me of that time that Jeremy Hunt managed to somehow 'forget' about a ton of flats he owns. It's so depressing if these people are genuinely only interested in government to enrich themselves. Or does power corrupt?

Something like this will have to happen in this country once Trumpism is defeated. In the absence of accountability, the world will rightly assume that it will happen again.

Wonderful, wonderful news. Please let this be the first domino.

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

"I'm just gonna say it, Fuck Trump" "I'd much rather everyone made music as opposed to going and beating the shit out of each other" — Hans Zimmer

Britain is broken, only Reform will protect women and girls says Farage whose party’s voting on women’s protections includes voting AGAINST the criminalisation of stalking and spiking.

There's a lot being shared right now about China's incredible shift towards renewable energy - and rightly so. But this, from the UK, is equally astonishing & encouraging. It's not just that change can happen. It's that it *is* happening. (Via climateactapp.substack.com/p/your-daily...)

I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️

#StreetArt by Eduardo Kobra "Stop Wars" located in #NewYork City.

#newmusic #indie #unsigned #guildford #katebush #metoo

Sending this out before I change my mind! Please support my band, Sleeptalk (all links at www.sleeptalksounds.com) I sing about Goat Gods, apparently. I also sometimes write songs about sustainable economics.

Easter essential watch complete. ✔️ #jesuschristsuperstar #easter

a cool thing about "cd's" is you push one button and it plays an entire album of music ad free and then (unless you request otherwise) it just stops and awaits further instruction. a very elegant system.

I'm not claiming to be a hero, but with every Cadbury MiniEgg I eat, that's a dog not getting chocolate poisoning. I've saved so many dogs.

Holiday advice: It's pleasant to get a train to Europe. You just have to turn travelling into a core part of the holiday - lunch in Paris, dinner in Bordeaux, trip to Spain, week on beach etc. It's limiting, but very enjoyable & decent alternative to a flight you won't be able to afford by summer.

A terrible decision, and one which will do huge damage to the Government's climate credentials. As Ed knows, this drilling won't lower bills, but instead it sends a clear message that Britain won't be a world leader on ending oil and gas exploitation

🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨 What if Europe valued rest, care, and community as much as profit? On this week's episode, Emma Holten reimagines an economy built for wellbeing - not just financial wealth. www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes...

guys never let someone tell u that ur too much of a freak. Kate Bush's record company tried to get her to release something other than Wuthering Heights as her debut single. they said it was too weird & wouldn't chart well. but she didn't listen to them & now she's Kate Bush. never stop being weird