13.03.2026 - from Love Crowns & Crucifies the complete recordings by Care (Ian Broudie & Paul Simpson). burningshed.com/store/needle...

March 13th 2026. x @needlemythology.bsky.social

STOP PRESS The Wild Swans - Bringing Home The Ashes (1988) Release Date: 3rd April 2026. 750-numbered copies on 180g 'Crystal Clear' vinyl. Music On Vinyl records. x

Quite possibly THE best theme tune ever! youtu.be/RQFuzWSIjjc?...

“Buy these books. I command you.”

The railway station in Ladybird Land - captured in Treasure magazine, 1963 (Artist: Don Harley)

Rétro cars voiture 🚘 la Citroen DS 21 Pallas, DSpécial de 1972

The headline is self-explanatory

Café Royal Books. 'This week’s Book of the Week, is a focus on Hull in the 1970s and 80s. Seven titles by five photographers. 20% off, use BOTWCRB20 at checkout.' www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/book-of...

A colleague of mine has created a Parliamentary petition to end the use of Palantir for NHS and MoD contracts. She needs more people to sign it before it's accepted. Any volunteers? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

As it is Burns Night here are 12 bands that are actually really Scottish despite what the rest of the world tells you. grantmcphee.substack.com/p/burns-nigh...

Making good use of the stamped addressed envelope from Reform. Every one posted costs them money 🫡

Tile Satan smokes peacefully while scratching his arse. The Netherlands, 1625

On this day 29th December 1975 “Radical new legislation” introducing a woman's right to equal pay and status came into force in the UK (Picture: A Second Picture Dictionary, artist: Eric Winter)

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

Quiet afternoon in Porto, Portugal #Photography #Monochrome #B&W #Portugal 📷

Scottish author Irvine Welsh cloaks himself in his characters, while letting out some very peculiar details about his surroundings Available now on VoD: dmovies.org/2025/08/21/i...

Almost a YEAR in the shop?! Wild. 😄 Celebrate with us 6–7 Dec, music, bubbles + good vibes. We’re open this weekend too 12–5pm and hundreds of new books just landed! What was The Old Butchers is now 1 of 100. 😎

Back in Black. Revolutionary Spirit '25' tee's from @weare1of100.bsky.social Link: weare1of100.co.uk/clothing/rev...

Forty-one years in the making and worth its wait in gold. Pre-order Love Crowns and Crucifies here plus the Ltd edition 7" here: burningshed.com/needlemythology

‘The Porter’ (1972) This was the first piece of Ladybird artwork I ever bought. It drew me in. Artist: John Berry

Jimmy Cliff 😔 #jimmycliff #thehardertheycome #manyriverstocross www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Scottish author Irvine Welsh cloaks himself in his characters, while letting out some very peculiar details about his surroundings Now all major VoD platforms: dmovies.org/2025/08/21/i...

Happy birthday Café Royal Books - a 20% off saving for a limited time. Use TWENTYTWENTY at checkout. www.caferoyalbooks.com

The mighty Brian Jackson and his superb band this evening #brianjackson #winterinamerica #thebottle #nowmorethanever #bbemusic #gilscottheron #hugorilla #charliesloft

BOUGHT BY THE RIVER: With the festive period just around the corner, we wanted to share a few ways you can support Caught by the River in the season of giving www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/boug...

The Nectarine No.9 say hello & goodbye at The End of Definition on Saturday 13th Dec in Edinburgh College of Art which will be the final action by Creeping Bent after 30 years. Gareth Sager, Mackenzies, The Sexual Objects, will also be performing. TIX: wegottickets.com/event/678735

A superb article by Lewis Goodall on the background to the current crisis within the BBC

Tadzio😔 Björn Andrésen obituary | Film | The Guardian share.google/ZSmFWZKa75SH... #deathinvenice #Bjõrnandrésen

Paul McCartney’s Standing Stone, situated in a small field just a few yards to the west of the house on his High Park estate on the Mull of Kintyre. #beatles #stones #StandingStoneSunday

‘The number of Cafe Royal titles has passed seven hundred; together they constitute a singular record of British and Irish vernacular photography between about 1960 and 2010.’ Ben Campbell on a collection of his father Peter’s photographs of London in the early sixties www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Diane Keaton 😔 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

😂 So True

Edwyn takes his leave 🎵🎵 #edwyncollins #stevendaly #Jameskirk #orangejuice #glasgowtheatreroyal

There seems to be some *confusion* among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them “But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes” “But, but he was in UKIP” “But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy” So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵 1/14

Buona notte Claudia Cardinale 😔 #thepinkpanther #theleopard #onceuponatimeinthewest

If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer. This thread explains why. 1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power. 🧵

NHS physiotherapist Rachael Moses, who has been working in Gaza, confirms she's seen what other volunteer medics have also reported, that Palestinians have patterns of injuries suggesting Israeli soldiers are playing a game where they shoot victims in different parts of the body each day #GMB

I wrote something for GQ about how Armani impacted menswear. It's easy to forget, but when menswear transitioned to slimmer silhouettes in the early 2000s, baggy clothes were derided as "sloppy" and "middle aged." Over the years, people have revisited campaigns like these 🧵

Fantastical World contained within 👇🎵

If you fancy coming along to see The Sexual Objects at Edinburgh College of Art on Sat 8th Nov, do yourself a favour and buy tickets right now - there are only 6 tickets left: Here's the link wegottickets.com/event/667451

“The tide has again receded over the sand-flats. The remaining framework of a wooden ship is half-sunken in the sand. On one of the ribs a cormorant stands with wings lifted” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum. IG tatterbluelibrary

A psychoactive experience 📽 #realityisnotenough #irvinewelsh #paulsng

Sublime. Happy Heavenly Birthday Alice Coltrane 🎵🎵

Gorgeous Jill MacDonald illustration from The Puffin Book of Magic

The four beautiful biscuit tins designed by CF Tunnicliffe in the mid-1950s, shortly before he began to work for Ladybird

"If the people who ran Facebook were monsters, I wouldn’t have worked there," says man who worked with the Conservatives as their ideology killed 330,000 people. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...