February is long, but there is lot.

The McLibel trial was the longest in English history. Despite the legal muscle of the corporation & infiltration by #spycops the McLibel 2 won huge victories against McDonald's. A look back on the 30th anniversary of the McSpotlight site launch radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2026/02/cele...

echospace313.bandcamp.com/album/starli... pay what you like extended ambient dub from Detroit.

#OtD 19 Feb 1913, suffragettes in England bombed the new country house of Chancellor of the Exchequer Lloyd George - just one of many violent attacks of the time stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9083...

#OnThisDay in London's radical history, Dalston Theatre squatted against gentrifixatin of area, 2006 More on Hackney squat centres at this time: network23.org/hackneyanarc...

Does anyone know how many tons of food were handled on the East London docks in the mid-1920s? And how much were the govt able to move during the general strike once they broke the picketing there on Saturday 8th May?

Urgent witness appeal following the death of 65yo Nick Stone in Bristol after contact with police where he ended up on the ground at an antifascist counterdemonstration against the far right Bristol Patriots on 10th January 2026.

Essential Purchase for ALL DJ's. Educate the young team please. Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia - Ov Biospheres And Sacred Grooves: A Document Ov New Edge Folk Classics. A remaster/reissue of the debut album by PWOG from 1992 on Vinyl by Greg at Hermetech Mastering #Techno www.frvr.world/release/9368...

Today's newsletter: New piece: after the Guthrie kidnapping, the Kirk assassination, and both Minneapolis shootings, the same thing happened every time. People asked AI to "enhance" blurry footage. AI invented faces. www.readtpa.com/p/computer-e...

A Glasgow glazer's advert from 1912.

#OtD 6 Feb 1916 the Cabaret Voltaire nightclub opened in Zürich, Switzerland. Described as "history's wildest nightclub" it was the spiritual home of the often radical Dada art movement, formed by artists revolted by the capitalist carnage of WWI stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1060...

Preview track is total 5am big-eye sunshine. 🌇

“Howl, howl ye nobles, howl ye rich men for the miseries that are coming upon you.”

up on YouTube: my video about the Hardline micro-subculture (based on my review of Phoenix X Eeyore's book about the movement). Part of the '90s hardcore scene, Hardline was straight-edge, militantly vegan - and homophobic and anti-abortion. youtu.be/RIvkmMDPIVE

Nick Gratwick, a paedophile who had worked as a police informer spying on environmental and animal rights activists, has been jailed for life @robevansgdn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Cathartic listening. www.qanonanonymous.com

This was a tip top event. Datacide #20 will be published imminently and sounds immense. @datacide.bsky.social Stewart’s book Fascist Yoga is a great look at one root of the current far right and “wellness” lash up.

www.mixcloud.com/jimmyjean/fa... <<< you can actually turn down the heating a notch if you put this on. ☀️

I’m talking about my book Fascist Yoga at Metamorphika in Hackney (London) on 18 January as part of the Datacide segment of a bigger bill!

Steve Vibronics' "Life in Dub" podcast returns for a new series after a 4 year hiatus. vibronics.co.uk/podcasts/ Joseph Lalibela tells a great tale of growing up in Handsworth in the 1980s and MCing with youthman tin pan sounds and then the mighty Luv Injection.

If you are canny you can still access sleevenotes of the first 30 or so Blood & Fire compilations on a version of their website on the Wayback Machine. Years or more accurately decades of reggae music scholarship

otwradio.blogspot.com/2026/01/play... <<< epic

Went stupidly well. This morning, less so. 😊😵‍💫🤕

Been invited to bring “vinyl” to a house party tonight. Let’s see how that goes. 🤔

RIP to the last truly great European painter. 🫡

The Association of Autonomous Astronauts celebrated 30 years since its foundation with an event at MayDay Rooms, London in April 2025. Report by Neil Transpontine from the upcoming new issue of datacide online now: datacide-magazine.com/autonomous-a...

Autonomous Astronauts at MayDay Rooms datacide-magazine.com/autonomous-a.... Great write up by Neil @transpontine.bsky.social

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The Situationist International and its historicisation - Art movement or part of the Communist Left? - text of a talk by Christoph Fringeli from 2018 on the exhibition at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. Previously unpublished: datacide-magazine.com/the-situatio...

"WHEN JAZZ IS FREE EVERYBODY PAYS" Bathroom graffiti, Cafe Oto London

Just a heads up that, ahead of the new Xylitol album that is due in Spring, I've contributed a remix of Glok / Timothy Clerkin alongside Legowelt, Yu Su, Richard Sen, Froid Dub and others which will be out in the new year on.soundcloud.com/M2Mn16XvEJ8S...

It’s with great sadness and a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Ken Downie on 20/12/25. Rest In Peace brother, you will be deeply missed and never forgotten. Our condolences to Sheena and his family.

A genuinely great Christmas story out of Montreal this morning www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

HCDA archive is here - inspiring stuff. hackneyhistory.wordpress.com/hcda/

Undercover officers secretly spied on the Hackney Community Defence Association in east London, because it sought to expose wrongdoing and corruption in the Metropolitan police www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

absolute bargain if any of yous have a use for 7,949,020,598 wasps

150 years ago! #OnThisDay in London's parklife: 1000s destroy enclosure fences, Hackney Downs, 1875, helping preserve the Downs as an open space wp.me/p74yfw-q2 Read more about the campaign in our pamphlet “Green Beneath the Skies” Buy online here: pasttensehistories.bigcartel.com/product/gree...

Starbucks employees escalated their strike on Black Friday, expanding to 120 stores and 85 cities. Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers. Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees. Support local independent coffee shops:

This image of The Slits by Terry Lott is apparently from a 'Photoshoot At Home Of Band Member In New Cross'. I've seen it dated from 1981 and 1987, former seems more likely as they split up in '82 - for the sake of my completist SE14 obsession, does anybody know who lived where?

Au contraire mon ami. 😜

This comes from quite a mad project of personal oral history interviews with all the people who were chosen by lottery to be part of Antony Gormley's spend-an-hour-on-the-fourth-plinth thing.

TIL that cartoon baddie Roger Wratten went on from demolishing Tony's Cafe in Broadway Market to throwing coins at homeless people in the name of art. wellcomecollection.org/works/wq8uqnvj

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

A long shot, but does anyone out there have a copy of this Doris Troy album, and if so would you be willing to rip me some audio of 'My Father's House'? I would be eternally grateful 🙏

Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted: manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

New article on the datacide website: In June 2024 the Interior Minister of Germany took the unusual step to ban the far right media organisation 'Compact' Magazine & TV. A year later the highest court has decided to lift the ban. Context and background: datacide-magazine.com/compact-maga...

I have an event 2nite in Islington, then two in Hackney, 1 this weekend and 1 next weekend. Further details of my events both in London & around the world on the news page of my website: www.stewarthome.co.uk/news.html