In the words of Alan Partridge- “Scum. Subhuman scum.” I’m talking about Farage to be clear. Not teachers. They are all cool and sexy.

Bury my heart at Peterborough station.

Celebrating Peter Saville’s 70th birthday by posting his most iconic record cover design.

Good.

Your wish is my command, comrade. @memorialdevice.bsky.social, trouble at t'mill if you're in Greece again for this one 👀👀👀👀 www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

Well, I for one, feel a lot safer now she’s off our streets!

Off to see The Beta Band!

New on Patreon: A spotlight on cinema's first canine movie star, a very good boy named Blair www.patreon.com/posts/blair-...

Keshed finally available for preorder via @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social if anyone's after a copy. Out 12th Feb. Can't see any endorsements on here but there are tons in my pinned post and loads more on my tl from folk like Robin Ince, Mark Bowles, Wendy Erskine etc 🖤🙏 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/kesh...

Bob Stewart, Yvonne Kapp AND Elsa Lanchester and Charles Laughton!

A post about the unlikely friendship between great grandfather Comintern agent Bob Stewart & the bisexual, bohemian writer Yvonne Kapp. She called him ‘the finest human being I have ever known’ and dedicated a volume of her biography of Eleanor Marx to him. breakingthefetters.com/2021/07/21/c...

1986-1990 Rollin’ Under the Melody compiled by @jonsavage.bsky.social is a perfect compilation. On the last one I’d have dropped the terrible Psychedelic Furs Heartbeat 12” and Alison Moyet for Propaganda’s Duel and Strawberry Switchblade’s Since Yesterday but this is all utterly wonderful.

uk.bookshop.org/lists/how-to... If you want to give your wallet a proper caning there's a list of 60 books here related to Keshed,mix of fiction, non-fiction, poetry.....Some amazing stuff in here; if you're only getting one, make it mIne though 🤣 #GetKeshed 🙏🤘

the marketing of this book is WILD once you see which Mitford it is

please enjoy this helpful guide, which makes a lovely companion to our episode about Tom Mitford. also, one of them recorded a kazoo cover of right said fred with maya angelou but we won’t tell you which one til you listen to the episode m.youtube.com/watch?v=d4TL...

NEW POST! ‘Harry Pollitt and the Chamber of Bastards’ in which I write about my great grandad Bob Stewart attempting but failing to do the right thing in the wake of Stalin’s pact with Hitler in 1939. breakingthefetters.com/2025/10/02/h...

“Bashing the bishop, buffing the happy lamp, shaking hands with the milkman or even just taking the self guided tour to ensure everything is all right. That’s real Britain. “

Not to become a total parody of myself but i am now watching a German Marxist Vampire Comedy. youtube.com/watch?v=_9tw...

I've just learned of the death of Tony Harrison. An inspiration since my A-level teacher showed us 'V’. The School of Eloquence is a particular favourite. Them and [uz]. Always meet your heroes by the way. RIP X

There are four wasps in my bedroom rn so I know the feeling.

It, and us – the writers! – please support our work:

Time for The Holy Trinity.

From the incomparable @robinince.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 "This is one of the mightiest books I have ever read - sometimes I wanted to turn away from it but the vortex created is so powerful you cannot escape from it - it is fireworks and pinched flesh and it will not leave you quietly."

100% what Kat says, Terri is a fucking force of nature. Her substack providing an ongoing document of this is essential too knowchildpoverty.substack.com

For @dispatchmedia.bsky.social i went on the trail of the Totley Communists and the radical history of Sheffield. dispatch-media.com/the-commune-...

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very Heaven!

This kind of thing is total nonsense btw. Who you don’t vote for is as important as who you do. What protests you engage with as important as a vote. Govt isn’t full of benign people doing good stuff. They only get there through leverage. It’s less easy to quantify and measure but it’s true.

Anyone fancy Love, Actually with full orchestral accompaniment?

Recommended Gornick’s The Romance of American Communism to someone last week. Just had a look at a piece I wrote on it a while back. Still quite pleased with it. Includes a gratuitous reference to Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile. breakingthefetters.com/2022/07/28/b...

Autism is not a regrettable condition. It is not a disease. Bigotry and ignorance, on the other hand, are.

Forces of darkness it is then.

I went to goldsmiths in 2007 to do social sciences - yea it had the annoying YBA hype, but it had some genuinely interesting thinkers there, too - all of that’s gone now, it’s an empty husk, basically a local landlord that’s asset stripping and ripping off intl students

This would be colossally stupid.

Ridiculously pleased with the title of my forthcoming piece about how the Communist Party of Great Britain responded to Stalin’s pact with Nazi Germany in 1939. Ashamed to say great grandad Bob Stewart did not exactly cover himself with glory here.

An iPlayer outing for Alan Clarke's last TV drama. The master. ✊

I am here in this critical ocean to kill whales for my living, and not to be killed by them for theirs

Have a good weekend

Don’t go to university to be a doctor, or a nurse, or to have deep knowledge of a country’s history or culture, or to understand how societies work, or how molecules move in solar technology, or to create world-changing art. Get an MBA and start a small betting shop!

I think centrists having a smug little gloat about whatever is going on with "Your Party" when most of us on the left have found a lot of hope in the Greens is a bit weird when Labour is tanking so very biblically. We get it, guys, it's football to you.

That's a Labour government minister berating university students and staff by saying that 'too often people go to university to "explore research and knowledge"'. I'm very glad of our students who study history to explore research and knowledge.

Watching Megalopolis to take my mind off things. It’s a chaotic, badly scripted mess but far more coherent than the British Left.

I was quite irritated by the fact that my movie 'The Whip' is not on this list, which was reviewed by one critic as "It's British... very British..." Watch it here and decide for yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vboU...

Is this any way to behave?

Professor Ruth Holliday's (@ruthholliday.bsky.social) MedSoc Conference 2025 keynote explored medical risk in the gendering surgeries of breast augmentation and orchiectomy.

On a fucking loop til the end of time.