Are you interested in local history? @vch-home.bsky.social @hackney-society.bsky.social @history.dulwichsociety.com In this free workshop, you will be taught how to produce a short video from the material you have collected to share the stories you are uncovering. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

If Antifa was Steely Dan:

Here's a new playlist for you. The Golden Age of Hip Hop boasts tracks by EPMD, De La Soul, ATCQ, The Pharcyde, Main Source, Sweet Tee, NWA, Black Sheep, BDP, Latifah, Gang Starr, Eric B & Rakim, Gang Starr, MC Lyte, Digable Planets etc ▶️🔊 open.spotify.com/playlist/247...

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Pot, kettle…

Runnin’ by The Pharcyde is 30 today! A stunning production by Dilla featuring a beautiful Luiz Bonfa guitar sample. It's renowned for its improvised kick drum pattern – a beat so dope it caused a fistfight between Fatlip and Slimkid Trey. Rest easy J Dilla.

Innocent Opinions That Divide European Nations. Which ones do you think are missing? Full list: brilliantmaps.com/opinions-...

I went to a primary school like this in the 70’s and don’t remember anyone struggling with English. Can’t remember studying the Egyptians but we did study Greek mythology.

Yet another example of the legacy of Tory Govt chucking our money down the pan & greedy bastards profiteering from it👇🏼😡 Asylum Hotel provider makes £180 million profit despite providing residents with inedible food, terrible conditions, and even rationing toilet paper FGS❗️ #ToryLegacyOfGreed

Happy Battle of Cable St Day

#DSIAwards #WoodBurningStoves #AirQuality The DSI Annual Misinformation Awards The Death Stove Industry is thrilled to announce that nominations are now open for the most prestigious parody accolades in spin, denial, and data distortion. See 🧵 on how to nominate 1 of 3

Deaths, disappearances and forced recruitment: refugees recount horrors of relentless war in Sudan

2nd time i have got to use this on BSky today! "The purpose of a system is what it does" "just because someone sets fire to houses doesn't make them an arsonist" Labour are tying themselves in knots trying not to offend people who will never vote for them

It’s terrifying what we are witnessing in El Fashir. The UAE backed RSF encircling the city to starve and exterminate people, while the so-called intl. community treats the UAE as a peace broker. #KeepEyesOnSudan

My mother was shot by the police – and that bullet changed everything

I’ve always thought that this album was the perfect example of how to deal with creative differences

I’m on a bus so didn’t have the sound on but it doesn’t matter because I’m a 70’s kid and my brain automatically played the Benny Hill music 😂

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Nobody walks through the door, gets on the floor or walks the dinosaur anymore and that’s sad.

#OnThisDay 20 Sept 2004 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Brian Clough dies, aged 69. "We talk about it for 20 minutes, and then we decide that I was right." 🏆🏆 2x English league titles with 'unfashionable' clubs 🏆🏆2x European Cup titles 🏆🏆🏆🏆4x League Cups For many, including me, the best manager England never had. #NFFC

A very moving column by one of the most elegant of our music and sports writers, Richard Williams. thebluemoment.com/2025/09/09/e...

I wrote something for Rapper’s Delight’s 45th anniversary but got distracted and didn’t publish it until a few months back, so here it is again if you missed it… rentparty.substack.com/p/chapter-24...

Someone leaked the Paul Ovenden story to the Daily Mail - after BBC, C4 sat on it for over a year The Canary understands ITV were supposed to publish the Paul Ovendon story first - and then someone leaked it to the Daily Mail. Of course, they all knew already... www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Truly bizarre to see people attacked, shamed, and disciplined for saying things about Charlie Kirk that are 1000x less offensive than what Charlie Kirk said about people

This.

Hugely influential UK soul DJ Chris Hill has died... Leader of the Soul Mafia, his flair for flamboyance saw him discover Sinead O'Connor. www.clashmusic.com/news/seminal...

I was only vaguely aware of who he was as for some reason I don’t pay a lot of attention to far right nut jobs in the US (we have enough of our own in the UK). Reading his comments over the last 24 hours though has been very revealing.

My theory is that the ninja is actually Banksy and this is part 2 of his performance.

Trying to exist in this fraught political climate as any kind of minority is exhaustingly stress-inducing and seemingly the only way of coping with it is to try and take your mind off it. But this is pretty impossible when so many people are saying 'oh isn't it a shame the Nazi died?'

will be doing some more general columns for the guardian going forward. this one is on remigration and the evolution of a far-right pipe dream into mainstream discourse. I promise they won’t all be this depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘If you want a small boat migrant for a neighbour…’

British crimes for British people

While chatting with @possetg.bsky.social about g-go, I just remembered I shared this clip a while ago on Twitter... The jesuit priests who taught electro impresario Morgan Khan dancing to The Word by Junkyard Band at The WAG in the mid 80s. From LWT show South Of Watford presented by Hugh Laurie

Motorcycling with Dick Emery, an Alan Partridge production.

This is the sort of open goal I want to see the Labour Party attacking.

I was in a foul mood this morning then a friend text me saying that he has a spare ticket going for Leftfield this Friday. Current mood…

I have a long-read essay in @hyphenonline.com - it’s about a racist schoolteacher in Bradford, what happened when 40 years ago parents and pupils tried to get him sacked, and the resonance of what happened for our own culture wars today hyphenonline.com/2025/09/08/b...

Day 251 of #365DaysOfSmiles Now, that's a goal

If you have a secret or hidden phone, the government's Emergency Alerts could reveal your device, even if it's on silent or do not disturb. The government is testing emergency alerts on Sunday 7 September. If you're worried this could reveal a phone, you can follow this guide to turn off the alerts

NEWS: I’ve set up an independent anti-racist reporting and monitoring organisation. We’ll document racist attacks, support victims, pressure authorities to act, and amplify the voices of smaller, more isolated Black and Asian communities across Britain.🧵

These are the people who will be running the country in four years 🤪

Just a reminder for those that have a hidden phone.

I find it amazing that this story gets published after Rayner resigns and too late to have any impact whatsoever. Shouting ‘Well he did it first’ is a desperate statement.

I’ve never understood why Bristol’s councillors have an almost obsessive need to remodel the City Centre. It’s rarely needed, wanted or improved but they do love to do it.

I wish Soft Cell could do the 12” version #totp

I can see now it wasn’t Kwasi #totp

How did he sneak that T-shirt in 😂 #totp