We don't know how much Reform-run KCC sold this off for, but they flogged off about 100 works of council-owned art in March for just £32,000. Once they're gone from public hands, they're gone. £32,000 would barely cover an admin assistant for a year (when you inc. pension & emp taxes).

Ahhhhh that's better

Doing my best to keep @cafeotodalston.bsky.social funded single-handedly 😬 A few more delights from their second-hand section picked up at this weekend's gigs by The Necks.

@rufustsuperfly.bsky.social I'm thinking Woodward and Bernstein material here

Polly Filler from @privateeyenews.bsky.social wouldn't dare to have filed this.

Richard Tice’s property company failed to pay £120,000 in tax

I thought Angela Rayner made a ridiculous mistake and should have definitely triple checked her position with regards to stamp duty. That’s not what Richard Tice has done though. He’s ignored the long established rules and decided not to pay the way he should. Sack him.

Free ticket available for a showing of Peter Watkins' "Punishment Park" at the London BFI this afternoon (12:20 start) - send me a DM (quickly!) if you're interested. #filmsky

“You know what you’re getting” announces the MC to the faithful when introducing the first of The Necks’ two outstanding concerts today at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social (a venue they have played over 30 times now). Indeed we do. And we are grateful.

The Necks on sublime form this afternoon @cafeotodalston.bsky.social. A spiky, angular second set maybe my favorite so far. More to come tonight.

Percussionist David Van Tieghem was one of the youngest people to join the Steve Reich Ensemble. Van Tieghem was part of Reich's seminal Music for 18 Musicians. He also influenced Reich's decision to switch labels to ECM in '78. He explores his time w/Reich w/me: www.innerviews.org/inner/david-...

"Sulphuric acid" doesn't sound very exciting. "Fertiliser" maybe a bit more so; "food" might get people's attention. Sound more exciting now?

It's that time of the year again 👏

If anyone needs to catch up about exactly why everyone's making jokes about the history of the papacy...

Due to a spectacularly ill-timed bout of illness, there's at least one ticket going for tonight's sold out gig from The Necks @cafeotodalston.bsky.social, so if you're looking for one, get on to them.

also this was the best thread that ever appeared on here. More of this kind of thing Bluesky bsky.app/profile/andr...

Q: As of today, who controls the Strait of Hormuz? LEAVITT: We expect that the strait will be opened immediately Q: Who controls the strait right now? LEAVITT: *refuses to answer*

Added playlist number 7 - the 7th set of 50 ECM releases, ending on ECM 1381. This one's an very interesting cross section of the label at the time. Some great stuff and some oddballs. Starts and ends with Garbarek. open.qobuz.com/playlist/620...

Just added the 6th set of 50 ECM releases. Can be found here: open.qobuz.com/playlist/620...

Some absolute crackers in this playlist, this time assembled by Gary Kennedy. Cheers, Gary. 5th set of 50 ECM releases by Gary on Qobuz open.qobuz.com/playlist/620...

If everyone called it the TACO Arch, Trump would drop it faster than a vampire clutching a crucifix.

Alarm in health service over Palantir staff being given NHS email accounts

Time for a new volume of The Art of the Deal.

Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽

It can certainly be read as a love letter to Putin — Maria Popova has a point as usual — but whatever happens the expression of a genocidal wish by the president of the United States is a horror we will never live down.

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

JD Vance, standing next to Orban, criticises the EU for interfering in elections. Irony is dead.

Is Susan Collins "concerned" yet?

Who'd be a secret service agent right now.

Really hope we get a proper behind the scenes history of this debacle at some point, beggars belief that Wireless not only thought they could get away with it but bet the entire 3 night farm on doing so www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

This is the ultimate test for a constitutional order. Either constitutional mechanisms are used to check and balance this, and remove him from office, or they are not. For there can be no greater test for any constitution.

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption: "The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II" It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.

Oh man.

if only we had an agreement about that. let’s call it the Iran Nuclear Deal and [finger to earpiece] sorry what?

A local second-hand record shop had, at one time, its entire staircase decorated with copies of this album. Who's buying this?

The Oxfam Bookshop on St Giles’, Britain’s first, has earned a reprieve. Oxford City Council has refused permission for landlords Regent’s Park College to turn it into a graduate common room, pointing out that the Local Plan prioritises retail, entertainment, and office uses in the city centre.

There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.

Hildegard Von Bingen at a small chapel in the Palatinate of the Rhine around 1140. Absolutely wailing, real soul stuff

#NowPlaying Happy birthday to Evan Parker (born 5th April 1944) RIP Cecil Taylor (died 5th April 2018)

On the nose. Cartoon by Ben Jennings

Weekend off so naturally I was wide awake at 5am 😣

Some sad news to report, I'm afraid... Jeff Grant, the director of legendary public information film Lonely Water, died on 13 March. He fought to include the film's horror elements, and they proved so successful that it opened the door to the shocking PIFs that we know and love. (1/2)

@privateeyenews.bsky.social I'm sure you'll have seen this, but just in case:

[ahmed] - 'play Monk' launch show Pat Thomas piano Antonin Gerbal drums Joel Grip double bass Seymour Wright saxophone Tickets for this event are only available to members right now Matinee Cafe OTO. Saturday 9 May 2026, 2pm www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/ahmed...

Always this

If I ever do want lessons on what the public interest looks like I'm pretty sure I won't take them from a thin skinned, self interested, tax avoiding, Brexit supporting, billionaire.

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

#NowPlaying I sometimes forget how good this album is.

One of these comes towards me, it'll be toast faster than someone's Meta glasses.