Back in 2019, Rosemary Tonks's The Bloater (1968) was a legitimately neglected book, but thanks to Backlisted Podcast, most of Tonks's deftly comic novels are back in print. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Remembering all the breathless gushing that greeted Change UK: The Independent Group from the well paid politics understanders before the 2019 election. Evaporated overnight like the party itself and never mentioned again because it looks a bit embarrassing for all involved.

Marina Hyde equating Starmer and Polanski with Farage. this is what is wrong with the Guardian and the media in general

It’s going to antagonise some people who might otherwise be sympathetic, but “help a broadly hostile party perform 1 weird trick to *maybe somewhat* dig out of a hole it’s made for itself” is not a good reason to stand aside or do anything. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Getting a bit weird now. An unconnected attempted murder? On the same day

Yeah look, they did this at great intensity eight years ago. You might think the same media outlets couldn’t do “the left are terrifying Hitlerian racists” at the same time as “Enoch was right and we must fight for the right for everyone to say it, loud and proud” but that is Britain for you.

No, it is not time to uncancel Enoch Powell The racism my dad, grandparents and entire black side of my family experienced in Birmingham in the 60s and 70s was in no small part driven by his nasty, rancid brand of division and racism Enoch Powell was a racist and a demagogue, period

I’d ask: where might these clueless, roaring assclowns have got the impression that our institutions are all run by depraved communists handing out unlimited free money for treasonous pro-IRA municipal art projects, lesbian cycling classes and big TVs for workshy minorities and migrants?

We all have occassion to say this a lot in this era, but seriously this is the craziest goddamn thing I've read in a very very long time abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

If he was willing to say “Up the RA” for £87, what do you think he’d be willing to do for £5 million?

I can't be bought says the man who was paid to wish Hugh Jannus happy birthday.

It's also extraordinary that c. 30% of British voters would support a man who has openly declared admiration for enemies of Britain like Hitler & Putin.

We shouldn't forget how blatant it all was bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

Nigel Farage insisting "I cannot be bought," after being exposed for secretly trousering £5 million from a crypto billionaire, buying a house with the money, and then immediately launching a lobbying campaign for the crypto industry, is quite something

Whom amongst us has not accidentally sent the security services a secret dossier alleging a Sunday Times journalist is a Russian asset? The kind of serious but understandable mishap that might befall any ambitious young man, whose only foible is a reasonable excess of zeal for hating leftist scum.

I'm willing to test this theory

You know, a President accusing a NYT reporter of committing treason just for asking a question is actually quite a big deal, and this bunch just standing there listening to it and doing nothing is not encouraging the public to think of journalism as a serious business or of words meaning anything.

So, Labour tears itself apart to try to stop Farage being our next PM just as he finally faces scrutiny in a monumental corruption scandal which could… and really should…end his political career. I’d go hard on that rather than each other right now guys. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

“Italy and Europe stand exposed in their moral bankruptcy. Despite Albanese being an Italian national, the Meloni government … offered her no support, while continuing military and economic cooperation with the genocidal regime. The broader European Union has chosen complicity over conscience.”

#BBCNews - ‘Patriotic’ UK anti-immigration social media accounts traced to Sri Lanka and Vietnam www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book

There’s a link to the photo of this fierce wild animal, and you will SOIL YOURSELF IN TERROR. (I’ve posted it in the comments. Be careful not to SOIL YOURSELF IN TERROR)

Yes indeed, Thomas! Holy answers to the most important questions were revealed unto us by a burning bush in 1979 and any remaining quibbles were resolved forevermore in the New Testament of 1997. Public enthusiasm and engagement in politics now can only ever drag us further from the light of God.

Solar energy haters are hilarious. "You don't generate power when the sun's not out." Yeah, no shit, but when it is out, my solar panels generate a shit-ton of energy -- way more than my house can use. We almost hit 1000% offset last week. Imagine that on a mass scale.

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

Listening to Parallel Lines. The move from Sunday Girl to Heart of Glass (equally incredible, completely different) in the middle of side two is one of the greatest flexes in pop

##NowPlaying The Wolfhounds - Unseen Ripples from a Pebble

25 songs c. 1906-1990: Brian Auger, Che-SIZU, Arthur Collins, Col. Jubilation P. Johnston, Der Plan, Golden Dawn, Gruppo Sportivo, Highway 101, Human League, Klaatu, Love, Jukin' Bone, Lyres, Mandrill, Stories, Tommi Stumpff, Edgar Winter, Wobble/Edge/Czukay, Wolfhounds (some under aliases), more!

It's like a Monday night in Norwich. I remember very little about the Profanes gig. "Look a tree" was said a few times on the journey. In Norwich pubs had names like 'The Goldfish & Hedgehog'. When we played some berk at the back kept shouting for us to "Play some ABBA!" youtu.be/_GGDK66bXsc

Indiepop Chronicles #77 40 years ago 22/3/86 Singles of the Week! 🎤 Sounds - The Wolfhounds, Cut The Cake "A bucketful of guts, a heart full of soul, and a noise full of riches" 🎤MM - Blue Aeroplanes, Lover & Confidante "A crazed mix of freakish surrealism & jangly saw-toothed guitar pop"

Indiepop Chronicles #79 40 years ago 22/3/86 NME It's chart time! Half Man Half Biscuit lock out the single and album charts! 8 new single entries (including The Wolfhounds at 17), but none trouble the top 11 which is a well shuffled version of last week's.

Tracklist if anyone’s interested :-)

No need to remind me of its vintage!

Ja que hi sou, l’últim dels Wolfhounds és dels més xulos que han fet✨👌 thewolfhounds.bandcamp.com/album/electr...

Off the top of my head… KEROSENE - Big Black IN SHREDS - Chameleons SENSITIVE - Field Mice SON OF NOTHING - Wolfhounds MEXICAN WOMEN - Throwing Muses STARBLOOD - Cranes GIGANTIC - Pixies DREAMS BURN DOWN - Ride CONVENIENCE - Bob DRESS - P.J.Harvey

So many exclamation marks, so little time. Genuinely exciting sleeve notes and a thrilling 20 minutes or so. And all on the label that brought McCarthy, the Wolfhounds, the June Brides and That Petrol Emotion to the world. Truly the Best of Wire

Sounds was always my favourite of the inkies

Nice to see someone posting this early review from Sounds in 1986. Despite what the writer says, I'd happily buy that brown corduroy jacket again if I still fitted in it...

This is why the uniparty, comprised of AIPAC-owned clowns from both the DNC & GOP, was so terrified of Zohran, a young, energetic, charismatic, & competent democratic socialist. They were afraid Americans might see what genuinely competent politicians improving voters’ lives actually look like.

This is correct but insufficient: the precise context was - the Tories catastrophically fucked it into the sun *at the same time as* the main opposition were led by unacceptable peacenik hippies, and that forced *pretty much everyone who counts* to pretend they hadn’t, or panic about something else.

More journalists and media workers were killed in 2025 than in any other year since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began collecting data more than three decades ago.* Two-thirds of the journalists killed were by Israeli forces.*

politicians & press alike insist we can never tell anti-immigrant voters they're wrong—but they are, & we should! my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...

Yeah I think this is why centrists seem perplexed at why the left hate Labour so much, because they can’t seem to understand that they actually had/have a real chance to do something good and just wasted it being horrible and useless bastards

obviously I hate Reform and the Tories because they're the natural enemy of everything I believe in, but I *despise* the Labour right because they have sabotaged any possibility of an alternative from within, and salted the earth behind them, out of sheer petty vindictiveness

of course all the chaos is funny and I'm glad that Keir Starmer, a bad person, is having a bad time. but jfc what a waste of two years, what a waste of a majority, what a waste of a once in a generation window to improve things. and now it's just 24/7 infighting, briefing, backstabbing. pathetic

Serious question about whether the rule of law and basic civil liberties are protected in the UK

This is chilling.

It is IMO not a coincidence this is happening in a context where ministers in both the Sunak and Starmer governments should have legit fears about travelling to other countries once they leave office, in case they get their collars felt by the local police in relation to certain war crimes.

You give him 24 hour courts to prosecute someone for stealing a bottle of water, and he takes anti terrorism laws to civil disobedience. Such a petty little turd of an authoritarian.

The business of the British press is the recruitment of hate-driven crackpots as part of their perpetual war against liberalism and multiculturalism, and increasingly in favour of actual fascism and war criminals