The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

Hey - thought I l would post a link to this piece i wrote about losing hearing more and more from chemo post operation (hopefully semi-solvable at some point). Features Saxon, and obliteration level gigs. open.substack.com/pub/acloudab...

This is very good on why the Prescott report is very bad observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...

Andrew Wasylyk's new digital single 'First Moon Beams of Adulthood' is released today. He also announces a UK tour in March: claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/first-...

We can't announce our Social NYE party and VERY SPECIAL guest just yet, news will be coming early December, but it is locked in and we can guarantee you won't want to miss it. Find our first about all the details and tickets by joining the mailing listing list here. mailchi.mp/thesocial/22...

The new @mojomagazine.bsky.social out now: Smiths, Stones, Floyd, CMAT, Van, Jarvis, Hüsker Dü & Sugar, Dion, Mulatu Astatke, Manics, Sly, Nick Drake, Ten Years After, D'Angelo, SLF, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Snocaps, Horsegirl, Jacob Alon, Steven Wilson, Chris Dreja & - don't worry! - a bit of Weller

I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC. The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

There are British Trump fans on Twitter openly begging him to sue the BBC so we the tax payer can hand him a few million. What a time to be alive.

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

I mean... what a fucking record.

There were 115 prisoners mistakenly released in the final year of the last Conservative Government alone. Interesting that it only becomes a major national scandal the second these releases can be blamed on a Labour government

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

Just put my new riso printed festive cards on my shop. 2 new designs in pink, blue and green. 3 cards in each pack along with recycled envelopes. petefowlershop.com/buy/pete-fow...

Wrote about brain fog - a common side effect of chemo treatment that ends up feeling like scrolling social media for hours with no end in sight. Written last week - today feels more optimistic thanks to Zohran Mamdani and his brilliant speech. Thanks for reading! open.substack.com/pub/acloudab...

This is a magnificent, stirring speech. It's almost enough to get you hoping again! youtu.be/kOQT_4A1eb8?...

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Christ, he is supernaturally good at this.

The Brazilian singer-songwriter Lô Borges has passed away at 73

Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this. At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years

Thought he was typing about the Welsh capital here

Home from break to this beauty of a T-shirt courtesy of Social London raising funds for @hopenothate.org.uk ✊

That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.

You might want to check the headline @theguardian.com

Loved working with Dave Ball in the 90s, such a laugh, such a brilliant bloke. Everyone's got their favourite musical memories from his brilliant back catalogue - mine's Floatation, in whatever mix you want to blast it out in. open.spotify.com/track/6xXJxY...

RIP Dave Ball. A true pioneer. Punk rock and Northern Soul on a synthesiser. Acid House before acid house

Just. I mean. Play this video to Speaker Johnson and force him to comment on it

Smart jab can shrink head and neck cancer tumours within six weeks, trial finds

Once a week, I post about ten things that have opened my cultural life up a bit more, to take stock, reflect, and share something solid. Subscribe for a burst of stuff in your inbox every Sunday. juderogers.substack.com/p/10-sunday-...

New figures from Shelter show that the number of children homeless or in temporary accommodation in England has reached its highest level since records began. 172,420 kids without a permanent home of their own- an 8% increase in a single year.

Brain cancer patients won't be able to use a new drug that slows/stops tumour growth after it was rejected by the NHS. This medicine is for the type of tumour I have so I'm quite invested in getting it approved (even though I don't qualify for it). petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

Been listening to Gravenhurst's utterly brilliant The Ghost in Daylight. The whole record seems to suit this weather perfectly - collar up autumnal, bleak dark grey edges and sustained bursts of glorious & beautiful noisy technicolor sound www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4n5...

Struggling to find much humour in the likely next leader of the Conservative Party cosplaying the National Front of the 1970s.

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

Just put 2 NEW A4 & A5 one colour riso prints on my shop. The Hollow Log and Jet. Check them out. petefowlershop.com

Tediously often Wales is treated as some sort of odd cousin of little import while specifically English stuff is presented as "The News" in many big media contexts, and the upshot of that attitude laid bare here, as something of grave seriousness to all of Britain is sidelined/ignored

As Reform's Nathan Gill admits taking bribes from Russian 'secret service pawn' Oleg Voloshyn, here’s a nice photo of Nigel Farage with Voloshyn’s wife.

Full Jimmy Kimmel opening monologue from last night here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Going to hell? Fair play. We all are apparently. With that in mind, I wrote about how I should be more like my angry cat and ignore the magical joys that chemotherapy brings on a daily basis open.substack.com/pub/acloudab...

6 page ‘career spanning’ interview in this month’s Record Collector magazine - Blown away by this one, Especially by accuracy of transcription - it feels like exactly what i said or at least meant, which is really unusual! Text redacted in support of print media! Thanks RC!

Complain! Ask for a reply. The BBC are obliged to supply one!

Sadiq Khan condemns Nigel Farage's threat to deport hundreds of thousands of Londoners with settled status. “They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. “Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.”

It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor

To quote Marisa, the wife of #JDTwitch, in her post: "the most meaningful way to honour Keith is to keep playing his music, sharing your memories, and supporting the causes he cared about." In this thread, please find a series of links that will allow you to do just that. Please share widely: