Utterly love this. Proper old skool piano house with a real ‘Chris & James circa 1994’ vibe to it. Fab 😎😍

Life is tough for lots of people right now, but don’t expect to hear this 👇 in the Budget tomorrow.

Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour. archive.ph/RlXPj

Now Matthew Syed has formally become the Tory he's always been, Philips is the leading exponent of the "I'm a progressive and everything my side believes is wrong" school of journalism that features so prominently in the right-wing press.

Sir Robbie Gibb says he has ‘no intention of resigning’ Then the the public who pay the BBC honcho responsible for ‘impartiality’, having been an early founder of GB News, owner of the Jewish Chronicle when its standards evaporated, should make sure he’s sacked. What a rip off

Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people. If only there were a word for such a party.

Just the good, friendly, morale-boosting kind of racism.

😍😍😍

😍💔😍💔😍 The Roses were and are everything to me.

As Mani told us, the last five minutes was recorded live, on the first take. That’s how good he and they were. Icon. Legend. His death hurts 💔

The Roses totally reinvented what music was to me. Mani’s death is a deep and profound shock.

Oh my god. No no no. This is too much. The Stone Roses were, are, and forever will be, one of the greatest ever to do it. RIP Mani. Absolutely heartbreaking 💔

Labour’s contribution to the field of “least surprising opinion poll results” continues to to be very strong.

Labour MP Simon Opher - "We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel. "Measures that create bureaucracy and insecurity do not offer clarity or strengthen control – they cost money, waste time and weaken the system."

A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one. It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution. This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.

There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel. Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children. These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.

Murder rate in London lowest in decades. Don’t believe the hype spouted by foreign bots and malign influencers. Best city in the world 😎

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The BBC lost its way when it began replacing objective facts with opinion. It’s still not found its way back.

Ah the 1970s. Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.

Sadly very true.

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

God I love this. Everything perfect about Krautrock in one track. I just totally love how Klaus Dinger’s driving beats underpin the ethereal, almost fragile keys and guitar melody that float over the top. Transcendental.

Still utterly fabulous 😎😍

Finally, Robyn’s back 😎😍. This is just fab.

One nice detail that can easily be lost in this graph - even right wingers trust the BBC more than the right wing tabloids

The BBC is institutionally biased, just not in the way its right-wing critics think. Right-wing Tories, especially Robbie Gibb, control all the key levers of editorial and institutional power.

I’m sure what GBnews meant to say was that the chronically underfunded prison service has had to recruit overseas staff as no one wants to sign up to serve in dangerously under-resourced and under-trained prison teams and once the Visa earning threshold goes up, those who came will piss off too. No?

Fair play, the new John Lewis Xmas ad is literally me 🤣🤣🤣🤣

That’s because, to quote the great George Carlin about the American Dream, you have to be asleep to believe it.

So glad I’ve stayed off social media since last night. The racist hysteria from the usual right wing idiots, commenting without any information about things they know nothing in order to perpetuate and spread their prejudices. Social media is a fucking cesspit of hate.

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I used to respect The Economist. This is just rubbish.

This is farcical. Katie Lam didn't speak "imprecisely". She accurately stated the Conservative party's existing policy, which they tried to pass as a Bill in Parliament earlier this year, and which Badenoch's spokesman defended himself just last week.

Ballroom will ensure greatness, says editorial board of newspaper entirely owned by major donor to the ballroom project... (without mentioning that detail...):

Peak time banger 😎🤩😍 Absolutely top-of-the-line Morales remix that shats all over the Roger Sanchez mixes of the year before. Full on classic house. As it should be 😎🤩😍

Utterly fantastic mid-90s update of the Yello classic. A massive Digweed favourite in 1994. Mark Picciotti on the mix 😍

Hard to disagree.

RIP Dave Ball 💔

Oh God. Awful news. RIP Dave Ball, without whom Soft Cell and The Grid would not have been 💔

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Fuck me, the new Suede album is a bit bloody good isn’t it? Then again, the last 3/4 have been pretty damn good. Antidepressants is a cut above though. Love that they just keep doing their thing, producing albums far better than many other artists living of past glories *cough*.

Mucking Fagic ❤️ Bob at his finest. Full of righteous anger 😎

The sound of being 16 😎

Awesome 🤩 😍

Best closing track on any album ever? The two minute outro is utter bliss ❤️

The Sound. The best 80s band you’ve never heard of. They deserve to be so much better known than they are.