The frogs have made it to Exeter.

Very proud of Exeter today. Huge turn out to face off the far right. #ExeterIsForEveryone #RefugeesWelcome 🍉🌿🌈💚

Exeter is anti-racist. #ExeterIsForEveryone #StandUpToRacism

Exeter is for everyone! Anti-fascist counter-protest earlier today.

Happy birthday to Steve Cropper. Here's a fantastically cool clip of Booker T. & the M.G.'s performing Time Is Tight at Stax Studios. It's taken from a French mini-documentary from 1969, which also features Isaac Hayes, the Memphis Horns etc. Watch it at 📺▶️ youtu.be/ste1KIwjbLE

Rainy afternoon rearranging bookshelves. House! I have now read biographies of all members of the Small Faces...

Train beer!

Train beer!

It'll be wild when Charlotte Church reveals she's been pretending to be Welsh this entire time #TheTraitorsUK #CelebrityTraitors

Hotly tipped Scottish duo, The Cords, arrive in Manchester with Danish indie band Josie in tow. @iainkey.bsky.social reviews for LTW @skepwax.bsky.social @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social louderthanwar.com/the-cords-ka...

Happy birthday to PP Arnold. Here's her amazing version of To Love Somebody filmed in France in 1968

Loving the precision of this weather forecast location...

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

Great to see a really positive development in the UK’s social science data infrastructure.

Today we joined the 21st century and got fibre to the house installed. Thanks John.

“Well, there’s that Bertrand Russell quote about the Liechtenstein women,” Tufnel says. “But I can’t quote it, because it’s rude.” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Ian Catt's bedroom stinking of chips /Meeting Q-Tee's mum in Kidbrooke /Memories of Bond sets/Cardiac arrests of QPR chairmen/Gaudete terror...loved doing this for @thequietus.com with the first band in the 1993 Yanks Go Home Select issue, @bobpetesarah.bsky.social thequietus.com/interviews/s...

“Britpop’s best foundational band. From day one – in the post-perestroika summer of Italia 90 – their approach to music, lyrics, and films has always crossed borders, been open-minded, and kept time-travelling.” Thank you Jude Rogers. thequietus.com/interviews/s...

I'm not sure whether the Telegraph & the Tories are actually interested in Angela Rayner's residences or just obsessed with her. Meanwhile Nigel Farage has five houses.. wp.me/p15p2Q-eWu

The desperation by those on the Right to smear Angela Rayner is wearing thin🙄 And no - don’t bother replying UNTIL you’ve read the thread! I’ve trawled through multiple versions of this “story” in the Telegraph and Daily Mail to try and piece together what’s going on! 🧵1/17

good morning I will be in Exeter for work next weekend but with a little bit of time to spare - is there anything I must absolutely see or absolutely eat there? thanking you kindly

BBC embarrassing itself again. It's an open and shut case; you can't wear a council badge to a political event. Why are they given space to claim they're very special patriotic people and the rules don't apply to a tiny demonstration the vast majority of the city hated search.app/tS7Dt

Every few words there's a new detail that makes this sound even better. (Apart from the "date tbc" bit)

Analysis - the moral and economic costs of Farage’s plan to deport up to 600,000 asylum seekers (Currently most read on the Guardian website, beating Taylor and Travis) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"‘In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman,’ Orwell wrote in The Lion & the Unicorn, pointing out that in the 1930s: ‘If you were an intellectual you sniggered at the Union Jack.’" By @alwynturner.bsky.social👇 wp.me/p6lzJb-6hV

Guy Singh-Watson says the easiest way to raise revenue from the farming sector would be to capture the 100-fold increase in land value when planning permission is granted to build houses. The Riverford organic veg business founder backs a wealth tax and is a member of @patrioticmillionaires.org.

Unregulated platforms controlling 84% of recorded music revenue + AI = absurd situation for music workers www.bbc.com/news/article...

I am extremely excited to know that I will be seeing one of my favourite bands play my favourite album of theirs to n it's entirety on my birthday at the Royal Albert Hall next year. Nice of them to oblige.

Marking 30 years since their debut, Belle and Sebastian have announced North American & European two-night stints performing their first two albums, ‘Tigermilk’ and ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’ in full. Tickets on sale this Friday via belleandsebastian.com #MatadorRevisionistHistory

Belle and Sebastian announce 'Tigermilk' / 'If You're Feeling Sinister' 30th anniversary tour www.brooklynvegan.com/belle-and-se...

Here's my photo from last night with Luke Haines, Peter Buck, and the minus 5 at Exeter Cavern Club. Great stuff, my ears have just about recovered!

It's #gig night - Peter Buck (REM), Luke Haines (Auteurs)and The Minus 5 ripping up the 180 capacity #Exeter Cavern... It's hot and sweaty! #LiveMusic

fantastic @lukehaines.bsky.social and Peter Buck gig this evening at Exeter Cavern … superb musicians who played in a very hot small club to a sold out audience - thank you for a great night 🎸🇺🇸😎🍷

Luke Haines, Peter Buck et al in a very hot and sweaty Exeter Cavern. Excellent, though my ears will need a few days 👂

A tremendous night of dirty rock 'n' roll with The Minus 5, @lukehaines.bsky.social and @remhq.bsky.social at Exeter Cavern #Exeter #DevonGigs

What dastardly schemes will this evil council conjure up next in its mission to.... checks notes... stop people getting killed by bad drivers

Morning all. Down to the Beach 1959. Photographer Raymond C Lawson.

*bloody* hell, this entire story www.ft.com/content/0e24...

Hot, dry air masses=increased gun violence in NYC, according to a new study in AMS journal #WeaClimateSoc that examined effects across boroughs and seasons. Learn more: bit.ly/44YeJ6p

The strongest gusts from Storm Floris have mainly been in Scotland. Here are the peak gusts up to 3.30pm.

Here are the strongest wind gusts on record in the UK for each of the summer months. 87mph is currently the highest gust on record in August, and probably where you'd least expect - recorded at Needles on the Isle of Wight in 1996.

Absolutely brilliant piece by Ian Dunt. “You can have the life you want. And by pursuing it, you can make the world a better place. That seems a better story than the one of terror, insecurity and jealousy that we see play out online.”

It always puzzles me why articles in the print and online editions of The Guardian differ. Yesterday's print edition of this article had completely different photos with it www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Has Hollywood distorted the Smurfs’ communist roots? www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Was hoping to see Zak Starkey in the Spinal Tap 2 trailer. I'd have had him avoiding several Final Destination type moments only to get sacked in the 3rd act.

Well I'm looking forward to this... youtu.be/m98E6X_Wato?...

Crisps... www.cnn.com/travel/crisp...

How excited were Warwick to get a round of questions about Lord of the Rings on University Challenge tonight?! Fantastic comeback made it a great episode.

One more for the list of books to read...