It's a racist lie, all of it, every word. The claims it is based on are false in fact, and repellent in morality. Merely having said it out loud without being unanimously howled down marks another moment of shameful descent for us as a nation.

Today’s playlist is an hour of classic dub and reggae, featuring Peter Tosh, Max Romeo, Althea & Donna, Culture, Sister Nancy, Burning Spear, Junior Murvin, Dennis Alcapone, Sly & The Revolutionaries, and more… open.spotify.com/playlist/42Y...

Journalist and media critic Mic Wright takes aim at moguls who own the news and the journalists who do their bidding.

Here's a chat I had with Mic Wright about the to say the least roundly disliked 2015 attempt at a Fantastic Four movie, or as they had it 'Fant4stic'. Which it wasn't, but could we find *anything* positive to say about it? You might be surprised... timworthington.org/2023/03/27/i...

Today’s playlist is a melancholy mix for a Sunday evening with Kurt Cobain covering The Beatles, plus Low, Nico, Mazzy Star, The Mountain Goats, Elliott Smith, Fugazi, Sun Kil Moon, and more… open.spotify.com/playlist/5pQ...

I didn’t realize “the left” was synonymous with “every employee and waiter who’s ever dealt with her”

Israel bombed a Houthi-aligned newspaper office in Yemen, killing at least 31 journalists in the second largest targeted killing of media workers CPJ has ever recorded. One more expansion of Israel’s claimed right to bomb anyone, anywhere, any time with impunity. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Today’s playlist is an hour of classic hip-hop, featuring Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep, Gang Starr, Dead Prez, Big Pun, ODB, Big L, Brand Nubian, Lords Of The Underground, and more… open.spotify.com/playlist/7kq...

“Perhaps the young girls were invisible to Mandelson because they lacked the money or influence that interested him.” The Times reveals Peter Mandelson's real mistake with Epstein... just being too kind - @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

Today’s playlist is an hour of spooky garage punk, rockabilly and wonky piano rock sounds with The Cramps, The Pleasure Seekers, The Detroit Cobras, Warren Zevon, The Sonics, The Gories, The Flying Lizards, The Fugs, and more… open.spotify.com/playlist/3l8...

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Here’s today’s playlist: a wonky 70s selection featuring Sparks, Jobriath, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Slade, Tim Curry, T.Rex, Television, Brian Eno, Iggy Pop, The Runaways, Patti Smith, Pete & Dud, and more… open.spotify.com/playlist/4Tr...

Just 57 (of 200) ‘Indy Puncing Nazis’ prints left. £5 from every purchase goes to the anti-racism charity, ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ www.infinitebacon.com/shop/p/punch...

Some hams are about to be burgled...

NEW | On a masterclass in defending the indefensible… The Times reveals Peter Mandelson's real mistake with Epstein... just being too kind And what Mandelson's last job before becoming US ambassador? Times Radio podcaster. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-times-...

Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about The New Mutants, the very last of the X-Men movie series which barely even got a proper release and hardly anyone seems to have actually seen... timworthington.org/2025/02/12/i...

I hated warlords until I became one - villagers are just ungrateful

Quite the audition to be a pantomime villain this Christmas season.

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

“What left-wing agitator removed teaching the Battle of Britain as a required part of the History curriculum? Michael Gove.” Bobby Jenrick vs Bertolt Brecht - @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

NEW | On a masterclass in defending the indefensible… The Times reveals Peter Mandelson's real mistake with Epstein... just being too kind And what Mandelson's last job before becoming US ambassador? Times Radio podcaster. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-times-...

May not have come as a surprise to readers of p296 of @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social 's excellent new book.

I used to post loads of things every day and now I say virtually nothing. Finding confidence again when you’ve lost it is a surprisingly tricky task.

1). Jenrick is making scared the memory of his grandmother for propaganda purposes. I am of the generation of his parents, my parents generation, like my mother and her many sisters worked in converted textile factories to manufacture shells for the war.

NEW | on banging on about WW2 and making up news… BOBBY JENRICK VS. BERTOLT BRECHT Robert Jenrick and The Daily Telegraph are banging on about history teaching but their memories don't stretch as far as 2013. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/bobby-jenr...

Just what every woman wants: an unsolicited pic from some guy they don’t know.

I couldn’t get to sleep last night so I made a playlist for an imaginary radio show. If I had a Peel-type slot, I might play something like this: open.spotify.com/playlist/7mD...

@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social nice piece re. Jenrick's latest idiocy. I worry about the loss of "living memory in a dwindling cohort of people" because as it dwindles, so does that of the fascism it fought against. Jenrick should be grateful it's going. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/bobby-jenr...

The Acorn here, decrying our media climate. A man who shaped British rightism for decades, & whose final act of relevancy was setting up GB News—a soil pipe that shat nativist effluent, antivaxism & other US culture wars trash into the mainstream as "news". A culprit, an enabler, a dissembler.

NEW | on banging on about WW2 and making up news… BOBBY JENRICK VS. BERTOLT BRECHT Robert Jenrick and The Daily Telegraph are banging on about history teaching but their memories don't stretch as far as 2013. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/bobby-jenr...

Making this all about X The Everything App as the core issue - and not about the actions of British politicians and media outlets - is a helpful way of externalising the problem away from e.g. journalists who spent years writing migrant-terror articles for the Express. Like Gabriel did, for example.

Years ago I wrote this piece about national treasure and dreadful old c**t Peter Blake. Have just dredged it up for my new best friend @typetheclouds.bsky.social who had the good sense to buy my fucking book™ at the Hastings book fair. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/ja...

The fact that both the WSJ and the Guardian have retracted their trans and leftist stories related to the shooter and now a day later a new one is being formed about a possible "trans roommate or lover" shows how desperate they are to pin this on someone who is LGBTQ+

Tbf, the alleged killer was way to the left of Camilla Tominey.

Meanwhile, at The Daily Telegraph, Camilla Tominey has her angle and is sticking to it.

The Guardian's live coverage has subtly but consistently been painting the shooter as embedded on the left all afternoon. They only reported the Bella Ciao and Catch This casing inscriptions and have just posted a friend claiming that Robinson is a leftist. All the evidence is pointing the other way

Times :

I’m sure there’ll be corrections in equally prominent positions in each of these papers, yeah?

The Times has run a live blog of the Turning Point UK vigil for Charlie Kirk in London. It’s just unhinged comments transcribed verbatim without any kind of analysis. And, of course, there’s no mention that the killer seems to be from the even further reaches of the extreme right.

"Relative calm." The OKC bombing was such an anomalous level of political violence that there was signficant debate about whether to include the deaths in official murder stats. Pre 9/11, it was the defining example of extremist political violence in modern America.

If you’re a journalist writing about the Kirk murder and you don’t know what the Groyper Wars are, I beg you to find someone who knows what the Groyper Wars are before you write your article

“Creating a think-tank & giving it a name that sounds solid, established, & independent creates a false impression that this is a nonpartisan player contributing to a healthy debate.” The BBC, the NHS & a 'new' think-tank - @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

Worth a read. Wild how easily rich people can get their opinions into influential news programmes just by setting up a think tank, presumably just by packaging their announcement in a way that comfortably fills a slot on a quiet morning.

NEW | a look at how a ‘new’ think-tank got coverage… THE BBC, THE NHS, AND A ‘NEW’ THINK-TANK A case study in how vested interests rebrand themselves as "think-tanks". brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-bbc-th...

When centrist politicians say "we need to tone down the rhetoric" what they mean is: the left needs to stop asking for better from leaders. After all, we've seen what they say about the flag-touchers and the hotel-yellers. They say it's good and valid.

Speaker Johnson saying "This is not who we are" is about the dumbest thing someone could say at this moment. This is exactly who were have become, often several times a week.

David Aaronovitch has pushed out an instant op-ed on his Substack that ends with him quoting the lyrics of Woke Up This Morning by Alabama 3.

Just living in the dystopia where the funny social media clips app is desperate to show shooting videos.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

There's a new social care 'think tank' that has appeared from nowhere. @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social has some questions... open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...