Fuck me ... Cornish rain really means business doesn't it?

Oi you, person of Christian values… “When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself” Leviticus 19:33–34 Still feeling holy?

How it started vs How it's going.

Sorry, this is from the other place. Can you imagine the uproar from the right wing press if someone had died in the back of an ambulance because Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion had blocked the roads? But when it’s greedy farmers who don’t want to pay the same tax as the rest of us … nada!

Bellowhead fans at 10am this morning.

Just in case you were thinking of getting tickets to a Bellowhead concert NEXT November … they are selling out incredibly quickly!!! Just sayin’ bellowhead.co.uk/home

The irony is that one of the reasons Harriet Harman decided not to pursue Badenoch for hacking her website was a belief that more black women in politics was a good thing. So, in a small but salient way, Badenoch owes her position to the very solidarity she now mocks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving. A "step in the right direction" according to the PM. Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I was busy gigging with Peter Knight last night so I’d like to belatedly thank everyone for their kind words about Gigspanner Big Band’s Turnstone being shortlisted for the Folk Album of the Year award. It’s an absolute honour to have been chosen alongside such innovative and excellent albums.

The next album shortlisted for Folk Album of the Year is "Turnstone" by Gigspanner Big Band. Watch the full show to hear a track from the album, as well as what Peter Knight and Hannah Martin had to say about it! Watch here: youtu.be/UDrHNykW5cQ

REPUBLICUNT, more like #NoNotes

BREAKING: The OBR have just released the details of how every Star Wars film ends.

If the Tory whips aren't messaging their MPs to respond to every announcement with "WE KNOW" then what are they even for? #Budget25

'If a Chancellor were to extend a freeze on tax thresholds, that would increase taxes on working people, wouldn't it?' Susanna Reid @goodmorningbritain.bsky.social

Quick #Budget note: to hit people on low earnings, you freeze tax thresholds. To hit the rich, you raise tax rates, especially on higher bands. By their actions you shall know them.

Aaaaaaaargh! Nooooo! I don't want ANYTHING with AI that you are trying to force on me. Fake Instagram videos, Google AI overview, tooltips in computer programs, email overviews, adverts read out by mad robots. Stop this madness. It's horrible! Turn it on for me by default & you lose my custom.

Revolting UK 🤮

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch. We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It’s astonishing that Nigel Farage hasn’t been forced to resign as an MP and as leader of Reform - any other MP or party leader would have been hounded out by all of this evidence of racism and antisemitism, so why is he still in post…? 🤔🤷🏻‍♂️

Google is getting increasingly weird!

I forgot to tag this great magazine's Bluesky account ... so here you go ... @folklondon.co.uk

Folk album of the year? Why thank you Folk London ... don't mind if we do!

I saw Boris Johnson today while in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell ... not surprising given that he now lives there. The village was originally called Brightwell until Boris Johnson moved there when the "Cum Sotwell" was added to reflect the drunk shambling sexually incontinent haystack now resident.

We’re absolutely delighted to let you know will be touring again in November 2026 to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Burlesque! We'll be joined by celebrated kora master Seckou Keita. Tickets go on general sale this Friday at 10am 🥳

Any Peruvian restaurants out there who want to pay me top dollar for some fresh Rocoto chillies? There can't be much of a supply here in the UK at the arse end of November! I'm open to offers.

This church never ceases to make me laugh when I see it! “Quick! The tower is falling over …. Don’t worry … I’ve got this … I’ll just put this huge diagonal buttress through this bit on the side … nobody will notice!”

Sorry ... almost every time I go out to eat through necessity I feel conned now. I can make a better meal for less money than I am being charged. Restaurant/pub chains have chosen to make meals smaller/lower quality to combat inflation rather than put prices up. And then they fuck it up as well.

Finally! A Premier Inn with a cat. Touring bingo is completed. #touring #musicianlife

Richard Tice, March 2025: "I have never met Nathan Gill, and he has never had anything to do with Reform,"

Good morning from the Peter Knight and John Spiers tour! We’ve been having a great time so far, and wanted to remind you that tonight’s gig at @downendfolkroots.bsky.social is also being live streamed for anyone who can’t come in person to our dates. events.livetoyourlivingroom.com/events/livet...

As always, we’ll be getting our evening underway in fine style at this month’s concert next Friday (21st November). Before Knight and Spiers take to the stage, we’ll have a set from Fly Yeti Fly. Here’s a video. Info & tckets: downendfolkandroots.com/index.php/55... #livemusic #downend #bristol

@knightandspiers.bsky.social Thank you for a wonderful show at Salisbury Arts Centre. I think I smiled the whole way through! (Which is no mean feat). Good luck with the test of the tour, and see you next time!

🎵 …couldn’t bescape if I bonted to 🎶

I’ve been Labour member for 23 years, including 12 as a senior councillor supposedly on right of party - I’ve never felt more like quitting - not only is letting Reform dictate policy immoral it is also politically mad as it drives former Labour voters both to Reform AND Greens/LDs/Plaid/SNP

I'm now convinced that the "Starmer Ultras" who are out there defending this are as cult-like as anything Jeremy Corbyn produced. How can you defend this as a progressive of any kind? It's madness. It's also electoral madness ... the number of progressive voters they'll lose is huge.

I've never felt more ashamed of being a Labour supporter. Not even during Iraq, where at least we had cabinet members resigning in disgust. Now: just jostling for position. If I wasn't already turning my back on the party I've backed my whole life, I would be now. #ImmigrantsWelcome #NotInMyName

Pssst! Instagram is just Facebook with a friendlier face.

I have a polite request: Please could everyone stop responding to social media "content" made by music artists? The arms race is exhausting! Do you really think Lennon, Mitchell or Dylan would have been as successful if they were forced to self-produce engaging short form videos every 2 weeks?

Being compared to Enoch Powell and endorsed by Tommy Robinson - I wonder if this is how Starmer was hoping things would go

No Knight & Spiers gigs in your area? No problem! Their concert for Downend Folk & Roots will be streamed live on the 21/11 courtesy of Live to your Living Room. Book your favourite armchair, sit back and enjoy... events.livetoyourlivingroom.com/events/livet...

The thing I despise is inhumanity. It’s not really a political position, it’s an existential one. But if your political party manoeuvres itself into a place where it practises and promotes inhumanity, I will despise you.

Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket. Here's why it's not going to work www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...

At least Tony Blair was looking for a “third way” … a compromise … true centrism. Starmer’s tactic seems to be to watch what the far-right is saying and then say that. That’s not centrism. That’s populism … very dangerous … and doomed to failure.

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If one assumes Starmer will be gone after May, then the more they try to appeal to the right now, the more that leadership election is going to be about tacking back. (Especially if the Greens do well in London and other cities).

This is a Labour government in name only … fiscally to the right of David Cameron … and now as horribly cruel and morally repugnant as well as they bend over backwards trying to out-populist Reform. Good luck to the Starmer apologists on here trying to tie themselves in knots defending this one!

I repeat myself but Fuck Wes Streeting

Any government which bases its policies on which direction the wind is blowing is not a serious government and is doomed to failure.