Remembering Kirsty MacColl today on what would have been her 66th birthday (born October 10, 1959) | Explore her musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/KMacCollHBD

Oh my. Just one Moody left now.

As the child of two teachers, I grew up with an acute awareness of how politicians would blame people like my parents for anything that they could not be fucking bothered lifting a finger to tackle themselves. Lazy bastards who won't do their own job lecturing others on how to do theirs.

MEGATON 📢 OUT NOW! Stick it on your favourite playlist… You can thank us later. #sleafordmods #megaton

Moonrise in Rhodes.

I sometimes worry I exaggerate the collective madness of our media but the people who cheered Brexit, Boris Johnson & Liz Truss's mini-budget are now applauding Kemi Badenoch's speech. 'Parallell universe' doesn't come close. I suppose her not falling over is a win of sorts for them at the moment.

All roams lead to Rhodes.

📡☀️Tune in tomorrow BBCRadio4 ‘s ‘ Woman’s Hour ‘ I’ll be talking about my new album & documentary & might even play a new song! 🎵 ☀️🙌🏼 Doc is screening at BFI @southbankcentre.bsky.social on November 9 Closing the fab 👉🏽🍿🎬 www.docnrollfestival.com/news/twelve-...

NHS could pay 25% more for medicines under plan to end row with drugmakers and Trump

Table for one.

I’d have gone in but the staff know nothing, and he who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

I know Handsworth well. I love it. The Soho Road is one of the most vibrant streets in the world. I was attached to the library there for a writing project last year and I wrote a whole chunk about it in my book Hope And Glory. Read it if you get a chance

Hey guys, I've found "Britian"

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Drip, drip, drip.

🎶It wasn’t me🎶

Sakher has written for us at @bylinesnetwork.co.uk - it's so important to get the personal stories of those in Gaza, in their own voice, out there. You can read it here --> northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n... And please support him too.

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“This is my table, humans”.

Now that’s a stereo!

My radio and podcast picks of the week www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Maybe these guys can reform and do a cover of “Chip Butty”. open.spotify.com/track/5AaQL4...

@robtunstall.bsky.social robtunstall.bandcamp.com/album/baito?... Anyone who records and releases a track called “Chip Butty” gets my vote.

But no Kinks.

🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury. My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Stephen the Waxy Lemon

A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt

Anything written on what seems to be an increasingly global series of major cyber attacks?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In its strategic report the company cited “unfavourable media coverage” as a potential risk to its business, warning that negative publicity for its service fees “could have an adverse effect on the size, engagement and loyalty” of its customer base. Let's hope so! www.thetimes.com/article/1b9a...

This edition of Later with Jools Holland from May 1993, featuring superb performances by Teenage Fanclub and Nanci Griffith, is now available free on demand via U (online or on their app) u.co.uk/shows/later-...

Farage is applying for a job. That job is Prime Minister. The only thing on his CV is Brexit. He campaigned for it for 27 years. So his only real track record is making everyone poorer & damaging the NHS. If you hire Nigel & Reform, you must want this company (UK) to fail.

We still have wonderful colour in our garden, and still enough sunshine for Poppy enjoy.

Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow

Now playing. Viva! Roxy Music. The live Roxy Music Album. Tracks taken from three concert recordings, recorded Nov 1973 & Nov 1974 & Oct 1975. Saturday night listening!

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What are your favorite songs from Stevie Wonder’s nineteenth studio album ‘Hotter Than July’ (1980), originally released 45 years ago this week? Listen to the album + read our tribute by @tenelson65.bsky.social here: album.ink/SWonderHTJ

I fear the wurst! I’m a fool for a bag of weird flavoured crisps!

Jethro Tull, Oceansize, Rolling Stones, Tears For Fears, Thin Lizzy, Kate Bush, Dream Theater, Pineapple Thief, Cousins & Willoughby, Black Sabbath, Queen, Brian Eno, Loula Yorke, Roxy Music, Goldfrapp + more! https://burningshed.com/newsletters/newsletter_25_09_2025.html #musicfeed #musicsky

RIP Danny Thompson. Here's a playlist featuring just some of the hundreds of songs that were graced by his bass playing. Includes Nick Drake, Pentangle, Donovan, John Martyn, Sandy Denny, Marc Bolan, David Sylvian, Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Lilac Time, Julian Cope etc ▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/4XS...

Danny Thompson, the king of the upright bass, has passed away. Fans of Pentangle, John Martyn, Richard Thompson, Donovan, Nick Drake, and Kate Bush will know all too well what a truly great musician he was. #RIPDannyThompson

Hard to Handel #ComposerPop

Get Bach Come on, somebody had to do it! #ComposerPop

This evening’s listening. Polydor were clearly worried that no one would know who Mark was, as if those who were onboard with Talk Talk’s last two albums wouldn’t be aware of him. I won’t talk about “the geography of music” and other such guff. It’s a wonderful, calming, and spiritual experience.

This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...