Billy Bragg

The Israeli government has told so many lies since Oct. 7.

In this video — and in under three minutes — @mehdirhasan.bsky.social debunks the top 10 Israeli lies about the genocide in Gaza.

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An IKEA salad spinner named UPPFYLLD on a wooden floor

Really pleased to find @billybragg.bsky.social merch in IKEA today !

Now I can have a socialism of the heart when I wash my salad leaves.

Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival Artists Compilation, by VARIOUS 16 track album

QUICK! This @tolpuddlefest.bsky.social artists' compilation download is *only* available 8am Friday - 8am Saturday (UK time).
Includes previously unreleased tracks from the likes of @billybragg.bsky.social (and us!), with some recorded for this compilation. Profits to Al Tafawk 2 Children's Centre.

That's a great book - I have a copy - but these new verses are different from the ones in that text

‘He wrote five songs about washing dishes!’ The lost Woody Guthrie gems rescued by AI He sang about love, injustice, Einstein – and his landlord Fred Trump, father of Donald, ending up in hell. As a trove of Guthrie tracks resurfaces, his daughter Nora remembers the penner of ‘hard-hit...

Intimate demos of songs that Woody Guthrie recorded at home on Mermaid Avenue in the early 50s are being released, including a version of This Land Is Your Land with extra verses
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Shocking images of starving families in #Gaza call us to act. Unarmed civilians are being targeted by the #IDF while seeking aid, making it urgent. Join us in solidarity with #Palestine to support @AmosTrust’s crucial work to help end the genocide: www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/3E0062...

Doughty is a good old English word that you don’t hear much anymore, but it sums up the spirit that the Lionesses have shown over the past month in achieving a second European Championship title and making us all proud

Radical with Amol Rajan - Trump, Corbyn and How Social Media Shapes Politics Musician and activist Billy Bragg on the 'Twitterisation of debate', the new working class and why protest songs don't make a difference.

This really really good. If you don't watch it all (you really should), at least watch from 20 mins: @billybragg.bsky.social on liberty, equality and accountability is insightful. Keep watching as he analyses current politics better than anyone I have read recently. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Today’s front page of The National, a Scottish newspaper.

Columbia University agrees to pay more than $220M in deal with Trump to restore federal funding Columbia University has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to the federal government.

Nothing will embolden antisemites more than deals like this. One foreign country getting favored and special treatment, as well as protection from criticism, on college campuses at the insistence of the United States government.

YouTube video by Dropkick Murphys - Topic School Days Over (feat. Billy Bragg)

That sounds great! I've been really feeling your cover of Ewan MacColl's "School Days Over" with Dropkick Murphys lately! Amazing tribute to the staying power of Ewan's work.
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Had a great time on Wednesday, getting up at the end of this play about Wilko Johnson and singing a few songs with "Dr Feelgood". A celebration of an amazing life, it runs for another week at the Leicester Square Theatre with guest singers every night.
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I hate to say I told you so but… I told you so.
#mythofantiwartrump

Together at last! Billy Bragg and Wilko at the Leicester Square Theatre tonight

This new policy basically means all immigrants have no due process rights and can be detained indefinitely. Once again like the student detentions and like CECOT, the Trump administration is using immigration detention, which both parties built up, as a testing ground for its authoritarianism...

More Woody Guthrie Songs? Yes, From a Trove of Homemade Recordings.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/a...

Heads Up Louder Lovers!
Don’t forget your tickets for @billybragg.bsky.social in conversation plus book-signing - what a #Louder2025 Festival Finale!
Many thanks Richard @SpenwoodBooks & editor @iainkey
Join us Sun 16 Nov, 8pm @innsideuk #Manchester
All tickets: tinyurl.com/bddkk9rt

The president of the United States is threatening to strip the citizenship away from an American who says things he does not like.

And our media will invariably present this not as a major crisis, an impeachable offense that must lead to his immediate removal, but as “a spat” between Don & Rosie

Radical with Amol Rajan - From Trump to Corbyn: How Social Media Shapes Politics - BBC Sounds Billy Bragg on the 'Twitterisation of debate', the new working class and protest songs.

Fantastic chat between @billybragg.bsky.social and Amol Rajan about the changing relationship between politics and society, and the perceptions that drive it for better or worse.

If this grabs you, Billy's pamphlet 'The Three Dimensions of Freedom' is a great read.

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Radical with Amol Rajan - From Trump to Corbyn: How Social Media Shapes Politics - BBC Sounds Billy Bragg on the 'Twitterisation of debate', the new working class and protest songs.

I spoke to Amol Rajan's Radical podcast this week about municipal socialism, the meaning of liberty, the power of music and the popularity of Y-fronts.

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Detained in immigration raids, Maga mom still has faith in Trump's mass deportation plan Speaking from a detention facility in California, an Iranian immigrant says she believes "the good people will be released".

I thought this was a post from The Onion but, nope, it's real life in the cult of Trump in America in 2025.

Literally beyond parody:

No, I'm saying that you are seeking to smear anyone who criticises Israel by lumping them in with the people that you have described in these last few posts, who are all undoubtedly antisemites.

But this is social media. You're not here to judge me, you're here to debate with me and if you can't do that in a civil manner it severely undermines your credibility

Because your definition of antisemitism is deployed to attack anyone who criticises the state of Israel or its institutions.

I love the analogy. Concorde was indeed incredibly loud, wondrously over the top and slightly camp

Afraid I’m not familiar with the ‘Brother Jack’ trope. It was you calling me racist AF that I found abusive.

You seem to have forgotten that I condemned the antisemites who attacked the shabbat dinner at the restaurant and the person who tried to set fire to the synagogue.

That still does excuse the personal abuse.