Steve Hughes

@adamthomaswalton.bsky.social looking forward to this tonight bankvault.cymru/event/garlle... hope the show goes well, will catch up later

Winter Sun, by Stuart Moxham 11 track album

playing STUART MOXHAM 'The Quiet One' moxham.bandcamp.com/album/winter... #BBCIntroducingOnRadioWales

Both tracks that are up online sound great! I've already preordered the album from Bandcamp.

Monday's i: Charge VAT on private health schemes to fund NHS, Kinnock tells Reeves
#TomorrowsPapersToday

A dramatic sky bursts with color at sunrise, casting hues of orange, pink, and teal across a wide expanse of rippling clouds. Below, calm swamp water mirrors the sky, broken by the silhouettes of bald cypress trees in the shallows. The scene is still and surreal.

This morning my weather app said 'clouds'. I said 'yes'.

#photography #NaturePhotography #landscape #stumpylake

Winter Sun, by Stuart Moxham 11 track album

@gidcoe.bsky.social @marcrileydj.bsky.social Stuart Moxham from Young Marble Giants has new tracks out and they're great!
moxham.bandcamp.com/album/winter...

How are you voting @catherinefookesmp.bsky.social ?

I am hearing from constituents who are still desperately concerned about the Welfare Bill, and what it will mean not only for their future but for young people as well. I will be voting against this cruel bill - please encourage your local MP to do the same.

I will vote against the Welfare Bill - I don’t want anyone to feel the regret I've had since 2015 I remember walking through the voting lobby in 2015 to vote in favour of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill.

"I am one of several disabled MPs, and not once did anyone from the Cabinet or No 10 reach out to me."

✍️ Labour MP @emmalewellmp.bsky.social on why she will vote against the government's Welfare Bill

"Where are we now with this welfare reform bill, will it pass, do you think?"

Labour MP Brian Leishman: "I hope not"

According to multiple sources this afternoon, in Parliament, Liz Kendall will announce ‘concessions’ on the welfare bill.

Do not clap.

These aren’t concessions.

This isn’t compassion.

It’s a PR fudge to mask cuts that will devastate lives.

#DisabilityRights #TakingThePIP

Extra 150,000 people will still be forced into poverty despite welfare U-turn The government hopes the reduction of 100,000 people - down from 250,000 under the original plans - will be enough to persuade Labour MPs to vote for the revised welfare bill on Tuesday.

Jeez. The government hopes the reduction of 100,000 people forced into poverty - down from 250,000 under Keir Starmer’s original plans - will be enough to persuade Labour MPs to vote for the revised welfare bill on Tuesday.

You heard that correctly!

news.sky.com/story/extra-...

Labour has improved its welfare bill. I still won’t be voting for it | Peter Lamb The government’s concessions would still leave thousands in distress. I can see a better way – and I urge No 10 to finally listen, says Labour MP Peter Lamb

Labour has improved its welfare bill. I still won’t be voting for it | Peter Lamb

Disability benefit cuts violate human rights even with concessions, MPs warned MPs are being urged to reject the government's disability benefit cuts ahead of a vote on Tuesday (1 July).

#AmnestyInternational UK called the revisions to the welfare bill “nothing more than a superficial attempt to get MPs to vote through this cruel and harmful legislation”.

#PIP #BenefitCuts #HumanRights

www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Key architect of the welfare rebellion Debbie Abrahams tells ITV News the concessions still don't go far enough

'We implore the government to think again', she said

Abrahams says she'll vote against the bill or abstain unless there are further changes

Labour MP Nadia Whittome, "We don't want to be voting against this Welfare Bill, we want the government to pull it"

"We want them to engage and consult disabled people and come back with a proposal that protects the dignity of disabled people" #C4News

As a visibly physically disabled MP, my view on the welfare bill is clear: we need a reset and fast | Marie Tidball I’m still waiting for sufficient reassurance that the plans match Labour’s manifesto promises to disabled people, says Marie Tidball, co-chair of the disability parliamentary Labour party

As a visibly physically disabled MP, my view on the welfare bill is clear: we need a reset and fast | Marie Tidball

Pundits are framing the welfare bill chaos as Downing Street’s failure to communicate the moral case for cuts - but there is no moral case. That’s the problem. These plans are staggering assaults on support that won’t help disabled people into work. No one can sell that.

*Green MPs will be voting against the two-tier Welfare Bill

It’s very shameful the Labour MP for Birkenhead is one of the 10 Labour MPs sponsoring the PIP Bill.

‘Worse than anything under the Tories’: changes to welfare bill anger disability campaigners Government concessions fail to appease disabled people’s groups, concerned that disabled people in the future will be condemned to poverty “As a community we feel totally let down and these last-minute concessions do nothing to make up for that,” Andy Mitchell, a disability campaigner and a member of Unite Community, says. “My friends are scared. Some have spoken about suicide. This is worse than anything that happened under the Tories.” With the government offering major concessions to the welfare bill, ministers will be hoping critics have at last been appeased. But many campaigners have reacted with anger and concern over the changes. Continue reading...

‘Worse than anything under the Tories’: changes to welfare bill anger disability campaigners

Dear PM, thanks for the welfare concessions, but I still won’t vote for your bill. Scrap the whole thing | Richard Burgon Your government is choosing to balance the books on the backs of disabled people. That’s not the country we are supposed to be building, says Labour MP Richard Burgon

Dear PM, thanks for the welfare concessions, but I still won’t vote for your bill. Scrap the whole thing | Richard Burgon

Disabled Labour MP says welfare U-turn would create ‘unethical two-tier system’ Olivia Blake dismisses Starmer’s welfare bill changes as ‘plucked from the air’ and urges rebels to stand firm

Disabled Labour MP says welfare U-turn would create ‘unethical two-tier system’

Olivia Blake dismisses Starmer’s welfare bill changes as ‘plucked from the air’ and urges rebels to stand firm

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Mark Watson Comedian, author, that sort of thing.

I am pleased to announce the imminent return of my YouTube series Yes, How Can I Help?, in which I ward off the threat of AI by accurately answering all the questions in the world. Inviting your queries on any subject at all (ideally not my career). Go!

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Mesolithic Mermaid, by Ailsa Mair 3 track album

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social Ailsa Mair has just launched her new ep 'Mesolithic Mermaid' in Machynlleth. The title track ends with a beautiful lament for a lost world and includes recordings of seals by Ben Porter
thefairytalecellist.bandcamp.com/album/mesoli...

Mesolithic Mermaid

@gidcoe.bsky.social @marcrileydj.bsky.social great new track by Ailsa Mair!

open.spotify.com/track/6D3gW8...

A really long time ago Marc. Quite soon after you started doing it, I think. Bound to be a database online somewhere.

@marcrileydj.bsky.social I've just found this beauty, won in your Who's on My T-Shirt competition quite a while ago. I'm embarrassed to say I can't remember who it's of.

Rediscover Miles Davis’ ‘Kind of Blue’ (1959) | Tribute Music can be transformative and transportative, and ‘Kind of Blue’ accomplishes these feats like few other albums ever have or ever will.

What's the first word that comes to mind when you think of this album? | Listen to the album + explore our tribute here: album.ink/MDKindOfBlue

Cute flip book by Harumin Asao