Which will probably cost me as I still "buy" my music!

Right. Making deliberate attempt to shift the algorithms for me here from the political dystopia we live in to healing music...

Nice early review of new album .. thank you!

I was beyond delighted to get news of this!!

My what a wonderful surprise!!

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

A dog whistle so loud even cats could hear it

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

Happiness, humour, truth and, most crucially, courage are the qualities needed to repel the racist tide.
Because its architects offer whining, victimhood, lies and, most crucially, cowardice.

#RedRoses. What a team!

Whenever Christianity is co-opted to support violence, misogyny or racism it loses its very soul. Here’s the letter I and a group of friends wrote over the last few days, was then signed by senior church leaders across denominations and published by The Sunday Times & Sunday Mirror today.

Yes. #Starmers Comms are clueless and he's lost every shred of integrity anyway

James O'Brien Daily Daily News Podcast · Updated daily · Welcome to the best bits of James O'Brien's LBC phone-in show. Listen back to all the highlights in a 60-minute bite sized chunk of his show with new episodes ever...

One way to understand the awfulness of what Trump is doing is to imagine FDR trying to ‘negotiate a ceasefire’ with Hitler in 1942 but with Churchill completely excluded. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

‘Gross abuse of state power’: defiance grows over UK ban on Palestine protest group More than 200 have been arrested for alleged support of Palestine Action – and hundreds more are expected to protest on Saturday

‘Gross abuse of state power’: defiance grows over UK ban on Palestine protest group

Not quite sure Donald Trump understands how you get a Nobel Peace Prize.

‘No Kings’ Was Biggest Protest in U.S. History: Data Analyst For reference, that’s between 1 and 2 percent of the total population of the United States.

Even the most conservative estimates of turnout (4-6 million) make No Kings the largest protest in American history

www.thedailybeast.com/data-guru-g-...

It is extraordinary, but grimly inevitable, that the people most responsible for hobbling the UK have become the loudest & whiniest critics of the consequences of their own actions. A big part of the process lies in people like ‘Lord’ Hannan actually being *rewarded* for their ignorant delinquency.

Yep I'm not sure it's a valid "defence"....

Spot on! Dylan's bootlegs almost as bad, last one £190 for 4 discs!. Some people defend them because they've sold their back catalogues so don't get to decide the pricing. Do you know if that's correct?

Saw them in Leicester loved the whole evening so glad we got Fisherman's at the end! Not entirely convinced by Barny but went with the flow!

Anything for Leicestershire though? All I've seen is the normal favouring the north

The Trump Presidency’s World-Historical Heist He is taking self-enrichment to a scale never seen before in America.

We still over-think his motivation/game plan. He’s filling his boots, even if it impoverishes his own base. That’s all there is. That’s all there ever was. (Great piece.)
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"One of the single worst examples of journalism I've ever seen in a British newspaper."

@mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe what he's reading.

You can only presume that Trump & his cronies make an absolute killing every time the markets balk at his latest tariff tantrum. And another one when he inevitably backs down. Jimmy Carter putting the family peanut farm in a blind trust for the duration of his Presidency feels very, very far away.

A clearly insane and cognitively diminished President Trump rambled at length about a far-right conspiracy theory in front of the president of South Africa at the White House yesterday. Now here's eight articles about Biden's halting pauses and memory lapses.

There are no depths to which he can not sink - none.

The water company crisis just got worse, thanks to Labour As the FT has noted this morning (and I share this information in the pubic interest, since it is vital that this is widely known, hence the longer than usual quotation): The UK’s water watchdog has p...

The water company crisis just got worse, thanks to Labour www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...

James O'Brien Daily - Podcast Episode | Global Player Is Keir Starmer targeting all immigrants?

How Keir Starmer has made foreign-born people in the UK feel…
Brave, brilliant callers.
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...

Stand up. Speak up. Netanyahu and his monstrous government must be held to account for their genocidal crimes against the children of Gaza. We will never condone the murderous brutality of Hamas but the ongoing slaughter of countless innocents is equally beyond any and all words.

Huge thanks to the advisor who suggested I put “island of strangers” in my speech. Now Reform voters still hate me and Labour voters hate me even more.