matthew herbert

The chairman of the Board of Peace bombed the Gandhi hospital. Process that.

allende?

Top Secret Document Exposes UK Role in Ghana Coup The UK Foreign Office conducted a covert propaganda campaign to help remove Ghana’s president Kwame Nkrumah in 1966, declassified files show.

60 years ago today, Ghana's military overthrew president Kwame Nkrumah.

The UK Foreign Office conducted a covert propaganda campaign to help remove him, declassified files show.

www.declassifieduk.org/top-secret-d...

Labour has brought back section 28 against trans and non-binary individuals. I lived through section 28 last time. I suffered the harms of it. This will do the same thing. Not even allowing young people to socially transition is plain wrong. It prevents them finding their own identity.

United Kingdom to join the Creative Europe programme from 2027 - Online petition This is a Europe-wide petition calling on the UK Government to formally declare the United Kingdom's interest in fully participating in the EU's Creative Europe programme (https://culture.ec.europa.eu...

pretty good petition this for the uk to rejoin the creative europe programme.

www.openpetition.org/uk/petition/...

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

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Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal More than 36,500 Iranians were killed by security forces during the January 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, making it the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history, according to documents re...

More than 36,500 people were killed during Iran’s January 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, making it the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history, according to classified government documents reviewed by Iran International.
iranintl.com/en/202601255198

It’s 1:04 am in Kyiv and siren went off because Russia is attacking us with drones .

Hate the beginning of the siren , that loud first note and when it starts rising, crawling through your bones and muscles. it’s the most disgusting part. It gets under your skin. I was told once that it’s by design

This took me about 45 seconds.

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.

The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.

Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

Hunger striker taken to hospital 59 days into Palestine protest Kamran Ahmed is said to be at 'imminent risk of death'.

A hunger striker is said to be ‘at imminent risk of death’ due to 59 days without food while on remand in prison.

Kamran Ahmed was transferred to hospital from HMP Pentonville in north London in the early hours of this morning

metro.co.uk/2026/01/07/h...

I think analysts specifically, and society more broadly, underestimate how much white supremacy and belief in conquest and racial hierarchy motivate the decisions of this administration. Like yes its "neo-royalism," yes its oil, but also its white supremacy.

music has undergone a revolution though. it can now be made with the sound of bombs falling on venezuela. it's no longer impressionistic. ethics are embedded which radically bends the form. (I find it more helpful to think about it as a rendering or reorganisation of time.)

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

uh holy SHIT?

Government announces extra funding for safe housing for domestic abuse survivors – UK politics live As part of the violence against women and girls (VAWG) strategy councils will receive a further £19m

good!

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

NEW: A Russian family whose son volunteered to fight in the Russian army against Ukraine recently adopted seven children from occupied Zaporizhia Oblast. 🧵(1/9)

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uk tour coming up this week with @momokogill.bsky.social
london TONIGHT! then brum, bristol, sheffield

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

don't try and make it perfect for everyone. just make it awesome then nobody cares about adding a mixer before or after etc

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

SAY. THAT. SHIT!

At least 49 relatives and colleagues of Afghans in data leak have been killed, study suggests Research also finds 200 of 231 people notified by MoD of breach reported threats to themselves or families

a really awful story.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It's a picture of a poem dedicated to the youngest coffin which was marked as number 92. The poem is called RIP angel, what did your mom call you as I can't stand calling you number 92. The poem was written by Selam Kidane

Remembering the 369 refugees who drowned in Lampedusa exactly 12 years ago today. I can never forget the 22 years old Yohanna who gave birth as she was drowning, her body was later found with an ombilical cord attached to her baby. #NeverForgotten #ForeverInOurHearts #PeopleNotNumbers #Lampedusa

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

Israel starves 13 more Palestinians to death, kills 89 since dawn Israeli forces continue to attack people seeking food aid as the death toll from famine rises further in Gaza.

Israel starves 13 more Palestinians to death, kills 89 since dawn aje.io/5169f3

Israel bombed a hospital.

Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded.

Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV.

Read that again.

Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate land, knowledge, and collective memory.

Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate land, knowledge, and collective memory.

Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill An interview with the iconic British electronic music producer and new collaborator on their primo downtempo new album, Clay

"The most compelling thing about Momoko's voice for me is actually the way she builds and shapes her backing vocals. It’s like working with an orchestra rather than a soloist."
New Herbert/ Momoko album is choice. open.substack.com/pub/andybeta... @matthewherbert.bsky.social @momokogill.bsky.social