Geoff

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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Yesterday was the last of my solo picks - everything from today onwards has at least one full pick already

YouTube video by Ultra Records Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love (Official Video)

#THETENX5 27/50

Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love (2013, Norway)

There’s another Scandi Eurovision banger that’s picking up votes but for me this is the best of the decade - an absolute stomper of dark industrial electropop

Utah / Colorado being It's / Cold is perfect

Oh I think he may want to go after the May elections

Allowing immigrants to gain legal permanent residency after 5 years, which Labour are desperate to ditch, is hardly ‘open borders’

As I said on Friday morning.

And as a friend said to me the other day "I'm not Corbyn and I'm not New Labour. I just want a Labour party that does some decent stuff and doesn't try to appeal to the right all the time. Is that too much to ask? That's what I thought I was voting for."

Labour right now have their own extreme positions on immigration and trans issues which is one reason so many progressives have left

The UK is really really good at integration, and yet people want this to be a weakness

The correct response to this would be to stand up for the right to vote for legally resident taxpayers and then give the national vote to EU citizens too.

The cover of Casisdead’s Pat Earrings, a tribute to the legendary Pat Butcher from Eastenders and her massive earrings

Great record cover too

YouTube video by CASISDEAD CASISDEAD - PAT EARRINGS

#THETENX5 26/50

Casisdead - Pat Earrings (2017, UK)

The elusive grime star dropped this 80s-inspired masterpiece on Christmas Day 2017

Did NOT expect Rosalia to bring out Dawn French at the Brits

It said sombr is a homewrecker!

Most politicians are so X-brained that this feels like a mainstream opinion to them

#THETENX5 HM 5/5

Riton & Kah-Lo - Fake ID (2018, UK / Nigeria)

Another near miss from my final 50, Kah-Lo’s deadpan delivery here should have made her a star

YouTube video by Ministry of Sound DJ Fresh - Gold Dust (Official Music Video) | Ministry of Sound

#THETENX5
HM 1/5

Gold Dust - DJ Fresh (2010)

I can't get enough of that sound.

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It’s just so quintessentially English too, can you imagine any US act rapping about a Fiat Punto?

It’s firmly on my list, so many good lines

Wes Streeting likes to say he's following the evidence - but in fact he's following the bigots. We know it and he knows it.

And the video is excellent!

If you're a Londoner, you should be subscribing to London Centric

The idea that Hannah Spencer is a divisive and sectarian person is utterly insane - her speech today was the complete opposite of that.

#THETENX5 HMs 4/5

Second near miss

Charlotte Gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine (2017, France / UK)

Like my last HM, this one is equally great in its original version (in @joganrob.bsky.social's post below) or its dirtier, funkier Soulwax remix version here

#THETENX5 HM 3/5

My next two are near misses, ones that narrowly missed by top 50.

Danny L Harle - Broken Flowers (2013/5, UK)

Sparkly hyperpop that's equally lovely in its 2013 version (in @dorsalstop.bsky.social's post below) or its remixed 2015 version here

Now that's a vote winner

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Wait. So they’re trying to say that extremist Muslim men, who they presumably think want to implement sharia law, forced their families to vote for a blonde haired white woman, running for a party led by a gay Jewish man, who have policies around relaxing laws on sex work and decriminalising drugs..

My second thought after my delight at the win was ‘but who’s going to look after the greyhounds when she’s in parliament’?

This is the best possible list of councils for the Greens following a result like that - this year it’s heavily skewed to big cities