Matthew

@contentman.bsky.social

Scientist, musician of sorts, nature lover. soundcloud.com/purple-sofa

I’ve signed a letter alongside 52 other MPs urging the Independent Press Standards Organisation to investigate the coverage of Professor Jason Arday in the weeks leading up to his death, during which 249 articles were published about him.

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Certain they’ll be something fine to listen and move to at the ever excellent Cambridge Electronic Music fundraiser on Saturday, just a few steps from the city centre and it’s free to attend!

Flyer for Saturday’s electronic music event in Cambridge

I'm hiding this under a pic of Frank because obvs word count issues. Here's how to complain to the Electoral Commission about Reform's 'vote for us or you get concentration camps' bullshit. Details in the pic.

Cut and paste the below and send to the Electoral Commission addresses at the end:

"Formal Complaint: Undue Influence and Coercive Campaigning by Reform UK

Dear Electoral Commission Regulatory Team,

I am writing to formally lodge a complaint regarding the campaign tactics recently announced by Reform UK on May 4, 2026.  

The party's home affairs spokesperson has publicly committed to a policy of "prioritising" the placement of migrant detention centres—with a proposed capacity of 24,000 individuals—specifically in constituencies and council areas that vote for the Green Party. Conversely, the party has "guaranteed" that areas electing Reform UK representatives will be exempt from these facilities.  

I believe this constitutes "Undue Influence" under the Representation of the People Act, as it uses the threat of infrastructure placement to pressure citizens into voting a certain way or to penalise them for their existing political affiliations. This tactic appears designed to:  

•⁠  ⁠Intimidate voters by threatening negative local consequences for their democratic choices.  

•⁠  ⁠Incentivise votes through the promise of specific geographic exemptions that are not based on administrative or logistical necessity, but purely on partisan alignment.  

Threatening to punish specific geographical areas based on their voting record is a violation of the principle that elections should be free from coercion. I urge the Commission to investigate whether this policy breaches the Electoral Code of Conduct or the legal prohibitions against intimidatory behavior in campaigning.  

I look forward to your response regarding the steps being taken to ensure the integrity of the 2026 local and further national elections."

send emails to press@electoralcommission.org.uk and complaints@electoralcommission.org.uk

The big divide in Britain today is between working people and the privately educated, rich, greedy, tax-dodging, selfish, grifting gobshites who try to manipulate working people by pretending to give a shit about them.

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NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms. You have to listen to this.

Can celebrate the Green win this morning gaining the seat over Labour. The reformist racist agenda split between 3 parties (Ref, Lab and Con) comprehensively beaten. There is hope. But I’m expecting the trumpian “rigged election” rhetoric to dominate the news. But there is hope again and it’s good.

As the pedophile führer's ICE Nazis are ordered to release people they've kidnapped, they do it in the dead of night to make sure it's as cruel and brutal as possible. Fortunately, compassionate Patriots are there to meet them and make sure they're ok and driven to their homes.