Wild to see this lot have to thread this needle. How, indeed, have we got ourselves into a mess where an actual neo nazi who was imprisoned for harassing a Jewish Labour MP is not getting the all channels screaming headlines treatment as when, ten years ago, his actions could be blamed on the left?

The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 3h ago

“There’s a difference between being let back into society and being allowed to stand for public office." How has Kemi Badenoch found herself in the surreal position of defending a convicted Neo-Nazi standing as a Tory councillor?

The Tories have selected a convicted former Neo-Nazi as a councillor. Here's why that reflects very poorly on Jeremy Corbyn.

It should be against the rules to occupy two machines at once by alternating between them in a small gym that only has one of each machine.

On the newsletter this week: Le Patron Est Devenu Fou! - Super Discount at 30 It seems oddly, ineffably French that one of the best albums of the French Touch era isn’t really an album at all. Or not in the way that we commonly think of them, anyway. linenoise.substack.com/p/le-patron-...

Le Patron Est Devenu Fou! - Super Discount at 30

Plus Dave Angel, Marina Herlop, Arca and more

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Announcing state backed trans segregation and discrimination with a smile

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 9h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

So Luciana Berger was abused by a fascist who is now a Tory candidate despite his criminal conviction over it, but at the time she allowed everyone to think that the whole thing was about "the antisemitic Labour left"?

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21h ago

This is all horrific stuff, and I invite you to go back to 2018/19 and reread her columns, newspaper interviews and podcast appearances talking about it, and then decide who it sounds like it was, that had been doing all this.

#np Really solid compilation, culminating with the mighty Open The Gate by Watty Burnett.

Anadol & Marie Klock and Deep Triskell also included 👇

The Quietus@thequietus.com · 2d ago

Almost four hours of music featuring the likes of Dis Fig, Tara Clerkin Trio, Sophia Space Agency, Kelela, Charli xcx, Tyla, Arca, Quiet Husband, Tricky, Nuhara, Madonna, Luke Haines, Insecure Men, Tommi Iommi, Boy Harsher and Dinosaur Jr. The July Catch-up Playlist is Here! buff.ly/mTgbwp8

Oh no, my wife has gone out, my mother-in-law has fallen asleep on the sofa with her phone in her hand and it's playing the same video of a young girl giving 'clever' responses to insults ('You're so short' - 'And yet you still look up to me') on a loop. I think I've heard it about 30 times now.

Watched this the other day, superb. Another of Skolimowski's brilliant outsider's views of Britain (alongside Deep End & The Shout).

film-authority.com@film-authority.bsky.social · yesterday

Anyone remember when the UK's Channel 4 film financed scathing critiques of government policy and biting comedies about social injustice? 1982's Moonlighting features an early role for Jeremy Irons; it's a smart, downbeat comedy about Polish builders. 4 out of 5 film-authority.com/2026/08/04/m...

RIP to Gérard Nguyen (via @davidfenech.bsky.social), founder of the Atem fanzine & independent label in the mid-late 70s. The latter released albums by Univers Zéro, Art Zoyd and Fall of Saïgon, featuring Pascal Comelade.

This is great, love the drifting, the happy accidents, the mash-ups nestling in the instrumental breaks & outros.

Bass Clef / Myriad Myriads@bassclef.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hey you can now listen to the latest Open Hand Real Flames > this might be the strangest episode I've ever done > lots of key-mixed un-synced drifting voices over songs I love > Kylie 'Slow' over a Stina Nordenstam track in the second half is a personal magical moment > www.nts.live/shows/open-h...

Watched Vertigo on iPlayer, first time in a while. It really is quite a good film, don't know if anyone's ever pointed that out.

#nowplaying Scientist Wins the World Cup

Since we're relitigating pandemic discourse. If you hadn't already clocked Starmer was an old school reactionary parachuted in to front the Labour right swindle to crush the left, his pathetic support of *Boris Johnson* & his deadly handling of the pandemic response was an obv & early give away

##nowplaying From the heyday of cheap CD compilations, I was working at Our Price at the time and would immediately snap these up (see also: Northern Soul compilations).

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d ago

‘MPs have had their stomachs pumped’: concerns over ‘alcohol-soaked’ culture in Westminster

Warren Hatter revels in the long overdue reissue of a "perfectly formed" 1976 album of dystopian French electronica, which should now be heard by a much bigger audience than it was 50 years ago Reissue of the Week: Mar-Vista’s Visions Of Sodal Ye @bornbadrecords.bsky.social buff.ly/omeTpq7

if human rights organisations won’t stand up for human rights then what is the fucking point of them

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 5d ago

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

Didn't realise that there was an English-language version of Mylène Farmer's debut single, Maman a tort. The production is a bit fuller and crisper than on the original. Either way, it's a bop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkpK...

My Mum Is Wrong (Single)

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Ok this is me. (via Insta prepschoolstreetteam)

I'm either a tax collector (Italian grandad), a school teacher (Scottish gran) or working for Ordnance Survey (Scottish grandad).

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

RIP Kavinsky. There isn't a load of French Touch 2.0/Bloghouse I enjoy these days but as with, say, Big Beat, there are a handful of undeniable bangers. Like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arto...

Kavinsky - Wayfarer (Official Audio)

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'These moody-but-catchy tunes, their niches decorated with delightful sonic details, are a treat while Klock’s lyrics are playful and acerbic, her vocals alternating between maudlin singing and deadpan spoken word' Anadol, Marie Klock - Manivelles - Rockfort! French Music for July buff.ly/Ur0Bv1l

Who amongst us hasn’t had an imperfect point of view like supporting Israel’s genocide of Palestinians while making bizarre statements that clearly assume all Jews defacto identify with Israel?

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

“boy george admits he used AI to create his new pro-israel song” is now a sentence we can say