fwiw I don't think "Cambridge University professor most people have never heard of committed professional malpractice" should actually be national headline news
Manu Ekanayake
@manueky.bsky.social
Oh God, this is just what we do now, isn't it? Just go from platform to platform like some kind of ongoing Littlest Hobo scenario
Loved editing @manueky.bsky.social's Tricky BD, particularly the bit where he imagines that he wrote Astral Weeks for his mum before a tangent into rabbiting with his grandad
The Quietus@thequietus.com · 2w agoAs he releases new album Different When It’s Silent and prepares for a set at this year’s Green Man, Tricky takes Manu Ekanayake through his life in 13 songs There’s Nothing Like It: #Tricky’s Favourite Songs buff.ly/bzg34te
I've given it 24 hours, and my position on Rod Liddle has shifted from "Rod Liddle is a cunt" to "Rod Liddle was a cunt."
say what you like about Rod Liddle
By sheer coincidence / psychic powers, I wrote about the idea of compulsory voting in last week’s New Statesman column before I escaped to Greece, and predicted it might be on Andy Burnham’s radar pretty soon www.newstatesman.com/politics/dem...
Should Andy Burnham make voting compulsory?
When voters stay at home, progressives lose out
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Nick Garland@npjgarland.bsky.social · 2w ago1/ Great reporting in The Times on the emerging momentum behind support for compulsory voting, which @ippr.org called for a couple of weeks ago: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
(To clarify/correct, it’s not all Northern. But it is all Soul. And it’s all awesome.)
FREE HAPPINESS. Legendary Wigan Casino DJ Richard Searling richardsearling.bsky.social has uploaded almost 1,400 vinyl-only Northern Soul shows to Mixcloud, with warm and informative links, and you can pick any one at random and be guaranteed a shot of pure joy. www.mixcloud.com/spurs1961/ri...
Richard Searling 'A Cellar Full Of Soul, 1966 Finale' 26.7.2026
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Slow down. Don't race through life or you might outrun the forest spirits, attic ghosts, and dark witches in floating cottages that are trying to catch you and bring you back to another realm.
It's true, I can report that Tricky loves Van Morrison and rabbiting, amongst other diverse pursuits
Patrick Clarke@paddyclarke.bsky.social · 2w agoLoved editing @manueky.bsky.social's Tricky BD, particularly the bit where he imagines that he wrote Astral Weeks for his mum before a tangent into rabbiting with his grandad
If you're arresting people at the airport on their way OUT of the country, your goal.was never border security. It's filling for-profit concentration camps.
The Spectator Garden Party is this prick laughing in your face forever.
The Spectator Garden Party is what Paul Marshall bought the magazine for. The website and the print publication are just trinkets compared to that yearly opportunity to exert influence.
Musk and his DOGE goons have launched a major campaign of threats and intimidation designed to cover up what they did to American famine relief and medical assistance programs.
-striding up to you at a bar- "Hey there, now I know what you're thinking but while I may be Starmer in the streets, I'm Mamdani in the sheets." -ducking as a chair is flung at my head-
The founder of the “raise the colours” campaign has since been charged with murder. bsky.app/profile/marc...
Marcus 🏳️🌈🇧🇧@marcusjdl.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe founder of the racist intimidatory “raise the colours” has been charged with murder. Can you spot what’s missing from the BBC report on this? The same BBC who gleefully list the country of origin of non-white suspects? Name not in headline even www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This was Starmer’s response to racist riots with England-flag waving thugs trying to burn alive people who have been forced to stay in hotels for seeking asylum
Samantha Asumadu@samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 2mo agoWho could forget this highlights 😔
i think, if I tried to boil it down to a sentence, it'd be: "All politicians are hated by their opponents - but Starmer went out of his way to be hated by his supporters too."
Andrew Hickey@andrewhickey.500songs.com · 2mo agoAll the people "puzzled by why Starmer is so disliked" are then doing a follow-up where they go "but people are giving a hundred different reasons rather than one!" Yes. That is why he is so disliked.
Just seems to me a lot of these right wing guys are a bit too obsessed with dicks
IF WE TOLERATE THIS is out today! These are worrying times politically but if there's one thing I want to get across, it's that the slide into far-right nationalism is not inevitable. Please help me spread the word. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
Asif Aziz really isn't beating those 'billionaires are a cancer on society' allegations any time soon. And @londoncentric.media is staying right on his neck, which I love
Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media · 2mo agoAn Ibis hotel by Wembley Stadium is coated in flammable Grenfell cladding. 100,000s of guests stayed without realising. No one knew because of a mysteriously bodged fire test and and a rewritten safety report. The freeholder? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s firm. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
He’s also a convicted stalker, something the headline forgot to mention. You can send feedback to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 08081 002250
Neon Genesis Ewangelion@ewacat.bsky.social · 2mo agoOH MY GOD HE LITERALLY GRABBED HER HAIR IT WASN'T JUST "ASKING FOR A KISS" GO FUCK YOURSELVES, BBC NEWS www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The difference between Russia/Qatar and the USA is Russia/Qatar used the World Cup to hide their human rights abuses, and the USA are using it to flaunt them
Andrew Edwards@redordeadedd.bsky.social · 2mo agoCongratulations to the USA on managing to be worse hosts that Qatar and Russia. Quite the achievement.
How ridiculous! Someone arrested and thrown in jail (community service) for simply asking for a kiss??? Wait a second… let me just click on the link and scroll down past the headline
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 2mo agoMan who asked woman for kiss on train sentenced in legal first
Every text I send my friends includes a brief bio of myself in case they forgot
Annnd here the ever vacuous, talentless, supremely arrogant Badenoch demonstrates how little she values the very equality that enabled her & others to break the glass ceiling of white male dominance in senior positions.. She’s so dense she actually believes she made it due to her genius 🤣😂🙄
Kemi Badenoch to call for scrapping of legal equality duty
The Conservative leader will argue that the rules have become a "minefield that exposes almost every significant public decision to legal challenge".
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