Happy Black Friday, y'all.
November 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Happy Black Friday, y'all.
The budget will cost my necessarily frugal household money we could well use, but I won't be complaining, because I'm not 12, I can grasp that a functioning country needs paying for, and I can understand the difference between something that isn't fair and something I simply don't like.
November 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The budget will cost my necessarily frugal household money we could well use, but I won't be complaining, because I'm not 12, I can grasp that a functioning country needs paying for, and I can understand the difference between something that isn't fair and something I simply don't like.
Ninja-level trolling by the Guardian picture desk to find a photo where he appears to have had a Social Justice Warrior hairdo.
November 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Ninja-level trolling by the Guardian picture desk to find a photo where he appears to have had a Social Justice Warrior hairdo.
It's not very lifelike. Just the one face, and it stays pointing the same way.
November 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
It's not very lifelike. Just the one face, and it stays pointing the same way.
Cancel your appointments, hold all your calls, bring in the dog and put out the cat: the new THREADS is up, on @slackcityradio.bsky.social via @totallyradio.bsky.social, and the theme this time is BAD BOYS.
Link in reply innit.
Link in reply innit.
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Cancel your appointments, hold all your calls, bring in the dog and put out the cat: the new THREADS is up, on @slackcityradio.bsky.social via @totallyradio.bsky.social, and the theme this time is BAD BOYS.
Link in reply innit.
Link in reply innit.
Stop personally attacking me with this relatable content, I just had a heavy weekend, is all.
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Stop personally attacking me with this relatable content, I just had a heavy weekend, is all.
By a remarkable coincidence, that's the exact reason I had no intention of going anywhere near a Morrissey show.
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
By a remarkable coincidence, that's the exact reason I had no intention of going anywhere near a Morrissey show.
ME: "Vandalism of artwork for any reason whatsoever is a selfish and unjustifiable attack on our collective cultural heritage and should always be dealt with sternly."
ALSO ME: "Could we not give this lass a grant tho."
ALSO ME: "Could we not give this lass a grant tho."
November 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
ME: "Vandalism of artwork for any reason whatsoever is a selfish and unjustifiable attack on our collective cultural heritage and should always be dealt with sternly."
ALSO ME: "Could we not give this lass a grant tho."
ALSO ME: "Could we not give this lass a grant tho."
The latest THREADS is here, on @slackcityradio.bsky.social via @totallyradio.bsky.social, and its theme is LAWSUIT TUNES: songs that prompted (or pre-empted) claims of plagiarism.
You can hear it via the link in reply. Alternatively, you can not do that. You pays no money and you takes your choice.
You can hear it via the link in reply. Alternatively, you can not do that. You pays no money and you takes your choice.
November 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The latest THREADS is here, on @slackcityradio.bsky.social via @totallyradio.bsky.social, and its theme is LAWSUIT TUNES: songs that prompted (or pre-empted) claims of plagiarism.
You can hear it via the link in reply. Alternatively, you can not do that. You pays no money and you takes your choice.
You can hear it via the link in reply. Alternatively, you can not do that. You pays no money and you takes your choice.
I wonder* if all the dog-whistlers who make it their business to circulate any and every criminal act committed by an evidently non-white or non-Anglo person will be rushing to give this story the same exposure.
(*I do not, in fact, wonder.)
(*I do not, in fact, wonder.)
November 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I wonder* if all the dog-whistlers who make it their business to circulate any and every criminal act committed by an evidently non-white or non-Anglo person will be rushing to give this story the same exposure.
(*I do not, in fact, wonder.)
(*I do not, in fact, wonder.)
Yet another example of how red tape in this country stifles growth.
October 31, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Yet another example of how red tape in this country stifles growth.
Our weed-loving next-door neighbours whose fumes periodically permeate our home last night managed to fill our hallway with a stench so ungodly I started to wonder if they were smoking an actual skunk.
October 31, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Our weed-loving next-door neighbours whose fumes periodically permeate our home last night managed to fill our hallway with a stench so ungodly I started to wonder if they were smoking an actual skunk.
"A reminder that Jews – justly frightened and appalled by the left’s own antisemitism, and its advocacy for the Islamist variety – would be unwise to seek illusory protection in the opposite direction."
Me on Nick Lowles' How To Defeat The Far Right, for
@jewishchron.bsky.social. Link in reply.
Me on Nick Lowles' How To Defeat The Far Right, for
@jewishchron.bsky.social. Link in reply.
October 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"A reminder that Jews – justly frightened and appalled by the left’s own antisemitism, and its advocacy for the Islamist variety – would be unwise to seek illusory protection in the opposite direction."
Me on Nick Lowles' How To Defeat The Far Right, for
@jewishchron.bsky.social. Link in reply.
Me on Nick Lowles' How To Defeat The Far Right, for
@jewishchron.bsky.social. Link in reply.
The latest episode of THREADS, the radio show about musical connections, is up on @slackcityradio.bsky.social via @totallyradio.bsky.social,
and this time the theme is EXCEPTIONS: a personal selection of songs I like by artists I don't - plus suggestions from friends of the show.
(Link in reply.)
and this time the theme is EXCEPTIONS: a personal selection of songs I like by artists I don't - plus suggestions from friends of the show.
(Link in reply.)
October 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The latest episode of THREADS, the radio show about musical connections, is up on @slackcityradio.bsky.social via @totallyradio.bsky.social,
and this time the theme is EXCEPTIONS: a personal selection of songs I like by artists I don't - plus suggestions from friends of the show.
(Link in reply.)
and this time the theme is EXCEPTIONS: a personal selection of songs I like by artists I don't - plus suggestions from friends of the show.
(Link in reply.)
BRB just pitching the WSJ on how while Queen and Pink Floyd get all the kudos, nobody but me, an intellectual, gives enough credit to under-regarded art-pop combo The Beatles.
October 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
BRB just pitching the WSJ on how while Queen and Pink Floyd get all the kudos, nobody but me, an intellectual, gives enough credit to under-regarded art-pop combo The Beatles.
All the while screaming, "IT'S F***ING GREY! NOT PACHYDERM SEACLOUD! NOT WISTFUL MIST! NOT ANTHRACITE DEMILUSTRE! F***ING GREY, DAMN YOU!"
October 9, 2025 at 7:56 AM
All the while screaming, "IT'S F***ING GREY! NOT PACHYDERM SEACLOUD! NOT WISTFUL MIST! NOT ANTHRACITE DEMILUSTRE! F***ING GREY, DAMN YOU!"
Mmm, must buy tinned ears.
September 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Mmm, must buy tinned ears.
Stop Grading Hens
September 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Stop Grading Hens
What I infer from Jeffrey Epstein's "birthday book" is not that most of his eminent friends were conspiring with him to traffic and exploit underage girls, but that almost all of them knew exactly what he was doing and considered it an endearing quirk. Which is not a whole lot better.
September 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
What I infer from Jeffrey Epstein's "birthday book" is not that most of his eminent friends were conspiring with him to traffic and exploit underage girls, but that almost all of them knew exactly what he was doing and considered it an endearing quirk. Which is not a whole lot better.
As the season starts to turn, why not welcome it in with the latest THREADS, on @slackcityradio.bsky.social via @totallyradio.bsky.social, which is all up in your autumn? (The question is rhetorical; please do not actually tell me why not.) Mellow fruitfulness guaranteed. As ever.
Link in reply.
Link in reply.
September 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
As the season starts to turn, why not welcome it in with the latest THREADS, on @slackcityradio.bsky.social via @totallyradio.bsky.social, which is all up in your autumn? (The question is rhetorical; please do not actually tell me why not.) Mellow fruitfulness guaranteed. As ever.
Link in reply.
Link in reply.
British politics never ceases to surprise me. I would never have guessed before this week that anything could make me sympathise with Angela Rayner.
September 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
British politics never ceases to surprise me. I would never have guessed before this week that anything could make me sympathise with Angela Rayner.
Farewell to Giorgio Armani.
September 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Farewell to Giorgio Armani.
When people on the other side of the argument behave the way Gr*h*m L*n*h*n has reportedly done (and they do), there are many - me included - who would say it's vicious and unacceptable and deserving of legal consequences.
And if that's true when they do it, then it's true when he does it.
And if that's true when they do it, then it's true when he does it.
September 5, 2025 at 8:57 AM
When people on the other side of the argument behave the way Gr*h*m L*n*h*n has reportedly done (and they do), there are many - me included - who would say it's vicious and unacceptable and deserving of legal consequences.
And if that's true when they do it, then it's true when he does it.
And if that's true when they do it, then it's true when he does it.
August brought cracking albums from CMAT, Nova Twins, Adrian Sherwood and Earl Sweatshirt. If you want to read what I wrote about them in Metro, here ya go.
September 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
August brought cracking albums from CMAT, Nova Twins, Adrian Sherwood and Earl Sweatshirt. If you want to read what I wrote about them in Metro, here ya go.
Bertolt Brecht: "I have a solution to deal with unruly voters."
Jeremy Corbyn: "Brilliant idea, thank you!"
Bertolt Brecht: "Remind me just who it is that doesn't understand irony?"
Jeremy Corbyn: "Brilliant idea, thank you!"
Bertolt Brecht: "Remind me just who it is that doesn't understand irony?"
September 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Bertolt Brecht: "I have a solution to deal with unruly voters."
Jeremy Corbyn: "Brilliant idea, thank you!"
Bertolt Brecht: "Remind me just who it is that doesn't understand irony?"
Jeremy Corbyn: "Brilliant idea, thank you!"
Bertolt Brecht: "Remind me just who it is that doesn't understand irony?"