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Alan Stewart

@laikaalan.bsky.social

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Ex-goth, socialist, man about town. Into Memorial Device before Mary Hannah joined. Communist family history stuff. Resist moral panics. Writing a biography of Dundee Comintern agent Bob Stewart. #MDANT #JoinaUnion

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 6h

The history of Nazis holding rallies in left-wing areas of Weimar Germany, instigating street fights, and then telling the press that only they could save Germany from the "violent communists" seems like an important thing for people to be studying right now.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 12h

I’d buy one!

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 13h

In the words of Alan Partridge- “Scum. Subhuman scum.” I’m talking about Farage to be clear. Not teachers. They are all cool and sexy.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 15h

Vous ne pouvez pas manquer avec Armitage Shanks.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 19h

Bury my heart at Peterborough station.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 19h

I first found out when I went to a Peter Saville exhibition about twenty years ago in one part of the gallery all the Unknown Pleasures stuff and then in another this. I was really shocked. Both are glorious.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 20h

Celebrating Peter Saville’s 70th birthday by posting his most iconic record cover design.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 1d

Good.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 1d

Your wish is my command, comrade. @memorialdevice.bsky.social, trouble at t'mill if you're in Greece again for this one 👀👀👀👀

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An evening with Stu Hennigan for Keshed in Leeds | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An evening with Stu Hennigan for Keshed in Leeds today.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 1d

Never mind that London. Leeds, Leeds, Leeds!

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 1d

I went to see this at Sheffield Showroom around the time it was released and had forgotten all about it and then I read Stuart Braithwaite’s book last week and found out it had a cult following. Think a rewatch will trigger lots of memories.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for that.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 3d

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The Beta Band - Dry The Rain - Manchester O2 Apollo, 4th October 2025

YouTube video by Robert Skilbeck

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 4d

No worries - didn’t mean to come across so bluntly but had just come in from beta band. That’s my excuse!

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 5d

People turn out to counter fascist demonstrations all the time.

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 5d

Well, I for one, feel a lot safer now she’s off our streets!

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 5d

Off to see The Beta Band!

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 6d

The 72-76 is perfect for long night time drives but 80-82 is my favourite.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 6d

It’s great. Love the Malcolm McLaren track on it.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 6d

My dad telling one of his stories to Yvonne Kapp at one of Bob Stewart’s birthday celebrations in the early 1970s.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 6d

Both the 77-79 and 80-82 comps are phenomenal.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 6d

A post about the unlikely friendship between great grandfather Comintern agent Bob Stewart & the bisexual, bohemian writer Yvonne Kapp. She called him ‘the finest human being I have ever known’ and dedicated a volume of her biography of Eleanor Marx to him.

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Comrades: Yvonne Kapp

At the end of last year I was sorting through a large box of correspondence dating from the 1930s and onwards. In amongst them was a handful of letters addressed to Bill Stewart who was my grandfat…

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 6d

Anyway- get all of them they’re all superb.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 6d

1986-1990 Rollin’ Under the Melody compiled by @jonsavage.bsky.social is a perfect compilation. On the last one I’d have dropped the terrible Psychedelic Furs Heartbeat 12” and Alison Moyet for Propaganda’s Duel and Strawberry Switchblade’s Since Yesterday but this is all utterly wonderful.

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Chace Verity @chaceverity.com · 6d

New on Patreon: A spotlight on cinema's first canine movie star, a very good boy named Blair

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Photograph of Blair, a collie, sitting next to a baby, Barbara Hepworth, who is sitting up.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 6d

uk.bookshop.org/lists/how-to... If you want to give your wallet a proper caning there's a list of 60 books here related to Keshed,mix of fiction, non-fiction, poetry.....Some amazing stuff in here; if you're only getting one, make it mIne though 🤣

#GetKeshed 🙏🤘

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 6d

Keshed finally available for preorder via @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social if anyone's after a copy. Out 12th Feb. Can't see any endorsements on here but there are tons in my pinned post and loads more on my tl from folk like Robin Ince, Mark Bowles, Wendy Erskine etc 🖤🙏

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Keshed

Check out Keshed - In the derelict shell of what was once his family home, a dying man surveys the wreckage of his former life and drinks himself senseless, haunted by the chain of events that led him...

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 7d

This was such a great episode and it pointed me in the direction of Hons and Rebels for which I will be forever grateful.

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Bad Gays @badgayspod.bsky.social · 7d

please enjoy this helpful guide, which makes a lovely companion to our episode about Tom Mitford. also, one of them recorded a kazoo cover of right said fred with maya angelou but we won’t tell you which one til you listen to the episode m.youtube.com/watch?v=d4TL...

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 7d

the marketing of this book is WILD once you see which Mitford it is

Book cover: the pursuit of laughter, essays, articles, reviews and diary of the most controversial Mitford sister. And it’s DIANA MOSLEY. Complete with a generic picture of a 1930s society belle’s face in pearls.

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