is anyone still on this app, make yourselves known

logging on to the labour party merch store and finding only this image plastered at low resolution on socks, mugs, cutlery sets and jumpers

silly meme that suggests the meaning behind 1984 is, instead of being about authoritarianism, about george orwell loving being middle class

is this anything

arrested and thrown in jail for having a laugh

just put this on my instagram story and have just received an earnest, pro andy burnham reply

innit, where’s the cynicism, the bitterness

does he?

Lancashire Day is held on 27 November to commemorate the day in 1295 when Lancashire first sent representatives to Parliament, to attend the Model Parliament of King Edward I. Lancashire Day was first held in 1996. Parliamentary democracy was a sham back then just as it is today (praise be, BlackRock).

HAPPY LANCASHIRE DAY

china is a country not a person

artists should explain themselves less, they know what they’re doing but not what they’re talking about

well i’m EVIL, i make insincere points and ask facetious questions, in bad faith !! HAHAH

you do not gotta hand it to Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings Inc.

yer da really likes it when Brian Cox says “fuck off”

you’re telling me we’ve been to the moon but can’t invent a type of blinds that don’t go mouldy in winter, a sick joke

also, at risk of sounding narcissistic, relayed back the context in which i see @statmagazine.org — as a community institution (ik we’re still early days yet, but that’s the vision)

this is quite good and a very level-headed analysis of The State We’re In etc.

THIS IS DEDICATED TO YOU

just now hearing about this “London” thing? any of you guys clued up on this? seems to be a lot on down there — news to me lemme tell ya

Keir Starmer superimposed on Half Life 2 as Dr Breen.

i fear Emily Maitlis should not even be on this list

I challenge Michael Walker to a live debate in the big car park by Leigh Tesco. You have 24 hours to respond.

I wish that were me.

i know everyone's focussed on keeping fascists out and that's very important, but please reserve some hostility for people who post "name a film but replace one word with sausage" stuff.

Staging England: Brass, Bombs, and a Bump on the Head - STAT The Commission for New and Old Art pack out Salford’s White Hotel for the venue’s first brass band show, VALVES.

Hebden Bridge Brass Band played the White Hotel t’other week. I wrote about it. Lots of stuff to be said about England, our industry — new and old — and the melancholia of brass bands. Proud of how it’s turned out. Givit a looksee.

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we’ve got a fancy domain-linked one now !