Some top retail punning in Birmingham

There’s something really debased, depressing & sordid about all the coverage Liz Truss is getting for this radical-reactionary polemic. The review in the Guardian was funny but what exactly are we laughing at? Better give the review/profile space to writers who deserve it not 🥬

Out today in paperback...

TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG: The 2 Tone Records Story by Daniel Rachel

'This feels like the definitive story of 2 Tone. Masterful'
- Billy Bragg

'A scintillating read'
- Pete Paphides

'Essential'
- MOJO

⬛️⬜️ geni.us/TooMuchTooYoung

TONIGHT

I have no idea what this shrub is in my garden but it is exceptionally happy this year and will display these flowers for about another two weeks. Always feels like a turning point in the year and a harbinger of summer daze

New band name: Bad People

OG Psychedelic Avatar 🖤

#ToryScum
One house is owned by Michelle Mone and one was owned by Angela Rayner. One of the owners owes millions the other might owe a couple of thousand pounds. Guess which one the press want you to focus on?

I've ordered the new Liz Truss book so you don't have to.

Fair play to the Tories: so principled they would rather see 80,000 people a year die than compromise their libertarian’ beliefs

theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

I was there. 6 years old. Dad jibbed me in under the turnstile because he was too tight to pay for my ticket. Remember that Lampard jig around the corner flag. Proper football in the Olden Days etc #Irons ⚒️💜

Calling all Cure fans of Swan Bottom, Little Hampden, Cow Roast, Tring and maybe even Chalfont St Giles. See you next week!

“How can a door also be a jar?”

This Friday night we're heading to Birmingham for a double header with Richard Norris and Lias Saoudi, as part of the Heath Bookshop's new festival with Hare & Hounds Birmingham

They'll both be in conversation with Daniel Dylan Wray and then signing copies 👉 the-heath-bookshop.eventcube.io

Softens the blow of ⚒️ losing

This looks set to be another Simon Reynolds book that will be devoured again and again. Bravo White Rabbit Books #NowReading 🐇📚

Sunday listening, read by the man himself. Fabulous #Herzog open.spotify.com/show/14zEUKDwF…

Jimi Hendrix with Kevin Ayers of Soft Machine backstage in Rochester, New York on March 21, 1968.

When the Tory party is soaked in scandal, lies, greed, cronyism, sex-pesting, racism, libel, website hacking, rule-breaking, tax evasion, grubby peerages, dodgy donors, multiple addresses and jobs… going for Labour on some bollox charge just makes their own stink even worse.