hello everyone Next Friday (5th April), I will be at Housmans Bookshop, talking to Jon (Jon) about their wonderful little book about utopia and Ernst Bloch. Join us for an evening of conversation, and perhaps enact some real existing utopia at the pub afterwards.

Very pleased to be sent Zerox Machine by Matthew Worley - no punk revisionist cliches but a proper and scholarly examination of a fascinating phenomenon

Come one, come all! Come see @de_leuzer and me talk Bloch, Utopia, hope and the new before adjourning for a 🍻 or two nearby. Tickets are cheap so please spread the word!

Was also really lovely to get to see @SanktMaxTCI, meet John Duncan IRL for the first time, and catch up with Matthew Frame.

It’s the same staff! There’s no separate private healthcare workforce that’s just standing around waiting to be deployed to ‘help’- it’s nhs consultants and surgeons that just moonlight for the private sector. Very easy set of questions to put to him, surely

DOPE 25 (Spring 2024) is now available to read for free online because property is theft. Pick up a copy from a vendor when you see one because direct action gets the goods... dopemag.org/read

👻👻 Capitalism A Horror Story is out in EIGHT WEEKS 👻👻 If you haven't done so yet, please do preorder the book from Repeater Books -- I can't wait for a deeply spooky summer... repeaterbooks.com/product/capita…

Less than 24 hours after Yvette Cooper said she’ll ramp up raids, we’ve seen a guy on the train from Stockport to Manchester in full cosplay police gear with stab vest, handcuffs, wire and ‘UK Civil Defence’ badges asking all the brown men in his carriage where they’re going

Keir Starmer would never admit it, but he has the power to fix many of the UK's deep-rooted economic and social problems. Instead, he will impose renewed austerity on those least able to bear it. Not because he has to, but because he wants to. tribunemag.co.uk/2024/08/labour…

As you may have seen, we launched a Kickstarter campaign to help us through a difficult time. Long story short, our UK distributor is filing for bankruptcy and, to date, owes us nearly £1 million for book sales stretching back to January. More info here: kickstarter.com/projects/verso…

British folk horror and occult characters to be on Halloween, a thread. 1. Mr Fisher from Robin Redbreast (1970). Catchphrase: “The study of religions is one of my many interests.” You’ll need: - Tweed trilby - Mutton chops - Cracked spectacles - A copy of The Golden Bough

Today is the 10 Year Anniversary of Too Many Cooks airing at like 3am scaring the crap out of people who were up late and stoned watching Adult Swim It’s the weirdest project I’ve ever done and I’m proud I got be part of such an insane and iconic video🔪 youtu.be/QrGrOK8oZG8?si…

In January 1919 a new magazine heralded the dawn of the Weimar era. Its aesthetic was a kind of demented Jugendstil, and its stories were dark gothic fantasies. This is the story of Der Orchideengarten...

THE FANTASTIC ADVENTURES OF ADAM ANT (Tops, 1982): There had been several pop star comic strips, but none as brilliant as this, starring the Dandy Highwayman himself. Plucked from an Ants gig to travel through time, Adam fights the likes of Cerberus and, yes, Satan himself!

Apropos of nothing here is the entire Criterion Collection: mega.nz/folder/e58EQZI…

Today in pulp... the art of Virgil Finlay!