Set those alarms folks. 🔔You seriously won’t want to miss our chat & live set on Jim Salveson #XSEveningshow on the fabulous XS Manchester - 106.1 FM, DAB+ & App 🔥

Somerset Capital Management founded by Jacob Rees-Mogg owns £105m of Infosys shares. Infosys is owned by Rishi Sunak's wife.

Infosys has been given more than £2bn in contracts by Rishi Sunak.

The corruption is unlimited and everyone is in on it.

Come on music lovers - give us a hand. Pretty please. 🙃
#IndieArtists
#Indiemusicians
#indiemusiclovers
#newrelease
#NewMusic2024
#helpusout
#musicmakestheworldgoaround

So for most tomorrow is a bank holiday. But tomorrow I’m travelling to Cheltenham to film a show with the fab Kaleb Cooper of #thefarm fame. Not moaning at all as I’m lucky to be working in this horrendously difficult time for lots of professionals in tv.

Easter egg, he said. I said no thanks, I’d rather have the latest offering from Brits & Pieces ! And here it is. A fab CD with 18 indie artists all for just 10.99.
Order yours now from Rough Trade or Waxandbeans

#SupportNewMusic
#IndieArtists

In between all the music & politics I do actually manage to have a life!
There was work - recording #TheApprenticeYourFired & also pleasure - a couple of theatre trips to Mind Mangler & #enemyofthepeople Both shows enjoyable in very different ways.
#SupportTheArts

These guys deserve so much support. They ceaselessly keep creating & delivering incredible music. Even if you’ve not heard of them before, please take 5 minutes to give TheGreatLeslieBand a listen. I promise they won’t disappoint!

It’s all over the news and as one of their 16m customers I’d like some answers!

Why not demand accountability from Thames Water for non-stop sewage discharge? Sign the petition if like me you’d like to know where all our money’s been going.
chng.it/rdMmwFDL via Change.org UK

Something’s gotta be done to help grassroots and musicians to have their outlets so a suggested £1 levy on arena tickets is a great idea, don’t you think?

Any of my music followers please help TheGreatLeslieBand by giving their latest single a pre-save. Thank you!

Everyone needs to boycott P&O Cruises Their ferry service is paying staff less than minimum wage. If you think, like I do, that this is abhorrent do the right thing and vote with your feet!
#fairpayforall

Special Economic Zones 🤯

EuropeanPowell talks to Carol Vorderman about something most of us aren't even aware of, SEZs

➡️ SEZs are small individual states within a state
➡️ 74 spread across England, Scotland and Wales
➡️ 12 freeports
➡️ Biggest one is 75 km in diameter
➡️ They…

We all need to get energised and get involved. Everyone should be talking about this. Surely this is the sort of thing BBC Panorama should be covering. I’m afraid I think the majority of the populace are completely in the dark.

Exceptional from Keir Starmer on the importance of the arts 👏

'Tory culture wars always end up as a war on culture'

'The creative arts shouldn't tell kids to know their place, they should have them find their place in the world'

'Art and culture are about bringing us…

I’ve never heard a Labour leader speak about the arts like Keir Starmer – now I hope words become action theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

So Sunak took £10 million from the racist Hester with one hand, but gave him contracts worth £400 million with the other . And the £10 million will be used to try to keep the Tories in power at the coming General Election. Sounds like text book government corruption - please…

TWO HEADLINES
🔹MPs salary to rise by 5.5% to over £91,000
🔹MPs clock off early as length of time in Commons hits record low

Never has trust or respect for the political class been so low

FYI Since 2010, MPs' wages up by 39% compared to 8% for average Brit

#GeneralElection

Dear 🇬🇧,

This is the anatomy of a militant takeover of your public healthcare system:

- Take the #1 healthcare system on Earth
- Defund it by £320 billion over a decade
- Force doctors and nurses to leave country
- Engineer the longest waitlist in NHS history
- Hold patients…