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Do you ever wish there was a book exploring protest songs that: a) weren’t all by Americans with beards & acoustic guitars? b) or all by shouty people from the 1980s? Your wish has been granted: 420 years of English protest songs in one book. mqup.ca/our-subversive…

“Crime is not the only use case for crypto. But…” ft.com/content/f40b7a…

Book launch imminent: April 16th. I've promised to sing if the room isn't too full but if we sell out then I won't. So you'd better come along and prevent the occurrence of a terrible crime against music. housmans.com/event/book-lau…

My latest piece for the Guardian looking at the growing tensions between Welsh and UK Labour theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

There's a guy out there responsible for "Democrat ad generic rock guitar riff" who lives a lifestyle you cannot even fathom

So long, farewell to the might Max Romeo theguardian.com/music/2025/apr…

Really useful discussion about rightwing rhetorical approaches on social media from Alan Finlayson journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/a…

INSTEAD OF GROK, @ GREG THE SORCERER TO ASK FOR MYSTICAL GUIDANCE AND FACT-CHECKING IN REPLIES. HE ALSO LIES THO SO BEWARE

The Guardian has flagged up the Media Reform Coalition / Common Wealth report on BBC reform, and quotes Alex Sobel MP for Leeds Central and Headingley MP. It also includes the phrase "active and direct participation", which I'm doing all I can to drum into people's heads over the next two years. theguardian.com/politics/live/…

The Trumpist war on knowledge: ft.com/content/9a2a3b…

Here's me and @profAfinlayson talking on a podcast. Come for the analysis of the UK local government election results; stay for the 300-year history of liberalism and its current, possibly terminal, crisis. culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/05/13/the…. You can listen online or subscribe.

The govt. is actively collapsing the industry in which I & about 400k other people work: it is against my interests. At some point people whose interests are ignored will conclude it's bad tactics to vote Lab & good tactics to not do so until/unless it offers them something.

We're hiring a Research Fellow for an exciting new job looking at hashtag#DataAccess to hashtag#SocialMedia data. Dr Amy Orben and I are leading a new initiative for UKRI on how social media data can be better made available for academics in the UK. See: lnkd.in/eaETK73c

‘Progressivism or bust: Why Blue Labour is the wrong answer to Reform surge’ – via LabourList labourlist.org/2025/05/blue-l… Jeremy Gilbert on fine form

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Just 2 years on from its nationalisation, TransPennine Express has seen: Cancellations down 75%. Passenger numbers up 42%. £1.4 BILLION generated in “economic value”. Public ownership isn’t nostalgia. It’s the future — and it works. thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/25196586.…

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Andy Burnham has made his leadership pitch – my piece on why his “popular left programme” is a challenge to Starmer. newstatesman.com/politics/labou…