Ryan Fox Music

Roots/folk singer from Kent 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🎹 🎸🎤 Dylan meets Bragg. Explorers Deluxe CD merch 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 [email protected]

[Ryan Fox Music @Thinker_Fox]

I’m giving away 5 EPs of my best released and unreleased music and exclusive versions for FREE!

Just go to the link below and tell me where to email them.

https://t.co/nJHp80fVi0

#ryanfoxmusic #protestmusic #folkmusic #altmusic #singersongwriter #kentmusicscene #ukamericana

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@ClashRobin The Masterplan.

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@Graphician Cheers G! 😊

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Reform, Labour and the Tories all take money from oil & gas giants and private healthcare interests.

That tells you who they’re really working for.

The Green Party doesn’t take that money. We answer to you - and to the future of our planet.

Vote Green on Thursday. 💚

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Reform took a £5m donation and they're trying to distract you. Farage is just another establishment stooge.

Like in Gorton & Denton - the only way to stop Reform on Thursday - Vote Green.

https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The verdict is in. 🗳️

Gary like so many people is voting Green. 💚

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@TONYASKINNER2 @The0riginalKiKi @SIEDAHGARRETT @EricaBand10 @zammit_marc @Radio_WIGWAM @desertislandcld Super creative and innovative work! Who is the artist? I couldn’t find a name/link - am I being dumb?

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@triffic_stuff_ Do you have any idea how socialism works?

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@Conservatives The Conservatives lost the streets when you defunded all the youth clubs.

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Lovely words from @seanbwparker on my new song celebrating our shared transatlantic musical heritage.

I even had to look up one of his adjectives. Hats off to the better writer in the room 🫡

Cheers Sean 👌

[Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker]

New track by one of my favourite British singer-songwriters Ryan Fox, Atlantic Echoes - also the title track of his new album

Mellifluous, reflective, plaintive, welcoming in the Summer - Go @Thinker_Fox, Go

https://t.co/krefaO8nDe

[Ryan Fox Music @Thinker_Fox]

@Conservatives @KemiBadenoch You do realise you can achieve the latter without bringing about cataclysmic climate change?

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@KemiBadenoch @Conservatives Why on Earth would you want to drill for more oil and gas? Have you ever listened to a climate scientist?

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@RupertLowe10 Dinosaur.

[Sam @SamCKx]

I can no longer hold my tongue seeing the utter lies being spread about Britain, our history of migration, and how this country was built into what it is today. For those so deeply buried in fake news, manufactured outrage and billionaire‑funded propaganda, I’m going to lay out the truth – and exactly why you’re being fed all this poison.

Britain was never a sealed white island. From Roman times there were African soldiers stationed on Hadrian’s Wall and living in British towns, people from across the empire walking these roads nearly 2,000 years ago. Through the Middle Ages and Tudor England you still find Black people in the records – sailors, craftsmen, servants, musicians – even Black musicians at the royal court and Africans being baptised, marrying and being buried in English parishes like anyone else. This isn’t some modern experiment; it’s older than half the castles people visit on their bank‑holiday tours.

As Britain went out into the world, the world came here. Sailors and traders from India, Yemen and beyond were arriving in British ports from the 1600s. Some of those men were practising a new faith to most Britons at the time, praying quietly in boarding houses near the docks while they worked brutal shifts in the engine rooms of British ships. Over the centuries, more people from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia passed through and settled, bringing their languages, foods and beliefs into port cities that were far more mixed than today’s nostalgia merchants like to admit.

After two world wars, the truth is simple: this country asked the Commonwealth to come and rebuild it. People from the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia didn’t sneak in; they were recruited. They came to drive buses and trains, staff the NHS, work in mills and foundries, clean offices, run corner shops, open takeaways and small businesses, and yes, build prayer spaces and community centres alongside churches and temples in the neighbourhoods everyone now pretends were always “traditional” and “unchanged”. They did the work that kept Britain going while being told to go home, refused housing, and treated as permanent outsiders.

And what have they been paid back with? Scandals where people who’ve lived, worked and paid taxes here for decades get told they don’t belong. Policies designed to make life so hostile that some give up and leave. A media that uses their names, accents, clothes or places of worship as props in endless scare stories. The message is always the same: you might toil for this country, but you will never fully be of it.

So when you hear that “Britain was white until recently” or that the country has been “overrun”, understand that you don’t arrive at that belief by accident. You get there because your history has been deliberately ripped out and replaced with a comforting myth: that “real” Britain is white, homogenous, and constantly under siege from people who look, speak or pray differently.

Now look at when this myth has been turned up to max volume. Wages frozen. Housing a sick joke. Energy and food prices out of control. Public services hacked to pieces. At the same time, the number of people hoarding unimaginable wealth at the top has exploded. Funny, isn’t it, how every front page is about boats and “swarms” and “our culture”, and almost never about the landlords, hedge funds, private equity and offshore trusts quietly buying up your city and your future.

That’s because this isn’t just prejudice; it’s a strategy. If you’re sitting on a mountain of wealth, the last thing you want is ordinary people – of every colour and background – realising they have the same problems and the same enemy. Much safer if the factory worker is furious at the new family down the road. Much safer if the person who can’t see a doctor blames the nurse with an accent instead of the minister who cut the funding. Much safer if a man who can’t afford his rent spends his rage on the woman in a headscarf at the bus stop instead of the billionaire who owns half his city.

Racist rhetoric, religious dog‑whistling, all of it, exists to break solidarity. It turns neighbours into enemies and stops people seeing that Black, brown and white working‑class communities have far more in common with each other than any of them will ever have with the people flying in on private jets. It keeps you so busy policing skin colour, passports and prayer mats that you never get round to asking why your kids can’t afford a home, why your parents can’t get a hospital bed, why you’re working harder and standing still.

The real story of Britain is this: a crossroads, not a fortress. Africans on Hadrian’s Wall. Black people in Tudor courts and city streets. Sailors, traders and workers from South Asia, the Middle East and beyond in the ports. Caribbean, African and Asian workers rebuilding the country after the war, staffing surgeries and hospitals, driving cabs, running shops, cooking food, teaching kids. Today’s multi‑ethnic, multi‑faith working class is not a glitch; it is Britain. It built this place and it keeps it running.

If you’re genuinely angry about what’s happening to this country, good. You should be. But aim it where it belongs. Britain was never pure, never untouched, never “theirs” to take back. The people ruining your standard of living are not the ones risking their lives to get here, or the ones whose names you struggle to pronounce. They’re the ones buying politicians, owning media outlets, writing the story of this country so you never learn your own – and never realise who is standing beside you.

[Ryan Fox Music @Thinker_Fox]

@RupertLowe10 Depends what they are fleeing from and the root cause of their hardship surely?

[Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker]

It's strange watching the mainstream news when you haven't seen it for ages. Feels like a bizarre world or formulaic, contrived bullshit. Ok, ok

I watched Yvette Cooper talking about the Iran War last night on some channel or other (apparently she's Foreign Secretary now, the Student Cabinet does like to keep us on our toes)

The degree to which she didn't seem to believe a word that was coming out of her own mouth was flabbergasting. Insincere, populist, political, boilerplate doublespeak of the grimmest, most approval-seeking order

This government seem to have no idea they're only in power as punishment to the Tories. Or rather they're probably well aware of that, and so are going to be as globally embarrassing as possible while they have the chance

[Ryan Fox Music @Thinker_Fox]

@KemiBadenoch @TomCruise What are your policies to prevent the root causes of crime Kemi?

[Ryan Fox Music @Thinker_Fox]

Yes please, come on @YouTube do the right thing.

[David Rovics @drovics]

Restore me next...?

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@Arundel_Vic @seanbwparker @SarahCholwill @Aguirre115622 @KenStringfellow Aah yes. My first love. Geek - c’est chic 👌

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@seanbwparker @TheArtNewspaper @artdaily @TopArtNews Big congrats Sean! 👌

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@Arundel_Vic @seanbwparker @SarahCholwill @Aguirre115622 @KenStringfellow Which bit? 🧐