@GaryNumanLive I have a spare ticket I bought accidentally, don't ask, for tonight at Rock City, cost me more than usual but open to offers, travelling there at 5pm msg me
@NevilleSouthall I am raising funds for a suicide prevention charity. Please could you share my fundraiser? I’m trying to get some legends to share my fundraiser? Thank you so much
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Trying to stop using Twitter, I refuse to use a single letter and Twitter reminds me of when I could use it with a clear conscience, moving to Blue Sky https://t.co/32UUEEeq6P I would love to see you there, @Sbutton1
@GGIANTMUSIC@ChrysalisRecs I saw them at Malvern Winter Gardens on this tour having not actually heard anything by them before and they blew me away! What a live band. I was immediately hooked and this album really is one of the best live albums ever. This is coming out just in time for my birthday!
Trump’s re-election is a global earthquake, and some of the strongest shocks will be felt in the UK and Europe.
These are the three big reasons
1.The UK and Europe are too dependent on the US military and its defence industry at a time when Putin’s land grab in Ukraine threatens our security directly and the Middle East tumult risks dangerous escalation - and when Trump talks of securing a fast peace with Putin on terms that could be presented as a victory by the Russian dictator.
2.The UK and European economies are growing too sluggishly to adequately deliver the living standards and public services demanded by citizens - and Trump’s threat of swingeing tariffs and a new age of protectionism could turn low growth into perma frost.
3.The cohesion of all our societies are being shaken by a social and digital media that daily challenges truth and fact, and which promotes hysteria, grievance and resentment. Trump’s pact with Musk means there is no chance that the digital misinformation beast will be tamed. The populist far right will be emboldened everywhere.
There is now a massive geopolitical choice for Starmer. Does he djtch his cautious incrementalist approach to restoring economic, trade and diplomatic relations with the EU in favour of something that looks more like a big bang? He’ll be under enormous pressure from his supporters, the LibDems and Greens to go much faster than he instinctively wishes to restore trade integration with the EU and build a new security integration.
Apart from anything else, the UK will now be under intense pressure to increase defence spending. Quite how that will be affordable is unclear absent a growth boost from securing seamless access once more to the EU’s single market.
Or does Starmer stick with relatively timid incrementalism in changes to the EU relationship, and make a brave bet that he can work constructively with an emboldened Trump - who (I am told) admires what he sees as Starmer’s untrammelled control of parliament while nursing a grievance at what looked to Trump like a coordinated Labour plan to help Kamala Harris.
Trump has historically been contemptuous of the EU. He would not be impressed by any perception that Starmer and the UK would choose friendship and loyalty to Brussels, Paris and Berlin over Washington.
But Starmer will have to choose.
@ElaineDyson1@Hugorelly My comment on Rosie Duffield article in the Guardian
'Good on you. We need more honest Labour MPs who have the guts to true to their ideals, surely there must be some? , and not tow the party line. Or are they all spineless and just want to sit in the House of commons
Today @Nigel_Farage said he was mislead by Andrew Tate on the identity of the recent murder
1) A sitting MP should not rely on a famous vile misogynistic thug for their information
2) An MPs job is to fact check
3) No British MP should cosy up to Andrew Tate
RT if you agree.
@mhdksafa Hi Mohamed, I was at Rock against Racism gigs in 78' and been anti fascist since before I knew what it was, those racist thugs are a very small minority and we need anti fascists to demonstrate to show them what a small minority they are!
@JVMonte2 The Psychedelic Furs at Moseley Dance Centre, I was skint and a mate at college offered to pay me in and buy me a drink but I felt uncomfortable, embarrassed? Talk Talk Talk became my favourite album of the eighties...saw them at Rock City last tour and they were superb....