@robinturner
Wrote books about The Chemical Brothers and Heavenly Recordings, does PR for some of rock and / or roll's finest, part owns The Social. Now writing weekly newsletters about life with and after a brain tumour: https://acloudablossom.substack.com/
When Brexit was slammed for being an act of pure prejudice, all the Brexiters howled about ‘sovereignty’ and ‘taking back control’.
Now, the very same people howl that we should just obey Trump and put our country in the firing line.
They lied about everything. All of it. Every single part.
I mean, I do that with everything on the telly, this isn't going to be any different
SOLD
Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Remembering Mark E. Smith on his birthday. Here are The Fall performing Big New Prinz live on Tony Wilson's The Other Side of Midnight in 1988
Cheers man, really appreciate the love ! Xx
Last week, I heard Heaven through my ears as audiology finally sorted out my hearing aids. Deafness has really got me down, it feels like a punishment for years of stupid loud behaviour. Wrote about (half) getting a sense back + as always, God bless the NHS. open.substack.com/pub/acloudab...
happy birthday!! whatever you're doing, hope you have an ace one!
the scumbag trying to tear al green's sign out of his hands is texas rep. troy nehls, a former sheriff, who afterwards asked the president to sign his tie like he was a beatle.
NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...
"Keep your side of the road clean." In a world of dolourous news, all you can do is find one small thing - then try to fix it. And so me and the British Society of Magazine Editors are launching this - to find the next generation of writers AND PAY THEM. Screw you, AI. We still believe in writing.
Political people love to debate who the worst modern PM in modern times was but it's unquestionably Cameron.
10 years ago this week he gambled the prosperity and fragile unity of the UK on a referendum on an issue that most people didn't even understand to placate back benchers and fucked us all.
The vinyl lp of The Colour of Spring by Talk Talk
'Come gentle spring, come at winter's end.'
Released 40 years ago today.
DJed at this gig. What a trip it all was.
hahahahahaha
Anyway curling is back on
I might start hanging out in ski friendly areas, might get picked up by a ski pimp
if it works for the levellers, it'll work for him
did he get into those Flanders style costumes?
"Nothin' at all... nothin' at all..."
Curling is over, now some mad skate racing on which it quite buttocks
Wonder if Jeff's seen this... will forward to him, as he's def not on here
These Happy Shopper Trumpists...
We *can't* let them win. Lots of us are going to have to hold our noses whenever we next go to the polls. But *anything* is better than this...
This is Nigel Farage with Nick Candy, the treasurer of Reform UK 👇
Candy appears numerous times in the Epstein files over more than a decade, The National has uncovered.
The Scottish Greens are putting pressure on Reform to explain the links.
Went to see my daughter playing the Beacon some forty odd years after i saw the Number of the Beast tour there. It was ace. Fell in love with music again. open.substack.com/pub/acloudab...
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Actual notes of music allergic nonsense
If you haven't picked this up with Julian Stockton, you need to. I reckon I'll hear the war cry in Bristol.
"Being munched by a snake during Paranoid Android..."
In today's TNC, the excellent @SteveMasonKBT takes on our Life & Times questions. It's a free edition:
thenewcue.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...
