Alwyn Turner

This Thursday 24th July, 5:30pm: Liz Fenwick ~ The Secrets of Harbour House Kerensa is captivated by the story of Newlyn artist Bathsheba Kernow, escaping a stifling existence in 1930's Cornwall for a new life in the underbelly of Paris and the palazzos of Venice. Free to join.

I have done away with my ill-used, zombie Substack & finally launched a real one 🧟‍♀️ Follow now to receive my first post in your inbox 💌 🔗substack.com/@thingsthati/

*1* Hubert Selby Jr. born OTD 1928 in Brooklyn. In a typical bit of British old-Tory censorship, his novel 'Last Exit to Brooklyn' (1964) was prosecuted for obscenity in the U.K. prompting defences from leading authors such as Anthony Burgess.

The cover story of this week’s @NewStatesman is online now — and it’s a belter. @Will___lloyd has spent months looking at the extraordinary Tory implosion now unfolding before us. His conclusion: Kemi Isn’t Working. To find out why, read his piece👇newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

⏳ Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

Those who claim Britain is losing its national identity because of mass migration have reversed cause and effect — we forgot our national culture, and in the process lost our ability to define and police British citizenship. My latest for @TheCriticMag thecritic.co.uk/britains-ident…

Stage 1: removal of ‘all requirements for pledges of allegiance to contested aspects of EDI and other ideologies from processes involving admissions, appointments, promotions, probations and training’ (but not wider legal EDI duties). thecritic.co.uk/depoliticising…

“Trump feeds us, while Hamas starves us. God bless the Americans; they're giving us flour and food." Just constant videos coming out of Gaza of Gazans praising the new Israeli / American led Aid Distribution (GHF) method. I’ll stick a couple more videos in the thread below. No…

He walked into The Crown as John Osbourne. He walked out of The Crown as Ozzy Osbourne - Birmingham's Eternal Prince of Darkness. Save The Crown. We'll never have another Ozzy. But we can give the world opportunity to experience the transformative Black Magick in those walls. 🖤

Well worth a read of @dcsandbrook intro to the “Great British Dream Factory” this morning - on the emergence of Black Sabbath and heavy metal in the 1960s 🦇 “Birmingham more than any other city had become synonymous with the sound and the spectacle of industry”

"We will always support our members and if that takes us outside the law, so be it. We will have to live with the consequence." Happy 75th birthday to Len McCluskey. thelionandunicorn.wordpress.com/2018/06/26/a-r…

To be published 22 January 2026, six months from today... A Shellshocked Nation: Britain between the Wars.

A very rare thing: a serious pod about a serious filmmaker. Rightly juxtaposes art (Badlands) v Pulp (True Romance) and points to Malici’s prefigurative yearning v postmodern cynicism. More Malick less Tarantino and Cowns.1/2 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

'All the Fun of...' Wanstead Flats (2023) by Doreen Fletcher doreenfletcherartist.com

The miners’ strike ended 40 yrs ago. Pictured is our bucket collection & protest at the 1984 #SussexGrad ceremony. The photo includes a mixture of student union & Kent NUM activists who all backed the Great Strike. Congratulations to today’s Sussex Uni grads. @Miners_Strike 1/4

“A slow and shocking cancellation of the future” That’s how socialist thinker Raymond Williams described the shock of the defeat of the 1926 General Strike in his 1960 novel. But note that the socialist future didn’t stay cancelled.  It had a wave of gigantic advances after…

THE CURSE OF PELOTON

It was 56 years ago today when man first landed on the moon for. It looks this morning as if my fried egg is paying tribute.

In short: Labour 30-35% Reform 17-20% Greens 18-19% ...but note 16-yr-olds in 2029 are only 12 now