love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

McNicol might have a case wrt data breaches but, again, i can't see him wanting to take a libel action through the courts. The challenge for Labour is that they've already made it clear that they don't want to fight any action in court either, so it's like waving a big sign saying 'come get your settlement payment here'.

xp

next you'll be telling me Laura Marling is a posh af tory *checks notes* oh yeah she is!

afaik i have no idea what Jessie Ware sounds like, i just see her name on ILX every now and again

she's pretty fucking good tbf!

You really don’t know what you’re talking about Dawn. Thought you knew better than to repeat untrue slurs.

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) July 23, 2020

the barefaced cheek of it

Ware shared a flat with Felix White of The Maccabees and is friends with Adele.[38] In August 2014, she married her childhood friend, Sam Burrows, whom she had met at school, on the Greek island of Skopelos, where the couple had previously become engaged.[39] On 15 April 2016, Ware revealed that she was expecting her first child.[40] On 8 September 2016, Ware announced the birth of her daughter who was born three days prior.[41][42]
She supports the Labour Party[43] and endorsed Jess Phillips as leader in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election.[44]

what is right with pop music ppl!

maybe gaslighting is overused but I didn't dream about Newton Dunce putting up a link to a dubious piece by a far-right extremist group on his shitrag's website.

is TND trying to rely on some semantic get out with this pish

or is he just brazening it out barefacedly

"what is right with pop music ppl!"

Only the grime crowd were good not bad

what odds on Grime4Starmzy? I'd say 666000/1

lol look at the ration on that tnd reply

Actually stunned to see TND address that tweet, he usually ignores it.

Keir Starmer's first official policy as Labour leader is to strip Dizzee Rascal's seminal grime masterpiece Boy In Da Corner of its 2003 Mercury Prize and instead award it to A Rush of Blood to the Head by Coldplay.

— Ghostface Kafka (36 Chambers) (@TheKafkaDude) July 23, 2020

Only the grime crowd were good not bad

Dua Lipa and Little Mix erasure

I carry no torch for Laura Marling (don't really know a single one of her songs), but is she really a Conservative voter?

kicking myself for missing out on doing a Dreemy Cornbin Legal Fund grift

xp that whole folk thing is v back to the land Tory isn’t it? I would never believe someone who told me Mumford & Sons aren’t tories.

there are lots of different folk things with wildly contrasting political outlooks

Laura Marling is a straight up aristocrat, her father is a Baron. I genuinely don't care about the political views of non-political musicians but I would guess LibDem - there are 19th century Liberal politicians in the family tree.

i like blood *and* soil

Maybe that's landed gentry idk.

Laura Marling is definitely posh, if from the old-liberal-quaker part of the posh spectrum, don't know anything about her being a Conservative, she confines her political statements to feminist stuff.

The shocking domination of music by poshos these days is a massive problem, but think attacking individual musicians probably isn't that helpful.

well

(“I assumed they were, ‘My dad was a vicar’ Tory, not ‘concerned about white birthrates’ Tory,” quipped one Twitter user).

She has other tattoos too. The Marling family motto “nulli praeda sumus” (“we are prey to none”) is written on one wrist. The family’s heraldic crest — a tower with a pennant — is on the other.

Latin family motto is so Tory.

LJ is gonna inform us of the wildly contrasting tones of liberalism in the Brit folk scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JD6ejmlpa8

well tbf folk can't with with you lot, an openly very-left-wing folk artist placed 3 in the tracks poll last year and ukpol rounded as one on him

I haven't heard the Marling album yet but given her past work assume it's a bit boring - am I wrong?

xp otm

iirc the high-Tory approach to folk music after about 1920 tends to be to view is as suspiciously Marxist.

Kinfolk-styled, vaguely pastoral pop is something else entirely.

thanks i tried to articulate that elsewhere, folk musician = plays actual folk music or gtf

There are probably more genuinely working class musicians (as opposed to the grand British pop tradition of fake working class) achieving a degree of success than there were in the 90s and maybe before. But they're black and also mostly rappers so the kind of people who write hot takes focusing the Florences and Mumfords of the world don't notice.

also bingo

Mercury Prize 2020 Shortlist – The Poll

Government has announced new rules on evictions ahead of lifting the eviction ban on Aug 24.

But they won’t protect the 600,000 people in rent debt due to Covid, we’re heading for an evictions crisis & @RobertJenrick has been telling barefaced lies

THREAD 1/#CantPayWontPay

— London Renters Union (@LDNRentersUnion) July 23, 2020

tbf there's no way i'm on top of any scene in 2020 but the Mercury is the last place that will get right what's going on with Grime, Drill etc and like everything in it the noms reek of an algorithm that's got little to do with how vital something is

lol I wasn't trying to answer Matt's concern, more divert this conversation there

Taylor Swift - Folklore

lmfao the exclamation mark this conversation didn't know it needed

I totally support the broad consensus from centre to far left that the k bush/may thing never happened, was just a bad dream/misunderstanding/etc. that’s my left unity take

but seriously anyone who can should join LRU now

The Mercury Music Prize...in 2020?

one year ago today jo swinson became leader of the liberal democrats, raise a glass

RIP

This is a terrific, sad and heartbreaking piece on covid, BLM, migration and so much more:

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/18/black-lives-matter-grandma-and-me-how-our-world-changed-during-lockdown?

Boris Johnson’s Brexit negotiator David Frost says: “We must face the possibility that [a trade deal with the EU] will not be reached."

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) July 23, 2020

https://youtu.be/zejLuDMjBMs

shocked_pikachu.jpg

oven-ready deal not thawed out properly ffs

THIS IS HUGE!

Nobody should be detained for immigration purposes during a pandemic. We are one step closer to that today with Morton Hall detention centre shut. https://t.co/EiXqqiiY6c

1/

— Freedom from Torture (@FreefromTorture) July 23, 2020

This shameless hack published literal neo-nazi propaganda, from an organisation literally called "Aryan Unity", then got himself banned from Wikipedia for repeatedly trying to remove any mention of it from his page. https://t.co/iivNZBJTPL

— Gordon Maloney #BLM (@gordonmaloney) July 23, 2020

lol TND blocked by wikipedia for trying edit out the details of his own appalling history

This is awful. She was the same age as my dad.

Paulette Wilson has died. She moved to the UK from Jamaica in 1968, but was stripped of her rights by the home office and left destitute as the Windrush scandal unfolded. While awaiting compensation, Paulette selflessly campaigned for justice for others. RIP Queen 👑 pic.twitter.com/P48853CG2a

— Nadine White (@Nadine_Writes) July 23, 2020