Thanks for playing the record on your show, Gid!

Being prone to unusual behaviour, I’m going to avoid the authorities on the way there as I habitually do. See you soon, fellow avoiders!

That woman in the orange sweater is actually about to go down to the Radical Friendship Theory matinee show at the Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon, London, this afternoon at 2pm, a one-off featuring Kenji, Helen McCookerybook, lan Button, Allan Crockford, Michael J Sheehy and myself.

Tell me why the headline isn’t: broken US system of governance still not removing obviously unhinged and delusional madman from power.

Marvellous Mark Fry and band show at Earth Theatre playing the whole of Dreaming With Alice for the first time.

This will be a proper one-off, the RFT band featuring Kenji, Helen, Ian Button, Allan Crockford, Ruth Tidmarsh and myself.

I mean, it would help make me not feel quite so dizzy with disbelief if one of those Israel stan accounts I get pushed at me didn’t use the occasion to post this grossly antisemitic, demonic distortion of Zack Polanski’s face to make out that he’s an er… Jewish antisemite. What times!

Apart from being a huge own goal in lending fuel to endless told-you-sos, it really is just what it sounds like: a lot of feedback noise from the social media loop, a lot like the way the right come up with their policies now. And that’s bad news.

Read the text of the Greens’ Zionism=Racism resolution now, and I’m afraid it reads like an average “simple as that” FB rant by someone’s uncle, all rhetoric, no sense of history. If you’ve never heard of, say, Hashomer Hatzair you shouldn’t pass judgement like that, least of all as party policy. /

Stimme in allem zu.

So much of this recognisably copies the way Corbyn era Labour was monstered in 2017-19, but we’re a few pages on in the playbook.

For those who like long German words, here’s a Vorbestellungsempfehlung

People in Europe are always surprised when you tell them that the good old moderate UK normalised the idea of stripping people of their citizenship for political reasons back in 2019