Billy Bragg

with @billybragg.bsky.social performing to a SOLD OUT crowd at The Spire last night. Fans heard #cityofheroes #Fascists #shield #greetings #alltheclassics #KPPCONCERTS Stuart Roberts - Kingston, ON #havecamerawilltravel #supportartistsontour #supportlocalmusicvenues #experiencethemusicjourney

It's been months now but my mind keeps returning to that guy who wasn't Chappell Roan's bodyguard but he wanted to be so he shouted at a little girl in the vicinity of Chappell Roan. Manifestation king, freelance dreamer

Some reflections on the Semiquincentennial of the United States open.substack.com/pub/braggb/p...

The stars finally aligned! Wilco and I finally got the play those Mermaid Avenue songs together at Solid Sound last weekend. You can stream the whole set here www.nepm.org/podcast/the-...

Paul Robicheau at #Wilco's #SolidSoundFestival: a @billybragg.bsky.social reunion, festival deep cuts, and a weekend of discovery turn #massmoca into a communal music feast. artsfuse.org/331012/music...

Some thoughts on the difference between pride and prejudice and an alternative anthem for the 4th of July open.substack.com/pub/braggb/p...

An effective push back against GOP culture war tactics? Seems to me it should be.

Trump said that repairs to the DC Reflecting pool would cost $1.8 Million. Now? The price tag is $13.1 million. The company doing the repairs got a no-bid contract for the project after previously working on pools at Trump's properties. Where’s the uproar about waste, fraud, and abuse now?

When did we normalize this? When did it become okay for a president to tell a female reporter she’s a ‘dumb person’ for asking a totally legitimate question about his contradictory answers? Was there a specific date and time it become okay? Normal? Normalized?

The new Supreme Court case about mifepristone is about more than just one abortion drug. It’s about whether conservatives can enforce a nationwide ban and we need to all be aware of the details. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Here’s the full documentary “Following the Ninth” which begins with @billybragg.bsky.social explaining how he rewrote the lyrics to Ode to Joy and the Queen requested an autographed copy.😂 I guarantee this documentary will lift your spirits.

Mark Ashton, central character in the film 'Pride', worked at the Red Wedge office in 1986/7 where his radical energy kept us all on our toes. I'll be performing at a celebration of his life and activism at The Vauxhall Tavern in south London on Thursday May 21st. link.outsavvy.com/80f7cb6p

Looking forward to this being entered as an exhibit in the Comey case.

The Daily Mail are losing their sh/t over the rise in popularity of Zack Polanski's Green Party.

The Bard of Barking meets royalty - the Pearly Queen of Fulham - to launch 'The story of England in 50 objects' for #StGeorgesDay promoting an inclusive sense of English national identity. More at www.averyEnglishchat.org.uk @billybragg.bsky.social

"From a legal standpoint, this indictment is crap. From a political standpoint, it’s an effort to avenge the KKK and enshrine white supremacy in America. Both should be dismissed with prejudice." — @lizdye.bsky.social

The Republican men who pretend to care about women’s sports standing in front of the actual athletes really sums their whole charade up perfectly

Two and a half decades of Tea Party work, down the drain.

wild stuff.

Happy St George’s Day! Here’s a poster of 50 objects telling the story of England, based on suggestions of over 3000 people compiled with the aim of creating an inclusive sense of Englishness against those who promote division Join the fun by listing your five objects at www.averyenglishchat.org.uk

"logic of Musk’s empire is total. X shapes the discourse. Grok automates it. Grokipedia rewrites the historical record. Starlink can deliver it all, everywhere, to everyone. Each layer reinforces the others. It’s not about winning arguments in the public sphere. It’s about building a replacement."

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir. The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm So we’re taking legal action. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...

Sometimes the callout blazes like a white hot sun.

Translation: If JD Vance (Peter Thiel) & MAGA are in control after 2028 they will try to *force* our children to serve in the military to implement their Manifest Destiny BS: “We should…seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force...” x.com/palantirtech...

No Left Field this summer, but you can recharge your activism at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival. It's a celebration of worker's power with music, talks, workshops and a whole weekend of radical solidarity. Get down to Dorset and get organised! Tickets and details here: www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk

Sorry to hear that my old sparring partner Andy Kershaw has passed away. His eclectic taste in music and enthusiastic promotion of the artists he loved made him a brilliant broadcaster

Very grateful to Senator Bernie Sanders for bringing U.S. unions together to create a common front in the face of the threat AI poses to workers and much else. Sometimes it takes an 84-year-old to do the high tech stuff! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

A historic number of Senators voted to stop the transfer of bulldozers and bombs to the Israeli military tonight. And we will continue to grow and get louder until we have stopped arming Israel. Fund people, not bombs. Stop arming Israel.

"Orbán’s Hungary has been the model for the global fascist assault on democracy. Maybe it can also serve as a model for its defeat." Important piece from Jason Stanley for Zeteo on the big story of the day:

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So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.

In memory of Phil Ochs - singer-songwriter, anti-war activist, father, true patriot - who took his life fifty years ago today m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmb0...

Hegseth must go.

Great that the space race isn’t over after all, but I’m surprised that after 54 years communications from Artemis II still sound as brittle and crackly as the did back in the day.

This is appalling: “Case counts [of measles] in 2026 are more than double what they were the same period of 2025 and more than ten times what they were in 2024.” 4/1/26 … 1/ www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

During a new interview with anti-Muslim figure Amy Mekelburg (known online as "Amy Mek" www.huffpost.com/entry/anti-m...), far-right figure Tommy Robinson said he would be meeting with Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL). (Mekelburg also said that she & far-right figure Laura Loomer "work together.")

Massive turn out for the Together Alliance march in London at the weekend. The vibe was reminiscent of the big Rock Against Racism marches of the late 70s www.nme.com/news/music/b...

Quiet. Part. Loud.

While our American cousins take to the streets to protest against Tяump's authoritarianism on No Kings Day, we're marching in London to prevent his divisive politics being imported to the UK. I'll be playing a few songs in Whitehall around 2:30pm www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

NEWS: Trump-backed effort to repeal Utah’s anti-gerrymandering law FAILS after grassroots campaign removes enough signatures to block it from the ballot. 1/

The military attacked another boat accused of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean. At least 163 people have so far been killed in US boat bombings. Remember: No judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're taking Trump's word for it. This is a danger to us all.

The White House sending out proof that Trump was indeed talking to Iranian officials these past few days, despite Iran's denials of such talks.

The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…

To tilt Hungarian election, the Russians proposed staging an assassination attempt www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...