Rob Martin

It’s #BandcampFriday, when BC waives its usual cut and the artist gets your full payment And I just happen to have spent this morning in the studio recording #NewMusic which is now available on captainpawprint.bandcamp.com/track/southb...

Since his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than £25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity.

check this cover ~ fresh n slinky 90 second spoonful of spoonful! www.instagram.com/reel/De8MnYm...

Currently wondering what message the UK govt thought it was sending by dressing up the Minister for Net Zero in a literal Shell logo.

LAST *TWO* TICKETS… … for this Saturday’s matinee performance. All other shows sold out. Gilbert & Sullivan’s DRACULA Lost for 120 years, restored, recreated and completely made up by MITCH BENN www.tickettailor.com/events/circl... #dracula #gilbertandsullivan #operetta #mitchbenn

LAST CHANCE!! Just a handful of tickets left… Gilbert & Sullivan’s DRACULA Lost for 120 years, restored, recreated and completely made up by MITCH BENN FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY 24/25 October www.tickettailor.com/events/circl... #dracula #gilbertandsullivan #operetta #mitchbenn

The only other logical explanation for Trump going all in to support Putin right now (apart from the Kompromat/Krasnov theory) is that he needs Russian hacking/information warfare help in the mid terms. Which just underlies how much they helped in the past

OVER 80% SOLD OUT - BOOK NOW Gilbert & Sullivan’s DRACULA Lost for 120 years, restored, recreated and completely made up by MITCH BENN STRICTLY LIMITED RUN - FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY 24/25 October www.tickettailor.com/events/circl... #dracula #gilbertandsullivan #operetta #mitchbenn

Postcard from Brighton My go-to man when everything's rubbish #AliceCooper 👁‍🗨👁‍🗨

Was that the same security services you dumped to visit ‘ex’ KGB colonel Alexander Lebedev and party in Umbria just after the Novichok Salisbury attack? Or the same security services whose advice you defied to put his son Evgeny in the House of Lords? Those security services?

Rehearsing GILBERT & SULLIVAN’S DRACULA with Ivan Sheppard, Madelaine Hanson, Thom Tuck and Kate Smurthwaite… FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY 24th/25th October, already 70% sold out… www.tickettailor.com/events/circl... #mitchbenn #dracula #opera #operetta #gilbertandsullivan

"Johnson?? Truss?? Fuck my life."

Thames Valley Police have responded to claims by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s lawyer that search warrants issued by officers at the Royal Lodge at Windsor were unlawful. From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Start the week with a jobbie on a mantelpiece. It can only get better from there. Quite Ugly One Morning is 99p today. www.amazon.co.uk/Quite-Ugly-M...

It’s #BANDCAMPFRIDAY, when BC waives its usual cut and the artist gets 100% of what you pay… Available for pre-order: GILBERT & SULLIVAN’S DRACULA: Original London Cast Recording All the songs from my forthcoming comic operetta mitchbenn.bandcamp.com/album/origin...

New mini-site for Gilbert & Sullivan’s DRACULA Over 50% of tickets sold; BOOK NOW #mitchbenn #dracula #operetta #gilbertandsullivan www.mitchbenn.com/gilbert-and-...

HIVE MIND - trying to source some sort of coffin/similar sized box for my Dracula operetta. Anyone got anything suitable they don’t mind lending/selling/hiring out?

The number of times Nigel Farage has fallen over himself to get a racist xenophobic slant on some breaking news SHOULD be a wake up call to anyone who thinks he isn’t just a hate monger, trying to distract from his crypto millions with some new scapegoat

Mitch Benn presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s DRACULA Lost for 120 years, restored, recreated and completely made up by MITCH BENN STRICTLY LIMITED RUN - FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY 24/25 October www.tickettailor.com/events/circl... #dracula #gilbertandsullivan #operetta #mitchbenn

HIVE MIND - Does anyone have access to a biggish room (at least 8m by 3m/25ft by 10 ft) somewhere London-ish that I might use as a rehearsal space (NB play rehearsals NOT band rehearsals so shouldn’t be much noise)..? Can’t pay much (hence request) but could offer two tix to my new musical…

Riddle me this. If somebody donates £36 million to a political party and £5 million to its leader, how is the £5 million not political? Asking for a parliamentary standards commissioner.

As crypto moneybags Ben Delo promises further £35m for Reform, current @privateeyenews.bsky.social sets out his money laundering backstory. Buy the mag for full story.

Mitch Benn presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s DRACULA Lost for 120 years, restored, recreated and completely made up by MITCH BENN STRICTLY LIMITED RUN - FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY 24/25 October www.tickettailor.com/events/circl... #dracula #gilbertandsullivan #operetta #mitchbenn

Police launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donations. Allegations it broke foreign funding laws. Electoral Commission considering steps in parallel with the police inquiry. Parliamentary standards watchdog looking into Farage’s £5m gift from Thailand.

Since its foundation in 1824 the bravery of Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers has saved more than 146,700 lives at sea. Hundreds of those volunteers have died attempting to save others. They are the best of us.

1/3 Our #badger cubs are now just a few weeks from release! The 1st arrived in March & it’s been many months of fostering, monitoring, treating, feeding, cleaning & making a huge number of repairs to their enclosures! Those claws and teeth will come in handy once they’re back…

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A thought I can’t get out of my head since Dolly Parton died: Can you *imagine* what kind of world we’d be living in if everyone who had the same kind of money as Dolly had was spending their money on the same sorts of things Dolly spent hers on…?

if you've ever enjoyed Richard Lloyd's music, it's a good time to show some support and appreciation. Unable to work and the bills are piling up. #Television #FuckCancer

Thank you ITV and Good Morning Britain.

A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.

You may have seen I broadcast a message to planet Earth from the edge of space. I thought it was equally important to speak to deep space about you and your lovely little planet. But I thought humans might like to see it too, so here it is. #Clacton #VoteBinface

It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.

It’s #BANDCAMPFRIDAY, when BC waives its usual cut and the artist gets your full payment… Out this #BandcampFriday; the ASKING ELVIS Album, the accompanying album to my brand new Edinburgh show: mitchbenn.bandcamp.com/album/edinbu...

A cautionary devolution tale: hundreds of millions of pounds invested in Teesside but benefiting a couple of local businesssmen rather than the region, thanks to mayor Houchen. Full @privateeyenews.bsky.social report from last year online here: www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...

PLEASE SHARE THIS To the young person (longish dark hair, patterned waistcoat, chinos & DM boots) who left this scroll of papers on the Piccadilly Line train at South Kensington station at about 4.25pm today, I’ve handed it to the station staff at Hammersmith.

Meet and Discreet: how Ministry of Defence waived the rules with un-minuted meeting between defence secretary and Palantir’s bosses Karp and Mosley, a week before signing ‘strategic partnership’. In latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social, chance to read online here - www.private-eye.co.uk/hp-sauce

In this remarkable image of white supremicists on a subway train in Washington I see cowards afraid to show their faces and a strong woman who shouldn't have to put up with this shit. (Photo: Cheney Orr - Reuters)

A £5 million "unconditional gift" from a crypto billionaire. A promise to launch a crypto revolution in Britain. Yeah, nothing to see here from Nigel "nine-jobs, five-houses" Farage. 👀

And there’s more… More lies, more dodgy deals and denials.. Farage has bought 4 houses for cash since 2020 - the year we left the EU. And declared only 2 of them. Come on people. The man’s a hot mess of corruption, racism, national security threat and greed. Let’s bin him off.

$2.1 billion in perfectly timed bets.

Number crunching: Nigel Farage and the BBC From the latest Private Eye, out now.

So, a list of Brexit winners: customs agents novel food industry migrant workers from outside the EU (if you ignore the racism) Northern Ireland Dutch/EU logistics And of course Farage, Johnson, Gove etc who all got richer but were never held to account. Ffs giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

NEW: Why did Nigel Farage throw the 2019 ‘Brexit’ election for Boris Johnson? What does it have to do with Harborne’s £5m gift? And why is it tearing apart Britain’s far-right parties? A @thenerve.news investigation by me & @luciaoc.bsky.social (Link below) 1/ #TheHarborneReceipts

How can the Spectator write an article about Palantir, without revealing that its owner, Paul Marshall, has a major stake in the company? Just complete self-interested deception

Want to know who Reform really stand for? Look at who's funding them.

The joyful irony of the radio playing Things Can Only Get Better while sitting in a Vauxhall garage waiting for them to foil the airbag's pending attempt to lacerate my face with dashboard shrapnel...

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Sparks fans who work for the NHS, and aren't already going to next Friday's gig in Chelsea, there are tickets here for just a £6.95 booking fee. A bloody excellent deal, if you qualify. I don't, but will be there. Weather forecast is middling... nhs.ticketsforgood.co.uk/events/36035...

OUT TODAY in paperback with exclusive bonus material ‘The Tremolo Diaries’ by Justin Currie The Sunday Times bestseller “Minor masterpiece” Classic Pop “Truly remarkable” John Niven “Beautifully written” BBC R6 “Savagely funny” i-Paper “Copious swearing” The Herald @delamitri.bsky.social