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The Big Nosed Bard from Barking The Reissues | Three Classic Albums Releasing November

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1Jul 3, '24Everyone knows Labour are going to win the election, but if you’re feeling like there’s no point in voting as the outcome is a foregone conclusion, I’d like to draw your attention 98.5×5M28k7.6k1.6k
2Aug 1, '24Imane Khelif is a female boxer who has been defeated 9 times by women opponents. Those claiming she's a man have the same aims as those who claimed that the suspect in the Southpor65.3×3.3M20k3.3k461
3Mar 12, '23When people make comparisons with what went on in Germany in the 1930s, I refer to these words from the Auschwitz Museum to judge if there is some truth in their claim.46×2.3M24k4.5k255
4Mar 14, '23Julie Bindel takes to right wing GBNews to smear the trans community with the same trope that was used against gay men in the 1980s - that they are all paedophiles. Has she forgott43.4×2.2M5k482151
5Dec 19, '22The Specials were a celebration of how British culture was envigorated by Caribbean immigration but the onstage demenour of their lead singer was a reminder that they were in the s33.6×1.7M25k3.9k172
6Sep 22, '23What?? Louise Distras hates trans people so much that she’s willing to dress in a style acceptable to Daily Mail readers in order to have a go at them. What does this have to do wi31.8×1.6M3.6k20189
7Mar 25, '23From today’s New Zealand Herald: ‘The Trojan Horse of the Far Right’. I think we can rest assured that the Kiwis have got the measure of @ThePosieParker29.6×1.5M8.5k1.3k131
8Mar 3, '23Just blown into Adelaide for 3 shows at the Gov. Appalled to find UK anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen is coming to SA to stir up division. Not only anti-trans, she also accepts 27.1×1.4M6.7k70561
9Feb 18, '23Bit of night time industry solidarity after the show tonight in Wellington where the local strippers are out protesting for fair contracts and labour rights outside Calendar Girls 21.8×1.1M6k51052
10Dec 3, '23Oh fuck off.18.9×951k8.2k83363
11Aug 20, '23Since I saw that clip of Oliver Anthony singing 'Rich Men North of Richmond', the ghost of Woody Guthrie has been whispering in my ear. So today I sat down and wrote this response17.5×883k4.8k1.4k555
12Mar 18, '23Check this thread: Neo-Nazis salute in solidarity with Kellie-Jay Keen at her anti-trans event in Melbourne. How can @jk_rowling @bindelj and @Womans_Place_UK claim that GC is prog17.5×881k4k71861
13Feb 20, '23Can someone help this cranky old guy because he seems to be pleading with everyone to conform to his understanding of the world so as not to make him feel uncomfortable17.1×862k4.5k261101
14Mar 21, '23This is how you respond when Neo-Nazis give Hitler salutes on your doorstep. The Premier of Victoria raises the transgender flag over Parliament House in Melbourne, site of Saturda15.3×772k8.1k84763
15Sep 11, '23The only gender ideology that actually exists is patriarchy, which poses a threat to women, girls and trans women alike15.2×769k4.2k34048
16Sep 27, '2324 hours since Laurence Fox made his misogynist outburst on GBNews, yet no word of condemnation of his unacceptable behaviour from women's rights campaigners Maya Forstater, Kathle14.3×721k4k43635
17Jul 26, '23Sinéad O’Connor was braver than brave. May she rest in peace.14.1×709k16k1.2k38
18Apr 29, '24JK Rowling seems unconcerned that, in subordinating everything to the issue of trans exclusion, she risks facilitating reactionary forces that seek to curtail women's rights. Yet t13.9×700k5.2k448235
19Jul 9, '22Johnson 'delivered' Brexit? Brexit has only been delivered in the sense that a flat-pack of furniture is delivered. It hasn’t been assembled yet because it won’t fit through the fr12.5×045k9.4k279
20Feb 26, '23OMG! That ‘Billy Bragg’ guy who makes *records* also talks about politics as a means of ‘engaging’ with his *audience* How long has this been going on?? It’s outrageous and *should11.9×602k3.5k14619
23Sep 20, '24So this happened today in Vancouver BC where Johnny Marr and I are both doing gigs tonight (as is Paul Weller). We spent a lovely long lunch comparing notes about the joy of playin11.3×571k7.4k37973
24Jul 4, '23#StandWithTrans11.3×570k3.6k31238
25Feb 25, '23Blimey, if the Daily Mail are this upset about ‘Which Side Are You On’ they’re going to be apoplectic when the find out how I’ve updated the lyrics to ‘Sexuality’11×552k4.2k23945
29Nov 27, '23Daily Mail having a dig at me today over the £120 price of my 14 CD box set which features 323 songs. At 37p a track, it’s better value than my debut album Life’s A Riot which at £9.2×463k5.3k34915
32Aug 7, '24The spirit of Cable Street has been manifested across our country tonight. All over England people from different creeds and communities have come together to send a message to the7.6×383k7.5k1.4k68
34Jul 13, '24Does the "serious but unquantifiable" risk of taking puberty blockers also apply to children diagnosed with early onset puberty, some of them toddlers? If not, it seems this is a p7.2×363k4.1k51984
35Nov 30, '23Sorry to hear of the demise, after a long illness, of one of the greatest songwriters of my generation, Shane MacGowan. The Pogues reinvigorated folk music in the early 80s and his7.0×353k7.7k71841
36Apr 1, '20While the goats in Llandudno are getting all the publicity, how about a shout out for these deer who have colonised the empty streets of Harold Hill in east London?6.3×022k4.5k199
37Feb 2, '2340 years ago today I carried my trusty Arbiter guitar and Cube 60 amp into the demo studio in the offices of Chappell Music near Marble Arch and over three intense days recorded my6.1×310k4.6k29910
38May 31, '22Woke up this morning to find that the new prime minister of Australia had quoted my lyrics in his first press conference: “Just because you’re going forwards, doesn’t mean I’m goin5.9×021k4.1k254
39Apr 15, '24Did no one tell JK Rowling about the Streisand Effect?5.9×298k7.8k595128
40Aug 10, '24After the shameful way that anti-trans activists have attacked Imane Khelif ask yourself who ultimately benefits from their demand that women conform to traditional stereotypes of 5.7×287k3.7k66587
41Oct 13, '22Norton really good here on John Cleese, telling him that ‘cancel culture’ is just accountability, and JK Rowling, suggesting that the media talk directly to trans teens and their p5.4×020k2.2k1.1k
42Apr 1, '23Great to catch up with my old pal Albo at the Tivoli in Brisbane. Met him on my 1st Aus tour in 87 when he organised a Red Wedge style event for ALP youth at Sydney Trade Union Clu5.4×271k3.8k26323
43Sep 26, '25Just sending this to Reform voters everywhere xx4.8×240k5.7k1.5k123
44Oct 22, '21Was asked why I was wearing a mask this morning while ordering breakfast. Did you see those images of the Commons, I replied, with a bare-faced govt facing the masked opposition? I4.6×017k2.5k31
45Dec 20, '21Groundhog Day4.6×017k3.4k106
46Aug 12, '17We defeated both these flags and will do so again #AllYouFascistsBoundToLose #Charlottesville4.5×013k5k0
47May 22, '21Thought for the Day4.3×015k3.3k61
48May 10, '20From red to green: government messaging shifts from Protect the NHS to Protect Capitalism4.2×013k4.1k53
49Sep 4, '22Mate, the main reason we joined the European Union was to get rid of the f***ing tariffs3.7×015k1.9k61
50Sep 26, '25Really enjoyed making the audience laugh at Reform’s Richard Tice on @bbcquestiontime last night. Grabbing some brekko at Coventry station I didn’t expect to see this stirring trib3.7×184k4.7k65443
51Sep 8, '16Unemployed man declared 'Londoner of the Decade'. Father an immigrant, mother lived all her life on state benefits.3.5×05.9k5.7k0
52Jun 24, '22Can you hear us Boris? @JamieWebster94 creates the first classic @GlastoLeftField moment of this year #Glastonbury20223.4×011k2.6k182
53Feb 13, '20I don’t know who was more surprised to learn that we were co-presenting an award at the NME Awards last night, me or @taylorswift13 I have a lot of respect for her and the stand sh2.9×013k87253
54Nov 27, '19I’m a huge supporter of the BBC, but if they aren’t able to conduct an interview with the Prime Minister, then the damage done to their reputation and our democracy will be incalcu2.9×09.7k2.5k11
55May 22, '24It's clear that the Tories election campaign is going to be based on fear - of immigrants, small boats, Stop Oil and Gaza protesters and the trans community. Anything to distract f2.9×144k5.2k90318
56Dec 18, '19Today we remember our dear friend Kirsty MacColl, taken from us on this day in 20002.8×011k1.6k39
58Oct 10, '19My dear friend Kirsty MacColl would have been 60 today. Everyone knows her version 'A New England' but here's another song of mine on which she did a better job that I ever could. 2.5×09.3k1.5k83
59Sep 5, '19If anyone is wondering where all this is headed....2.5×07k2.6k19
60Jun 16, '16This image sums up why I voted #Remain: Not every Leave voter is a racist, but every racist will vote Leave.2.4×03.9k4k0
61May 21, '22Never buy the Sun2.2×09k1.2k19
62Jan 23, '20Can anyone spot what's wrong with the design of the 'iconic blue passport' as depicted in today's Daily Express?2.1×07.2k1.3k44
63Jan 1, '17Very impressed with the way @ahcabbage have reacted to being selected by the Sun as one of their top new bands for 20172.1×04.6k3k1
64Nov 3, '22More evidence that the right wing media - this is @dailytelegraph - are now using ‘cancel’ as a synonym for ‘disagree with’. Is the right to disagree no longer a fundamental aspect2.1×08.3k88782
65Jul 8, '20The headline here should actually be "Cultural arbiters bemoan the fact that the public can now hold them to account". Free speech doesn't give you the right to be beyond reproach.1.9×06.3k1.3k60
66Nov 12, '21Always a bit of a concern to wake up to find yourself trending but I have been the recipient of so much love and support from the trans community and trans allies around the world 1.9×07.8k82634
67Sep 17, '19Never Buy the Sun1.9×07k1.4k4
68Jul 30, '21Anti-vaxxers deciding to #BoycottCosta over their vaccination requirement reminds me of a guy I heard tell a radio phone-in that increasing fines for speeding wouldn't work because1.9×07.1k91537
69Mar 22, '19Not a fan of PV, so wasn’t going on the march, but it will show that many of us knew Brexit was a mistake. Just like the Iraq war march, history will remember us and, like Blair, t1.8×06.4k1.1k3
70Sep 8, '18Chuka’s plea for Corbyn to ‘call off the dogs’ is not only an insult to Labour members but also perpetuates the slur that we are a ‘cult’, rather than engaged citizens who believe 1.8×04.8k1.8k5
71Oct 29, '22Being labelled a misogynist by anti-trans activists is like being called a baby killer by anti-abortionists, who stubbornly refuse to take into account any views you have expressed1.7×06.2k54580
72Jan 17, '20Man whose skin colour has never held him back and whose gender has never been a reason to pay him less than others fails to recognise white male privilege. Just because you're not 1.7×05.7k97020
73Mar 26, '22Putin's reference to JK Rowling being cancelled challenges those 'gender critical' feminists who claim to be arguing from a left wing perspective. Does it not trouble you when you 1.6×03.8k44884
74Nov 7, '19Here’s the photo from the front of the Daily Boris from another angle. He was actually speaking to a small, invited audience in a vast echo chamber.1.6×04.4k1.9k33
75May 24, '20So the Prime Minister says that a parent’s instincts towards the safety of their children over-rides government advice. This will doubtless be reassuring to those parents unwilling1.6×04.9k1.6k16
76Apr 2, '19This is an amazing story. How @hopenothate worked with a mole inside a neo-nazi group to foil a plot to murder a female Labour MP. It took a lot of guts from the mole and a huge co1.6×04.7k1.6k96
77Apr 19, '17Brexit: the Re-Match. The Tories put their head on the block and dare us to lay a finger on them. Time for the under-35s to strike back.1.5×03.5k2.1k0
78May 24, '20Wow! When the Guardian and the Mail agree on a political scandal, you really are in deep trouble.1.4×05.2k1k12
79Jun 14, '17Respect to the brave firefighters from the London Fire Brigade who risked their lives to save people at #GrenfellTower @fbunational1.4×03.9k1.7k0
80Nov 5, '22Shocking. The Premier of Ontario has pre-emptively suspended the right to strike for public sector workers for up to five years. Solidarity with @CUPEOntario in their struggle for 1.4×04.2k1.3k60
81Jul 19, '22How come people who get apoplectic about a dozen climate activists blocking a single road don’t get angry when wildfires close the M25 and rail lines buckle? The climate crisis sto1.4×04.9k1.1k38
82Jul 16, '18Gotta feel sorry for Sacha Baron Cohen. On the day he debuts #whoisamerica- a programme in which he goes to great efforts to trick politicos into saying the most outrageous things 1.4×04.8k1.2k5
83Nov 21, '22I know GC feminists hate being called trans-exclusionary, yet here is one of the main GC advocacy groups specifically excluding trans people from their message of solidarity with v1.4×04.5k56447
84May 22, '20Does the @BBCNews have no consideration for millions of grandparents who, respecting the rules, have made the sacrifice of not seeing their grandkids over the past two months? Like1.4×04.3k1.3k3
85Oct 26, '22BREAKING: Unapologetic promoter of false allegations demands apology after being subject of false allegation1.4×05.5k47264
86Dec 18, '21Remembering Kirsty MacColl today1.3×05.4k56240
87Aug 17, '22BREAKING: The people who rushed to defend a woman who was sacked because of her views on trans rights.....are demanding that a woman be sacked because of her views on trans rights1.2×04.3k533102
88Oct 19, '22Some thoughts from me on what JK Rowling and John Cleese get wrong about cancel culture: a belief in accountability does not involve condoning threats or violence – and freedom of 1.2×03.6k532202
89Jan 17, '22I'm forced to pay for the upkeep of the Royal Family and I don't have a use for any of them. Good value for money...?1.2×05k6367
90Nov 23, '22Wilko Johnson was a precursor of punk. His guitar playing was angry and angular, but his presence - twitchy, confrontational, out of control - was something we'd never beheld befor1.2×04.4k79036
91Dec 8, '22GC activists like to claim they’re not anti-trans, yet here they are threatening the Samaritans because they highlighted the high suicide rate among trans people. This has nothing 1.2×04.1k54843
92Jun 22, '19I don’t suppose this row will effect Johnson’s appeal to his supporters, but the media’s defence of his behaviour confirms that Trumpism has infected the UK. Democracy and accounta1.2×03.8k1.1k5
93Jun 4, '22For those of you still sitting on the fence, here’s a chilling reminder that this issue was never just about who gets to use which toilet1.2×04k72587
94Jul 6, '18Anyone who has seen Elvis Costello play will know he puts a huge amount of energy into his live shows, so it's understandable that he would cancel a few gigs to focus on recovering1.1×04.6k5451
95Jan 13, '19Never Buy the Sun1.1×03.9k8611
96Feb 7, '18I just love the expression on Cheddar Man's face. It's like he knows how much it will annoy white supremacists to learn that the earliest Britons had dark skin.1.1×03.5k9940
97Nov 21, '22Players need to face down FIFA over this. If a captain is booked for wearing a OneLove armband, both teams should leave the pitch until the card is recinded. Delays would cause cha1.0×03.8k62221
98Feb 12, '22At a time when the news just gets grimmer everyday and the outlook for many is fraught with anxiety, this is such an uplifting and inspiring thread. What an amazing achievement by 1.0×04.6k32314
100Apr 6, '20This is serious now - for the Prime Minister, for his family and for the government's attempts to get on top of this crisis. I don't agree with his politics, but I wish him well to0.9×03.8k3224
101Sep 9Seems like ages since these were available in their original format, but I’m excited to share that Brewing Up, Taxman and Workers Playtime return on limited vinyl/CD. 6 Nov UK/Euro0.3×16k2854214

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