📣 I've started a Substack, this is my first serious post -- on the Critical Mass 30th Anniversary Ride, and what it means to say 'we run the streets'. Please do read and subscribe, it's free to do so 🫡 open.substack.com/pub/danhancox/…

Dan has started an (obviously brilliant) substack! I never learnt to ride a bike and yet *still* this article on Critical Mass is a great read

remember doing history in year 8, when you were 12, and learning about the difference between reliable and unreliable sources?

📣 I've started a Substack, this is my first serious post -- on the Critical Mass 30th Anniversary Ride, and what it means to say 'we run the streets'. Please do read and subscribe, it's free to do so 🫡 open.substack.com/pub/danhancox/…

I see it’s no longer hateful insanity to say that the papers invent bullshit racism scares to frighten the public with drivel

Delighted for tireless fighter Omar, and glorious watching Jack and Lee and Ronan down the left yday... I replayed our 4th goal maybe 6, 7 times when I got in last night?

🎼 Give us 10 more years, Jack Currie... 🎼

Fascism pays in Spain is the message EL MUNDO has gone for this weekend, with a full 2-page spread on the 50th birthday of Franco's great-grandson. With the headline

'The work of my great-grandfather Franco is still alive and well. His achievements continue to benefit us.'

I wrote for Guardian Opinion about Monopoly: The Movie, 'brand collabs', and how capitalism is stifling creativity in pop culture by turning everything into a sodding advert theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Enjoying the usual rogues' gallery of mad ego and minor party candidates for the London Mayoral elections. 6 out of 11 want to abolish ULEZ, including the fash Britain First, naturally. Most bizarre perhaps is this ultra-reactionary incarnation of the SDP

ICYMI, the new (FREE) Cursed Objects episode about the Police. Why do they believe they are the 'thin blue line' between order and chaos? What is 'policing by consent', given that we aren't allowed to withhold our consent? Could cops ever be 'just civilians in uniform'??

'Why not make Alpro vegan yoghurt into a series of detective novels? Why not write an opera about the Adidas Predator football boot?' Funny, true stuff from Dan Hancox on the ever-decreasing returns of IP rentierism

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

good rant from Dan Hancox – my hunch is this phenomenon is almost entirely driven by relative risk/return on creative innovation v mining already established IP (which Dan touches on towards the end of his piece). theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I don’t love the police but I do love how cursed objects always make everything about 90s British telly

HIS OWN WIFE INHERITED FOUR HUNDRED MILLION POUNDS.

I had a blast recording this thanks to Kasia Tee and Dan Hancox !!!

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚔👮 talking about the origins of police power with the amazing Melayna Lamb 🍉 -- and the meaning of this extremely cursed 'thin blue line' flag worn by cops ... and some fascists! open.spotify.com/episode/0fmOve…

Is it safe to have the Polish Hearth Club only a couple of doors down from the Goethe Institute? Given the history of the 20th century