Dave Haslam
@davehaslam.bsky.social
Hacienda DJ, journalist (Guardian, LRB, etc), writer (recent books about Sylvia Plath, Keith Haring, Picasso). “An exceptional writer” - Olivia Laing.
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My late elderly parents-in-law lived their entire lives in South Wales & used to talk of the 'Monkey Walk' but we had no idea what they were talking about & they never really elucidated other than 'the young people walking about', so this has been v interesting!
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
My late elderly parents-in-law lived their entire lives in South Wales & used to talk of the 'Monkey Walk' but we had no idea what they were talking about & they never really elucidated other than 'the young people walking about', so this has been v interesting!
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'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
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...in the course of writing this I discovered what the phrase "introduce me to fagan" means.
New article, definitely something for the social history fans - the monkey parade (or 'monkey run'). Teenagers promenading in towns and cities on Sunday evenings, flirting, cruising. It was dubbed the “monkey parade” or the “monkey run”.
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
Before Tinder, there was the Monkey Parade…
How our grandparents and their parents found romance.
davehaslam.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
...in the course of writing this I discovered what the phrase "introduce me to fagan" means.
...in the course of writing this I discovered what the phrase "introduce me to fagan" means.
New article, definitely something for the social history fans - the monkey parade (or 'monkey run'). Teenagers promenading in towns and cities on Sunday evenings, flirting, cruising. It was dubbed the “monkey parade” or the “monkey run”.
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
Before Tinder, there was the Monkey Parade…
How our grandparents and their parents found romance.
davehaslam.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
...in the course of writing this I discovered what the phrase "introduce me to fagan" means.
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The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
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I avoid reposting twitter, but this is well put. Directed at Musk but captures Trump, too. I think it's tragic that such men are so clueless about the beauty of life. I believe their lack of joy is why they try to squash life and light from all of us. Living joyfully is how we will overcome.
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I avoid reposting twitter, but this is well put. Directed at Musk but captures Trump, too. I think it's tragic that such men are so clueless about the beauty of life. I believe their lack of joy is why they try to squash life and light from all of us. Living joyfully is how we will overcome.
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Definitely worth a read, a great piece of social history. Teenagers promenading in towns and cities on Sunday evenings, flirting, cruising. It was dubbed the “monkey parade” or the “monkey run”.
HERE davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
HERE davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
Before Tinder, there was the Monkey Parade…
How our grandparents and their parents found romance.
davehaslam.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Definitely worth a read, a great piece of social history. Teenagers promenading in towns and cities on Sunday evenings, flirting, cruising. It was dubbed the “monkey parade” or the “monkey run”.
HERE davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
HERE davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
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New article, definitely something for the social history fans - the monkey parade (or 'monkey run'). Teenagers promenading in towns and cities on Sunday evenings, flirting, cruising. It was dubbed the “monkey parade” or the “monkey run”.
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
Before Tinder, there was the Monkey Parade…
How our grandparents and their parents found romance.
davehaslam.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
New article, definitely something for the social history fans - the monkey parade (or 'monkey run'). Teenagers promenading in towns and cities on Sunday evenings, flirting, cruising. It was dubbed the “monkey parade” or the “monkey run”.
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
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I don't think this is hyperbole btw.
Things are spinning out pretty badly across multiple nations, obviously including the US, at a time when the stakes have never been higher. Twitter and elite whatsapps clearly key drivers.
Things are spinning out pretty badly across multiple nations, obviously including the US, at a time when the stakes have never been higher. Twitter and elite whatsapps clearly key drivers.
twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I don't think this is hyperbole btw.
Things are spinning out pretty badly across multiple nations, obviously including the US, at a time when the stakes have never been higher. Twitter and elite whatsapps clearly key drivers.
Things are spinning out pretty badly across multiple nations, obviously including the US, at a time when the stakes have never been higher. Twitter and elite whatsapps clearly key drivers.
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This is a wonderful read.
New article, definitely something for the social history fans - the monkey parade (or 'monkey run'). Teenagers promenading in towns and cities on Sunday evenings, flirting, cruising. It was dubbed the “monkey parade” or the “monkey run”.
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
Before Tinder, there was the Monkey Parade…
How our grandparents and their parents found romance.
davehaslam.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is a wonderful read.
New article, definitely something for the social history fans - the monkey parade (or 'monkey run'). Teenagers promenading in towns and cities on Sunday evenings, flirting, cruising. It was dubbed the “monkey parade” or the “monkey run”.
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
Before Tinder, there was the Monkey Parade…
How our grandparents and their parents found romance.
davehaslam.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
New article, definitely something for the social history fans - the monkey parade (or 'monkey run'). Teenagers promenading in towns and cities on Sunday evenings, flirting, cruising. It was dubbed the “monkey parade” or the “monkey run”.
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
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Jacob Epstein was born #otd in 1880. His sculpture 'Genesis' can be found at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester @whitworthart.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Jacob Epstein was born #otd in 1880. His sculpture 'Genesis' can be found at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester @whitworthart.bsky.social
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Salute to the writer/poet the great Guillaume Apollinaire who died #otd 9th November 1918 having suffered injury in the Great War & then contracting Spanish Flu.
Ginsberg’s ‘At Apollinaire’s Grave’ was put to music by Kramer, released by Shimmy Disc in 2021 youtu.be/Xj4l46-QSXo It's a beauty...
Ginsberg’s ‘At Apollinaire’s Grave’ was put to music by Kramer, released by Shimmy Disc in 2021 youtu.be/Xj4l46-QSXo It's a beauty...
Allen Ginsberg - At Apollinaire’s Grave (Official Shimmy-Disc Video)
YouTube video by Joyful Noise Recordings
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November 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Salute to the writer/poet the great Guillaume Apollinaire who died #otd 9th November 1918 having suffered injury in the Great War & then contracting Spanish Flu.
Ginsberg’s ‘At Apollinaire’s Grave’ was put to music by Kramer, released by Shimmy Disc in 2021 youtu.be/Xj4l46-QSXo It's a beauty...
Ginsberg’s ‘At Apollinaire’s Grave’ was put to music by Kramer, released by Shimmy Disc in 2021 youtu.be/Xj4l46-QSXo It's a beauty...
Salute to the writer/poet the great Guillaume Apollinaire who died #otd 9th November 1918 having suffered injury in the Great War & then contracting Spanish Flu.
Ginsberg’s ‘At Apollinaire’s Grave’ was put to music by Kramer, released by Shimmy Disc in 2021 youtu.be/Xj4l46-QSXo It's a beauty...
Ginsberg’s ‘At Apollinaire’s Grave’ was put to music by Kramer, released by Shimmy Disc in 2021 youtu.be/Xj4l46-QSXo It's a beauty...
Allen Ginsberg - At Apollinaire’s Grave (Official Shimmy-Disc Video)
YouTube video by Joyful Noise Recordings
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Salute to the writer/poet the great Guillaume Apollinaire who died #otd 9th November 1918 having suffered injury in the Great War & then contracting Spanish Flu.
Ginsberg’s ‘At Apollinaire’s Grave’ was put to music by Kramer, released by Shimmy Disc in 2021 youtu.be/Xj4l46-QSXo It's a beauty...
Ginsberg’s ‘At Apollinaire’s Grave’ was put to music by Kramer, released by Shimmy Disc in 2021 youtu.be/Xj4l46-QSXo It's a beauty...
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Just knocked up a wee thing for Blackpool council
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Just knocked up a wee thing for Blackpool council
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A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Bonfire Night, Moss Side, 1972.
📸 Daniel Meadows
📸 Daniel Meadows
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Bonfire Night, Moss Side, 1972.
📸 Daniel Meadows
📸 Daniel Meadows
More on Reform-led Lancashire Council's plans to sell-off council council care homes and move everyone into the private sector, here -
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And coincidentally, Reform’s cabinet member for social care in Lancashire, owns a private care company with his wife.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And coincidentally, Reform’s cabinet member for social care in Lancashire, owns a private care company with his wife.
So, the son of an elderly woman, in a Lancashire council funded care home, threatens to leave the party, if the Reform council continue with their plans to sell off five residential care homes, to save money. Oh, the irony!
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
More on Reform-led Lancashire Council's plans to sell-off council council care homes and move everyone into the private sector, here -
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And coincidentally, Reform’s cabinet member for social care in Lancashire, owns a private care company with his wife.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And coincidentally, Reform’s cabinet member for social care in Lancashire, owns a private care company with his wife.
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Review: Life After Dark – A History of British Nightclubs & Music Venues – by Dave Haslam
I got excited when this book arrived on my doorstep. At first glance it has all the key ingredients for a great book. Hacienda DJ author, history of British nightclubs - I expected lots of gory detail and…
I got excited when this book arrived on my doorstep. At first glance it has all the key ingredients for a great book. Hacienda DJ author, history of British nightclubs - I expected lots of gory detail and…
Review: Life After Dark – A History of British Nightclubs & Music Venues – by Dave Haslam
I got excited when this book arrived on my doorstep. At first glance it has all the key ingredients for a great book. Hacienda DJ author, history of British nightclubs - I expected lots of gory detail and exciting anecdotes and couldn't wait to get to the acid house chapters….The history begins back in Victorian dancefloors. From the outset a consistent theme throughout our nightclub adventure is controversy, rebellion and culture.
wezg.co.uk
October 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Review: Life After Dark – A History of British Nightclubs & Music Venues – by Dave Haslam
I got excited when this book arrived on my doorstep. At first glance it has all the key ingredients for a great book. Hacienda DJ author, history of British nightclubs - I expected lots of gory detail and…
I got excited when this book arrived on my doorstep. At first glance it has all the key ingredients for a great book. Hacienda DJ author, history of British nightclubs - I expected lots of gory detail and…
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So much of Labour’s comms is just weird and confusing at this point. Surely it’s really, really easy to decide to offer congratulations/support to a wildly popular left-wing candidate who has just pulled off a historic electoral victory
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
So much of Labour’s comms is just weird and confusing at this point. Surely it’s really, really easy to decide to offer congratulations/support to a wildly popular left-wing candidate who has just pulled off a historic electoral victory
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I'm selling some of my record collection to pay bills as times are tough. Please take a look or consider reposting, thanks chaps x
***new records added***
Quality trance, techno, house, disco and pop from the 70s to the 2000s all at reasonable prices.
www.discogs.com/user/DrJames...
Quality trance, techno, house, disco and pop from the 70s to the 2000s all at reasonable prices.
www.discogs.com/user/DrJames...
DrJamesFeelgood
www.discogs.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I'm selling some of my record collection to pay bills as times are tough. Please take a look or consider reposting, thanks chaps x
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FAO Matt Goodwin and all the other racist filth who tried to exploit this incident
November 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
FAO Matt Goodwin and all the other racist filth who tried to exploit this incident