Robert Rotifer
@robertrotifer.bsky.social
Still the same one I was over there and there and there. (It’s not my bike!)
Posting mainly from Canterbury.
Posting mainly from Canterbury.
The Unforgivable False Equivalence there from Bono…
February 18, 2026 at 8:23 PM
The Unforgivable False Equivalence there from Bono…
Last month with Gina Birch, Helen McCookerybook, Ruth Tidmarsh, Katrina Townsend (from left to right, Lester Square’s right arm visible behind me). Tomorrow night Ruth and Helen are going to be in my band at The Spice of Life, just off Cambridge Circus.
February 18, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Last month with Gina Birch, Helen McCookerybook, Ruth Tidmarsh, Katrina Townsend (from left to right, Lester Square’s right arm visible behind me). Tomorrow night Ruth and Helen are going to be in my band at The Spice of Life, just off Cambridge Circus.
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Funny kind of "Labour" party, if you ask me.
NEW from @tbij.bsky.social:
The government has rejected calls by its OWN independent Migration Advisory Committee for visa reforms to protect migrant farm workers from exploitation
Labour seems wedded to a model of immigration based on creating a subclass of exploited worker.
It's sick.
The government has rejected calls by its OWN independent Migration Advisory Committee for visa reforms to protect migrant farm workers from exploitation
Labour seems wedded to a model of immigration based on creating a subclass of exploited worker.
It's sick.
February 16, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Funny kind of "Labour" party, if you ask me.
I don’t know if it makes sense to mention gigs here, but this will be the first and last Rotifer band gig in a while, in one of my favourite London venues on a bill with one of my favourite London bands. Would be lovely to see you if you’re in town.
wegottickets.com/event/687241/
wegottickets.com/event/687241/
Rotifer ★ Drew Morrison and the Darkwood
The Cosmo 2 Club invites to you an evening of pop & rock 'n’ roll the stuff that dreams are made of♩♫ ♩ ♪ ♬ ♪
Rotifer
We are honoured to announce that Gare Du Nord recording artist Robert Rotifer wil...
wegottickets.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:19 PM
I don’t know if it makes sense to mention gigs here, but this will be the first and last Rotifer band gig in a while, in one of my favourite London venues on a bill with one of my favourite London bands. Would be lovely to see you if you’re in town.
wegottickets.com/event/687241/
wegottickets.com/event/687241/
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Magnificent edition of @robertrotifer.bsky.social's Heartbeat, feat Special Friend, Anja Om Plus, Follow The Zebra, @themonochromeset.bsky.social, The Bevis Frond, waterbaby, Monsterheart, Jane Weaver & @emmatricca.bsky.social, The Notwist, Pictish Trail, Alice Costelloe.
fm4.orf.at/player/20260...
fm4.orf.at/player/20260...
Heartbeat vom 9.02.
Neues und Spannendes aus den Weiten des Indie Pop mit Eva Umbauer und Robert Rotifer
fm4.orf.at
February 9, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Magnificent edition of @robertrotifer.bsky.social's Heartbeat, feat Special Friend, Anja Om Plus, Follow The Zebra, @themonochromeset.bsky.social, The Bevis Frond, waterbaby, Monsterheart, Jane Weaver & @emmatricca.bsky.social, The Notwist, Pictish Trail, Alice Costelloe.
fm4.orf.at/player/20260...
fm4.orf.at/player/20260...
Tonight’s @fm4.orf.at Heartbeat (from 22:00 CET/9pm GMT) playlist looks much like the one from 2 weeks ago due to the mishap with the mixed-up shows that needs undoing and exorcising before we can all move on (random train window shot, not even that allegorical)
www.instagram.com/p/DUiwxyeDJi...
www.instagram.com/p/DUiwxyeDJi...
February 9, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Tonight’s @fm4.orf.at Heartbeat (from 22:00 CET/9pm GMT) playlist looks much like the one from 2 weeks ago due to the mishap with the mixed-up shows that needs undoing and exorcising before we can all move on (random train window shot, not even that allegorical)
www.instagram.com/p/DUiwxyeDJi...
www.instagram.com/p/DUiwxyeDJi...
Helps if you speak German, but do yourself a favour and watch this gorgeous doc about pianist Anatol Ugorski, filmed just after he arrived in post-Wende Berlin.
youtu.be/C0qwErV_DSM
youtu.be/C0qwErV_DSM
Anatol Ugorski Vintage Documentary Berlin
YouTube video by Cem Çeliksırt
youtu.be
February 8, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Helps if you speak German, but do yourself a favour and watch this gorgeous doc about pianist Anatol Ugorski, filmed just after he arrived in post-Wende Berlin.
youtu.be/C0qwErV_DSM
youtu.be/C0qwErV_DSM
While we're talking about the ethics of taking part in the World Cup and Eurovision...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Use of Irish airport for ICE deportation flights of Palestinians ‘deeply disturbing’
Irish politicians condemn use of Shannon airport by private jet en route to Israel, owned by Trump donor Gil Dezer
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:02 PM
While we're talking about the ethics of taking part in the World Cup and Eurovision...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Just a German paper celebrating the annihilation of a “fake Jew” (imagine even typing the word “vernichtet” in that context) while making sure to publicly name and shame him in the process.
February 3, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Just a German paper celebrating the annihilation of a “fake Jew” (imagine even typing the word “vernichtet” in that context) while making sure to publicly name and shame him in the process.
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Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
January 31, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
I wrote this for @fm4.orf.at about the pop world’s reaction to Minneapolis including that Springsteen song, and how trying to conjure up a decent sort of patriotism only repeats the cardinal mistake that got us to where we are now.
fm4.orf.at/stories/3052...
fm4.orf.at/stories/3052...
Mit Blut und Heimat gegen Trump - fm4.ORF.at
Der Ruf nach Widerstand vonseiten der amerikanischen Popkultur wurde erhört und seine Stimme heißt – unter anderem – Bruce. Aber ist ein bunter Patriotismus die richtige Alternative zum weißen Nationa...
fm4.orf.at
January 30, 2026 at 5:55 PM
I wrote this for @fm4.orf.at about the pop world’s reaction to Minneapolis including that Springsteen song, and how trying to conjure up a decent sort of patriotism only repeats the cardinal mistake that got us to where we are now.
fm4.orf.at/stories/3052...
fm4.orf.at/stories/3052...
Here’s the news I’d been dreading for a while. Tagebuch, the smartest and most promising publication of the Left coming out of Austria in recent years is calling it a day.
My greatest thanks to editors Benjamin Opratko, Samuel Stuhlpfarrer and everyone working to make it exist for a brief 6 years.
My greatest thanks to editors Benjamin Opratko, Samuel Stuhlpfarrer and everyone working to make it exist for a brief 6 years.
Sechs Jahre lang haben wir versucht, kritisch in die österreichische Medienlandschaft einzugreifen. Jetzt geht es nicht mehr weiter.
Aufgrund anhaltender wirtschaftlicher Probleme sehen wir uns dazu gezwungen, das Erscheinen unserer Zeitschrift einzustellen.
Alle Infos: tagebuch.at/2026/01/eins...
Aufgrund anhaltender wirtschaftlicher Probleme sehen wir uns dazu gezwungen, das Erscheinen unserer Zeitschrift einzustellen.
Alle Infos: tagebuch.at/2026/01/eins...
January 30, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Here’s the news I’d been dreading for a while. Tagebuch, the smartest and most promising publication of the Left coming out of Austria in recent years is calling it a day.
My greatest thanks to editors Benjamin Opratko, Samuel Stuhlpfarrer and everyone working to make it exist for a brief 6 years.
My greatest thanks to editors Benjamin Opratko, Samuel Stuhlpfarrer and everyone working to make it exist for a brief 6 years.
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The largest infrastructure projects currently being built in the US appear to be data centers and detention centers. The AI boom has coincided with ICE becoming the most heavily funded government agency. It's hard not to see a connection: This is the architectures of digital fascism
ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
www.bloomberg.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:17 AM
The largest infrastructure projects currently being built in the US appear to be data centers and detention centers. The AI boom has coincided with ICE becoming the most heavily funded government agency. It's hard not to see a connection: This is the architectures of digital fascism
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Anyone who thinks this won't happen at the 2026 World Cup games in the U.S. is delusional.
ICE to conduct immigration enforcement at Super Bowl LX at Levi's Stadium, official says
A government official says ICE will conduct immigration enforcement at Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara. This comes just days after Bad Bunny was announced as the halftime performer.
abc7news.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Anyone who thinks this won't happen at the 2026 World Cup games in the U.S. is delusional.
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The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
As people are again debating ownership of trauma instead of uniting against fascism, another reminder of how right Hersch Lauterpacht was in arguing for the Holocaust to be seen as Crime against Humanity.
January 27, 2026 at 10:26 AM
As people are again debating ownership of trauma instead of uniting against fascism, another reminder of how right Hersch Lauterpacht was in arguing for the Holocaust to be seen as Crime against Humanity.
Playlist for tonight’s @fm4.orf.at Heartbeat from 22:00 CET/9pm GMT is here:
Pic is a screenshot from that newish Bonnie Prince Billy song “They Keep Trying To Find You” which catches the current mood in the US so well (and it’s on the list, obviously)
www.instagram.com/p/DT-V6a7jLh...
Pic is a screenshot from that newish Bonnie Prince Billy song “They Keep Trying To Find You” which catches the current mood in the US so well (and it’s on the list, obviously)
www.instagram.com/p/DT-V6a7jLh...
January 26, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Playlist for tonight’s @fm4.orf.at Heartbeat from 22:00 CET/9pm GMT is here:
Pic is a screenshot from that newish Bonnie Prince Billy song “They Keep Trying To Find You” which catches the current mood in the US so well (and it’s on the list, obviously)
www.instagram.com/p/DT-V6a7jLh...
Pic is a screenshot from that newish Bonnie Prince Billy song “They Keep Trying To Find You” which catches the current mood in the US so well (and it’s on the list, obviously)
www.instagram.com/p/DT-V6a7jLh...
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Seeing the US government flail in trying to frame these as anything but executions by incompetent trigger happy goons makes me feel like I owe an apology to the FSB morons I mocked for trying to stage an apartment as a Ukrainian terror plot but planting a copy of The Sims III instead of 3 SIM cards.
January 26, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Seeing the US government flail in trying to frame these as anything but executions by incompetent trigger happy goons makes me feel like I owe an apology to the FSB morons I mocked for trying to stage an apartment as a Ukrainian terror plot but planting a copy of The Sims III instead of 3 SIM cards.
Just the Austrian far right on an official visit to Netanyahu and Miri Regev to talk about a “patriotic alliance”, as reported in positive terms by an Austrian hard right news site (no link here)
January 25, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Just the Austrian far right on an official visit to Netanyahu and Miri Regev to talk about a “patriotic alliance”, as reported in positive terms by an Austrian hard right news site (no link here)
I’ve seen people say this is bad timing/bad framing by the government, but really timing and framing is all it is (as the article says there already is a National Crime Agency).
Still trying to please the British Trump apologist cheering on the bloodshed on FB as potential “hero voter” material.
Still trying to please the British Trump apologist cheering on the bloodshed on FB as potential “hero voter” material.
January 25, 2026 at 9:43 AM
I’ve seen people say this is bad timing/bad framing by the government, but really timing and framing is all it is (as the article says there already is a National Crime Agency).
Still trying to please the British Trump apologist cheering on the bloodshed on FB as potential “hero voter” material.
Still trying to please the British Trump apologist cheering on the bloodshed on FB as potential “hero voter” material.
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This perfectly demonstrates the pernicious nature of BBC two-sidism.
It almost always benefits the side with the most power.
In this case that's the side which is murdering peaceful protesters in the street, on camera, and then lying about it
It almost always benefits the side with the most power.
In this case that's the side which is murdering peaceful protesters in the street, on camera, and then lying about it
The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible.
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
January 25, 2026 at 6:38 AM
This perfectly demonstrates the pernicious nature of BBC two-sidism.
It almost always benefits the side with the most power.
In this case that's the side which is murdering peaceful protesters in the street, on camera, and then lying about it
It almost always benefits the side with the most power.
In this case that's the side which is murdering peaceful protesters in the street, on camera, and then lying about it
Anyone know more about economics who can tell me if this is what I think it is, i.e. a glimpse of the end of (post-)Bretton Woods?
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘Repatriate the gold’: German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults
Shift in relations and unpredictability of Donald Trump make it ‘risky to store so much gold in the US’, say experts
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Anyone know more about economics who can tell me if this is what I think it is, i.e. a glimpse of the end of (post-)Bretton Woods?
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
This is the problem bit in the Carney speech everyone is loving:
“Principled in our commitment to fundamental values: sovereignty and territorial integrity, the prohibition of the use of force except when consistent with the UN Charter, respect for human rights /
ct…
“Principled in our commitment to fundamental values: sovereignty and territorial integrity, the prohibition of the use of force except when consistent with the UN Charter, respect for human rights /
ct…
January 21, 2026 at 9:07 AM
This is the problem bit in the Carney speech everyone is loving:
“Principled in our commitment to fundamental values: sovereignty and territorial integrity, the prohibition of the use of force except when consistent with the UN Charter, respect for human rights /
ct…
“Principled in our commitment to fundamental values: sovereignty and territorial integrity, the prohibition of the use of force except when consistent with the UN Charter, respect for human rights /
ct…
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I feel I should bang the drum for this post, which hasn't received the love it deserves.
It helps to know that Jenrick's constituency is Newark.
It helps to know that Jenrick's constituency is Newark.
Robert Jenrick is unique in British politics for being the only MP who is an anagram of his constituency
January 18, 2026 at 12:58 PM
I feel I should bang the drum for this post, which hasn't received the love it deserves.
It helps to know that Jenrick's constituency is Newark.
It helps to know that Jenrick's constituency is Newark.
Had a great time playing with the wonderful @mccookerybook.bsky.social the other night. Sadly couldn’t take any pics while playing but here’s a couple of shots of @ginabirch.bsky.social and Terry Edwards’ solo sets, both great.
January 17, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Had a great time playing with the wonderful @mccookerybook.bsky.social the other night. Sadly couldn’t take any pics while playing but here’s a couple of shots of @ginabirch.bsky.social and Terry Edwards’ solo sets, both great.