Alan Stewart

@laikaalan.bsky.social

1.4K followers 1.6K following 920 posts

Ex-goth, socialist, man about town.
Into Memorial Device before Mary Hannah joined. Communist family history stuff. Resist moral panics. Writing a biography of Dundee Comintern agent Bob Stewart.
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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 4h

Excellent news- good luck with it. When I found these CPGB membership cards while rooting around on the spare room I was about six or seven years old and got scared because I thought all my family were Russian spies.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 4h

Isn’t it just. I love this photo.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 4h

My friend Katherine tripped over in the street once and Su Pollard helped her up before realising she was looking at her doppelgänger!

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 17h

Labour’s lifting of the two child benefit cap is a welcome example of my ancestor, Bob Stewart’s belief that ‘Everything You Get Must Be Fought For’ - thousands of children lifted out of poverty, not because of the goodness of their hearts but because of pressure from outside.

Reposted by Alan Stewart, Lorna Hughes

Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social · 3d

And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus

Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC

thequietus.com

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 4d

Richer sounds are great. Love my Pro-ject turntable they sold me.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 4d

Misread that as Chris Tarrant for a moment. Doesn’t bear thinking about.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 4d

I AM AN ARCHITECT! THEY CALL ME A BUTCHER. I AM A PIONEER! THEY CALL ME PRIMITIVE. I AM PURITY! THEY CALL ME PERVERTED…
…SO DAMN EASY TO CAVE IN. MAN KILLS EVERYTHING!

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 6d

I think I only went to Speed Queen once but I wish I had seen that.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 6d

This is such a wholesome story Stu.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 7d

The Leeds gig on that tour was the best gig I have ever been to.

Reposted by Alan Stewart, Justin Lewis

Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 7d

I recall an interview where he was asked what it was like playing with Shields on stage. "I'll be watching him and just before he taps a pedal with his foot, he'll look across at me as if to say, This is REALLY going to fuck you up."

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 7d

Lads- I read this on International Men’s Day and I recommend you read it too.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 8d

40 years of Psychocandy.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 8d

Watched ‘Another Country’ last night. It was ok but I am more entertained by its Letterboxd reviews.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 8d

Ha!

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 8d

Someone please caption this photo for me.

Reposted by Alan Stewart

The Quietus @thequietus.com · 9d

Four decades back a major label released a debut album that sounded like almost nothing on earth while still sounding incredibly familiar. Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett takes stock of it all

Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today!

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The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy album cover. The Reid brothers, a drum and large lettering. The entire image has a slightly faded quality, as if it were a still from a VHS recording.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 9d

“The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing"
Harold Wilson.

Reposted by Alan Stewart

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 10d

I never saw such a sight in my life.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 11d

Well he’d very publicly left the Labour Party by then and had said he wouldn’t vote for them and was supporting the greens to the best of my knowledge.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 11d

Green wasn’t it?

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 11d

It’s not a gotcha when the GE was in 2024.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 11d

Redrafting a piece about my great grandfather Bob Stewart's connection to the Cambridge Five and realising that this short description of Guy Burgess is actually a description of James Bond.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 13d

There’s that time they accused Stephen Lawrence’s murderers on the front page and then there’s this. The only times The Daily Mail has contributed anything remotely good to society.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 14d

This is the equivalent of scrabbling down the back of the sofa in the hope of retrieving a few pennies. We need better public services and a greener economy. We can afford that with a fair tax system. I’m sick of permanent managed decline.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 15d

Everyone’s right about Claire Keegan. Sat down and read Small Things Like These the other night and my god. New favourite author.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 16d

I’m fucking terrified Keir btw.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 16d

Stares in paraphrasing Enoch Powell.

Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 18d

Cheers!

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