The Research play the second show of a nine date tour supporting Maxïmo Park at Manchester New Century Hall on Saturday 12th October. Holden Searle joined the band as a guest for the final song of the evening…

Stephen Flynn, "Mr Speaker, the Conservative party have accepted a £10 million donation from Frank Hester who has said that one of our parliamentary colleagues in this chamber, Diane Abbott, should be shot" #PMQs "Why is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, putting money before morals?" Rishi Sunak, "The comments were wrong. Frank Hester has apologised. And that remorse should be accepted"

"If you do not see any leadership from the prime minister calling out this behaviour, then it allows people to think it's acceptable" Labour MP Abena Oppong-Asare says the alleged comments from Tory donor Frank Hester about Diane Abbott are "outrageous" bbc.in/4cg4bB1

"His remarks show deep-seated racism." Labour MP Dawn Butler tells @JackieLongC4 Tory donor Frank Hester’s alleged comments about MP Diane Abbott are "the definition of racism". Frank Hestor admits his remarks were rude but says they were not based on gender or skin colour.

Statement regarding recent media reports: Frank Hester accepts that he was rude about Diane Abbot in a private meeting several years ago but his criticism had nothing to do with her gender nor colour of skin. The Guardian is right when it quotes Frank saying he abhors racism, not least because he experienced it as the child of Irish immigrants in the 1970’s. He rang Diane Abbott twice today to try to apologise directly for the hurt he has caused her, and is deeply sorry for his remarks. He wishes to make it clear that he regards racism as a poison which has no place in public life.

Frank Hesters private healthcare company has been paid £400m by the NHS since 2016, & hes said Diane Abbott makes him want to hate all black women & should be shot Gove says extremists shouldnt receive public money. So will Hesters company stop receiving new NHS contracts? #GMB

Frank Hester: Tory donor accused of racist Diane Abbott remarks bbc.in/3VdrtBq

Biggest Tory donor said looking at Diane Abbott makes you ‘want to hate all black women’ theguardian.com/politics/202…

Frank Hester: computer programmer who made fortune from public sector contracts theguardian.com/society/2024…

Yes @easyJet you have lost the absolute plot here. At times where creative minds need championing, the corporate monster mentality is bullying a band. There is / and are no potential mistaken identities here. It’s just utterly poor.. poor PR for you @easyJet . Embarrassing!

Me when considering getting tickets:

Tonight @lovepopchoir Roundhay we were singing a ‘Take That’ song and I said that while everyone at school was in love with them I loved #jeffgolblum they thought this was funny 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is just…nuts. Thank you everyone x

So proud of @Zozo__Snow and @mcstuio and all the team watching the opening of #CommonwealthGames2022 #b2022 tonight on TV. Amazing!!!

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Running Up That Hill would be my happy song to escape hell too! #strangerthingsseason4

Incessantly, for 25 years out of 30 years of its modern history, Russia has brought nothing but death. Now we have the chance to stop Russian war-machine forever. Help Ukraine! Help the world! #StopRussia #StandWithUkraine

Hay twitter you like new single about going to party’s don’t you :) ye you do :) open.spotify.com/track/5LKdR… @bodyswakefield @whiskas9 @Hanglands @jqsmines