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Dad of 2, husband, Wiganer, Head of Media Studies and former lead singer of Hoth Wampa. Was previously Milnrow Shaw on the musky hell site.
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An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.

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submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

They’ve got the song title slightly wrong on all the adverts. That’s 95 grand wasted. Oh Lord. Buy the albums and help a guy out. x cherryred.co/AutomaticStick

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Not sure if Palantir is a household name. It's time to resuscitate + integrate a decade's worth of warnings about these folks — e.g.,... www.wired.com/story/how-pe... www.bloomberg.com/features/201... www.opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 35 days ago • 7 comments

Hi @polestarcars.bsky.social I'm considering buying one of your cars and just wanted to check that your owners weren't considering becoming fascist dictators any time soon.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Not done a giveaway in a while, so if anyone wants a 12x8 Severance print like/repost/follow and I'll pick a winner in a few days. If you don't want to risk not getting it you could simply buy a copy of course.

submitted 54 days ago • 11 comments

Please forgive my terrible photo editing skills @markhamillofficial.bsky.social but I've been trying to put my finger on who they remind me of for a while.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Hi. If you're wondering how the hell the world, and particularly the US, got into this mess, I recommend the following books by these clever people for starters: Evil Geniuses by @kurtandersen.bsky.social The Contrarian by @chafkin.bsky.social Autocracy Inc. by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for

submitted 80 days ago • 151 comments

NEW: Last week’s newsletter had ‘IT’S A COUP’ in big red letters on front page of NYT. Well, guess what? It still is. We have to stop framing what’s happening as in any way normal. It’s a coup & a collapse in the international order & none of this is ‘normal’ broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-coup-ga...

submitted 82 days ago • 51 comments

If Brexit had never happened… …we’d be much wealthier, with more investment in public services, better trade - and with our parliament & govt having spent the last decade doing far more productive things. 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺

submitted 84 days ago • 113 comments

An open letter to Sir Jim Ratcliffe on ticket pricing and policies imust.org.uk/Blog/Entry/a...

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🔴Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks bylinetimes.com/2025/01/24/w...

submitted 104 days ago • 13 comments

That time when I wrote this seven and one half years ago

submitted 107 days ago • 295 comments

Would that be Unity Mitford, friend of Daily Mail proprietor and fellow Hitler admirer Lord Rothermere?

submitted 113 days ago • 27 comments

Tomorrow's Independent front page revealing Brexit's catastrophic cost - five years after the UK left the EU. - New bureaucracy - Weaker UK exports - Labour shortages in key sectors - Less cash for public services - Huge divorce bill - 15% long term hit to UK trade This is the price of populism.

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submitted 127 days ago • 65 comments

1/ Support today for journalists fighting for the future of The Observer, threatened by The Scott Trust’s plan to sell to Tortoise Media. Tortoise, though respected, is a small, loss-making venture and the sale risks The Observer becoming a stripped-down website behind a paywall. Worse..

submitted 158 days ago • 12 comments

🔴X – Marks the Spot: Russia’s Second Front Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social looks at the mounting evidence that Elon Musk is using his social media platform as a vector to attack Ukraine and support Putin’s murderous invasion bylinetimes.com/2024/10/25/e...

submitted 164 days ago • 9 comments

Farage: "Are Trump and Elon going to support me in the run up to 2029? Well, it's what friends are for, isn't it."

submitted 164 days ago • 15 comments

Pretty much got the old gang of follows on here back together. Just Tim Booth to go.

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@carterusb.bsky.social Good to see you over here Jim Bot.

submitted 172 days ago • 0 comments

They already have our medical records,now Palantir (run by Peter Thiel) want to get into the predict-when-people-might-commit-a-crime business.Thiel’s protege is JD Vance. Apart from that, have a lovely Saturday. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 176 days ago • 55 comments