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TEFL teacher. Essayist and aspiring novelist. Novice mystic. Coffee addict. Blogs at rosaries.substack.com Come here for quotes from forgotten writers, Christopher Lasch, T.S. Eliot, Gene Wolfe, and many more.
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Starmer condemns Farage and Reform UK for ‘fawning over Putin’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202... "Reform voted against banning fire and rehire." Labour needs to make attack ads saying this.

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Brighton in 9th place are 4 points off the champions League places. Has the table ever been this close?

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Pro Ukraine march in London

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open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/t... @paulmason.bsky.social talking straight as usual.

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Neoliberalism cannot be explained in Marxist terms. The famous “alienation” of labour does not even occur. Today, we dive eagerly into work — until we burn out. The first stage of burnout syndrome, after all, is euphoria. ourworld.unu.edu/en/why-revol...

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This definition of 'the great replacement ' from it's originator Renaud Camus, is actually quite a good description of what happened in north America, or Mexico, or Australia, when the white man came.

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"Over the past half-century, an anti-democratic movement has coalesced in the United States. It draws on super-wealthy funders, ideologues of the new right, purveyors of disinformation and Christian nationalist activists." Gift Article www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

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"Fascism is an appeal to the subconscious, and thus has sex - and sexual violence – as its ever-present theme." Paul Mason

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Two weeks after cock-up by physician associate sent to my mother's GP, followed by a series of other cock-ups, the GP surgery is "ringing back" in response to my urgent request for extended antibiotics and urgent inflammatory marker blood tests, still not done. This will be hard way to lose her...

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Great to see momentum continuing to grow for introducing the #NaturalHistory GCSE - it just needs green light from government! A brilliant way to help restore nature, improve young people’s physical & mental health & fill the green skills gap.

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Good to see Private Eye has seen the light.

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Seeing some folks on X claim it was just a warm, open-hearted gesture, made in a rush of excitement. This is the strategy that Trump pioneered. There's always plausible deniability. It gives his supporters a chance to mock the 'woke media'. In my view, we need to find a way not to take the bait.

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A boy from Guildford is hiking 50km (31 miles) on Saturday to raise money for a new hedgehog incubator. Orran, nine, aims to hike across the Surrey Hills in aid of the Wildlife Aid Foundation, a Leatherhead-based charity that recues and rehabilitates hedgehogs and other British wildlife.

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hopenothate.org.uk/2024/11/15/t... According to this HNH report, the man fronting this far-right plan goes by the pseudonym "The Woodlander". The article also mentions other far-right activists "The English Wander" and "Wessex Nomad". Names that sound so incongrous to the politics being espoused.

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I wrote a comment on Rod Dreher's substack, hoping to address his misconceptions re the grooming gangs: substack.com/@rosaries/no...

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gofund.me/7c2f8a6c Workers at Apple Home care in Norwich report being forced to work 10 day shifts, late pay checks and a work environment of intimidation.. This go fund me is for urgent expenses for some Apple home care workers.

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Mason makes an interesting and alarming prediction here: Musk is on a radicalisation curve and will become more extreme in the coming weeks. How much is he engaging with far right, and fascist content? I could imagine he's lost in a rabbit hole of engagement, clicks, and positive reinforcement.

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