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I'm doing this thing every Wednesday, making a video to promote my podcast, because Instagram likes reels and I want everyone who may like the show to know that it exists. Here's the one I made today, which is (I think) the first video I've uploaded to Bluesky. (Achievement unlocked!)

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It's Wednesday (it's only Wednesday? It's only Wednesday.) and that means we have a new podcast for you! This week, it's The Hidden Heart of Brass Attending, by Christopher Scott.

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Disappointing to see so many Vote Reform posters up by fields on the way home. Farmers never learn. First UKIP, then Brexit. These people are not your friends. They will screw you over for a seat on the gravy train. #ukpolitics #uk

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I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

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Former Tory MP, Craig Williams, and 14 others, charged with gambling offences over the 2024 election. I’m surprised, as he doesn’t look like the sort of smug, entitled Tory prick that would think the rules didn’t apply to him.

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Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.

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🔴‘What Is the Point of Labour Winning the Next General Election if It Governs as Reform-Lite?’ The political strategy being pursued by Keir Starmer and his advisers means that whichever party comes first in 2029, Nigel Farage wins, argues Neal Lawson bylinetimes.com/2025/04/14/w...

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Former Tory MP among 15 charged over bets on timing of 2024 UK election www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Gambling Commission charges 15 over bets on timing of 2024 UK general election

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Never Forget…

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Privatisation = broken promises, households pay the price 📮When Royal Mail was privatised we were promised that the universal service obligation would be maintained ✂️Now Ofcom is consulting on cutting it Tell them NO - deadline 5pm today 👇👇👇 weownit.org.uk/act-now/usin...

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My editor at Harper just told me that the audiobook I did for my memoir, Still Just A Geek, is on sale all month for just $7.99. If you are enjoying my podcast, and you wanted to hear me tell you my own true story the same way I tell other people's fictional stories, now you know.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Podcast promotion! ✨✨ Now with VIDEO! ✨✨ I'm going to get even further out of my comfort zone and ask you to share this with anyone who likes audiobooks, speculative fiction, and guys with beards who put them together into a podcast. Thanks, friends :)

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

An ‘Essential Listen’, you say? Seems legit. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

Bloody hell. What a point.

submitted 14 days ago • 58 comments

🔴Matt Hancock Used His Personal Email Account to Help ‘VIP’ Supplier Win £25 Million COVID PPE Contract Excalibur Healthcare, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of unusable PPE, ultimately folded owing taxpayers £22 million bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...

submitted 13 days ago • 33 comments

Oh hey it's me, just reposting myself from earlier, because I'm doing everything I can to help my podcast find its audience.

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The U.S. pressured Ukraine to withdraw its European-backed U.N. resolution demanding an immediate withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine. But Ukraine refused to pull its draft resolution. So the US voted... with Russia, Iran, Israel & North Korea... against Ukraine. Now read that again.

submitted 51 days ago • 92 comments

Navajo Nation firefighters taking a well earned break. These tribesmen are apolitical. They simply came to L.A. to help.

submitted 93 days ago • 408 comments

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg has joined Elon Musk in allowing disinformation to flourish on his platforms in order to gain Donald Trump's favor. It’s about to get very ugly on Facebook.

submitted 93 days ago • 1242 comments

Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there? National Suicide Prevention Hotline Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK) 1-800-273-8255 (USA) 1.833.456.4566 (Canada)

submitted 95 days ago • 115 comments

This is who Elon Musk really is. Don’t buy a Tesla. Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3v...

submitted 98 days ago • 69 comments

“Brexit-optimist economist Julian Jessop, a fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, admitted that Brexit has made it harder or “impossible” for small businesses to adjust.” Finally.

submitted 102 days ago • 93 comments

🔴Keir Starmer’s Government Is Stuck in a ‘Right Wing Doom Loop’ That Will Only Help Nigel Farage The Prime Minister’s acceptance of right-wing economic orthodoxy is pushing his party and the country towards disaster, argues his former adviser Simon Fletcher bylinetimes.com/2024/12/20/k...

submitted 114 days ago • 18 comments

Please make sure you’re following the new All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Europe. 🇪🇺 European Movement UK is the secretariat. 👇👇

submitted 120 days ago • 6 comments

“The economic cost of Brexit, reliably estimated at around 5% of GDP and with a total loss to government coffers by 2035 of over £300bn, is unlikely to be offset by attempting to ‘make Brexit work’ – a slogan which rather confirms that it hasn’t”

submitted 120 days ago • 64 comments

This wasn’t all a hallucination. We all witnessed it in horrifying real time…..

submitted 124 days ago • 95 comments

The vile behaviour of the Blackmore & Sparkford Vale Hunt . . . yes , it’s day 8 of my top 20 worst fox hunting crimes with @huntsabs.bsky.social . . . #RealBanNow

submitted 129 days ago • 17 comments

Our future is European 🇪🇺 Labour can no longer hide from the cost of Brexit. We want our star back 🌟 We want our freedoms back! Free movement of goods, capital, services, and labour! @europeanmovement.co.uk

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If you see this post, can you please help spread this information? #ASafeChoice is a referral network of physicians who provide medication abortion services ACROSS THE US. People everywhere need to know about this option. These doctors have capacity to help more women! Let’s spread word! ❤️✊

submitted 133 days ago • 670 comments

This is a very important point. Please let everyone know.

submitted 143 days ago • 1107 comments

No matter how bad my day, I keep my perspective by realising that someone, somewhere has to wash Donald Trump's underwear.

submitted 144 days ago • 25 comments

Sigh.

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