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Octavius Ace retweeted
'Life is so cruel': racing mourns former jockey Tom O'Brien, who has died aged 39 nickluckdaily.com/2026/11/11…
To accept all the risks inherent with being a jumps jockey and to die aged 39 to cancer just seems an especially bitter and unfair way to go. RIP Tom.
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I thought people must have been exaggerating about Dairy Milk not tasting like it used to till I tried some, and it doesn't. It's genuinely unpleasant and synthetic, and so too is Galaxy, which I'd always preferred. General enshittification of small pleasures.
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Octavius Ace retweeted
Multiple Grade 1-winning jockey Tom O'Brien has died aged 39 after a battle with cancer.
🔗 - racingpost.com/news/people/j…
Just a thought, but perhaps you all ought to shut the fuck up for a change and stop making it about yourselves, eh?
I hear that Talcum X is claiming I was 'close friends' with Nick Cohen 'for years'. I can proudly confirm that I was never 'friends' at all with him, just distant media colleagues on occasion. But Talcum's friendship network is definitely worth a glance.
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Yeah, a non-genre specific indie list would be far more interesting, although I'd find it hard to not have Untrue by Burial at number 1
Top 5 indie albums (much more interesting list) you’d keep a couple of these (not sure which ones) but of course you’d instead have:
Gerald - Black Secret Technology
Autechre - tri rep (I’m basic)
808 State - Newbuild
Etc etc
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Octavius Ace retweeted
Hadley Freeman did not like Russell Brand's revolutionary posturing.
But she thought he was "bright and funny".
She credited him for "making politics seem sexy for teenagers."
She wrote: "Brand is, I have no doubt, one of the good guys."
Octavius Ace retweeted
Hugo Rifkind in The Spectator.
From the piece:
"He has a direct line to parts of the electorate most politicians cannot get close to."
"Brand’s heart is in the right place, almost certainly"
Octavius Ace retweeted
Janice Turner has attacked me for chairing a Guardian Live event and my columns.
Here is what Janice Turner said about Ed Miliband's Russell Brand video.
She deleted the tweet.
The internet never forgets.
Octavius Ace retweeted
I was wrong to think Russell Brand could engage disillusioned young voters in 2015.
It was also an opinion widely shared at the time.
Let's start with John Rentoul.
How shameless can you get.
Americans once again deciding they invented something they didn't on a stupendously bad list with stupid distinctions as to why certain bands and/or albums don't feature.
pitchfork.com/story/the-100-…
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I know it's probably just our local Post Office doing it, but if I was Ocado or the RSPCA don't think I'd want our flyers wrapped within the copies of "The Reformer" that were delivered today as they were ("free to patriots", paid for by crypto donations)
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I didn't think it possible, but it seems Cadwalladr has actually got even more of a mark
Today, @thenerve_news publishes a landmark years-long investigation into what may be the biggest online influence campaign ever.
There is credible evidence Israel interfered in UK elections using Kate Middleton to spread anti-Muslim hate.
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Very funny how people who cheer on mass murder from the skies pretend to be disgusted and outraged by jokes about their heroes getting popped like bottles of claret
The thing that was so disturbing about that woman reading her disgusting poem about Charlie Kirk was her smug certainty that she was that she would be applauded by her peers for it. Same with Dave Chappelle: This was a punch line in front of tens of thousands of people. These aren't isolated incidents. We have a culture on the Left that believes political opponents should be killed and when they are, it's funny.
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Extremely respectful and indicative of how Remembrance Sunday has been transformed, for the news programmes and military themselves to spend the day demanding we further ramp up the rhetoric and spending against Russia, with no opposing voices.
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