Ghostwriter and music journalist, absentee tree-warden of the Cinque Port of Winchelsea

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Joined July 2013
Either Ore records London Ear 🍾 show now on @ResonanceFM mixcloud with the London launch to follow at the Horse Hospital on July 21 mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-l…
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🚨 A UK defence editor had information that UK Special Forces operating in Central America were involved in the US kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in Jan 2026 Article was never published after UK military's 'D-Notice' censorship body told the editor to spike it
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29 students. That's the total number of Jewish students in the Bell report who said they've experienced antisemitism. 29. Meanwhile, 30 Palestinians have been reported murdered by Israel in the past 10 days.
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🔴EXCLUSIVE: Andy Burnham donor is vice-chair of UAE parliamentary group By @jodymcintyre_ It has emerged that a key funder of @andyburnham's Makerfield campaign serves on the board of the United Arab Emirates APPG. Growing questions for the PM on Abu Dhabi connections. Here’s what I’ve discovered:🧵👇
EXCLUSIVE: Andy Burnham donor is vice-chair of UAE parliamentary group. It has emerged that a key funder of Burnham’s Makerfield campaign serves on the board of the United Arab Emirates APPG. Growing questions for the PM on Abu Dhabi connections. Here’s what I’ve discovered:🧵
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The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in
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Labour, once the People's Party, is now the party of Palantir.
Ex-Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir ➡️ bbc.in/4rjYkTm
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Oh so everyone who said they could do that at any time were right
🚨 BREAKING: Democrats have officially blocked Trump's transfer of 40,000 bombs to Israel.
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New ad by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products.
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🎨 😢
newleftreview.org/sidecar/po… This by Owen Hatherley on the Glasgow School of Art and the disappearance of art and culture in the city is typically excellent as well as heartbreaking and enraging. The conclusion is an indictment of the neoliberal cultural urban wasteland we now inhabit
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Good point, well made
Every home has a gender neutral toilet you muppet
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Not only will Israel not allow medical supplies into Gaza, it will also bomb the warehouses where what little medical supplies still exist.
Israel bombed the medical supply warehouse of the Al Aqsa hospital last night. Look at the size of the crater. Israel is maniacal. Absolutely deranged.
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The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that Israeli occupation forces killed 152 Palestinians in July, the highest monthly death toll recorded this year despite the announced ceasefire. The victims included 21 children, 14 women and four elderly people.
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They started off arresting members of an organisation calling for an end to murder. After banning the organisation, they arrested those objecting to the ban. Now they're arresting those objecting to the arrests.
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Imagine what my manager had to do.
The band I was in 20 years ago got a 5-star review in a music mag. The fess is that the editor was bribed by our manager with a massive bag of coke, and the album was utter dogshit. And frankly so were we.
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This level of violence against Muslims is completely unacceptable. Where are the strong condemnations, the emergency meetings, the taskforces to tackle it? One mosque attacked every 5 days, says Muslim Trust theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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🚨 Roy Keane on Nico Williams disallowed goal against Argentina: “I’ve just seen the biggest robbery of this World Cup. The ball comes into the box, nobody touches anybody, everyone goes up for it, then one Argentina player starts shouting. The next thing you know, two defenders are on the floor appealing, Nico Williams has scored, and Emiliano Martinez … who wasn’t even touched… is somehow lying there as well asking for a foul. The referee blows immediately. No VAR review. No replay. No check to see if there was actually any contact. Just disallowed. Apparently if enough Argentina players fall over at the same time, that’s now considered conclusive evidence. If we’re being honest, Paredes shouldn’t even still be on the pitch after some of the tackles he’s made today. Yet somehow the only thing the referee managed to spot instantly was an invisible foul.”
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While Piers Morgan is not mentioned by name in this excellent article, his shadow looms bullyingly throughout, not least in the knockout two sentence combination: “The stupidity is not felt from the inside as stupidity. It presents itself as judgement”
This has made sense of something I have been grappling with for a long time regarding the response to Gaza/Palestine in general, defined so clearly here as ‘moral stupidity’
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Continuity Mandelson Faction trying to cover its tracks
Isn't this strange... Labour Together deleted this post from X showing an LT event at 2023 Labour conference, addressed by Peter Mandelson, @jreynoldsMP and hosted by Josh Simons. This screengrab was taken two weeks ago, so only deleted since then. Would be a shame if it was shared, widely, so it never disappears.
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