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Nindy Purba
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Writer ———— Founder/editor of The Ilkley Journal https://www.theilkleyjournal.co.uk ———— Commission me ✍🏽
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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 14h
"I often think about what I’d fund in Keighley and Ilkley if someone offered me a million pounds to spend, no strings attached ..."
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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 4d
Living as we do in the long aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and a post-meaningful world of growth – coupled with the anti-worker agenda of AI ...
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Nindy Purba @nindypurba.bsky.social · 7d
@iandunt.bsky.social in case you haven’t seen already …
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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 8d
🚰 Councillor Ros Brown is quoted in the @theilkleyjournal.co.uk talking about the 'essential' need to bring water back into public ownership.

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A graphic from Bradford Green Party Councillors featuring a quote from Cllr Ros Brown of Ilkley Ward. The background is green with white and dark green text that reads: “Public ownership is not just viable – it’s essential for a cleaner, fairer, and more resilient water system.” Below the quote is Ros Brown’s name and ward. On the right is a photo of Ros Brown smiling, wearing a red and blue floral top. At the bottom is a white banner with the Green Party logo and the website Join.greenparty.org.uk.
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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 9d
Our essay next week looks at how this kind of disturbing racist language is unashamedly being voiced without fear of reproach and no sense of shame …
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To openly quote Hitler and call all non-white immigration illegal is, to quote the American journalist George Parker writing recently about the “depth of America’s moral collapse”, antihuman:
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Nindy Purba @nindypurba.bsky.social · 10d
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Nindy Purba @nindypurba.bsky.social · 10d
“It’s a proud refusal to be bound by the most basic standard of goodness, a deliberate expression of contempt for everything decent …”
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Nindy Purba @nindypurba.bsky.social · 10d
To openly quote Hitler and call all non-white immigration illegal is, to quote the American journalist George Parker writing recently about the “depth of America’s moral collapse”, antihuman:
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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 11d
District council meetings are a big deal.

Especially the full council meetings.

The ones where most councillors turn up.

The ones where lots of important decisions get discussed and debated.

The ones that affect us all.

But ask yourself: when was the last time you turned up to one?
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Nindy Purba @nindypurba.bsky.social · 11d
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Shock and Orr: Meet the Farage-Supporting 'Philosopher King' of British Authoritarianism
The Cambridge professor providing the intellectual underpinning for JD Vance and Nigel Farage, is described by one academic colleague as being 'more Tommy Robinson than St Thomas Aquinas'
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Nindy Purba @nindypurba.bsky.social · 11d
Like Paul Marshall, the very Conservative Christian academic James Orr has mastered the art of political and cultural influence away from the public eye. That’s changing - as his appointment as a senior advisor to Reform UK shows. Learn more about him at the link below by @iainoverton.bsky.social …
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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 15d
“A breath in. A breath out. I thrust myself forward and I’m submerged in the chilled waters of the lake. It’s a shock to the system, but I manage to keep my breathing controlled …”

Discover more from @eibhlisgc.bsky.social by tapping on the link below 🔗
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Nindy Purba @nindypurba.bsky.social · 18d
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"The leader of the ruling Labour group at Bradford Council is an autocrat" ...
... Robbie Moore on being silenced, Ilkley Manor Trust's funding boost and a whole lot more in our latest roundup of news in Ilkley and West Yorkshire 🗞️
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Nindy Purba @nindypurba.bsky.social · 18d
The latest news in Ilkley and West Yorkshire. Link below 🔗
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Nindy Purba @nindypurba.bsky.social · 20d
Answers on a postcard …
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Dropping next week – with a little pictorial teaser.
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Nindy Purba @nindypurba.bsky.social · 21d
“Who am I to justify
“All the evil in our eye
“When I myself feel the high
“From all that I despise.”
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Nindy Purba @nindypurba.bsky.social · 21d
It remains one of my all-time favourite records, home to one of my all-time favourite songs, too, the wonderfully rhythmic and poetically scathing Devil’s Pie.
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Nindy Purba @nindypurba.bsky.social · 21d
… a timeless classic that while very much of its time – a seminal R&B album of the early noughties – it is unbound by its historical conception, free to wander through the speakers and headphones of music lovers for generations to come.
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Nindy Purba @nindypurba.bsky.social · 21d
What is true, looking back a quarter of a century on from the LP being first released, compelled into retrospection because of his sad passing, is that it was a once in generation work of art …
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Nindy Purba @nindypurba.bsky.social · 21d
I had always thought of D’Angelo’s Voodoo as an R&B album. Years later, this feels a little reductive. Not that it matters. It’s all just labels. It was, if anything, as he said himself once said, black music – all of it. Soul. Funk. Jazz. A little hip hop.
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Nindy Purba @nindypurba.bsky.social · 21d
… a timeless classic that while very much of its time – a seminal R&B album of the very early noughties – it is unbound by its historical conception, free to wander through the speakers and headphones of generations to come.
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The Ilkley Journal @theilkleyjournal.co.uk · 21d
Ever heard of the Budget Reference Document?

The one for 2025–26?

Didn’t think so.

It’s around 375 pages long …

… and packed with approximately 30,000 words (and numbers).

It’s an important document about the council’s finances.

Which directly affects you.

Yet, we bet, no one knows about it.
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Nindy Purba @nindypurba.bsky.social · 25d
… very effectively exploit age old insecurities around race and ethnicity and the spurious threat of “the foreigner”, is a symbol not of patriotism but of cold, irrational, disquieting fear.

Video credit: Shifty, Adam Curtis (BBC)
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Nindy Purba @nindypurba.bsky.social · 25d
The flag mounted as it is today (as it has been), with a confused sense of anger and hopelessness with one’s sad lot in life that has been whipped up by right wing politicans and agitators who …
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