David Hartwell
@davidhartwell.bsky.social
Former UK MENA MoD/Jane’s now OSINT. Cornish and European. Music is life; “Bit of a legend” - Tom Ravenscroft; Spurs for life; views my own; RP not endorsement.
Majestic. I know he recorded it first with Generation X, but Billy Idol’s version is the definitive version. Totally great 😎😍
Billy Idol - Dancing with myself (Lyrics)
YouTube video by LoveBillyIdol
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November 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Majestic. I know he recorded it first with Generation X, but Billy Idol’s version is the definitive version. Totally great 😎😍
Perfect. I’ll never not love this 😍
The Primitives - Crash
YouTube video by theprimitivesVEVO
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November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Perfect. I’ll never not love this 😍
Gorgeous 😎😍😎😍😎
The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away
YouTube video by ThePlimsoulsVEVO
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November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Gorgeous 😎😍😎😍😎
Bliss 😍
The House Of Love - Shine On (Official Video)
YouTube video by TheHouseOfLoveVEVO
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November 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Bliss 😍
Still amazed this got played on daytime radio 🤣. Bloody great. God bless and RIP Chrissy Amphlett.
Divinyls - I Touch Myself (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by DivinylsVEVO
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November 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Still amazed this got played on daytime radio 🤣. Bloody great. God bless and RIP Chrissy Amphlett.
Just great, whichever way you cut it 🥰
I’m on a perfect pop tip tonight. You guessed? 🤣
I’m on a perfect pop tip tonight. You guessed? 🤣
Prefab Sprout - The King of Rock 'N' Roll (Official Video)
YouTube video by PrefabSproutVEVO
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November 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Just great, whichever way you cut it 🥰
I’m on a perfect pop tip tonight. You guessed? 🤣
I’m on a perfect pop tip tonight. You guessed? 🤣
Utterly fab. File under ‘great lost indie songs from the 90s’.
Perfume - Lover [1997]
YouTube video by Omar Gadea
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November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Utterly fab. File under ‘great lost indie songs from the 90s’.
Such a damn near perfect pop song 😍
Into The Blue (Remastered 2019)
YouTube video by Geneva - Topic
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November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Such a damn near perfect pop song 😍
Utterly love this. Proper old skool piano house with a real ‘Chris & James circa 1994’ vibe to it. Fab 😎😍
Disco Citizens - Right Here Right Now (Original) [HD]
YouTube video by Shigeharu Tanaka
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November 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Utterly love this. Proper old skool piano house with a real ‘Chris & James circa 1994’ vibe to it. Fab 😎😍
Life is tough for lots of people right now, but don’t expect to hear this 👇 in the Budget tomorrow.
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Life is tough for lots of people right now, but don’t expect to hear this 👇 in the Budget tomorrow.
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Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
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Now Matthew Syed has formally become the Tory he's always been, Philips is the leading exponent of the "I'm a progressive and everything my side believes is wrong" school of journalism that features so prominently in the right-wing press.
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Now Matthew Syed has formally become the Tory he's always been, Philips is the leading exponent of the "I'm a progressive and everything my side believes is wrong" school of journalism that features so prominently in the right-wing press.
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Sir Robbie Gibb says he has ‘no intention of resigning’
Then the the public who pay the BBC honcho responsible for ‘impartiality’, having been an early founder of GB News, owner of the Jewish Chronicle when its standards evaporated, should make sure he’s sacked. What a rip off
Then the the public who pay the BBC honcho responsible for ‘impartiality’, having been an early founder of GB News, owner of the Jewish Chronicle when its standards evaporated, should make sure he’s sacked. What a rip off
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Sir Robbie Gibb says he has ‘no intention of resigning’
Then the the public who pay the BBC honcho responsible for ‘impartiality’, having been an early founder of GB News, owner of the Jewish Chronicle when its standards evaporated, should make sure he’s sacked. What a rip off
Then the the public who pay the BBC honcho responsible for ‘impartiality’, having been an early founder of GB News, owner of the Jewish Chronicle when its standards evaporated, should make sure he’s sacked. What a rip off
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Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people.
If only there were a word for such a party.
If only there were a word for such a party.
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people.
If only there were a word for such a party.
If only there were a word for such a party.
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Just the good, friendly, morale-boosting kind of racism.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Just the good, friendly, morale-boosting kind of racism.
😍😍😍
The Stone Roses - Mersey Paradise (Audio)
YouTube video by StoneRosesVEVO
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November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
😍😍😍
😍💔😍💔😍
The Roses were and are everything to me.
The Roses were and are everything to me.
The Stone Roses - This Is the One (Audio)
YouTube video by StoneRosesVEVO
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November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
😍💔😍💔😍
The Roses were and are everything to me.
The Roses were and are everything to me.
As Mani told us, the last five minutes was recorded live, on the first take. That’s how good he and they were. Icon. Legend. His death hurts 💔
The Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection
YouTube video by Cory Heskett
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November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
As Mani told us, the last five minutes was recorded live, on the first take. That’s how good he and they were. Icon. Legend. His death hurts 💔
The Roses totally reinvented what music was to me. Mani’s death is a deep and profound shock.
November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The Roses totally reinvented what music was to me. Mani’s death is a deep and profound shock.
Oh my god. No no no. This is too much. The Stone Roses were, are, and forever will be, one of the greatest ever to do it.
RIP Mani. Absolutely heartbreaking 💔
RIP Mani. Absolutely heartbreaking 💔
November 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Oh my god. No no no. This is too much. The Stone Roses were, are, and forever will be, one of the greatest ever to do it.
RIP Mani. Absolutely heartbreaking 💔
RIP Mani. Absolutely heartbreaking 💔
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Labour’s contribution to the field of “least surprising opinion poll results” continues to to be very strong.
Those who hold more restrictive views on refugees are more likely to see Labour as pro-immigration, while those who hold more liberal views tend to see Labour as anti-immigration
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
November 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Labour’s contribution to the field of “least surprising opinion poll results” continues to to be very strong.
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Labour MP Simon Opher - "We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel.
"Measures that create bureaucracy and insecurity do not offer clarity or strengthen control – they cost money, waste time and weaken the system."
"Measures that create bureaucracy and insecurity do not offer clarity or strengthen control – they cost money, waste time and weaken the system."
November 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Labour MP Simon Opher - "We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel.
"Measures that create bureaucracy and insecurity do not offer clarity or strengthen control – they cost money, waste time and weaken the system."
"Measures that create bureaucracy and insecurity do not offer clarity or strengthen control – they cost money, waste time and weaken the system."
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A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
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There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Murder rate in London lowest in decades. Don’t believe the hype spouted by foreign bots and malign influencers. Best city in the world 😎
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Murder rate in London lowest in decades. Don’t believe the hype spouted by foreign bots and malign influencers. Best city in the world 😎