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Joe Woolley
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I like playing the guitar, coffee and books. Beatnik gone to seed.
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NEW: This is worth your time.

@thenerve_news has the receipts.

A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.

Please read & share.
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.

IG bscomedian
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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The Roman Empire prospered due to open borders, mass immigration and diversity then fell because of huge wealth inequality and corrupt leadership. I just thought I'd mention it.
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Four decades back a major label released a debut album that sounded like almost nothing on earth while still sounding incredibly familiar. Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett takes stock of it all

Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today!

buff.ly/nflmjN6
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.

There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture

join.greenparty.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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You can be assured that tendentious memo by Michael Prescott, and the co-ordinated combination of the Telegraph, Mail, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the White House means that the BBC hit job has been long in the planning, and has some insider help
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Depressing that the BBC has so little inherent institutional strength, it is kicked about so easily.

This is not good sign for our polity.
November 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Facebook's algorithm funnels IT jobs to men at 85% rates while shoving secretary gigs to women up to 94%, per experiments across six countries. French rights watchdog slams this as blatant sex discrimination. #AlgorithmicBias
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Yeah it's worse. Kemi did it deliberately.
October 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Something is happening out there.
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Looks like Pynchon is having a moment. #pynchon #lot49 #iykyk
October 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The early 21st century is amazing, so far today, I've watched Flo and Eddie open for Steven Stills in 1975, eaten some cheese from the French Alps, enjoyed a coffee made with beans from Ethiopia, recorded a version of a song I'm working on and been to the Diwali celebration in the market square.
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The EU Prohibition: Why Rejoin is Impossible
From the EU Commission on State Aid:
"Parliament stresses that State aid should support ecological transformation and foster the development of services, knowledge, and infrastructure rather than providing support to specific companies."
1/5
October 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate
October 16, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...
'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny
Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements
bylinetimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Is anyone else enjoying Shadow Ticket?
October 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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That should be career ending.
Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”
October 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Eternally grateful to Heather Marsh and Binding Chaos for helping me break free from Authoritarian endoreality and the curse of 19th century Anglo Germanic thought.
September 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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This really reflects how technocratic neoliberal logic has captured the centre of political spectrum. The argument against it is not moral or ethical, it's on cost and feasibility grounds. It's the logic of managing the numbers is what gets you elected.
Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.

So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
September 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy.

Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
September 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM