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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 3h

Go see @josielong.bsky.social in Salford tonight - brilliant show as ever

thelowry.com/whats-on/jos...

Josie Long - Now is The Time of Monsters

A new show about extinct gigantic, charismatic, megafauna from 3-time Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominated Comedian, and very good comedian Josie Long. In these troubled times, in this wicked world, it ca...

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 3h

The wild flower patch - October

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 5h

More about the Riyadh rib-ticklers

www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/10...

We don't want your money! : News 2025 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide

We don't want your money! - Human rights organisations reject donations from comics who played Riyadh

www.chortle.co.uk

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 6h

Pretty much finished

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 16h

Getting such lovely feedback about the poetry shows - next one up is St Albans - tickets here

www.books-on-the-hill.co.uk/event-ticket...

Author Talk: Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth by Robin Ince — Books on the Hill

We are delighted to be welcoming back award winning broadcaster, comedian and author Robin Ince in-store for a discussion about his latest book and first poetry collection, Ice Cream for a Br...

www.books-on-the-hill.co.uk

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Fold @fold.fm · 16h

AND that only tune you’ll be able hear until November 2 is a remix that we did of our own tune. Who does that?

Fold @fold.fm · 17h

This time around we tried to make 11 minutes of music so mediocre that it would be unilaterally ignored. And you can’t even hear it all yet, just one tune until November 2nd, which is a Sunday 🥱

4 of the 8 tracks are ‘bonus tracks’ & that just says it all really.

fold.bandcamp.com/album/10-pas...

10 Past Midnight, by Fold

8 track album

fold.bandcamp.com

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 17h

Watching Piers Morgan drag out the “what is a woman” question with Zack Polanski and using it to try and diminish Polanski and then reminded that Morgan’s allyship to women stretches all the way to calling Mohammed Al Fayed “a bit of a rascal”

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Mohamed Al Fayed may have raped and abused at least 111 women and girls, say police

Scale of criminality would make Fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, one of Britain’s most notorious sex offenders

www.theguardian.com

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 17h

That was a train carriage of two different personalities - some men got on - sat in the aisles do there wasn’t enough room for everyone to board - but another group of passengers were careful and helpful when a fellow collapsed

Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 19h

What a mistake it is to go to London on a Saturday - people behaving horribly , rail system failing dismally

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 19h

What a mistake it is to go to London on a Saturday - people behaving horribly , rail system failing dismally

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 19h

My point is not as much about Blair as about the fact Epstein was able to get so close when the FBI knew of his activities from mid 90s

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 21h

Ooh yes I must plug that

Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 22h

Hello - yes it is

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Michael Wolff: I've seen the pictures of Trump with Epstein's girls. Here's what's in them.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

I am coming to SHOREHAM

- a few tickets left here

www.chapter34.co.uk/event/an-eve...

An evening with Robin Ince – Chapter 34

www.chapter34.co.uk

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

Well I know it is on record that the FBI were first aware of Epstein’s activities in the 1990s

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

Yup

Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Lord Steel says he believed Cyril Smith abuse claims but did not act

Inquiry hears ex-Liberal leader assumed allegations were true in 1979 but did not suspend MP

www.theguardian.com

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

What I am talking about is intelligence services being aware - just as I find it very hard to believe that as even part- time workers at Harrods knew of Al Fayed danger - how the hell would journalists and intelligence services not have known

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

BBC News - Politics, Sexual abuse claim cover-up 'possible', says Lord Tebbit

Sexual abuse claim cover-up 'possible'

www.bbc.co.uk

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

I have spoken to investigators who know the FBI was aware of Epstein’s activities more than ten years before it was anywhere in the public domain

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

Not really what I’m saying - what I’m saying is the information was known in higher places - why wouldn’t it have been shared

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

What horrifies me about this is that it is highly unlikely intelligence services etc didn’t know about Epstein’s activities long before this which means that child abuse is just something to turn a blind eye to (see also Cyril Smith, Al Fayed etc etc)

Guardian story - Tony Blair
Tony Blair met Jeffrey
Epstein in No 10 on advice of Peter Mandelson, documents reveal
National Archives papers show how then MP pushed for 2002 meeting between PM and
'young and vibrant' financier

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

I will be doing this in CHELTENHAM TOMORROW

www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/alter...

Alternative Book Club | Cheltenham Festivals

An unconventional comedy night about books where there is absolutely NO required reading. Prepare to be entertained and informed by our line up of poets an

www.cheltenhamfestivals.org

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you - first book of poetry - Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth is out now

Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t do the tours anymore so I am afraid not

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