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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 8h

Spending every waking hour on X isn't doing anything to prevent Badenoch getting a right shellacking.
#PMQs

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Dr Peter Starie @stariep.bsky.social · 11h

Great piece on electric Miles. I’m going to have to listen to these albums again. What a chore!

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 4d

I’m in this new @mojomagazine.bsky.social interviewing the great Brigitte Fontaine, telling you How To Buy Electric Miles Davis (in short: buy it all) and reviewing the wonderful new Steve Gunn LP plus multi-disc reissues by William Basinski and The Dream Syndicate.

MOJO 385 - December 2025

INCLUDES
JOHN
LENNON
INSIDE HIS ROCK'N'ROLL REVOLUTION
142
REVIEWS
PLUS BRIGITTE
FONTAINE
JANE WEAVER
PATTI SMITH
WRECKLESS ERIC
RICK DAVIES RIP
PRINCE
PSYCHS OUT!
MILES DAVIS
ELECTRIFIES!
FINE
YOUNG
CANNIBALS
EAT TO THE BEAT LUCINDA
WILLIAMS
AMERICANA'S HEART & SOUL
EAGLES
"LEAVING WAS AN ACT OF SURVIVAL"
THE
REPLACEMENTS
LET IT BE!
+ JMIHENDRIX
"DEVASTATINGLY LOUD! COMPLETE INSANITY!"

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 15h

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster...For when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, influential German philosopher, born #OTD 1844.
Jenseits von Gut und Böse 1886 | Portrait by Edvard Munch 1906, Thielska Gallery

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 1d

Really great @stephenkb.bsky.social column today.

on.ft.com/3KOUh07

Key para.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

At least Simon Jenkins is consistently Simon Jenkins

Feelingantsy 🇬🇧🇩🇪. Maker of Puns @feelingantsy.bsky.social · 2d

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 2d

Only Connect and University Challenge automatically having to make way for a football match reminds me that I was born into a culture with questionable morals.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2d

As this detailed report shows Reform is a Trojan Horse for the US Christian right to secretly reshape British politics along Trumpian lines. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 1d

Great piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social. The Brexit omerta/purity test hasn't convinced voters, anyway.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool on.ft.com/4qarx21 | opinion

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

on.ft.com

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 5d

Reading this by m'learned colleague, and the nostalgia for 50s Britain is a crock. Much of the country was an exhausted dump. The Potteries were described as 'seven miles of concentrated ugliness and dirt'. Stoke was full of 'old clay working, old coal dumps, canal and industrial waste'. (1/2)

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 3d

Turns out it was a middle aged white man. Awks.

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Josh Westerling @joshwesterling.bsky.social · 4d

Finally got round to reading this, everyone should. It is excellent.

And speak to anyone in their teens if you need convincing that the left is ceding this ideological battleground. Not just on cultural issues, but everything from economic aspiration to ideas of the good life.

Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 29d

FREE TO READ: Renewal co-editor Jack Jeffrey talks to @profafinlayson.bsky.social about the subcultures of the online right and how they are transforming political communication

renewal.org.uk/articles/the...

The left (still) doesn't understand the internet

Renewal 33.2_Finlayson & JeffreyRenewal 33.2_Finlayson & Jeffrey.pdf161 KBdownload-circle In June 2025, Nigel Farage boasted on Facebook and X that he had more TikTok subscribers than all other 649...

renewal.org.uk

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 2d

It's as if The Times only discussed motoring from the POV of Bentley drivers. Private schools are essentially an irrelevance but it dominates their coverage of education.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 2d

Private school can feel like the only option when the state system isn’t meeting your child’s needs, but the financial burden goes far beyond school fees ⬇️

School fees were a shock, then came VAT, uniforms, trips …

www.thetimes.com

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Dr Peter Starie @stariep.bsky.social · 2d

After having seen him again in Manchester, I’m re-reading each time I listen to one of the albums.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 3d

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 2d

1. Yes, absolutely yes.

2. People have used the available media to sow divisive & loopy garbage for as long as there's been media.

3. There was a postwar/Cold War moment when for various reasons there was tremendous ideological pressure to rein this in.

4. Which only ever partially succeeded.

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

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Dr Peter Starie @stariep.bsky.social · 2d

Just seen this. Oh dear, that's terrible. Yes, you should have been employed (on the evidence of your excellent book).

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Dr Peter Starie @stariep.bsky.social · 3d

Howe, Gilmour and Page for me.

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Keith Taylor @mrkeithtaylor.bsky.social · 4d

It's utterly insane that Farage has more influence than ever over British politics when he's the face of its most disastrous decision in recent history. He shouldn't be able to appear in public without being pelted with rotten fruit.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4d

something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 4d

I'd love to know what every comedian who played the Riyadh Comedy Festival thinks of this piece by Jonathan Liew. It's an electrifying read. And really hard to think what any counter-justification from the participating comics would consist of. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime? | Jonathan Liew

The tawdry event was an ultimately doomed attempt by the Saudi government to buy the kind of authentic grassroots culture it is unwilling to countenance, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 5d

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet, from @chrischirp.bsky.social

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 4d

I'm sparking debate with my claim that Stephen Miller is the result of cross-breeding a stick figure and a bedbug, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sparking debate with claims linking circumcision and Tylenol to autism, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

Here’s what the science actually says:

RFK Jr. linked circumcision and Tylenol to autism. Here’s what scientists say.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sparks debate with claims linking circumcision and Tylenol to autism, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

wapo.st

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Dr Peter Starie @stariep.bsky.social · 4d

Just one of the worst people to have ever disgraced this world.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Q: The Nobel Peace Prize was announced this morning. Your thoughts?

TRUMP: Which one?

Q: The Nobel Peace Prize. Your thoughts?

TRUMP: I made eight deals, transactions of wars

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