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Ange Slaven
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Cuts things up and sticks them back together. Editor (films/tv) by day. And night.
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Scottish author Irvine Welsh cloaks himself in his characters, while letting out some very peculiar details about his surroundings

Available now on VoD:

dmovies.org/2025/08/21/i...
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough - DMovies
Scottish author Irvine Welsh cloaks himself in his characters, while letting out some very peculiar details about his surroundings - on all major VoD platforms on Monday, November 17th
dmovies.org
November 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Almost a YEAR in the shop?! Wild. 😄
Celebrate with us 6–7 Dec, music, bubbles + good vibes.
We’re open this weekend too 12–5pm and hundreds of new books just landed!

What was The Old Butchers is now 1 of 100. 😎
November 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Forty-one years in the making and worth its wait in gold.

Pre-order Love Crowns and Crucifies here plus the Ltd edition 7" here:

burningshed.com/needlemythology
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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‘The Porter’ (1972)
This was the first piece of Ladybird artwork I ever bought. It drew me in.

Artist: John Berry
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Scottish author Irvine Welsh cloaks himself in his characters, while letting out some very peculiar details about his surroundings

Now all major VoD platforms:

dmovies.org/2025/08/21/i...
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough - DMovies
Scottish author Irvine Welsh cloaks himself in his characters, while letting out some very peculiar details about his surroundings - on all major VoD platforms on Monday, November 17th
dmovies.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Happy birthday Café Royal Books - a 20% off saving for a limited time. Use TWENTYTWENTY at checkout. www.caferoyalbooks.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
November 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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BOUGHT BY THE RIVER: With the festive period just around the corner, we wanted to share a few ways you can support Caught by the River in the season of giving www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/boug...
November 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The Nectarine No.9 say hello & goodbye at The End of Definition on Saturday 13th Dec in Edinburgh College of Art which will be the final action by Creeping Bent after 30 years. Gareth Sager, Mackenzies, The Sexual Objects, will also be performing.
TIX: wegottickets.com/event/678735
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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A superb article by Lewis Goodall on the background to the current crisis within the BBC
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Tadzio😔

Björn Andrésen obituary | Film | The Guardian share.google/ZSmFWZKa75SH...

#deathinvenice #Bjõrnandrésen
Björn Andrésen obituary
Actor who starred as the angelic boy Tadzio in the 1971 film Death in Venice - but found the resulting fame a ‘nightmare’
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October 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Paul McCartney’s Standing Stone, situated in a small field just a few yards to the west of the house on his High Park estate on the Mull of Kintyre.

#beatles #stones #StandingStoneSunday
October 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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‘The number of Cafe Royal titles has passed seven hundred; together they constitute a singular record of British and Irish vernacular photography between about 1960 and 2010.’

Ben Campbell on a collection of his father Peter’s photographs of London in the early sixties
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ben Campbell · In the Shoebox: Peter’s Snapshots
The snapshots in my father’s book were taken during his first three years in London, after he emigrated from New...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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😂 So True
October 7, 2025 at 5:18 AM
September 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them

“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”

“But, but he was in UKIP”

“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”

So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵

1/14
September 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Buona notte Claudia Cardinale 😔

#thepinkpanther #theleopard #onceuponatimeinthewest
September 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer.
This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
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September 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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NHS physiotherapist Rachael Moses, who has been working in Gaza, confirms she's seen what other volunteer medics have also reported, that Palestinians have patterns of injuries suggesting Israeli soldiers are playing a game where they shoot victims in different parts of the body each day #GMB
September 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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I wrote something for GQ about how Armani impacted menswear. It's easy to forget, but when menswear transitioned to slimmer silhouettes in the early 2000s, baggy clothes were derided as "sloppy" and "middle aged." Over the years, people have revisited campaigns like these 🧵
September 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Fantastical World contained within 👇🎵
Today is Bandcamp Friday, when independent 80's musicians turned corporate rock-whores turned independent musicians again, manage to recoup a little of their recording costs. I invite you to explore the fantastical world of my wilderness years project - Skyray (1996-2006). X
skyray.bandcamp.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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If you fancy coming along to see The Sexual Objects at Edinburgh College of Art on Sat 8th Nov, do yourself a favour and buy tickets right now - there are only 6 tickets left: Here's the link wegottickets.com/event/667451
September 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM