Dom Forbes
domforbes.bsky.social
Dom Forbes
@domforbes.bsky.social
Designs book covers, plays records, cycles, runs, lifts, yogas etc
Northerner near Bath.
https://www.mixcloud.com/dominicforbes/
https://www.dominicforbes.co.uk
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BREAKING: Reform UK's former Welsh leader and close Nigel Farage associate, Nathan Gill, sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for repeatedly taking bribes to spread pro-Russian propaganda
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Gill-ty as charged.

I wonder if Nigel Farage will be giving a press conference on this one?
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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I am struggling to believe the Russians decided to throw money at solely at one relatively obscure UKIP MEP.
BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent.

The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Mon Hommage Au Underworld.
Possibly the most ambitious mix I've ever attempted.
2hr and 35 mins. Tracks by @underworldlive.bsky.social @darrenemerson.bsky.social remixes from @worldfamoushot1.bsky.social Mark Knight Farley & Heller

Shares much appreciated ✊
Enjoy!

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Dean Marsh - Mon Hommage Au Underworld - Backflash 3 - November 2025
So it's finally done! This has been in my mind for many, many months now (since my Detroit Backflash 2 mix). Possibly the most ambitious mix I've ever attempted. 2hr and 35 mins in honour of all thing...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Loving my good friend Kat's new radio show. Deep and bumping. #deephouse #wonkytechno #distantdreamspart3

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Distant Dreams (Part 3) 14/11/25
Listen to Distant Dreams (Part 3) 14/11/25 by NARR RADIO #np on #SoundCloud
soundcloud.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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One should always be suspicious when the state resists disclosure of documents.

And one should be more suspicious when the state suddenly purports to agree to the disclosure of documents.
November 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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The truth politics dare not speak. Part of the reason this is unsolvable for Lab is that it isn’t a real issue - it’s a euphemism for political discontent.

They could get immigration to zero, destroying the country in the process & it wouldn’t help, cause it’s not what ppl are actually angry about
One of the things that the “immigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads
November 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
This was a fantasticly stylish game in its day.
ROLLING THUNDER
NAMCO / ARC CO 1989
NES
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Go see
Just back in from seeing Game, the film my mates Geoff, Marc and Rob (and a few others) have made. The boys done good! Very proud of them.

On general release from this Friday, but still plenty of screenings with post-film Q&As. Go see!
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Who do they think this crap is appealing to? Certainly nobody who'd ever have voted for them.
Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.

How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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This is fascinating research. It's actually quite hopeful in many ways: IF (massive 'if' given the terminal cowardice of the govt) you took Farage on rather than pandering to him, you'd have a real chance of pulling his coalition of potential voters apart.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The real Reform voters have been revealed – it’s a slapdash coalition Farage will struggle to hold together | Aditya Chakrabortty
This is no single bloc marching under one ideology, or even a mass of ‘red-wall’ voters. What unites them is a desire for something different, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Lovely lovely mix here!
Audio is still processing for part 1 of Saturday night, but it should be available soon. Part 2 will follow when I get the chance, but this should keep you going for now.

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One Night Only At The Social 2 - 08/11/25 - Part 1
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November 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Let me show you the difference between a $40 hoodie and a ~$100 hoodie. 🧵
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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What is always forgotten is that in 2016, the majority of Labour voters in almost all areas that voted Leave voted Remain. It's one reason why the then leadership's failure to fully back Remain is so unforgivable. It could well have tipped the balance.
"What I think Blue Labour believe is that Labour voters in the marginal Red Wall district have fundamentally different views on social (and maybe economic) issues than Labour voters in safe London seats. They don’t."
open.substack.com/pub/benansel...
Labour at the Margin...
...of survival
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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I love this.
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Bubble pop soon... ?
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Grapefruit 😇 #art #oilpainting
November 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
🤢
You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that:

1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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I suspect being sued for a billion dollars by Donald Trump, who is about as popular as cholera in Britain, for saying something true about what Trump did (albeit with a bad edit) will probably do the BBC's public trust and approval ratings quite a lot of good in the end.
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"

China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
How's the USA doing?
China’s emissions have peaked, five years ahead of schedule. A moment of epochal importance.

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NEW – Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/ONGzk3a
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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I fear that if Johnson were asked this today, there would be lot of umming & erring, some guff about "the custard of conciliation" & "the tiramisu of time", but he would refuse to answer.

That a US President tried to overthrow an election is now unsayable on the British Right & in much of the media
In 2020, Boris Johnson said that Trump "encouraged people to storm the Capitol ... I believe that that was completely wrong. ... I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol".

Does he still think that?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgCi...
Boris Johnson condemns Trump after Capitol attack: 'Completely wrong'
YouTube video by Guardian News
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM