Hesham Sabry
@heshams.bsky.social
pseud. layabout. tv lawyer. my ship’s been split to splinters and it’s sinking fast. MD ANT
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Ellie Chowns, "People are frustrated with the problems of the country"
"It's inequality, not immigration, at the root of that"
"There are very irresponsible, dark forces, whipping up hatred"
"It's inequality, not immigration, at the root of that"
"There are very irresponsible, dark forces, whipping up hatred"
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Ellie Chowns, "People are frustrated with the problems of the country"
"It's inequality, not immigration, at the root of that"
"There are very irresponsible, dark forces, whipping up hatred"
"It's inequality, not immigration, at the root of that"
"There are very irresponsible, dark forces, whipping up hatred"
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Not sure how am going to teach on rights and citizenship and immigration and refugee policies tomorrow. UK government just dropped policy that is way outside the parameters of the global surveys we read.
What has happened here?
I literally do not know.
What has happened here?
I literally do not know.
It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Not sure how am going to teach on rights and citizenship and immigration and refugee policies tomorrow. UK government just dropped policy that is way outside the parameters of the global surveys we read.
What has happened here?
I literally do not know.
What has happened here?
I literally do not know.
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The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.
Post someome who looks great in a hat.....
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Post someome who looks great in a hat.....
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Another banger for the Michael Shannon file: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Another banger for the Michael Shannon file: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
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I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery
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A few words in celebration of the first flourishing of British jazz and Richard Morton Jack's incredible, indispensable Labyrinth book. www.patreon.com/posts/britis...
“British jazzers seemed way more fun to be around than my parents. They looked like they had wild parties and drank Chianti in tear-shaped bottles whilst whilst having a fag on the go at all times.” ...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
A few words in celebration of the first flourishing of British jazz and Richard Morton Jack's incredible, indispensable Labyrinth book. www.patreon.com/posts/britis...
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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A reminder that David Kogan was *not* on the shortlist for the position of head of the football regulator service and that the candidates who *had* been shortlisted were then ignored in his favour. Kogan did not even apply for the position.
Lisa Nandy apologises for breaking rules on football regulator job
Lisa Nandy apologises for breaking rules on football regulator job
Report finds that new football regulator David Kogan had made two separate donations of £1,450 to the culture secretary.
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A reminder that David Kogan was *not* on the shortlist for the position of head of the football regulator service and that the candidates who *had* been shortlisted were then ignored in his favour. Kogan did not even apply for the position.
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'HEAD' Japanese poster, 1968.
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
'HEAD' Japanese poster, 1968.
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I am biased of course, but I am here to tell you that my favourite record by The Clientele has been reissued on vinyl this week & it is a rather beautiful thing: ffm.bio/theviolethour
November 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I am biased of course, but I am here to tell you that my favourite record by The Clientele has been reissued on vinyl this week & it is a rather beautiful thing: ffm.bio/theviolethour
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Bobbie Gentry’s uber rare Thunder in the Afternoon. First time ever on vinyl, a new release on the Measured Mile label. www.acerecords.co.uk/thunder-in-t...
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Bobbie Gentry’s uber rare Thunder in the Afternoon. First time ever on vinyl, a new release on the Measured Mile label. www.acerecords.co.uk/thunder-in-t...
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Dreadful cunts. This will be devastating. My dad was in Woodlands, one of the threatened homes. It is the most wonderful place.
Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres to sell off land
Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres to sell off land
Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s Reform cabinet member for social care owns private care company
Lancashire’s Reform-run council has been accused of “selling off the family silver” with plans to save £4m a year by closing five council-run care homes and five day centres and selling off the land.
One of the care home residents, a 92-year-old woman, said she would leave only by “being forcibly removed or in a box”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Dreadful cunts. This will be devastating. My dad was in Woodlands, one of the threatened homes. It is the most wonderful place.
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this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
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The Kinks, Malmö Folkets, Sweden, June 1968. Photo: OlaSvensson.
November 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The Kinks, Malmö Folkets, Sweden, June 1968. Photo: OlaSvensson.
Can’t wait for these UK shows!
November 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Can’t wait for these UK shows!
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
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Farewell, Joseph Byrd.
![The United States Of America [mono mix] (Columbia, 1968)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:daj27owxvu6dr5mklwcenwmu/bafkreif7qjqkudg7ddrpeiio337bcixj4sfo62hcwzzlrw6hrjwocuzcju@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Farewell, Joseph Byrd.
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Happy birthday to the brilliant Lindy Morrison. Here's a glorious Go-Betweens performance filmed for Australian TV in 1987. It boasts their best line-up and a short but sweet set including Bye Bye Pride, Right Here, Cut It Out, Spring Rain, Cattle and Cane…
youtu.be/4ALbPfCFfkQ
youtu.be/4ALbPfCFfkQ
The Go-Betweens - Live in studio (Rock Arena 1987) (HD 60fps)
YouTube video by The 80s, a Decade of Music (Master Noise HD 60fps)
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November 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Happy birthday to the brilliant Lindy Morrison. Here's a glorious Go-Betweens performance filmed for Australian TV in 1987. It boasts their best line-up and a short but sweet set including Bye Bye Pride, Right Here, Cut It Out, Spring Rain, Cattle and Cane…
youtu.be/4ALbPfCFfkQ
youtu.be/4ALbPfCFfkQ
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Thinking of my late, great, mate Sam Kelly who always ate double egg & chips before our various shows together.
He told me he got it from Ronnie Barker (whilst working on Porridge) who had said ‘Double egg & chips makes you funny’!
One egg… not funny.
Brilliant!
RIP Sam 🙌 x
He told me he got it from Ronnie Barker (whilst working on Porridge) who had said ‘Double egg & chips makes you funny’!
One egg… not funny.
Brilliant!
RIP Sam 🙌 x
November 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Thinking of my late, great, mate Sam Kelly who always ate double egg & chips before our various shows together.
He told me he got it from Ronnie Barker (whilst working on Porridge) who had said ‘Double egg & chips makes you funny’!
One egg… not funny.
Brilliant!
RIP Sam 🙌 x
He told me he got it from Ronnie Barker (whilst working on Porridge) who had said ‘Double egg & chips makes you funny’!
One egg… not funny.
Brilliant!
RIP Sam 🙌 x
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Hiya Edwyn - 30 March 1984 This was a great night - Orange Juice at the Haçienda with the Go-Betweens.
November 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Hiya Edwyn - 30 March 1984 This was a great night - Orange Juice at the Haçienda with the Go-Betweens.
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