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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 1d

Matthew Ingate @t0mbstoneblues.bsky.social reports in from two Rough and Rowdy nights in Paris

Review: Two Nights of Bob Dylan in Paris (by Matthew Ingate)

2025-10-30/31, Palais des Congres, Paris, France

www.flaggingdown.com

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Roy Kelly @stanyanfan49.bsky.social · 3h

Bob did do that, but also another in the genre, which I think is better.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3AO...

Bob Dylan live , Female Rambling Sailor , Adelaide 1992

YouTube video by Irenehilda

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 18h

“100% ANTI TRUMP, WHICH IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL.”

Donald J. Trump &
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@realDonaldTrump
Seth Meyers of NBC may be the least talented person to "perform" live in the history of television.
In fact, he may be the WORST to perform, live or otherwise. I watched his show the other night for the first time in years. In it he talked endlessly about electric catapults on aircraft carriers which I complain about as not being as good as much less expensive steam catapults. On and on he went, a truly deranged lunatic. Why does NBC waste its time and money on a guy like this??? - NO TALENT, NO RATINGS, 100% ANTI TRUMP, WHICH IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL!!!

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 6h

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."

manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

The men who raised the flags

Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

manchestermill.co.uk

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5h

A mixed bag of news in your inbox!
*Why “admin charge” could replace “service charge” on your London restaurant bill
*The missing link between London snail farms and western government contracts awarded during the Iraq war
*RIP KINGDOM OF TREATS
www.londoncentric.media/p/admin-char...

Goodbye service charge, hello 'admin fee'

Plus: The difficulty of sourcing live snails for a London restaurant and a tribute to one of London's leading American candy shops.

www.londoncentric.media

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19h

What he said: 💯 🎯

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 20h

In the 35 years Daniel Hannan has been a member of the Conservative Party, they have been in government as the result of that problem electorate a total of 21 years.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 21h

A Brexiter writes...

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Roy Kelly @stanyanfan49.bsky.social · 1d

A poem from 13 years ago, remembering half a century before, which with the current Bootleg box set is still here.
#Dylan

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

I'm being entirely serious when I say that this is one of the core commitments of reactionary politics: demand all the privileges, refuse any of the responsibility.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "It's their fault. Everything is their fault."

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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Bootleg Series release day! Here's my exhaustive (exhausting?) track by track guide to read while you listen. A deep dive on each song—where they come from, what they sound like, have we heard them before

(And if you didn't buy the full set, two discs worth are on streaming today)

A Track-by-Track Guide to Bob Dylan's 'Through the Open Window' Bootleg Series

Plus a playlist of highlights at the very end

www.flaggingdown.com

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Roy Kelly @stanyanfan49.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeXo...

Tom Jones performing Delilah at Glastonbury Fayre

YouTube video by rocky storm

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Roy Kelly @stanyanfan49.bsky.social · 1d

You’re a great interviewer Ray but I’m sorry you don’t care for Delilah. It’s a shape shifter song, moving between real and parody, affection and authenticity, and Tom Jones is a force of nature gifted singer. It’s going to be eternal.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 2d

Great read from @iandunt.bsky.social on whether Starmer should stay or go, including the mystery of how, if you’re launching a popular climate, energy, and growth strategy, why wouldn’t you stage a press conference on it?
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...

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Roy Kelly @stanyanfan49.bsky.social · 1d

Where the tidal river bends when the tide is out.

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 2d

Where did Tommy used to work? Of what did Gina dream? Why does she bring home her pay? as.ft.com/r/8a89f714-b...

Jon Bon Jovi: ‘Fame is a liar and a thief’

[FREE TO READ] The rock legend on making peace with the critics, the business of running a band — and his history with Donald Trump

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Could Katie Lam identify the London schools where "more than three-quarters of children don’t speak English to a serviceable school standard". Well done to @davehillonlondon.bsky.social for giving Lam + CPS the chance to substantiate this claim at the Tory fringe

www.onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-ka...

Dave Hill: Katie Lam should learn London's language

Recent comments about the capital's school children's English skills suggest the Tory MP from Kent must try harder

www.onlondon.co.uk

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Roy Kelly @stanyanfan49.bsky.social · 2d

Ray continues to give us the good stuff.

open.substack.com/pub/dylanliv...

A Track-by-Track Guide to Bob Dylan's 'Through the Open Window' Bootleg Series

Plus a playlist of highlights at the very end

open.substack.com

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Roy Kelly @stanyanfan49.bsky.social · 2d

@timdowling.bsky.social
No doubt your charge is still wandering the kitchen, but Trev has retired to winter quarters: a box in a hutch in a shed. With no memory of summer treats I’m sure.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d

Migration makes for political deflection and migrants an easy scapegoat, but most "concerns" around immigration are flat out false and driven by hostile rhetoric.
Reality is, on a day to day basis, people are more worried about how they'll get through to the next payday.
news.sky.com/story/manufa...

'Manufactured panic': Immigration not near top of most people's concerns, poll suggests

The cost of living, health, crime, and housing are much higher on people's lists of personal worries, a YouGov survey has suggested.

news.sky.com

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Roy Kelly @stanyanfan49.bsky.social · 2d

Been a while since we put a pumpkin out to signal to people that we were dishing out sweeties, but when we did it looked like this.

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 2d

Wonderful aside in this excellent thread. Pure Wodehouse.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

Most people are better served in ready-to-wear, not cheap custom. If they do custom tailoring, they would benefit from having someone gently guide them towards better choices, politely saying "no" when necessary. See what Graydon Carter said of his tailor at Anderson & Sheppard.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 2d

More information coming out now on this. Looks like a Cabinet Office scheme led by Georgia Gould… planned savings of £10m-£30m a year (back up lower Premier League full-back price) don’t really seem worth the candle if this the result IMO.

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 2d

go home everyone we have a winner

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 2d

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads

They Oz you up, your mandyias.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They give you vast and trunkless legs
A sunken shattered visage too.
But they were Ozzed up in their turn
By Mandyias upon the sand
Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command.
Oz hands on mandyias to man.
Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can
Ye mighty and despair yourself

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 4d

I’m Spartacus 3.0

For just £299 plus £1.50 postage you could have owned this ‘ultra-rare copy of American Psycho, signed by Bonnie Langford’

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this.

At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years

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