Angus Willson
@anguswillson.bsky.social
Free-range geography. From Ashford, Kent, UK, across the world.
"A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." Susan Sontag.
See http://pannage.com
At peace with finding joy in the mundane.
https://open.spotify.com/user/pannage
"A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." Susan Sontag.
See http://pannage.com
At peace with finding joy in the mundane.
https://open.spotify.com/user/pannage
Pinned
I have a website with a series of blog posts which has out-lasted a few social media accounts.
www.pannage.com/blog/
It's all me, me, me.
www.pannage.com/blog/
It's all me, me, me.
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You might have thought Question Time was biased.
But you never realised how much.
UKIP never even had a single MP.
But you never realised how much.
UKIP never even had a single MP.
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
You might have thought Question Time was biased.
But you never realised how much.
UKIP never even had a single MP.
But you never realised how much.
UKIP never even had a single MP.
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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...
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 7:22 PM
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...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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Please repost if you agree that the BBC is institutionally biased in favour of Nigel Farage.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Please repost if you agree that the BBC is institutionally biased in favour of Nigel Farage.
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🔴The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the ‘Right-Wing Coup’ Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease the forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
By attempting to appease the forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🔴The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the ‘Right-Wing Coup’ Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease the forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
By attempting to appease the forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
#NowListening Thank you, Release Radar, for highlighting this and her back catalogue. #Music
Samantha Fish, Paper Doll, 2025.
open.spotify.com/album/6nnECa...
Samantha Fish, Paper Doll, 2025.
open.spotify.com/album/6nnECa...
Paper Doll (Deluxe Edition)
open.spotify.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
#NowListening Thank you, Release Radar, for highlighting this and her back catalogue. #Music
Samantha Fish, Paper Doll, 2025.
open.spotify.com/album/6nnECa...
Samantha Fish, Paper Doll, 2025.
open.spotify.com/album/6nnECa...
It was #BorisJohnson who deliberately stuffed the #BBC Board with right-wing stooges.
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
It was #BorisJohnson who deliberately stuffed the #BBC Board with right-wing stooges.
Futility not glory.
November 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Futility not glory.
#NowPlaying This 2025 incarnation of Steeleye Span sounds very much prog-rock, and in a good way. #Music Building on a heritage of many musicians, mostly still performing.
open.spotify.com/album/5wkZre...
open.spotify.com/album/5wkZre...
Spotify – Web Player
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November 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
#NowPlaying This 2025 incarnation of Steeleye Span sounds very much prog-rock, and in a good way. #Music Building on a heritage of many musicians, mostly still performing.
open.spotify.com/album/5wkZre...
open.spotify.com/album/5wkZre...
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Why should we switch 2p of tax from National Insurance to Income Tax? ⤵️
Income Tax raises more money and spreads the burden more fairly. The switch would raise £6 billion, and leave the vast majority of payslips unaffected.
Income Tax raises more money and spreads the burden more fairly. The switch would raise £6 billion, and leave the vast majority of payslips unaffected.
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Why should we switch 2p of tax from National Insurance to Income Tax? ⤵️
Income Tax raises more money and spreads the burden more fairly. The switch would raise £6 billion, and leave the vast majority of payslips unaffected.
Income Tax raises more money and spreads the burden more fairly. The switch would raise £6 billion, and leave the vast majority of payslips unaffected.
#NowListening The finale of a wonderful BBC Radio 4 five-part series by Laura Barton @ladymissbarton.bsky.social Barton on #BruceSpringsteen The Legend. Also on BBC Sounds here
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Legend - The Bruce Springsteen Story - 5. The Land of Hope and Dreams - BBC Sounds
The journey to Bruce’s 2025 tour culminates at San Siro Stadium in Milan.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
#NowListening The finale of a wonderful BBC Radio 4 five-part series by Laura Barton @ladymissbarton.bsky.social Barton on #BruceSpringsteen The Legend. Also on BBC Sounds here
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#NowListening Still finding great 70s #music I have not heard before - or, at least, albums not really listened to. Back then the first three albums were enough.
Steely Dan, The Royal Scam, 1976
open.spotify.com/album/13l9IP...
Steely Dan, The Royal Scam, 1976
open.spotify.com/album/13l9IP...
The Royal Scam (2025 Remaster)
open.spotify.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
#NowListening Still finding great 70s #music I have not heard before - or, at least, albums not really listened to. Back then the first three albums were enough.
Steely Dan, The Royal Scam, 1976
open.spotify.com/album/13l9IP...
Steely Dan, The Royal Scam, 1976
open.spotify.com/album/13l9IP...
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Such politically biased reporting by the BBC needs to be constantly called out👇🏼😡
10 prisoners a month on avg were released by mistake during the last year of Tory Govt yet BBC didn’t report it
BUT with Labour in Govt it gets reports & regular updates on progress to recapture a migrant prisoner❗️🙄
10 prisoners a month on avg were released by mistake during the last year of Tory Govt yet BBC didn’t report it
BUT with Labour in Govt it gets reports & regular updates on progress to recapture a migrant prisoner❗️🙄
Algerian sex offender mistakenly released from Wandsworth prison arrested - live updates
Brahim Kaddour-Cherif was spotted by a member of the public in north London today after being freed in error on 29 October.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Such politically biased reporting by the BBC needs to be constantly called out👇🏼😡
10 prisoners a month on avg were released by mistake during the last year of Tory Govt yet BBC didn’t report it
BUT with Labour in Govt it gets reports & regular updates on progress to recapture a migrant prisoner❗️🙄
10 prisoners a month on avg were released by mistake during the last year of Tory Govt yet BBC didn’t report it
BUT with Labour in Govt it gets reports & regular updates on progress to recapture a migrant prisoner❗️🙄
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21 out of 33 Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords have paid jobs outside Parliament.
Shadow ministers paid to ‘advise’ the same industries they’re meant to scrutinise. Conflict of interest institutionalized. Paymasters served.
Can't get good society without ending political bribery.
Shadow ministers paid to ‘advise’ the same industries they’re meant to scrutinise. Conflict of interest institutionalized. Paymasters served.
Can't get good society without ending political bribery.
democracyforsale.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM
21 out of 33 Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords have paid jobs outside Parliament.
Shadow ministers paid to ‘advise’ the same industries they’re meant to scrutinise. Conflict of interest institutionalized. Paymasters served.
Can't get good society without ending political bribery.
Shadow ministers paid to ‘advise’ the same industries they’re meant to scrutinise. Conflict of interest institutionalized. Paymasters served.
Can't get good society without ending political bribery.
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PPE Medpro linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes.
The company also owes the public purse £148m for supplying unusable surgical gowns.
Company is bankrupt. HMRC ranks as unsecured creditor for taxes owed by the company.
Where has the money vanished to? Will anything be recovered?
The company also owes the public purse £148m for supplying unusable surgical gowns.
Company is bankrupt. HMRC ranks as unsecured creditor for taxes owed by the company.
Where has the money vanished to? Will anything be recovered?
Company linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes
Statement by administrators puts PPE Medpro’s total debts at £188m, including £39m said to be owed to HMRC
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
PPE Medpro linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes.
The company also owes the public purse £148m for supplying unusable surgical gowns.
Company is bankrupt. HMRC ranks as unsecured creditor for taxes owed by the company.
Where has the money vanished to? Will anything be recovered?
The company also owes the public purse £148m for supplying unusable surgical gowns.
Company is bankrupt. HMRC ranks as unsecured creditor for taxes owed by the company.
Where has the money vanished to? Will anything be recovered?
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Please also report dead or sick birds to BirdTrack via www.birdtrack.net for monitoring purposes.
Please share this message far and wide with friends and birding communities. Thank you.
Please share this message far and wide with friends and birding communities. Thank you.
BirdTrack | BTO
About BirdTrackBirdTrack allows volunteers to store and manage their own personal bird records, and uses these to support species conservation at local, regional, national and international scales.
www.birdtrack.net
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Please also report dead or sick birds to BirdTrack via www.birdtrack.net for monitoring purposes.
Please share this message far and wide with friends and birding communities. Thank you.
Please share this message far and wide with friends and birding communities. Thank you.
This research should convince you that global oligarchic power like #Musk and how he has used #x, formerly #twitter, is very much part of the problem faced by those of us pro-caring, pro-empathetic, pro-fairness and pro-justice.
A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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House prices have gone up in the French town of Sauté since it's become gentlyfried.
November 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
House prices have gone up in the French town of Sauté since it's become gentlyfried.
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We are now moving on to approving of a new Strategic Statement - Reforming Kent, a title that is almost certainly in breach of the Local Government Act, but no one seems to care about.
Cllr Kemkaran says KCC is facing "the most challenging operating environment this council has ever faced."
Cllr Kemkaran says KCC is facing "the most challenging operating environment this council has ever faced."
November 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
We are now moving on to approving of a new Strategic Statement - Reforming Kent, a title that is almost certainly in breach of the Local Government Act, but no one seems to care about.
Cllr Kemkaran says KCC is facing "the most challenging operating environment this council has ever faced."
Cllr Kemkaran says KCC is facing "the most challenging operating environment this council has ever faced."
If you don't know about #prisons and #probation, and I don't either, one can only imagine these services have been run into the ground by years of #tory cuts and #austerity measures, just like everything else. It ain't a quick fix to recover essential public services.
November 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
If you don't know about #prisons and #probation, and I don't either, one can only imagine these services have been run into the ground by years of #tory cuts and #austerity measures, just like everything else. It ain't a quick fix to recover essential public services.
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🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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If the UK had never privatised it's Fossil Fuel in 1979, there would be ZERO debt.
£3tn stolen from you in 45 years.
£3tn stolen from you in 45 years.
November 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If the UK had never privatised it's Fossil Fuel in 1979, there would be ZERO debt.
£3tn stolen from you in 45 years.
£3tn stolen from you in 45 years.
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Laure Ferrari, Nigel Farage’s girlfriend, was manager of the Institute for Direct Democracy in Europe (IDDE).
EU's anti-fraud office Olaf has been investigating their funding and its ties to a European Parliament alliance led by UKIP.
EU's anti-fraud office Olaf has been investigating their funding and its ties to a European Parliament alliance led by UKIP.
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Laure Ferrari, Nigel Farage’s girlfriend, was manager of the Institute for Direct Democracy in Europe (IDDE).
EU's anti-fraud office Olaf has been investigating their funding and its ties to a European Parliament alliance led by UKIP.
EU's anti-fraud office Olaf has been investigating their funding and its ties to a European Parliament alliance led by UKIP.
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Why tax the rich? The case for accountability and justice
The anniversary of a key piece of socialist literature inspires an argument for a fairer financial future that has never been more pressing
By Bryn Glover
The anniversary of a key piece of socialist literature inspires an argument for a fairer financial future that has never been more pressing
By Bryn Glover
Why tax the rich? The case for accountability and justice
The anniversary of a key piece of socialist literature inspires an argument for a fairer financial future that has never been more pressing
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Why tax the rich? The case for accountability and justice
The anniversary of a key piece of socialist literature inspires an argument for a fairer financial future that has never been more pressing
By Bryn Glover
The anniversary of a key piece of socialist literature inspires an argument for a fairer financial future that has never been more pressing
By Bryn Glover