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I deserve respect for the title of this piece even if you don't accept my argument.
#BobVylan #Glastonbury #LucyConnolly #Kneecap
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#BobVylan #Glastonbury #LucyConnolly #Kneecap
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July 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I deserve respect for the title of this piece even if you don't accept my argument.
#BobVylan #Glastonbury #LucyConnolly #Kneecap
theviewfromdiamondtowers.substack.com/p/heroes-and-v…
#BobVylan #Glastonbury #LucyConnolly #Kneecap
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"Bill Gates...something something...BURGERS aren't REAL!"
May 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"Bill Gates...something something...BURGERS aren't REAL!"
The point about studying the sciences is not that it will help you know what's true, but that it makes it easier to spot what is false, and easier to tell true scepticism from mere cynicism.
May 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The point about studying the sciences is not that it will help you know what's true, but that it makes it easier to spot what is false, and easier to tell true scepticism from mere cynicism.
Kurt Cobain died 31 years ago today. My piece about the first rock star I ever fell in love with.
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CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE GRUNGER
The first rock star I ever fell in love with Now he’s gone and joined that stupid club…I told him not to join that stupid club. —Wendy O’Conner, Kurt Cobain’s mother It was thirty years ago today t…
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April 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Kurt Cobain died 31 years ago today. My piece about the first rock star I ever fell in love with.
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diamonddavewonfor.wordpress.com/2024/04/05/c...
"Historical obsessions begin like this, as all history obsessives could attest. Start following the clues and you never know where they will lead you."
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IN SEARCH OF ST CUTHBERT
Walking in the footsteps of Northumbria's patron saint.
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March 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"Historical obsessions begin like this, as all history obsessives could attest. Start following the clues and you never know where they will lead you."
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"This is the most powerful, and the most important, UK drama I've seen since 'Boys from the Black Stuff'."
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Diamond Dave Wonfor on Substack
I can't recommend the new Netflix drama "Adolescence" strongly enough. Four episodes, each done as a single take, following the fallout from a young boy who murders a female classmate. Not only is it ...
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March 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"This is the most powerful, and the most important, UK drama I've seen since 'Boys from the Black Stuff'."
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"Anyone who has verbally wrestled with the brazenly thuggish will know what it feels like to be strong-armed and gaslit by someone who cares nothing for the truth and everything about dominating the conversation and asserting their power."
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THE FIRST CASUALITY
Lies of the New World Order.
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March 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"Anyone who has verbally wrestled with the brazenly thuggish will know what it feels like to be strong-armed and gaslit by someone who cares nothing for the truth and everything about dominating the conversation and asserting their power."
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Reposted
After Trump slashed military aid and left Ukrainians to die, a grim from post from me on how America is becoming a western version of the Russian empire: treacherous, aggrandising, and very, very dangerous.
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nickcohen.substack.com/p/a-far-righ...
A far-right empire: Trump’s America is Europe’s new enemy
The meaning of the US betrayal of Ukraine
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March 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
After Trump slashed military aid and left Ukrainians to die, a grim from post from me on how America is becoming a western version of the Russian empire: treacherous, aggrandising, and very, very dangerous.
nickcohen.substack.com/p/a-far-righ...
nickcohen.substack.com/p/a-far-righ...
"It is an act of capriciousness of world-historical proportions, one whose bloody ramifications can already be counted in dead Ukrainians."
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Let us not forget that the people telling us Ukraine is fighting an “unwinnable war” are the same people that said back in 2022 the country would fall in 48 hours. They are the same people who have co...
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March 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"It is an act of capriciousness of world-historical proportions, one whose bloody ramifications can already be counted in dead Ukrainians."
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If he appointed his horse to the senate, you wouldn't be surprised at this point.
March 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
If he appointed his horse to the senate, you wouldn't be surprised at this point.
Reposted
Crawling out of the slimy entrails of Mar-a-Lago on election night, Douglas Murray declared triumphantly that Trump was going to ‘show what American leadership on the world stage actually looks like’.
A protection racket is what it looks like. open.substack.com/pub/jamesblo...
A protection racket is what it looks like. open.substack.com/pub/jamesblo...
Destroying the West in order to save it
When all reform leads to revolution
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March 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Crawling out of the slimy entrails of Mar-a-Lago on election night, Douglas Murray declared triumphantly that Trump was going to ‘show what American leadership on the world stage actually looks like’.
A protection racket is what it looks like. open.substack.com/pub/jamesblo...
A protection racket is what it looks like. open.substack.com/pub/jamesblo...
"All told, jazz has not only profoundly affected the way I listen to music and think about music, it has also been an inexhaustible fountain of vital, life-enhancing pleasure."
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February 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"All told, jazz has not only profoundly affected the way I listen to music and think about music, it has also been an inexhaustible fountain of vital, life-enhancing pleasure."
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Israel is the only nation on earth whose right to even exist is openly questioned in polite society.
February 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Israel is the only nation on earth whose right to even exist is openly questioned in polite society.
A long read about Joy Division's uncanny debut. Do think about sharing or subscribing!
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February 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
A long read about Joy Division's uncanny debut. Do think about sharing or subscribing!
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"There is no greater insult to the memory of our forebears than a broken or spray-painted gravestone."
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January 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"There is no greater insult to the memory of our forebears than a broken or spray-painted gravestone."
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theviewfromdiamondtowers.substack.com/p/darwin-and...
"What has changed, I think, is a lowering of temperature in the tone and tenor of the discourse."
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Diamond Dave Wonfor on Substack
Camilla Cavendish writes in FT that “the world is set to become more religious, not less, in the coming decades”. She cites demographic indicators about the supposed rebirth of Christian feeling in th...
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January 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
"What has changed, I think, is a lowering of temperature in the tone and tenor of the discourse."
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