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travelled down to an ultra-wealthy enclave in Dorset to ask people about the budget. But I just found this weird eerie feeling, which I attempted to describe for @dispatchmedia.bsky.social . Amazing photography from Harry Mitchell.
"Everyone here walks around with a glazed expression. You can imagine them ambling contentedly into the waves."

@milesellingham.bsky.social reports from Sandbanks, often dubbed "Britain's Palm Springs".
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Incredible piece of reporting on Sandbanks, "England's most expensive neighbourhood", and its neighbour, the declining seaside town of Poole. England's two countries, richly drawn

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The empty soul of Britain's Palm Springs
Sandbanks is England's most expensive neighbourhood • But at what cost? • A paradise built on imported sand
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November 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"Everyone here walks around with a glazed expression. You can imagine them ambling contentedly into the waves."

@milesellingham.bsky.social reports from Sandbanks, often dubbed "Britain's Palm Springs".
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
"I had just been informed that the doctors wanted to drill a hole directly into my guts, effectively making my penis redundant. It was proving quite a lot to take in."

Paul Sagar on the dysfunction of the NHS's wheelchair services:
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
From the jungles of the Amazon to... County Westmeath.

A network of ayahuasca retreats has taken root across Ireland.

Fin Carter reports on the fall-out:
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Cajun hookers, cold beer and a gator-filled swamp.

What's life like in the town nicknamed 'the end of the world'?

@jacobfuredi.bsky.social reports from Venice, Louisiana:
November 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Forget No Nut November — meet the men practising semen retention all year round.

By Colette Fountain.
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
"What if Jonathan Bryan wasn't communicating in his own words at all?"

A startling investigation by @garynunn.bsky.social into the so-called "miracle cure" known as Facilitated Communication:
November 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Since 1982, a band of peace activists have camped out in the forest next to Britain's Trident nuclear arsenal.

How are they faring?

Euan Dawtrey dug out his sleeping bag and headed to Faslane:
November 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
In deepest Cornwall, a coven of witches is steadily growing in power — using spells, potions and... WhatsApp.

@marianneeloise.bsky.social reports:
October 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
For $40, you can buy a masaje in the middle of Queens.

Welcome to New York City's red-light district.

Claudia Steenhard reports:
October 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“Nothing has changed.”

20 years after a series of banilieus erupted in France, Peter Yeung reports from the Chêne Pointu estate where it all began:
October 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Earlier this month, Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to Portland.

He claimed the city was “burning to the ground”.

The reality on the ground was somewhat different.

Valen Lambert reports:
October 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"I was, as Danny Dyer would say, on their manor."

Jack Burke goes in search of Britain's Hells Angels — and finds them at a Kentish garden party.

Link below.
October 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
An IRA bomber, a Scottish miner, a Toxteth rioter, a Welsh 'lout'.

How are they faring today?

Ahead of her centenary, @jacobfuredi.bsky.social reports from the frontlines of Thatcher's Britain:
October 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
"It turns you into a loner, that’s the problem with this job."

María Sonia Cristoff returns to Patagonia's ghost towns — where she finds a oil man imprisoned by solitude.
October 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Across the Alps, migrants are traversing mountain trails in an attempt to cross into France.

Peter Yeung reports on Europe's Alpine migration crisis:
October 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Mark Steele is a self-described polymath, weapons expert and whistleblower.

He's also the leading figure in Britain's anti-5G movement.

Jake Shepherd reports:
September 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
What do Bill Murray, Adolf Hitler and Andy Burnham have in common?

They all feature in today's Weekend Dispatch.

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September 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM
September 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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For @dispatchmedia.bsky.social i went on the trail of the Totley Communists and the radical history of Sheffield.

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The commune on the moors
A spectre is haunting Sheffield • The spectre of Communism • And Coronation Street
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September 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Keep your Andy Burnhams and Keir Starmers.

Today, @johnmerrick.bsky.social goes in search of the true communist Kings of the North.
September 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Bonnie Blue, Lily Philips, Rebecca Goodwin all hail from the same sleepy corner of Derbyshire.

Is it purely coincidence?

@laurabeveridge.bsky.social reports from inside the OnlyFans Triangle:
September 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
"I have nothing but contempt for the current government."

David Peace speaks to Dispatch about Keir Starmer, Tommy Robinson, the media — and, of course, Yorkshire.
September 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Hidden away in sleepy Suffolk, a US airbase houses America's nuclear weapons.

What do locals think?

Jonathan McAloon reports:
September 16, 2025 at 8:32 AM