William Ham Bevan
@hambevan.bsky.social
Writer, editor, placeholder
Fantom flinger of FLONG: https://www.flong.wales
Fantom flinger of FLONG: https://www.flong.wales
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We wanted to understand how rugged English-Scots-Irish culture has shaped America. So we talked to three white South African billionaires at a sex party in the Bahamas.
February 16, 2026 at 8:58 PM
We wanted to understand how rugged English-Scots-Irish culture has shaped America. So we talked to three white South African billionaires at a sex party in the Bahamas.
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Don't you hate it when fighting age men flee their own country, leaving their families behind, then expect other people to give them a handout.
February 14, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Don't you hate it when fighting age men flee their own country, leaving their families behind, then expect other people to give them a handout.
"Mam! There's a duck in Harlech Television"
The drake Bufflehead at Llyn Coron, Ynys Môn this morning; gave some fab views feeding on its own in a sheltered bay. #birdingWales
February 14, 2026 at 10:10 PM
"Mam! There's a duck in Harlech Television"
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"For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night"
@alwynturner.bsky.social selects his 70 favourite album titles from the 1970s.
thelionandunicorn.com/2026/02/14/a...
@alwynturner.bsky.social selects his 70 favourite album titles from the 1970s.
thelionandunicorn.com/2026/02/14/a...
Ass, and other 1970s album titles
What a Bunch of Sweeties… ALWYN TURNER’s favourite album titles of the 1970s.
thelionandunicorn.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:47 AM
"For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night"
@alwynturner.bsky.social selects his 70 favourite album titles from the 1970s.
thelionandunicorn.com/2026/02/14/a...
@alwynturner.bsky.social selects his 70 favourite album titles from the 1970s.
thelionandunicorn.com/2026/02/14/a...
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Of all the songs that sound like a bad hangover/emerging from an all-nighter at 6.30am waiting for the first bus and looking at a grey cold unforgiving sky, it's Baker Street.
Also Gerry Rafferty knew his subject and met an awful long painful alcoholic end.
Also Gerry Rafferty knew his subject and met an awful long painful alcoholic end.
Wrote something about Baker Street last night. Thanks to @emilyoram.bsky.social for the (unintentional) reminder to get this written.
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The Soundtrack to my Life: You're Crying, You're Crying Now
There are many reasons why Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty means so much to me, and none of them are particularly healthy.
open.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Of all the songs that sound like a bad hangover/emerging from an all-nighter at 6.30am waiting for the first bus and looking at a grey cold unforgiving sky, it's Baker Street.
Also Gerry Rafferty knew his subject and met an awful long painful alcoholic end.
Also Gerry Rafferty knew his subject and met an awful long painful alcoholic end.
They should shrink-wrap this political party and label it "REFORMED GAMMON JOINT" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform
Braverman joins her ally Robert Jenrick and other right-wing Tories as the latest senior figure to desert Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative Party in favour of Reform
www.independent.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 2:43 PM
They should shrink-wrap this political party and label it "REFORMED GAMMON JOINT" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Can you imagine having such a weak hand that you feel the best two cards you can play as selling points are 'American treatment of indigenous people' and 'American healthcare'?
Waltz: "Denmark has ignored Greenland from a defense standpoint and they have ignored the Greenlandic native iniut people ... if you get a cancer diagnosis in Greenland right now, it's darn near a death sentence. Denmark has not invested in the way it should've over the years."
January 25, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Can you imagine having such a weak hand that you feel the best two cards you can play as selling points are 'American treatment of indigenous people' and 'American healthcare'?
This #totp is a good illustration of the point that UK & US charts may as well have been on different planets at the start of the 80s (as per @whenisbirths.bsky.social)
January 23, 2026 at 8:22 PM
This #totp is a good illustration of the point that UK & US charts may as well have been on different planets at the start of the 80s (as per @whenisbirths.bsky.social)
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I Replaced Movie Headlines With The SUNDAY SPORT: Part 1
YouTube video by Deleted Obscenes
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January 17, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward
January 15, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward
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🔴 Last week the Free Speech Union got a High Court writ to prevent the publication of a list of its donors
So we decided to investigate who *does* fund Toby Young's outfit
Wanna see? 🫣
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-funds-...
So we decided to investigate who *does* fund Toby Young's outfit
Wanna see? 🫣
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-funds-...
Who funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.
democracyforsale.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:31 AM
🔴 Last week the Free Speech Union got a High Court writ to prevent the publication of a list of its donors
So we decided to investigate who *does* fund Toby Young's outfit
Wanna see? 🫣
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-funds-...
So we decided to investigate who *does* fund Toby Young's outfit
Wanna see? 🫣
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-funds-...
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If you visit a bent casino and get fleeced, that's the casino's fault. If you keep on going back to try and beat the house, knowing full well it's bent, that's your fault.
Dear Bluesky liberals. Come back to Twitter. Please. PLEASE.
December 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
If you visit a bent casino and get fleeced, that's the casino's fault. If you keep on going back to try and beat the house, knowing full well it's bent, that's your fault.
Working for a press agency, and sending out news feeds in a variety of obsolete ways: Compuserve, AOL email, Mercury private line (!), fax and BT pager service. And then having to open an ISDN link to take broadcast-quality audio from the USA. God help you if you forgot to drop the line afterwards.
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 9, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Working for a press agency, and sending out news feeds in a variety of obsolete ways: Compuserve, AOL email, Mercury private line (!), fax and BT pager service. And then having to open an ISDN link to take broadcast-quality audio from the USA. God help you if you forgot to drop the line afterwards.
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This BBC drivel was parodied 44 years ago by Alexander Cockburn: harpers.org/archive/1982... It is - literally - beyond parody.
January 8, 2026 at 10:13 AM
This BBC drivel was parodied 44 years ago by Alexander Cockburn: harpers.org/archive/1982... It is - literally - beyond parody.
If the liberation of Belsen happened today, the BBC wouldn't dare run the story without getting a quote from Julius Streicher.
January 8, 2026 at 11:00 AM
If the liberation of Belsen happened today, the BBC wouldn't dare run the story without getting a quote from Julius Streicher.
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A Reform council leader behind a “Doge”-style crackdown on public spending owns two firms now in administration owing £1.5 million, including over £500,000 in unpaid tax, Covid loans, and staff wages.
January 7, 2026 at 11:46 AM
A Reform council leader behind a “Doge”-style crackdown on public spending owns two firms now in administration owing £1.5 million, including over £500,000 in unpaid tax, Covid loans, and staff wages.
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I think in this day and age they shouldn't have separate competitions based on your sexuality.
Luke Littler wins second straight World Darts Championship
Luke Littler wins second straight World Darts Championship
Luke Littler has won his second straight World Darts Championship, triumphing over Dutchman Gian van Veen.
news.sky.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:37 PM
I think in this day and age they shouldn't have separate competitions based on your sexuality.
Beatle-ologists still read dark conspiracies into how the press knew about Brian Epstein's death before anyone else. But the journalist Richard Stott admitted years ago that it was down to him, as he was bribing a load of telephone engineers to be informants. He went on to edit the Daily Mirror.
Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?
December 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Beatle-ologists still read dark conspiracies into how the press knew about Brian Epstein's death before anyone else. But the journalist Richard Stott admitted years ago that it was down to him, as he was bribing a load of telephone engineers to be informants. He went on to edit the Daily Mirror.
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Just some of those we lost in 2025. The gaps are there for us to remember those close to us. Wishing us all a better 2026. x
December 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Just some of those we lost in 2025. The gaps are there for us to remember those close to us. Wishing us all a better 2026. x