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Mark Farrar

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Soundscape Gardener. Guardian Subscriber. Venticinqualist.🇪🇺 I've just written a 25-word story: Snow Starts Play

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Mark Farrar @mafara.bsky.social · Nov 14

Snow Starts Play: a 25-word story
Iceland’s winter arrives early in 2025.
The Australian cricketers swap cricket balls for snowballs.
Huldufólk observe, puzzled by this team’s fortitude…
and failure to win.

Mark Farrar @mafara.bsky.social · 6d

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UK political class ‘poisoned by wealth’, says Zack Polanski as he sets out plan to tax assets of richest 1% – UK politics live

Polanski earlier called for patriotism debate to go beyond beyond ‘waving flags’

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 9d

Incredibly, the Mail is currently madder & more dishonest than it was in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 16d

LIMERICK

It was the Medical Council’s belief,
That as a form of effective relief,
Paracetamol would
Be next to no good
From the pain of the Satsuma-in-Chief.

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Mark Farrar @mafara.bsky.social · 28d

Very difficult to choose just 20 songs from Pink Floyd. I need to also include: Julia Dream; Arnold Layne; On The Run Careful With That Axe Eugene; (and of course) Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

And if your head explodes: Pink Floyd’s 20 best songs – ranked!

Fifty years after the release of Wish You Were Here, we count down the best of the band’s Syd Barrett years, their difficult recovery and later reunion

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Mark Farrar @mafara.bsky.social · Sep 9

Johnson did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
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Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals

Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests

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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · Aug 15

This weekend's @theipaper.com cartoon
#Trump #Putin #Ukraine

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Corduroy Cheddar @corduroycheddar.bsky.social · May 6

Sorry, but if you call my password weak I'm not going to tell you where the traffic lights are

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Mark Farrar @mafara.bsky.social · Aug 4

What a match!
What a series!
What drama!
Bloody well love you, Test Cricket.
Brave Woakes

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Mark Farrar @mafara.bsky.social · Aug 4

What a match!
What a series!
What drama!
Bloody well love you, Test Cricket.
Brave Woakes
#TheCricket #ENGvIND

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🫘 SpudsMcCrazy 🇳🇿🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇪 @spudsmccrazy.bsky.social · Aug 2

A classic from the @newyorker.com

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Mark Farrar @mafara.bsky.social · Jul 29

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UK to recognise Palestinian statehood in September unless Israel agrees ceasefire and two-state solution, Starmer says – UK politics live

Downing Street has issues its readout of today’s cabinet meeting on Gaza.

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Mark Farrar @mafara.bsky.social · Jul 29

Sadly, the volunteers in Dover still receive abuse from followers of ReformUK and are advised to hide their RNLI branded clothing.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · Jul 29

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has raised more than £200,000 in a single day after... its chief executive hit out at Nigel Farage’s claim that it was running a “migrant taxi service”.

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#r4today

Donations to RNLI rise 3,000% after Farage’s migrant criticism

UK lifeboat charity raises £200,000 in single day after CEO hits out at Nigel Farage’s ‘taxi service’ claim

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Richard Nicholls @richardnicholls.net · Jul 23

Day 204 of #365DaysOfSmiles
Is there anything lovelier than a laughing baby?

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · Jul 20

Farage should never be interviewed without being forced to answer for failures of Brexit. That the man whose lies fuelled Brexit vote which has cost UK Billions & who said Liz Truss budget was “best Tory budget since 1986” could be trusted on *anything* is mind-boggling #bbclaura

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Mark Farrar @mafara.bsky.social · Jul 10

I’ve always found Sainsbury’s bags to be rather brash.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · Jul 3

Knowing Brexit is a deeply dishonest project should be good enough reason to bin it, along with the liars who flogged it to the country.

Instead, we stay stuck in this Brexit dead-end because no one quite has the courage to admit what an epic fuck-up it is.
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