Rhys Griffiths
@rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social
Journalist, doing the hyperlocal newsletter thing @folkestonedispatch.substack.com. On the terraces at Folkestone Invicta. Love football, food, drink, travel (by train, ideally), history, podcasts and naps
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In this week's newsletter we look at some of the questions surrounding the prospect of a Folkestone bid for the crown of UK Town of Culture 2028...
🎨 Could Folkestone become the first-ever UK Town of Culture and win £3m prize?
Plus: Sadness at death of ‘incredible’ former teacher, and council ‘continuing to prepare’ for auction of former library building
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February 4, 2026 at 9:00 AM
In this week's newsletter we look at some of the questions surrounding the prospect of a Folkestone bid for the crown of UK Town of Culture 2028...
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you can literally travel to Mongolia, take a taxi from Ulaanbaatar to Choirin, find the last house in the outskirt, and ask Munkhbat who's about fifty or eighty, no one knows for sure, he spent his entire life drinking and throwing rocks at passing cars, he would say "Peter Mandelson? He's a c*nt."
February 3, 2026 at 9:03 PM
you can literally travel to Mongolia, take a taxi from Ulaanbaatar to Choirin, find the last house in the outskirt, and ask Munkhbat who's about fifty or eighty, no one knows for sure, he spent his entire life drinking and throwing rocks at passing cars, he would say "Peter Mandelson? He's a c*nt."
So, like most employees who get sacked for fouling up their job so badly they put the entire business in existential peril?
February 3, 2026 at 3:41 PM
So, like most employees who get sacked for fouling up their job so badly they put the entire business in existential peril?
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February 3, 2026 at 1:21 PM
If there's a TV show that had a greater impact on my sense of humour, I can't think of it. Magical, magical stuff
‘We put a stink bomb in Stephen Fry’s shoe’: Vic and Bob on the inspired idiocy of Shooting Stars
‘Christians complained about the stuffed buzzard wearing a crucifix round its neck. Birds can’t be Christians, they said. It’s the most complaints we ever got’
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM
If there's a TV show that had a greater impact on my sense of humour, I can't think of it. Magical, magical stuff
Magic bean salesmen keeping an eager eye open for anyone carrying this £3 paper today. And I thought we're supposed to be concerned about Boomers getting scammed?
Daily Express: NOW YOU MUST GIVE BRITAIN A PROPER BREXIT #TomorrowsPapersToday
January 31, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Magic bean salesmen keeping an eager eye open for anyone carrying this £3 paper today. And I thought we're supposed to be concerned about Boomers getting scammed?
Reich Chancellery says Germany repeated its invitation for Stalin to come to Berlin for talks
KREMLIN SAYS RUSSIA REPEATED ITS INVITATION FOR ZELENSKIY TO COME TO MOSCOW FOR TALKS.
January 29, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Reich Chancellery says Germany repeated its invitation for Stalin to come to Berlin for talks
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Jewish descendent of holocaust victims and survivors here.
What he said was fine.
Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough.
I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.
What he said was fine.
Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough.
I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
Tim Walz condemned for comparing Minnesota children to Anne Frank
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
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January 28, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Jewish descendent of holocaust victims and survivors here.
What he said was fine.
Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough.
I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.
What he said was fine.
Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough.
I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.
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Another twist in the ongoing saga of the former library building in Grace Hill? This week's newsletter is out now...
📚 Grace Hill library latest: ‘We’ll buy the building for £1’
Plus: Road of Remembrance work could now start in summer, and Army explosives experts called to property during police operation
folkestonedispatch.substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Another twist in the ongoing saga of the former library building in Grace Hill? This week's newsletter is out now...
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
Another milestone, another step towards the goal of making this work for the long term. Thanks to everyone who has shown they believe in what I am trying to achieve...
🎉 Thank you to everyone who has joined us on this journey to build sustainable, independent local journalism for Folkestone.
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January 27, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Another milestone, another step towards the goal of making this work for the long term. Thanks to everyone who has shown they believe in what I am trying to achieve...
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After Suella Braverman's defection, 12.5% of Reform UK MPs have been photographed stepping on a guide dog
January 26, 2026 at 1:17 PM
After Suella Braverman's defection, 12.5% of Reform UK MPs have been photographed stepping on a guide dog
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Reform is basically a suburban petrol station's DVD bin of Tory politicians.
January 26, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Reform is basically a suburban petrol station's DVD bin of Tory politicians.
Can't wait to see broken Britain fixed by the people who did the breaking, just can't wait
January 26, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Can't wait to see broken Britain fixed by the people who did the breaking, just can't wait
Elite overproduction, definitely nothing to be concerned about
Scariest chart I've seen in a long time. If this is real, UK graduate vacancies have fallen 70% relative to 2017 and are as low as at the bottom of the pandemic. Data is from job matching platform Adzuna.
www.ft.com/content/c894...
www.ft.com/content/c894...
January 22, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Elite overproduction, definitely nothing to be concerned about
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Alternative headline: Young heroes save town from vampire menace.
January 22, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Alternative headline: Young heroes save town from vampire menace.
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Remember the Soviet joke about a man who always goes to look at the papers but never buys one. The news agent asks him what he's looking for and he says, "An obituary" and the news agent points out that they're always in the back section. "This one won't be".
January 21, 2026 at 5:55 AM
Remember the Soviet joke about a man who always goes to look at the papers but never buys one. The news agent asks him what he's looking for and he says, "An obituary" and the news agent points out that they're always in the back section. "This one won't be".
Just another example of Wales missing out by being part of the union. Do a bit about the WRU's plans for the regions!
We've had the UK's failure to adequately exploit North Sea Oil, we've had France's prescriptions, now we're onto Swiss watches not having a high enough tariff on them. Is each European nation getting a shout-out?
January 21, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Just another example of Wales missing out by being part of the union. Do a bit about the WRU's plans for the regions!
Say what you like about all this, but your grandkids are going to get a hell of a kick from the Rest Is History seven-parter
January 21, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Say what you like about all this, but your grandkids are going to get a hell of a kick from the Rest Is History seven-parter
'Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.' - Walter Sobchak
Say what you will about Hitler, at least he knew which countries he was invading.
January 21, 2026 at 2:31 PM
'Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.' - Walter Sobchak
Bluesky users going at it live, giving the snarky comments like it's Twitter 2012 and we're watching the Apprentice, but instead it's the real-time collapse of the post-war western world
January 21, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Bluesky users going at it live, giving the snarky comments like it's Twitter 2012 and we're watching the Apprentice, but instead it's the real-time collapse of the post-war western world
this has done me in
Without America, "right now, you'd all be speaking German" Trump tells an audience in Switzerland.
January 21, 2026 at 2:06 PM
this has done me in
You know things are going to shit when the Guardian homepage is just a sea of live blogs
January 21, 2026 at 1:48 PM
You know things are going to shit when the Guardian homepage is just a sea of live blogs
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This week's Dispatch is out now...
🏊🏻 Sports Centre pool: £2.4m sought to fund work needed to reopen to the public
Plus: Town centre could yet be home to new medical centre, and discount retailer lodges plans for new supermarket
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January 21, 2026 at 8:38 AM
This week's Dispatch is out now...
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"I wish only ze best for ze other band members of DiscoPop Alors but I am, how you say, embarking on un career solo."
January 20, 2026 at 3:09 PM
"I wish only ze best for ze other band members of DiscoPop Alors but I am, how you say, embarking on un career solo."