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Streatham Festival @streatfest.bsky.social · 11d
October is here. That means Streatham Festival is just around the corner! Check out the full programme here: streathamfestival.com
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Streatham Festival SW16 - Live music from r&b to opera, dance, workshops, drama, film, family fun, #StreathamStrut music events & #ArtA23 Art Trail
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Streatham Festival @streatfest.bsky.social · 8d
Streatham Festival kicks off next weekend. Have you seen our festival banners yet? streathamfestival.com
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Jack Nicholls @theveryliberaljack.bsky.social · 14d
Dear the Edstone - All is forgiven

This is properly embarrassing
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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 14d
Steve Reed's aide blocks members' vote on Mandelson scandal insidecroydon.com/2025/09/28/s... #Croydon #Streatham #Mandelson #McSweeney @left-foot-forward.bsky.social @labourlist.bsky.social @fisherandrew79.bsky.social
Steve Reed’s aide blocks members’ vote on Mandelson scandal
A meeting in the Streatham and Croydon North constituency was this week banned from discussing a motion that called for an investigation into how the Blairite peer with a paedophile pal came to be …
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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 18d
Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 18d
"We were told thalidomide was a safe drug and it wasn't..."

Nigel Farage says he has 'no idea' if Donald Trump is right about paracetamol being linked to autism.
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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 15d
"Voltaire, me, Molière, Omar Khayyám, Lord Byron, and that - that's Salman Rushdie's chair."

The Blasphemers' Banquet, of 1989

Remembering Tony Harrison

Background: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bla...

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Blasphemers' Banquet - Tony Harrison BBC
YouTube video by Ton Har
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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 15d
Sad to hear Tony Harrison has died. In The early days of the Indy I suggested we print all of V in the paper, so that people could read what they were being told to be outraged about. Didn't reach the end of the sentence before Andreas Whittam-Smith said yes. Never proof read anything so carefully.
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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 15d
The great Tony Harrison has died. With others such as Raymond Williams he represented a post-war breakthrough that the philistine assault on education threatens: the possibility of being working class while storming the heights of the most elite culture and transforming it
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 15d
Tony Harrison RIP
I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades.
Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 15d
RIP
Tony Harrison V.
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rjdoylesw2.bsky.social @rjdoylesw2.bsky.social · 16d
A curious story of musical chairs for local policing in Streatham.

Hard to believe five Streatham neighbourhood teams cannot fit into the police base in The Dip now there is no "front counter" there.
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Lambeth Lib Dems Raise Urgent Concerns as Streatham Police Teams Move Out Amid Rising ASB
Lambeth Lib Democrats have expressed deep concern over the decision to relocate the Streatham Wells and Streatham Common & Vale Safer Neighbourhood Teams (SNTs) from their base at 326-328 Streatham Hi...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24d
This Week's Onion Magazine:
Charlie Kirk, Not In His Own Words: We Honor The Right-Wing Activist By Making Up Quotes That Sound Much Better, Given The Moment
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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 24d
"Libel firm Carter-Ruck used the threat of legal action to protect one of the world's largest financial frauds, OneCoin, which stole $4 billion from investors.

"Carter-Ruck's client, Ruja Ignatova, is now one of the FBI's ten most wanted fugitives."
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Carter-Ruck: the libel firm trying to cover up that they'd acted for the $4bn OneCoin fraud
Libel firm Carter-Ruck used the threat of legal action to protect one of the world's largest financial frauds, OneCoin, which stole $4 billion from investors. Carter-Ruck's client, Ruja Ignatova, is n...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 24d
GB News risks beating the BBC out of its place at White House press conferences, according to Private Eye.

It's hugely loss making - but vying for influence. And bringing Trumpism to the UK.

Every day it's becoming clearer that GB News is a far-right political project.

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TURNER PROFIT The arrival of GB News presenter and unhinged conspiracy theorist Bev Turner in Washington, where she is to helm a late-night programme for GB News, could cause havoc for Number Ten. The White House is rolling out the red carpet for Turner, already anointing her as Donald Trump’s favourite reporter from across the pond. Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt addressed the show’s launch party, declaring: “GB News is going to be bringing a lot more common sense to the great people of the United Kingdom.” She may follow up by handing GB News the BBC’s coveted seat in the White House briefing room (currently shared with Newsweek magazine). BBC hacks would then be left shouting questions from the rear of the room, along with other outlets dismissed by the administration as “legacy media”. Trump is beguiled by Turner, as Starmer witnessed during the president’s July visit to Ayrshire. After flying to Turnberry aboard Air Force One, she was granted multiple opportunities to question Trump as the PM squirmed alongside him. Turner’s questions about the PM’s handling of immigration, inheritance tax on farmers, and overblown US claims that the Online Safety Act is choking free speech in Britain, allowed Trump to vent his hostility towards key UK government policies. GB News is open about its determination to turn Turner’s programme into open mic night for Trump insiders. “We need as many as possible of you… to appear on our channel,” co-owner Paul Marshall told the assembled Trumpists at the launch. “We need to Make Britain Great Again… we need you to come and save us, to rescue us.” Given his urgent need to stem the channel’s financial losses, he may also hope US viewers sign up for GB News subscriptions and rescue him from yet more rivers of red ink.
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rjdoylesw2.bsky.social @rjdoylesw2.bsky.social · 24d
Isn't the Anspach & Hobday taproom considerably closer to Therapia Lane tram stop than to the Ampere Way stop near Ikea?
Google maps of walking route from Therapia Lane tram stop to Anspach & Hobday brewery taproom.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 24d
Reform's contempt for the rule of law is very obvious
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 24d
All those preparing to vote in order to allow a Reform U.K. Ltd government in.

You have been warned. #dictatorship
Zia Yusuf & E @ZiaYusufUK .... Lawyers have done as much damage to this great country as politicians over the last couple of decades. A Reform government will change the laws to neutralise their poisonous attacks on the interests of British people. Many will need to find new jobs! 3:24 PM • Sep 17, 2025 • 3,770 Views
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Consuelo Simpson @consuelomarias.bsky.social · 24d
🚨Read and repost!
Peter Thiel’s ideas should never be normalised.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 24d
🔴Peter Thiel’s Race Science Network Extends Its Reach Into Reform UK, Conservatives and Labour

A Byline Times investigation can reveal how Donald Trump’s key backer is now exporting discredited race science into mainstream politics in the UK

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/18/p...
Peter Thiel’s Race Science Network Extends Its Reach Into Reform UK, Conservatives and Labour
A Byline Times investigation can reveal how Donald Trump’s key backer is now exporting discredited race science into mainstream politics in the UK
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rjdoylesw2.bsky.social @rjdoylesw2.bsky.social · 24d
Good grief
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 24d
🚨 | 16% Represents Labour's lowest EVER polling figure.
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 24d
Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 34% (=)
LAB: 16% (-3)
CON: 16% (+1)
LDM: 13% (+1)
GRN: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (+1)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 17-18 Sep.
Changes w/ 10 Sep.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 24d
The turn to censorship/cancel culture is actually an opportunity for liberalism. A chance to get back to its philosophical roots, having been too censorious for too long, and a chance to be subversive again, too long ceded to the populist right.
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rjdoylesw2.bsky.social @rjdoylesw2.bsky.social · 24d
*THIS SUNDAY*
Just a few tickets left (£5) for my 2pm walk around Streatham's Secret Garden

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rjdoylesw2.bsky.social @rjdoylesw2.bsky.social · Sep 7
Tickets are still available for Streatham Society tours of one of Streatham's hidden gems- the grounds of Park Hill (home of Sir Henry Tate) on Sunday 21st September at 2pm and 3pm.

tinyurl.com/streathamSoc...
#LambethHeritageFestival
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A sphinx on the terrace in front of the mansion house at Park Hill Gothic garden folly in the grounds of Park Hill Looking down into the grotto at Park Hill, where an overweight middle aged man in a Panama hat (that would be me) is gesticulating wildly while his your group look on in bemusement.
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rjdoylesw2.bsky.social @rjdoylesw2.bsky.social · 24d
Despite the bucolic scene chosen by the bot, I don't think this afternoon's delays were due to sheep on the line between Norbury and Thornton Heath.
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UK National Rail Disruptions Bot @natrail-bot.bsky.social · 24d
Disruption between ##Streatham Common and ##Selhurst expected until 15:00
National Rail Disruptions
Disruption between #Streatham Common and #Selhurst expected until 15:00
www.nationalrail.co.uk
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24d
Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press
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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 24d
Once again, it is the political satirists I feel sorry for.
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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 24d
All is not well in ‘Your Party’. Note the absence of Zarah Sultana’s name at the bottom of this statement
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R Phelps @greygosling.bsky.social · 27d
Streatham has a free film festival on that looks extremely cool. The Outrun! Hundreds of Beavers! cc @juanincognito.bsky.social freefilmfestivals.org/filmfestival...
Streatham Free Film Festival
After a successful first Streatham Free Film Festival in 2015, we're now planning the next festival for this September. Everyone welcome to get involved.
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rjdoylesw2.bsky.social @rjdoylesw2.bsky.social · Aug 30
Make sure to put October 18th in your diary, and invite your friends to Streatham for a day out.
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Streatham Festival @streatfest.bsky.social · Aug 30
If you’re into live music, make sure you join us on Saturday 18th October for the #StreathamStrut.
🔟 hours, 🔟 venues, 🔟 free gigs.
Artist and venue announcements coming very soon…
streathamfestival.com/music/
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