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Contributing editor for Albumism, writer of stuff and Prince fan(atic?). I have a million notebooks with ideas and unfinished scripts/books/screenplays in - maybe one day I’ll get one seen. Doubt it though!
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Stevie Wonder Setlist at Utilita Arena Birmingham, Birmingham
Get the Stevie Wonder Setlist of the concert at Utilita Arena Birmingham, Birmingham, England on July 7, 2025 from the Love, Light and Song UK Tour and other Stevie Wonder Setlists for free on setlist...
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Yesterday I fulfilled a dream and saw Stevie Winder in concert and it was as thrilling and exciting as you might imagine. He did 2.5 hours and did 28 FULL songs, no medley shit.
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New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
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Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
December 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
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If 50 Cent cared about doing a good thing, he’d make a documentary about his daddy Dr. Dre.
But everybody on that side always sucks his dick when they get a chance instead.
But everybody on that side always sucks his dick when they get a chance instead.
Yet he was the only person able to battle the didler. All im saying is sometimes you dont get a good cop. You get a bad cop that does good things🤷🏽
December 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
If 50 Cent cared about doing a good thing, he’d make a documentary about his daddy Dr. Dre.
But everybody on that side always sucks his dick when they get a chance instead.
But everybody on that side always sucks his dick when they get a chance instead.
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Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
Now imagine what could happen with an estate less interested in polyester Purple Rain duvet covers who actually pushed the release!
December 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Now imagine what could happen with an estate less interested in polyester Purple Rain duvet covers who actually pushed the release!
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CATASTROPHE is now on DisneyPlus in the UK🇬🇧. Please watch it 3-8x over the holidays. www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/browse...
Watch Catastrophe | Full episodes | Disney+
Sharon and Rob's fling leads to pregnancy, love, marriage, and family life in London.
www.disneyplus.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
CATASTROPHE is now on DisneyPlus in the UK🇬🇧. Please watch it 3-8x over the holidays. www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/browse...
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"Trains will be given a union flag inspired paint job as part of the govts nationalisation plan"
Meanwhile the trains themselves are still owned by private rolling stock leasing companies which extract huge amounts of £ from the industry (& shovel it into offshore tax havens)
Meanwhile the trains themselves are still owned by private rolling stock leasing companies which extract huge amounts of £ from the industry (& shovel it into offshore tax havens)
December 9, 2025 at 6:21 AM
"Trains will be given a union flag inspired paint job as part of the govts nationalisation plan"
Meanwhile the trains themselves are still owned by private rolling stock leasing companies which extract huge amounts of £ from the industry (& shovel it into offshore tax havens)
Meanwhile the trains themselves are still owned by private rolling stock leasing companies which extract huge amounts of £ from the industry (& shovel it into offshore tax havens)
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1) I think even the dumbest dumbass can see what is happening in British politics right now.
2) This ain't gonna end with people who have dual nationality.
2) This ain't gonna end with people who have dual nationality.
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime ⬇️
All criminals with dual nationality must be deported, say Tories
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime
www.thetimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
1) I think even the dumbest dumbass can see what is happening in British politics right now.
2) This ain't gonna end with people who have dual nationality.
2) This ain't gonna end with people who have dual nationality.
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Twice in two weeks, first in Germany then in England last week, I have spoken with friends who work at pro-refugee NGOs who have experienced multiple recent attacks on their offices.
This is horrifying and cannot be allowed to become normal.
"A surge in death and rape threats and harassment has created a 'culture of fear' at charities serving women and refugees, and at mosques, churches and synagogues."
https://bit.ly/44irJTE
"A surge in death and rape threats and harassment has created a 'culture of fear' at charities serving women and refugees, and at mosques, churches and synagogues."
https://bit.ly/44irJTE
UK charities face ‘culture of fear’ as threats and violence surge
Exclusive: Charity Commission chief condemns public hostility towards staff helping women and refugees and at places of worship
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Twice in two weeks, first in Germany then in England last week, I have spoken with friends who work at pro-refugee NGOs who have experienced multiple recent attacks on their offices.
Do I want Jasmine Crockett to win her newly announced race? Yes. Do I know anything about her chances of doing so? No.
December 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Do I want Jasmine Crockett to win her newly announced race? Yes. Do I know anything about her chances of doing so? No.
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There will be a couple of launch events for Tonight The Music Seems So Loud next year, in different parts of the country, but the first will be at The Hay Festival on the afternoon of Saturday May 30th. Come along! We can talk about 80s hair! Songwriting! Immigration! Link via: sathnam.com/events
December 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
There will be a couple of launch events for Tonight The Music Seems So Loud next year, in different parts of the country, but the first will be at The Hay Festival on the afternoon of Saturday May 30th. Come along! We can talk about 80s hair! Songwriting! Immigration! Link via: sathnam.com/events
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Errr... Would this not include someone who has Nigerian citizenship through her parents, and who has admitted to hacking Harriet Harman's website, a crime which at the time carried a maximum sentence of five years?
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime ⬇️
All criminals with dual nationality must be deported, say Tories
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime
www.thetimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Errr... Would this not include someone who has Nigerian citizenship through her parents, and who has admitted to hacking Harriet Harman's website, a crime which at the time carried a maximum sentence of five years?
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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This is racism towards war criminal vampires
December 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This is racism towards war criminal vampires
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One thing about climate change: it disproves the capitalist ideology that poor people's suffering is their own fault.
Billionaires emit as much in a day as the world's 4 billion poorest emit in a yr, yet those 4 billion humans suffer most from climate impacts.
This is inequality, and it is evil.
Billionaires emit as much in a day as the world's 4 billion poorest emit in a yr, yet those 4 billion humans suffer most from climate impacts.
This is inequality, and it is evil.
December 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
One thing about climate change: it disproves the capitalist ideology that poor people's suffering is their own fault.
Billionaires emit as much in a day as the world's 4 billion poorest emit in a yr, yet those 4 billion humans suffer most from climate impacts.
This is inequality, and it is evil.
Billionaires emit as much in a day as the world's 4 billion poorest emit in a yr, yet those 4 billion humans suffer most from climate impacts.
This is inequality, and it is evil.
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Watched the new Jeff Buckley documentary, which sent me right back to hearing the peerless “Grace” for the first time. Remembered I wrote about the album years ago—and got bummed because this kind of journalism (reported historical pieces) is impossible to place now. www.avclub.com/grace-captur...
Grace captured Jeff Buckley’s inimitable voice and talent
Grace captured Jeff Buckley’s inimitable voice and talent
www.avclub.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Watched the new Jeff Buckley documentary, which sent me right back to hearing the peerless “Grace” for the first time. Remembered I wrote about the album years ago—and got bummed because this kind of journalism (reported historical pieces) is impossible to place now. www.avclub.com/grace-captur...
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Just imagining the gingerbread cookie makers working overtime to slap on little gingerbread dicks
Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
December 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Just imagining the gingerbread cookie makers working overtime to slap on little gingerbread dicks
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A reminder that this fermenting Weetabix of a human being can claim up to £115,000 per annum plus pension for his three years in office—all of which could better be used to buy several hundred brand new wheelchairs for an airport of his choice.
Public Duty Costs Allowance guidance
www.gov.uk
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A reminder that this fermenting Weetabix of a human being can claim up to £115,000 per annum plus pension for his three years in office—all of which could better be used to buy several hundred brand new wheelchairs for an airport of his choice.
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Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
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You must admit it's remarkably serendipitous for the fossil fuel industry that, just as demand began dipping, Big Tech came to the rescue.
UAE aims to boost LNG exports as global demand outpaces supply, minister says
The United Arab Emirates plans not only to meet domestic demand for liquefied natural gas, but also to grow its exports, Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
You must admit it's remarkably serendipitous for the fossil fuel industry that, just as demand began dipping, Big Tech came to the rescue.
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Man who "needed" gold wallpaper for his flat complains of people needing wheelchairs
A constant blazing terror that somewhere, somebody might be getting a free cheese sandwich. Or indeed brief use of a wheelchair.
December 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Man who "needed" gold wallpaper for his flat complains of people needing wheelchairs
***status update*** @rosegold1736.bsky.social I did it. I triumphed. I overcame adversity. And I was magnanimous about it too. I gave it 110%, I didn’t leave any thing on that field etc etc
December 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
***status update*** @rosegold1736.bsky.social I did it. I triumphed. I overcame adversity. And I was magnanimous about it too. I gave it 110%, I didn’t leave any thing on that field etc etc
What the hell is Vanessa Williams doing on Celebrity Catchphrase? There is no universe where Stephen Mulhern gets to be in the same room as her.
December 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
What the hell is Vanessa Williams doing on Celebrity Catchphrase? There is no universe where Stephen Mulhern gets to be in the same room as her.
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December 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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