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Folkestone Dispatch @folkestonedispatch.substack.com · 8h

This week's Dispatch is out now...

🐶 Dog owners march on council over ‘draconian’ rules and ‘sham’ consultation

Plus: Council probed on continued use of Elon Musk platform X, and Greggs set to open new branch in former town centre bank

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 7d

Absolutely determined that @folkestonedispatch.substack.com reporting speaks to and for all parts of our town's diverse community, and hopefully this is a good example of that...

Folkestone Dispatch @folkestonedispatch.substack.com · 7d

In this week's Dispatch we visit Folkestone mosque ahead of this weekend's @muslimcouncil.bsky.social Visit My Mosque open day...

🕌 ‘Islamophobia is through the roof, it’s not a nice time to be a Muslim’

Plus: Anti-immigration protest at Napier Barracks met with large counter-demonstration, and Invicta handed big FA Cup away day

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 8d

Snowflake. Farage doesn’t like to be held to account for his racist policies, his divisive rhetoric and his grifter politics - well bad luck because there is lots more to come www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Nigel Farage: Labour rhetoric incites violence against Reform

The party leader will claim today that Keir Starmer’s labelling of his migrant plan as ‘racist’ has endangered the safety of his candidates and activists

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 8d

That's the one! Hope you have a great weekend

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 8d

Milan for the Inter game on Saturday, then thinking of going down to Pavia on Sunday for some proper lower-league action (and the food and the architecture and all the other good stuff). How about you?

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 8d

Off to Italy on Friday, so pretty well all considered!

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 9d

Many migrant workers who came to Qatar to build the 2022 WC infrastructure found themselves jobless after the tournament. @josimarfootball.bsky.social reveals how some of them have been recruited by the Russian army, are fighting and die on the Ukrainian front.

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The migrant soldiers - josimarfootball.com

For months, the Russian army has secretly recruited hundreds, if not thousands, of jobless migrant workers in Qatar to fight on the frontline against Ukraine.

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Folkestone Dispatch @folkestonedispatch.substack.com · 9d

Join us: folkestonedispatch.substack.com/subscribe

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 13d

'but a blank page', goddammit!

Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 13d

(basically, my way of publicly admitting that I have spent the last few hours mulling over various ideas, have come to no firm conclusions, and now may go and take up my usual stool at my favourite bar and see if something comes up by magic)

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 13d

Each week a newsletter that is nothing back a blank page. Each week the nagging fear that I won't have a story to write. Each week one eventually appears. But what if, one day, it doesn't? The fear will never be banished, never...

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 13d

Seconded

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 13d

Greatly enjoyed this @maxrushden.bsky.social column, the 'Faye from Chiswick' anecdote in particular...

For all footballers out there lying about their past glories: the taxman cometh | Max Rushden

Some stories can’t be proved wrong, but Karel Prince’s HMRC of Football podcast is exposing those who have embellished a little too much

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 13d

Best wishes, Suzy. I hope things continue to get better!

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Folkestone Dispatch @folkestonedispatch.substack.com · 14d

In this week's Dispatch we pay a visit to a Folkestone charity doing amazing work with adults living with disabilities...

🌾 ‘We know the work we do has a massive impact on people’s lives’

Plus: County council decides there is no climate emergency, and water workers discover dumbbell is cause of sewer-blocking 'fatberg'

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 15d

Factchecking Trump serves as much use as factchecking someone who's taken too much acid.
"...but despite such claims experts remain sceptical that time is a spiral, emanating backwards from our future collapsed sun, and maintained by a race of highly intelligent seahorses."

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Folkestone Dispatch @folkestonedispatch.substack.com · 21d

This week's Dispatch is out now...

🎭 Folkestone Live: 'We want to put theatre back on the map in the town'

Plus: Trio of rapists who lured 12-year-old into car jailed, and planning application for more than 100 new homes at former gasworks submitted

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Folkestone Dispatch @folkestonedispatch.substack.com · 28d

In this week's newsletter we pay a visit to the Folkestone Community Fridge...

🛒 'A lot of people do rely on it because they are struggling to make ends meet'

Plus: Update on future of Folkestone Sports Centre, and developers behind stalled luxury flats insist work will restart 'within months'

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · Sep 5

Now that's a signing...

Folkestone Invicta @fifc.bsky.social · Sep 5

✍️ 𝗪𝗘𝗟𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘: 𝗝𝗢𝗘 𝗣𝗜𝗚𝗢𝗧𝗧

From Leyton Orient to Folkestone Invicta, find out more about our latest signing.

Welcome to Cheriton Road, Joe.

🔗 folkestoneinvictafc.co.uk/2025/09/welc...

#fifc | 🟠⚫️

Welcome: Joe Pigott

Jay Saunders adds former Leyton Orient frontman to his firepower

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Folkestone Dispatch @folkestonedispatch.substack.com · Sep 3

Delighted to say we've had a number of new paid subscribers signing up this week - thank you to each and every one of you!

If you agree with Andy, and think the Dispatch is just what Folkestone needs, why not join them today?

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is kind of an amazing fact about In Our Time. I pray the BBC don’t intuit this as a call to “inject more youth” into the show in the post-Bragg era. The stuffiness is what the kidz like!!

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · Sep 3

In Our Time is worth the licence fee alone. Huge shoes to fill. The BBC better get this succession right, or we riot...

Melvyn Bragg steps down from BBC Radio 4's In Our Time after 26 years

The veteran presenter has hosted more than 1,000 epsiodes of the programme over the past 26 years.

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Folkestone Dispatch @folkestonedispatch.substack.com · Sep 3

In this week's Dispatch we talk to the organisers of the Folkestone Tap Takeover - three days of great craft beer being served at venues across the town

🍻 Folkestone Tap Takeover: Bars and pubs unite for celebration of craft beer

Plus: Anger at decision to fell town centre trees, and closure of dive bar and burger joint announced

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Sep 2

When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live

Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ah, so we've reached the point where a free press holding power to account is now 'activism'? Perfectly healthy, absolutely fine, nothing to worry about here, no siree...

Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · Sep 2

Nottinghamshire Live publishes texts between journalist and leader of Reform-led Nottinghamshire County Council exchanged ahead of article that led to political party calling newsbrand an "activist" organisation www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...

Reform now say we're 'activist' - these texts show that is false

Reform UK's deputy leader has labelled Nottinghamshire Live an 'activist' organisation

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