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Sean Bw Parker
@seanbwparker5000.bsky.social
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Artist-writer-musician

Saatchi Art site: https://www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbwparker
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'Is the growing divide around the sexes now an issue to take seriously – perhaps in ways that class or racial divides might once have been addressed in the past?'

Living Freedom

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Don't let the fight for freedom go into hibernation! Forthcoming Living Freedom events
Living Freedom is discussing the gender divide that has emerged in politics – and having a Christmas party with a serious-but-fun balloon debate. PLUS: other freedom events over the coming weeks.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Received this lovely card on behalf of Ashley Cumberpatch this week (in prison maintaining innocence)

Sometimes we receive our reward in heaven, sometimes it comes through the letterbox!

Read about Ashley's case here: empowerinnocent.wixsite.com/ccrcwatch/po...
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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'Feelings of deprivation lead marginalised minority members to perceive the political system as rigged, stimulating belief in both identity‐relevant and irrelevant conspiracy theories'

Fascinating history of media-fuelled sex panics, by Jay Beecher

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THE 'EPSTEIN CLIENT LIST' - AN ORIGIN STORY
The birth of the 'Epstein client list' myth is far more complex than you may think, conceived from conspiracy theories with age-old roots. Let's take a VERY deep dive...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Various printed miscellanea of my 'artist paintings' - specifically Nick Cave, Ricky Gervais, The Famous Artist Birdy Rose and Ozzy Osbourne (for now) - available at @redbubble

From very cheap to prohibitively expensive

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seanbwparker Shop | Redbubble
seanbwparker is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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When ETI met APMI

Dr Michael Naughton of Empowering The Innocent spoke to Danny Barrs of the Association of Prisoners Maintaining Innocence about Danny's wrongful conviction and wider justice reform

Including notes for James Timpson, Deborah Meaden and more

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Dr Michael Naughton in conversation with Danny Barrs, Chair, Assn Prisoners Maintaining Innocence.
YouTube video by Empowering the Innocent TV (ETI TV)
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November 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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The Famous Artist Birdy Rose (2025)

Prints available here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/print/...
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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"Scottish children are being educated about their ‘whiteness’ and ‘white privilege’, or alternatively, their victimhood"

Why Scottish education matters – even if you don't live in Scotland

15/11/25

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Why Scottish education matters – even if you don't live in Scotland
Labour's new curriculum review has left many of us worried it will lead to dumbing down in England and Wales. Here, Stuart Waiton explains why we have much to learn from the disasters in Scotland.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Removing counter-intuitive and punitive licence conditions for those consistently maintaining innocence would save HMPPS many thousands of pounds - and be the right thing to do

Fighting crime needs funding - Joshua Rozenberg

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Fighting crime needs funding
Peers say probation needs more money while police predict more crime
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November 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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'Not only do I have a rock solid alibi now, but proof that Essex police covered up Milbank’s evidence by faking a witness statement to mislead the courts'

Jeremy Bamber via Simon Hattenstone in @theguardian.com

But will the CCRC refer Bamber's case?

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The Jeremy Bamber twist: does Britain’s most notorious murderer finally have an alibi?
This week, audio footage was released by the New Yorker magazine, which seemed to exonerate Bamber, who has been in prison for 40 years. Could this lead to his release?
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November 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Richard E. Grant and Helena Bonham Carter at Christmas (2025)

Prints available here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/print/...

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#Christmas2025
November 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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'This internal threat is hostile to the key tenets, principles and foundations that sustain us as well as our communities - havens in a heartless world - our families, our freedom'

Bruno Waterfield and Claire Fox on Orwell and Patriotic Renewal

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November 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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'I’ve been back to the Brighton hospital twice (a suicide attempt and a pressure sore) and I’m back in the Hayward’s Heath hospital this week for a battalion of tests on my failing kidneys'

Sending love and good vibes to Julie Burchill

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HALFLING: A FAREWELL TO LEGS - Part 16
The latest in the series about my collapse, surgery and subsequent life in a wheelchair, and the attitude of society towards the disabled - not quite humans, but 'Halflings‘.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Thanks for the SOCIETY - portraits shout-out #LitUpEvents!

Available here: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F48B2QY8
November 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Richard E. Grant and Helena Bonham Carter at Christmas (2025)

Prints available here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/print/...

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#Christmas2025
November 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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'In one artwork, they adopt the persona of “White Bastards”, which, in fact, boosts their street cred to a gangster level, as suggested in the iconography they borrow from films'

Gilbert & George at the Hayward Gallery - by Ella Nixon

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November 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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'What we have is a shift in feeling but not in meaning

Altering this situation requires a willingness to engage in a cultural revolution against the holders of cultural power'

Frank Furedi on the 'vibe shift'

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November 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Since Nick Cave shared my recent portrait of him as the cover for the recent missive of his Red Hand Files, prints for it have been flying out (relatively for little old me anyway). Available in various sizes here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/print/...

And #HappyHalloween!
October 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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'An increasingly wide range of distressing life experiences now have the potential to be categorised as traumas' - Lucy Foulkes

Awareness raising of MH creates more difficulties than solutions - Joanna Williams on new Foulkes book

@lucyfoulkes.bsky.social

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Why are so many people convinced they have a mental health problem?
Awareness raising creates more difficulties than solutions
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October 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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'Probably because of her downmarket Sybil Fawlty persona, many do not realise what a grand dame she actually was in real life. Quite the woman of the theatre'

Dominic Frisby memoriam of Prunella Scales - plus an ultra-rare sitcom

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Remembering the Prunella Scales You Didn't Know (And the Sitcom You've Never Seen)
A personal remembrance, plus a rediscovered episode of Lucky Feller starring Scales and David Jason
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October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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I recently guested on Read My Lips - The Creativity Show on Radio Red, alongside US novelists Peter J Stavros and John Bukowski

'The Nature of Creativity'

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October 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Me: A painting I just finished of you. Do you like it?

Nick Cave: Yes

Well that's my 2025 sorted. October's Nick Cave's Red Hand Files, where Nick directly answers questions from 'fans' (even if it's often 'go f*ck yourself')

@nickcaveart.bsky.social

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75 QUESTIONS No. 5 I’m disappointed (with 50 Questions No. 4) that you only answered once with “go fuck yourself.” What’s up with that? Were the 50 questions rigged? It’s suspicious to say the least....
Go fuck yourself You can tell me to go fuck myself all day, but both the Elvis movie and the song Tupelo still suck. ANON, ANON, ANON Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself Go fuck yours...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Artists: @Freedom_in_Arts survey

Have you faced pressure, censorship, or fear when sharing your work?

We want to understand what’s really happening - the everyday realities of artistic life in 2025

All responses are confidential and anonymous

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October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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'The album, upon reflection, almost moves beyond “confession” and into testimony. A friend pointed out rightly that the lyrics feel closer to prose than poetry'

The Line of Best Fit on Lily Allen's divorce album West End Girl

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The Monday Meeting
How we digest West End Girl and confessional pop
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October 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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My portrait of Janice Fiamengo was shown at The Secret Salon in Hackney recently - where I discovered the work of Adarsha Ajay

She has very much a new fan
October 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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I'll be on a panel on Radio Red's The Creativity Show on Monday 27th October, 5pm EST (9pm UK) - talking about The Nature of Creativity, no less

Join us here: www.youtube.com/@BonnieDRadi...
BonnieDGrahamRadio akaRadioRed
Welcome! Bonnie D. akaRadioRed has created, produced and hosted more than 55 radio series since 2011 for global enterprises, trade organizations, tech entrepreneurs, creative humans and for herself an...
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October 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM