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Writer, audio producer for the Financial Times 'Tech Tonic' podcast.
"One UK official insisted, however, that Mandelsonâs appointment had made sense at the time â and that he had been instrumental in securing the UK tech and trade deals." Interesting detail that might explain how Mandelson stuck around for so long.
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Pressure grows on Keir Starmerâs chief of staff over Peter Mandelson ambassador appointment
[FREE TO READ] Multiple MPs in Labour Party question Morgan McSweeneyâs judgment as revelations shake Westminster
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fascinating FT story via
@danneidle.bsky.social
UK ministers are working to resolve an anomaly in the Rentersâ Rights Act that would otherwise leave hundreds of thousands of private tenants having to pay stamp duty in the coming years
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Anomaly in UK rental reforms would leave thousands paying stamp duty
The government said it is âawareâ of the issue facing tenants and working on a solution
https://www.ft.com/content/c260f622-05ee-4a69-9167-891944cfa518
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In December the Labour government sent a letter to all councils warning them explicitly against adopting an official 4-day week. The fact is that many office workers are already working some version of an unofficial 4-day weeks thanks to casual work-from-home Fridays.
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The employees secretly working a four-day week
[FREE TO READ] Some businesses have adopted it as policy while many employees are embracing a more casual attitude to working on Fridays
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13 days ago
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19 days ago
For the New Statesman I tracked the career of the corporate raiding Thatcherite turned populist tribune, James Goldsmith
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James Goldsmith, godfather of British populism
Unlike Nigel Farage or Rupert Lowe, Goldsmith told the truth
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/01/james-goldsmith-godfather-of-british-populism
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22 days ago
Broke: Squaddies love a Friday night Chinese Woke: A CULINARY CONSPIRACY TO SPY ON OUR TROOPS
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Hosted today's FT News Briefing, featuring segments on Chinese demographics, EVs, Saudi Arabian bank borrowing and an interview with
@marymcd.bsky.social
on Europe's pension woes.
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We're just a few exotic polymarket derivatives away from a generation defining Liar's Poker/F.I.A.S.C.O. for prediction markets
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Wrote about a new data centre proposed as part of the Truman Brewery redevelopment. Bit of a sub-plot here: a battle between the independent Tower Hamlets mayor and the Labour central government
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Data centre plan provokes anger over future of former Truman Brewery
[FREE TO READ] East London landmark is latest site in capital to be identified for high-tech redevelopment
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about 1 month ago
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Visited the BAE Systems factory and Forgemasters steelworks in Sheffield for a story about whether the arms industry can be a driver of new jobs for post-industrial England, or if there are reasons to be sceptical about the investment push. w/
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From steel to guns: inside Britainâs newest arms factory
Sheffield was once the UKâs centre of steelmaking. Now a rising tide of defence spending promises revival
https://www.ft.com/content/e46fd733-51fd-41ee-86d3-1e54dbc3e8f3
about 1 month ago
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Some great example of ADHD and autism "supplement" sales in a new Advertising Standard Authority crackdown announced today. Comes off the back of gov review of over-diagnosis... "The perfect gift for anyone with ADHDâ
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UK watchdog bans social media ads promising ADHD and autism treatment
Advertising Standards Authority issues enforcement notices related to 11 different supplements and tests
https://www.ft.com/content/7511f62d-f888-4c60-954f-c931cacacafa
2 months ago
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Travelled to Singapore to learn about how an affluent + ageing society + technocratic government has produced the ideal conditions for the mainstreaming of "longevity" healthcare. Presented by
@mikepeeljourno.bsky.social
, who also got to sample the longevity wares
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Defying death: The longevity lab
Does Singapore have the blueprint for a longer, healthier life?
https://www.ft.com/content/8a2bdaa7-d2d6-4651-a57b-89ac1c4998cf
2 months ago
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Where did all the enthusiasm about longevity come from? Have scientific breakthroughs made the possibility of life extension viable, or has the commercial hype outpaced the research? First episode of our new Tech Tonic series out now.
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Defying death: The origins of ageing
Why do we age? Can it be stopped?
https://www.ft.com/content/a33d20fc-c4b5-4790-8f8c-5877f65d4bca
2 months ago
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Michael Peel
3 months ago
NEW: Our three-part podcast Defying Death follows the quest to live longer from ancient times to today's frontier technologies. Great to work with the wonderful
@hannahkuchler.bsky.social
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@flophillips.bsky.social
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@joshgd100.bsky.social
& the rest of the FT pod team.
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Defying death: The origins of ageing
Why do we age? Can it be stopped?
https://www.ft.com/content/a33d20fc-c4b5-4790-8f8c-5877f65d4bca
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I've been bugging everyone in my life to listen to the latest Articles of Interest by
@trufelman.bsky.social
- just an absolutely fantastic documentary podcast series with a great sense of narrative, unexpected choices, and takes smart risks with the form.
articlesofinterest.substack.com
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Articles Of Interest | Substack
A show about what we wear. Click to read Articles Of Interest, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
https://articlesofinterest.substack.com/
3 months ago
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Labour's pro-development policies have put it on a crash course with Labour councillors in London, with questions about whether the YIMBY movement is too close to developers, or just trying to get Britain building. Wrote about it for the FT.
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âBuild, baby, buildâ: the pro-development Labour activists â and their backers in big business
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
Can UK restaurants spice up prospects for career waiters?-It has been difficult to increase productivity in restaurants and bars through technology: attempts to integrate AI pizza-making machines, andâŠ
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@joshgd100.bsky.social
@financialtimes.com
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Can UK restaurants spice up prospects for career waiters?
Challenges of a revolving workforce prompt industry to look at more stable staffing models
https://www.ft.com/content/cd2abefb-faeb-4193-92b8-3ed849476749
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Hetan Shah
4 months ago
Interesting piece by
@joshgd100.bsky.social
on disputes over Birminghamâs available reserves and whether it has cut back harder than it needed to
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UKâs second city urged to justify âavalancheâ of cuts after bankruptcy
Birmingham city council under growing pressure to explain whether severe cost savings and asset sales were necessary
https://www.ft.com/content/9045a43e-d2e4-43cc-b353-75fa9bf56248?shareType=nongift
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Financial Times
4 months ago
The manosphere is going into business
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The manosphere is going into business
Online influencers are targeting young men with tips on how to walk, talk and breathe
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In the paper today with a piece about how male influencers have grown up and rebranded as business gurus, employing a particular mix of grooming, dating and professional advice. Part monetisation strategy, part Victorian etiquette guide.
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The manosphere is going into business
[FREE TO READ] Online influencers are targeting young men with tips on how to walk, talk and breathe
https://on.ft.com/47jDlX2
4 months ago
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Spoke to
@henryjfoy.ft.com
for the FT News Briefing last night to talk about a suspected Russia GPS jamming on the European Commission president's plane. And to the FT's Gloria Li about Xiaomi's move into high-tech EV manufacturing.
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Russia suspected of GPS interference on EU official's flight
Flight of European Commission president was forced to land in Bulgaria using paper maps
https://www.ft.com/content/481b9f17-5234-418e-afa0-9116a3110675
5 months ago
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The Labour government is betting that AI public sector contracts can drive efficiency in the civil service and carve out the UK's place as an AI leader. It's also been extremely profitable for tech and consulting companies.
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Whitehall hands out AI contracts worth ÂŁ573mn in efficiency push
[FREE TO READ] Ministers hope technology can help streamline the civil service, reduce government waste and save billions
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6 months ago
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PLMR Education
6 months ago
London councils seek to repurpose closed-down schools for SEND pupils. More from
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@joshgd100.bsky.social
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London councils seek to repurpose closed-down schools for Send pupils
Shift comes as cash-strapped local authorities seek to curb costs
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Higher poultry prices and an increase in national insurance contribution hit Carnival food sellers over the weekend, who were forced to raise prices, cut down on menu offerings, and resort to agency workers.
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(Poultry prices are up by more than 45% year-on-year)
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Notting Hill Carnival food sellers grapple with rising costs
Traders plan to use cheaper cuts of chicken as they warn of hit from rise in employer national insurance contributions
https://www.ft.com/content/189f022f-6b25-4349-9d21-0419b458f86d
6 months ago
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Nice detail from today's court case about Epping asylum hotel: the Home Office made a last-ditch effort to stop the injunction going forward, emailing the judge midway through the hearing on Friday and only sending their full submission at 5:33pm last night...
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Government fails to stop closure of Essex hotel at centre of UK asylum debate
[FREE TO READ] Local authority injunction ruling may lead to more councils seeking to shut down hotels that house immigrants
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6 months ago
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6 months ago
They weren't stolen, just... misplaiced...
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Today in adventures in Met police statistics: did anyone have 1,013 fish stolen in 2022? Absolutely off-the-charts fish-related incident.
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6 months ago
Interesting read on how pension costs are squeezing post-92 universities from
@marymcd.bsky.social
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Had fun talking to
@katie0martin.ft.com
for today's FT News Briefing podcast, where we get into her column on investors as boiling frogs
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The markets are shrugging off chaos
People are looking at becalmed market conditions and writing them off as the result of a quiet summer
https://www.ft.com/content/4a80eaff-742f-4628-aee9-88ff888814e3
6 months ago
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Serco and Mears, two of the largest asylum hotel outsourcers, are looking for new business following the government's move away from the use of hotel. Serco is focusing on the defence sector, while Mears is working on housing association maintenance
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Serco and Mears see declining asylum hotel businesses
[FREE TO READ] Outsourcers refocus operations as UK government winds down controversial system
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Did some reporting on asylum hotel protests in London, which have kicked off again this weekend. NIMBYism, public safety debates, and estate agents fielding calls from nervous buyers in Canary Wharf.
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Asylum hotel protests spread to prestige London postcodes
[FREE TO READ] Canary Wharf and Islington residents mobilise as unrest moves south from more deprived parts of northern England
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6 months ago
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7 months ago
Great piece by
@joshgd100.bsky.social
on life of a forensic botanist, and the wider perils to forensic science in the UK
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How to read a landscape and capture a killer
Meet the former horticulturist who specialises in the âbotany of doomâ
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8 months ago
NEW: Why Wall Street fears a 33-year-old political outsider
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Hosted today's FT News Briefing podcast and interviewed UNICEF's James Elder, who's just returned from Gaza, about the new aid distribution sites. He told me extreme water scarcity was becoming an issue, on top of daily violence at the aid sites.
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EU pushes a UK-style trade deal with the US
Higher US tariffs on the EU will snap back into place on 9 July
https://www.ft.com/content/133121ad-de91-48cf-9874-85ed78ae9bab
8 months ago
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404 Media
8 months ago
The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel đ
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Went on Australia's ABC Late Night Live to talk about the ideology behind the Enhanced Games.
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The money behind the Enhanced Games - an "Olympics on steroids" - ABC listen
In May 2026, a resort in Las Vegas will host the inaugural Enhanced Games, where athletes will be free to use performance enhancing drugs. The controversial event is the brainchild of Australian busin...
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/enhanced-games-money-funding/105344806
9 months ago
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Really happy with this one â did some reporting on the increase in London festival days and the balance between council budgets, local resident complaints, arts and culture benefits and the interests of festival operators. Fantastic graphic viz by
@claradoodle.bsky.social
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London festivals become flashpoint for local politics
[FREE TO READ] Residents and promoters fight over the soul of the capitalâs public green spaces
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9 months ago
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9 months ago
OK good news for the UK latest - London's west end might be about to get a big nightlife revival - theatre sales UP, bar closures DOWN (we hope) - lends itself to an awful PMQs call and response a la Boris Johnson. By Josh Gabert Doyon
@joshgd100.bsky.social
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There were noticeable difference between the effects of the Birmingham bin workers strike on deprived areas vs more affluent ones. Council finances are struggling and workers are kicking off about large-scale reforms of the waste collection service. Bad situation.
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UKâs second city drowns in rubbish as bin strikes continue
Businesses fear that refuse piles will damage Birminghamâs reputation, as industrial action continues
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11 months ago
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Wrote about the rise of AI-enabled CCTV cameras in London.
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London expands CCTV network in âtech race against crimeâ
[FREE TO READ] Councils rush to tool up with AI cameras as police grapple with surge in street crime
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11 months ago
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For the FT Magazine I spent the past year following Aron D'Souza, the man behind the Enhanced Games, a Peter Thiel-backed "steroid Olympics", and his attempt to turn performance enhancing drugs into a culture war issue.
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The Enhanced Games wants to be the Olympics on steroids â literally
The man who helped Peter Thiel destroy Gawker has a new, even bolder project
https://www.ft.com/content/8a14ea98-6c51-42de-8455-3f90d61c9306
12 months ago
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Wrote about private equity investment in the UK's consumer law sector (divorce, family, personal injury etc) and discontent among employees at the firms that have been bought up by PE.
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Private equity money flows into UKâs consumer law firms
[FREE TO READ] Dealmaking picks up in sector offering legal services from divorce to conveyancing
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
So you inject your face with puffy stuff to smoothe out the wrinkles from injecting yourself with skinny stuff to fix bloating your body with fatty stuff. What stage of capitalism is this?
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Baby boomers and âOzempic faceâ drive injectables craze
[FREE TO READ] People âwant to look what they feel like, not what they may look likeâ says dermatology giant Galderma
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about 1 year ago
Changes to departments' operational budget, FY24-25:
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Daniela Gabor
about 1 year ago
fascinating how Indonesia is flexing its large consumer market muscle to coerce foreign capital into strategic partnerships with local business - developmentalism is back!
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Went home to Montreal and wrote about the massive logistical challenge that comes with clearing up masses and masses of snow. Climate change is making it even trickier (and the making the potholes worse). And any attempt to clear up that snow just causes more problems.
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Montreal vs snow: a feat of choreographed chaos
Climate change has made efforts at âdeneigementâ more challenging than ever
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about 1 year ago
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Daniela Gabor
about 1 year ago
Canadian public pension funds privatise critical infrastructure abroad because Canadian politics prefers to keep infrastructure publicly owned
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about 1 year ago
How this breaks down in different cities is also interesting. I love that you can see the little bumps at 10/11pm representing the millennial love for day raves
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A fun one for NYE - I looked at club listings going back a decade in 15 cities to show that the trend for dance events to end earlier is global - with UK cities seeing some of the biggest shifts đđȘ© Who killed the rave? (Gift link)
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Dance music and club events are finishing earlier in cities as disparate as Berlin, Barcelona, Sydney and New York. Looked into some of the causes w/
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@nicfildes.bsky.social
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Who killed the rave? Late-night dancing falls into global decline
From Berlin to New York, clubbers in the worldâs party capitals are heading home earlier
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about 1 year ago
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Got really interested in what books are considered go-to classics for different professions. Some choice picks from people I spoke to included "Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time", Dickens' "Bleak House" and âThe Art of Eatingâ by MFK Fisher.
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The one book to read to understand your industry
Professionals pick the titles that reveal aspects to their work outsiders rarely see
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about 1 year ago
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