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Likes chess, reading, music, cooking and watching
#SurreyCricket
. Streatham, SW London.
The latest podcast from
@zaphmann.bsky.social
before a well-deserved break:
inmemoryofjohnpeel.com/2025/11/02/t...
. Has, for my money at least, four really good, if not outstanding, tracks.
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The Beat Goes On ā 20251101 036 ā Podcast & Playlist
Episode 1036: Battling through the studio meltdown to bring you the latest great or merely fascinating music Listen to > THIS EPISODE < (Playlist below) Unfolding by Jessica Moss the best newā¦
https://inmemoryofjohnpeel.com/2025/11/02/t...
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James Meek
24 days ago
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
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I wondered if any academic economists had a take on Tom Calver's recent piece in the Sunday Times (
archive.ph/Sf8L9
) on the impact to the UK economy of Brexit?
@sjwrenlewis.bsky.social
or
@jdportes.bsky.social
perhaps? I note Simon's piece from last year (
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-...
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Theme for Great Cities - Simple Minds cover by Open Mind:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_s5...
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Theme for Great Cities - Simple Minds cover by Open Mind
YouTube video by OpenMindNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_s5hz4jh2M
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Richard James
25 days ago
www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n...
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Michael Basman Legacy
International Master Michael Basman, who died on 26 October 2022 at the age of 76, was an innovator who passed on his love and deep knowledge of the game to countless players in Surrey and beyond. He ...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0nwE7idGblhCbeRT-1ac7w
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Amii Illustrates
30 days ago
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107 days, zero ideas:
www.persuasion.community/p/107-days-z...
HT John Naughton (
memex.naughtons.org/friday-17-oc...
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107 Days, Zero Ideas
Kamala Harrisās new book proves she fell far short of being the candidate Democrats needed.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/107-days-zero-ideas
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Nick Davies
about 1 month ago
Great write up of IfG's findings on local government by the Guardian
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Watch this! It's fantastic and made me cry.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Storyville - Mr Nobody Against Putin
A Storyville documentary that follows a Russian schoolteacher as he risks everything to expose rising militarism in his classroom.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002kx2d/storyville-mr-nobody-against-putin
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Amii Illustrates
about 1 month ago
Heavy š inktober day 9
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Just listening to Radio 4 and a woman is talking about swifts. And I thought: I recognise those words... Katherine Rundell on the Swift:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
. There's a fuller version:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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A Carnival of Animals - The Swift - BBC Sounds
Katherine Rundell explores wonderful stories of 20 astonishing but endangered animals.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002kgm1
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"Don't you try to bully me, you shameful, cowardly bastard", says the Aussie Bloke. Was that Nick Cave to Roger Waters?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMCu...
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āComplete Pr**kā: Roger Waters DESTROYS Bono Over Israel
YouTube video by Katie Halper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMCuSHGecyA
about 1 month ago
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Jonathan Portes
about 2 months ago
As well as the fantasy £234 bn, journalists should also be clear Farage's claims most new migrants don't work, and those who do are on low wages, are entirely false. In fact, 1.8 million recent migrants are on payrolls (others will be self employed).
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...
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Jonathan Portes
about 2 months ago
Good reporting here by
@annasophiegross.bsky.social
of Farage's nonsense numbers.
www.ft.com/content/4e16...
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Nigel Farage vows to ditch indefinite leave to remain for migrants
Reform UK leader says people with settled status would be forced to reapply for a new visa after five years
https://www.ft.com/content/4e1641eb-89f6-4c26-b190-cc9151e520dc
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Amii Illustrates
about 2 months ago
More good news from around the world + sources! (3/3)
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Carla Denyer
2 months ago
UK living standards have collapsed while govt after govt have sat on their hands. Now the vacuum they left is being filled by fascist agitators like Tommy Robinson and super-rich big-business-backed politicians like Farage. There is an alternativeāand we can all play our part in fighting for it.
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Surrey cricket Chair Oli Slipper in conversation with Dan Norcross about the options for the format of the county championship next year and going forward:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m-k...
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#SurreyCricket
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Surrey Chair Oli Slipper talks through the proposed change to the County Championship schedule
YouTube video by Surrey County Cricket Club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m-kgGtRshg
2 months ago
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Jim Pickard
2 months ago
we revealed in FT two years ago that Mandelson stayed at Epstein's luxury house in Manhattan while the financier was in jail for soliciting a minor he was deputy prime minister at the time always seemed weird that broadcasters didn't really pick this up at the time
www.ft.com/content/0723...
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Links between Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein detailed in JPMorgan report
Emails indicate then UK business secretary stayed at New York house while disgraced financier was in prison
https://www.ft.com/content/07238b43-48e6-4e7b-96d2-d50a4ada4646
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Streatham Free Film Festival - runs, I think, from 9 September to 4 October:
freefilmfestivals.org/filmfestival...
#SFFF10
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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.
https://freefilmfestivals.org/filmfestival/streatham/
2 months ago
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP
2 months ago
For over a decade, The Clink Charity has helped prisoners retrain in catering, upskilling them and reducing reoffending. With its flagship restaurant at HMP Brixton facing closure, I've written to @MoJGovUK urging them to give full and fair consideration to theirĀ renewalĀ bid.
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I'm not understanding why FA staff including the CEO, Mark Bullingham, aren't losing their jobs over this. It seems a serious misjudgement to have brought the case and there have been serious impacts for the player and the club.
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The Guardian's Matt Hughes on the Regulatory Commission's report on the spot-fixing case the FA brought against Lucas Paqueta:
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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FA criticised for āobvious flawā in spot-fixing case of West Hamās Lucas PaquetĆ”
The commissionās 314-page report was damning about the lack of expert witness and said FA appeared to be ānot certain what case it was presentingā
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/sep/03/fa-criticised-for-obvious-flaw-in-spot-fixing-case-of-west-hams-lucas-paqueta
2 months ago
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They're often referred to as illegal migrants and yet "Between 2018 and 2024, the asylum grant rate for people who arrived by small boat was 68%". Source:
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
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People crossing the English Channel in small boats - Migration Observatory
This briefing examines the phenomenon of people crossing the English Channel in small boats.
https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/people-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/
3 months ago
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Please don't describe yourselves as left-wing. Say instead what you stand for: fairness and equality, kindness, education, peace, addressing climate change, taking responsibility...
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3 months ago
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"Shave your legs - I'm coming home... You show me your face, you show me your eyes You give me the waves, oh you give me life You show me your arms, you show me your legs You give me the ocean, oh don't give me the rest, the rest Save me, save me Save me, save me".
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Private Eye Magazine
3 months ago
āIf I said I was wearing a Palestine Action T-shirt would you get here quicker?ā From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Piece in the Metro newspaper yesterday about
#Streatham
resident, Cynthia Payne:
metro.co.uk/2025/08/17/i...
. What I didn't know and has been pointed out on Facebook is that George Galloway was a neighbour - see
standard.co.uk/hp/front/tak...
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Inside the life and home of south London's most notorious brothel keeper
Cover your eyes!
https://metro.co.uk/2025/08/17/inside-life-home-south-londons-notorious-brothel-keeper-madam-cyn-23912954/
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Kevin Rothrock
4 months ago
Andy Beckett in LRB reviews a recent book by Philippe Sands on the Pinochet regime and Nazi fugitive Walther Rauff. Lots of grim details, but Beckett's closing remarks about democratic backsliding in moments of extreme political "acrimony" are haunting beyond Chile.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Catching up on recent issues of the LRB and thought the referenced piece was a good summary, from a month ago, of what Israel, with assistance, is doing to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
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3 months ago
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Simon
4 months ago
Chloe Kelly with the winning penalty!!!
#Euro2025
#England
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Meta-study says "Although 10,000 steps per day can still be a viable target for those who are more active, 7,000 steps per day is associated with clinically meaningful improvements in health outcomes and might be a more realistic and achievable target for some."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Daily steps and health outcomes in adults: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis
Although 10ā000 steps per day can still be a viable target for those who are more active, 7000 steps per day is associated with clinically meaningful improvements in health outcomes and might be a mor...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(25)00164-1/fulltext
4 months ago
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The Wolfgang Press: - in 1985 - I'm Coming Home Mama:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnUM...
- in 2024 - The Garden of Eden (with reference to Greta Thunberg?):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPpb...
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The Wolfgang Press - I'm Coming Home (Mama)
YouTube video by Claudio Del Bravo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnUMuyCeIrw
4 months ago
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Amii Illustrates
4 months ago
Time for some good news! š š± Unclench your jaw and enjoy (1/3)
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP
4 months ago
I've received a number of enquiries about the decision to remove me as a trade envoy. I particularly want to thank the UK-Ghanaian diaspora for all their support in the role, which, like their jollof, is unmatched. My statement on the issue šš¾
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Alan Elrod
4 months ago
Coming from Theda Skocpol, this is absolutely bone-chilling analysis. H/t
@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
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David Edgerton
5 months ago
I've written about Keir Starmer's government in its first year
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
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Annus horribilis
Keir Starmerās government does not represent the true Labour Party.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/labour/2025/07/starmer-labour-annus-horribilis
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Have just watched Gaza: Doctors Under Attack on Channel 4 which the BBC declined to broadcast. What a shocking film and I wonder again about the UK's involvement in what appears to be genocide of the Palestinian people by Israel.
5 months ago
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Annie Leymarie
5 months ago
The film "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack", that the BBC commissioned but has refused to show, is aired today on the UK's Channel 4 at 10 pm.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
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More than 400 media figures urge BBC board to remove Robbie Gibb over Gaza
Miriam Margolyes, Alexei Sayle and Mike Leigh among signatories to letter criticising Jewish Chronicle ties
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul/02/more-than-400-media-figures-urge-bbc-board-to-remove-robbie-gibb-over-gaza
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Alex Hall Hall
5 months ago
Rant alert. Mega rant alert. How about our leaders stop wringing hands, issuing feeble denunciations, and actually DO something? Stop the moral equivalency. Stop pretending weāre helpless. Thereās plenty we could do if genuinely committed. Hereās some suggestions for starters. š§µ
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Richard Morris
5 months ago
In 'The Chess Players, (1929) William Roberts has placed us in the underdog's camp and not for nothing is the player looking lost, his hand rubbing the back of his neck as he desperately seeks a way out of a position that seems to have only one outcome.
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Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts currently live at Glastonbury:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live...
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Watch BBC Two live - BBC iPlayer
Watch BBC Two live on BBC iPlayer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbctwo
5 months ago
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Nadia Whittome MP
5 months ago
Setting aside the many reasons to oppose disability benefit cuts, the government is leaving MPs *no option but to block the Bill* on Tuesday for these reasons alone:
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Simon Wren-Lewis
5 months ago
Y'days post: A minimum tax on billionaires
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-mi...
The super rich pay a much lower % of their income in tax than almost everyone else. The 'Zucman tax' prevents that in a way that everyone should agree is fair, so why not do this rather than cutting welfare?
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A minimum tax on billionaires
Most people would agree that taxes, taken as a whole, should be progressive. When you add up all the taxes that an individual pays, the pe...
https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-minimum-tax-on-billionaires.html
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Praggnanandhaa vs. Rapport, 2nd Uzchess Cup, round 6 (24 June 2025). Black to move. What would you play? Game score with Stockfish annotations:
lichess.org/broadcast/2n...
. Daniel King commentary:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEc9...
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5 months ago
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Jason Hickel
5 months ago
Just a reminder that the West destroyed Iranās progressive democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, and installed a dictatorship in his place. The US and UK have been terrorising that country for as long as any of us have been alive. Itās sick.
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Amii Illustrates
6 months ago
Take a deep breath and enjoy recent positive news from around the world š± (1/3)
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An article in the Guardian on supermarket sourdough bread:
www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...
. I have some questions: 1. What qualifies a loaf to be described as sourdough? 2. What are the health benefits of sourdough in general and, say, a rye sourdough loaf or a multigrain sourdough loaf? ...
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āGreat flavour, delicate tangā: the best supermarket sourdough, tasted and rated by Thomasina Miers
How do the wildly variable supermarket sourdoughs stand up to the scrutiny of someone whoās been baking their own for years?
https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter/2025/jun/14/best-supermarket-sourdough-tasted-and-rated-thomasina-miers
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Weāve got enough going on š
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Return to Planet Ivanchuk:
www.chessclub.com/news-and-art...
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https://www.chessclub.com/news-and-articles/2025-06-07-return-to-planet-ivanchuk
5 months ago
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It seems to me that Bell has become a little more outspoken and critical (if not directly) of the Government. Good on her.
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