EXCLUSIVE - Yinka Bankole compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to dismiss hurt of alleged targets Yinka says 17yo Farage targeted him when he had just joined Dulwich at 9 and told him "that's the way back to Africa" from Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social and me

further to the quoted section below from one former pupil: The Guardian has acquired a copy of the Dulwich College roll in 1980. It shows (this collage is just an excerpt) how there were 13 pupils that year with the surname Patel, and 12 with the surname Smith.

Tomorrow’s front page:

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Even if you interpret "the one person who said I directly abused him" the other way - the Guardian has spoken to seven people who say they recall the targeted abuse of Peter Ettedgui. e.g. Stefan Benarroch: “He was such a gentle soul and Farage – Farage made his life a fucking nightmare,”

Worth adding this is not an accurate representation by Farage of our reporting to date. Y'day's story: Cyrus Oshidar, described as “rubbish” the claim that the Reform leader did not act with intent to hurt. "Being called a Paki isn’t hurtful?" Oshidar asked. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

As Peter reports, that’s absolutely not the case. This minority ethnic pupil was 8 years younger than Farage when he says he was targeted for abuse.

NEW: Keir Starmer has called on Nigel Farage to apologise to his school contemporaries who claim the Reform leader racially abused them while at Dulwich College.

In light of Farage’s reversal to outright denial, and insistence that what we reported happened “50 years ago” when he was “just entering my teens”, it is worth highlighting the testimony of Andy Field, who started the ball rolling. Farage abused his position as a prefect at Dulwich to be racist.

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New: Three new ex-pupils come forward, on the record, to say Farage's racism as a teenager was targeted, persistent and nasty. Farage has denied targeting any individuals - but two of the men tell us they recall Farage abusing Peter Ettedgui. w/ Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social

This timelline shows not only how all over the place he is, but also how Farage initially tried to stop us reporting the testimony of 20 of his peers: www.theguardian.com/politics/202... from @direthoughts.com and Dan Boffey

NEW: Lord Dannatt and Lord David Evans of Watford face suspension of 4mo/5mo respectively from the House of Lords after a parliamentary watchdog ruled they had broken lobbying rules. Reports from the conduct committee follows Guardian investigations into the peers. w/ @robevansgdn.bsky.social

Two more former Dulwich College pupils have come forward, on the record, to say they heard Farage racially abusing Peter Ettedgui, Latest story with Dan Boffey and @drblacklock.bsky.social

There is no one on the internet wot knows their marbles like Matt. This is the highest praise for OFFAL.

Farage’s wholesale denial of detailed racism claims is ‘troubling’, says former extremism adviser

It's really time you heard Robert Jenrick chatting to Cuddles

Daily Mirror: Farage told me 'Hitler was right' #TomorrowsPapersToday

The Guardian: Alarm as MI5 names China spy suspects targeting MPs #TomorrowsPapersToday

Exclusive: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations w/ Dan Boffey and @drblacklock.bsky.social

Homer-ental: in @gerardjohnson.bsky.social 's satirical mini epic ODYSSEY, an ambitious, desperate North London estate agent voyages into the night to take care of business, becoming a real(ty) legend. In UK cinemas via Icon. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/odys...

Australian cricket punditry at its finest: “I feel for Sammy,” said Bailey. “I feel like at the moment, if he farts, it’s a headline.” www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2025...

America! And Canada (I hope)! The Ballardian in your life needs the paperback edition of The Selected Nonfiction of J.G. Ballard, featuring the deepest cuts, such as his contribution to Mississippi Review's Cyberpunk Forum. mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780262... @greatdismal.bsky.social

We're at The Whitworth, #Manchester this weekend for Bound Art Book Fair Sharing a table with Adam Griffiths & @joedevlin.bsky.social Flogging backlist titles and exclusive wares. @stuartlindenrhodes.bsky.social will also be joining us between 12&2pm tomoz Be In. #booksky #Books #Design

"Blacklock hopes to 'illuminate the full range of Ballard’s activities as a reviewer, ... memoirist, provocateur, compiler of lists, and talking head.' He achieves this handsomely." — @thetls.bsky.social "Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007" is now in paperback: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204832...

"It's a bit like abusing a 303..." @offalindustries.bsky.social is making AI fall over, then poking around to find artistic opportunity in what remains. Hear the full conversation with editors @drblacklock.bsky.social and Roderick Stanley on the Stack podcast now stackmagazines.com/literature/o...

Daily reminder that you are simply living inside a mass hallucination in which reality is subject to spasmodic fevers: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

column this week is about flegs

Being interviewed by the Creative Review is not something I ever anticipated happening (although they seem to have saved my bons mots for subscribers) www.creativereview.co.uk/good-reads-o...

I’d like to set up an SF prophecy index. Anyone got the coding skills? Which writer gets the most predictive hits. I mean obviously I’m biased but the premise of Ballard’s Kingdom Come is essentially the “soft fascist” flag proliferation seen in the UK over the last week.

Castle Bromwich Über Alles

You know what, I’m really glad I subscribed to @thefence.bsky.social earlier this year It does feel somewhat tailor made for my demographic - millennials of a certain age - and in that it reminds me of what made Vice so fresh in its early days, but without the bullshit (I say this as a compliment)

Had a lot fun talking about OFFAL #2 with my co-editor on the Monocle Stack podcast (from 24:40): monocle.com/radio/shows/...

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Our Tarot – Origins & Afterlives podcast series brings you talks from our recent symposium, held alongside the our exhibition on the history of tarot Explore: • Eliphas Levi & the Occult Tarot • Surrealism & the Tarot • The Visconti Tarocchi + more warburg.sas.ac.uk/search-podca... #Tarot

Back from hols and chuckling to myself as I listen to the most recent episode of OFFAL, free to air at our Steady page: steady.page/en/offal/pos... (one of my daughters recently told someone that if she sees me laughing, she knows I'm listening to my own stuff - oh god, that's bad - but this is ACE)

@thefence.bsky.social goes to Provence to be next to Leicester Square (after Monet). I trust that this offering will not be out-pretentioned this month.

Stone added that the team decided to put eyes on the penis, which would make it a character: “If we put eyes on the penis, we won’t blur it. That was a whole conversation with grown-up people for four fucking days.” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Thinking of doing a sandpaper cover for issue 3 of Offal - issue 2 available here - offaloffaloffal.com/publication in tribute to Jorn and Debord's Memoires. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9...

great piece - important read www.the-fence.com/the-send-sch... @thefence.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨 Emmanuel Carrère on Emmanuel Macron 🚨🚨🚨 www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

I am intrigued, even as I know that I would hate the reality of this: www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...

Latest episode of Offal, including an extract from the upcoming Offal #2 book. Conference Call Small Talk / Search History / The Only Way to Change Things is to Shoot Men Who Curate Things (by Iain Aitch) / A Message from Fleisch Smart Prosthetics steady.page/en/offal/posts

This evening we did an Offal Industries experimental writing workshop at the Centre for Contemporary Art at Goldsmiths and it was triumphant. The texts produced were awesome. We may publish some. And our AI puppets produced reliably weird readings. If anyone wants this experience hit us up.

You guys probably already subscribe to Off the Fence, but there's a big announcement in the new one, and a little squib from your ever-so-humble correspondent thefence.substack.com/p/off-the-fe...

“Private jets are like the canary in the coal mine here for a hyper unequal warming world,” Rutherford said.”

LRB hatchet job klaxon! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Some absolute zingers in here, among which my fave: “It’s hard to believe that, in the history of literature, an episode of rimming has ever been presented in such gauzy terms, made quite so desperately sentimental.”