Hugh Morris
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Writer on music—NYT Guardian VAN Magazine and more.
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Former Pingu Child Actor (Communist)
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Wrote about the marvellous idrisi endemble for the guardian
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
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Add to playlist: the cliche-correcting medieval music of Idrîsî Ensemble and the week’s best new tracks
The group reimagines Corsica’s ancient music for modern female voices with fresh spiky arrangements that remain heavy with the pain of the past
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/feb/27/add-to-playlist-the-cliche-correcting-medieval-music-of-idrisi-ensemble-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks
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Chaminda Jayanetti
3 days ago
Sectarian. The sheer contempt and entitlement in that word. Thousands of Muslim voters just voted for a white, (I think) working class non-Muslim woman because they feel abandoned by Labour and agree with her views on a huge foreign policy issue and on immigration policy
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Avalon Zoe (A.Z.) Madonna
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Scoop: Lebrecht gone from R3
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Over on Instagram, Yuja Wang fires back at Norman Lebrecht…
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RIP Eliane Radigue, a legend of slow sound
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Jim Waterson
6 days ago
Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted.
www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
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Billionaire halts mass eviction after London Centric investigation
Exclusive: Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital hoped to replace hundreds of tenants with more lucrative temporary accommodation. That plan has been shelved – for now.
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-halts-mass-eviction-london-housing
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Emily Bell
8 days ago
Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/
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Duncan Robinson
9 days ago
Pardon
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Gregk Foley
10 days ago
Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.
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Olivia Giovetti
11 days ago
When the edible kicks in just as Knee Play 2 gets going and it could be Franky it could be very fresh and clean it could be it could get some gasoline shortest one so all these are the days my friends and these are the days my friends
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Henry Dyer
10 days ago
Exclusive: Josh Simons claimed to be “surprised” and “furious” at a PR agency’s work to investigate journalists on his behalf. He had been personally involved in naming them to British intelligence officials and falsely linking them to pro-Russian propaganda. w/
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Labour minister falsely linked journalists to ‘pro-Kremlin’ network in emails to GCHQ
Exclusive: Josh Simons pressed intelligence officials to investigate reporters, in emails described as ‘McCarthyite smear’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/20/labour-minister-falsely-linked-journalists-to-pro-kremlin-network-in-emails-to-gchq
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Ben Miller
11 days ago
I Never Thought The Leopards Would Eat My Face, sobs woman who wrote innumerable opinion columns about how there were reasonable concerns about how regulations banning leopards eating people’s faces endangered women
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Simon Brackenborough
11 days ago
you're laughing? Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor got arrested on his birthday, and you're laughing?
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prince to Andrew to “man in his sixties”
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James Austin
11 days ago
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
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Press Gazette
14 days ago
Proposals to curb SLAPPs have been dropped from upcoming justice reforms by Labour due to fears of a backlash by lawyers. Campaigns say issue is being kicked into long grass, The Times reports
www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
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Fears for free speech as crackdown on Slapps is shelved
The editors of The Times and The Sunday Times have urged No 10 to end the use of strategic litigation against public participation
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/free-speech-fears-crackdown-slapps-shelved-law-j57jv9w0v?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqeKQLDCSuPh5bSL-VcY_Y4rs01ngv4CRzUDcF_vNNmTh32ZNBfnp4-n8jMDTA%3D%3D&gaa_ts=69930f6b&gaa_sig=E5Pc8eRU20ypuniN3ERd7c45lMPKxnMEvGCLSjmbTzrXYEskivNyXdGvZ08cTip8NRxYAKcGhJabEQ78PoBa-Q%3D%3D
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George Monbiot
17 days ago
The ban was justified by Yvette Cooper, who imposed it when she was Home Secretary, on the grounds that she knew some special secrets about PA the rest of us didn't: a shocking abuse of government privilege. She has never produced this "evidence", and we have reasons to believe it does not exist.
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George Monbiot
17 days ago
Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court! A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest. A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
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Altreik
17 days ago
It’s amazing how much Yvette Cooper gets away with on the basis of being a good committee chair a decade ago and knowing how to look ‘unimpressed’ and give a ‘details obsessed vibe’
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Chaminda Jayanetti
17 days ago
A total, total humiliation for the government
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/13/uk-ban-palestine-action-unlawful-high-court-judges-rule
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17 days ago
Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/13/uk-ban-palestine-action-unlawful-high-court-judges-rule
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Stephen Bush
18 days ago
A fascinating politician. Does not do the job, visibly and audibly not interested in the brief…bizarrely aggro about people pointing it out.
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hell yeah for journalism
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Caroline Potter
19 days ago
In
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on 12 Feb: my ranking/round-up of 345 Darius
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pieces! Over four months, I listened to or read as many of his 443 opus numbers as I could find. Today and tomorrow I’ll post highlights: as this is Milhaud, it’s going to be a LONG thread 1/
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Imogen West-Knights
19 days ago
An essay I wrote for The Dial about Wikipedia's humanity in the age of AI informational slurry is out now!
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The Dial
20 days ago
Wikipedia’s survival has never been under greater threat. There’s the growing volume of anti-Wikipedia sentiment on the right. And who will need Wikipedia if they can get an AI summary? Imogen West-Knights on the advantage that humans have in keeping it alive:
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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In Search of Wikipedia’s Saviors — The Dial
Can Tom, Betty, Patricia and Isidora rescue the site from AI?
https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/wikipedia-editors-artificial-intelligance
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Carl Quintanilla
20 days ago
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
22 days ago
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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A.V. Deggar
24 days ago
When talking about righteous anger, worth remembering that the Labour Party has been supporting a genocide in the Middle East for more than two years.
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Rob Minto
24 days ago
UPDATE: I've had a response from the Cabinet Office! "the statistics cited ‘19.2 million British citizens registered with X and 10.8 million families using the platform’ were provided by OmniGov, the government's media buying agency, who received this data directly from X itself."
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Peter Geoghegan
25 days ago
🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
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BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-morgan-mcsweeneys-labour-together-investigators-journalists
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anne nails this. Another one bites the dust
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VAN Magazine
26 days ago
Among those laid off by the Washington Post today was Michael Andor Brodeur, the paper's classical music critic: another blow to an invaluable yet increasingly precarious discipline.
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Olivia Giovetti
26 days ago
In 2023, Leon Botstein couched Jeffrey Epstein as an embarrassing footnote. The newly-released documents tell a slightly different story.
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“There Is a Reason You Are Still Struggling and it Is Not Your Talent”
What the latest Epstein documents reveal about his relationship with Leon Botstein
https://www.criticaldrift.org/p/leon-botstein-jeffrey-epstein-files
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
29 days ago
…in 1842. Astonishing clickbait.
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Glasgow cleric went on a rampage against trains on Sunday
Taking a firm stance against Sunday travel, Reverend William Burns gained a reputation through Scotland for his point of view - warning people they would be 'booked for Hell'
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/history/glasgow-cleric-went-rampage-against-23453539?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#
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Jim Pickard
28 days ago
BREAKING on ft website: Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans
www.ft.com/content/fdf7...
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Mandelson leaked sensitive UK government tax plans to Epstein
Former ambassador forwarded memo from special adviser to Gordon Brown to late sex offender in 2009
https://www.ft.com/content/fdf7afe9-9ad3-4325-8843-f590dcdd7e57
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Chaslin's management page on IMG Artists has been deleted
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Den Hala
29 days ago
Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.
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Some Sunday breaking news
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Peter Jukes
29 days ago
Most of Epstein’s victims were either too frightened to come forward, or silenced through legal threats. Oh, and here’s a senior British politician giving Epstein tips on how to silence them
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Phil Harrison
about 1 month ago
Feel very angry about all this on behalf of younger people. When you also factor in the catastrophic state of the housing market, it feels like everything is stacked against them, particularly young people without reasonably well-off parents. The political short-sightedness around it is shameful.
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if you want to read a similar critique of the same book from two years ago, check out this VAN essay I wrote...
van-magazine.com/mag/igor-lev...
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Duncan Weldon
about 1 month ago
I’m really quite surprised at the BBC website today. ‘Here is a video, some people say it does not show what it very obviously shows’ is not how you report this.
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Duncan Weldon
about 1 month ago
The Economist coverage is grim but this is exactly how it should be reported.
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Alex von Tunzelmann
about 1 month ago
I know some people are cynical about everything now and just say “eh, what do you expect” at every new low, but really this is just astonishing and outrageous, and I don’t think we should shrug at that
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/white-house-ice-protest-arrest-altered-image?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Marie Le Conte
about 1 month ago
The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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