★ Dylan Butler-Jones
@dylanbj.bsky.social
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London and occasionally elsewhere.
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As #StanleyBaxter leaves us, here he is playing a cast of supporting characters for Bing Crosby’s tv special. A great reminder of a fabulously gifted performer.
BING CROSBY - Merry Ole Christmas - WHOLE SHOW - 11 September 1977 (David Bowie)
YouTube video by Tanaferry
https://youtu.be/YVdfv4tWfr4?si…
December 13, 2025 at 2:40 AM
As #StanleyBaxter leaves us, here he is playing a cast of supporting characters for Bing Crosby’s tv special. A great reminder of a fabulously gifted performer.
I dunno, these people with foreign sounding names, coming over here, working hard to make an honest living and saving their fellow citizens from harm…🤨🤷🏼♂️
#HeroicDeeds
#SamirZitouni
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#HeroicDeeds
#SamirZitouni
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Samir Zitouni named as train hero who saved lives during attack
The family of rail worker Samir Zitouni say they are
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I dunno, these people with foreign sounding names, coming over here, working hard to make an honest living and saving their fellow citizens from harm…🤨🤷🏼♂️
#HeroicDeeds
#SamirZitouni
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#HeroicDeeds
#SamirZitouni
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
30 seconds to make a small donation to an entirely volunteer operated and donations funded organisation.
Today of all days it’s a small but important thing to consider doing.
Today of all days it’s a small but important thing to consider doing.
If you feel the need to do something in the wake of the Manchester attack why not donate to the Community Security Trust, the organisation that works to keep jews in Britain safe
cst.org.uk/donate-now
cst.org.uk/donate-now
Donate Online Now – CST – Protecting Our Jewish Community
cst.org.uk
October 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
30 seconds to make a small donation to an entirely volunteer operated and donations funded organisation.
Today of all days it’s a small but important thing to consider doing.
Today of all days it’s a small but important thing to consider doing.
An hour of greatness, in the company of the truly legendary #RobertPlant, at Kingston’s Circuit earlier tonight.
Huge thanks to #BanquetRecords for arranging yet another outstanding promo gig.
#SavingGrace 🎵 ❤️ 😎
Huge thanks to #BanquetRecords for arranging yet another outstanding promo gig.
#SavingGrace 🎵 ❤️ 😎
September 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
An hour of greatness, in the company of the truly legendary #RobertPlant, at Kingston’s Circuit earlier tonight.
Huge thanks to #BanquetRecords for arranging yet another outstanding promo gig.
#SavingGrace 🎵 ❤️ 😎
Huge thanks to #BanquetRecords for arranging yet another outstanding promo gig.
#SavingGrace 🎵 ❤️ 😎
It’s as if the #Samaritans has been acquired by Private Equity…
Utterly tone deaf leadership at the charity whose very purpose is to listen…😔
Samaritans facing volunteer exodus over proposed branch closures www.bbc.com/news/article...
Utterly tone deaf leadership at the charity whose very purpose is to listen…😔
Samaritans facing volunteer exodus over proposed branch closures www.bbc.com/news/article...
Samaritans facing volunteer exodus over proposed branch closures
Opponents fear plans to close more than100 branches could put the charity’s ability to answer calls in doubt.
www.bbc.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
It’s as if the #Samaritans has been acquired by Private Equity…
Utterly tone deaf leadership at the charity whose very purpose is to listen…😔
Samaritans facing volunteer exodus over proposed branch closures www.bbc.com/news/article...
Utterly tone deaf leadership at the charity whose very purpose is to listen…😔
Samaritans facing volunteer exodus over proposed branch closures www.bbc.com/news/article...
Of course the idea has been explored by others….
youtu.be/iPHIhQphVS4?...
#SaucyJack #SpinalTap
David Bowie’s secret final project discovered locked in his study www.bbc.com/news/article...
youtu.be/iPHIhQphVS4?...
#SaucyJack #SpinalTap
David Bowie’s secret final project discovered locked in his study www.bbc.com/news/article...
David Bowie's final project was a musical set in London
Shortly before his death, the star wrote dozens of notes for a musical set in 18th Century London.
www.bbc.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Of course the idea has been explored by others….
youtu.be/iPHIhQphVS4?...
#SaucyJack #SpinalTap
David Bowie’s secret final project discovered locked in his study www.bbc.com/news/article...
youtu.be/iPHIhQphVS4?...
#SaucyJack #SpinalTap
David Bowie’s secret final project discovered locked in his study www.bbc.com/news/article...
Yep. What gullible sucker would expect anything different….😏🤷🏼♂️
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How Putin, ex-KGB officer, will seek to sway Trump at Alaska summit
t.co/boPcGrtODC
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How Putin, ex-KGB officer, will seek to sway Trump at Alaska summit
t.co/boPcGrtODC
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/15/putin-trump-kgb-charm-summit/
t.co
August 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Yep. What gullible sucker would expect anything different….😏🤷🏼♂️
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How Putin, ex-KGB officer, will seek to sway Trump at Alaska summit
t.co/boPcGrtODC
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How Putin, ex-KGB officer, will seek to sway Trump at Alaska summit
t.co/boPcGrtODC
Another superb piece from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social- we’re navigating a Lynchian world of pain right now…
open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...
open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...
Laura Palmer’s House
Jeffrey Epstein, Twin Peaks, and dreams of justice.
open.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Another superb piece from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social- we’re navigating a Lynchian world of pain right now…
open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...
open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...
Rappers and musicians upsetting mum and dad again this weekend. Some disagreeable stuff for sure, but pop acts have always found ways to nake mischief for publicity…
#Glastonbury2025 #Glastonbury
#Glastonbury2025 #Glastonbury
June 30, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Rappers and musicians upsetting mum and dad again this weekend. Some disagreeable stuff for sure, but pop acts have always found ways to nake mischief for publicity…
#Glastonbury2025 #Glastonbury
#Glastonbury2025 #Glastonbury
“Obliterated”?
Hmmm…🤔
Strike Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...
Hmmm…🤔
Strike Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...
Strike Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says
www.nytimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
“Obliterated”?
Hmmm…🤔
Strike Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...
Hmmm…🤔
Strike Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...
Utterly sickening.
#RogueState
Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling international students via @FT
on.ft.com/4jdR8SY
#RogueState
Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling international students via @FT
on.ft.com/4jdR8SY
Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling international students
Letter from Department of Homeland Security signals new escalation in stand-off with university
on.ft.com
May 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Utterly sickening.
#RogueState
Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling international students via @FT
on.ft.com/4jdR8SY
#RogueState
Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling international students via @FT
on.ft.com/4jdR8SY
@financialtimes.com’s Edwin Heathcote peels the backing off El Presidente’s stultifyingly tacky White House makeover.
on.ft.com/4iYj0u4 Trump’s casino rococo White House and the politics of ornamentation
on.ft.com/4iYj0u4 Trump’s casino rococo White House and the politics of ornamentation
Trump’s casino rococo White House and the politics of ornamentation
The President’s addition of gold flourishes is a cliché of a rich person’s home — and raises questions about decoration in the age of $1 Chinese swag
on.ft.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
@financialtimes.com’s Edwin Heathcote peels the backing off El Presidente’s stultifyingly tacky White House makeover.
on.ft.com/4iYj0u4 Trump’s casino rococo White House and the politics of ornamentation
on.ft.com/4iYj0u4 Trump’s casino rococo White House and the politics of ornamentation
“He wants to do to America what Musk did to Twitter: turn it into something different, that serves his political allies and is subject to the arbitrary power of an autocrat.”
‘America’s least American president’ - from the @washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
‘America’s least American president’ - from the @washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | America’s least American president
Donald Trump isn’t making America great again. He’s making it into something else entirely.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
“He wants to do to America what Musk did to Twitter: turn it into something different, that serves his political allies and is subject to the arbitrary power of an autocrat.”
‘America’s least American president’ - from the @washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
‘America’s least American president’ - from the @washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
CityAm reporting 40% of UK SME’s planning to cut & run, per recent Handelsbanken survey?
Sounds like horseshit to me…
news.uk.cityam.com/story/232356...
Sounds like horseshit to me…
news.uk.cityam.com/story/232356...
Small firm owners are leaving the UK en masse, survey finds
Small business owners up and down the country are packing their bags to escape a flurry of higher taxes, soaring costs and red tape, fresh data has found. Nearly two in five owners of small and medium...
news.uk.cityam.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
CityAm reporting 40% of UK SME’s planning to cut & run, per recent Handelsbanken survey?
Sounds like horseshit to me…
news.uk.cityam.com/story/232356...
Sounds like horseshit to me…
news.uk.cityam.com/story/232356...
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Set up a Labour MP group to attack Reform
That was Alastair Campbell's advice to Labour government advisers at a recent away day, PolHome understands
The former Tony Blair communications director, now podcast host, told the advisers that Labour must take Farage's electoral threat more seriously
That was Alastair Campbell's advice to Labour government advisers at a recent away day, PolHome understands
The former Tony Blair communications director, now podcast host, told the advisers that Labour must take Farage's electoral threat more seriously
Alastair Campbell Tells Labour To Set Up MP Group To Attack Reform
Alastair Campbell, who was director of communications to former Labour prime minister Tony Blair, has urged current party strategists to set up a g...
www.politicshome.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Set up a Labour MP group to attack Reform
That was Alastair Campbell's advice to Labour government advisers at a recent away day, PolHome understands
The former Tony Blair communications director, now podcast host, told the advisers that Labour must take Farage's electoral threat more seriously
That was Alastair Campbell's advice to Labour government advisers at a recent away day, PolHome understands
The former Tony Blair communications director, now podcast host, told the advisers that Labour must take Farage's electoral threat more seriously
Sanders has acted with greater vigor since 6 Jan than any of his Dem colleagues.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com
April 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Sanders has acted with greater vigor since 6 Jan than any of his Dem colleagues.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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This is one of the many reasons why 19th Century free traders like Winston Churchill hated tariffs.
It all decays into deeply corrupt, hidden, capricious deal making between the executive & powerful interests.
It all decays into deeply corrupt, hidden, capricious deal making between the executive & powerful interests.
April 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is one of the many reasons why 19th Century free traders like Winston Churchill hated tariffs.
It all decays into deeply corrupt, hidden, capricious deal making between the executive & powerful interests.
It all decays into deeply corrupt, hidden, capricious deal making between the executive & powerful interests.
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or maybe, instead of solving a decades-old medical mystery in just a few months, they’ll fabricate something that makes the Q’ers swoon and endangers vaccine access. so if there’s anything you or your family needs, do it now.
RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."
April 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
or maybe, instead of solving a decades-old medical mystery in just a few months, they’ll fabricate something that makes the Q’ers swoon and endangers vaccine access. so if there’s anything you or your family needs, do it now.
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Exactly, fraudulent asshole.
April 10, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Exactly, fraudulent asshole.
The idiotic fawning over DJT’s feeble climb down tonight is almost peak #TrumpDerangementSyndrome.
Still further to go no doubt, as his sharkskin suited & expensively coiffed acolytes continue demeaning themselves intellectually & morally.
God bless America, it certainly needs a helping hand. 🤦🏼♂️
Still further to go no doubt, as his sharkskin suited & expensively coiffed acolytes continue demeaning themselves intellectually & morally.
God bless America, it certainly needs a helping hand. 🤦🏼♂️
April 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The idiotic fawning over DJT’s feeble climb down tonight is almost peak #TrumpDerangementSyndrome.
Still further to go no doubt, as his sharkskin suited & expensively coiffed acolytes continue demeaning themselves intellectually & morally.
God bless America, it certainly needs a helping hand. 🤦🏼♂️
Still further to go no doubt, as his sharkskin suited & expensively coiffed acolytes continue demeaning themselves intellectually & morally.
God bless America, it certainly needs a helping hand. 🤦🏼♂️
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Top officials’ classified chat breach shakes Washington
https://www.ft.com/content/ba6a6ef5-7b53-41a3-87ff-413812719057
https://www.ft.com/content/ba6a6ef5-7b53-41a3-87ff-413812719057
Top officials’ classified chat breach shakes Washington
Law enforcement agencies silent on what legal experts say could be a violation of the US espionage act
www.ft.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Top officials’ classified chat breach shakes Washington
https://www.ft.com/content/ba6a6ef5-7b53-41a3-87ff-413812719057
https://www.ft.com/content/ba6a6ef5-7b53-41a3-87ff-413812719057
So there we have it…now and openly without question, Putin owns the White House.
‘Trump envoy dismisses Starmer plan for Ukraine’
www.bbc.com/news/article...
‘Trump envoy dismisses Starmer plan for Ukraine’
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump envoy Steve Witkoff dismisses Starmer plan for Ukraine
Steve Witkoff says the UK plans for an international force to support a ceasefire are a "posture".
www.bbc.com
March 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
So there we have it…now and openly without question, Putin owns the White House.
‘Trump envoy dismisses Starmer plan for Ukraine’
www.bbc.com/news/article...
‘Trump envoy dismisses Starmer plan for Ukraine’
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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I doubt Kemi Badenoch came against net zero because of donor money. I suspect she did it because she's an irresponsible ignorant reactionary fool.
March 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I doubt Kemi Badenoch came against net zero because of donor money. I suspect she did it because she's an irresponsible ignorant reactionary fool.
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The one thing now clear, from today’s hearing.
There is not (yet!) a coherent and integrated political and litigation strategy in the White House for what is going on.
The DoJ lawyers had an ‘ambulance pass’ of a case to try and defend.
A coherent approach may soon emerge, but it ain’t there yet,
There is not (yet!) a coherent and integrated political and litigation strategy in the White House for what is going on.
The DoJ lawyers had an ‘ambulance pass’ of a case to try and defend.
A coherent approach may soon emerge, but it ain’t there yet,
March 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The one thing now clear, from today’s hearing.
There is not (yet!) a coherent and integrated political and litigation strategy in the White House for what is going on.
The DoJ lawyers had an ‘ambulance pass’ of a case to try and defend.
A coherent approach may soon emerge, but it ain’t there yet,
There is not (yet!) a coherent and integrated political and litigation strategy in the White House for what is going on.
The DoJ lawyers had an ‘ambulance pass’ of a case to try and defend.
A coherent approach may soon emerge, but it ain’t there yet,