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Henry Porter
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Writer, activist, fundraiser, and occasional painter. Latest book The Enigma Girl. 'SURPRISING, ENGROSSING, WITH A BLAZING MORAL ENERGY' Rory Stewart. Buy here: https://tinyurl.com/5t2tafyk Latest charity project: tents for Gaza (event coming early 2025)
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Wayland's Smithy in its autumnal coat.
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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This is me on Labour’s gift of oppressive demonstration laws to Farage.

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Protest is under greater attack in Britain than America
Successive governments have attacked our civil liberties, leaving us vulnerable to an authoritarian crackdown
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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#FridayReads - loved @henrycporter.bsky.social's most recent title, so slowly picking through the back-list... the geopolitics may have changed in the last few years, but the human stories remain. Thrilling and full of empathy. Excellent work 📚

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Firefly by Henry Porter review – flight from Isis
A gripping procedural takes us into a world of suffering refugees in the Middle East
www.theguardian.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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With the Israeli blockade in place for more than 80 days, piles of food, medicines and water are not reaching starving Palestinians, writes @henrycporter.bsky.social.
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Letter from Jordan: on the aid frontline of the Gaza war
With the Israeli blockade, in place for more than 80 days, piles of food, medicines and water are not reaching starving Palestinians
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
May 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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A Small boast: U.S. Amazon’s Best Book of the Year So Far, which considering this is the first thriller I know of that’s set in Milton Keynes isn’t half bad. Very happy .
June 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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My Enigma Girl is out in paperback and ready to fill your mind. It’s my favourite of my ten books and it seems that it’s everyone else’s too. www.amazon.co.uk/Enigma-Girl-...
May 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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It is incredible how many mainstream parties - in multiple countries - think they can win elections by loudly agreeing with extremists. “Farage is right; vote for me!”

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UK risks becoming ‘island of strangers’ without more immigration curbs, Starmer says
PM unveils policies to ‘significantly’ drive down net migration including English tests and degree requirements
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May 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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BREAKING: A woman was kicked out of a women’s bathroom at a Massachusetts hotel by a security guard who demanded she “prove her gender.”

No badge gives you the right to sexually harass someone in a bathroom. This is what fascism looks like in real time.

And it’s coming to your city next.
May 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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“No amount of tweed or the flat cap he wore will disguise the agenda of an urban political chancer.” @henrycporter.bsky.social on Nigel Farage’s attire: www.prospectmagazine...
What Farage's fashion choices tell us about his politics
Farage's country cosplay is meant to communicate support for rural voters, but it reveals more about Reform's leader than he may have intended
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May 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Nigel Farage may dress up like a farmer to address rural constituents, but his attire is “a parody, and betrays the truth that Farage has spent most of his life in London and its suburbs,” writes @henrycporter.bsky.social.
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What Farage's fashion choices tell us about his politics
Farage's country cosplay is meant to communicate support for rural voters, but it reveals more about Reform's leader than he may have intended
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Bronze ibis head. Egypt, late dynastic to Ptolemaic, ca. 664-32 BC.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art collection
May 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Brian Greene explains the double-slit experiment on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
April 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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🥳🎂🥂 Happy Birthday @henrycporter.bsky.social from @chazzasteinway.bsky.social and all your 📚🦋 fans in Campden. Looking forward to catching up with you and ENIGMA GIRL in May
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March 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Friday Night 9 May #crime night with Kate Summerscale THE PEEPSHOW @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
long list #nonfiction @womensprize.bsky.social
+ espionage #thriller: @henrycporter.bsky.social
The Enigma Girl @quercusbooks.bsky.social

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April 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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THE ENIGMA GIRL one of @thetimes.com 10 Best Thrillers of 2024 📚🦋 @booksky.bsky.social AND @henrycporter.bsky.social will be with us in May in the beautiful North Cotswolds to chat about it with Sue Cook
Book Tickets online www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
March 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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My @ala-booklist.bsky.social review of @henrycporter.bsky.social's Enigma Girl:
Review: Enigma Girl by Henry Porter.
March 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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These titles and more + their authors at our Spring Festival 9 - 12 April in #miltonkeynes. Download a programme: mklitfest.org/downloads Tickets on sale now!

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March 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Celebrate #Bookday 📚: buy tickets for May evening of Fiction #authors with @henrycporter.bsky.social espionage thriller and @bellamackie.bsky.social mystery murder
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Read ahead with books from @borzoibookshop.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Friday Night #crime night with Kate Summerscale THE PEEPSHOW @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social long list #nonfiction @womensprize.bsky.social + espionage #thriller:
@henrycporter.bsky.social The Enigma Girl @quercusbooks.bsky.social
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February 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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This new reporting is a very big deal.

The previously reported number for the amount of money Elon Musk has gotten from the government—us—was slightly over $18 billion.

We now know the figure is $38 billion.

When you consider how much of Musk's wealth is actually liquid—very little—that is a ton.
Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding
Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.
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February 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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This is the way.
February 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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"This is a reset BP, with an unwavering focus on growing long-term shareholder value.”

BP to raise oil and gas spending to $10bn a year and slash green ambitions

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February 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Little by little, after an initial period of stunned confusion, the broader resistance to President Donald Trump is beginning to wake up.
The anti-Trump resistance begins to wake in earnest
After an initial period of stunned confusion, protesters are packing meetings, states are suing, and Democrats are preparing for a budget showdown.
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February 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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BBC slammed for pulling film that 'humanised Palestinian children' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/bbc-slammed-pulling-film-humanised-palestinian-children
BBC slammed for pulling film that 'humanised Palestinian children'
Britain's public broadcaster said it is 'conducting further due diligence'
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February 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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The contempt for empathy, the dismissal of compassion. this may be the new world order, but we think there's an alternative. Come to help us raise money for people returning to Gaza on February 25. Huge line up. Wine, music, film and poetry. Tickets here - tinyurl.com/mr3wxkdh
The Convention - An evening for Gaza In aid of Shelter Box
Join us for an evening of music and readings in aid of the nearly two million Palestinians who have lost their homes in the war in Gaza. The humanitarian need is unprecedented. With a ceasefire now in...
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February 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM