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Jon Chadwick
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MD at Durham Distillery, craft spirits/food and drink. Durham City, England. Blogs at Jon-Chadwick.com.
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Your Party was meant to build a new left. It’s turned into another ego-driven data-grab with £800k missing and everyone lawyering up.

#Corbyn #ZarahSultana #yourparty #ukpolitics #leftwing #IndustrialEstateofMind
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Your Party’s Civil War - Industrial Estate of Mind
Your Party’s first year has ended in chaos — legal threats, missing money, and factional warfare. A left-wing vanity project built on data, cash, and déjà vu.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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A year into Trump’s second term, the world’s richest democracy looks like a failing state — run for the boss, not the people.

#Trump #USEconomy #AmericanPolitics #Authoritarianism #CivicNationalism #IndustrialEstateOfMind

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The Family Business: How Trump’s America Fell Apart - Industrial Estate of Mind
A year into Donald Trump’s second term, the United States looks less like a republic and more like a family business run for the benefit of the boss and his hangers-on. Economic chaos, political repre...
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November 8, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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From the 1980s to today, we’ve repeated the same mistakes — cut services, punish the vulnerable, and then act shocked when tragedy strikes. The mental health crisis Britain pretends not to see.

#MentalHealthCrisis #NHS #Homelessness #WelfareReform #Politics

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Jonathan Zito and the Return of Britain’s Forgotten Crisis - Industrial Estate of Mind
Britain’s mental health crisis didn’t start yesterday. Cuts and sanctions betrayed the vulnerable and created tragedies.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Small boat crossings have fallen by nearly two-thirds since 2022 — but instead of celebrating, politicians are turning their anger on those who came here legally.
The panic was never about boats. It was about who gets to belong.

#Politics #Immigration #ReformUK

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The Vanishing Boats and the Real Horror Beneath - Industrial Estate of Mind
Small boat crossings are falling fast — yet anger is rising. The panic was never really about boats. It was always about who gets to belong.
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November 1, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Halloween horror special: What if Nigel Farage’s Reform UK actually won?
Market meltdowns & strongman fantasies, two chilling tales of a Britain gone wrong.

#ReformUK #NigelFarage #UKPolitics #GeneralElection #Authoritarianism #Disinformation #Halloween

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Nightmare on Downing Street: The Horrors of a Reform Victory - Industrial Estate of Mind
As Reform UK surge in the polls, three chilling political horror stories imagine what happens if Nigel Farage’s party actually wins power — and the nightmare that could follow.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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People aren’t angry about adverts — they’re angry about change. Diversity in advertising isn’t ideology, it’s economics. The outrage says more about us than the ads.
#advertising #marketing #diversity #CultureWars #media #ukpolitics #socialmedia #representation
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Diversity in Advertising and the Outrage Industry - Industrial Estate of Mind
Outrage over diversity in advertising says more about Britain’s culture wars than about marketing. Adverts reflect who buys things — and that audience has changed
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October 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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October Quiz. The usual format. Lots of wrong answers, some right ones

#quiz

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Quiz | October - Industrial Estate of Mind
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October 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Katie Lam’s call to revoke settled status shows just how far the Conservatives have drifted from Britain’s tradition of privacy and liberty.

#UKPolitics #Conservatives #ReformUK #KatieLam #Authoritarianism #Freedom #Privacy #Democracy #BritishValues

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Mind Your Own Business: How the Conservatives Abandoned Britain’s Love of Privacy - Industrial Estate of Mind
Katie Lam’s call to revoke Indefinite Leave to Remain exposes how the Conservatives and Reform have drifted from traditional British values of privacy and liberty toward an authoritarian obsession wit...
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October 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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The American right can’t cope with autism — because neurodiversity breaks their worldview. When your politics depend on hierarchy and blame, every difference looks like a defect. #Autism #Neurodiversity #Politics #RFKJr #CrankMedicine #IndustrialEstateOfMind
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How the American Right Turned Autism Into a Culture War - Industrial Estate of Mind
The American right’s obsession with “curing” autism reveals how crank medicine, conspiracy theories, and authoritarian ideology overlap. Autism challenges their worldview — and they can’t handle it.
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October 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Where did the money come from to bail out Prince Andrew?
#princeandrew #epsteinfiles
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October 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Former Reform UK leader Nathan Gill’s guilty plea exposes a deeper web of Russian money and influence running through Farage’s parties, GB News, and Britain’s populist right.
#ReformUK #Farage #RussianInterference #UKPolitics #Disinformation #GBNews #Populism

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Reform: Bribes, Broadcasters and Bad Faith - Industrial Estate of Mind
Former Reform UK leader Nathan Gill plead guilty for taking Russian bribes reveals long-standing ties between Nigel Farage’s parties and Moscow’s influence machine
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October 19, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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UK borrowing costs are rising even as interest rates fall. The reason lies less in Threadneedle Street and more in Washington DC. Here’s why markets are pushing up the price of government debt.
#Economics #UKPolitics #Debt #InterestRates #BondMarkets #Inflation

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Why UK Government Borrowing Costs Are Rising as Interest Rates Fall - Industrial Estate of Mind
UK government borrowing costs are rising as Bank of England rates fall. US debt, and long-term inflation fears push up the price of government borrowing.
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October 15, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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“Everything is fake but the hate is real.”
Fake content, algorithms and nostalgia turns politics into performance, and breaks people.

#FakeNews #FarRight #OnlineRadicalisation #UKPolitics #SocialMedia #Disinformation #ReformUK #Facebook #Democracy
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Fake It Until You Break It: How the Internet Turned Politics into Performance - Industrial Estate of Mind
The internet blurs truth and lies, fuels far-right radicalisation through fake content, algorithms, nostalgia, and anger. Everything is fake but the hate is real.
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October 11, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Labour, the Conservatives, and Reform all want to change Indefinite Leave to Remain — but their plans are radically different. Here’s what they really mean
#Immigration #ILR #UKPolitics #Labour #Conservatives #ReformUK

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The Battle Over Indefinite Leave to Remain: Labour, Conservatives, and Reform Compared - Industrial Estate of Mind
Labour, the Conservatives, and Reform all want to change Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR). Here’s how each party’s plan could affect immigration, ILR , and the UK’s post-Brexit settlement.
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October 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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In 1977, Muhammad Ali came to South Shields. He toured the town, sparred with locals — and even held a wedding ceremony in the mosque. A forgotten story of British history.
#MuhammadAli #BoxingHistory #SouthShields #BritishMuslims #CulturalHistory

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Muhammad Ali Got Married in South Shields
Dennis Acapone - Cassius Clay 1973/Dr. Alimantado And Soul Syndicate – I Am The Greatest Says Muhammad Ali  1974 Two massive mid 70s reggae cuts about the greatest sportsman of all time. OK — I know t...
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September 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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The right once stood for “sound money.” Now it’s Trump coins, Melania coins, and crypto scams. Casino capitalism is the new Conservative ideology
#Crypto #Politics #RightWing #DarkMoney #Trump #Farage #ReformUK

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Trump, Farage and the Politics of Crypto  - Industrial Estate of Mind
From Trump’s memecoins to Reform’s crypto deregulation, the right has abandoned “sound money” for speculative scams—and opened the door to dark money in politics.
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September 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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And here it is, September’s quiz. Share the pain/pleasure with your friends and family

#quiz
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Quiz September - Industrial Estate of Mind
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September 27, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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AI is great at chasing the perfect answer—but terrible at knowing when “good enough” is better. Vinyl collecting taught me more about bounded rationality than ChatGPT ever could. 🎶🤖
#AI #BoundedRationality #Economics #BehaviouralEconomics #Vinyl #DouglasAdams
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AI and Bounded Rationality - Industrial Estate of Mind
AI doesn’t always know when “good enough” beats “perfect.” Bounded rationality, vinyl collecting, and why humans still outperform AI at compromise.
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September 24, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Far right promised a “summer of riots.” Britain got protests smaller than a non-league football crowd — and one big Tommy Robinson march.

Why are politicians and the press so keen to talk up violence?

#UKPolitics #FarRight #CivilUnrest #NigelFarage #TommyRobinson

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Talking Up Violence: The Summer the Riots Didn’t Come - Industrial Estate of Mind
The far right promised a “summer of riots.” What we got was smaller than a non-league football crowd, but the press still reported chaos.
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September 21, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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America has entered its third great era of political violence. The lynchings after the Civil War, the assassinations of the 1960s — and now. Are we already seeing the first casualties of a new civil war?

#America #CivilWar #Democracy #PoliticalViolence #charliekirk
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The Death of Charlie Kirk. America’s Third Era of Political Violence - Industrial Estate of Mind
America is in its third era of political violence. From lynchings to today’s far-right terror, is the US sliding into a new civil war?
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September 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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The legendary Blue Monkey nightclub in Sunderland is being reborn — not as a rave venue, but as the Redeemed Christian Church of God.”

#Sunderland #BlueMonkey #RCCG #Immigration #LocalHistory #VenerableBede #NorthEast
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The Blue Monkey Reborn: Sunderland’s Redeemed Christian Church of God - Industrial Estate of Mind
The old Blue Monkey nightclub in Sunderland is being redeveloped as the Redeemed Christian Church of God. Immigration, faith, and the city’s deep Christian history all shape this latest chapter.
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September 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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The Action: the 1960s mod band who never had a hit but inspired generations — from soul clubs to Sufi devotion.

#TheAction #ModCulture #60sMusic #PaulWeller #SoulRock #MusicHistory #fileunderpopular #musichistory

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The Action, Motown, Mods and Muslims
Back in the 1980s, before the internet and YouTube, it was hard to dig up information about forgotten 1960s bands. Knowledge was at a premium. In 1980, Edsel Records released a compilation called The ...
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September 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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September 13, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Why do people hate woke? The backlash isn’t really about pronouns — it’s about class, globalisation, and who got left behind.
#WokeCulture #CultureWars #Globalisation #ClassPolitics #UKPolitics #IdentityPolitics

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Why Do People Hate Woke? - Industrial Estate of Mind
Why do people hate woke? Behind the culture wars is the rise of a diverse but smug professional elite. The backlash runs deeper than pronouns
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September 13, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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#CharlieKirk . Trump removed a whole echelon of experienced agents in all branches of law enforcement and security and replaced them with inadequate yes men. Those who were left were moved to deport and target immigrants.

This is the terrible consequence

#CharlieKirkshot
September 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM