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Ghouls
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Video Contributor for West England Bylines. Host of the Bylines Network Podcast. He/Him/His.

“The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was”
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People will be seeing this in docs on fascism in another hundred years. Mussolini in a suit.
You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that:

1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
November 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Media lawyer explains significant legal hurdles Trump faces to sue BBC
Media lawyer explains significant legal hurdles Trump faces to sue BBC
Media lawyer explains significant legal hurdles Trump faces to sue BBC
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
From my Teacher's insistance that it is an unreliable source, to being the last bastion of truth on the internet, we're lucky to have Wikipedia.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6zz...
The future of knowledge is yours to protect. #Wikipedia25
YouTube video by Wikipedia
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Every poll, survey, opinion piece, research and documentary confirms the disaster that is Brexit. Immeasurable damage, economically, socially, scientifically, security, politically.
It is utter madness not to start reversing Brexit.
@labourlewis.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l0G...
Top 10 UK Industries That Collapsed After Brexit
YouTube video by EconomyTalk
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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This is good to know 👇
Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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We need to protest more like the French.
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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If you want to sustain your carefully-cultivated fury at the stupid Panorama edit then don’t, whatever you do, read or listen to Trump’s speech in its entirety…
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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On Donald Trump's attack on the BBC this PM, Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:

"It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him.

"The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.

"The PM [and others] should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it."
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Yall Sora is AI. If the video has that tag floating through it, it’s AI. Don’t share it 😐
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Lowe doesn't need the money but the 'thrill' of engagment can be just as corrupting as the love of cash & if engagement/cash increase according to the extremity of the opinions expressed then you need integrity to resist the temptation to become ever more offensive. This is what Musk has engineered.
Human trafficking.

Rupert Lowe makes more money from using Elon Musk’s website than any other MP.

There is money to be made from mass deportations and talking about mass deportations.
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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📌 Reality settling in for GOP ‼️

Yes indeed • Actually MOST

of you ~ shall go

to prison 💯🐥
November 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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The union is calling on people to boycott btw!!
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.

Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.

Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
November 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Is there a prominent Brexiter left who hasn’t torn off their mask to reveal the rancid racism beneath? Boris Johnson’s chief fluffer accusing anyone else of being over-promoted is peak process. The bitterness of insanely privileged men with empty souls knows no bounds.
For anyone still tempted to take Dominic Cummings at all seriously, he's now an advocate of Donald Trump-style open racism.
November 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Ditching Photoshop for Krita, day 3
November 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I haven't worn a Poppy for years (still donate what I can to British Legion) and this attitude is one of the reasons why
This is the fearless journalism Britannia deserves.
November 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Lindsey Boylan was the first whistleblower to come forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Andrew Cuomo.

Her accusations & those of 12 others were corroborated by the NY AG (and later by DOJ.) Cuomo resigned.

Now he has lost again, and this picture is as unabashed a joy as you'll see.
Me finding out @zohrankmamdani won. Captured by the great Faraz Ansari
November 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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many are saying canceling everyone's flights and food benefits right before the Traveling & Eating Holiday is a good move, politically
BREAKING: The US FAA has said thst it is cutting flight capacity by 10% at multiple airports across the USA while the federal government still is shutdown
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM