Ian Cade
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I work with research and data about films and television as well as being a World Heritage Site hunter, Pompey fan, former Erasmus student, whilst attempting to be a dad
This feels precision engineered for me, perhaps why I found it so interesting.
If you want an enlightening look at Euroscepticism, Mormon community work, Farage’s slopey shoulders of responsibility, the LDS community of north Wales then this is for you
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
If you want an enlightening look at Euroscepticism, Mormon community work, Farage’s slopey shoulders of responsibility, the LDS community of north Wales then this is for you
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Currently - From Anglesey with Love - BBC Sounds
Former MEP Nathan Gill accepted Russia-linked bribes. Then he did this interview.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This feels precision engineered for me, perhaps why I found it so interesting.
If you want an enlightening look at Euroscepticism, Mormon community work, Farage’s slopey shoulders of responsibility, the LDS community of north Wales then this is for you
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
If you want an enlightening look at Euroscepticism, Mormon community work, Farage’s slopey shoulders of responsibility, the LDS community of north Wales then this is for you
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
Rather frustrated I didn’t get it straight off as I was at a conference this week hosted in a building that featured in the first zoom, oh well, it is a really lovely city.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Rather frustrated I didn’t get it straight off as I was at a conference this week hosted in a building that featured in the first zoom, oh well, it is a really lovely city.
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I have just watched this for the first time, it was wonderful
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I have just watched this for the first time, it was wonderful
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This year’s record-breaking BFI London Film Festival proves once again why it’s one of the world’s best celebrations of cinema.
Delighted to see Chloé Zhao’s film Hamnet, which premiered at my Mayor’s Film Gala, has won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film.
Delighted to see Chloé Zhao’s film Hamnet, which premiered at my Mayor’s Film Gala, has won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film.
Winners revealed for the LFF Audience Awards 2025
Hamnet is voted Best Feature Film and Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story is chosen as Best British Discovery in the annual audience vote at the end of this year’s BFI London Film Festival.
www.bfi.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This year’s record-breaking BFI London Film Festival proves once again why it’s one of the world’s best celebrations of cinema.
Delighted to see Chloé Zhao’s film Hamnet, which premiered at my Mayor’s Film Gala, has won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film.
Delighted to see Chloé Zhao’s film Hamnet, which premiered at my Mayor’s Film Gala, has won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film.
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NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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November 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live
November 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live
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It’s fascinating comparing the front page coverage of the Huntingdon train attack (below) with how the British press treated another case 30 years ago.
I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.
I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.
November 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
It’s fascinating comparing the front page coverage of the Huntingdon train attack (below) with how the British press treated another case 30 years ago.
I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.
I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.
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Perhaps one of the toughest first crops I have seen, it also doesn’t really break my priors explaining why I haven’t visited the area yet
Perhaps one of the toughest first crops I have seen, it also doesn’t really break my priors explaining why I haven’t visited the area yet
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November 4, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Perhaps one of the toughest first crops I have seen, it also doesn’t really break my priors explaining why I haven’t visited the area yet
Perhaps one of the toughest first crops I have seen, it also doesn’t really break my priors explaining why I haven’t visited the area yet
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Say what you like about ‘Sadiq Khan’s no-go hellscape’ – Britain’s cities prove the rightwing agitators wrong | Jonathan Liew
Say what you like about ‘Sadiq Khan’s no-go hellscape’ – Britain’s cities prove the rightwing agitators wrong | Jonathan Liew
To rightwing populists, places of fluidity and freedom will always be the enemy, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Say what you like about ‘Sadiq Khan’s no-go hellscape’ – Britain’s cities prove the rightwing agitators wrong | Jonathan Liew
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This New Yorker documentary about the 1988 UK government ban on broadcasting the voices of Sinn Féin and I.R.A. leaders is pretty good but they show *that clip from The Day Today with no explanation and no indicator that it is satire.
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
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The Ban
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November 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
This New Yorker documentary about the 1988 UK government ban on broadcasting the voices of Sinn Féin and I.R.A. leaders is pretty good but they show *that clip from The Day Today with no explanation and no indicator that it is satire.
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
A film you’ve seen more than seven times with a gif
November 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
A film you’ve seen more than seven times with a gif
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November 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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New for @josimarfootball.bsky.social, by our first-time contributors Nathan Southern and Lindsey Kennedy, a deep dive into Celtic's longtime sponsor Dafabet. This will not be a comfortable read for the fans of the Bhoys.
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Dirty money - josimarfootball.com
Celtic proudly promotes itself as a football club with a social consciousness. For nine years the club’s main sponsor has been a betting company breaking laws, defrauding customers and wrecking lives.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:00 AM
New for @josimarfootball.bsky.social, by our first-time contributors Nathan Southern and Lindsey Kennedy, a deep dive into Celtic's longtime sponsor Dafabet. This will not be a comfortable read for the fans of the Bhoys.
josimarfootball.com/2025/10/29/d...
josimarfootball.com/2025/10/29/d...
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
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[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
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NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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This is absolutely fascinating: you can put your postcode in and see relative levels of deprivation (and the opposite) where you live in detail. I live where I grew up, so I could spend days doing this as I know the town so well. www.ft.com/content/9a1c... Huge congrats to @amyborrett.ft.com et al.
Interactive: explore England’s new deprivation map
Data analysis reveals ‘cheek by jowl’ inequalities in first study of country’s disadvantaged areas since pandemic
www.ft.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:21 AM
This is absolutely fascinating: you can put your postcode in and see relative levels of deprivation (and the opposite) where you live in detail. I live where I grew up, so I could spend days doing this as I know the town so well. www.ft.com/content/9a1c... Huge congrats to @amyborrett.ft.com et al.
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Exit polls in the Netherlands show the far-right defeated by the pro-EU D66 party in today's national election.
Will it bear out?
Will it bear out?
October 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Exit polls in the Netherlands show the far-right defeated by the pro-EU D66 party in today's national election.
Will it bear out?
Will it bear out?
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I'm seeing a lot of discussion about the case of Harry Whittaker, who was convicted yesterday of explosives offences
I haven't covered the case but have been sent information on it from the police and CPS. On that basis, the reasons that coverage did not focus on his far-right ideology are these 🧵
I haven't covered the case but have been sent information on it from the police and CPS. On that basis, the reasons that coverage did not focus on his far-right ideology are these 🧵
October 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I'm seeing a lot of discussion about the case of Harry Whittaker, who was convicted yesterday of explosives offences
I haven't covered the case but have been sent information on it from the police and CPS. On that basis, the reasons that coverage did not focus on his far-right ideology are these 🧵
I haven't covered the case but have been sent information on it from the police and CPS. On that basis, the reasons that coverage did not focus on his far-right ideology are these 🧵
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Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
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Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
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October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
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Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
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41 years ago in the Milan derby:
Mark Hateley scores the most bullet of bullet headers to win it for the Rossoneri.
That’s one hell of a leap, son. Like a salmon on a bouncy castle.
Mark Hateley scores the most bullet of bullet headers to win it for the Rossoneri.
That’s one hell of a leap, son. Like a salmon on a bouncy castle.
October 28, 2025 at 7:12 AM
41 years ago in the Milan derby:
Mark Hateley scores the most bullet of bullet headers to win it for the Rossoneri.
That’s one hell of a leap, son. Like a salmon on a bouncy castle.
Mark Hateley scores the most bullet of bullet headers to win it for the Rossoneri.
That’s one hell of a leap, son. Like a salmon on a bouncy castle.
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Remember to vote in National Trust elections!
One vital reason to vote in the National Trust elections and for the NT endorsed candidates. We can't risk the Restore Trust candidates getting any influence on it.
October 25, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Remember to vote in National Trust elections!
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I wrote for @theipaper.com about the Caerphilly by election and why Reform is no longer Starmer's only problem
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October 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I wrote for @theipaper.com about the Caerphilly by election and why Reform is no longer Starmer's only problem
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