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Roger Holdstock
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The Enigmatic Punk Rocker.
Apanthropist.
Always crashing in the same car.
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UK and Norway won nature's lottery in 1970 - found oil/gas in the North Sea.

UK squandered wealth, appeased corporations.

Norway levied 78% tax, took direct stake in companies.

Norway now has $1.8 trillion sovereign fund. UK has public finance crisis.

UK Govts still appeasing corporations/rich.
How sparsely populated Norway amassed $1.8 trillion | Fortune Europe
Launched in the early 1990s to invest mostly in bonds, the fund has grown to become the largest of its kind by acquiring small equity stakes in thousands of companies across the world.
fortune.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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One of the finest songs to come out of Luton. Lol Turvey is no longer with us, but one of the things about creatives is that you can live on through your work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiyL...
The Statics - Electric City
YouTube video by oldstockvideo
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November 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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What the Labour Party used to understand was that it wasn’t that immigration was tearing the country apart, but that immigration was what was holding the country together. Immigration kept our NHS going, our transport system going, our education and much more.

It’s still true. They must know it.
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Farage latest:
A politician suffered a horrifying death after being attacked by a marauding troop of monkeys at his home.
Politician's horror death after his home was invaded by huge swarm of monkeys
www.mirror.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Or what Labour voters have to say about these matters.

So if you're not doing it for Reform voters, and you're not doing it for Labour voters ... who the fuck are you doing it for?
Green MP Carla Denyer accuses Shabana Mahmood of trying to "out Reform Reform" and says "toxic racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants" are to blame for "tearing our country apart" not migrants.

Mahmood: "I couldn't care less what any other political party has to say about these matters"
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Sammy Pinnington signs Newcastle United contract as teenage winger hits 17

https://www.eucup.com/1371483/

Sammy Pinnington has signed his first professional contract for Newcastle United. Arriving from Luton Town three years ago, the teenage winger signing this new deal as he turns 17. Sammy …
Sammy Pinnington signs Newcastle United contract as teenage winger hits 17 - European Football - EUCUP.COM
Sammy Pinnington has signed his first professional contract for Newcastle United.
www.eucup.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Shout it loud
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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July 2024 - Labour are elected on the basis of Starmer being a dull but competent PM.

No drama just focused on fixing the basics.

November 2025 - Now the least popular PM ever Starmer announces plans for mass deportations, the seizure of immigrant wealth and the indentured labour of migrants.
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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As much as I love a good deal, I absolutely love this from Union St Gilloise 👏👏
November 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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The brutal truth is Labour and Tories over the last 40 years have basically wrecked the UK and we’ve let them or actively encouraged them.
November 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Labour look far worse than the Tories. At least the awful Tories told us they were evil. Labour lied to all of us. Why would anyone vote for a racist Labour Party? Proper scum
November 16, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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and even the Romans couldn't cope with it and it was just left as a blank spot on all their maps of Londinium. HM Revenue And Customs also only has a few sentences from the Domesday Book of the 11th century when dealing with all statistical questions involving Luton.
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Farage/Robinson et al are incredibly quiet about the continuing scandals of abuse in churches and schools. Almost as if the victims don't matter to them. Wonder why? 🤔
November 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Sadly Farage’s supporters will never see this
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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AI-generated nazi and racist songs are "flooding" Spotify.

There are many alternatives to Spotify, which offer just as much choice (in better audio quality) and reward musicians more fairly. Buying physical albums and CDs? Even better.

Staying on Spotify is no different to staying on X.
November 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Of all the people I'd have on a list to be plotting against Kier Starmer, I would never have put the moral-free vacuum in human form that is Wes Streeting on it.
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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OTD 120 years ago (11/11/1905) the United League game between Luton Town and #CPFC was abandoned after 85 minutes due to bad light.

Palace led 1:0 (Watkins) and it was the first of 16 Palace games (to date) to be abandoned.

Palace won the replayed game 2:1 (Needham, Thompson G) 100 days later.
November 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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‘We never had much fun – we were angry’: Eve Libertine on life with anarcho-punk pioneers Crass
‘We never had much fun – we were angry’: Eve Libertine on life with anarcho-punk pioneers Crass
Accused of obscenity and sued by police and Tory MPs, Libertine outraged the establishment as part of Crass. Now she’s back – and she hasn’t mellowed with age
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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The Statics and The Friction:
November 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
So, last night at the Hat Factory. Forgive my language (and also that I missed Stockport (a).

FUCKING MAGNIFICENT.

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November 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
UK Decay - Shattered
YouTube video by oldstockvideo
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November 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Yes Luton are scum. With you on Everton and Sunderland.
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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X is designed to radicalise people.

The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.

Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM