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Simon McCorry
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Part Indian part British producer & “cellist sound-sculptor of ambiguous environments”

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Have a few CDs of ‘wellspring’ collab with @polarseas.bsky.social

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wellspring, by Simon McCorry, anthéne
8 track album
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November 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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ICE-style raids on Britain's streets: that's all Labour's brutal asylum reforms will achieve | Stella Creasy
If we want to ‘stop the boats’, we need to stop the BS when it comes to what creates refugees, and how to respond to them, says Labour MP Stella Creasy
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November 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Final checks and prep being done for tonight's #MixedFeelings... Nestled among some other chilled bangers will be @faexoptim.bsky.social, @gribbles.co.uk, @simonmccorry.bsky.social, @seismictc.bsky.social, @karenvogtmusic.bsky.social, @invesvpo.bsky.social & more. Catch you at 10pm? xx
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⚠️ 1.5 hours to go for this months edition of #MIXEDFEELINGS with KATY JAY - some gremlins in the network today as none of our posts have gone out this afternoon. Urgh, Mondays! Anyway - join Katy at 10pm UK/IRL TONIGHT for 2hrs of chilled music curated from the heart, blended in a mixtape style.

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November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
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November 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse deprived of natural light since January, and teenager held for nine months
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November 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Where is the Gaza ‘peace process’ really going? | Ahmad Ibsais
Israel turns the violence up and down at will, maintaining full dominion over Gaza and the West Bank, then calls each pause a generous ‘ceasefire’
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November 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu
For years, I pressed Palestinian interests in peace talks. The response to Trump’s plan proves the international community hasn’t learned from catastrophe
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October 6, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew
The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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September 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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“Then watch Starmer in action, and ask yourself: does he understand what’s at stake here?”

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Angela Rayner’s exit proves it. Unless Starmer is able to meet this moment, Reform is on the path to power | John Harris
The prime minister increasingly looks like a man next to a burning house, offering to buy a new bookcase and rug, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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September 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I thought I was growing up in a racially tolerant Britain. I now realise I was wrong | Rohan Sathyamoorthy
I’ve experienced more racism in the past year than the rest of my life put together – the only answer is for young people to stand up to the far right, says writer Rohan Sathyamoorthy
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September 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Ben Jennings on Wes Streeting and free speech – cartoon
The health secretary has weighed in on the row surrounding the arrest of Father Ted creator Graham Linehan
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September 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Israeli military database indicates only a quarter of Gaza detainees are fighters
Elderly woman with Alzheimer’s, medical workers and children among 6,000 Palestinians held
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September 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Palestine Action lawyers accuse Yvette Cooper of ‘cynical media campaign’
Exclusive: Home secretary ‘breaching duty to court’ by making claims about reason for group’s ban that she has not disclosed in legal case
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August 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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US groups demand release of American-Palestinian teen imprisoned by Israel
More than 100 organizations advocate for freedom of 16-year-old dual citizen detained for more than six months
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August 27, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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“They are not swearing, they are not aggressive. These people are so exhausted and so traumatised yet somehow they keep themselves so calm. I think they’re the most controlled people I’ve ever met.”

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‘People sleeping while walking’: inside Manston asylum centre in Kent
Six staff members speak of new arrivals’ exhaustion and ill-health and colleagues’ indifference to their plight
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August 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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An Anti-Genocide Protester in a British Jail
Political prisoner Aleks Herbich — one of the ‘Filton 24’ accused of sabotaging an Israeli arms factory — describes the vile conditions the prisoners suffer in, and how belonging to such a mass moveme...
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August 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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My life in Gaza: ‘Do you know the series Squid Game?’
From a desperate attempt to get aid to an expulsion order and the death of Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif – Karim recounts nine days in Gaza
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August 23, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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A break from touring as Head of Sound for Ghost Stories. I've been on an island in the west coast of Sweden for the last 10 days. Fitting in a little creative time with an old harmonium & some field recording. A few new tracks up for subscribers on BC page

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Island Song 03 (Gullhomen), by Simon McCorry
track by Simon McCorry
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August 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza
It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter
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August 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Western journalists are failing to stand up for their colleagues in Gaza | Mohamad Bazzi
This hypocrisy of western media has been laid bare by Israel’s targeting of journalists since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack
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August 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Targeted by the right, Britain’s asylum hotels are places of fear and disorder. Bad political decisions made it so | Daniel Trilling
In the frenzy of racism and culture warring, the issue of why hotels are used gets overlooked, says author Daniel Trilling
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August 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Police warn of mass arrests if Palestine Action protest goes ahead
Hundreds could join weekend rally in support of proscribed group as 300 UK Jewish figures urge PM to lift ban
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August 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Palestine Action ban coupled with Online Safety Act ‘a threat to public debate’
Rights bodies say new law and proscription of direct action group create risk of censorship of Gaza-related content
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August 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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The Quiet Revolution: Why 'Your Party' Are Storming In At 500,000 And Counting - Labour Heartlands
The quiet revolution begins not with electoral victory but with 500,000 people saying "enough" to a system that treats them as expendable. Whether it
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July 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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I missed these few words from @theslowmusicmovement.org from a year ago last July about my collaboration with my friend Wodwo - Every Creeping Thing - still one of my favourites collaborations - released April ‘24 on Whitelabrecs

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Wodwo & Simon McCorry - Every Creeping Thing (Whitelabrecs / Close) + Notable Singles
"it's a slowly fermented project, giving the complex folkloric, modern classical & questing ambient electronic flavours time to deepen & round"
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July 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM