Roy Kelly
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Beats.Beatles.Bob.Brautigan.Bloxwich. Sixties.Writer.Poet. Drugstore Fiction, Bob Dylan Dream. Clouds.The cats. The tortoise. Frayn.Stoppard.
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Truly stomach churning. What's esp disturbing is that this is completely normalized all over the west. Our govts and our press insist, that Israelis are 'civilized' and 'moral', while their victims, Palestinians are barely considered human. Their endless mass slaughter is reported as a 'ceasefire'
53.8% of Israelis surveyed agree that Palestinian citizens should be used as human shields by the IDF.
So there's that.
So there's that.
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Truly stomach churning. What's esp disturbing is that this is completely normalized all over the west. Our govts and our press insist, that Israelis are 'civilized' and 'moral', while their victims, Palestinians are barely considered human. Their endless mass slaughter is reported as a 'ceasefire'
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Gibb; “ I had no editorial role whatsoever at the Jewish Chronicle”. Lee Harpin, reporter at the paper; “RG made a habit of calling into the office on print days to check up on what stories were topping the news list, and offering a view’”
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Gibb; “ I had no editorial role whatsoever at the Jewish Chronicle”. Lee Harpin, reporter at the paper; “RG made a habit of calling into the office on print days to check up on what stories were topping the news list, and offering a view’”
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Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
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archive.ph/RlXPj
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PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
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November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
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BBC board member Robbie Gibb, whose previous jobs have included being Conservative communications director to Theresa May, and helping to set up GB News, tells MPs that he is "hugely impartial"
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
BBC board member Robbie Gibb, whose previous jobs have included being Conservative communications director to Theresa May, and helping to set up GB News, tells MPs that he is "hugely impartial"
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this is abhorrent
At least 160,000 people have been granted refugee status over the past five years. It now seems they are intended to be caught by the Government’s plans to make refugees wait up to 20 years for settlement - even for those just months away from ILR
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www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
this is abhorrent
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What's happened to council tax over the last 30 years? Has it really doubled?
Yes. Here's how, and here's why: buff.ly/7HSGJij
Yes. Here's how, and here's why: buff.ly/7HSGJij
Has council tax really gone up? The evidence.
We strip out inflation to show how UK council tax has changed in real terms, and explain how funding cuts and social care drove the rise.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
What's happened to council tax over the last 30 years? Has it really doubled?
Yes. Here's how, and here's why: buff.ly/7HSGJij
Yes. Here's how, and here's why: buff.ly/7HSGJij
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Morning. It's now late November so we all have to watch this amazing clip of Sandy Denny. It's the law.
Morning. It's now late November so we all have to watch this amazing clip of Sandy Denny. It's the law.
Sandy Denny - Late November
YouTube video by Sandy Denny
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November 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Morning. It's now late November so we all have to watch this amazing clip of Sandy Denny. It's the law.
Morning. It's now late November so we all have to watch this amazing clip of Sandy Denny. It's the law.
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My favorite Sunday jazz album. I like to imagine sitting on a Sunday morning in an apartment on Nob Hill in 1958, with a cup of coffee and the Chronicle pink section, looking out over the Bay. And this is the soundtrack for that fantasy. (And hey—it's on Fantasy! And on red vinyl!)
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
My favorite Sunday jazz album. I like to imagine sitting on a Sunday morning in an apartment on Nob Hill in 1958, with a cup of coffee and the Chronicle pink section, looking out over the Bay. And this is the soundtrack for that fantasy. (And hey—it's on Fantasy! And on red vinyl!)
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Just saw the list of gritter names for this year and they have outdone themselves
These always make me smile
These always make me smile
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Just saw the list of gritter names for this year and they have outdone themselves
These always make me smile
These always make me smile
The kind of review that’s impressive in its way but also absolutely exhausting to get through.
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Clouds of Blood and Hazelnut Chariots: Bob Dylan Dismantles His Own Tomb
Fragments: The Time Out of Mind Sessions - Bootleg Series 17 (A Review That Never Happened)
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November 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The kind of review that’s impressive in its way but also absolutely exhausting to get through.
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Sunday, sweet Sunday, with nothing to do.
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Sunday, sweet Sunday, with nothing to do.
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Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
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I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
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going through hell, keeping going
on art, grief, and the emotional heroism of just bloody keeping on making your work
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November 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
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The economy has not been pretty since you've been in charge", Laura Kuennsberg tells Heidi Alexander.
So was it a bed of roses before that then?
So was it a bed of roses before that then?
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The economy has not been pretty since you've been in charge", Laura Kuennsberg tells Heidi Alexander.
So was it a bed of roses before that then?
So was it a bed of roses before that then?
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It’s way past time that qualifying nations refused to attend the World Cup. This is just yet another reason. None will though.
President Donald Trump's administration will not permit supporters from Haiti to enter the United States next summer after the nation qualified for the World Cup.
Donald Trump tells one nation's fans to stay away from World Cup in America
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November 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
It’s way past time that qualifying nations refused to attend the World Cup. This is just yet another reason. None will though.
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
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My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
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I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
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November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Girl, you gotta love your man
Girl, you gotta love your man
Take him by the hand
Make him understand
The world on you depends
Our life will never end
Gotta love your man, yeah
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm …”
Girl, you gotta love your man
Take him by the hand
Make him understand
The world on you depends
Our life will never end
Gotta love your man, yeah
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm …”
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Girl, you gotta love your man
Girl, you gotta love your man
Take him by the hand
Make him understand
The world on you depends
Our life will never end
Gotta love your man, yeah
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm …”
Girl, you gotta love your man
Take him by the hand
Make him understand
The world on you depends
Our life will never end
Gotta love your man, yeah
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm …”
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It's infuriating to see so much of the media give Kruger the same kid gloves treatment that Rees-Mogg used to get because he is posh and polite and able to wrap his bigotry in enough intellectual tissue paper to make it seem like a political philosophy rather than an expression of white supremacy.
Reform are so dangerous and this headline doesn’t do it justice. I also think a piece like this should start with the politician‘s core views just to emphasise the urgency.
November 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It's infuriating to see so much of the media give Kruger the same kid gloves treatment that Rees-Mogg used to get because he is posh and polite and able to wrap his bigotry in enough intellectual tissue paper to make it seem like a political philosophy rather than an expression of white supremacy.
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On the plus side, Nick Clegg's house in California looked terrific.
Meta was aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on its sites; that its products exacerbated mental health issues in teens; and that content related to eating disorders, suicide, and child sexual abuse was frequently detected, yet rarely removed.
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7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
On the plus side, Nick Clegg's house in California looked terrific.
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I also write about how little the floods have been covered in national newspapers, and how appalled I am that the Prime Minister has said nothing to the people of Monmouthshire directly. Please read and share. www.thenerve.news/p/storm-clau...
Storm Claudia puts Wales under water – why did these record-breaking floods barely make the news?
On the frontline of a deluge on the Welsh borders, Jude Rogers heard local stories of devastation and heroism – but incredibly the disaster was hardly referred to in Westminster and the national press
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November 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I also write about how little the floods have been covered in national newspapers, and how appalled I am that the Prime Minister has said nothing to the people of Monmouthshire directly. Please read and share. www.thenerve.news/p/storm-clau...
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So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this
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For Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, making ‘Hamnet’ was ‘something bigger than the moon’
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For Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, making 'Hamnet' was 'something bigger than the moon'
Their film wrecks audiences with its exploration of romantic intimacy, grief and the inner lives of artists. Working with director Chloé Zhao — and each other — changed them forever.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
For Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, making ‘Hamnet’ was ‘something bigger than the moon’
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Something about The Bob Dylan Center for people who do and don’t spell it that way.
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Interview: Bob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins • Americana Highways
We interviewed Bob Dylan Center director Steven Jenkins about their exhibits and more. Enjoy our quality music reviews and coverage.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Something about The Bob Dylan Center for people who do and don’t spell it that way.
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