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David L. Welsh Borders. Music. Books. Horticulting. Music. Food. Travel. Music. Daftness. Outdoors stuff on foot and bike. More politics than I would like.
Just thought the noise of a plane was my stomach grumbling
October 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Reform UK in the dock ⚖

9th October Andy Osborn.
14th October Neil Stevens, Tony Stevens, and Rob Sheridan.
15th October Sarah White.
21st November Nathan Gill.
16th December Mandy Clare.
22nd May 2026 Daniel Taylor.

Under investigation:
Joseph Boam.
Lee Duffy.
George Cottrell.

#ReformInTheDock
October 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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October 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
@ghost-assembly.bsky.social Ghost Assembly does it again. COMPLETE. BANGER. Available now through @bandcamp.com Also the best backstory ever.
October 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Leonard and Hungry Paul is great telly.
October 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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BBC News explain that because of Brexit, Brits will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken when going into the EU, as the UK now is a third country

BBC News forget to explain that the UK helped create these rules when we were part of the EU because we wanted stronger border control
October 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees
October 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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"Siri, show me a real life example of the idea of 'the survival of the fittest'."
A text from my mum. The general population appear to be losing their minds
October 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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A text from my mum. The general population appear to be losing their minds
October 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Pretty weird that these Republicans don’t seem to think there will be any voter backlash to stuff like this.

Almost like they don’t think they’ll actually face democratic accountability mechanisms.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, part of an overhaul that could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits.
Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans
Trump administration officials are considering eliminating age as a factor in deciding whether someone is capable of working.
wapo.st
October 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
#Sundayafternoonlistening Works on many levels. Sofa and dance floor. Today: sofa.
October 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
All of them impeccable. Both albums and Thompson's contributions.
Four albums that Danny Thompson left an indelible mark on.
September 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
September 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Happy 35th birthday to Cocteau Twins' 'Heaven Or Las Vegas', released #OnThisDay in 1990.

A dreampop masterpiece that sounds as magical and wondrous as the album cover looks.

#MusicSky #OTD
September 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Happy 43rd Birthday to Simple Minds' 'New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84), released #OnThisDay in 1982.

The perfect midpoint between the band's polar opposite bookends, Jim Kerr described New Gold Dream as the band's holy grail, and it shines through on every single listen.

#MusicSky #VinylSky #OTD
September 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Fuck yeah #Andor — this Dan Gilroy script just won the #Emmy for Outstanding Writing
“Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil…”

#Andor
September 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
youtu.be/MG_npaLydKg?... Great new Gotillaz feat. Sparks
Gorillaz - The Happy Dictator ft. Sparks (Official Visualiser)
YouTube video by Gorillaz
youtu.be
September 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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I snorted
August 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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UK PEOPLE: If you start watching Threads at 2.12pm, the bomb will go off at the same time as the Emergency Text alert.
September 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists
'Anywhere But Here': How Britain's Anti-Migrant Media Consensus Is Crowding Out the Truth
Britain's longstanding traditions of tolerance and compassion are being suppressed in favour of a media-driven campaign of anti-migrant hate
www.adambienkov.co.uk
August 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
80s/90s style spoken sample based records (Mark Stewart/No Sell Out etc) a thing of the past ? Not any more
youtu.be/g1A-aGf-31w?...
Cuban Boys with the Voice Of Tony Wilson - Praxis Makes Perfect
YouTube video by SPRAY
youtu.be
August 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM