Benedict Edwards
@edsbenedict.bsky.social
my idols are dead and my enemies are in power
I’m begging whoever made the decision to use AI for subtitling on #primevideo, please reconsider. #thelonggoodfriday deserves better than this nonsense.
And if you need an esteemed east end scholar with a proven track record to translate our old cockney tongue, I am available for commissions.
And if you need an esteemed east end scholar with a proven track record to translate our old cockney tongue, I am available for commissions.
August 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I’m begging whoever made the decision to use AI for subtitling on #primevideo, please reconsider. #thelonggoodfriday deserves better than this nonsense.
And if you need an esteemed east end scholar with a proven track record to translate our old cockney tongue, I am available for commissions.
And if you need an esteemed east end scholar with a proven track record to translate our old cockney tongue, I am available for commissions.
I'm completely on the side of the Palestinian people right up to the point where you feel it necessary to throw Jewish people under the bus as well.
I've loved Bob Vylan for years but Death To The IDF and From The River To The Sea are both antisemitic statements, and he shouldn't have said them.
I've loved Bob Vylan for years but Death To The IDF and From The River To The Sea are both antisemitic statements, and he shouldn't have said them.
August 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I'm completely on the side of the Palestinian people right up to the point where you feel it necessary to throw Jewish people under the bus as well.
I've loved Bob Vylan for years but Death To The IDF and From The River To The Sea are both antisemitic statements, and he shouldn't have said them.
I've loved Bob Vylan for years but Death To The IDF and From The River To The Sea are both antisemitic statements, and he shouldn't have said them.
Don’t you ever send me a laughing face emoji in a notification ever again iPlayer, you son of a bitch.
July 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Don’t you ever send me a laughing face emoji in a notification ever again iPlayer, you son of a bitch.
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Judgement Day for the EHRC: How the equality watchdog turned into a toxic culture war campaign group
iandunt.substack.com/p/judgement-...
iandunt.substack.com/p/judgement-...
Judgement Day for the EHRC
How the equality watchdog turned into a culture war campaign group
iandunt.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Judgement Day for the EHRC: How the equality watchdog turned into a toxic culture war campaign group
iandunt.substack.com/p/judgement-...
iandunt.substack.com/p/judgement-...
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Social media creating two media universes: one in which you drive yourself into, at best, a lowkey depression being continually served videos of atrocities, one in which you are so under-informed that you vote for someone pledging to deport 20mn people and then go 'wait, he wants to deport people?'
Latinas For Trump co-founder rips Trump’s immigration policies as “unacceptable and “inhumane”
“This is not what we voted for”
“This is not what we voted for”
Latinas For Trump Co-Founder Rips Trump Immigration Policies As ‘Unacceptable And Inhumane’
“This is not what we voted for," said Florida state Sen. Ileana Garcia (R), while accusing Trump of undermining “the sense of fairness and justice.”
www.huffpost.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Social media creating two media universes: one in which you drive yourself into, at best, a lowkey depression being continually served videos of atrocities, one in which you are so under-informed that you vote for someone pledging to deport 20mn people and then go 'wait, he wants to deport people?'
Live feed of me watching the Trump Musk row unfold in real time
June 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Live feed of me watching the Trump Musk row unfold in real time
I THOUGHT THE #FINANCIALTIMES WERE SUPPOSED TO BE THE SENSIBLE ONES
June 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I THOUGHT THE #FINANCIALTIMES WERE SUPPOSED TO BE THE SENSIBLE ONES
Vodafone³ was right there lads
June 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Vodafone³ was right there lads
I watched #3Women by #RobertAltman yesterday. What a weird fever dream of a film - the cinematic equivalent of My Bloody Valentine or something.
Would be amazed if it weren't a huge influence on A Cure For Wellness - spa setting, something deeply wrong with the town, archetypes arising. V cool.
Would be amazed if it weren't a huge influence on A Cure For Wellness - spa setting, something deeply wrong with the town, archetypes arising. V cool.
June 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I watched #3Women by #RobertAltman yesterday. What a weird fever dream of a film - the cinematic equivalent of My Bloody Valentine or something.
Would be amazed if it weren't a huge influence on A Cure For Wellness - spa setting, something deeply wrong with the town, archetypes arising. V cool.
Would be amazed if it weren't a huge influence on A Cure For Wellness - spa setting, something deeply wrong with the town, archetypes arising. V cool.
Big up to the geezer on the hottest day of the year, on the tube, rocking a Canada goose and a pair of flip flops
April 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Big up to the geezer on the hottest day of the year, on the tube, rocking a Canada goose and a pair of flip flops
Just a quick reminder that Joanna Cherry and Fair Play for Women both defended this woman.
Imagine for just a single second if a trans person had carried out these horrific crimes while leading a child protection charity. Just for a second.
www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...
Imagine for just a single second if a trans person had carried out these horrific crimes while leading a child protection charity. Just for a second.
www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...
West Lothian woman carried out shocking campaign of abuse against four children
Nicola Murray sexually assaulted two victims by forcing her tongue into their mouths and freely talked about her sex life to another child including describing the size of her lover’s penis
www.edinburghlive.co.uk
April 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Just a quick reminder that Joanna Cherry and Fair Play for Women both defended this woman.
Imagine for just a single second if a trans person had carried out these horrific crimes while leading a child protection charity. Just for a second.
www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...
Imagine for just a single second if a trans person had carried out these horrific crimes while leading a child protection charity. Just for a second.
www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...
Judge Hodge: I caution you not to see this as a victory
Nick Robinson: Is this a victory?
Baroness Falkner: Yes
(#r4today this morning.)
I'm horrified by the rights trans people are losing at the behest of the obviously partisan EHRC lead.
A huge amount to process.
Nick Robinson: Is this a victory?
Baroness Falkner: Yes
(#r4today this morning.)
I'm horrified by the rights trans people are losing at the behest of the obviously partisan EHRC lead.
A huge amount to process.
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Judge Hodge: I caution you not to see this as a victory
Nick Robinson: Is this a victory?
Baroness Falkner: Yes
(#r4today this morning.)
I'm horrified by the rights trans people are losing at the behest of the obviously partisan EHRC lead.
A huge amount to process.
Nick Robinson: Is this a victory?
Baroness Falkner: Yes
(#r4today this morning.)
I'm horrified by the rights trans people are losing at the behest of the obviously partisan EHRC lead.
A huge amount to process.
What harm are asexual people doing by having their own day of awareness, and why does JK Rowling feel the need to gun for them?
If you're taken in by Rowling's views on 'women's rights', what group of people could possibly be LESS of a risk to women than asexuals?
If you're taken in by Rowling's views on 'women's rights', what group of people could possibly be LESS of a risk to women than asexuals?
April 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
What harm are asexual people doing by having their own day of awareness, and why does JK Rowling feel the need to gun for them?
If you're taken in by Rowling's views on 'women's rights', what group of people could possibly be LESS of a risk to women than asexuals?
If you're taken in by Rowling's views on 'women's rights', what group of people could possibly be LESS of a risk to women than asexuals?
Cost of living forces Londoners to seek ever cheaper sources of protein
April 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Cost of living forces Londoners to seek ever cheaper sources of protein
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Let’s not have the apocryphal memories of goldfish earn looking at Reeves spring statement
In 2010, Gordon Brown left a public sector net debt was approximately 60% of UK GDP.
Rishi Sunak bequeathed a figure had risen to nearly %100 of GDP
This stuff matters
In 2010, Gordon Brown left a public sector net debt was approximately 60% of UK GDP.
Rishi Sunak bequeathed a figure had risen to nearly %100 of GDP
This stuff matters
March 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Let’s not have the apocryphal memories of goldfish earn looking at Reeves spring statement
In 2010, Gordon Brown left a public sector net debt was approximately 60% of UK GDP.
Rishi Sunak bequeathed a figure had risen to nearly %100 of GDP
This stuff matters
In 2010, Gordon Brown left a public sector net debt was approximately 60% of UK GDP.
Rishi Sunak bequeathed a figure had risen to nearly %100 of GDP
This stuff matters
I seem to have annoyed an awful lot of people who can't tell the difference between economic and social policy, and who think brigading is the same thing as having a decent argument. It's like the Twitter wars all over again.
Starmer's Labour is objectively the most economically left wing government we have had since the 70s.
There are two ways to look at that - one is to say 'it isn't far enough', and the other is to say 'it's better than what we've had up until now'. I'm of the latter camp.
It's that or Tories next.
There are two ways to look at that - one is to say 'it isn't far enough', and the other is to say 'it's better than what we've had up until now'. I'm of the latter camp.
It's that or Tories next.
March 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I seem to have annoyed an awful lot of people who can't tell the difference between economic and social policy, and who think brigading is the same thing as having a decent argument. It's like the Twitter wars all over again.
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Olympic boxing gender row a result of Russian fake news, says IOC chief www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
Olympic boxing gender row a result of Russian fake news, says IOC chief
A gender row involving two female boxers at the Paris 2024 Games was the result of ‘a fake news campaign coming from Russia’, said Thomas Bach
www.theguardian.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Olympic boxing gender row a result of Russian fake news, says IOC chief www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
morning @combatstress.bsky.social - hope you're good
I'm trying to donate and getting the below CloudFront error - are you receiving donations OK from elsewhere?
I'm trying to donate and getting the below CloudFront error - are you receiving donations OK from elsewhere?
March 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
morning @combatstress.bsky.social - hope you're good
I'm trying to donate and getting the below CloudFront error - are you receiving donations OK from elsewhere?
I'm trying to donate and getting the below CloudFront error - are you receiving donations OK from elsewhere?
If you fancy donating to @combatstress.bsky.social through Bandcamp it's your lucky week.
Everything I get this week will go straight to them on the 1st March. It's four of Kipling's darkest Barrack Room Ballads and I'm very proud of it.
benedictedwards.bandcamp.com/album/barrac...
Everything I get this week will go straight to them on the 1st March. It's four of Kipling's darkest Barrack Room Ballads and I'm very proud of it.
benedictedwards.bandcamp.com/album/barrac...
Barrack Room Ballads II, by Benedict Edwards
4 track album
benedictedwards.bandcamp.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If you fancy donating to @combatstress.bsky.social through Bandcamp it's your lucky week.
Everything I get this week will go straight to them on the 1st March. It's four of Kipling's darkest Barrack Room Ballads and I'm very proud of it.
benedictedwards.bandcamp.com/album/barrac...
Everything I get this week will go straight to them on the 1st March. It's four of Kipling's darkest Barrack Room Ballads and I'm very proud of it.
benedictedwards.bandcamp.com/album/barrac...
Cleared out my 'following' list of those who weren't following back. Did it while slightly distracted so if you were unfollowed accidentally please shout and I'll rectify.
February 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Cleared out my 'following' list of those who weren't following back. Did it while slightly distracted so if you were unfollowed accidentally please shout and I'll rectify.
Owen Jones says in today's Guardian that it was clear 'from the outset' that Starmer would breeze directly into Number 10.
Here he is in 2021 saying Labour were already done with him.
I like Owen Jones. As a Chav myself I always appreciated the apologia. But this is revisionist nonsense.
Here he is in 2021 saying Labour were already done with him.
I like Owen Jones. As a Chav myself I always appreciated the apologia. But this is revisionist nonsense.
Behind the scenes, Labour MPs are losing faith in Keir Starmer | Owen Jones
Ahead of a crucial byelection, discontent with the Labour leader’s cautious approach is spreading to all wings of the party, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Owen Jones says in today's Guardian that it was clear 'from the outset' that Starmer would breeze directly into Number 10.
Here he is in 2021 saying Labour were already done with him.
I like Owen Jones. As a Chav myself I always appreciated the apologia. But this is revisionist nonsense.
Here he is in 2021 saying Labour were already done with him.
I like Owen Jones. As a Chav myself I always appreciated the apologia. But this is revisionist nonsense.
New #barrackroomballads EP out today from my folksy alterego, #benedictedwards. Soldier ballads by Kipling, set to my melancholy acousticana.
As before, all sales in the first month go to @combatstress.bsky.social , the veterans mental health charity.
benedictedwards.bandcamp.com/album/barrac...
As before, all sales in the first month go to @combatstress.bsky.social , the veterans mental health charity.
benedictedwards.bandcamp.com/album/barrac...
Barrack Room Ballads II, by Benedict Edwards
4 track album
benedictedwards.bandcamp.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
New #barrackroomballads EP out today from my folksy alterego, #benedictedwards. Soldier ballads by Kipling, set to my melancholy acousticana.
As before, all sales in the first month go to @combatstress.bsky.social , the veterans mental health charity.
benedictedwards.bandcamp.com/album/barrac...
As before, all sales in the first month go to @combatstress.bsky.social , the veterans mental health charity.
benedictedwards.bandcamp.com/album/barrac...