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Lucy Furlong
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writing ~ mapping ~ walking ~ snapping
clew~ (Hesterglock Press) Villiers Path, Sward, Amniotic City 2nd ed. (Sampson Low)
Setting Sundays lucyfurlong.substack.com
Amniotic City film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E25IOgfD4Q
www.lucyfurlong.com
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Thanks so much for following me! I'm not here much but will catch up with you eventually... 🙏
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In just over two months:

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This is only the beginning.

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November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Well, would you look at that.

My memory may be faulty, but I thought I remembered people being threatened with legal action for suggesting that UKIP MEPs were Russia and Putin’s stooges.

www.bbc.com/news/live/c8...
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes
The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Don't give it away
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The Friday Choon RIP Mani - first time I saw this video was on MTV - I was in Von's recording studio in Islington, 1989. Quite a year. #musicsky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSD1...
The Stone Roses - Fools Gold (Official Video)
YouTube video by StoneRosesVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Morning all. Back to the storage to empty it. Hoping to get my mountain bike put back together later so I can get cycling (been a few years since I've been on it!)
a girl in a school uniform is riding a bike through a forest
Alt: a girl in a school uniform is riding a bike through a forest
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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New #EpsteinFiles @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation: how Steve Bannon’s planned “European revolution” ran through Nigel Farage’s network – with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein quietly helping in the background. 🧵 1/12
Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein
Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
bylinetimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Morning all, back again today - shifting stuff in and out of storage - one day I will be settled but not yet...
My life in storage...
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
My life in storage...
November 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Fifteen years of ideological choices to strangle & gut the public realm - NHS to schools to social services to local museums - is what underlies the anger "tearing our country apart"; immigration is simply the scapegoat that the far right are pushing people toward.
Why can't Labour just say this?
November 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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November 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I was lucky enough to see her sing this at a solo gig at Koko a few years back. Magic.
November 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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When you behave as if the current UK asylum & refugee situation is normal or unavoidable, you are completely failing to understand that the Tory party literally made it happen, on purpose. Not just in the broad sense of Brexiting us, but in actually breaking the existing asylum process.
Remember, always, that the post-Brexit-vote Tory government, and specifically Home Secretary Sajid Javid, deliberately and with malice aforethought reduced to almost zero the timely processing of asylum claims in the UK. They literally created the "overwhelming backlog" that traps people in hotels.
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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There was no, repeat NO, rise in actual applications in that period. Just the strangulation of the process. By the Tory government. For kicks.

2016 Q4 - 7442 applications
2018 Q2 - 6608 applications
2018 Q4 - 8659 applications

2016, applications in system - 21,000
2019, ditto - 40,000
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November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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In 2014, 87% of asylum claims were processed within 6 months.

At the start of 2017, that figure was still 70%.

By late 2018 it was 26%.

Smoking. Gun.

migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
November 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Remember, always, that the post-Brexit-vote Tory government, and specifically Home Secretary Sajid Javid, deliberately and with malice aforethought reduced to almost zero the timely processing of asylum claims in the UK. They literally created the "overwhelming backlog" that traps people in hotels.
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Feeling this today, from @brianbilston.bsky.social , as I bag up clothes for charity shops (no time for Vinted which seems to be all the rage these days) and re-sort out and box up stuff to go back into storage. #poetrysky
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Wonderful labyrinth walk on Sat afternoon. I spent the afternoon in a beautiful chapel in Hampstead, with stained glass by Burne Jones & William Morris. A quick snap, taken at the end of the afternoon. Needed this -I’m now entering more legal processes to keep my son in his school next year.
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Instead, we have the most grotesque details of the punishment approach. Forcing people fleeing a war zone into administrative limbo for two decades is obscene. It is the opposite of what you would do if you gave a damn about integration, or the dignity of refugees.
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Wonderful labyrinth walk on Sat afternoon. I spent the afternoon in a beautiful chapel in Hampstead, with stained glass by Burne Jones & William Morris. A quick snap, taken at the end of the afternoon. Needed this -I’m now entering more legal processes to keep my son in his school next year.
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Kelly Lee Owens - Let It Go
YouTube video by Smalltown Supersound
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM