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Interests: music, film, comedy, leftwing politics, F1, looking after a child. Free Palestine.
@spannersready.bsky.social Thanks for the listening!
December 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
@spannersready.bsky.social Thanks for the listening!
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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I spoke to two dozen BBC journalists, from frontline reporters to senior staff, about how the BBC came to symbolise the West's failure to prevent genocide in Gaza - and how the row over its coverage fed directly into its current meltdown.
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
www.equator.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I spoke to two dozen BBC journalists, from frontline reporters to senior staff, about how the BBC came to symbolise the West's failure to prevent genocide in Gaza - and how the row over its coverage fed directly into its current meltdown.
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
November 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
October 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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October 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Happy #LetterboxdFriday Here are my #LastFourWatched
September 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Happy #LetterboxdFriday Here are my #LastFourWatched
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Among those killed in Israeli air strikes last night:
174 children
89 women
32 elderly
174 children
89 women
32 elderly
March 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Among those killed in Israeli air strikes last night:
174 children
89 women
32 elderly
174 children
89 women
32 elderly
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Here for Welsh music today – my big piece about the longevity and legacy of @sainrecordiau.bsky.social is in
@guardianmusic today. Diolch yn fawr iawn to Kev Tame, Don Leisure, Dafydd Iwan and everyone at HQ x @huwstephensdj.bsky.social - you might like this. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
@guardianmusic today. Diolch yn fawr iawn to Kev Tame, Don Leisure, Dafydd Iwan and everyone at HQ x @huwstephensdj.bsky.social - you might like this. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
‘Together in creativity for peace!’ Sain, the indie label pushing Welsh music forward for 56 years
It’s gone from a cowshed to a cultural institution. As its 3,000-album archive gets digitised, different generations explain how Sain deepened Welsh identity
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Here for Welsh music today – my big piece about the longevity and legacy of @sainrecordiau.bsky.social is in
@guardianmusic today. Diolch yn fawr iawn to Kev Tame, Don Leisure, Dafydd Iwan and everyone at HQ x @huwstephensdj.bsky.social - you might like this. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
@guardianmusic today. Diolch yn fawr iawn to Kev Tame, Don Leisure, Dafydd Iwan and everyone at HQ x @huwstephensdj.bsky.social - you might like this. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
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Labour is dismantling regulatory protections for consumers and the environment with far greater vigour than the last Government. If you attacked the Tories for doing it why are you biting your tongue now?
January 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Labour is dismantling regulatory protections for consumers and the environment with far greater vigour than the last Government. If you attacked the Tories for doing it why are you biting your tongue now?
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How much will this cost the treasury? Shame on this govt for taking away pensioners' winter fuel payments while giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires - totally skewed priorities
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Rachel Reeves to relax non-dom tax rule amid millionaire exodus
Budget measures to be changed as almost 11,000 of Britain’s wealthiest people have left the country
www.thetimes.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
How much will this cost the treasury? Shame on this govt for taking away pensioners' winter fuel payments while giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires - totally skewed priorities
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
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Sophie Smith's piece in the LRB on the rape trial, and on men in general, is chillingly, vividly brilliant. Via @helenbarrett.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial
Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 19, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Sophie Smith's piece in the LRB on the rape trial, and on men in general, is chillingly, vividly brilliant. Via @helenbarrett.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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We are headed for 3 degrees of warming & it's going to be very, very bad.
www.breakthroughonline.org.au/collisioncou...
www.breakthroughonline.org.au/collisioncou...
COLLISION COURSE | Breakthrough
We’re on track for a 3°C hotter world—unprecedented heat, rising seas drowning cities, food system collapse, and societal instability. This future is fast approaching, with catastrophic risks beyond a...
www.breakthroughonline.org.au
December 3, 2024 at 8:01 PM
We are headed for 3 degrees of warming & it's going to be very, very bad.
www.breakthroughonline.org.au/collisioncou...
www.breakthroughonline.org.au/collisioncou...