Phillip Joseph Williams
@phillipjwilliams.bsky.social
ND; Writer; Father; Husband; he/him; left; remain; @faberacademy alumni and @Arvon fanatic. Thoughts: my own (unless obviously not).
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Byline Times once more doing essential investigative journalism while the mainstream media try to sweep it all under the carpet.
Please read because every time the BBC, Daily Mail etc. give Farage/Reform airtime or column inches, this is what they're really platforming.
Please read because every time the BBC, Daily Mail etc. give Farage/Reform airtime or column inches, this is what they're really platforming.
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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...
bylinetimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Byline Times once more doing essential investigative journalism while the mainstream media try to sweep it all under the carpet.
Please read because every time the BBC, Daily Mail etc. give Farage/Reform airtime or column inches, this is what they're really platforming.
Please read because every time the BBC, Daily Mail etc. give Farage/Reform airtime or column inches, this is what they're really platforming.
One day, we will see Daniel Radcliffe playing RB. Give it a decade.
In this Michael Parkinson interview, Ronnie Barker discussed his love of wordplay.
September 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
One day, we will see Daniel Radcliffe playing RB. Give it a decade.
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dutch late night TV has its take
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“Coming up on BBC News after our coverage of the Charlie Kirk murder and the arrival of 312 asylum seekers by small boat, Russia has invaded Poland”
September 13, 2025 at 9:22 AM
“Coming up on BBC News after our coverage of the Charlie Kirk murder and the arrival of 312 asylum seekers by small boat, Russia has invaded Poland”
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[opposing devastating cuts to welfare]
You can no longer be a Labour MP
[sending birthday messages to convicted paedophile, sex trafficker and "best pal" Jeffrey Epstein then continuing contact after his first conviction]
Well now hold on a second he's said he's sorry jeez
You can no longer be a Labour MP
[sending birthday messages to convicted paedophile, sex trafficker and "best pal" Jeffrey Epstein then continuing contact after his first conviction]
Well now hold on a second he's said he's sorry jeez
September 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
[opposing devastating cuts to welfare]
You can no longer be a Labour MP
[sending birthday messages to convicted paedophile, sex trafficker and "best pal" Jeffrey Epstein then continuing contact after his first conviction]
Well now hold on a second he's said he's sorry jeez
You can no longer be a Labour MP
[sending birthday messages to convicted paedophile, sex trafficker and "best pal" Jeffrey Epstein then continuing contact after his first conviction]
Well now hold on a second he's said he's sorry jeez
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A poetry award should be about talent—not who can afford to enter. That’s why #TheBrokenSpinePoetryAward will be free to enter with a cash prize that actually helps poets. We’re putting in our own money, but we still need donations. 🔗
A Poetry Award That Puts Poets First – And You Can Make It Happen - The Broken Spine
Poets deserve more than empty prestige. They deserve real recognition, real opportunities, and real support. That is why I am launching The Broken Spine
shorturl.at
September 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
A poetry award should be about talent—not who can afford to enter. That’s why #TheBrokenSpinePoetryAward will be free to enter with a cash prize that actually helps poets. We’re putting in our own money, but we still need donations. 🔗
I fear that we are only a matter of weeks away from the unveiling of Bozempic MounJohnson and I really don't think the world is prepared for it. #reform
September 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I fear that we are only a matter of weeks away from the unveiling of Bozempic MounJohnson and I really don't think the world is prepared for it. #reform
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I just miss the simple, old days of Brexit lies, Windrush, Dominic Cummings & ‘Partygate’, Michelle Mone & the PPE contracts scandal, the Greensill scandal, the resignations of Owen Pattison, Neil Parish & Chris Pinscher, the election betting scandal & cash for peerages.
September 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I just miss the simple, old days of Brexit lies, Windrush, Dominic Cummings & ‘Partygate’, Michelle Mone & the PPE contracts scandal, the Greensill scandal, the resignations of Owen Pattison, Neil Parish & Chris Pinscher, the election betting scandal & cash for peerages.
Be Alan, not Karen.
"Is it because I'm a woman?"
No, it's because you're a racist and a wanker.
"Is it because I'm a woman?"
No, it's because you're a racist and a wanker.
August 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Be Alan, not Karen.
"Is it because I'm a woman?"
No, it's because you're a racist and a wanker.
"Is it because I'm a woman?"
No, it's because you're a racist and a wanker.
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The Iraq playbook is back & the media won’t question it.
Iran has no nuclear weapons. Israel — on trial for genocide — does. Iran signed the NPT & allows IAEA inspections. Israel hasn’t — & its leaders face ICC arrest warrants.
Beware of politicians beating the drums of war.
Iran has no nuclear weapons. Israel — on trial for genocide — does. Iran signed the NPT & allows IAEA inspections. Israel hasn’t — & its leaders face ICC arrest warrants.
Beware of politicians beating the drums of war.
June 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Iraq playbook is back & the media won’t question it.
Iran has no nuclear weapons. Israel — on trial for genocide — does. Iran signed the NPT & allows IAEA inspections. Israel hasn’t — & its leaders face ICC arrest warrants.
Beware of politicians beating the drums of war.
Iran has no nuclear weapons. Israel — on trial for genocide — does. Iran signed the NPT & allows IAEA inspections. Israel hasn’t — & its leaders face ICC arrest warrants.
Beware of politicians beating the drums of war.
This is richly deserved. I believe this to be a classic of the future. Alchemy of the word. One if the most engaging books I've read in years. Highly recommend.
Women’s prize for fiction goes to debut novelist Yael van der Wouden’s The Safekeep
Women’s prize for fiction goes to debut novelist Yael van der Wouden’s The Safekeep
Nonfiction award goes to Rachel Clarke’s ‘beautiful and compassionate’ The Story of a Heart, about a lifesaving transplant seen from all sides
Dutch debut novelist Yael van der Wouden has won this year’s Women’s prize for fiction, while British doctor Rachel Clarke took home the nonfiction award.
Van der Wouden’s The Safekeep and Clarke’s The Story of a Heart, which made last year’s Booker and Baillie Gifford prize shortlists respectively, were announced as the winners on Thursday evening, with each author awarded £30,000. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This is richly deserved. I believe this to be a classic of the future. Alchemy of the word. One if the most engaging books I've read in years. Highly recommend.
I have no doubts as to how good I believe this will be. Other book/s* also available, by the same person, if you can't wait.
*At least one, tbh not sure if I've looked for others but again, same.
*At least one, tbh not sure if I've looked for others but again, same.
Heads up folks! UK pre-orders for Keshed available now direct from Ortac Press on the link below. Also available to pre-order from Stones and Blackwells, for overseas pals:
www.waterstones.com/book/keshed/...
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Will be going on bookshop dot org etc soon too.
www.waterstones.com/book/keshed/...
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Will be going on bookshop dot org etc soon too.
May 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I have no doubts as to how good I believe this will be. Other book/s* also available, by the same person, if you can't wait.
*At least one, tbh not sure if I've looked for others but again, same.
*At least one, tbh not sure if I've looked for others but again, same.
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It’s time to resolve the issues of access to the English countryside once and for all. That must mean legislating for a widespread right to roam covering land and water, which removes access islands, allows responsible wild camping in national parks and increases connectivity to nature for everyone👇🏻
Labour MPs press for right to roam policy in England after supreme court ruling
Backbencher says ‘it’s time to resolve the issues of access to the English countryside once and for all’
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It’s time to resolve the issues of access to the English countryside once and for all. That must mean legislating for a widespread right to roam covering land and water, which removes access islands, allows responsible wild camping in national parks and increases connectivity to nature for everyone👇🏻
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British Meat Processors Association: Starmer has “managed to achieve what the previous government promised us originally but didn’t deliver”. ~AA
May 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
British Meat Processors Association: Starmer has “managed to achieve what the previous government promised us originally but didn’t deliver”. ~AA
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#OnThisDay 19 May 1969
CORONATION STREET 50 YEARS HENCE
Let us go no further than 50 years hence and wonder whether there will be a nostalgic demand for a revival of #CoronationStreet (Or, dreadful thought, will the series still be running) . . .
CORONATION STREET 50 YEARS HENCE
Let us go no further than 50 years hence and wonder whether there will be a nostalgic demand for a revival of #CoronationStreet (Or, dreadful thought, will the series still be running) . . .
May 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
#OnThisDay 19 May 1969
CORONATION STREET 50 YEARS HENCE
Let us go no further than 50 years hence and wonder whether there will be a nostalgic demand for a revival of #CoronationStreet (Or, dreadful thought, will the series still be running) . . .
CORONATION STREET 50 YEARS HENCE
Let us go no further than 50 years hence and wonder whether there will be a nostalgic demand for a revival of #CoronationStreet (Or, dreadful thought, will the series still be running) . . .
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5 weeks to go before we hit the magic date in Daniel Hannan's fever dream post-Brexit Britain paradise.
If you haven't read his article before, you must!
In the 9 years since the referendum, it has never been bettered. Wrongness so dense, it's formed a black hole.
www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...
If you haven't read his article before, you must!
In the 9 years since the referendum, it has never been bettered. Wrongness so dense, it's formed a black hole.
www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...
May 18, 2025 at 12:48 AM
5 weeks to go before we hit the magic date in Daniel Hannan's fever dream post-Brexit Britain paradise.
If you haven't read his article before, you must!
In the 9 years since the referendum, it has never been bettered. Wrongness so dense, it's formed a black hole.
www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...
If you haven't read his article before, you must!
In the 9 years since the referendum, it has never been bettered. Wrongness so dense, it's formed a black hole.
www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...
How old am I? Old enough to remember what the Deputy Prime Minister looks like.
May 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
How old am I? Old enough to remember what the Deputy Prime Minister looks like.
If you're struggling with the rhetoric from Labour and pretty much every major western govt. May I suggest, the tens of millions of reasons for it, are contained within this:
interactive.carbonbrief.org/climate-migr...
interactive.carbonbrief.org/climate-migr...
In-depth Q&A: How does climate change drive human migration?
How is climate change already leading to displacement and migration, what might future changes in human movement look like, and what measures that are being taken to protect displaced people.
interactive.carbonbrief.org
May 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If you're struggling with the rhetoric from Labour and pretty much every major western govt. May I suggest, the tens of millions of reasons for it, are contained within this:
interactive.carbonbrief.org/climate-migr...
interactive.carbonbrief.org/climate-migr...
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Good afternoon all you gorgeous publishing professionals. With teacher, writer and SEN mum hat on, here is something I wrote a while ago for @thebookseller.com on access - which they kindly made open access! www.thebookseller.com/comment/quer...
Querying must be inclusive too
How can agents and publishers make the querying process easier for writers with a disability?
www.thebookseller.com
April 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Good afternoon all you gorgeous publishing professionals. With teacher, writer and SEN mum hat on, here is something I wrote a while ago for @thebookseller.com on access - which they kindly made open access! www.thebookseller.com/comment/quer...
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Superb analysis by @lewisgoodall.com on the Supreme court judgement on definition of sex today and why it should have been debated and decided in Parliament and not in the courts.
Parliament, not the Supreme Court should have decided today. I've written about why that's so problematic and why I fear today's judgment will be used to further delegitimise trans people, even though that is not what the Court intends.
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/why-i-worr...
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/why-i-worr...
Why I worry this Supreme Court ruling will be used to delegitimise trans people
And why Parliament ducked its responsibilities
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
April 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Superb analysis by @lewisgoodall.com on the Supreme court judgement on definition of sex today and why it should have been debated and decided in Parliament and not in the courts.
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Watching BBC Breakfast for the first time in ages. My God! I would say the intellectual target level of the content is akin to early 90s Newsround. It's as though they are broadcasting to under-13s. Is our adult pop. really so daft?
April 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Watching BBC Breakfast for the first time in ages. My God! I would say the intellectual target level of the content is akin to early 90s Newsround. It's as though they are broadcasting to under-13s. Is our adult pop. really so daft?
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The richest 10% own 57% of all wealth, but most of it isn't earned – it’s inherited or inflated by rising asset prices. Yet we tax income, not wealth. That’s not just unfair, it’s bad economics. But there are better solutions than wealth taxes | Stephen McNair
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Taxing wealth is better than a wealth tax
Inequality of wealth matters more than inequality of income. We should tax the rich more. But a blanket wealth tax is not the solution.
eastangliabylines.co.uk
April 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The richest 10% own 57% of all wealth, but most of it isn't earned – it’s inherited or inflated by rising asset prices. Yet we tax income, not wealth. That’s not just unfair, it’s bad economics. But there are better solutions than wealth taxes | Stephen McNair
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
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This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out
t.co/LeABrGqDei
t.co/LeABrGqDei
April 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
That's actually quite good. Let's do a hashing
#drgrobotcheddick
#drgrobotcheddick
It's the story of his life. In many ways, Dr GroBotchedDick, is like a TechTrump. An Uphill Stumbler his entire life.
April 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
That's actually quite good. Let's do a hashing
#drgrobotcheddick
#drgrobotcheddick