Paul Docherty
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It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
Who funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:45 AM
It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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January 5, 2026
January 5, 2026 (Monday)
Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed the U.S.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:43 AM
January 5, 2026
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Always remember that listening to music can be the entire activity. Put on headphones. Blast it through speakers. Close your eyes and just listen.
Listening to music is not a background activity. It can be the entire journey, and it's worth the time.
Listening to music is not a background activity. It can be the entire journey, and it's worth the time.
January 4, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Always remember that listening to music can be the entire activity. Put on headphones. Blast it through speakers. Close your eyes and just listen.
Listening to music is not a background activity. It can be the entire journey, and it's worth the time.
Listening to music is not a background activity. It can be the entire journey, and it's worth the time.
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This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.
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Millions dead from hunger and malnutrition. Billions wasted. Lost and wasted research. Compromised security. Shame on Elon Musk. Blood on his hands and a legacy of failure.
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Millions dead from hunger and malnutrition. Billions wasted. Lost and wasted research. Compromised security. Shame on Elon Musk. Blood on his hands and a legacy of failure.
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
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November 20, 2025
November 20, 2025
Trump spent this morning calling a group of military veterans in Congress traitors and saying they “should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL.” Their crime, in Trump’s eyes, was their release Tuesday of a v...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 AM
November 20, 2025
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Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."
October 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."
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History repeats.
October 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
History repeats.
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Just a couple of days left to register for our 'What Would a Wellbeing Economy Strategy Look Like?' webinar with Gerry McCartney, 12pm on Thursday 2nd October
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September 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Just a couple of days left to register for our 'What Would a Wellbeing Economy Strategy Look Like?' webinar with Gerry McCartney, 12pm on Thursday 2nd October
tinyurl.com/WESG01
tinyurl.com/WESG01
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STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”
Nailed it.
Nailed it.
September 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”
Nailed it.
Nailed it.
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There is "a fundamental problem at the heart of our welfare state; namely the apparent assumption that poor people are not creative and have no potential for anything other than unskilled labour, because creative ability is supposedly reserved for those who enjoy wealth and privilege"
Well said!
Well said!
The welfare state and the entrapment of low-income creatives
Welfare bias traps poor and disabled creatives, wasting talent and silencing voices that could enrich our culture and economy
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
August 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
There is "a fundamental problem at the heart of our welfare state; namely the apparent assumption that poor people are not creative and have no potential for anything other than unskilled labour, because creative ability is supposedly reserved for those who enjoy wealth and privilege"
Well said!
Well said!
@pressfuturist.bsky.social Hi Alastair, did you see Kevin Kelly's resource on self-publishing? Pretty comprehensive. open.substack.com/pub/kevinkel...
Everything I Know about Self-Publishing
In my professional life, I’ve had several bestselling books published by New York publishers, as well as many other titles that sold modestly.
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August 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
@pressfuturist.bsky.social Hi Alastair, did you see Kevin Kelly's resource on self-publishing? Pretty comprehensive. open.substack.com/pub/kevinkel...
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This article…
… is, by a long way, the clearest account of the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza that I have ever read.
Please read and share.
… is, by a long way, the clearest account of the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza that I have ever read.
Please read and share.
In all but name: is Gaza Britain’s undeclared war?
Britain isn’t just watching Gaza burn – it’s helping fuel the fire, with weapons, intelligence, and silence
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
July 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This article…
… is, by a long way, the clearest account of the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza that I have ever read.
Please read and share.
… is, by a long way, the clearest account of the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza that I have ever read.
Please read and share.
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There's simply no excuse.
July 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
There's simply no excuse.
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Who do you think of?
![—“The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lies reaches a point where he cannot recognize any truth in himself or in anyone surrounding him, and so he loses all respect for himself and for others. Once he respects no one, he stops loving; to occupy and distract himself, he yields to passions and coarse inclinations and ultimately sinks to bestiality in all his vices…. A man who lies to himself can be more readily offended than anyone else…. [H]e’s the first to feel offended, he feels offended to the point of pleasure, where he experiences immense satisfaction, and from there he succeeds at arriving at genuine vindictiveness.”
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yhwyp5hu4xna5vvz5b6ahtya/bafkreiehqppu3hjb37gjifqm5ta3je3cx6gwnpvqusph4zscbknuxxieba@jpeg)
July 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Who do you think of?
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If Keir Starmer wants a positive relationship with the Scottish Government, he needs to get his Environment Secretary to retract his totally inaccurate comments about Scotland’s water.
Our rivers are cleaner, our bills are lower - and public ownership delivers for people, not profit. 👇
Our rivers are cleaner, our bills are lower - and public ownership delivers for people, not profit. 👇
July 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
If Keir Starmer wants a positive relationship with the Scottish Government, he needs to get his Environment Secretary to retract his totally inaccurate comments about Scotland’s water.
Our rivers are cleaner, our bills are lower - and public ownership delivers for people, not profit. 👇
Our rivers are cleaner, our bills are lower - and public ownership delivers for people, not profit. 👇
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The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.
Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
July 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.
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1. The impacts of predatory capital - impossible rents, failing public services, rising costs of living - are being blamed across the billionaire press on immigrants and Black and Brown people.
It's so crude, so obvious, so familiar .... but if you tell the lie often enough, people believe it. 🧵
It's so crude, so obvious, so familiar .... but if you tell the lie often enough, people believe it. 🧵
July 16, 2025 at 6:10 AM
1. The impacts of predatory capital - impossible rents, failing public services, rising costs of living - are being blamed across the billionaire press on immigrants and Black and Brown people.
It's so crude, so obvious, so familiar .... but if you tell the lie often enough, people believe it. 🧵
It's so crude, so obvious, so familiar .... but if you tell the lie often enough, people believe it. 🧵
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Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call.
NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE
NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE
July 12, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call.
NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE
NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE
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New Gallup survey shows that 30% of Americans want immigration decreased, down from 55% a year ago. A record-high of 79% of Americans call immigration a good thing, a reversal from 64 percent last year.
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
Surge in U.S. Concern About Immigration Has Abated
The percentage of Americans wanting less immigration has dropped by nearly half this year to 30%, with 79% now saying immigration benefits the U.S.
news.gallup.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
New Gallup survey shows that 30% of Americans want immigration decreased, down from 55% a year ago. A record-high of 79% of Americans call immigration a good thing, a reversal from 64 percent last year.
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
"The best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy who, under the specious… garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate or defend them." - Frederick Douglass 1846
July 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"The best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy who, under the specious… garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate or defend them." - Frederick Douglass 1846