Tony Banks
Tony Banks
@tonybanks59.bsky.social
Journalist, author.
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Here’s the last Menu - from 2015 - of a much loved Soho & West End fixture, THE STOCKPOT on Old Compton Street.

Whenever I walk past where once it was I still check to see if it’s miraculously reappeared.

Miss the place.
September 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Farage under pressure to explain tax arrangements in Clacton house purchase

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Farage under pressure to explain tax arrangements in Clacton house purchase
The Reform UK leader said last year he had bought a home in his Essex constituency, but it was later reported that his partner had actually made the purchase.
www.walesonline.co.uk
September 11, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Urge Nigel Farage to release his Tax returns.

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September 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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The finest visual demonstration of Brexit that you will ever see.
September 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Urge Nigel Farage to Release His Tax Returns - Sign the Petition! chng.it/dsds7CL5tw via @UKChange
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September 8, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Now this is a tax return that I would be very, very keen on seeing.

Do feel free to give it a share.

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September 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake and has paid heavily for it. Very much hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics desperately needs more voices like hers
September 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
And there you go. Who’s next, I wonder? The attack lines will already have been worked out.
September 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
If they succeed in hounding Rayner out, they (the media) will then only move into the next target.
September 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Just over 2,000 more signatures needed to get us to 10k. Help us get there. Anyone you know who wants fair coverage, pass them this way to sign. Democracy matters and our broadcasters need to report on ALL parties! They’re currently failing us. Here’s the link. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
August 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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August 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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According to anecdotal reports, the new in-fashion insult heard around schools and playgrounds is: "Your dad shouts at hotels!" 😮😆 ~AA
August 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Back up to London again, and again I have forgotten my stab vest. What am I like?
August 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
August 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Well, according to the papers, Angela Rayner is a much worse person than Lucy Connolly.
August 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Young people don't 'want' to go private, they are being encouraged to believe they should go private as the NHS is apparently appalling after 14 years of deliberate underfunding by a government that want to privatise it.
August 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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My advice to those young people then would be to not grow old.
August 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Ducklings swarm perceiving the guardian as a safety instinct.
August 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
In the George pub in Soho. Not wearing a stab vest. Utterly reckless.
August 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Much as I think Palace missed a beat or two in this case, they're bang on the money (ha!) here: “Multi-club structures hide behind the charade of a ‘blind trust’ while clubs such as ours, who have no connection to another club whatsoever, are prevented from playing in the same competition".
August 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Present mood
August 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.
July 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Hello. I am an expendable character in an action film. If you shoot me with a regular gun I will scream in pain before I die. But if you shoot me with a silencer I will - obligingly - just let out a quiet gasp.
Hello. I am a person in a film or television drama. I never use the toilet.
July 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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I wrote about this a while ago, as @samfreedman.bsky.social kindly acknowledges, and it's great to see a bit more detail unpacked here: still struck that nobody's got all the answers samf.substack.com/p/why-are-yo...
Why are young women increasingly left-wing?
And how it could change politics
samf.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM