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Duncan Stone

@drcricket.bsky.social

Author of 'Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket' now a property standards officer for an infamous Borough Council. Class - Culture - Environment https://linktr.ee/DuncanStone

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Nettlecake@nettlecake.bsky.social · 2d ago

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 3d ago

I will remember Rod Liddle for the fact that the lawyer who checked my book before publication had no issue with me writing that Liddle couldn’t be a teacher because he’d have had sex with the students. Why? Because Liddle wrote it in a national magazine.

Duncan Stone@drcricket.bsky.social · last wk.

“My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.” Ursula K Le Guin (1974)

Peter du Toit@peterdutoit.com · 2w ago

You see everything is connected. The marine heatwaves off the coasts of Europe make heatwaves on land more intense, which in turn dries out vegetation, which then creates perfect fire weather conditions. Brought to you by the world's refusal to drastically reduce the burning of fossil fuels.

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Long overdue for The Spectator's Islamophobia to come under the microscope. Excellent piece from Peter Oborne here doing just that. It is now, he writes, just "an upmarket version of GB News" (same owner, of course)

Exposed: The Rabidly Islamophobic Magazine at the Heart of the British Establishment

For almost 200 years, 'The Spectator' stood for civilised, bravely heretical discourse. But a new report reveals how it now spews out anti-Muslim hatred week after week to its upmarket audience

open.substack.com

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Andy Mitchell, who covers Warwickshire County Council for the Local Democracy Reporting Service, was barred from a code of conduct hearing into [Reform's] George Finch, the authority’s leader, after a three-strong standards panel voted two-one in favour of holding it in secret."

Reporter barred from Reform council leader’s conduct hearing - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage

Councillor “could have jeopardised” child rape case

holdthefrontpage.co.uk

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 3w ago

Reform UK's Zia Yusuf is currently delivering a speech accusing his party's critics of using language that will put his colleagues' lives at risk. In other news, here's Zia Yusuf two months ago

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