Richard Kemp
@richardmskemp.bsky.social
Podcaster for Bristol University Press & Policy Press. Writer. MA: UoG. Bylines: PopMatters & Bristol24/7. Posts about writing, music and pro wrestling. 🍉 ✍🏻 & 🎧 https://muckrack.com/richardmskemp/portfolio (he/him)
Rest in piddle, Liddle. A brilliant fuckeulogy by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · yesterdayNEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...
The right mock the concept of privilege (because it suits them to believe that it doesn't exist) but this kind of stuff is a perfect example of how it works. Being 'provocative', 'pouring petrol' etc: that stuff only ever really happens from the reactionary right. 1
Like all great writers, it's a time to pay tribute to the words they left us with
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING: Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died aged 66 after a short illness
If you watch anything on #Moroccans coming to #Ceuta, make it this report. CBS News have interviewed some of them & they confirm that social media posts on Facebook & Instagram told them Spain had opened its borders. They're playing with people's hopes & lives. It's awful. We must combat fake news.
Ah, yes. African “invaders”. So says the most hateful newspaper in the UK — a country that famously invaded Africa, carved up its borders and stole its resources.
Tommaso Ciampa taking a break during his hardcore match to beat up the local hockey team mascot. 👏🏻 I 👏🏻 LOVE 👏🏻 WRESTLING #wrestling #wrestlesky #aew
"Air conditioning doesn't destroy heat, it moves it ... out of the flat and into the street, where it warms the air your neighbours breathe ... The machines keeping the financially comfortable cool make everyone else's nights worse." "We cannot air-condition our way out of climate change."
How the UK's extreme heat is shifting the conversation about air-con
Should we embrace air conditioning despite its costs and consequences?
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Gorgeous poem by Andrea Cohen for the @newyorker.com. That final line is somehow brutal and tender all at once. #poem #poetry
“Cul-de-Sac”
“Like all tyrants, / my mother made / decrees.”
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Everyone’s going to focus on the obvious but people should also remember/be told about Kevin Keegan doing the bike race on Superstars, crashing and taking half the skin off his back, and after a night in hospital doing the race again. And won the whole competition. RIP.
If only Rooney had started a music blog in 2009. What a talent the world never got to see #WorldCup
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 2w agoWayne Rooney speaks for everyone.
Why stop at the World Cup halftime show, America? Give us the Super Hydration Quarter Time Show Sponsored by Geico, you cowards! #WorldCup
“There is no compromise when it comes to the integrity of the sport,” says James Massing, whose team at Live Nation is responsible for putting on the World Cup final half-time show. LOL
Why the World Cup half-time show may be a taste of things to come
The 2026 World Cup's spectacle is creating debate about the place of music in sport - and how it could infiltrate other tournaments.
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Well, England may be out, but at least we still have ALL IN, bruv #WorldCup #ENGARG #Wrestling #AEW #WrestleSky
Well well well ... Our relentless addiction to capitalism (and polluting the planet) is shutting down our ability to do capitalism. #heatwave
Shops, pubs and bakeries begin shutting down across UK ahead of 40C highs
BUSINESSES have begun closing their doors across the UK – as high temperatures create “uncomfortably hot” working conditions. A number of restaurants, bakeries and pubs in particu…
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“We would see a publisher that we had never heard of before show up with a thousand books. And we could tell that it wasn’t actually a publisher, but three LLMs in a trench coat.” www.thebookseller.com/news/rakuten...
New prime minister and Carly Rae Jepsen album by this September! 💫
The more money that Elon Musk gathers for himself, the less money you will ever be able to make for yourself or your family. He and all the other billionaires are modern-day imperialists stealing the world's resources.
Elon Musk becomes world's first trillionaire as SpaceX soars in stock market debut
Musk is now worth $1.11tn according to the Bloomberg rich list, while SpaceX listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange with a value of $2.2tn.
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Roderick Strong contemplating why he made his shirt look so much like Cornette face. #aew #aewdynamite #wrestling #wrestlesky
What a way to throw to break 😅 #aew #aewdynamite #wrestling #wrestlesky
Been very happy to criticise Starmer the entire time he’s been Prime Minister. However, that does not mean Labour should descend into a chaos of leadership musical chairs like the Tories did for 10 years… #ukpolitics #labour
