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Credit unions help people access fair, ethical finance. But an outdated law is holding them back.
I’ve signed this petition to update the rules so credit unions can grow and serve more communities.
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Very nice indeed, but I'm pretty sure Barratt don't actually employ architects.
Reform’s Matt Goodwin, candidate in the Gorton & Denton by-election, received a salary from a Far Right propaganda group linked to Hungary’s Orban. Details below.
Loved this record.
The Shitheads @royalcourt.bsky.social – incisive, absurd, funny new play by Jack Nicholls. Set in the Stone Age.
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I've recorded an hour long interview talking about Atomic Albion for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Listen here!
newbooksnetwork.com/atomic-albion
My review of Persian Carpets by Daniel O'Sullivan & Richard Youngs: a world we didn't ask for but find we can't do without. @thequietus.com
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My review of Frantic Assembly's 30th anniversary show – Lost Atoms at the Lyric Hammersmith. Gravity defying.
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Hungary has banned Pride marches, threatening LGBT+ rights and the freedom to protest. Sign the petition now to urge the EU to act before it’s too late. Every voice matters – help defend human rights across Europe! allout.lgbt/58994dd1
Brilliant, very glad you enjoyed! Thanks for coming.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
A staggering performance from Rosie Sheehy in Guess How Much I Love You? @royalcourt.bsky.social
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Looking forward to talking at the legendary Dillons aka Waterstones on Gower Street this coming Thursday, about Atomic Albion and the very strange world of nuclear.
An incredibly moving evening: The Dead with the Fourth Choir at Wilton's Music Hall.
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Don’t know about you but not sure I want a computer illiterate ‘oddball’ anywhere near power in the UK and let alone someone who can’t follow the rules with his finances.
Who paid for his house????
Worth seeing for lots of reasons, one of them is definitely Lorcan Cranitch. My review of The Playboy of the Western World @nationaltheatre.org.uk
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Blackfriars: the forgotten rivers of this town.
My review of the new Craven Faults album, minimal but powerfully expressive of landscape and the people who made it. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
Oh jeez, can you?
Turns out my mum knows your dad very well - lots of Parish Council overlap!
My mum too - she probably knows your parents. She knows a lot of people!
Could have been Chris or Francis - more like latter with those dates. How funny. Did you live in Wellesbourne?
Nooo! Which one?
Fantastic!
Update from Wellesbourne...
I've put together my favourite tracks of 2025 - 41 of them this year. A lot of unexpected music including some stunning returns, and exciting folkish music erupting all over the place.
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Does someone you love like to read “about wanking in unusual places”? Well, a friend told me that’s what my books cover, with added nature, war, masculinity, Christianity, sex, Airfix kits, Derek Jarman &c. What could make for better Christmas presents? Buy ‘em:
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