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Cal Roscow

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💼 Editor-in-Chief @paperweightmag.com 💼 ED of Marketing @BestforBritain.org Read my latest articles at paperweightmag.com

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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
BSIDE: READ ALL ABOUT IT We are joined by founder of Paperweight Magazine @calroscow.bsky.social to discuss: 🪩 - the lives of Dolly and Tim Curry 🗞️ - print media rebound 📚 - news trends 👌 - how to make things a bit nicer? 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1UN3...
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B-Side: Read All About It
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 28 August · 1hr 5min
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Edinburgh Fringe 2026 top comedy picks www.paperweightmag.com/edinburgh-fr...
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Edinburgh Fringe 2026 top comedy picks
Cal Roscow picks six comedy shows to see at this year's Fringe
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Huge thanks to @pabloohana.bsky.social for writing about Brits in Dubai: www.paperweightmag.com/the-growing-... while I soft-launch @paperweightmag.com
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The growing epidemic of Dubai-er’s remorse
Pablo O’Hana asks if the recent repatriates should be a little more patriotic.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My first foray into travel journalism for a very fun new magazine, Paperweight 👇 www.paperweightmag.com/postcards-fr...
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Postcards from Bled, Slovenia
Naomi Smith’s itinerary for a long weekend swimming in Slovenia’s lakes
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 12/04/2026
Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 12/04/2026
🚨 BREAKING NEWS Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has conceded defeat. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
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Hungary election: Viktor Orbán concedes with opposition on course for landslide election win - follow live
Hungary's prime minister has been ousted after 16 years in power, with Péter Magyar set to be the country's new leader.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
If we gave even a tenth of the attention to the solutions as we give to the problems of FPTP, we would’ve secured PR a decade ago. End the madness Labour, and back equal votes for all. @makevotesmatter.bsky.social
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Wall-to-wall coverage of a defection from one party to another, neither of which are in government. The lobby is addicted to drama. Reform and the Tories serve up drama. And then this forms the majority of the day's news. Infuriating.
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Our information environment is in such a mess. WHY is this a news alert? No wonder everyone's morale is low. The nonsense opinion, of a deliberately-inflammatory man, being pushed to thousands of people. For what purpose?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 08/09/2025
The incoming Home Secretary must end the dangerous misuse of terrorism legislation, but it may already be too late, writes Cal Roscow, Director of Campaigns at Best for Britain. 🗞 Read on Substack with a 7 day free trial. (It's free for existing Best for Britain supporters) bit.ly/4np01Mc
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
If you don't like noise, don't live in a huge city... inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
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Noisy London is stressing me out - then I found out what it's doing to my health
Over 110 million people across Europe suffer high levels of health-damaging noise pollution - for one writer, three years in her noisy flat has taken its toll
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Politics.co.uk @politics.co.uk · 16/04/2025
“Yet when it is one of their own in the dock, the language changes. Suddenly trauma matters. Suddenly ADHD is real and relevant”, writes @pimlicat.bsky.social of @bestforbritain.bsky.social 🗣️ Selective empathy: why compassion can’t be reserved for the politically convenient
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Selective empathy: why compassion can't be reserved for the politically convenient - Politics.co.uk
The Court of Appeal has upheld the sentence handed down to Stephen Yaxley Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson. In a courtroom far removed from the social media echo chambers where Robinson built hi...
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Gosh who could have predicted this. Quite galling for IDS to comment seeing as when he was in govt control of our nuclear power stations was being sold to 🇨🇳 companies. Some things just need to be under national control. (Not confident seeing as we are still not ending 💧privatisation)
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Now that’s a split-screen. ⛳️ @wsj.com
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
A point not made enough: the UK runs a trade goods deficit with the US so shouldn’t be paying any tariffs at all based on the White House formula (10% is not a “win”).
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the_present_potter @taracat.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
When Project 2025 The Musical opens on Broadway in 2053, Newsmax ringing the opening bell at the exchange on 4/3/25 will be the song and dance number just before curtains for intermission.
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Four years ago I took these photos of deserted Soho. Which also serve as an artist's impression of what the new residents trying to close all the decades-old nightlife venues down would like it to be like permanently.
Old Compton St on 29th March with not a single pedestrian or car. Old Compton St on 29th March with not a single pedestrian or c
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Ridiculous
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
When exactly was this mythical time when you couldn't? He never seemed to hold back and has been on TV constantly?
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Fr3eDoM oF sPeEcH
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Do you have any idea how difficult it has just been to explain, to my colleagues who didn't grow up in the UK, why Penelope Keith is trending with JFK?!
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Obviously I am glad that she is home. But if you think it was unacceptable for a white woman from Wales to be chained up and treated like this, why is it acceptable for anyone to be treated like this? Seriously lacking aspect of the conversation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Welsh tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter'
Becky Burke's parents say her legs, waist and hands were secured by US immigration officers.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Today let's remember that austerity kills. 🧵 Researchers at the University of Glasgow, found that an additional 335,000 deaths occurred in Scotland, England, and Wales between 2012 and 2019 compared to what was expected based on previous trends. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Over 330,000 excess deaths in Great Britain linked to austerity, finds study
Research comes as government signals fresh round of public spending cuts
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Trump-putin peace talks update
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
If he believes this then he should be arguing against cutting benefits and spending on services. Fairly obviously.
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The way Thames Water has been run should be a criminal offence.
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
While I am pleased to see the minimum wage (I am not calling it the "National Living Wage" when it is clearly not) has increased... ...this means that everyone working full time will start repaying student loans from Plan 5 immediately. Something needs to be adjusted...!
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
You boy, which far-right splinter group is it?
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Everything is going wrong much faster than I expected.
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Honestly I don't know why anyone goes to Tesco any more. This feels so over-the-top. Weighing your trolley to check for shoplifting? Just f*ck off - scan them at the checkout for me like before if you're so worried? All of this instead of just employing more people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Tesco trials giant trolley scales in Gateshead
Trolleys are weighed before checkout to identify any items customers might have missed or scanned twice.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"Some will argue that issues around moving fruit and veg through ports now seems trivial. But I would argue that their triviality is exactly why we must get them out of the way as quickly as possible" bravo @calroscow.bsky.social www.bestforbritain.org/statement-b4...
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A statement from Best for Britain's Director of Campaigns
I’m trying very hard not to open by saying “the world has changed” because it’s been said in every op-ed, Substack, and podcast this week. But, the world really has changed. There is only before that ...
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 06/03/2025
this is obviously bleak and horrid and I know it's a petty thing to point out but: god we fucking told you so, lesbians and gay men who decided to become transphobic for no apparent reason, we told you the entire LGBTQ community would end up getting screwed over, this was always going to happen
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Stewart Pearson off The Thick Of It
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Admit that I didn't like the series three White Lotus music, but I think because we all expected it to be like the first two. But actually on reflection it's actually a very very cool score.
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
There is something completely sensible - but also very funny - about the BBC putting Dr Who teasers right after Only Connect.
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The Paypal 'interest-free payments' message on the Avanti website fills me with so much despair actually
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Give how many people I know who have had their phone snatched, I fully understand the problem and the need for drastic action. But allowing police into homes *without a warrant* feels like a pretty huge change to the contract between citizen and state...! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Phone thieves and anti-social behaviour targeted in crime bill
The Crime and Policing Bill will give officers powers to make Britain's cities safer, the home secretary says.
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Not content with trying to trick you into opening a Threads post from Instagram, they are now EMAILING me about posts that appear on there.
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Not sure the London Avios Gay community will survive this.
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
We cannot have anything nice in this country because too many in the media wilfully distort everything into an awful taxpayer cost-benefit analysis. Even when there isn't any taxpayer money involved!
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 19/02/2025
GMail, you do not know what I'm about to type, you cannot help me write it, please get your unhelpful AI out of my ****ing face.
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Beyond the fact that they're too big, use too much fuel, not as well-made, etc. I think there is a fundamental difference between US and European designs for almost all transport....
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Trying to work out if I'm being targeted by Leger Holidays because I've got older or because I've watched that video where the lady says "the 'otel is fabuloushh' too many times.
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The Irony Curtain
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Cal Roscow @calroscow.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
If someone told you the plot of Cassandra on Netflix you might not watch it. And that would be a mistake. Because it's excellent!
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Liam Byrne MP @liambyrnemp.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Business and unions alike are really clear that faster growth for Britain demands closer ties with Europe. It's reassuring that ministers have declared they'll be ruthlessly pragmatic. And this report is a game plan for turning that instinct into action. www.thetimes.com/article/8423...
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Research claims EU deal will fuel growth — and Labour is listening
A report says Britain can mend some of the economic damage of Brexit without crossing the red lines set by Keir Starmer
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