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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I (sadly) caught Farage on Radio Four this morning. The bloke deserves nothing but absolute ridicule. He is scared shitless of stuff in his imagination. He’s a life-coward who lives in a horrible universe of his own doom laden mind. His perception of the world, like the MAGA, is just weird.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Taking the whole ROAD ✔️ Distracted (singing) ✔️ No helmets ✔️ No lights ✔️ No reflective vests ✔️ Riding in a pack ✔️ Textbook radical anti-car cyclists.

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Just wanted to say the new film by Ben Rivers, Bogancloch, is one wonderful piece of art. Absolutely gorgeous. Give yourself a couple of escapist hours watching it and you’ll be happy. Gosh, it’s good!

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/05/2025

“If everyone had emitted like the bottom 50 percent of the global population, the world would have seen minimal additional warming since 1990.” from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org

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Top-earning 10 percent responsible for the majority of global warming, study finds

If you work full-time in the US or UK, there's a good chance you're among them.

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Reading about Carlo Rosselli and his Justice and Freedom org, founded in the 1940s…strong set of liberal socialist ideals the Labour Party would do well to subscribe to - local autonomy, nationalisation of monopolies, land reform, TU rights, religious political civil freedoms, Euro fed, republic.

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

C O Y S and agreed, it is a mighty fine advert in a lovely area. Head back to south London you lot 😊

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Our newspaper the Camden New Journal was named best regional paper in the UK this afternoon, and my colleague Frankie Lister-Fell scooped reporter of the year. Trebles all round!

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Here in north London we say COYS - I’m doing that Sunday, while tomorrow I am grabbing some precious escapism by gently jamming with a lovely, no stress, no pressure musicians who like to get in the zone. I’ll still be saying fuck off Nazi scum but not letting it freak me out for a few hours.

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Give yourself a few dates to look forward to! Fri May 2 - the Dig It May Day celebration at Bold N19 Sun June 22 - Alma Street Fair Fri 4 July - Parlie Hill Bandstand and Fri July 19 - www.menageriefestival.co.uk

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

London skyline from the top of the Euston Tower

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Out and about and Montaigne’s personal stamp….

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Re-reading The Log From The Sea of Cortez for the billionth time for the cosiness, a biog of Jacques Costeau by Richard Munson, The Practicing Stoic by Ward Farnsworth (a go to when I’m feeling blue) and a new book, The Strand by Geoff Browell and Eileen Chanin.

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

@soundsystem2030.bsky.social hello from North London’s mighty Dig It Sound System

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

GB 'News' spreads poisonous disinformation. They break both press codes and ethical codes, disregard moral values a civil society is based on. Please send the CEO of Sky, who spend a fortune on adverts at this vile TV channel, a message to rethink. action.goodlawproject.org/sky-stop-fun...

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Sky must stop funding hate speech

CW: Homophobia, hate speech Sky launched its programme for Pride 2024 with a ringing declaration the company was “proud to celebrate LGBTQ+ stories”. But while it was posting shiny videos claiming to ...

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The Spurs fans I chatted to today protesting about the owners were all in cloud cuckoo land about the realities of running a club, and the variables in regards to success. Also some laced their anger with pretty unpleasant views. I’m not defending ENIC but wow, what I heard was total nonsense.

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Tottenham Hotspur @tottenhamhotspur.com · 16/02/2025

Team news is in! 🫡

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

There’s that lovely book, a biographical novel, about Michelangelo called The Agony and The Ecstasy by Norman Stone, all about the hard work behind an artists out put and creativity etc. always good to be reminded! Thanks and have a lovely weekend.

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Wait…what?!? How the…!?! Such a gorgeous mix of talent, craft, application, graft, technique and all those other cool words about people getting down to doing something they’re bloody good at. Thanks for sharing a real reminder of what’s cool about our species (as opposed to the usual what’s not!)

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Old Father T and St Paul’s at dusk

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

St Valentines partner was grumpy As they whispered in Val’s ear ‘You may be the symbol of all romance, ‘But you only come once a year.’

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

In the UK, we have a long and illustrious tradition of visiting the town of Grantham to pay our respects to Evil Edna, the milk snatcher, Maggie the Friedman Thatch, the source of many woes. May she rest uncomfortably.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Ask yourself, “who, irrespective of friendship, or even respect, would hide you?” Ask yourself, “are you willing to hide the other, regardless of who they are?” Then you’ll have a good guess at an answer. I think we’ll be surprised.

Screen shot of Dorothy Thompson’s 1941 Harper’s article “who goes Nazi?”

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

We no longer have a decent bookshop in Camden Town. The Regents - long gone. Compendium - even longer gone. Waterstones - fairly recently gone, as have two pile ‘em high outlets. How would you like it if I opened one? New + 2nd hand, backed by our many local authors, with readings etc Yes or no? 😍📚

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

That’s a lovely dog…splat. I need some Cornwall air in me hair and some Cornish pats under me flats. Looks delightful. Enjoy.

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Here’s a pic we have on my parents sitting room wall: Nat second on the left and standing next to him is his girlfriend, Ramona, a Spanish woman he met in Barcelona, and who returned to the UK with him after the war. He’d have got on well with your wonderful Uncle Morrie. Best wishes, comrade.

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Here’s a pic of my grandparents at the Battle of Cable Street in London, 1936. My great uncle Nat Cohen was one of the first British volunteers to fight Fascism in the Spanish Civil War. I feel rather lame in comparison, but will hold their examples and memory dear. It’s our turn. No Pasaran!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/02/2025

"Far-right populists are significantly more likely to spread fake news on social media than politicians from mainstream or far-left parties, according to a study which argues that amplifying misinformation is now part and parcel of radical right strategy" Verifiably: right wingers are liars

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Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study

Amplifying misinformation is now part of radical right strategy, says Dutch study of tweets by MPs in 26 countries

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I’m so tired of it - I hoped for a govt that tackled voters who have concerns about immigration head on by bravely stating the truth - immigration is not the problem. Having a welfare state and social policy wrecked by 40 years of Neo-liberalism is the issue. Why can’t anyone be honest about this?

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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Good God I thought I was making a joke about the Government handcuffing deportees, but no. And the Labour party are proud of this? Despicable 🤬🤬🤬🤬

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The diddums I feel is off the scale

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

One for your diaries! Join the mighty Dig It Sound System and Vanessa Freeman to celebrate May Day. Free entry (donations on the door if you're flush to Love Music Hate Racism). Special guests inc Peace and Love - live roots rock reggae! Friday May 02 at Bold, Dartmouth Park Hill, N19, London...

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I hate the news cycle banging on about how Labour andTories try to out do the other regarding the immigration myth. Labour should be deeply ashamed that it's being lead by the nose by the private co that is Reform. How have we let Farage be anything other than a sick and quickly forgettable joke?

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

After 25 years, if you’ve paid a rent /mortgage hybrid, the council ‘buys’ the property off you at a rate that acknowledges your contribution, leaving you with funds to retire on/ pass on to offspring etc. so we have the benefits of social housing and appease those who see it as an asset invested in

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I write for a newspaper and have no problem writing 1,000, 2,000 word pieces (and to my sub-eds horror, find it hard to stick within my word counts). The book I'm currently working on, and with previous ones, I've broken the narrative into similar bite sized chunks. That really helps for me.

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Build more council owned homes, scrap the right to buy for any new house built, create mixed and vibrant communities by offering a tiered level so different income brackets live on the same estates. Offer a genuinely affordable rent system - with an option to those who want a mortgage / rent hybrid.

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Grenfell - re-arm the enquiry, get it concluded properly and with no expense spared nor time wasted. Criminal charges for those responsible, show the families the State has got their back. Re the Tower, be solely guided by the families. Let them decide. If it remains as a memorial, so be it.

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Hang on a minute.. *checks calendar, does mental arithmetic By Jove what on Earth have I been doing all this time!?!

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

youtu.be/7wndg4DZhig?... Ah, the stage coach versus the steam train…. Join me discovering some of the tales from our time-trodden streets…

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Race from Piccadilly to Brighton

YouTube video by Untold London

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

My grandparents Louis Carrier and Rachel Cohen, at the Battle of Cable Street, 1936. Taken from a Pathe newsreel - a lovely find for my family. No Pasaran then, and No Pasaran today and forever more!

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Camden Town boy Stephen Mangan on Desert Island Discs now - lovely stories of our Anglo Irish history and a banging selection of tunes. Yet another relatable human story explaining a straight forward reason to celebrate and understand migration and it’s impact on the individual and society.

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

youtu.be/qdbrIrFxas0?... Just a gentle reminder that whatever the weather, however grim the news may be - we got this. Let’s build a better world where we get together and shake our tail feathers.

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The Blues Brothers (1980) - Shake a Tail Feather Scene (4/9) | Movieclips

YouTube video by Movieclips

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Friends! Get your diaries out and a big fat marker pen for Dig It Sound System fun 02 /05 May Day knees up venue TBC 23/05 HTLGI Hay Wales. 22/06 Alma Street 04/07 Parlie Hill Bandstand + afters @Gipsy Queen NW5 12/07 Somers Town Festival 18/07 Menagerie, Aylesbury More following in another post 😊

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

‘Journalist’ I’ve known for ages had a fall out with the BBC over contracts and joined GB News. I was pretty shocked - assumed they were fairly clued up - and the cobblers awls they expressed to defend their decision was unreal. We have to fight this insidious slippage rightwards with all we’ve got.

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Dan Carrier @dannycarrier.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

As well as feeling a natural loathing towards these idiot Nazis, they are so deranged and stupid it’s hard not to feel absolute ridicule and even pity at how obsessed the likes of Millwall Paul are with this strange, obsession with an evil fantasy. What a waste of the precious, limited days we have.

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