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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 2m

I tend to judge individual pieces on their merits. That Times one is pretty scurrilous (that's kinda par for the course with sketchwriters of course) but it is pretty well-crafted

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 5h

"Killing Hasan in full public view would make him a martyr on a bigger scale than any suicide attack ever could: there would be footage of the US state killing him, available for use by any recruiter, at any time. To call it a gift to the USA’s enemies would be the understatement of the century."

inews.co.uk

Hegseth's firing squad shows the cruelty at the heart of Trump's White House

Donald Trump's defence chief wants to add the USA back to a list that presently comprises only Iran and Afghanistan

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 7m

A year on from Cable Street, #OnThisDay 1937, here's the Blackshirt political cartoon take on protests against their marches in the East End of London. From Mosley's newspaper, 'Action'

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 27m

Yeah, I thought that too. One of my FB pal's came up with the notion of "tit-whisperer" earlier on which deserves some credit. Poor old ZP has turned himself into a figure of moral opprobrium and Carry On mockery at the same time. Quite the achievement.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1h

Still has some very good individual journos though. Pretty much all major newspapers have dropped in quality in last 20 years. I stopped buying the Guardian over a decade ago cos it got too embarrassing. Guardian still has some excellent individual journos on it mind you.

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 13h

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1h

Oof. That’s a pretty brutal opening paragraph in the Times sketch on Polanski and the Holborn and St Pancras by-election…

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 2h

Well used at the end of Michael Mann's 'Manhunter'. Which makes me like the Simpsons version all the more.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 6h

The Green Party need to kick out the antisemites and get back to what the party was supposed to be all about: Opposing solar farms and high speed rail.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes! I have that on the shelf but yet to read it…

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#OnThisDay 1945: Evening Standard report on the legendary cricket writer, E.W. (Jim) Swanton's experience in Japanese POW camps after being captured at Singapore.

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Saint Vespaluus @saint-vespaluus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Film of the Day Chunking Express (Hong Kong, 1994) www.saintvespaluus.co.uk/film-61-72/c...

saintvespaluus.co.uk

Chungking Express / Film (61 - 72) | Saint Vespaluus

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Brilliant movie. Got it on DVD somewhere and you've reminded me I need to rewatch it...

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

All mutually inclusive categories...

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

1,000+ years of fucking loving sheep and wool. Fuck yeah baby! People say they're worried about this country but look at this.

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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

something very funny about the Bayeux Tapestry getting 5 stars after 940 years, as if Bishop Odo of Bayeux has been sat at home all this time waiting for the review, absolutely raging - "I gave that Guardian journalist a press comp on OPENING NIGHT for god's sake"

Poster of The Bayeux Tapestry with a bunch of 5 star reviews

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Contrast the pseudo-intellectualism on show with someone who actually knows what they are talking about. Jonathan Judaken, writing in "Patterns of Prejudice" journal in 2008. Does no-one who claims to be "ant-racist" in the Green Party know any of this stuff? Embarrassing. And shameful.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This text on defining "semites" (itself a weirdly 19th century racialist enterprise) was attached to the original draft of the Zionism is Racism resolution passed by the Green Party. It reveals the Greens to be both racist and dishonest.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Was once in a bar in small town Kansas and some old fella walked in. Whole place went quiet like in a Western movie. I whispered to the guy next to me: “Who’s that?” He replies: “That’s Walter. He’s the town Democrat”

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“When the President walks it, it’s not a tightrope”

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Similar theme from Jak in the Evening Standard. Somewhat more cynical from Lurie in The Times

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#OnThisDay 1981: Keith Waite’s cartoon for the Daily Mirror on the assassination of Egypt’s President Sadat

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reminded of a letter from Christopher Hitchens about BAZO (the British Anti-Zionist Organization) and @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social back in a 1980 edition of the New Statesman

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not saying the cricket club chair was pleased with the Scotland result but…

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

✅ it is indeed the then recently crowned Wimbledon men’s champ, Jimmy Connors

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pub sports quiz question. Who’s this, having a go at cricket in a London park in July 1974?

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just as a counterpoint to some of the obituaries this morning, here's the start of the Archer chapter in my history of political lying, The Lies of the Land:

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sir John Major, normally someone I consider broadly sane, on the death of Jeffrey Archer: “We have lost a man who lived one of the most remarkable lives of our age" Fucker’s clearly confused him with Jofra Archer. Or maybe Mani from the Stone Roses.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Dunno. Hadn’t even copied her in. Maybe she scrolled my profile and reached the considered opinion I was a twat.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Can’t match that but got blocked on the old twitter by Pam Ayres for posting the HMHB mock up album cover of her as Patti Smith. Oh I wish I’d looked after me tweets

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Rich @rich-bryant.uk · 06/10/2026

I’m a bit surprised this got past the Telegraph’s editorial policy.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He used to drink in a bar I used to work in c.1998. Absolute scumbag. Waitresses not safe.

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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You don’t need to be Freud to get to the bottom of the obsession. And that’s before you look at the cartoons… 😬

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

2. When they ran a fundraising advert the headline was “Join our anti-Zionist campaign”. Not “Join our campaign to defend Palestinian rights”. Interesting difference of priorities.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

1. Whenever Israel did something nasty, they couldn’t simply condemn it on its own terms. It had to be a “pogrom”, a “final solution”, or a “Holocaust”. Always the appropriation of language connected to Jewish suffering.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Spent much of today going through old copies of Free Palestine, the PLO newspaper edited in Britain by Louis Eaks of the Young Liberals in the 1970s and 1980s. Two things struck me….

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The only poetry lads from Dolgellau should be allowed read out loud are the literary equivalents of avant-garde atonal free jazz

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Evergreen headline. 100 years old today…

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

From a fascinating October 1976 interview in The Guardian. Well worth a read.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"What then is the meaning of Zionism? It is just producing a framework for Jewish existence" (Yeshayahu Leibowitz, 1976) Unacceptable to the Green Party membership, apparently. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Green Party members back 'Zionism is racism' conference motion

The vote has caused divisions among figures at the top of the party at its conference in Brighton.

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