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Hi I'm James Brown - not that one!

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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/... A rare genuinely good news story. Hope it's replicated elsewhere! 🤞
theguardian.com
Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
@thetrawl.bsky.social @marina-purkiss.bsky.social @jemmaforte.bsky.social your mention of Zia Yusuf putting "shadow" whatever on his email signature remindsme of the time I changed my job title to Director of Pure Fucking Magic at an old job. The CEO said it's funny but, change it now! 🤣
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
@thetrawl.bsky.social @marina-purkiss.bsky.social @jemmaforte.bsky.social just listened to your Makerfield gamble episode and I just want to say thank you! I have never felt more seen than listening to your passionate pleas to recognise the positives and the anxiety over reform! thanks ladies x 🙏🙏
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
It definitely is!
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
For the last 3 days I have been volunteering at a 200 miles ultramarathon in Wales. I've barely slept, not eaten properly, had no time to listen to the news... ... and I don't think I've been happier in months!
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Also the succeeding sentence - we are now explicitly paying the Iranian regime to rebuild their country?!?! Why the fuck is America not paying as they bloody broke it!
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
He sees war as a revenue generator and the American people as an overhead. This is pure tyrannical authoritarianism at it's most transparent. The world i grew up in taught me to see those two things the other way round. (But I'm not president so it doesn't matter what I think)
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I think pissing off both sides equally is the happy medium the news should always strive for!
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
But a few moments later, she says to me 'if you don't want to hear other people's conversations, turned you own headphones up knobhead'. (Did make me chuckle) Am I the arsehole?
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Had one of those 'am I the arsehole' moments today. In the gym, fairly small, half a dozen people in, girl comes in and proceeds to have a phone call on loud speaker. I can't hear my own headphones, so i ask her to either take it off speaker or put headphones in. She does 1/2
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Yeah very true, wouldn't be the first time a prime minister gets defined by foreign policy. I won't forgive labour for some of the things they have done, but hopefully this, more positive noises and presentation, is more of a sign for things to come?
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
@thenewsagents.co.uk @lewisgoodall.com @john-not-here-sopel Is it just me or has Kier Starmer noticably improved as PM since the exit of mandelson and mcsweeney?? He's still not good at politics, but he seems more comfortable in the things he's saying and how he says them.
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Meant Pokemon not premonition lol
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I have a yellow game boy colour and premonition yellow as well! Specifically purchased for the synchronicity and never regretted! 😁
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I would be happy to vote Labour, IF I felt they were delivering the 'change' they campaigned on and that i voted for......
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
If Starmer does nothing else, I really want him to clean our politics of this entitlement bias. Restore faith by demonstrating equality and fairness. He said it himself - restoring politics to service - i maintain my previous thoughts that Leveson 2 is key to achieving this.
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
That is a fantastic episode @lewisgoodall.com thank you for doing it. Fleet certainly sounds very supportive of Starmer, I really hope she isn't disappointed. I did draw parallels between her pre-MP 'checks' and the disparity in how CON are treated by the media vs LAB ... 1/
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
@lewisgoodall.com after the rambling bilge that fell out of his mouth yesterday, realistically how long is it until people/news agencies/TV companies just stop listening or broadcasting Trumps speeches? Nearly 2 hours and I don't think there was anything of actual value in it...
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
So sorry for your loss 😢 run free at the rainbow bridge Noodle x
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Happy birthday Lewis! 🎂🎂 Celebrated my 36th 2 weeks ago - at Le Mans rather than Norway but still an excellent time, hope you have a good one too!
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Is it not the making of a mistake but the recovery from the mistake that should be judged? Granted they haven't been very good at that either but i think they are getting better at the recovery. Labour hasn't had to do this for 14 years, not surprising they are rather rusty...
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
@newsagents.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com hi guys, can you please provide some coverage, round up and analysis of what's happening in the covid enquiry. I've seen some videos of testimony that should be front page news all day long but no one in the media seems to care..
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
So the *starting* price for the new Ford Puma (fiesta replacement) is just shy of £30,000 - 10 years ago you could buy a *top-of-the-range* mondeo for £30,000... How does this make sense?!?!?! 😱😱
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
That banner is superb!!! 🤩👏👏👏🏳️‍🌈
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
It is intriguing that the right, and especially the far right do seem to be the biggest group of snowflakes and self-appointed victims...
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
@newsagents.bsky.social what has happened to @lewisgoodall.com ?? I haven't heard him on the podcast in ages - is he on a very well deserved holiday or has he left the podcast?
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I wouldn't go to anything labelled with "trump" and "intimate" regardless of how much you paid me 🤮🤮🤮
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Hmm interesting we had the same ambitions, but i was told boys dont wear skirts.... ahhh the 90s.. 🙈😅
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
@weissmann.substack.com would love to hear thoughts on this blog from yourself and Mary on next week's main justice! www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...
stevevladeck.com
144. The Supreme Court's Late-Night Alien Enemy Act Intervention
Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Yep!
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a man and a woman are walking down a sidewalk in front of a building with the words `` on our way to the bar '' .
ALT: a man and a woman are walking down a sidewalk in front of a building with the words `` on our way to the bar '' .
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The other place may be a rank cesspit 95% of the time, but it's healing to see motorsport's sense of humour is still alive and kicking on April Fools day!
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
At this point I do wonder how many people would desert labour or move against starmer if another party or labour back bencher came out with a strong socialist message and got a huge amount of public support....
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Keep going Tan!! 💪 Some people are disgusting - you are awesome!
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Thank you all so much for the laughter and giggles!! 🙌🙌 Best of luck with the next adventure!
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James Corcoran @jamescorcoran78.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Someone clever did this to a lamppost on Coverdale road and now I am disappointed that every lamppost doesn’t have one
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Absolutely love every part of this!! 😂 Totally made my Friday morning!! 🙌
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
@therestpolitics.bsky.social what has happened to Vivek Ramaswarmy??
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Very insightful reading and highly recommended!! I'm trying to make sense of the madness in the world at the moment and Lewis' substack is my go to source for explanation and analysis!! 🙌
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Good grief!!! It's not safe to be on a plane in America these days!! Are these due to the sackings, or just horrible coincidences?
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Take your facts and common sense and go and sit in the corridor. Populism has no time for such trivialities when lies and sensationalism are so much easier... 🙈🙈
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Sounds good to me... 👍
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Thanks so much for filling in Lewis - I've never tuned in so reliably than I have over the last week and a half! At least we still have your Sunday show! 👏👏👏
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Why is it surprising that if a generation has be actively dismissed by those in power, they rebel against the power and are much more susceptible to extremism?? Would love to hear your thoughts on this and how @teamlabouruk.bsky.social can address it? 2/2
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
www.theguardian.com/society/2025... @newsagents.bsky.social @therestpolitics.bsky.social @thetrawl.bsky.social why is this a sudden revelation?? Young people have spent 14 years being ignored and looked down on by the tories and now Labour isnt making any noise to support them either... 1/2
theguardian.com
Hatred of police not racism motivated children in English riots, report finds
Children’s commissioner says young people involved in disorder felt disempowered and saw chance to retaliate
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Disgusting behaviour - not a surprise 😔
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Maybe all those who get fired for standing up to fascism should start their own broadcasting company and provide a unified voice for truth?
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Yikes! I've got the same next Thursday - 2 hour train ride to the capital, 5 hours with people, 2 hour train ride home 😨😨 I don't think I'll have any finger nails left to play when I get home. Hope yours goes well and quickly! 🤞
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Ummmm democracy? Errrr capitalism? Ahhhh! Christian Nationalism? No? Well you got me stumped! 🤷🙈
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James Brown @gorgerak.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
from the main parties and anyone saying anything different (no matter how authoritarian) is by default more attractive and established democracy has only treated them poorly, so why stick with it? 2/2
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