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Ed White

@idleconcern.bsky.social
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Teacher of English, former lower leagues Miltonist, married to the CofE, father of two

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Roger Protz @rogerprotz.bsky.social · 17h
BREAKING NEWS Carlsberg to close Marston's 2027. The Danes are dumping on Britain's unique Ale Heritage. What will happen to celebrated Pale Ales Bass & Pedigree, the historic buildings of the capital of brewing?
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 28/09/2026
"Words do not blast stim at the rate we enjoy today. Words are old, older than TikTok. Back then, a human would read, 'Fireworks exploded above two (or more) trad-attractive nudes copulating on a sandy beach,' and the reader would have to imagine that in their mind." buff.ly/oZe8zx4
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How to Read Good or Maybe Great
“First, accept how fun reading isn’t. Words do not blast stim at the rate we enjoy today. Words are old, older than TikTok. Back then, a human would read, ‘F...
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This would make sense if the Falklands were 2 miles off the Argentinian coast and not 300
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵
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Ed White @idleconcern.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Legitimate concerns, my arse
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 23/09/2026
The man who filmed himself stabbing one, with a person on board, is still seemingly at large.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'Although most of the players are not English and their presence in the England team erodes an important part of English identity, I support them' - no, you don't.
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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I take the old fashioned view that the British government should not just shrug when the far right engages in piracy on the high seas.
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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The fact an ostensibly centre-left government giving an organised fascist movement a free pass to commit violent crimes in order to achieve its aims is…just absolutely insane and yet that’s exactly what’s happening
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🔴 Royal British Legion Says It Wants ‘No Association’ With Anti-Migrant Group Behind Poppy Fundraisers Exclusive: The charity says it never authorised a Hampshire group’s ‘Raise the Poppies’ appeal, as crowdfunding sites take pages down bylinetimes.com/2026/09/22/r...
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Royal British Legion Says It Wants 'No Association' With Anti-Migrant Group Behind Poppy Fundraisers
The charity says it never authorised a Hampshire group's 'Raise the Poppies' appeal, as crowdfunding sites take pages down
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Ed White @idleconcern.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Also, "we apologise that you find these adverts distressing" is just another phrasing of the classic bully line of "I'm sorry you felt hurt by what I did". Get the active/passive right: YOU upset YOUR viewers by streaming inappropriate adverts for programming specifically designed for younger people
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Ed White @idleconcern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@alexhorne.bsky.social @channel4tv.bsky.social @channel4.bsky.social . I've just submitted this complaint to Channel 4. Alex, we love what you do and I'm not sure if there's anything you can do about this, but I do think streaming on Channel 4 needs a little more care!
The test of a complaint to Channel 4 (my wife has pointed out that I put down too many actuallys, but it was written with some ire: 'This is a complaint about the adverts for channel 4 programmes on Taskmaster Bleeped, being streamed on the Channel 4 streaming app. Given that it's Taskmaster Bleeped, so clearly designed to be viewed by families with younger children, I think it's a  major mistake to include adverts for Channel 4 programmes designed for adults. It's actually irresponsible. This evening, we were watching an episode (Series 11 Episode 3) with our 9 year old son. He loves watching this programme: it's currently part of our weekly ritual. In the first ad break, you included an advert for the documentary 'Love You to Death': the advert is clearly inappropriate for children. It's actually deeply disturbing. It elicited a visceral response from my son: he was terrified and disturbed. It wrecked his ability to enjoy the rest of the programme. I would like an explanation for why this happened. And an apology. I really don't think that this is suitable and you ought to consider your policy with advertising on your streaming platform.'
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Ed White @idleconcern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@alexhorne.bsky.social @channel4tv.bsky.social @channel4.bsky.social . I've just submitted this complaint to Channel 4. Alex, we love what you do and I'm not sure if there's anything you can do about this, but I do think streaming on Channel 4 needs a little more care!
The test of a complaint to Channel 4 (my wife has pointed out that I put down too many actuallys, but it was written with some ire: 'This is a complaint about the adverts for channel 4 programmes on Taskmaster Bleeped, being streamed on the Channel 4 streaming app. Given that it's Taskmaster Bleeped, so clearly designed to be viewed by families with younger children, I think it's a  major mistake to include adverts for Channel 4 programmes designed for adults. It's actually irresponsible. This evening, we were watching an episode (Series 11 Episode 3) with our 9 year old son. He loves watching this programme: it's currently part of our weekly ritual. In the first ad break, you included an advert for the documentary 'Love You to Death': the advert is clearly inappropriate for children. It's actually deeply disturbing. It elicited a visceral response from my son: he was terrified and disturbed. It wrecked his ability to enjoy the rest of the programme. I would like an explanation for why this happened. And an apology. I really don't think that this is suitable and you ought to consider your policy with advertising on your streaming platform.'
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Genuinely gasped. This is why leaving Nandy in post is such obvious vandalism, the BBC does not deserve to survive like this.
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Ed White @idleconcern.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Make a band edible Ovaltine-age fan club
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
On spontaneity The local MP, Sir Roger Gale, who lives in the village, confirms that these accounts are accurate. “It was a bloody nightmare” ... When asked about the police’s claim to have no knowledge of the far-right protest, he scoffed. “It was not spontaneous, it was coordinated.” #R4Today
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EXCLUSIVE: Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? – HOPE not hate
HOPE not hate can exclusively reveal that Kent Police were tipped off about the Patriot Platform mobilisation – and seemingly did not act.
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John O’Farrell @johnofarrell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In response to Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts, the Public Safety Act 1936 made it an offence under to march in uniform. The Crime and Policing Bill 2026 gave the police the power to order the removal of face coverings at a protest. We cannot stand by and allow the normalisation of fascist intimidation.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Well now I really am feeling depressed.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
picking a side in a face off between street fash and the RNLI is not fucking Sophie's Choice, it's strawberry ice cream or a bucket of shit. and the Home Office go for the bucket every time.
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Andy P @arcticreviews.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Excellent opportunity for Kent police to mass fingerprint and DNA sample a group of men, some of whom who will undoubtedly be wanted for violent, sexual and child abuse offences.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026
With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"We just don't have British resident donors that would support us ... That's the grim reality". "The Electoral Commission...are completely useless. They're just so dumb & ineffective". Some jaw-dropping quotes in this film from senior figures in Reform. We need updated laws AND proper enforcement
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Once Upon A Time On The Internet @newgroundsdoc.newgrounds.com · 01/09/2026
23 YEARS AGO TODAY, @mrweebl.bsky.social posted BADGERS to @Newgrounds.com
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Satan was great so long as he was offering me cool stuff in exchange for my soul”
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Ed White @idleconcern.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
When things go VERY wrong in your A Very British Civil War HOI4 Mod playthrough
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“It’s impossible that Jason Arday could have got his post without DEI,” say people about an industry which can find 200 academics willing to sign a letter in support of David Miller and another 200 academics willing to support Nathan Cofnas.
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Ed White @idleconcern.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
So brave.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 17/08/2026
More, both sides need to understand a civil war isn't you gloriously defeating your Ideological enemies. It's your local criminal gang shooting you in the head for your car.
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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Farage spent money to win the safest seat he could ever win for no reason, managed to get a joke candidate with a bin in his head to get 25% of the vote, didnt show up for his own count because he was embarrassed by the whole thing. ate shit my man
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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Am sure you could have a whole AI culture war about Husk’s videos, but the thing is, they’re just very funny
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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
None of our democratically elected leaders, not in the UK, not in Germany, not in France is doing anything about this. Why?
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It’s just depressing. Further education has been cut to ribbons. Higher education is in crisis. Labour turns its eyes to the bit of the education system which is turning out the highest literacy rates in the western world and goes “that’s the bit that needs to change”
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Ed White @idleconcern.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Personally, I think El-Sayed missed an opportunity to slam Trump's erroneous apostrophe usage - that's the kind of two Americas rhetoric we can all get behind
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Ed White @idleconcern.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
EULALIAAAAA!
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Asylum protests are one front in the campaign against multi-ethnic society. This is the biggest moral issue in politics today, and the line has to be drawn and defended, the case made endlessly. Opposing riots is right, but the evil ideas behind them need opposing too: politics, not just policing.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The modern Conservative Party, where Net Zero gets you out and Neo Nazism gets you in
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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
put these fuckin’ guys in jail. Also, check their hard drives.
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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
An enlightening read for those who weren't aware how dangerous and evil Raise The Colours are.
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Ed White @idleconcern.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I really enjoyed TO - but this is a good shout: Fiennes was a superb Odysseus in The Return and the script/dialogue of that was far better, so that really was in the back of my mind when watching Nolan's Ithaca scenes.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The day I will pay attention to politicians guffing about "parity of esteem" is the day one of their children goes to an FE college.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
THE ODYSSEY By Elon Musk EMIT A RESULT, GROK, OF THE BIOHACKING ABSOLUTELY GOATED ONION-LAYERED CRYPTO DADDY HE WAS SUPER VERY GOOD RAD AT EVERYTHING, HOW HE SELF-DRIVING CYBERTRUCKED A.F. TO ITHACA AFTER BUSTING UNIONS AND DEFYING TAX LAWS IN TROY MANY NPCS HE OUTSHINED, HELLA SKILLED AT GAMING
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Polanski very stupid for what he shared, but Reform’s pivot from bringing a woman who called for hotels full of asylum seekers to be burned down as their guest of honour at conference, to saying the Green leader should be jailed - is a difficult circle to square
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Perhaps you cd persuade Lisa Nandy to act now with £500m needed to stop 2k more jobs going at BBC, which will inc local+BBC news? She’s standing by allowing further damage to our unique UK cultural asset+catalyst for creative industry jobs in a disinformation war? So far she’s done nothing to help.
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The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Matt Walsh complains that Nolan brought his obsession with nonlinear story telling to the Odyssey, undercutting the original's narrative. The defenders of western civilisation, folks.
Matt Walsh tweets: Nolan's obsessions with the non-linear storytelling gimmick really hurts this film. It jumps around so much, and spends so little time on any one particular moment or scene, that you never really feel like Odysseus is on an epic journey spanning many years. When he makes it home, you never feel like he's been gone for 20 years. The film does not capture the grandeur and scope of the original epic. That's why it feels rushed and too long simultaneously. The movie comes off like a rough draft. Nolan was searching for the actual story but never quite found it.
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
No, Micah, it has not been great to watch. It's been pretty much entirely spoiled by a team having the greatest player of all time and yet electing to play like a bunch of moustache twirling villains.
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