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JoelTaylorhack

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Ink-stained hack, writer, dad Politics, cricket, music, food, travel, books… not necessarily in that order Bird hellsite - @JoelTaylorhack Substack - joelbtaylor.substack.com

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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 6h
Maybe Elliot Anderson should have stayed at Forest
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 21h
Had wondered what the most stupid take might be today Jury still out but this must be near the top
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This could be very exciting for London media The CNJ would be an excellent independent voice www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Dale Vince plans London-wide news operation to take on ‘rightwing bias’ in the media
Green energy entrepreneur plans rescue package for the group behind the Camden New Journal, Islington Tribune and Westminster Extra
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well this is an extremely important, if utterly depressing, read
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a few months time, I turn 50 (somehow) & have just managed to arrange few days of escape with the family on Holy Island Randomly, I've picked up a Paul Theroux book of essays; the first chapter includes this segment from one of his own novels and it's really cheered me up
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My oldest daughter is turning 14 in a week or so She wants to get her ears pierced and I can't think of a decent reason to say no, other than I don't like the thought of it Instead, I'm going to emphasize how it's her decision and she will have to take full responsibility They grow up too quickly
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You mean all those saying an early election would happen were talking nonsense? No, I won’t believe it
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For such an apparently clever chap, this interview doesn't seem wise archive.ph/YAHAD
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is very sad to hear Mark Doyle's reports from Rwanda and Sierra Leone in the 1990s were extraordinarily brave and excellent pieces of reporting in the worst possible circumstances www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Veteran BBC Africa correspondent Mark Doyle dies
Doyle was best known for reporting on African conflicts in the 1990s and 2000s, notably in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
With her plan to block the jobless from buying cigarettes and alcohol, Badenoch appears to have picked a policy designed to give organised crime and other crimes a boost
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Horatio Clare @horatioclare.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Come and talk about the story of our times: refugees, migrants, the small boats and how we can help, not hate each other. Cambridge library, 2pm Saturday www.library.live/calendar/we-...
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We Came by Sea, with author Horatio Clare — Library.Live
Author/broadcaster Horatio Clare discusses his book and highlights stories of kindness and refuge in the UK. In conversation with Dr James Gardom of Pembroke College.
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Feel this is devalued by a lack of Two Brothers' Mushroom and Wild Garlic flavour www.theguardian.com/food/2026/se...
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‘They smell of urinal cakes!’: 100 unusual crisp flavours, ranked – from truly awful to totally scoffable
Move over ready salted, salt and vinegar and cheese and onion. Gourmet crisps are everywhere, but which are actually worth trying?
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is stupid Almost as though the BBC doesn’t understand satire www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
BBC removes 11 Mitchell and Webb comedy sketches from iPlayer
The corporation said it had included "the ones that still work today and not the ones that don't."
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
William Rees-Mogg has a great deal to answer for
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have an afternoon off So my first stop
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I know I shouldn’t but I’m finding what’s happening at Spurs endlessly funny
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Very sad to hear of Stephanie Cole’s death Cabin Pressure all the way this evening
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Well, @jonnelledge.bsky.social we had a holiday in Denmark this year which included a trip to an excellent train museum run by volunteers in the town of Struer The first thing our guide said to us was Lord Palmerston’s remarks on the Schleswig-Holstein question
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Another reminder, if one was needed, that Michael Palin continues to bring joy into the world www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...
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Michael Palin: ‘I confess to trying some powder in Studio 54’
He has a reputation for being the least provocative of the Monty Python team. But behind the affable exterior, Michael Palin, 83, is a man full of surprises
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My 11 year-old is a curious child She left for school today at 6.01am so she could try water polo This really wasn't what I expected
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is one of the most stupid comment pieces I've ever read www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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Labour class unit mustn’t gentrify trade jobs
If middle-class children are ushered towards vocational subjects, which careers will be left for the working-class kids?
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Struggling to find Ben Delo’s convictions on the BBC Nor, indeed, his pardon from Donald Trump which is even more damning
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 09/09/2026
RNLI volunteers put themselves in harm’s way to save lives. They should never face abuse or threats for doing so. That includes the crews based on the Thames, who respond to hundreds of incidents every year. They deserve to be thanked, not attacked.
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Abuse of RNLI volunteers 'wholly unacceptable', chief says
Peter Sparkes says there has been "deliberate misinformation" spread about the charity.
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I don’t think this is unreasonable If a parent makes this choice, making sacrifices should be par for the course
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sitting by a zebra crossing in Herne Hipp watching a raging river of children flow uphill to a variety of schools A multitude of shapes, sizes, colours, voices, an ordered chaos held together by a lollipop lady at the centre
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve got a swan on my cappuccino and all is well with the world
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KS_1968 @karenroberts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What a man!
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Am amazed
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Every new prime minister gets to celebrate their 50th day in office by restoring Liz Truss's rightful title of 'UK's shortest serving prime minister'. Congrats, Andy Burnham.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ryan Bridge - Founder of "Raise the Colours" flag protests - charged with 14 offences including common assault. Danny Thomas - ringleader of Dover/Portsmouth thuggery - an ex-con jailed for attempted kidnap at knifepoint. Almost like they're not "ordinary people with concerns" but criminals.
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is an astonishingly weak story Based on a "whistleblower" about whom readers know nothing, making claims that are either false or entirely unverifiable No one pretends the system works, but for The Times to make it their lead story is lazy and pathetic
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Felt that was a very angry, self-obsessed, speech from Farage
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
He's so blase about accepting cash from anyone that he, checking, triggered an entire by-election on the basis he should be allowed to take money from anyone without any questions
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Fascinated to know what Reform think will happen in the country when, assuming they form the next government, they declare a national emergency Probably the best way to start an emergency
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Feels so unfair this sort of thing keeps happening to Farage
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Struggling to understand how Farage can remain in post whilst Reform UK’s James Orr and Dan Jukes have ‘stepped down’ from their roles following last night’s undercover filming on Channel 4 News.
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This really does make me smile
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Zia Yusuf has tweeted this about the leader of Camden Council, Sagal Abdi-Wali, who has lived in Camden for over 35 years, after arriving as a child refugee in the early 1990s. (Nadhim Zahawi, born in Baghdad to an Iraqi Kurdish family, came to the UK as an 11 year old:should be asked about this)
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
To be honest, I'm unreasonably excited about seeing the Bayeaux Tapestry in London I've seen it before but it's a wonderful opportunity And I haven't even got tickets yet
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Sun is just an unpatriotic embarrassment
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Zack Polanski - "The Holborn and St Pancras by election will be a referendum on ending rip-off Britain" It really isn't
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My youngest daughter is joining secondary school in a few days and goodness I already want to mute the WhatsApp parent group Endless whingeing about uniforms
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rich European countries following the UK and US down into the moral vacuum of aid cuts is utterly shameful and ultimately self-defeating. An abrogation of responsibility and international solidarity, and a sign of growing insularity and weakening self-confidence. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
theguardian.com
Sweden ends aid to Liberia in a hammer blow to women’s rights and healthcare
Sexual and reproductive services face an uncertain future as the country’s second-largest donor halts support worth hundreds of millions of pounds
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Starmer resigning on the day Burnham returns to the Commons for the first time as PM doesn't do Starmer's reputation as a decent person much good Seems to be timed extremely to cause the most amount of distress
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Starmer stepping down as an MP Great exclusive from my old paper, the @newjournal.bsky.social www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/excl...
camdennewjournal.co.uk
Exclusive: Sir Keir Starmer to step down as MP for Holborn and St Pancras
Former PM thanks local Labour supporters and says he is proud of what he delivered in 11 years in the House of Commons
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Shropshire and Beyond @shropshirebeyond.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It’s the first day of meteorological autumn - and here are some of the scenes we can look forward to in #Shropshire as the season changes.
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Douglas Adams desribed the kakapo a bird that not only 'forgotten how to fly, but it has forgotten that it has forgotten how to fly' But he would be thrilled at this news www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Kākāpō rising: 90 chicks swell population of the world’s heaviest parrot
Critically endangered New Zealand bird enjoys record breeding season triggered by mass fruiting of native tree, pushing its numbers to 325
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Heard the interview with Mary Austin on BBC Today and it was quite moving And this Guardian piece with her is really very powerful Being Freddie Mercury's closest friend is quite a responsibility www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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The extraordinary untold story of Freddie Mercury: Mary Austin on her best friend – and love of her life
He was Queen’s flamboyant frontman. She was his shy girlfriend, dreaming of marriage until they both realised he preferred men. Thirty-five years after his death, in the week he would have turned 80, ...
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Best pub view in the country
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