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Having recently finished the wonderful Villager, I’ve just ordered a couple more of your books - this intriguing sounding novel, and some short stories.

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My periodic plea to Smalltown Supersound and @boomkat.com to make the @deathprodofficial.bsky.social recommended Org. record available on download/cd, not just the sold out vinyl limited release. Music like this needs to be made more widely-available.

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And walk round or over the Orme. Conwy is nice. Anglesey is gorgeous too.

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is really good - reminds me in places of Yellow Swans. Superb.

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Amazing record. So which whisky are you pairing with the 'spirits in another realm'?

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah, this is a good one! I’ve always found his music fascinating but a bit hit or miss - when a record of his clicks with me I love it, but others leave me cold. Hugely enjoying this one though.

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We have shifted large part of our front garden to an ‘allotment’ - it gets all the pm sun, and has proved to be a great way of meeting people too! Mix of raised beds, tubs, etc. Growing a fair bit of food, plus it’s attracted a lot of wildlife (try and include some water!)

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Several of these are new to us this year, so don’t know how they taste yet! The Blaze (striped) one has been by far our most productive, and we’ve still got more to pick of those - but we’ve not tried them before. Lots of soup, curry, and roasted veg to cook this autumn!

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Bulk of our squash and pumpkin harvest from our front garden - love growing these.

A selection of homegrown squashes and pumpkins on my table

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Beautiful writing (from a fascinating book) about one of my all-time favourite albums. “It is a wilderness record”.

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is an unexpected treat. Mesmerising. Have had it on repeat all day. maximedenuc.bandcamp.com/album/club-i...

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Club Imperiale, by Maxime Denuc

10 track album

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well, you’d hope so wouldn’t you…. Not feeling hopeful about her judgement at all.

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The country is properly losing the plot. It’s both laughable and scary.

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thanks for sharing these thoughts @bishopbarry.bsky.social - I miss my visits to Middlesbrough to work with your predecessor, but know just how special a place the town is as well as how tough things are. Has been sad to to see Middlesbrough in the news for such sad reasons recently.

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Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🌱 "Every garden can help to clean and cool the air, absorb storm runoff, offset urban heat, and restore biodiversity by supporting vibrant communities of pollinators and beneficial wildlife." —Richard Hayden

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Rich Neville @richneville.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They’ve all forgotten their kit and are having to do fascism in their pants.

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s superb isn’t it - really good stuff

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Seriously, why are people still calling them "protests" after this sort of thing? In what way are these expressions of "legitimate concerns"?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finally they came for the Daily Mail and my irony meter just packed up and left and I never heard from it again.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.

‘The British public decided in the 1930s that they would not tolerate black-shirted militias marching through their streets. They would cherish robust political argument; they would not accept thuggery and intimidation. When Oswald Mosley led his Blackshirts to Cable Street, local people turned them back. A new law – introduced by a Liberal, backed by Labour and carried by a Conservative majority – banned private militias, political uniforms and ‘the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object’. The British people are as determined today as in the 1930s that they will not accept the methods of Mussolini and the Munich Beer Hall. This government will uphold the law and defend the traditions of British democracy’.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Given that Tommo is now causing disruption over in Portsmouth you have to wonder what the police and intelligence services are actually doing.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Anyone who opposes or obstructs the RNLI’s work needs to change their heart.

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is starting to feel like a bit of a failure of police and intelligence services - feels like the Govt might want to comment?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As a very basic thing, we as citizens should not accept the presence of a private army of masked racist thugs on the streets of our towns... intimidating others and threatening to overthrow the state... There are some fairly obvious precedents for this stuff.

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Stop the thugs. This should be an absolutely basic matter for police and government.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 05/09/2026

How could an associate professor in divinity at Cambridge be expected to know that lying is bad? thecritic.co.uk/mone...

Ah yes, James Orr. A lot of us had been hazy about what it is exactly that associate professors in a divinity department do all day. It doesn’t seem to involve a lot of work: Orr is often to be seen at Reform events in London, which take up the whole morning even for those of us with offices down the road. Now we know he was also sipping cocktails while discussing ways in which wealthy foreigners might be able to get round the laws that ban them donating to the party.

The associate professor of divinity was filmed explaining to an undercover reporter that so long as everyone kept their mouths shut, there was no way that the authorities would ever find out. Orr spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow in theology, ethics and public life at Oxford, and it would be fascinating to know at what point he developed this theory of What the Electoral Commission Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Them. Perhaps he was off sick the day they opened the gospel of Luke: “What you have said in the dark will be h

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's explosive. It's also completely predictable. To see Reform say on camera that Electoral Commission is useless and toothless wasn't shocking... it's plain to see.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The media has insisted that it was in the public interest to run endless stories questioning the integrity of Jason Arday. So I await the endless stories about *this* guy.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just an idea, but maybe the spineless organ that is supposed to regulate our political parties could grow one.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I can't remember a clearer smoking gun than that Channel 4 News footage. Nigel Farage and his senior aides all filmed discussing apparent plans to break the law by funnelling foreign money into British politics, plans which at least partly went ahead. A criminal investigation surely must follow

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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 07/08/2026

Buying music on Bandcamp = supporting artists. Today is Bandcamp Friday! For 24 hours, we waive our revenue share, so even more of every purchase goes to the artists and labels behind the music. Go forth. The music is waiting. bit.ly/4pX3JPz

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace. This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Norfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plans

Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

As you say, sadly not surprising - but grim.

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

On its 78th birthday, wanted to express my huge appreciation for the NHS - this weekend alone my family has seen once again the huge benefits of our national health service and its emergency, surgical and care staff. Never take this for granted.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I will be blunt, at the point you are asking “but why should Labour MPs stop using a product owned by someone who endorses their own murders?”…you’d think “self-respect” would be on there.

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Great stuff - wonderful Sunday afternoon listening. Thanks @robertdallasgray.com - very much looking forward to the next Whin record on this basis!

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Amazing. Thank you - they’re brilliant

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I’d love some of these as apple watch faces.

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Nigel Farage is a demagogue who has little regard for facts or the truth. Journalists covering him have no such excuse app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73749/...

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Nigel Farage is a dangerous demagogue—here’s how to stop him

The Reform leader and his media cheerleaders have cynically exploited the murder of Henry Nowak.

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

How do you stick one of best songs ever written (Just Like Heaven) halfway through a set? But it’s @thecure.com , so they’ll follow it with classic after classic. Amazing band. This is a stupidly good performance at Primavera.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 05/06/2026

The Cure making it look effortless at Primavera tonight

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Farage is obviously trying to stoke up race riots and exploiting a man’s murder to achieve that. Henry Nowak’s dad said outside court that he does not “want the murder used to create further hatred, division or tension. This is not about racism this is a case about murder." Farage doesn’t care.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This from the man who spent years hectoring us about how crucial it was for 'our own laws to be debated and made in our own sovereign parliament'.

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Jon Miles @milesjon.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Sunday listening - this is gorgeous from @billorcutt.bsky.social and Mabe Fratti. tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/almost...

tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com

Almost Waking, by Bill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti

8 track album

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