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Ian T

@northernian.bsky.social
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I write about football for a living (albeit a part time living). I also own an enormous number of vinyl records which I will undoubtedly bore you with. Sorry.

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Ian King @twoht.bsky.social · 6h
Your weekend match on UD was Eastbourne Town vs SIttingbourne in the Isthmian League Division One South-East, and I doubt I'll be more entertained by such a terrible game again this season. unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/the-weeken...
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The Weekend Match: Eastbourne Town 1-1 Sittingbourne - The Empress of Watering Places
Eastbourne is, according to a song, known for “old people and seagulls”, but the serenity of the town itself was in sharp contrast to the feistiest match I’ve seen in donkeys years.
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 6h
Andy Burnham has become the first British leader in the last 10 years to confirm that the Brexit referendum was targeted by ‘clear interference’ from state-sponsored Russian agents.
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In 2017 I had the chance to go and see Tom Petty play Hyde Park, but I was really busy with work & everything else and decided to give it a miss. I remember thinking, “there’ll be other gigs.” Two and a half months later he was dead. I’m still living with regret. Why didn’t I go? #vinyl #tompetty
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My new ‘Sound Burger.’ The sound quality is much, much better than I thought it might be. I always wanted one of these when I was a teenager. Nearly 40 years too late, I finally managed it! #soundburger #vinyl #music
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I own- and love- Tumbleweed Connection. But it was only this week, whilst on Sheffield Park station for an outing, that I learned that the album cover was not photographed in the Wild West! The man in the second image is sitting where Elton sat. He refused to perform Burn Down the Mission.
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Another record store day purchase, featuring Madness and their Radio One sessions from 1979-82. John Peel, Mike Read, Richard Skinner and Kid Jenson- proper names from my teenage years. #madness #bbc #vinyl
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🚨🎉 The Green Party BEATS Reform!!! 😮 Greens came fourth here last year. 💚 Proving once again that Greens can win anywhere. 🙌🏽 Labour tanking and Greens beating Reform! 👉🏽 Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Screeching 180 from Reform leader Farage who’s gone from Trumpian “Bomb the Islamists” to “We cannot get involved directly in another foreign war, we don’t have a Navy, we can’t even defend our own military base in Cyprus” overnight. He’s seen the polling showing the public don’t support the war.
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tammybuday.bsky.social @tammybuday.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A little David Gray whilst I work. I remember buying this album on cd, and it turns out that was twenty one years ago. Where do that go? #vinyl #music #davidgray
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
It’s a bit battered, and it really isn’t their best, but it’s joyous nonetheless. And sixty three years old- I certainly don’t sound that fresh at 58! #thebeatles #vinyl #60s #music
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BlueMayling @bluemayling.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Of course this is who he wants….
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
NEW: this is how the US press would report on this if it was happening in a ‘shithole country’. It’s an execution. But it also reveals how weak Trump really is open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Death Squads Execute Second Dissident
Or what the US press would say if this was happening on the streets of a "shithole" country overseas
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Carole Cadwalladr, "He's not that cuddle cosy golf club English pub figure" "He is in a relationship with the US far right and with the European pro-Kremlin far right" "What happened in Brexit, we saw that money that force that influence, those networks coming together"
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Well it's about time someone said it!
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Danish politician cut off after telling Trump to ‘f**k off’ in European Parliament speech
A Danish politician delivered a rather blunt message to Trump about his threats to take over Greenland during a European Parliament speech.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Gavin Newsom, Governor of California at Davos, does not hold back in criticising Keir Starmer and the European Union for capitulating to Trump, "I can't take this complicity, people rolling over, I should have brought a bunch of kneepads for all the world leaders" "Trump has a police state"
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
ICE agents arrest an innocent old man, take him out in the snow in his shorts, drive him around for an hour then release him Is this really Making America Great Again? Come on America, os this normalised harassing of your fellow American citizen really what you voted for?
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 20/01/2026
At Minneapolis airport, @maitlis.bsky.social watches on as shackled ICE deportees board an aircraft. "It's one of the most dystopian, the most chilling things, I think i've ever witnessed." "The plane doesn’t have a name or number, it’s a 'dark plane' - it doesn’t officially exist."
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
A little Genesis to brighten the day. It’s funny but I own a number of their albums and don’t really love any of them, but you can’t go wrong with a hits compilation. #genesis #vinyl #music #philcollins
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Time for a bit of Billy Joel. This is rather magnificent- a gig from the end of 1982, so prior to Uptown Girl etc but filled with magic. #vinyl #music #billyjoel
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I’m no fan of Manchester City- indeed far from it, the sports washing bustards- but the idea of that goal being disallowed for offside is beyond belief. #mancity #newcastle #var
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Walthamstow Football Club @walthamstowfc.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
🗓 MATCHDAY MINUS ONE Ending the year with a derby 🏁 📍 Capershotts - EN9 1NX 🎟 Adults £10 / Concessions £5 / U16s £1 (CASH ONLY ON TURNSTILES) 🚉 Waltham Cross
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Apparently I’m really difficult to buy for. Well, I don’t think that was difficult, was it? #vinyl #music #beatles #divinecomedy #billyjoel #level42 #davidgray #marychapincarpenter
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
The worst, most dishonest prime minister we’ve ever had, rocks back and forth in his Daily Mail cubbyhole spewing out idiotic bilge to kid himself that he and his disastrous Brexit weren’t an almighty national fuck-up. A deeply pathetic threat from an abject failure of a man.
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BORIS JOHNSON: If Labour MPs try to reverse Brexit they will be walking into a hail of machine gun fire - and if that's the fight they want, bring it on! But they should heed my warning before things get bloody...
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy. Enough to power 23 million homes! U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Farage’s ‘racism & anti-semitism’, as remembered by over 20 fellow alumni of Dulwich College, & a proper look at his ‘denials’. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Rianne Downey’s new album, which I’ve finally unwrapped after weeks of listening to it on Spotify. If you haven’t heard it yet, it’s quite staggeringly gorgeous. I’ve loved watching her with Paul Heaton, but this is rather different and something of a masterpiece. #vinyl #musicsky
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Sad!
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Trump Gets Hit With Brutal Fact-Check After Bragging About His Latest Poll Numbers
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 25/11/2025
“He's very good at lobbing hand grenades towards other politicians – he's not very good at receiving them." Why has Farage struggled to shake off school racism allegations, and is there an even bigger storm brewing for Reform UK? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/fara...
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Farage fails to address racism claims: ‘He’s thin-skinned, and it’s getting thinner all the time’ | The News Agents
Nigel Farage, who is facing resurfaced allegations of making racist comments at school, now says he “never directly racially abused” anyone – following a previous outright denial by Reform UK. What…
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Believe Nigel Farage about anything and you need to give your head a wobble ….
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It’s a little early for Christmas songs, but this is absolutely beautiful from @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social - and the video is similarly gorgeous. Top work Neil. #musicsky #christmas #divinecomedy
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The Divine Comedy - All the Pretty Lights
YouTube video by The Divine Comedy (Official)
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Rianne Downey’s new album, which I’ve finally unwrapped after weeks of listening to it on Spotify. If you haven’t heard it yet, it’s quite staggeringly gorgeous. I’ve loved watching her with Paul Heaton, but this is rather different and something of a masterpiece. #vinyl #musicsky
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
We’re about to watch the Boomtown Rats celebrate the 50th anniversary of their first ever gig. I got an email earlier telling me that they were giving a mask to each member of the audience for a pre-gig photo, but mine seems to be missing. Still, I don’t think I really need it. #boomtownrats #london
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I’m not normally keen on songs that go on for three weeks, but I’ll make an exception. When I first heard this, age 14, I think the phrase “when will this ever finish” was employed, but I have more patience now & rather enjoy it. Indeed, some of it is really beautiful. #direstraits #vinyl #music
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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Walthamstow Football Club @walthamstowfc.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
We're on the road on Tuesday as we face Witham Town in our rearranged fixture! 📍 Spa Road - CM8 1UN 🎟 Adults £10 / Concessions £5 / U16S £2 🚉 Witham
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DougBlueWahoo 🦋💙✌️🌈🌊 @dougbluewahoo2.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Just the tip of the iceberg with this corrupt mob like administration….
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 15/09/2025
We must unite against those who seek to divide us.
I know many people, particularly from London's diverse communities, are feeling extremely worried following the events this weekend. 

It takes me back to how I felt growing up in the ’70s and ’80s, when 
far-right political parties marched on our streets.

The leaders of the far-right are once again attempting to hijack our flag, with minorities being intimidated and fear, hatred and division being sown.

As Londoners, and as proud Brits, we must unite to reject the far-right 
– just as we have many times before.  

But it’s going to take a huge effort from us all – from people of all races and backgrounds, who are willing to stand up for our British values of equality, inclusion and mutual respect.    

As Mayor, I'll continue to do everything I can to challenge the far-right and all those who peddle the politics of fear and division.

I urge other politicians and Londoners to do the same.

MAYOR OF LONDON, SADIQ KHAN
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 11/09/2025
NEW: There have been nearly 10,000 fewer offences of violence with injury over the past 12 months, compared to the same period when I first became mayor.
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Violent crime plunges 13% in London as homicide rate less than Paris and Berlin
Despite there being ‘tens of thousands of fewer victims,’ Mayor of London Sadiq Khan acknowledged that ‘one death and one crime will always be too many’
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I found this album in a market at the weekend. I then went to visit one of my favourite record shops, and the proprietor asked me what I’d bought- and it turned out that he’d never seen it before, either. Stealers Wheel. Produced by Lieber and Stoller, 1972. #vinyl #musicsky #gerryrafferty
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Perhaps my favourite album by The Beatles. Yes, if you leave out the unnecessary stuff it could be three sides instead of four, but I could just listen to I Will, Blackbird, Dear Prudence and Julia on a loop for the rest of my life and never get bored. #vinyl #beatles #music
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Because I’m working and can’t be bothered to go upstairs and find another record, I decided to play a cd. And what an album this is- ABBA’s best, and one of the greatest, most joyous ever made. #ABBA #70s #music
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I suspect this is my least played Fleetwood Mac album. Playing it again now for the first time in rather a long time and I’m not sure why I’ve neglected it. It’s not Rumours, but it’s rather fine nonetheless. #vinyl #music #fleetwoodmac #80s
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
So every time I go to the theatre, or to a gig, I’m meant to be terrified afterwards. I’m probably in Central London after 9PM 20 times a year and my only fear is that Southern Rail may have fallen over again. This nonsense is brought to you by a man who is apparently afraid of Clacton. #london
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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Catching up with Very by the Pet Shop Boys- which came out in 1993, four days after the birth of my youngest boy. The cassette was a dear companion to me on the night bus to and from work, but I suspect this is the first time I’ve listened to the album in thirty one years. #vinyl #petshopboys
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Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Thought it was weird that a couple of estate agents never came back to us when we'd clearly expressed interest in a property, just to see if we'd give a counter-offer. I think this might be way more common than people realised www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dubious sales tactics at two leading estate agencies uncovered by BBC investigation
Undercover filming and whistleblower testimony reveals how commission is put ahead of customers.
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Ian T @northernian.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the greatest day of my life. A day which took a chronically depressed 17 year old and made him believe he had a purpose, and could make the world a better place. Everything I’ve ever achieved in my life has its roots there. Thanks Bob. #liveaid #wembley
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