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Paul Lewis

@realpaullewis.bsky.social
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Anti-Brexit bore. Guardian reading wokerati, music nerd, wine ponce, Francophile, Scandiphile, audio and acoustics professional, 2010 Save 6 Music veteran. This is not X - hecklers will be blocked. 🇺🇦

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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 14h
substack.com
Holborn and St Pancras byelection: Polanski is an utter failure
Some disparate thoughts on a terrible week for the Greens.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not a "gig". A devastatingly beautiful piece of performance art. No one moved, no one dared cough or go to the loo. No chatter in the audience - even in Cardiff. That ranks with Ragnar Kjaransson's "The Visitors". And in Wales! Laurie Anderson. Wales Millennium Centre. Tonight.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
thenewworld.co.uk
Alastair Campbell's diary: The door that leads back to the EU is finally open. Now let's walk through it
How fitting that new talk of joining again coincided with the 500th issue of The New World, originally founded to oppose Brexit
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Can we just be clear that, if you have, or ever have had, TikTok on your 'phone, then you are not a serious person.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Polanski has done to the Green Party exactly what Corbyn did to the Labour Party. Pathetic, unelectable student politics. The grace, dignity and seriousness of the brilliant Caroline Lucas shat upon by culture-war, TikTok generation not-grown-ups. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Green party of England and Wales facing international ostracism over ‘Zionism is racism’ vote
European Green party says motion goes against its policy, with German Green co-leader calling it ‘intolerable and unacceptable’
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Joy.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In case you'd forgotten.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We are, by some margin, the greenest people on our street. No one recycles anywhere near as many wine bottles as we do.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tom Watson, Palantir. Pretty disgusting. Am I the only person left on earth who doesn't have a price? There are things, most things actually, that no amount of money I could be bought for.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Danny Kruger's mum, Pru Leith, grew up in a house with an army of black servants - slaves - In apartheid South Africa. And we teat these people as mainstream, as it they are not just vile racist scum.
theguardian.com
Small boat arrivals are ‘wealthy men’ who do not deserve help, says Reform’s Danny Kruger
The fact that some migrants pay people smugglers thousands of pounds makes them well off, MP claims
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For T-Shirt Day I am wearing a black John Lewis Kin T-Shirt. #6Music
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
She was one of us who watch and think and understand and could see where all this was leading. R.I.P. Bonnie Greer. www.thenewworld.co.uk/brexit-news-...
thenewworld.co.uk
BONNIE GREER: How Boris and Farage are the Lords of chaos
BONNIE GREER discuses how Boris and Farage have come to stand above their parties and become Lords of chaos. Nigel Farage. Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean, f*ck this 6 Music Indie Forever Killers Brightside on a loop nonsense. We need a 6 Music Duffing Forever “stream". Breakfast. Shaun Keaveny. No cheerful inane breakfast bollocks. 10am. Gideon Coe. With Duffing and Paintbox Jury, 1pm. Marc Riley, 4pm. Deb Grant. 7pm. Tom Robinson.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
thenewworld.substack.com
Bonnie Greer’s driving, passionate, urgent search for our common humanity
The New World founder on the passing of the great journalist, broadcaster and playwright who has died after a short illness
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
These evil people are fascists. Those who support them are either narcissistic billionaires or thick as shit racists. If you want to know which one you are, just look at your bank balance. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Leader of Reform UK in Wales stands down after arrest on suspicion of assault
Dan Thomas, elected in May, says he does not wish to be a ‘distraction’ on same day Reform MS defects to Plaid Cymru
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You'll have already forgotten that a previous Reform UK Ltd. leader in Wales is in jail for treason having worked for the Kremlin, but you'll forget this tomorrow when another bent crypto billionaire chucks more billions at Farridge and you'll forget that the day after with another scandal.
theguardian.com
Leader of Reform UK in Wales stands down after arrest on suspicion of assault
Dan Thomas, elected in May, says he does not wish to be a ‘distraction’ on same day Reform MS defects to Plaid Cymru
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social ...and James, before you say Wales voted for Brexit (you haven't yet) - Wales did, but the Welsh didn't. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019...
theguardian.com
English people living in Wales tilted it towards Brexit, research finds
Areas of Wales with big English communities had larger leave vote in 2016, according to study
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The EES nightmare has returned to Schiphol. They've shut the e gates to Brits and have one person on passport control. 30 minute wait so far and probably another 30 to go. This is 100% on Farage.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
After the Brexit vote, Mark Carney helped steady Britain and avert financial collapse. Now, as Canada turns from Trump towards the EU, Britain’s 2016 folly looks ever more absurd. Want to bury Reform? Call a referendum on rejoining the EU. Let Britain vote knowing what Brexit actually means.
newyorker.com
What If Canada Joined the E.U.?
The idea that Canada could join the E.U. used to be a fringe topic of conversation. Donald Trump’s trade war with the country has pushed it into the mainstream.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Knuckle-dragging Neanderthal scum. Sorry, but we really have to stop tiptoeing around Reform types and pretending that every opinion deserves to be treated with polite deference, will say "good on 'em", seemingly oblivious to the rather important question of what, and whom, all that money is buying
theguardian.com
Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben Delo
Party leader, Nigel Farage, ‘humbled’ by contributions from billionaires as Harborne addresses ‘media speculation’
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Crypto is the currency of global organised crime, exists solely to avoid scrutiny and taxation, and needs to be outlawed by the EU and the UK.
theguardian.com
Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire
Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We don’t need folding phones. And we definitely don’t need those cretins with folding cases on their phones who take ten minutes to take a photo while blocking twice as much space as they would if they just used the bloody phone.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The EU, and the UK, which urgently needs to be back in the EU, top table not rule taker, needs to put the brakes on AI This bastard abomination that no one needed is the product of fucked America and we need it to just fuck America and not the rest of us Thank you for your attention to this matter
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Labour people. Stop the f*cking tribal bollocks over Burnham. Do you want to keep the pure fascistic evil that is Farage and Rupert Lowe out, or do you want to continue your petty nitpicking? Starmer was a good man. Farage was burying him so he went. Pick a side, there are just two: Good or evil.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We fly into Nice every month. Been coming here 40 years and never seen this. Sniffer dogs today on every luggage carousel. 9/11 25th precautions?
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
channel4.com
Tommy Robinson: Where's the Money Gone?
For Dispatches, Matt Shea examines the complex finances of Tommy Robinson
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Gilles Peterson's new shed. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/specificatio...
architectsjournal.co.uk
In Practice: Paul Archer Design on creating a DJ’s broadcast studio
Milton Studio in north London combines a bespoke broadcast studio with storage for a collection of 30,000 records. Practice director and project lead Emil Neumann tells Fran Williams about the project...
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This remains a thing of absolute beauty twelve years later. This is how every journalist should have treated Farridge in every interview since. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pyY...
youtube.com
Nigel Farage v James O'Brien - Interview In Full - LBC
YouTube video by LBC
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Oh this is a treat. @tomrobinson.com back on #6Music right now.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
STOP THE BLOKES.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Man funded by overseas people is today accusing those who delivered the scoop of being funded by overseas people.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
thetrueeuropean.substack.com
Farage and more dodgy donations. This changes nothing.
Farage is not a politician. Farage is a cult.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Religious people are delusional. Delusional people are dangerous. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
JD Vance says he’s doing ‘God’s work – and if that leads to the end times, OK’
Vice-president says on evangelical podcast he would feel ‘not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us’
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
substack.com
The killing of a black man
A French researcher exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey and the media who fell into their trap
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Classic Goebbels. Classic Trump. Ban journalists. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform UK bans three journalists from its conference after critical reporting
Guardian City editor Anna Isaac among those who had credentials to cover event declined
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Amol Rajan has gone! #R4Today
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm not a Starmer basher. I am very much a McSweeney basher. I despise Gasman, the only Labour figure at the Trump inauguration, which is evil, and who should f*ck off to Reform. But Starmer was too reliant on them. And Burnham's ability to engage with humans is what we need. And is refreshing.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
thetrueeuropean.substack.com/p/iceland-sa...
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Burnham putting the boot into the disaster of Brexit within minutes of taking to his feet in the commons for the first time as PM. Bravo.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
thetrueeuropean.substack.com
Trump: The Root of the Global Mental Health Crisis?
How one man’s assault on truth, democracy and the post-war order has left a generation anxious, exhausted and ill worrying what the hell happens next.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
theguardian.com
‘I was miserable for a lot of this century’: Stewart Lee on divorce, his adoption and the twisted children’s poem that explains his life
After a rocky few decades, the standup is nearing 60 – and finding contentment at last. But what does his grotesque retelling of The Owl and the Pussy-cat tell us about his inability to connect with p...
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A cretin with a crayon. This obscenity must stop. Burnham must join Carney in ending it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/vide...
theguardian.com
Watch Trump sign executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America - video
The US president signed order on Thursday amid growing trade war with Canada after the US enacted tariffs against its northern neighbor
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I've never been an Atlanticist. I've always looked at America with bewilderment. Baffled by those dazzled by it. And hence I'm not surprised that it's descended to where it is into the hands of a dribbling illiterate cretin. Europe was always so immensely culturally superior to philistine America.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It’s Lake Ontario.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I rate Miatta Fahnbulleh MP. But please stop saying "candidly". I counted it seven times on the R4 Today Programme today. I've just counted it 16 times on The News Agents.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That 6 Music Indie f*cking Bangers Forever trailer… Nothing makes me want to smash things more than The Killers Mr Brightside. I hate it.
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thanks to people like Rajan and Tim Davie... A reminder that Rajan was Lebedev's fixer and there at the palazzo where Johnson was compromised by Russia. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
theguardian.com
Amol Rajan warns BBC destined to shrink at ‘accelerating rate’
Presenter says he is moving to YouTube to avoid being left ‘behind the curve’ as media landscape changes
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Her greatest work is Jolene played ay 33. www.youtube.com/watch?v=doz1...
youtube.com
Jolene at 33 rpm
YouTube video by Tom Berry
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Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
thetrueeuropean.substack.com
Why MAGA Despises Europe
Sorry, but no other continent can match Europe for its culture, its art, its food or its breathtaking beauty. Consumed by jealousy, they’re determined to diminish, undermine and ultimately destroy it.
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