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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 13h

Braverman spouting bollocks again, I see. Despite being born/raised in Kent I have no desire to be English if this is how 'patriots' define it. Which is good, because only one of my grandparents was English, so come Reform's ethno-nationalist revolution I'll apparently be considered 'foreign' anyway

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is testament to No.10's frankly astonishing degree of political competence. A policy which was branded electoral suicide 48 hours ago now showing signs of robust popularity.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Imagine a PM who looked at the 'electoral suicide' reforms we clearly need, and just went ahead with them anyway. Imagine being brave enough to be the transformative leader we clearly need, and being happy to trade time in power for legacy. Just do the things, for heaven's sake, do them now!

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gradually repositioning my life so that I never again have to have a co-worker, AI or otherwise...

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Kent Current @kentcurrent.news · 24/09/2026

Five days after the Grand Burstin fire, engineers fear part could collapse, 90 neighbouring flats remain off-limits, and there is no reopening date. Plus a Conservative by-election graphic ages badly, and Maidstone reaches for the vaccum during an invasion of tiny bugs

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What happens to the Grand Burstin now?

The uncertain future of a Folkestone landmark, plus electoral hubris and an unexpected bug invasion

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Arguing about who is truly English while AI leeches into our lives is like the Mexica having a furious debate over a minor doctrinal issue while Cortes limbers up on the beach.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

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Ed Jennings @edjennings.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Local Authority is five years old. I’ve written some reflections on our past year, looked back at how a newsletter sent to 154 people somehow made it into print, and pondered what comes next. Thanks to everyone who has read or supported it along the way.

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Five years of Local Authority

Five years of independent reporting on Medway, and why we need your support for the next five

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Never have I felt so old, or from such a different planet Youth. When I was at university, I used to call my parents from a phone box outside our flat. They might not hear from me for weeks at a time!

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Folkestone Dispatch @folkestonedispatch.substack.com · 28/08/2026

The Dispatch will be taking on a fire walk in aid of our 2026 charity of the year South Kent Mind in October. If you could spare something for this great cause, as little as £1, it would really make a difference! www.justgiving.com/page/folkest...

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Gethin @gethin76.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

An excuse to post this classic

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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 27/08/2026

Tim Curry's Home Alone 2 is about a concierge who's assaulted by two ever-neglectful parents for trying to stop their child's credit card fraud.

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Isn't this the uniform Mark had to wear when working in that Mexican restaurant in Peep Show?

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Mark Gordon @markgordonmedia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🚨I NEED YOUR HELP! My book, Roberto Baggio: The World Cup Years is still on sale. How you can help- Please REPOST this!! My reach is limited, reposts help spread the word! You can buy a copy now or drop a review on Amazon if you’ve already got one🙏🏻 www.amazon.co.uk/Roberto-Bagg...

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Roberto Baggio: The World Cup Years : Gordon, Mark: Amazon.co.uk: Books

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cmitown @cmitown.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I trained for a marathon by driving my car for 26 miles everyday, but somehow I ended up being terrible at actually running.

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Jack Fifield @jackfifield.uk · 18/08/2026

Every unnatural death has a public inquiry in the form of an inquest

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Heres’ a poem for all the pedents.

Pedents

Foot soldiers in the War on Error,
they’re here to save us from ourselves,
with Fowler’s Modern English Usage
(first edition, nineteen twelve).

They scrutinise each word we write
for typos, gaffes, et cetera,
correcting all our dumb mistakes
to make our grammar betterer.

They sigh and tut and tell us off
for the rules we have forsaken
and chart this nation’s steep decline
by the care we should of taken.

Custodians of the King’s English,
they merely serve to keep it pure
and restrict, they hope, the ignorant
to three mistakes or less.

In doing so, they hold no fear
they will deprive a thing of life:
for it’s not important what is said,
what matters is that its right.

Brian Bilston

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is the best thing you'll watch today, or any day. Any All Black under 24 wouldn't have been born when Ma'a made his debut. It must be like facing a man made of steel lumbering out of the history pages

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Folkestone Dispatch @folkestonedispatch.substack.com · 12/08/2026

In this week's newsletter we speak to writer and filmmaker Ben Barton about his fascination with Folkestone's place in the history of television...

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📺 Is Folkestone the birthplace of television?

Plus: Distressed cats found abandoned in sealed cardboard box, and council hails popularity of new town centre library

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists

One of those 'STOP DOING X' memes, ripping into archaeology. It has images of soil stratum, a trowel, and a flint shard. The text mocks archaeologists for digging for pottery sherds and saying everything has a 'ritual purpose'.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

'Newspaper covers news, politics and sport' is now apparently a newsworthy 'strategy'. Wonder how many meetings packed with mega-brained execs it took them to come up with that?

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Folkestone Dispatch @folkestonedispatch.substack.com · 10/08/2026

A big beery bash bursting with brewing brilliance? It must be Folkestone Tap Takeover - which returns bigger than ever next month...

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🍻 Tap Takeover returns for huge celebration of craft beer

Your weekly guide to what's on in Folkestone

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

With his synapses ravaged by unlimited wealth, man who first had himself blasted into space and then hired the most beautiful city in the world for his wedding - but still found himself entirely unmoved - makes final desperate attempt to have a meaningful experience. news.sky.com/story/amazon...

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Amazon founder Bezos nears deal to buy stake in Liverpool Football Club

An announcement about a deal with the consortium led by Amit Bhatia, and including Jeff Bezos and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, could come as soon as this week, Sky News learns.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I’m not a mathematician but surely the 2000 people who cross the channel every day on the Spirit of France are more record breaking than this?

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 10/08/2026

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Folkestone Invicta @fifc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

What a way to start the season 🙌 #fifc | 🟠⚫️

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Today is the day. The mighty @fifc.bsky.social make their NLS bow at home to Walton & Hersham. The sun shines, optimism courses through the veins, all remains possible, dreams cloud the mind. Football is back, and it is magnificent. Up the Stripes!

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 07/08/2026

“Hey! What’s going on here? ... We’re losing the visual!”

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Folkestone Dispatch @folkestonedispatch.substack.com · 07/08/2026

Until the end of August we are offering 20% off annual subscriptions to the Dispatch... folkestonedispatch.substack.com/summersale

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Cédric Mas @cedricmas.eurosky.social · 06/08/2026

Good Night World

Un éléphant en cravate et costume (allégorie d’un électeur républicain US) qui regarde un thermomètre très haut avec marqué « crise climatique » en disant « il faut faire quelque chose ». La vignette suivante : le même éléphant en costume cravate portant une pancarte « interdisez les thermomètres »
Source Mike Lukovich

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The planet may be burning, but the inventive new viruses will get us first...

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Green Party: opposed to… green energy. Again. www.ft.com/content/6fe7...

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

There's a new Viz in the shops (issue 358). Sorry no refunds.

The cover of the new issue (Viz 358 - in the shops now. Hurry, hurry, hurry while stocks last), and a letter that reads as follows: "I see Professor Brian Cox is at it again, boasting about how his Large Hadron Collider at Cern accelerates particles to 9.9999% the speed of light. Well when I turn my torch on, the light comes out the end at 100% the speed of light, and I didn't need several billion quid to do it. In fact it cost a quid from Poundland. So he can stick that in his pipe and smoke it. Gary Ireland, Tauranga."

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

'Subject to any necessary consents' is usually a dry planning reference, but here...

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Please try this on a coke-and-vodka fuelled Ryanair flight from a provincial UK airport to Ibiza, please

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Might pivot to just releasing unedited recordings of my interviews as a podcast, would save me an awful lot of time just sitting here finding anything else possible to distract me from the business of actually writing the damn piece

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Top Flight Time Machine @tftimemachine.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

...a few years ago we did some Zippy content and were contacted by Tom Hayes, regular listener of the pod and son of Geoffrey. He informed us that Zippy and George were happily living out their retirement with Tom's mum following the passing of his dad in 2018... 2/3

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

For all the incredible work through the years, I'll always primarily associate him with this Reading chant, to the tune of Madonna's Erotica: 'Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, rub your beard all over my body'

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Important to object to and correct every single use of "remigration." The word is a euphemism designed to make respectable its users' project, which is ethnic cleansing.

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A scene from a future 'historically accurate' cinematic portrayal of the founding myth of Elon Musk's colony on Mars

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I became a county cricket member for the first time this year, it's like being 18 again when I sit down for a championship match...

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Folkestone Dispatch @folkestonedispatch.substack.com · 22/07/2026

Folkestone is to be merged into a new Mid Kent unitary council as part of the biggest shake-up of local government in Kent for more than half a century. Fair to say not everyone is impressed...

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🗳️ Folkestone to be merged into ‘insane’ new Mid Kent council

Plus: Parks awarded Green Flag status, and ‘Cold War bunker’ up for sale

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