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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 14h

I’m beginning to realise that in the Rupert Lowe worldview how "British" you are is entirely dependent on your capacity to sustain a hyper-vigilant, 24/7 performative liturgy of pathological xenophobia and manufactured division. Citizenship as a perpetual anxiety attack, if you like.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today we witnessed Tice, Jenrick and Farage exploit the RAF Fairford counter-terror probe to stoke small-boat hysteria. By reflexively blaming "Iranian agents" these Reform populists bypassed empirical verification to feed a pre-exisiting xenophobic narrative The rhetoric used exposed a desperate...

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Musk operates within an accelerationist framework that views traditional Western liberal democracies as obsolete, decaying structures. By amplifying far-right grievances, he attempts to validate his self-styled persona as an unconstrained, transcendent historic actor. In his calculation, the ...

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

By replying to an account championing a far-right mob besieging the Basingstoke police station where “Danny Tommo” was detained, Musk is utilizing his position as an algorithmic gatekeeper to validate domestic militancy, weaponize white grievance & undermine the British state's judicial sovereignty.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

By euphemistically designating an individual who sabotaged a humanitarian vessel with a blade while a responder was onboard as an "anti-migrant activist," the BBC engages in grotesque semantic laundering. This is not activism; it is the sanitisation of life-endangering thuggery.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This maritime sabotage by Daniel Thomas, the self-appointed guardian of the nation, exposes the far right's abysmal ethical vacuum. Slashing a rescue vessel with a first responder onboard is a feral capitulation to atavistic malice. It is not activism; it is unadulterated, life-endangering thuggery.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Weaponising existential pathologies to odiously subjugate an emergency worker is a sublime piece of ideological self-parody. The cognitive contortion required to proclaim yourself the defender of Britain while attacking the very people tasked with protecting it is spectacularly grotesque.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sabotaging a vessel mid-channel w/ someone aboard is not "border protection" but an instantiation of primitive sadism. Stripping away the veneer of patriotism exposes the core truth: an ideological void so profound it requires the performative construct of human drowning to secure digital capital.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When the aggressively nationalistic, "pro-sovereignty" Reform UK proposes to outsource the core sovereign function of border control to an external actor, we see how it's populist framework yet again prioritizes performative ideological alignment over actual constitutional governance.

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Farage says he wants to ‘hijack’ Trump’s ICE czar to help secure UK border

Reform leader also tells US event Europe should have ‘more sensible view’ of president’s administration

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reform Cllr George Madgwick's X post from yesterday commits a profound epistemic reductionism by conflating the absence of localised post-hoc criminal indictments with the absence of a pervasive culture of structural intimidation. By isolating the Portsmouth RNLI lifeboat station as a ...

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Few contrasts could more perfectly anatomise the moral inversion now taking place in Britain. It is a profound perversion of civic ethics: the humanitarian impulse is recoded as betrayal while thuggery acquires the vocabulary of patriotism, and presents itself as the politics of legitimate concern.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The contrast exposes a remarkable inversion of civic virtue: humanitarian rescue is recast as ideological transgression, while racist antagonism towards the rescuers is dignified as political dissent.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A politics of mass expulsion redraws the boundary of belonging — and once belonging becomes conditional upon ethnicity, the civic order enters a condition of social metastability whereby accumulated citizen antagonisms eventually precipitate widespread systemic fracture.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Watch how that kindly old gentleman leverages the weaponisation of hypothetical victimhood as an affective solvent, dissolving the evidential distinction between possibility and probability until his own pathological form of xenophobia can masquerade as precaution.

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Rupert Lowe MP, Piddington local breaks down in tears because of how bad its gotten.

YouTube video by Working Class Patriot

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

From Brexit to Brexit-from-Britain: maybe one day the world will become sufficiently homogeneous for #Piddington. Until then it seems the only consistent response is to keep shrinking the map until nobody else is left on it. Then finally why not declare a garden shed sovereign territory?

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Lowe masterclass in far right rhetorical grift. Conjure the spectre (rape), racialise its imagined perpetrator (asylum seeker) and then invite fear to impersonate evidence. The manufacture of a hypothetical victim in order to confer retrospective moral legitimacy upon an antecedent xenophobia.

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Rupert Lowe MP, Piddington local breaks down in tears because of how bad its gotten.

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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Lowe’s insinuation (0:15) yesterday that accommodating asylum seekers necessarily magnifies the threat of rape to women living nearby is a particularly pernicious species of political sophistry: it takes a legitimate concern about sexual violence and performs a grotesque epistemological ...

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Rupert Lowe MP, Piddington local breaks down in tears because of how bad its gotten.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I just responded to Victoria Derbyshire about her @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social #Piddington interview. What's your take? #asylumseekers #immigration #farright

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In their flagrant unenlightenment, the opposite-of-good citizens of Piddington have chosen to imagine asylum seekers en masse as an undifferentiated category of threatening foreign males rather than as individual human beings whose claims have yet to be ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...?

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nobody launders pathological xenophobia through the counterfeit vocabulary of sociology better than the far right, right?

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nice try Rupert-baby but there is something almost comically non sequiturial about the rhetoric: 52% → 7% is presented as though the arithmetic itself constitutes an indictment. But 7% white British does not mean 7% British, any more than ethnic heterogeneity entails cultural disintegration. It ...

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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New post: Racism and xenophobia are not 'legitimate concerns' mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/09/raci... When politicians/media describe groups like those in black wearing masks as protestors against asylum seekers in small boats, they presume the motive is 'legitimate concerns' rather than racism.

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Racism and xenophobia are not 'legitimate concerns'.

During the 2010 election campaign, Prime Minister Gordon Brown was questioned by a member of the public about immigration. Shortly afterwa...

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Trump’s assault on power-plant climate rules is an exercise in civilisational myopia masquerading as deregulation: the fiscalisation of private gain alongside the externalisation of ecological and intergenerational costs. It converts the atmosphere into an unpriced sink for industrial ...

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

THREAD on how Rupert Lowe and Restore UK are gaming Facebook's new recommendation algorithm. Facebook's recommender system isn't simply a chronological stream of things you've chosen to follow. It predicts what you are likely to engage with and can recommend material from people and pages ...

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The government’s proposed £100,000 cap is explicitly retrospective to 25 March 2026 precisely because otherwise donors could front-run the legislation and render it nugatory. Thus the genuine democratic question is not whether the state may ever change the rules. It is whether a political ...

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The £72m flowing into Reform UK from two crypto billionaires is almost allegorical. Crypto promises liberation from banks, regulators and intermediaries; Reform promises liberation from Westminster, “elites” and the political class. Yet this supposed escape from concentrated power only ...

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Britain is watching a handful of billionaires acquire an astonishing capacity to pre-finance our political future. This is plutocracy by instalment: political power quietly ceasing to be something citizens confer and becoming something the ultra-rich can underwrite in advance. A democracy in ...

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This represents an inspiring dialectical humiliation in the far right’s campaign against the @RNLI. There is a gratifying peripeteia here: the attempted degradation of a civic institution becomes an advertisement for its civic virtue. The more stridently ... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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RNLI reports ‘significant’ donations boost after being targeted by far right over small boats

Charity condemns ‘disgraceful’ intimidation and insists it will continue core purpose of saving lives at sea

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 26/09/2025

The Brookings Institute found that Charlie Kirk was the 2nd largest misinformation spreader among podcasts they analysed. "Mr. Kirk, a conservative activist and the founder of Turning Point USA, ranked second, with 17 percent of his episodes containing an unsubstantiated or false claim." Gifted:

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Steve Bannon’s Podcast Is Top Misinformation Spreader, Study Says (Published 2023)

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Mandy Ward’s claim that the RNLI is a “taxi service” is an odious piece of moral contortion. It insidiously recodes humanitarian obligation as “complicity”, rescue as “facilitation”, and the volunteer who risks his own life as the moral delinquent. It is not merely a category error but a ...

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The far right’s attack on the #RNLI is a particularly grotesque moral inversion: the volunteer who risks his life to retrieve a drowning stranger is recast as the traitor, while the masked agitator attempting to intimidate him assumes the mantle of patriot. This is not patriotism but ...

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

BBC Radio 4 news today called it the “mistaken focus of an anti-immigration protest." But the real story is darker: a racialised hallucination acquired the temporary status of fact, then summoned a crowd to enforce its hallucination physically. Pakistani teenagers were transformed from human ...

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is an overtly political statement unbecoming for a chief rabbi that conflates Jews and Israel and does not represent the views of me or people like me I could say more, but it’s almost Rosh Hashanah and I don’t want to start the new year badly - and, frankly, its awfulness speaks for itself

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OSINT Mirror Feed @osint-mirrors.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Source: @osinttechnical on X The head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Igor Chaika, attempted to downplay Russia's deteriorating relationship with Armenia today, but admitted that "there are ups and downs." The admission comes as Russia's influence in the Caucasus wanes due to the war in Ukraine.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's 2027 & BBC headlines have almost totally normalised the.perspective of balaclava-clad Nazis. 'RNLI volunteers attacked after failing to establish the ethnicity of people they rescued.' 'Concerned patriots confront volunteer lifeboat crews over their persistent refusal to let people drown.'

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Surely vigilantism is not simply a form of protest? It represents an attempt to substitute private coercion for democratic authority.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Surely vigilantism is not simply a form of protest? It represents an attempt to substitute private coercion for democratic authority.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

How about 'far-right activists'? Quite a few #BBC journalists these days don't understand that impartiality does not require them to become descriptively neutral about demonstrable facts.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

How much political power should money be capable of purchasing without ceasing to be compatible with the democratic ideal of political equality? Does anyone know how UK law provides an answer to this question? #Farage #ReformUK

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Deliberately blurring the detail is key to her ongoing mission to foster division. Let me clarify. A 'further submission' is not simply an automatic 'second go' at an asylum claim. Under the Home Office's own rules, it becomes relevant after the applicant has exhausted the available appeal ...

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Allison Pearson (@AllisonPearson) on X

Sorry, this is very poor journalism from @SkyNews Yes, the Asylum backlog looks like it’s down. But that’s INITIAL asylum applications. Once someone is rejected they make a Further Submission to have another go. That’s where the backlog is now hiding. In second and third

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In the mid-70s Kahil El'Zabar worked with Dizzy Gillespie who was himself one of the great architects of the African-diasporic expansion of bebop. El’Zabar took that principle much further back toward African rhythm, communal participation, chant and ritual ... 1/2

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The island of Gozo on the maltese archipelago throws up an architectural surprise on every corner. Odysseus was shipwrecked not too far from here before he ended up as the possibly unwilling sex slave of the allegedly beautiful Calypso for seven long years.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This evening I found a Reform UK leaflet dangling in my letter box. Just reprehensible bullet points about immigration and small boats. Ripped it in half. Threw it on the public pavement outside before a timely breeze ushered it down the nearest gutter.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Freddie Hubbard's 'Red Clay' (1970) captures the moment when hard bop evolved into sophisticated jazz funk without sacrificing improvisational depth. The personnel alone is extraordinary: Freddie Hubbard — trumpet Joe Henderson — tenor saxophone and flute 1/2

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

'Karma' is Pharoah Sanders' third recording as a leader. This spiritually themed album was released by the Impulse! record label in 1969. Some see the 32-minute-long "The Creator Has a Master Plan" as a kind of sequel to Sanders' mentor John Coltrane's legendary 1965 recording 'A Love Supreme'.

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Intimate yet disorientating—sounds seem to exist under a microscope while vast imaginary landscapes open beyond them. Earlier records could feel almost hermetically abstract; this 2022 album is mysterious but has a stronger melodic and emotional thread. feliciaatkinson.bandcamp.com/album/image-...

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Image Langage, by Félicia Atkinson

9 track album

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richrdb.bsky.social @richrdb.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

One of the most philosophically sophisticated ambient records of the last decade. Like the phenomenological writings of Merleau-Ponty, this 2022 album strips away conventional narrative until the smallest events acquire immense significance. carmenvillain.bandcamp.com/album/only-l...

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Only Love From Now On, by Carmen Villain

7 track album

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