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Folky, lefty, beardy - all the clichés.

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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Stop the stitch-up! The Government wants to push through water legislation, locking in a failed privatised system for decades without giving the public a say. I’ve signed the petition to stop this water stitch-up and demand a public consultation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
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Stop the water stitch-up!
Stop the stitch-up! The Government wants to push through water legislation, locking in a failed privatised system for decades without giving the public a say. I’ve signed the petition to stop this wa...
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I think "am already turning into" is more relevant here...
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
That'll do nicely for @folkeast.bsky.social
A weather forecast for Sotterley in Suffolk
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Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Sometimes if you want something to exist you have to make it yourself, so that's what I've done. For the Love of Print I'm bringing 25 Printmakers of Kent together for a Print Fair! Sat 1 Nov at Assembly Rooms Faversham. 2 min walk from station, 1 hr train from London, 30 min from Margate etc. Come!
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I don't think I've ever read a book before that's so powerfully moving about grief and loss, but also so powerfully beautiful about love. Thank you @stonelands.bsky.social for writing this.
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I just backed Correspondence: A little collection of queer tunes on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/que...
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Correspondence: A little collection of queer tunes
Correspondence is a trans led collaboration bringing queer musicians together to create a collection of new instrumental folk tunes
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Just watched the local council meeting and I'm now more convinced than ever that anyone who wants a position of power shouldn't be allowed within a million miles of it.
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Fuck. RIP Ozzy 😢 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath frontman and icon of British heavy metal, dies aged 76
The singer, who later became famous on reality TV show The Osbournes, dies less than three weeks after retirement concert
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Tree House Second-hand Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Various merch in our little online shop - we only ship within the UK, but there are some emailable things for people anywhere in the world! Every purchase helps, as does every repost - thank you! #BookSky www.treehousebookshop.co.uk/shop
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Shop
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Privatisation broke our water system. @labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it. Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: ​https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&​
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Jon Wilks @jonwilksmusic.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
My fifth solo album, Needless Alley, is out on September 29th. You can pre-order it on CD, digital download, or blue translucent vinyl from the link below. Here's the gorgeous canal boat art by Alex Merry. jonwilks.bandcamp.com/album/needle...
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
If you want to know how old I feel tonight, tomorrow the daughter I used to take to Saturday morning kid's cinema is taking her daughter to Saturday morning kid's cinema.
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Matt Stanhope @mattstanhope7.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Can’t the day seize itself for once
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Another week, another opportunity for the Labour Party to dump on people... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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After disability benefits, is Labour really about to target the educational rights of special needs children? | John Harris
Noise has been building about restricting help for kids who badly need it. As a special needs parent, I can tell you: it’s terrifying, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Just sickeningly inhumane. People are forced to take dangerous small boat journeys to flee danger because for the vast majority there is no other way to claim asylum in the UK. The ONLY way to prevent horrific channel deaths is to open safe routes and Yvette Cooper knows this
Screengrab of a news article headlined 'Migrants arriving on small boats where a child has died should face prosecution, says Cooper'
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
What a wonderfully humane and compassionate book by @horatioclare.bsky.social - the small boats stories that politicians and the media so rarely allow us to hear. (published by the ever-excellent @littletollerbooks.bsky.social)
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Tree House Second-hand Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
We are struggling - I can't pay myself for June and bills will soon be due. I took the risk of buying quite a bit of new merch and it isn't paying off yet! Any purchase - of merch, of books - via our online shop will help enormously! Please repost if you feel able! Thank you x #BookSky
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
But Bob Vylan eh, they're the bad guys...
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Sitting in the garden avoiding Love Island and HOW IS IT STILL SO BLOODY HOT??
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Me too, mouse.
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
This ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Yup
Clive Lewis MP
@labourlewis
This has now shifted beyond discipline or fiscal credibility.
It's a punitive, flawed policy that weakens the safety net, harms disabled people, and risks destroying Labour's moral authority & electoral future.
Voters aren't just watching what we cut - but who we protect.
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I just backed Wakefire : The Album on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/lad...
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Wakefire : The Album
help us fund the making and release of our new collaborative album Wakefire : a ritual for the midsummer (releasing June 2026)
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney
If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Dissent is treated as terrorism, while terrorism is just state policy. #PalestineAction
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Glorious evening @codydock.bsky.social for the first @thenestcollective.bsky.social Campfire Club of the year - thanks to Tvoya, Patch And The Giant and the uniquely awesome @lunatraktors.bsky.social for a wonderful time! 🎶🔥💚
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Eliza Carthy @elizacarthy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Discomfort reading from the Met Office 🔥🔥🔥
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Lunatraktors @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Can't wait for this! Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/campfire-c...
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Campfire Club: London | Lunatraktors + more
The Nest Collective invites you to enjoy a beautiful outdoor concert at London's Cody Dock.
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The Nest Collective @thenestcollective.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Campfire Club is back for the summer 🌞 Come and joins us for our first gathering at Cody Dock this Friday!
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Lunatraktors @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Five days to go until Quilting Points comes out! Get it here: lunatraktors.bandcamp.com/album/quilti...
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
It's one of those afternoons when everyone's outside making me listen to their music, so I maybe they'd like to hear the new Martin Carthy album at a volume audible on the International Space Station...
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Really, really looking forward to this!
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English Folk Dance and Song Society @efdss.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Best of luck to ‪@hobgoblin.com‬ with their crowdfunder. Please consider helping to support this long-standing folk music institution. bmmagazine.co.uk/in-business/...
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Hobgoblin Music launches first crowdfunding campaign to keep music shops alive on the high street
The beloved acoustic and folk music chain aims to raise £190,000 to secure its future and invest in growth, with support from none other than Sir Paul McCartney.
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Folk on Foot @folkonfoot.com · 13/06/2025
🎤 Ever wondered how Folk on Foot began? Matthew sat down with Folk on Foot Hero @darrentansley.bsky.social for a chat covering: 🎸 Meeting his teenage hero, Richard Thompson 🦶 The epic 186-mile walk that raised £18,000 for musicians ...and more 📺 Watch from 6pm BST www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zKG...
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in Conversation with... Matthew Bannister - Folk on Foot
YouTube video by Moonhare Studio
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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Look at this fascist fuckery
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Dammit, another great writer gone 😔 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85
The American essayist, playwright and author of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man has died
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Another day, another reason to wonder why the hell I voted Labour... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals
Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Found Bob in Cheltenham.
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James Fagan @jamesfagan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Today’s dose of great folk music, brand new and classic, plus a preview of Sidmouth Folk Festival. Have a listen at your leisure. www.mixcloud.com/Jimbobfagan/...
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 22/05/2025
Me in The New Statesman today on poverty. Please share :)
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A cold childhood
My unheated home wasn’t a temporary discomfort. The chill got into my bones.
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Managed to get tickets for Suede and the Martin Carthy extravaganza this morning, so today has peaked and I'm going back to bed.
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
An excellent read 👍
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Martin Carthy in The Graun to celebrate his 84th birthday. Looking forward to hearing the new album! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
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‘Dylan said: teach me that!’ Martin Carthy on six decades of Scarborough Fair – and his new solo album
As the folk icon celebrates his 84th birthday, he looks back on falling out with Paul Simon, smashing up pianos with Dylan – and the classic song he’s still not got quite right
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robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
One for #ThickTrunkTuesday - the Hundred Guinea Oak at The Vyne in Hampshire. (www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/hampsh...)
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Johnny Campbell @johnnycampbell.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Just 5 spaces remain for Moorforge Folk Festival on 4th, 5th July in Cumbria. Full line-up, details and opportunity to reserve your space below! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moorforge-...
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