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Stuart Dredge

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I scribble a little. Music Ally; The Week Junior; MIPCOM Daily News...

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Genuinely intrigued by who's seemingly spending a LOT of money to blat AI-slop 'Farage fighting in a TV studio' videos into feeds on former-Twitter.
A screenshot of an ad on X that is a thumbnail of an AI-generated video showing Nigel Farage fighting in a TV studioA screenshot of an ad on X that is a thumbnail of an AI-generated video showing Nigel Farage fighting in a TV studioA screenshot of an ad on X that is a thumbnail of an AI-generated video showing Nigel Farage fighting in a TV studioA screenshot of an ad on X that is a thumbnail of an AI-generated video showing Nigel Farage fighting in a TV studio
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Did not have 'alt-right banjoist suggests floating mine-wall in the English channel' on my 2026 predictions. More fool me. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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GB News owner’s son calls for mine-laden ‘floating wall’ to stop Channel crossings
Winston Marshall, former member of Mumford & Sons, says people crossing are ‘economic migrants’ not refugees
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
@zoekeating.com Hello! Nice to be connected again (not that I post much, I lost the habit...)
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]

From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:

NEWSREADER:

Extraordinary images here 

of an expat in Dubai 

[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]

…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.

[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. 

CLIVE MYRIE:

To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent

DAVID JONES:

Clive, this is momentous

It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.

[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]

You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.

It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.

CLIVE MYRIE:

Which are…?

DAVID JONES:

You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, 
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.

CLIVE MYRIE:

And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?

DAVID JONES:

I think we can expect to see:

“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”

CLIVE MYRIE:

Mmm. 

[Ends]
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I've quietly retreated from most social media in recent years. Not as a Big Decision: it just happened for various reasons. Figuring out how/why/where to post a bit more again, and in a way that isn't just one long howl about politics / the world, but also isn't just 'I read this nice book'
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
@aiannucci.bsky.social Maybe a phrase for the next episode? :) (from here: www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...)
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
"Both Labour and the Conservatives broke Britain," says Robert Jenrick. I hope he now holds to account any former secretaries of state for housing, communities and local government; ministers of state for health; and ministers of state for immigration for the Tory governments who did that, eh? 😉
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Maybe have another go at this one, Meta AI…
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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
always be there
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
a piece of advice I didn't put in here but I really wish to offer: if you see a friend 'posting through' some kind of horrible online pile-on event, reach out privately and say the words 'I love you and please stop posting. let's have a phonecall & see each other in person, shall I pop over?'
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Music Ally @musically.com · 19/11/2025
UK minister Ian Murray MP talks ticketing reform and grassroots venues levy Ian Murray MP is the UK's minister for creative industries, media and arts, appointed to that position in a September reshuffle.
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UK minister Ian Murray MP talks ticketing reform and grassroots venues levy
Ian Murray MP is the UK's minister for creative industries, media and arts, appointed to that position in a September reshuffle.
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Music Ally @musically.com · 19/11/2025
GenAI music firm Suno raises $250m at $2.45bn valuation Being sued by the music industry's major labels is clearly no barrier to raising money. GenAI music startup Suno has just trousered $250m.
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GenAI music firm Suno raises $250m at $2.45bn valuation
Being sued by the music industry's major labels is clearly no barrier to raising money. GenAI music startup Suno has just trousered $250m.
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
New book-arrival day! Claire North is a WONDERFUL writer. If I ever manage to tear myself away from this keyboard *eyes day's music industry news sadly* I can't wait to get stuck in.
My hand holding the new book by author Claire North, Slow Gods. It's a sci-fi book so the artwork has planets and a spaceship.
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
There were bad people on BOTH sides of the cold-blooded, state-sanctioned bone-saw murder, y’say?
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I see Elon has hit the ‘promote anti-BBC tweets from rando accounts in push notifications’ button…
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Spent this afternoon writing about something I'm fascinated by: the world of micro-dramas – and what they could mean for music. I even came up with some ideas, and a TERRIBLE AI-generated teaser for one of them... musically.com/2025/11/07/m...
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Music Ally's guide to micro-dramas – and what they mean for music
Very few things wouldn't be improved by the addition of a nine-tailed fox demon, don't you think? It's certainly the case for TV romance.
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Appreciate their principles, but not sure 'We refused to produce Rod Stewart because he's a TORY' is a take that will go down well with readers of an interview in *checks notes* the Daily Telegraph... www.telegraph.co.uk/music/interv...
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Heaven 17: ‘We refused to produce Rod Stewart because he’s a Tory’
The Eighties synth band on kickstarting Tina Turner’s comeback and turning down ‘Rod the Mod’
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Music Ally @musically.com · 07/10/2025
ChatGPT reaches 800m weekly users and adds Spotify integration OpenAI has reached some significant new milestones with its ChatGPT service. “More than 800 million people use ChatGPT every week, and we process over six billion tokens per minute on the API,” CEO Sam Altman announced at the company’s…
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ChatGPT reaches 800m weekly users and adds Spotify integration
OpenAI has reached some significant new milestones with its ChatGPT service. “More than 800 million people use ChatGPT every week, and we process over six billion tokens per minute on the API,” CEO Sam Altman announced at the company’s ‘Dev Day’ yesterday. And, like so many big tech services before it – Facebook, Spotify and others included – ChatGPT is entering its ‘I’m a platform for third-party apps’ phase…
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I see Robert Jenrick just finished his speech at the Tory conference with "Let’s take our country back". Entirely accidentally *very* similar to an old BNP slogan, of course 🤔
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I don't use my Twitter account any more, but I had to log in to check something. The 'all notifications' column is 90% far-right tweets. Any basic algorithm analysing at my posting/following history would realise that's anathema to my views. 6 Tommy Robinson tweets in the top 30 served up to me...
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
And perhaps once investigating imaginary terrorist networks is done, they'll get round to tackling the whole 'children getting shot in schools' thing... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A screenshot from a news report with a quote from an eejit politician.
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milo edwards @miloedwards.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Elon Musk really is quite the human being, eh? Jesus…
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 08/09/2025
ChatGPT was only pretending to write a book? Wow, it really is human.
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
@olihawkins.com hello! Came to check if you’re on here, as we’re in the final week of prep for our eldest son going off to university, and I had a happy flashbacks to ‘10 slices of toast and a pint of tea’ late nights :)
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Music Ally @musically.com · 05/09/2025
Four of YouTube’s top five songs are from KPop Demon Hunters YouTube’s latest weekly music charts reveal the continuing domination of Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters, and the artists involved.
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Four of YouTube’s top five songs are from KPop Demon Hunters
YouTube’s latest weekly music charts reveal the continuing domination of Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters, and the artists involved.
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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A screenshot of an article about Reform's Nigel Farage admitting it didn't have "experienced people who had been in government before" and then revealing that his solution to that was Nadine Dorries.
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Hat tip to Leonardo DiCaprio for serving internet comedians the world over with the perfect feed line... www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
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I feel 32, Leonardo DiCaprio says of turning 50
Actor says reaching milestone made him want to not waste time and reveals his top regret is not doing Boogie Nights
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The Price of Music – the podcast I co-host with Steve Lamacq – is back today after a short hiatus. The relaunch episode sees us chatting about AI band The Velvet Sundown; the big numbers around the Oasis reunion; Deerhoof's Spotify protest and more. Listen here: musically.lnk.to/TPOM
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The Price of Music
Your essential weekly music biz explainer – with Steve Lamacq and Stuart Dredge.
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
"One love, for the Mother's Pride (£1.19 a loaf, aisle 10...)"
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I'm deep down this rabbit-hole with no return...
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
My girlfriend suggested Oasis tickets for her birthday this year. I lied and said I'd spent my day off trying to get some when I just sat watching movies all day. Why would I want to stand watching some guys standing watching me back, all of us just waiting for it to be over?
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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
He looks like a cormorant about to be cleaned by RSPB volunteers.
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
@jodythompson.bsky.social TOTP 1978 rerun has brought up so many happy Uncle Bobs memories. Love is in the air!
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
15 months of dog ownership, and the only command I've managed to successfully teach her is that on a walk, if I sing the chorus to late-90s banger 'Turn Around' by Phats & Small, it's time to turn around and head home 🫠
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Woah! The Beta Band have got back together?
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
It can't be just me who, every time they see this phrase in a password screen, has to sing "I'm the ONNNNNNNNEEEEEE who had your babies...." #Dingdiggidiggidingdingdingdingdiggiding
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Music Ally @musically.com · 12/02/2025
Swastika t-shirt sparks takedown of Kanye West’s Shopify store Putting swastikas on your merch will end badly. There, we’ve said it. And, honestly, you’d hope that it wouldn’t need to be said. Outside the furthest, nastiest reaches of neo-Nazi music it’s something understood by artists. Alas, not…
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Swastika t-shirt sparks takedown of Kanye West’s Shopify store
Putting swastikas on your merch will end badly. There, we’ve said it. And, honestly, you’d hope that it wouldn’t need to be said. Outside the furthest, nastiest reaches of neo-Nazi music it’s something understood by artists. Alas, not Kanye West. To recap quickly: Friday saw a flurry of tweets from West’s account on X including ‘I love Hitler’, ‘I’m a Nazi’ and a series of anti-semitic comments.
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
IT'S NOT FUNNY it's a serious issue etc but... can't stop laughing imagining how this disruption at my kids' school would have played out. It's absolutely someone's phone emitting a deafening 'BOLLOCKS!' in the middle of maths isn't it...
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Sometimes I worry that when I’m using an emoji on my phone, I’m also making that face IRL 😬
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
My exciting first purchase of 2025 is a grater with its own pot. Hooted out loud at its desire to send me to a website to get instructions on how to use it…
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The UK’s challenges can’t be solved in a single five-year period. Calling it now: Musk pumps millions into Reform; throws the full weight of X’s also behind them to fuel dissatisfaction with progress, and Reform wins our next general election :(
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Giving guests freedom of expression doesn't mean you can't question and challenge them if they spout Any Old Shit. Joe Rogan uses this trope too, it seems to be a certain strain of successful podcaster's get-out clause from having to do, well, research. www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
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Steven Bartlett accused of amplifying dangerous health claims on his podcast
Experts say Dragons’ Den star’s Diary of a CEO podcast contained unfounded claims, including that evidence-based medication is ‘toxic’ for patients
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I've been sent a 'what are the most popular Christmas trimmings for Brits?' press release, seemingly based on counting search volume. I have questions about this methodology...
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Brace yourself for the social media splurge!
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 22/11/2024
I did it! I wrote up my Posting Middle Classes Theory, and tried to explain why I think Threads failed where Bluesky succeeded: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/down-in-th... (free to read)
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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
If you do not know the Beef and Dairy Network podcast already the first 10 minutes of this episode are as good a taster as it gets…
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