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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I had great fun writing this completely unsolicited and - it turns out - unwanted essay about Pink Floyd. People seem to like it, too.

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Unsolicited Pink Floyd essay

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pathetic…..

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Did I tell you I wrote a feature about Pink Floyd that none of the proper music magazines and sites wanted? Anyway it's going down quite well with the heads, and there's a great playlist beneath it, which kind of kickstarted the whole thing.

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If they had been dissident republican or loyalist paramilitaries, members of an organised crime group, a foreign white supremacy group, Islamic militants aligned with ISIS, environmental activists or holding Palestine Action placards, there would have been arrests. Fascist paramilitaries? Free pass.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 05/09/2026

There's an argument for calling them masked thugs, because that is factually true. There's an argument for calling them pathetic cosplaying loser incels, also true, and laughing at them damages their tough-guy self image and hurts recruitment. There is no argument for calling them protesters.

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If someone doesn't immediately respond to Farage's conference entrance with Alan Partridge letting off fireworks during his speech for Dante's Fireplaces, something's gone wrong,

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A huge Sadiq Khan achievement.

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Sundays are always good on #6Music but @djdebgrant.bsky.social is absolutely knocking it out of the park. So many cool, unique, seldom-played selections. I’m getting full value out of Shazam this afternoon.

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Not enough mentions in the tributes to Sam Neill of his role in seminal Aussie wartime saga The Sullivans.

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Here's a picture from the Mail of Farage's car being "written off by an angry mob".

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

When half time comes around, who wants to read an interview with Roberto Martínez from back when he was a new signing at Wigan?

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Roberto Martínez interview, August, 1996

Originally published in Goal, August, 1996

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Latest word clouds for Burnham, Badenoch, Farage and Starmer for comparison.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

That’s it, the worst podcast has arrived. Let’s shut up shop now.

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Pishcast
with Cleo Watson and Sophia Money-

Picture: two women, one holds a tea pot, the other a tea cup. The whole vibe is what if Laura Ashley catered the Nuremberg rallies?

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Alyx @mrrambler.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Nothing worse then a bandwagon jumper. Seeing as he wants to deport the families of a great many of the current players I do wish he would keep his populist beak out of this

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

State of this. You try to get some football news from a local newspaper site and you're presented with this. At least we now we know where (some of) Farage's £5m in krypto roubles are being spent.

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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

"30 women have been murdered in Northern Ireland in the last six years - not one road was closed, not one protest. What was the connection? They were murdered by white locals."

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

First of the month so time to post this: 20 slices of carefully curated randomness fresh from the decks of the nation’s favourite pretend radio station. open.spotify.com/playlist/79E...

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This Is Radio Horse, Top 20, June 2026

Playlist · Martin Horsfield · 20 items · 56 saves

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Travelling through London tonight, who are all these folk in Arsenal shirts and why aren’t they watching the match?

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

"I've never said we should deport whole communities" - R Lowe, 26th May 2026, Spectator "If that means entire communities go, then entire conmunities go. I really don't care" - R Lowe, 25th May 2026, X

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Shaun Maloney in the Celtic dugout, Kolo Touré in the City dugout, Anthony Barry with Tuchell in the stands. There’s always a Wigan link.

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I think I lose interest in the FA Cup after those rounds where there’s always someone with a tinfoil cup in the stands. Neither of these sets of fans will ever know what it’s like to hold a tinfoil FA Cup.

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

If JCB’s donation of £200,000 did buy its pothole machine a mention on Reform’s leaflets, aviation and krypto billionaire Christopher Harborne’s gifts of £27million will act as a signal to the tech bros that Reform is ready to do corruption with.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Lol Farage on BBC already saying "councils don't have enough money, we can't promise miracles!" coz he knows what an absolutely dogshit job Reform does running a council.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Bereaved family members of Covid victims write to Nigel Farage urging him to sack his Croydon candidate who said COVID was a "staged event" by the US military, with vaccines used to control the population. Reform has not responded to our story revealing his views bylinetimes.com/2026/04/15/r...

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

@hueymorgan.bsky.social has achieved the impossible and got me to switch to Virgin radio. It’s regularly the most RocknRollSoul-adjacent playlist out there. God I miss playing these records “out” - and loud.

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Lisa Holdsworth @lisaholdsworth.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Headline in today's Broadcast "Gary Barlow takes Jason Manford to New Zealand for ITV Travelogue" feels like the last straw. Stop telling us there's no money to make TV when you're sending dull millionaires on free holidays. FOR FUCK'S SAKE! Who is watching this shit? *eye twitch*

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The thing that irks me most about Clarkson’s AI jape (and I’m certainly not linking to it), is that the political parties will say they don’t approve of manipulating people’s images in this way, but have plausible deniability when it comes to their proxies who don’t give a shit.

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Can’t think of anything to listen to this morning? Here’s one last call for my monthly Spotify playlist, designed to jumpstart your listening. There’s a link to an 80-hour compendium of all of these in the blurb.

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This Is Radio Horse, Top 20, March 2026

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

AM, FM all that jazz / We’d rather sing along with Jazzateers (and Echo & the Bunnymen, Broadcast, Annie & the Caldwells. Altin Gün, Yuck and the like). Yes it’s another Radio Horse playlist. Careful curation or random load of shit? You decide.

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This Is Radio Horse, Top 20, March 2026

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The fact Nigel Farage's company is called Thorn in the Side Limited is instructive. He doesn't want to run things; too much work. He doesn't want to solve things; too much thought. He just wants to be an annoyance. The classic backseat driver.

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

She helped save my football club (#wafc) and I once chatted to her on Kent House station, so obviously I’m a bit biased, and knowing @shattenstone.bsky.social a bit, he’ll have asked some awkward questions. For a minister, Lisa Nandy talks a good game and plays with a straight bat. I like her.

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‘You call it a shitshow – I say it’s unforgivable’: Lisa Nandy on Epstein, Mandelson and Labour’s torrid week

The culture secretary talks about secret briefings, the need for solidarity and why the government must recognise its big moment of reckoning

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Paul Clarke @clarkeeeeee.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Man who doesn't turn up to do his job, tells a room full of retired people that working from home is bad.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

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‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September

Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Catch up on the best in 80s also-rans, elegant janglers, and electro torch. Fifty six followers on Spotify can’t be wrong. Updated every month. Keep it locked.

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This Is Radio Horse, Top 20, February 2026

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Happy my songs of the year to all who celebrate, a Spotify Christmas tradition since 1965 (the Kinks, the Who, James Brown; possibly stronger than this year’s list). If you like what you hear, please give it a follow (2020 is the one to beat). If not, I believe other end-of-year lists are available.

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The Horse’s Best of 2025

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Number crunching: Individuals arrested within five days for suspected manslaughter after fire apparently related to building materials ripped through seven Hong Kong apartment blocks v individuals arrested over Grenfell From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Teenage Fanclub performing Everything Flows. Watch the full song plus interview, which I taped off Snub TV in January 1991, here youtu.be/V3ltg4AwD7g

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Stoatwobbler @stoatwobbler.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This won't end up going badly for either Gullis or Reform at all now will it?

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It’s that time again. Twenty tunes to reboot your listening when you can’t think of anything to put on. open.spotify.com/playlist/79E...

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This Is Radio Horse, Top 20, December 2025

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Martin Horsfield @thehorse1.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I don’t have a freeform, play-what-you-like radio show, but then again who does, besides Mickey Bradley and Pete Paphides. However, if I did, this is the shizz that would be on the playlist. ‘Follow’ this Spotify and you can have the playlist updated every month: 54 listeners can’t be wrong.

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This Is Radio Horse, Top 20, November 2025

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Bill Jenrick (father) LinkedIn: "I served a 5 year apprenticeship at AEI Manchester and qualified as a Management accountant. Then I worked as an accountant...." Robert Jenrick (son) : "...gas fitters like my dad"

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 05/10/2025

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Reform UK’s Skelton East, Redcar and Cleveland by-election candidate Craig Holmes, trousers down like a toddler doing a pee pee on someone’s property. He’s standing for election next Thursday.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 05/10/2025

Packed hall for Toby Young.

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