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George Bernard Shaw’s favourite otter keeper. Boarding School Survivor. Words, music, documentaries, politics & translations. Can’t forgive The Sun & Daily Mail.

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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
There's a very special record coming from Beth Orton at the end of the month, and I had a lot to say about it for @uncutmagazine.bsky.social. "Seldom more vulnerable, never contrived, Orton revels in her strengths." www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/beth...
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Beth Orton's The Ground Above reviewed: candid album finds hard-won clarity - UNCUT
The singer-songwriter chases freedom on self-produced latest
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Berlin Calling! Flattered, honoured, and frankly thrilled to learn that my book, Lee, Myself & I, has been added to the The Rock & Roll Public Library, an archive of 20th century pop culture, collected over a lifetime by British musician and songwriter Mick Jones of The Clash!
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I'll keep pushing to get some form of explanation for how Horris Hill failed in its responsibilities to pupils by allowing abusers to thrive for decades before they moved on unhindered, in at least Rodney Allen's case, to further employment w/ kids. www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/2610826...
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
One of Britain's worse paedophiles - a boarding school teacher, naturally - just took a step closer to being sent back to the UK to stand trial. Forgive me if I punch the sky. www.news24.com/southafrica/...
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Former Rondebosch Boys’ Preparatory School teacher convicted of indecent assault | News24
Self-confessed paedophile and former teacher Iain Wares has been convicted of indecent assault in the Wynberg Regional Court.
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Attention boarding schools. Your "Those were different times" arguments can get fucked. "A paedophile teacher at an elite boarding school at the centre of historic abuse allegations was jailed last year. Sands was employed by the school from 2018-2023." www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/b751f59...
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Teacher at Britain’s most liberal boarding school jailed for child sex offence
James Sands, 47, sentenced to five years and three months in May 2025
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Imagine hating life as much as The Spectator
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Happy Birthday, Andrew. Hope you get everything we want. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested at Sandringham estate
Former prince arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office
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NickCubs @nickcubs.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The Colour Of Spring is 40. Courtesy of the great @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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"It’s About Time We Brought Art In, Innit?" Talk Talk's The Colour Of Spring at 40 | The Quietus
Wyndham Wallace pinpoints the moment Talk Talk emerged from their synth pop chrysalis, on third album The Colour Of Spring.
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Forty years young today... "Mark Hollis may have cast aspersions on how Talk Talk began, but this belated rush to hail latter accomplishments has bred collateral damage. The Colour Of Spring’s miraculous regeneration is its greatest casualty." thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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"It’s About Time We Brought Art In, Innit?" Talk Talk's The Colour Of Spring at 40 | The Quietus
Wyndham Wallace pinpoints the moment Talk Talk emerged from their synth pop chrysalis, on third album The Colour Of Spring.
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Children and women can never hope to be safe from sexual predators for as long as a newspaper can run stories like these, minimising the harms of abuse. Sadly, moreover, the Telegraph is anything but an outlier, merely reflective of the establishment it instead protects.
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Let it be known that this is the way things will always end - if only eventually - for all those who fail to recognise just how serious sexual abuse really is, whether by enabling it. covering it up, or minimising its significance. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour MPs say Starmer’s days as PM are numbered amid fury over Mandelson
MPs say release of papers on Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador could trigger leadership challenge
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Yet another reason for Mandatory Reporting across the board. People of all political stripes may well have known about this but, for expediency’s sake, chose to say nothing. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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MP Dan Norris arrested on suspicion of rape, sexual assault and upskirting
Labour suspended Norris, 66, last year after his original arrest on suspicion of child sexual abuse offences
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Kudos to @salisburycathsc for their honesty. They may not say why this is but many of us can guess. "Moulton said Salisbury Cathedral School is reacting to a change in thinking among parents, with fewer than five per cent of its 220 pupils now boarding." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Salisbury Cathedral School will not offer boarding from 2027
The school houses choristers from Salisbury Cathedral.
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Nick knows, and Nick's got the courage to speak up about it. I like Nick an awful lot. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026....
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Ex-British army chief calls on ministers to back MDMA-assisted therapy for veterans
Nick Carter says easing controls on MDMA will allow drug to be used as alternative treatment for those with PTSD
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
“It seems inconceivable that the governors were not aware of what was going on. My abuser was sent off on a sabbatical to get psychiatric treatment for his obsession with boys." www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/1586898...
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Scots private school where hundreds of pupils were abused could face prosecution
SHAMED private school Fettes College could face a corporate prosecution for allowing paedo teachers to abuse kids on an “industrial scale”, we can reveal. Scotland’s top law officer is understood t…
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
These schools were never safe. These schools are still unsafe. These schools will never be safe. It’s time to end this charade. How many abused children will it take to convince you? #boardtodeath www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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Eton head issues statement after ex-teacher jailed for sexually assaulting a pupil
Jacob Leland assaulted a pupil at his teachers’ accommodation and during a school trip
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Please be kind to any survivors of sexual abuse you might know. Every minute there's another headline reminding us of how we were manipulated, how we were silenced, how no one listened, how no one stopped it, how long it was allowed to go on and how powerful the abusers were. 💔
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
It's beyond credibility that members of the royal family weren't aware long ago of the depths of Andrew's Epstein links. The difference between those who abuse & those who cover up abuse is simple: one gets their rocks off, the other not. Otherwise: nowt. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Andrew went to intimate dinner with Epstein after his prison release, files suggest
Famous figures including Woody Allen were invited to party with disgraced financier and Mountbatten-Windsor, documents indicate
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
It's a good day to remind the world that the private boarding school where I was repeatedly abused during the 1980s, Horris Hill, offered a position they called "Official Visitor", granted to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, also great nephew of the prolific child abuser, Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“I was never culpable or complicit in his crimes," says Peter Mandelson. "Like everyone else I learned the actual truth about him after his death." Erm... After his death? He pled guilty to state charges of procuring a child for prostitution in 2008. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Jeffrey Epstein sent money to Mandelson’s husband after prison release, emails suggest
Child sex offender sent thousands of pounds to Reinaldo Avila da Silva, according to documents published by US justice department
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
No shit, Sherlock www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show
Newly released files from DoJ show the pair making plans in 2013 for the Tesla CEO to visit Epstein’s private island
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
It's beyond credibility that members of the royal family weren't aware long ago of the depths of Andrew's Epstein links. The difference between those who abuse & those who cover up abuse is simple: one gets their rocks off, the other not. Otherwise: nowt. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Andrew went to intimate dinner with Epstein after his prison release, files suggest
Famous figures including Woody Allen were invited to party with disgraced financier and Mountbatten-Windsor, documents indicate
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Here's another sexual predator working for another British boarding school where he was able to ply children with alcohol & take pictures of them naked, which he kept for half a century. What will it take for people to recognise these places need to pay? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Bishop's Stortford College teacher jailed for child abuse images
A former teacher, who created abusive images while working at a boarding school, is sentenced.
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Another reminder that Eton College knowingly passed on a sadistic alcoholic, their own headmaster, to another boarding school where he continued to abuse children and also protect other abusers. Such schools must now be held *properly* accountable. news.stv.tv/east-central...
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Top private school allowed sexual and physical abuse to 'flourish for decades'
Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry says Fettes College failed to protect children
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This matters. No one emerged from such institutions unscathed, and Britain is run too often by men who had all empathy beaten out of them. There as many abuse victims as there are those who depended on sacrificing human decency to survive, and it's a habit they've never shaken.
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Succinct confirmation of an unspoken yet crucial truth about Britain's private boarding schools: "They shamefully failed to protect the pupils and appear to have knowingly exposed them to teachers with a history of abusing children." #Boardtodeath uk.news.yahoo.com/abuse-inquir...
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Abuse inquiry: Pupils ‘wholly failed’ by Fettes College for decades
Lady Smith found pupils were sexually, physically and emotionally abused from the 1950s onwards
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Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Chenevix-Trench has been known about for decades www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Fettes College 'failed to protect pupils' from sexual and physical abuse
Children at ex-prime minister Tony's Blair's former school in Edinburgh were abused by both teachers and other pupils over decades.
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Now do EVERY SINGLE BOARDING SCHOOL in the UK (and indeed beyond).
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
It's all so distressingly familiar from my own experiences of coverups at Horris Hill. "Children were sexually abused, they were physically abused, and they were emotionally abused. Members of staff sexually abused children from the 1950s until the 1980s." www.childabuseinquiry.scot/news/scottis...
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Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry | Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry publishes sixteenth volume of case study findings
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
It appears @fettes-college.bsky.social had access to the incoming report about the appalling abuse its pupils suffered before victims can see it themselves. Yet again, criminals are provided with an opportunity to get ahead of the game, while victims are ignored. www.fettes.com/news-events/...
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Latest news... - Fettes College
Latest news... - Fettes College
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
If you're feeling hopeless, there's comfort to be found in the heartwarming story of FM Cornog a.k.a. East River Pipe and his manager / partner Barbara Powers, who've brought me some of the most heartening, heartfelt music I've ever known. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQO_...
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Secretly Frequencies - East River Pipe 'Mel'
YouTube video by Secretly Canadian
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I learned young that, when someone says you've got nothing to worry about unless you're breaking the law, , that's usually utter horseshit. I was abused as a child by my prep school Horris Hill's staff, and this taught me everything I've ever needed to know since about how authority works.
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A quick comparison of the Board of Peace and the United Nations
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Slowly but surely, victims of abuse at Britain's private schools will always fight for justice for the appalling crimes they endured while the establishment turned a blind eye. www.ewn.co.za/2026/01/14/i...
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Iain Wares extradition: Child protection organisation hopes for swift end to case
The 86-year-old teacher, who has been living in South Africa, is wanted by authorities in the United Kingdom to face multiple charges of sexual abuse involving children.
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
So Boris Johnson is responsible for funnelling £4million PER YEAR to Prince Charles', now Prince William's Duchy of Cornwall for a prison filled with deadly gas, and we have to keep paying until 2033 since Prince William presumably thinks a deal's a deal? www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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‘Catastrophic’ MoJ leasing of jail with toxic gas set to cost more than £100m
MPs criticise 10-year deal struck in ‘blind panic’ to rent Dartmoor prison, where high levels of radon had been detected
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
And this just in: 'New Classical' is dead. The Royal Family have killed the piano. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HnS...
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The Princess of Wales & Princess Charlotte | Piano Duet opens 'Together at Christmas' Carol Service
YouTube video by The Prince and Princess of Wales
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Andrew met Epstein in December 2010. Epstein pled guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2009. If you think the Queen and now King Charles didn’t help cover up for Randy Andy in the years afterwards - perhaps even before - you’re 100% nuts. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Photos of Andrew reveal how ex-prince gave Jeffrey Epstein access to British high society
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor reclines across five people in one photo watched by Ghislaine Maxwell at Sandringham
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Having reviewed Donald Trump's social media posts, I have rejected my own ESTA and will no longer allow myself to visit the US.
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
This Sunday I am mainly trying to think of a worse human invention than organised religion.
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Uncanny
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
All very well, but there's no law to force Andrew to disclose anything. Indeed, Starmer's government has failed to implement Mandatory Reporting, which would make it a crime not to report abuse and was recommended by the Inquiry inbto Child Sexual Abuse. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Starmer says Andrew should give evidence in US investigation into Jeffrey Epstein
Prime minister says in principle anyone with knowledge of child sexual offence cases should disclose what they know
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
1.5 million children are said to have been sexually abused since the Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse concluded. In the three years since, not one of 21 recommendations has been delivered by the UK government. It's almost like they hate kids. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO7w...
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#ACTonIICSA - The Elephant in the Room
YouTube video by The Survivors Trust
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
So it turns out that one *can* respond to stories of child abuse in boarding schools with appropriate measures for crimes of this stature. The UK should take note... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Prestigious Ballarat Grammar banned from accepting new boarders amid child safety reports
School board apologises after regulator imposes six interim conditions while it conducts a review
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
These mealymouthed, forelock-tugging responses are shocking. This step was so overdue it's neither powerful or brave. As a victim, I don't support the royals, either: I hold them responsible for a coverup. As for standards, Kemi: Shouldn't kids have *always* expected to be safe?
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Things that make me happy: Talking to Spain's Josh Haden for the first time in 30 years... www.uncut.co.uk/features/spa...
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Spain's Josh Haden: “The entire band was smoking weed every day!”
As The Blue Moods Of Spain, the deliciously drowsy debut from the LA quartet, is reissued, we talk to frontman Josh Haden
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Finally, the Sunday Telegraph admits folk aren't sending kids to boarding schools not because of VAT but because they actually want to spend time with their children. "Historic child abuse cases still emerging from the sector make for horrifying reading." web.archive.org/web/20251026...
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
If you - or anyone you know - attended Horris Hill prep school and are looking for a safe space to discuss your experiences, I've just established a private Facebook group for survivors. www.facebook.com/groups/11612...
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Redirecting...
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I figured it was time to have a chat with the exceptionally charming and erudite Roger Eno for @uncutmagazine.bsky.social about the songs, books, paintings and poems that make him most sentimental... www.uncut.co.uk/features/rog...
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Roger Eno - "I thrive on atmosphere"
The celebrated ambient composer Roger Eno on the songs, books, paintings and poems that make him sentimental...
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
From top to bottom, they're all the same. One of my abusers, Horris Hill school's deputy headmaster, regularly conducted the chapel services that we, as 8-13 year-old boys, attended. Elsewhere, he was having children remove their underwear before whipping them with a golf club they'd had to choose.
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The Tories Made Me German @wyndhamwallace.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Last week, a former Eton college teacher was found guilty of child sexual abuse. This week brings accusations against Hurstpierpoint College. Meanwhile 2025's Boarding School of the Year Award went to Monkton Combe weeks after a former teacher was charged w/ buggery. seenheard.org.uk/hurstpierpoi...
seenheard.org.uk
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