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Sean Adams

3 months

It's been a long journey to bring back DiS. To mark the new era, the first essay is an empowering read It's in response to the Misogyny in Music report by the inspiring Nina Creswell ( @OhNinaC ) And it's about speaking out

Why we need to talk about speaking out

Speaking out, reasonably and responsibly, must be made safer. Until then, it needs to be done carefully.

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Every. Word. Of. This. 👏 @GeorgeMonbiot Never heard an applause like this on #bbcqt either.

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Has the Telegraph considered cancelling their Netflix?

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What’s your favourite album cover that references another album? This sort of thing

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Venues are still asking for a cut of merch money One tour manager has decided to write his own contract

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Touring is broken It’s even harder for smaller artists Something needs to change, and fast

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Powerful post about the state of live music from Shirley Manson ( @garbage ) on Insta

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40+ members of the House of Lords have investments or senior roles at oil & gas companies Shell earnings: nearly £10bn from April-June 23 peers own shares in Shell Their investments increased by at least £640,000 in the last six months @openDemocracy

Revealed: Energy crisis has made 30 Lords members wealthier

Peers stand to make thousands from BP’s bumper profits as British households are told average bills could treble

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@markjenkinsonmp Hi Mark, I didn’t have a garden and worked from 8-8, often later, and didn’t have time for a walk most days. Left a job after 4 and a half years and had a 10 minute goodbye on Zoom. You should be ashamed of yourself making such divisive and gaslighting public statements

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@nabilayers A classic of the genre. And inspired Metallica, Prince and Danger Mouse 😉 On a related tangent. Surprised this one hasn’t popped up in the thread yet

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@MarinaPurkiss @JamesCleverly Don’t they know there’s a war on? Speaking of donors and picking sides “James Cleverly insisted there is no need to return the cash – estimated to be nearly £2m from donors who are either Russians, or made fortunes in Russia…”

Rich Russians who bankrolled Tories ‘wanted to stop Jeremy Corbyn’, minister claims

James Cleverly denies that funding ‘smells a bit iffy’ – or that any came from ‘Putin’s friends’

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@supertanskiii Your tweet just reminded me of this 😐

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Tactical voting is now being discussed across the media Follow @MVTFWD to get on board with the campaigns backed by the likes of @MarinaPurkiss @carolvorders @GNev2 @RobertSmith @MassiveAttackUK @LizWebsterSBF @GreenJennyJones @Tim_Burgess and many more #StopTheToriesVote

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The big issues the music industry needs to address in 2023 1. streaming royalties 2. vinyl’s environmental impact 3. inclusivity 4. ticketing scams 5. “disrupted” media ecosystem 6. burnout 7. brain drain to other industries 8. friction with the creator economy What else?

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Kate Bush’s success is a reminder of the “new music” fallacy People are more interested in great music that is new to them Than new acts and this week’s best new releases Greatness never gets old Theory: An obsession with “new music” has damaged our industry more than piracy

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9 months

How about a sub-thread of albums that subtly reference another album?

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“Remember what I told you If they hated me they will hate you England's not the mythical land of Madame George and roses It's the home of police who kill black boys on mopeds” — Sinéad O’Connor, ‘Black Boys on Mopeds’ (1990)

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via @hebakadryy (who mixed & mastered the new @bjork album)

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Can someone carrier pigeon this to Jacob Rees-Mogg? They will be relying on voter apathy to grow the 32.7% of population who didn’t vote in 2019 If you’re sick of living in #ToryChaos 1. Tactically vote the Tories out 2. Upgrade our democracy How? Join the @MVTFWD

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@johnestevens This Nadine Dorries?

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@ChrisGPackham Even worse than this is hearing BBC News journalists using the dehumanising language of “boats” instead of people seeking asylum They’re normalising the language on air, which seems far more dangerous than criticising it.

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@mrjamesob Your comment on air earlier led me to look up some of his Covid Briefings. Really crushing to revisit these and to think he was waltzing out, not paying attention to any of this

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How could Boris Johnson possibly have known he was breaking the law? He was busy when all the briefings were on… 📼 23/3/2020

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@secrettory12 @BBCNews It’s far worse hearing BBC journalists using and therefore normalising calling humans seeking refuge “boats” isn’t it?

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@afneil Genuine question: When someone talks about the trauma of receiving death threats, why is your first response to join the pile on, which seems to have encouraged more abuse and harassment? I used to really enjoy This Week but it’s awful to see this is who you are.

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@supertanskiii @Jacob_Rees_Mogg We all know who he’s working for

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@JolyonMaugham All the crowing about cancel culture stopping men having a platform Meanwhile…

And still television companies beat a path to wife-beater Stanley Johnson’s front door. Why? |...

A series about Marco Polo is just the latest venture for the man with a shameful past

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@henrymance He wasn’t just anti strikes, he was pro Boris

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In music journalism, people have invented genres and movements for decades It’s unsurprising to now see the Daily Mail is constructing a group called the “New Elite” to hate Some analysis… 🧵

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@markjenkinsonmp Here’s a frontline experience for you, whilst the heart of government didn’t take the virus and the public health measures seriously

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My strongest memory of COVID: I was sat in a respirator. They are horrible to wear. It made my nose stream and I'd gone deaf in one ear from pressure on my temperomandibular joint from the mask straps. I was tired. So, utterly, dog tired. I'd just reviewed a man, in his 50s

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@ukhomeoffice @SuellaBraverman They’re not “boats” they’re human beings

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Reminder: Calling people seeking refuge “small boats” is dehumanising

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@brokenbottleboy It’s absolutely disgusting that people are saying we all broke the rules. We didn’t. Because we didn’t want to get sick or risk killing someone by passing it on. I still don’t.

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@supertanskiii Tory Update 📉 “341 down in England. If you add in the Scottish tally (-63) and Welsh (-86) They’re down about 500 seats. That’s bad. This is a very bad result.” — @lewis_goodall

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The music industry has been ruined by the attention economy Few in music truly understand social media, they just see metrics and KPIs Can’t wait until the era of everyone being made to be a ‘content creator’ is over Let musicians rest. Commission docs about them & fragment!

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4 months

Look forward to #sexistshaun commenting on this MP with his bums and boobs

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A busy day ahead. Get in the Ocean. Always the best start 💚

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Barely a day goes by that this cartoon doesn’t come to mind You can replace Murdoch with various far right MPs, media barons, broadcasters, columnists and “free speech” campaigners

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Musk is getting rid of the “For You” feed Tip: create a list of your favourite tweeters 1. 📝 Create a “For Me” list 2. 📌 Pin your list to the top of your feed 3. ↗️ Click on ••• at top right of a profile or a tweet to add them to your list

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Young Fathers remain the best band in world As intense, sweet, rowdy and giddying as a night out in Tom Waits’ imaginarium Dedicating ‘Shame’ to Suella is the cherry on the flamin’ cake iPlayer it, innit #bbcglastonbury

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Half asleep and the radio announces UK PM is speaking at a hard right event with Italy’s PM, Hungary’s far-right nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orbán, and Steve Bannon?! What are we sleep walking into? #r4today

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I started managing Charlotte Church earlier this year Saturday’s show to kick off her UK tour was extraordinary The Guardian concurred with this incredible ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review

Charlotte Church’s Pop Dungeon review – a festive farewell to a glorious covers band

With Prince, Julee Cruise, Black Sabbath and Jennifer Rush on the set list, the Welsh singer gave her pop anthems night a rowdy, emotional send-off

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@lewis_goodall Short takeaway: Tory culture wars, anti netzero policies, anti-refugee rhetoric, endless stories of corruption and a series of disgraced MPs shows they’re not fit to govern and out of touch with the people of these isles.

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@peterwalker99 Can you contact the Tax Payer’s Alliance for a comment on this? 😏

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If anyone’s interested in better understanding why touring is so tough right now Have a look at some of @eli1ah ’s posts @ZOLAJESUS ’ posts And I shared lots in this thread

The economics of touring

Following on from various discussions of late about musicians being ripped off (venues taking 45% of merch sales?!) here’s an alarming read on the economics of touring Especially recommended for...

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Are venues really taking up to 30% commission at the merch desk? Yes. I spoke to musicians who’ve had enough… And the @FeaturedArtists Coalition about their #100PercentVenues pledge, which venues from Brudenell to Barbican have signed @theQuietus 👚

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With Boris Johnson leaving office, will we finally see the release of his book about Shakespeare? Y’know, the one he was apparently too busy writing to attend Covid briefings and planning meetings…? 🧵 a thread 🧵

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It’s 1 year since people booed Boris Johnson at the jubilee A few days later he quit as PM to booing from outside of Downing St Has he been seen in public since?

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Chancellor Zahawi has spent much of his parliamentary career working as the chief strategy officer for Gulf Keystone Petroleum, an oil and gas company. In the 10 years up to 2019, he reportedly received more than £1m from fossil fuel firms

Why putting an oil executive in charge of your economy is a bad idea

Nadhim Zahawi’s ties to Big Oil are indicative of the Conservative Party’s wider failures on climate.

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The Conservative Party has accepted more than a million pounds in donations from the energy sector since the last election

Oil and gas firms have given £1m to Boris Johnson’s Conservatives

Exclusive: Tories accused of being ‘worryingly close to fossil fuel’ industry as oil and gas companies line up for Conservative Party conference

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Was thinking the new BBC chair’s name rang a bell Independent: “…report that dismissed the idea that Britain was institutionally racist… Commissioned in the wake of the BLM protests, the report found that institutional racism doesn’t exist” Telegraph: “anti-woke”

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@campbellclaret @GaryLineker How many can we tick off in recent weeks?

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@BootstrapCook Some 6 Music listeners set their alarm at 3 mins or 33 mins past the hour to avoid the news

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6 months

For anyone who enjoys @mrjamesob ’s opening monologues and wishes they weren’t interrupted by ads and callers I can thoroughly recommend the audiobook of How They Broke Britain A whole new kind of road rage hearing the Paul Dacre chapter

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2 years

Please stop saying we’re “post pandemic”. Covid isn’t over. One show in. Whole tour off. Get well soon, Regina 🙏

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Hi dear friends. I can’t believe I’m writing what I’m about to write. After being so careful and miraculously avoiding it for over 2.5 years, I came down with a bad case of Covid.

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If the last few days have been triggering with the #RussellBrand allegations, it’s worth noting the music industry has some resources 🧵

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In unrelated news, former Tory minister Amber Rudd became an exec director of Centrica back in January

ITV News

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British Gas owner Centrica and Shell announce billions in profits as households face soaring energy bills

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@mrjamesob It’s spelt grife, James

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@MarinaPurkiss @Conservatives And yet the language has become increasingly dehumanising

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Reminder: Calling people seeking refuge “small boats” is dehumanising

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@EmmaKennedy @RhonddaBryant @MrJohnNicolson is this one for you to look into? Feels like a breach of standards in public life but I’m no expert

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How could Boris Johnson possibly have known he was breaking the law? He was busy when all the briefings were on… 📼 23/3/2020

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When an entire industry shows such a level of disregard for the human lives that keep it alive, how can anyone feel truly safe while attending shows? Can you even blame musicians for wondering whether it’s worth continuing to play them? ✏️ @lfitzmaurice

The Live-Music Industry Is Broken

Supply-chain issues, mental health crises, positive COVID tests. As artists continue to struggle, is any of this even worth it?

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No Question Time On A Dead Planet. I’d recommend following @earthrisestudio and @theslowfactory for more on climate justice but this is another brilliant @GeorgeMonbiot clip from last night’s #BBCQT

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#DontBuyTheSun

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New: The Mirror published a piece about Trevor Coult being demonetized by YouTube because he criticized Harry and Meghan. It was a complete lie, and The Mirror had to remove the piece. @TheSun has now published a piece based on the original lie. Here is what really happened...

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@SamCoatesSky Wasn’t any problem with Johnson employing a former civil servant?!

Boris Johnson appoints Dan Rosenfield as No 10 chief of staff

Little-known former Treasury adviser currently works for corporate advisory firm Hakluyt

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@Number10cat It’s been their Twitter avatar on here for a while

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Olivia Rodrigo was absolutely amazing at Glastonbury. ‘Deja Vu’ sounding sensational and like a song that’s been in your life for two decades. Dedicating ‘Fuck You (Very Much)’ to the Supreme Court Justices was the cherry on the sundae 👌

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@DMinghella Also still trying to work out why investors would be put off by high taxes on the super rich, and not by a population with no money to spend on products and services 🤷

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@JohnnyMercerUK @carolvorders @FredThomasUK What clicks are they generating? How do you know or define what “normal” people think”? Pretty sure most people would expect people in public office to keep their promises, no? Why not make your argument with facts rather than unfounded personal attacks?

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Today has been A LOT to process Hosts of The Trawl podcast @MarinaPurkiss & @jemmaforte are going to live on @TwitterSpaces to make sense of the end of the Truss era And all the funny reactions on Twitter Join us at 9:30pm BST 🥂

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Yesterday: UK govt says we need to get rid of “low-value” degrees Today: Figures released by industry body UK Music suggest music tourism contributed £6.6bn to the economy

New high of 1.1m for overseas music tourists to UK last year, report says

New figures show the international pulling power of stars like Harry Styles and Glastonbury Festival.

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1 year

One recurring response to my cost of living post is people not being able to get last train after gigs Is it time the live industry considers starting gigs earlier? Still think we need more matinee gigs too

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@seaninsound Buying a record is a treat. Buying a ticket is like a weekend away - book train tix, usually can’t make the last train home, meaning overnight accomm. Or v expansive taxi. So yeah, it’s a treat, if affordable.

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Marina’s opening to this show is quite something. Take a moment for it. I often wonder why “woke” has become an insult because being awake to injustice and what’s going on in the world, should be what makes us human Even if something so far away can feel so close to home

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I’ve never done a 4am show on @lbc and had the switchboard light up like a Christmas tree before… So many of you called in to share how the war in the Middle East is impacting you Thank you for giving so much of yourselves to the show.x Listen here:

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@jonsopel Have you come across the term DARVO before? It makes sense of some abusers but also of many things in public life at the moment It’s not just an inability to accept the premise and reflect on something It’s avoiding consequences and casting yourself as the victim

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@RhonddaBryant Waved through by a PM whose family appears to still have financial ties to Russia? To sit alongside Lord Lebedev…

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Got some news to share Around this time next week Which happens to be Blue Monday *whispers* It involves the return of @DrownedinSound

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@MarinaPurkiss @Ofcom Why is it filed alongside the news channels on the telly?

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@MarinaPurkiss Harrowing Once heard hours of calls like this to @mrjamesob & @ShelaghFogarty . Every single one of them heavy with grief and rage It’s gaslighting every time I hear “it was just a bit of cake” and claiming he ‘got all the bit calls right” when dither & delay was the norm.

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ICYMI: Santigold posted a very open letter about why she pulled her tour #MentalHealthDay

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I am so sorry to announce the cancellation of my Holified Tour. Please read the letter attached or click the link below to read the full letter with details of this announcement.

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#BlueMonday is meant to be the most depressing day of the year It’s also the title of one of the greatest songs of all time And it has inspired this… 🚨 NEWS 🚨 @DrownedinSound ’s label + pod is returning 🧵

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“Instead of asking a woman why she didn’t escape abuse, ask the man why he abused her in the first place.”

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@BestForBritain @GaryLineker Will be curious to see how many other top BBC presenters have made pro Tory statements without a single ounce of outrage from gesture politicians

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Did you know that some venues take a huge commission on merch stall? Earlier this year I wrote about how even Universal Music are getting a share of sales from acts they don’t work with Read it over @theQuietus

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@mrjamesob People who rail against cancel culture draw the line at someone pointing out that calling people seeking refuge “boats” is dehumanising. This is Farage’s Breaking Point Britain, where mainstream extremism is now our reality. To speak Tory for a moment: Who will do trade deals…

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@campbellclaret She didn’t even turn up to vote for or against the Windsor Brexit deal this week Meanwhile, another Richard Sharp…?

Government picks Tory peer Michael Grade to chair Ofcom

Choice of veteran broadcasting executive appears to bring chaotic recruitment saga to an end

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@MarinaPurkiss Whereas is Lee Anderson’s research talking to Benton, Gullis, secretly funded anti-trans think tankers, and his white supremacist acquaintance with links to the BNP?

New deputy Tory chairman faces fresh questions 'over link to white supremacists'

Ashfield MP Lee Anderson, who is Rishi Sunak's new deputy Tory chairman, appears in photographs with Skegby Scooter Club regular who supports white supremacist punk bands that reference Adolf Hitler

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Hard to argue with this. Also: join a union

United Musicians and Allied Workers

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The only people benefitting from the current music industry are the tech billionaires and major labels. No money flowing to artists, even well-established, popular acts. Touring has become unsustainable for even the biggest artists. Artists are expected to suffer- it must change!

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People who seem to be thrilled about Elon Musk buying Twitter • far right • holocaust deniers • QAnon Worth following @mmfa , @hopenothate and @slpng_giants for more on this

Banned Twitter users celebrate Elon Musk’s takeover of the website

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The live music industry is both booming and in crisis And I’m looking for your insights and stories. I’m working on an essay about about how Taylor Swift can become a billionaire and iconic venues can close in the same week… 🧵 1/9

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@grantshapps @Keir_Starmer Does that make you the political wing of fossil fuel companies?

Conservatives Received £3.5 Million from Polluters, Fossil Fuel Interests and Climate Deniers in...

Individuals and entities linked to climate denial, fossil fuels and high pollution industries donated more than £3.5 million to the Conservative Party last year, DeSmog can reveal. Electoral Commis...

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@Eve_Barlow I’m yet to see any abusive memes about Depp racking up millions of views. No sons of former presidents slagging him off. Funny that.

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Imagine if the editor of Byline Times was a BBC political journalist A piece from 2018 by @OwenJones84 which feels relevant to “the debate” about @GaryLineker criticising the use of language by a taxpayer funded, ministerial code breaking, Home Secretary

If the BBC is politically neutral, how does it explain Andrew Neil? | Owen Jones

He symbolises the rightwing domination of our media. Yet a politics presenter as aligned to the left would not be tolerated, writes Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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@ZoeJardiniere I can’t believe you don’t need one to be an MP either

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@kattenbarge Why are abusive men who need serious mental health rehabilitation never entered into a conservatorship?!

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@carolvorders Any sign of Boris’ book on Shakespeare that he was busy writing so didn’t attend briefings? Compiled all the info I could find online in this thread

Sean Adams

@seaninsound

2 years

With Boris Johnson leaving office, will we finally see the release of his book about Shakespeare? Y’know, the one he was apparently too busy writing to attend Covid briefings and planning meetings…? 🧵 a thread 🧵

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Sean Adams

@seaninsound

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@bjames280961 @XRebellionUK Had no idea there were 280960 other BJames’ in the world.

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Sean Adams

@seaninsound

1 year

“Sorry we’ve already signed a woman” Have had this said to my face in a meeting at a major label when playing them an artist I work with - that they liked enough to invite me in for a meeting Nearly as bad as the a&r meeting with the artist in the room …

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Sean Adams

@seaninsound

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@implausibleblog More on Sunak and Moderna here

Jo Maugham

@JolyonMaugham

18 days

Very pleased to say that, following our challenge, Rishi Sunak has been ordered to disclose his dealings, including on text and WhatsApp, with his former hedge fund Theleme over its lucrative investment in Moderna.

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@MarinaPurkiss @Ofcom @CommonsSpeaker Talking of Kangaroo courts. Just look who runs OfCom If you listen carefully, you can hear Tories chanting “he’s one of our own, he’s one of our own…”

Government picks Tory peer Michael Grade to chair Ofcom

Choice of veteran broadcasting executive appears to bring chaotic recruitment saga to an end

www.theguardian.com

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Sean Adams

@seaninsound

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@JolyonMaugham Has anyone successfully sued a paywalled publication for misrepresenting their quote without the majority of people being able to read the context? Feels like it happens a lot more recently

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Sean Adams

@seaninsound

3 months

@implausibleblog Was there ever an investigation into her breaking lockdown rules to go to Chequers?

Who was at Chequers? Boris camp panicking over latest Partygate claims

Ex-PM ‘furious’ and ‘in despair’ over new scrutiny on events at his grace-and-favour country house during pandemic, friends say

www.independent.co.uk

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Sean Adams

@seaninsound

10 months

@MartinSLewis @LucyGoBag On a related note, has anyone lost their job in government for £15bn of PPE? And where’s the consequences for giving Michelle Mone £200m VIP lane PPE contract? Feels like @carolvorders is the only person trying to hold the govt to account for this

Department of Health wasted £15bn on unused Covid supplies, watchdog finds

National Audit Office finds ‘extraordinary waste’ along with failures of governance, oversight and financial controls

www.theguardian.com

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Sean Adams

@seaninsound

1 year

🚨 Some Personal News 🚨 Thrilled to confirm I’m launching The Culture Hour on GB News Each week I’ll be joined by my co-host Winston Marshall to analyse the woke agenda in new albums, movies and art exhibitions Special thanks to our sponsor the Heritage Foundation

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Sean Adams

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Coupla years ago I reached out to @MarinaPurkiss To thank her for being so brilliant at translating the complexities of Brexit and Tory hypocrisy In June she met @jemmaforte and we piloted a digest-style podcast 25 episodes in and @TheTrawlPodcast audience keeps growing 🍻

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