Flaxen aka Simkin. University lecturer by profession. Writer by vocation. Singer-songwriter in the margins. Chuck Prophet and Green On Red biographer
Joined August 2019
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I’m British. And I can assure you the biggest threat to small towns here isn’t migrants — it’s billionaires on ketamine hallucinating about hobbits and imaginary crime waves.
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Watch it. Then share it.
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Polls show that, somehow, most voters don’t know or have forgotten most of this, so here it is all in one place, as presented by @sethmeyers in tonight’s Closer Look: An overview of Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for president.
(And this is only a small fraction.)
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on stage with @bobdylan for the iconic ‘Hard To Handle’ concert special, filmed during the True Confessions tour stop in Sydney, this month in 1986.
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Why do some people become addicts and not others?
@DrGaborMate says addiction is a response to emotional pain
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Meet your new Migration Minister Tom Pursglove.
Climate change sceptic, arch Brexiteer and looks like he was born with a full set of teeth which he used to eat his way out of his mother.
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The judge has given us the go-ahead
Suella Braverman: SEE YOU IN COURT
#DefendDemocracy
📹 @AkikoMHart
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Good to see another serial offender behind bars. But why did the headteachers at these schools fail to stop him? Tillson abused children at three different ones, according to survivors I've heard from - passed from one elite establishment to another. kentonline.co.uk/tonbridge/n…
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While Ramaswamy spoke in Lancaster NH, a sign that said "Truth" fell over on him:
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Me on Lucy Letby and perceptions of serial killing: theconversation.com/lucy-let…
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“Education is worthwhile for the individual, but it's good for all of us as a society. I think universities are a public good and we should recognise them as such, not just constantly make them a political battleground."
Bridget Phillipson in @thetimes
ALT The government has recently announced a clampdown on so-called "rip-off degrees". Phillipson rejects the idea that there are too many students going to university taking pointless courses. "I think there is a value that comes through learning and through study" she says. "I don't think that can be captured in purely economic terms... For me, it's about young people having a choice about what's right for them."
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I don’t like to share GB News but this is honestly one of the most (accidental?) Partridge clips I have ever seen
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Innovative addiction recovery programme launches in Paisley
Recovering Voices uses drama therapy to help those struggling with substance abuse.
#recovery #RecoveryPosse #recoveryispossible
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Thanks to the paid botswarm, climate science denial is currently trending. The troll farms are promoting the claims of the late David Bellamy, from 20 years ago. So let's take a look at what happened when those claims were put to the test.
youtu.be/3eOFYAg_DPw
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Imagine having to get up this morning to argue that there must be no improvement in university education from A level performance while simultaneously demanding ‘value for money’ from the very same universities.
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Amidst all the nonsense about 'low-value' degrees it's worth revisiting this from Rachel Cusk from 2013: theguardian.com/books/2013/j…
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Variety seasons my soul. Nearly 20 years ago Chuck Prophet served up a smorgasbord of musical luxuries hip-hopping from ballads of small men to the glories of the country soul gods while finally answering the question, who put the bomp?
Age Of Miracles still sounds great...
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LIVE: Major USS announcement! #ucuRISING teapawt.net/i/broadcasts/1mrGmkkng…