Richard Wilkes
@richardwilkes.bsky.social
Films, fields and faraway galaxies.
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Absolutely horrendous for this woman and her family.
Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.
September 17, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Absolutely horrendous for this woman and her family.
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I made this because as far as I can see nobody else has?
July 14, 2026 at 11:01 AM
I made this because as far as I can see nobody else has?
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Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years
Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years
Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost
www.theguardian.com
July 3, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years
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Ignore the miserabilists: Andy Burnham as PM is a moment when things really can get better | Polly Toynbee
Ignore the miserabilists: Andy Burnham as PM is a moment when things really can get better | Polly Toynbee
He’s the only person who can keep Nigel Farage out of Downing Street, so let’s embrace his unique blend of optimism and realism, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Ignore the miserabilists: Andy Burnham as PM is a moment when things really can get better | Polly Toynbee
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No joy to be found today. No satisfaction. Just frustration and a profound sense of squandered opportunity iandunt.substack.com/p/the-traged...
June 22, 2026 at 10:43 AM
No joy to be found today. No satisfaction. Just frustration and a profound sense of squandered opportunity iandunt.substack.com/p/the-traged...
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Reliably great analysis from Adam
For the third by-election in a row Reform UK offered voters the politics of rage and for the third time in a row they have been roundly rejected as a result.
How Andy Burnham's massive victory in Makerfield shows the wheels are now coming off of the Nigel Farage project
How Andy Burnham's massive victory in Makerfield shows the wheels are now coming off of the Nigel Farage project
Makerfield By-Election Result: How Voters Rejected Nigel Farage's Politics of 'Pure Cold Rage'
For the third time in a row Reform have sought to stoke division and violence on Britain's streets and been roundly rejected by voters as a result, reports Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
June 19, 2026 at 6:11 AM
Reliably great analysis from Adam
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This has nothing to do with stopping crime. It is to do with a global far-right movement, coordinated on X, organised by some of the most powerful men in the world from Silicon Valley to the White House inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...
June 10, 2026 at 2:46 PM
This has nothing to do with stopping crime. It is to do with a global far-right movement, coordinated on X, organised by some of the most powerful men in the world from Silicon Valley to the White House inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...
Hideous and also fascinating that this is probably news to most people. Weird that Reform or Stephen LY hadn’t noticed: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Neo-Nazi obsessed teen jailed for trying to kill Kurdish man in Bristol with axe
Alina Burns, 19, who had said she wanted to ‘kill all Jews and Muslims’, attacked barber outside his shop
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Hideous and also fascinating that this is probably news to most people. Weird that Reform or Stephen LY hadn’t noticed: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.
June 3, 2026 at 6:32 PM
A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.
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Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party .
Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.
Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.
May 6, 2026 at 6:26 AM
Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party .
Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.
Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.
Can’t believe it’s taken me four whole seasons plus a fraction of episode 1 season 5 to realise Homelander is Trump. I could see the MAGA stuff throughout but the penny has only finally just dropped on that part.
Ahem.
I’ll get my coat.
Ahem.
I’ll get my coat.
April 9, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Can’t believe it’s taken me four whole seasons plus a fraction of episode 1 season 5 to realise Homelander is Trump. I could see the MAGA stuff throughout but the penny has only finally just dropped on that part.
Ahem.
I’ll get my coat.
Ahem.
I’ll get my coat.
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Clean, safe, cheap, renewable energy that you don't have to fight deadly wars or destroy the environment to get.
Good for wildlife, too, when done properly.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Good for wildlife, too, when done properly.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval
Record high set on Monday and raised on Tuesday, with 14.4GW of electricity generated in sunny spring weather
www.theguardian.com
April 8, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Clean, safe, cheap, renewable energy that you don't have to fight deadly wars or destroy the environment to get.
Good for wildlife, too, when done properly.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Good for wildlife, too, when done properly.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Streaming platforms cutting the end credits off assuming we instantly want to watch something else as opposed to indulge and reflect on the film deserve to die a slow & painful death.
March 18, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Streaming platforms cutting the end credits off assuming we instantly want to watch something else as opposed to indulge and reflect on the film deserve to die a slow & painful death.
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Extremist.
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/02/t...
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/02/t...
Tommy Robinson Amplifies Death Threat Against Keir Starmer During US Tour With Trump Insiders
The convicted far-right criminal shared the threat as he was handed extraordinary access to the US State Department by the Trump administration
bylinetimes.com
March 3, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Extremist.
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/02/t...
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/02/t...
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Ignore the smears: I was never a close friend of Peter Mandelson. And I fully understand the lessons we must learn | Wes Streeting
Ignore the smears: I was never a close friend of Peter Mandelson. And I fully understand the lessons we must learn | Wes Streeting
I knew him but not well, and worry now that he thrived in our political culture. There was a failure of moral seriousness, says health secretary Wes Streeting
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Ignore the smears: I was never a close friend of Peter Mandelson. And I fully understand the lessons we must learn | Wes Streeting
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The Voice of Hind Rajab is constructed around the real-life call for help from a girl killed in an Israeli strike – a decision that made filming an intense experience, one of its producers, James Wilson, tells Jonathan Romney
www.thenerve.news/p/the-voice-...
www.thenerve.news/p/the-voice-...
January 16, 2026 at 6:54 PM
The Voice of Hind Rajab is constructed around the real-life call for help from a girl killed in an Israeli strike – a decision that made filming an intense experience, one of its producers, James Wilson, tells Jonathan Romney
www.thenerve.news/p/the-voice-...
www.thenerve.news/p/the-voice-...
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A former RSPB chief just voted against £30 swift bricks that could help save a collapsing species.
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A former RSPB chief just voted against £30 swift bricks that could help save a collapsing species.
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NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
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Also if you didn’t vote for her.
October 7, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Also if you didn’t vote for her.
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Xavier transitioned and became Vivian Jenna Wilson. She is alive and well and lives in Japan.
No loving parent would ever write such a disgusting thing as this, and it speaks volumes.
No loving parent would ever write such a disgusting thing as this, and it speaks volumes.
March 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Xavier transitioned and became Vivian Jenna Wilson. She is alive and well and lives in Japan.
No loving parent would ever write such a disgusting thing as this, and it speaks volumes.
No loving parent would ever write such a disgusting thing as this, and it speaks volumes.
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
every person involved in this needs to be in prison