Rowan Dobbins
Still fighting the twin tyrannies of ironing and shaving.
- Reposted by Rowan DobbinsThe UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
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- Reposted by Rowan Dobbins"Those 18-year-olds – the first guinea pigs, the class who matriculated in 2012 – are now turning 31. And belatedly, the impact of the loans they were assured were a rock-solid investment in their futures is becoming apparent." Some thoughts on student loans www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
- Reposted by Rowan Dobbins11th January 2026 Vs 18th January 2026
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- Reposted by Rowan DobbinsIt will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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- Reposted by Rowan DobbinsVital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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- Reposted by Rowan DobbinsAfter hearing stories of the ghost in Somerset's Quantock Hills who tells passing walkers to fuck off, I decided to write about some of the other ghosts I've come across who have turned out to be massive dickheads: www.tom-cox.com/some-ghosts-...
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- Reposted by Rowan DobbinsWritten by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.
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- Reposted by Rowan DobbinsOur democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.
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- The kids are making stickers. Tons of them.
- Reposted by Rowan DobbinsNigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
- Reposted by Rowan DobbinsTo celebrate Elizabeth Fraser's birthday, let's play "How many of these are Cocteau Twins songs and how many are Farrow & Ball paint colours?" Mizzle Elephant's Breath Cico Buff Dimpse Setting Plaster Vardo Fluffy Tufts Calamine Cicely Hazel Orange Appled Tallow Lazy Calm Melonella Rococo Calluna
- Reposted by Rowan DobbinsThis is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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- Reposted by Rowan DobbinsI have not heard anything at all from government ministers nor the opposition nor many media outlets about the dangers of this epidemic of sweeping casual racism. It is sometimes seen as comical - as with Rupert Lowe and the rowers - but it is dangerous and dehumanising
- Reposted by Rowan Dobbins"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
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- Reposted by Rowan DobbinsThis morning, once again, there’ll be a bunch of people and organisations wrestling with the issue of deleting their X accounts. “But what about our follower counts?” Doesn’t matter. “But the reach they represent?” It really doesn’t matter. You think it matters, it really doesn’t. 1/
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