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James Friel's most recent novel, The Posthumous Affair. He was RLF Fellow at Chester University and is now involved with the RLF Bridge.

Chester, England
Joined January 2012
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Oli Dugmore delivers one of the most powerful and well thought out answers I’ve seen this n a long time on #bbcqt 👏
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Nigel Farage says Reform didn't commission the polls. Here’s the crucial segment of our film.
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This week the NHS has: 🩺 Delivered more than 7.5 million GP practice appointments 🧑‍⚕️Carried out roughly 2.8 million outpatient appointments 🚑 Treated over half a million people in A&E 🏥 Performed around 200,000 operations and procedures 🩻 Completed about 1.5 million diagnostic tests 👶 Helped deliver more than 10,000 babies Huge thanks to everyone who has made that possible 💙
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Shameful except she is shameless.
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What. The. Fuck. This is a party claiming to want to protect women and girls. Insane! teapawt.org/SarahForRuncorn/status…
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this seemed and seems real now
They want you to forget. They don’t want you to see this. Keep sharing this so we can’t forget what they did to us that day.
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Stephen Colbert was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power. A fitting honor for a champion of our democracy. RETWEET to congratulate Colbert on this honor!
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Everyone COPY this video, share it far and wide. Paramount Skydance billionaire baby David Ellison can’t handle that Stephen Colbert is getting millions of views . @Youtube we will cancel our subscription as we did when we dumped @paramountplus.
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Northern Soul - the genius of Tony Warren - bless him!
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I want to say something many will hate but it needs to be said. I have met Nigel Farage. I do not know him well but I know the world he moves in. We move in similar circles sometimes. The kind of private rooms and members clubs that most people in Britain will never see. I know how the rich speak about ordinary people. They laugh. They joke about how easy it is to wind you up. They know exactly which buttons to press. They know you are angry and tired and struggling and they know you want someone to blame. That is why they point at boats while they pick your pockets. I did not grow up rich. I did not grow up in privilege. I understand struggle and the real world. But my life changed and now I see both sides. I sit with billionaires and politicians and decision makers and I hear conversations you never will. I know the truth. They do not care about you. They do not care about your future. They care about profit and control. They see ordinary people as tools or distractions. I am telling you this because I am tired of watching good people being manipulated. Look at your life before Brexit and look at it now. Look at your shopping bills. Look at what food costs in Europe right now. Look at how much tax you pay on imports. Look at your wages and energy prices and mortgages. Look at the 10,000 NHS staff we lost when freedom of movement ended. Look at the ambulances that do not arrive. Look at nurses and teachers using food banks. Tell me honestly. Are you better off? Nigel helped build the crisis you are living in. Then he pointed at immigrants and told you to blame them. That is the con. He pulled the UK out of the Dublin III agreement which means we cannot return asylum seekers to Europe anymore. He created the boat chaos then told you to panic about it. Someone who worked in immigration for more than ten years told me they saw it coming. It was planned. It is a strategy. And you are falling for it. Now he wants austerity again. He wants to cut wages for young people. He wants to rip up workers rights. He wants private health insurance and a French style NHS where the rich get treated first and the poor get nothing. He wants you fighting each other so you never see who is robbing you. If you vote for him you are voting to destroy your own life. Not mine. Yours. None of this affects me personally. I drink champagne with the people who control the money. I will be fine no matter what. Reform will not hurt me. Reform will hurt you. It will hurt your children. Your parents. Your future. I am telling you because I care. If I did not care I would stay silent and watch you suffer. You think I am your enemy because I make you uncomfortable. I am not. Your enemy is the one who lies to you and blames the vulnerable while he empties your pockets. Reform will not save you. Reform will finish you. Think. Before they take everything. 💷🇬🇧☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🫖
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LOL. GB News issued a live apology to Meghan’s mom, Doria Ragland, but later deleted the entire show from YouTube to suppress the embarrassment. Share the full clip widely, people. #HarryAndMeghan @I_amMukhtar Carole Malone was threatened with a lawsuit unless she apologised.😂
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I didn't see a single name of Palestinian hostages in any mainstream media outlet today. ZERO! Not a single mention of Palestinian hostages by any world leader who have been making dozens of congratulatory statements to Israel! Why are they always so desperate to disappear us?
Israeli occupation forces release a Palestinian child with autism, who they had abducted in Gaza and detained for months.
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Let’s settle this, is Nigel Farage a racist? Like if he is. RT if he is Donald Trump's little bitch.
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This is disgusting: In a shocking moment, the distraught wife of an undocumented immigrant is shoved hard into a wall by an ICE agent, and then slammed to the ground. This inhumane treatment cannot be tolerated. 🚨Make sure everyone sees this.
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If Tories want a 'Tax Investigation' into Angela Rayner, fine. First, let's do Nadhim Zahawi, Sajid Javid, Nadine Dorries, Rishi Sunak, George Osborne, Liam Fox, Priti Patel, Sir Geoffrey Cox, Lord Ashcroft, Boris Johnson, etc, etc. And the systematic Covid Fraud.
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Watched this 5+ times - doesn’t get any less funnier 😂😂😂 #eppingforeveryone #eppingprotests @mralistairgreen
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