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Off to Skegness, Grimsby + Cleethorpes for a piece this weekend. Any locals/expats with see/do/talk-to type tips?
People of Essex and environs a book about you: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trying-Fit-Number-Name-Insights-ebook/dp/B00QAOWRCY/ … @EssexBookFest @BBCEssex @EssexChronicle @Essexlife @YourSouthend
Yeah!!! New WETDOG album announced today! http://upsettherhythm.blogspot.co.uk/ BEST NEWS EVER!!! pic.twitter.com/OucU90Ac5A
PLUS @LeeRourke's essay response to living in Southend, featuring plenty of mud and more surrealism: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00QAOWRCY/ref=s9_simh_gw_p351_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0FVKGPDKF9W8DXP6SS7E&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=455344027&pf_rd_i=468294 …
How Essex became the vanguard of 'Capitalist Surrealism' + other stories. My essay on Towie, Dr Feelgood + decline: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00QAOWRCY/ref=s9_simh_gw_p351_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0FVKGPDKF9W8DXP6SS7E&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=455344027&pf_rd_i=468294 …
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Buy Trying to Fit a Number to a Name: @LeeRourke and @timburrows’s excellent ebook essay on Essex identity.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trying-Fit-Number-Name-Insights-ebook/dp/B00QAOWRCY/ …
Very nice blog piece from David Caddy of @TearsInTheFence about Paul Buck's To End It All ahead of the launch tonight http://bit.ly/1A3hM4X
Kim and Kanye are really embracing this "Leaders from a Dystopian Future" aesthetic pic.twitter.com/ygtkaFJFrr
This Grimsby piece is good on picking apart the myths around England's 'angry east', one of the big subjects of 2015: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/06/grimsby-glory-days-election …
ON RADIO 4 NOW: Ukip's Douglas Carswell takes the presenter for a Wimpy - for a treat. 'I'm usually at Greggs,' he says.
Just reminded by @timburrows that I wrote this piece last year on the Dover Detention Centre for @BritUnofficial. http://www.unofficialbritain.com/the-citadel-a-visit-to-the-detention-centre-on-dovers-western-heights/ …
Just seen that Daily Mail front page. Can't believe Jihadi John's family were on benefits. That's put me right off him, if I'm honest.
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John Doran's latest Middle Eastern/North African playlist for the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/mar/05/playlist-middle-eastern-and-north-african-klash-trio-da-kali-cairo-liberation-front …
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Refugee protest camp in Dresden attacked by Pegida supporters after yesterday's demo, according to this account: https://www.facebook.com/whatgermanywants/posts/354256124762523?fref=nf …
2 retweets"Thatcher’s naivety was perhaps her greatest flaw." This is great on danger of certainty in politics and the economy: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/02/god-economics-general-election-thatcherism …
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Football is not usually my ~thing~ but this piece by @timburrows about how the role of stadiums have changed is great http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/can-you-be-a-proper-football-fan-if-youve-never-been-to-see-your-team-play-888 …
Wrote about my love of Spurs, played out through screens of different sizes until I finally saw them play last Sunday http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/can-you-be-a-proper-football-fan-if-youve-never-been-to-see-your-team-play-888 …
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Deputy web editor, @NewStatesman. Ex-deputy editor, @TotalPolitics
Consituency Manager for Margot Parker MEP (@MargotLJParker) , UKIP Regional Organiser for the East Midlands Region. Tweeting in a personal capacity.
#ImmigrationStreet showed stupidity of all sides - politicians, media, defensive locals - but producers wrong to play themselves as victims
Was almost sympathetic to the producers of #ImmigrationStreet, but the way they just ended that doc was pretty vengeful and irresponsible
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