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Why are so many high-profile OnlyFans creators from Derbyshire? I visited to find out...
Thanks to Dispatch for letting me write it!
Bonnie Blue, Lily Philips, Rebecca Goodwin all hail from the same sleepy corner of Derbyshire.
Is it purely coincidence?
@LauraBeveridge7 reports from inside the OnlyFans Triangle:
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“Tonight at nine, we ask, ‘how’s Trish?’”
‘Petty crime is not victimless.’
GB News Contributor @Aj11Ace argues that petty crime in Britain has become normalised, reacting to Robert Jenrick confronting shoplifters.
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Went to my first American Football Game for @washingtonpost
President Trump has been booed at several sporting events as his party braces for a difficult midterm. In Knoxville, the reception was friendlier.
In the parking lots, some fans who voted for him voiced misgivings about the Iran war and his manner. wapo.st/4yZWTfi
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To some of the roughly 240,000 Muslims in Michigan, attacks aimed at Democrat Abdul El-Sayed have brought back painful memories for some in a contest that has raised questions about the acceptability of Islamophobia in politics. wapo.st/4ri1Ays
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Had so much fun visiting Ontario, New York, to write this dispatch for the Post.
President Trump’s order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America has sparked both pride and objections among residents of Ontario on the U.S. side of the lake.
“It will always be Lake Ontario,” said one resident. wapo.st/461pGDX
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Striking graph in today's WaPo, showing a big drop in climate mentions by Ed Markey, longtime Green New Deal booster.
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This piece on the 3 forms of Aberdonian drilling is top stuff in fact
Aberdeen is defined by three kinds of drilling.
There's the oil industry, the sex trade that formed around it, and today, a fledgling drill music scene.
But what happens when the first begins to disappear?
@LauraBeveridge7 reports:
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Aberdeen: Drill for oil. Drill girls. Make drill music.
While the future of North Sea oil and gas may lie in the hands of Andy Burnham, what does drilling look like in Aberdeen today?
To find out, I spent a week in pubs with offshore workers, the strip clubs kept alive by their demand, and in the music studios of young drill artists creating new opportunities in a city they’ve seen decline.
Here’s how to drill in Aberdeen:
Aberdeen is defined by three kinds of drilling.
There's the oil industry, the sex trade that formed around it, and today, a fledgling drill music scene.
But what happens when the first begins to disappear?
@LauraBeveridge7 reports:
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Great to see my piece on Derbyshire’s OnlyFans triangle republished in The i Paper today!
Derbyshire, once the engine of the Industrial Revolution, has unexpectedly become the cradle of another kind of industry – one built not on coal and steel, but on online porn
Read more: trib.al/eK3qhiu
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Was grateful for the opportunity to contribute this to the @RestIsPolitics newsletter.
Interviewed Wetherspoons’ Boss Tim Martin and the Chair of Vote Leave, amongst others…
The Brexit Protagonists, 10 years on - another excellent @restispolitics newsletter with interviews from both sides of the referendum ten years ago mailchi.mp/therestispolitics…
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Powerful Burnham ally Neal Lawson says “Compass must play a deciding and leading role in what comes next” and “that is what Andy wants…and I reckon that’s what Ed wants…and it starts with proportional representation”
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Lots of people talking about how Rupert Lowe managed to out-insurgent Reform.
Last month, I wrote about who his online followers are and why they like him 👇
Groypers are not just an American phenomenon. The far-right trolls also have an outpost in Britain.
In recent months, they’ve been organising on Telegram.
Their targets: Nigel Farage and Reform UK.
@LauraBeveridge7 investigates: 👇
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Matches what we found in our dissenting disruptor report. The “burn it all down” right is made up of overlapping different groups. Some hold anti democratic views and are actively prejudice. Others are just so sick of a status quo that they feel hurts them and their communities.
Reporting from Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom Rally, two things have become clear (🧵 1/2):
1) There’s a broad coalition in attendance that disagree with each other on key issues.
There’s organised football hooligans, there’s conspiracy theorists, but there’s also people who feel genuinely disenfranchised, who didn’t want to talk to me about immigration, but about their pension and the decline of their towns.
There were also differing attitudes towards Tommy Robinson himself, support for Israel, and which, if any, politicians represented their views.
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Reporting from Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom Rally, two things have become clear (🧵 1/2):
1) There’s a broad coalition in attendance that disagree with each other on key issues.
There’s organised football hooligans, there’s conspiracy theorists, but there’s also people who feel genuinely disenfranchised, who didn’t want to talk to me about immigration, but about their pension and the decline of their towns.
There were also differing attitudes towards Tommy Robinson himself, support for Israel, and which, if any, politicians represented their views.
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2) At the Tommy Robinson Unite the Kingdom Rally, a clear consensus emerged among attendees: Rupert Lowe and Restore Britain best represent their views, not Nigel Farage and Reform UK.
A feeling that Nigel Farage was too establishment emerged in conversations and a preference for Lowe’s harsher rhetoric on deportation and immigration came up repeatedly.
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