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Abused and silenced
Ben Wildsmith It’s long been my practice on social media to block anyone I see abusing Diane Abbott. As a…
7 comments.Home Sweet Home
Ben Wildsmith According to psychologists, our brains can create contentment from vanishingly scarce resources. If we are incarcerated in a…
2 comments.Nothing left to steal
Ben Wildsmith The death of the Tory party has been a drawn-out and undignified process. The wrecking ball that Margaret…
18 comments.Red box blues
Ben Wildsmith The snooker player Steve Davis was once asked about the animosity he had been subject to from Alex…
4 comments.You Are the Mob
Ben Wildsmith Watching the political establishment’s shock at George Galloway’s election in Rochdale was revelatory of its detachment from life…
15 comments.The emptiness within
Ben Wildsmith I spend the majority of my working life working with addicts and, for full disclosure, have been one…
11 comments.Play Your Cards Right
Ben Wildsmith Did you know that Bruce Forsyth appeared in an episode of Magnum PI? The omnipresent, dodgy-syruped, ‘didn’t she…
3 comments.Wales give hope for the future in Ireland defeat
Ben Wildsmith The rain’s been something this winter, hasn’t it? Up my valley it’s been sheeting horizontally since 2018, pouring…
One comment.A Westminster farce
Ben Wildsmith I’m not generally so tragic as to watch several hours of Parliamentary procedure on the telly but I’m…
4 comments.Do something!
Ben Wildsmith Can you remember the last time a government did something that positively affected your life? I bow to…
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