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Robin Ince

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Author, Bibliomaniac, Infinite Monkey Cage host, some sort of performer

Robin Ince 's avatar Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social
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It has been a joy doing comedy club gigs over the last few months - Wrexham and Llangollen were a great way to finish last night - hopefully able to put in some more in the Autumn

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Because there is such focus on 5 seats for Reform and so little for Green winning 4 I thought I would just pop this up - I hope this is the beginning of increasing belief that Green is not a wasted vote

greenparty.org.uk/2024/07/05/f...

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People often ask me - "have you got that picture of Cary Grant in uniform with a puppy poking out of the pocket?" Yes, they do. They rush up to me in the streets, it's true. Well, yes. Yes, I do. And here it is.

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Lovely gigs in Wrexham - big cheers when I mentioned Green Party victories - fascinating thing elections - such a low turnout which means Starmer got fewer votes than Corbyn in 2019

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It really is a delight to do a show where you have no idea what the subject will be - great hosts great concept

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I always look forward to You're Dead to Me. Having Robin Ince on the first episode of this season is an added bonus.

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Is it correct that Starmer’s got 2% more votes than Corbyn in 2019?

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Congratulations to the Green Party on winning four seats - I know many people who wanted to vote for them but who decided to vote tactically - I think it could have been a much bigger night for them

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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A good day to remember the beautiful solidarity between the Restore Nature Now March and The Dyke March last month

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Here is to a first 100 days of fearlessness not temerity, a first 100 days of looking ahead not behind you

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The BBC is going to find it tough to find more ways of getting Nigel Farage on TV when he becomes an MP, but rumours are that he will take over Michael Portillo’s train documentaries, present the Great British Sewing Bee (flags only version) and be the new host of Question Time

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Should have six weird poetry books available at Chippenham - they take ages and they have ink corrected errors and all are a bit different - hope you like them

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Indonesia has a fascinating and EXTREMELY passionate metal subculture. I love seeing these ladies get some well-earned recognition and opportunities.

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There seem to be a lot of sneering men who are very pleased to have their centrist daddy back

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A retro listening day - The Heart Throbs, The Popguns and The Woodentops - but contemporary covered by Bow Anderson, Sprints and English Teacher

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Glad I have voted already - so all the desperate and disingenuous “we promise you this or that cos our advisers suggest this might please you” means nothing to me

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Oh well, at least I have found some election night reading

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Hoping to have 12 of these done by the time I get to Chippenham

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I am not excited by it all but will dust the small crumbs that we may be rewarded with

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Four and a half years ago, at a Nine Lessons show, I learned that the election had been won by the worst sort of leader - greedy, lazy, duplicitous - we have had two more PMs since then - whatever happens on Friday I don’t expect such levels of destruction to have been invited in

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Looking forward to the rest of this Summer’s festivals - I will be at ALSO, Latitude and Towersey

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Hoping to have a few homemade poetry books available for Llangollen Fringe and Chippenham fringe this weekend

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One of the things that saddens me about the normalising of the far right is that parties of “the sorta left” have moved to accommodate bigots as they believe “the masses” are far shittier than they actually are

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If you are in Ramsgate on Sunday - here’s fun

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Robin Ince 's avatar Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social
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Just putting together my first poetry collection - it is called Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth

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Wandering around Hackney on Monday

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I see James Cleverley had time to form an opinion on idles set at Glastonbury and condemn it - thinking that they were larking about and making light of refugees - I don’t think he knows idles very well

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I have Covid, and now that the horrible fever and muscle aches have passed, I’m bored out of my mind! So to pass the time, I’m designing a custom deck of playing cards, for my own amusement

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Remember hearing that single for the first time on John Peel back in the mid 80s around the time I first saw Pink Flamingos at the Scala

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Denis Lushch’s cartoon has been updated - the right wing trick that just keeps on working in the world

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Imagining how different the Supreme Court would be if it had Americans of more integrity in it like Al Capone, Joseph McCarthy and Charles Manson

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Very much looking forward to speaking to Helen Lederer in Tring on Wednesday

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Today was day one of creating an album with Steve Pretty combining his jazz with my words - excited

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A while ago I was told off by some media types for calling some far right politicians fascists - the Overton window has swung so far and TV has been so welcoming to far right voices that extremes are increasingly normalised

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My thought was that people looking at social media on laptops could use it

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I preferred to eat alone for a long time. I didn't realise that others viewed it as antisocial, but they did. Just another thing in what is likely a long list of things I did to look after myself that others actively judged me for and about which silently withdrew themselves from me.

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Going public with an experience like this is life-altering for a woman, so when you read these stories remember both the extraordinary amount of courage involved and also the likelihood that there are many others you’ll never hear.

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