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Most people think Tommy Robinson founded the EDL. He didn’t — the real founder was Paul Ray, a “counter-jihad” blogger from Luton who vanished soon after the group’s creation. With the EDL back in the headlines, I tracked him down in Ukraine for @_dispatch_media:
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What happens when you mix Benidorm, Buckfast and Loyalist zeal? @rosielanners reports from the Costa Del Ulster for the Glorious Twelfth:
What happens when you mix Benidorm, Buckfast and Loyalist zeal? @rosielanners reports from the Costa Del Ulster for the Glorious Twelfth:
While asbestos-fuelled bonfires in Belfast were burning effigies of refugees, I was outside a Rangers bar in 30 degree heat listening to Buckfast-fuelled ex-pats chanting "fuck the pope". This is what the Twelfth is like in Benidorm. For @_dispatch_media dispatch-media.com/benidorms-grea…
Giorgia Meloni is deporting migrants to Albania, to suffer harsh conditions in offshore detention. Keir Starmer had the same idea. I visited the site for new project @_dispatch_media - follow, subscribe and read here: x.com/jacobfuredi/st…
The UK government tried to buy a deportation centre in Albania. The Albanian government said no — and gave it to Italy. How's it going? @MattBroomfield1 reports from Shengjin for @_dispatch_media:
Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers have been sentenced to four years and three months in prison for cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree. Earlier this year, @jonniemcaloon wrote about the crime's impact on the local community. Read his dispatch here: dispatch-media.com/the-trials-of-…
The UK government tried to buy a deportation centre in Albania. The Albanian government said no — and gave it to Italy. How's it going? @MattBroomfield1 reports from Shengjin for @_dispatch_media:
Albania said no • Italy moves in • A Meloni-themed restaurant — The deportation centre Britain couldn't buy @MattBroomfield1 dispatch-media.com/the-deportatio…
“Instead of being permanently preoccupied with these unwanted desires, I felt much more in control." @tendollarguy reports on the sex offenders choosing "chemical castration": dispatch-media.com/the-men-who-ch…
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Was karaoke invented in Stockport? And why is #Stockport the #karaoke capital of Britain? Read my article to find out....
Top of the league • Stockport's finest • 'Slightly terrifying' — A pilgrimage to Britain's karaoke capital @nugehelen dispatch-media.com/a-pilgrimage-t…