Jacob Furedi
@jacobfuredi
editor of a new magazine called DISPATCH @_dispatch_media [email protected]
Can psychedelics bring peace to the Middle East? At @PsychedelicSci, delegates discussed MDMA clinics in the West Bank, rabbis drinking ayahuasca, and whether group tripping might heal national trauma. Plus many other questions... For @_dispatch_media dispatch-media.com/tripping-with-…
Why did the founder of the EDL leave for Ukraine?
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:
Tommy Robinson is widely considered the founder of the English Defence League — but he wasn’t. That dubious honour goes to Paul Ray, a “counter-Jihad” blogger from Luton who disappeared shortly after its launch. What happened to him? @jacobfuredi tracked him down in Ukraine:
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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:
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…
What happens when you mix Benidorm, Buckfast and Loyalist zeal? @rosielanners reports from the Costa Del Ulster for the Glorious Twelfth:
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:
Can they do it on a Monday night in Stockport? Britain’s most hardcore karaoke league certainly can. A joy of a read by @nugehelen for @_dispatch_media: dispatch-media.com/a-pilgrimage-t…
What does "chemical castration" really feel like? @tendollarguy spoke to two convicted sex offenders about how it's changed their lives — and what it means for the government’s new sentencing plans. An important, if uneasy, read: dispatch-media.com/the-men-who-ch…
In jungle compounds across Southeast Asia, thousands of trafficked workers — many from Europe — are being forced to scam Westerners at gunpoint. Fake crypto sites, romance scams, phishing cons — this is the story of one of them. In @_dispatch_media: dispatch-media.com/nine-months-in…
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