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How do 700,000 cows go missing?

That’s the question gripping Uruguay, after a violent death exposed a Ponzi scheme that fooled a nation.

What happened next? Meredith Jackson reports:

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The Battle of the Boshes Big John and Tom Skinner are both from Romford • Both claim to speak for Britain • What does their hometown think?

Forget Nigel Farage. Forget Keir Starmer.

What if the two most most influential figures in British politics were a pair of Essex geezers who love enormous dinners and saying “Bosh!”?

@laurabeveridge.bsky.social reports from Romford:

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Stack Independent Magazines on Stage – with Die Quieter Please, Dispatch, The Fence, and Piscine Stack x St Bride Foundation Stack Independent Magazines on Stage With Die Quieter Please , Dispatch...

This is going to be loads of fun. Independent magazines on stage, at St Brides on Thursday night, with @thefence.bsky.social, Die Quieter Please, @dispatchmedia.bsky.social, and Piscine. Tickets are £6.50 and all proceeds go to St Brides. Come join us! billetto.co.uk/e/stack-inde...

How to be happy in England A visit to England's happiest town • On the saddest day of the year • How does Skipton do it?

Shout out to @dispatchmedia.bsky.social which is consistently publishing some of the most interesting, well written features on the UK (and occasionally US) out there. Their weekend newsletter, which highlights content elsewhere too, is also great.

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Slab City is described as 'the last free place in America'.

But what's it really like?

Jack Burke ventured to the Californian desert outpost. It wasn't pretty.

Link below.

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How to be happy in England A visit to England's happiest town • On the saddest day of the year • How does Skipton do it?

what's the happiest place in england like on the saddest day of the year? and WHY does it smell like that?? i investigate for @dispatchmedia.bsky.social dispatch-media.com/how-to-be-ha...

Skipton in North Yorkshire is officially the "happiest place in England".

But what's it like on the most miserable day of the year?

@roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports:

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How did a 21-year-old student mastermind a phishing empire that stole £100m from victims in 24 countries?

Drawing on court records, private Telegram channels and interviews with those who knew him, Fin Carter reveals how Ollie Holman almost got away with it:

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Trailer parks aren’t just an American phenomenon — thousands of people live on them in Britain.

New data obtained by Dispatch shows that in just one English county, fires break out almost every fortnight.

@jacobfuredi.bsky.social tells the story of one of them:

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Constable Country is one of England’s most cherished landscapes — immortalised in the paintings of John Constable.

But what if those paintings were forgeries?

@oldweirdalbion.bsky.social:

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40 years ago this week, in a quiet cul-de-sac in Tottenham, an Islamist group called al-Muhajiroun was born.

Its aim was to create an English caliphate.

Tam Hussein reports on its legacy:

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The Warhammer capital of the world Nottingham has a new export • From coal mines to Games Workshop • Even the Freemasons have noticed

This is a brilliant dispatch from Nottingham, the table top gaming capital of the world, and its "lead belt"
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The Warhammer capital of the world Nottingham has a new export • From coal mines to Games Workshop • Even the Freemasons have noticed

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Once upon a time, Nottingham powered England with coal.

Today, its biggest export are goblin figurines.

@petercarlyon.bsky.social reports from the Warhammer capital of the world:

The wildfire America forgot Altadena burned worse than the Palisades • It also happened to be poorer • One year on, vultures are circling

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A year ago this week, two wildfires tore through Los Angeles.

One ravaged a wealthy enclave in the Palisades. Another destroyed the poorer neighbourhood of Altadena.

This is the story of the second fire, by Jack Burke.

The monk behind Britain's Orthodox revival A Celtic revival • On a remote Scottish island • Beware the 'Orthobros'

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Meet Father Seraphim, the Romanian monk leading an Orthodox revival on a remote Scottish island — with a little help from YouTube.

Huw Paige

Meet England's new crusaders On the front line of a spiritual war • Street preachers, warfare lessons and Tommy Robinson • I have a confession

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From Tommy Robinson's 'Holy Spirit Hooligans' to a shadowy group called the King’s Army, a militant Christian revival is taking shape across Britain.

Fred Sculthorp meets England's new crusaders:

The Great British allotment grab Roots opened private sites across the country • Locals are in revolt • Someone brought a gun

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Locals across the country are waging a guerilla war against Roots, a VC-backed start-up offering private allotments.

Laura Beveridge reports:

The council is knocking down our village Britain has an empty-homes crisis • More than a million are empty • Horden is on the frontline

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Britain has an empty-homes crisis — and nowhere shows it more starkly than Horden, a former pit village.

Jonathan McAloon spent a month with the residents fighting to save it.

Last week, the council ruled it would be knocked down.

An interview with Martin Parr A final conversation • With England's greatest photographer • 'Politics is my work'

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"Politics is my work, for sure."

A few weeks before Martin Parr died, he sat down with Dispatch to discuss his legacy.

Read the interview below:

The Bitcoin ultras vs Broken Britain Ignore the crash • Keep the faith • Meet the evangelists who believe Bitcoin will cure everything

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Is Bitcoin dead?

Not according to Britain's Bitcoin's ultras.

They still believe it can cure all of society's ills — from inflation and immigration to welfare and war.

Ed Campbell reports:

The real people of America's 'Zombieland' Medetomidine has arrived in Kensington • The most powerful drug yet • 'You go straight to sleep'

I spent two days in America’s most notorious open drug scene, hearing how the new tranq, medetomidine, has the most fast-acting and dangerous withdrawal symptoms of all drugs. And why its prevalence is the result of the drug war. For @dispatchmedia.bsky.social

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The real people of America's 'Zombieland' Medetomidine has arrived in Kensington • The most powerful drug yet • 'You go straight to sleep'

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