Will Pinfold

Will Pinfold

@willpinfold.bsky.social

Writer, music journalist, art historian, smart arse & whatnot

120 Followers 129 Following 91 Posts Joined Nov 2024
20 hours ago

"true crime awards" is a phrase that gets stranger the more you think about it

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“I lost my job after harassing a complete stranger in the street because he’s Jewish”

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We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.

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sleepwalking with the enemy I’ve only read the first couple of chapters of Daniel Rachel’s (so far excellent) This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich but it immediately brought something that has be...

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Revealed: Peter Mandelson's Russian Connections and Palantir Lobbying Links The disgraced peer was appointed by Keir Starmer's Government despite warnings about his role on the board of a Russian defence conglomerate linked to Moscow's early-warning missile systems

🔴Revealed: Peter Mandelson’s Russian Connections and Palantir Lobbying Links

The disgraced peer was appointed by Starmer’s Government despite warnings about his role on the board of a Russian defence conglomerate linked to Moscow’s early-warning missile systems

bylinetimes.com/2026/03/11/r...

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3 days ago

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

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Farage and Badenoch are absolute clowns: startled by the entirely foreseeable series of events they failed to foresee. A demonstration of their total lack of judgement.

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6 days ago

Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading

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5 days ago

Dear journalists: Shut up about the “special relationship”. There is UK reliance on the US but for the time being there is no special relationship in any meaningful sense and talking as if there still is sounds ridiculous

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5 days ago

Cor, sure would feel great right now if we were self-sufficient in renewable energy, and laughing at all the rubes reliant on global oil supplies. We'd have a bit of a swagger in our step today.

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A pressing necessity: International Women's Day Firstly, the title comes from this short essay by one of my favourite historical figures, Rosa Luxemburg; it’s worth a read.

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These people are fucking dimwits and they embarrass us as a species.

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I remember when ‘Brexit Means Brexit’ became a way for silly people to insist that they supported something they could neither justify nor explain. Obviously the context is very different, but something similar is already happening with the ‘war’ in Iran. And it’s mostly the same people doing it.

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BREAKING: DOJ confirms that 47,635 Epstein files have been removed, per The Independent.

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This is how to answer that toxic question (With slightly different wording if you’re not actually the governor of Minnesota)

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Spanish PM Sánchez on Trump's threat to end trade:

"We are not going to be accomplices to something that is bad for the world and contrary to our values and interests simply because of fear of reprisals... We have absolute confidence in the economic, institutional & moral strength of our country."

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02104-25 Fraser v Telegraph.co.uk - IPSO Ian Fraser complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation that Telegraph.co.uk breached Clause 1 (Accuracy) of the Editors’ Code of Practice in an article headlined “We earn £345k, but soa...

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something

Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used

www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

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I wonder what she'll think, when she's out of government in a few months time. Was it worth it? Persecuting refugees in order to satisfy an electoral strategy even she probably doesn't believe in. Pissing away the last dregs of your integrity for a plan which has already been shown not to work.

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'tis but thy name that is my enemy I’ve often slightly regretted not using a pen-name, not for any sinister reason, but because my own name is a bit silly and ineffectual.

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2 weeks ago
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

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2 weeks ago

This is terrible from Starmer. Just absolute trash. And any normal voter looking at the new MP and then reading this description will think him mad.

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un-real horrorshow I was in two minds about writing this here because it’s something I just wrote and posted just a few days ago elsewhere. But in fact, events yesterday/today have made made it into quite a different ar...

A more topical version of the article from a few days ago (if you only read one, this is the one to read)

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2 weeks ago

So apparently there were people who expected Goodwin not to be a dick if he didn't win? 🤷🏻‍♂️😄

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Has there ever been a more graceless and divisive concession?

Showing exactly why voters in Gorton and Denton rejected him tonight

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2 weeks ago

The Farage playbook is so Trumpian. When they win or come a close second (not tonight boyo) it's always 'a political earthquake' and when they lose, it's straight to, 'the game was rigged'.

Pathetic populists.

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2 weeks ago

Ah man, this is good fun.

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real horrorshow - williampinfold.com/real-horrors...

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“The guy did a great job for a competitive rate. I’m really pleased with it”

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the holy end But superstition, like belief, must die, And what remains when disbelief has gone?

Thoughts on dead churches
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