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Richard Bartholomew

@Barthsnotes

Notes on media, culture, conspiracy theories, religion. Anti-grift.

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Joined May 2009
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The difference between a journalist and a grifter is that a journalist might look at this poster and decide to investigate why someone made it, whereas a grifter is just looking to dispense a pre-packaged talking point. Which best describes GB News anchor Alex Armstrong?
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So here's where he's got it from - it's a week-old list from a different police force, in which "religious or cultural beliefs" is included as item six in a list of reasons asking people to be considerate. This now forms the basis for a culture-war media frenzy.
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HOPE not hate
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This week, Stephen Lennon was found guilty of harassing two journalists. In the trial it was revealed that Lennon used a private investigator to access the journalists’ contact information - likely former MI5 agent Peter Keeley who spent 15 years undercover in the IRA. hopenothate.org.uk/lennons-s…
Lennon's Secret Agent

Lennon's Secret Agent

A former MI5 agent who operated as an IRA bomb maker is now working for Stephen Lennon. Despite still being supported by the British taxpayer, Peter Keeley appears to have broken the law by supplying...

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Replying to @Alexarmstrong
Hi Alex. This is a poster that can be used by anyone, such as elderly or vulnerable residents, who do not wish to have unexpected callers or be disturbed. At no point have we mentioned that Halloween can upset "religious or cultural" beliefs.
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Oliver Kamm@OliverKamm30 May 2025
This from @reformparty_uk’s proposed crypto bill is dangerous nonsense. Govt has absolutely no business engaging in a speculative punt (crypto isn’t even a financial asset, as it generates no cash) like this, and UK reserves exist for purely precautionary reasons.
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NEW POST: Tommy Robinson Convicted Over Cyprus Holiday Story Retaliation: Some Background barthsnotes.com/2026/10/30/t…
Tommy Robinson Convicted Over Cyprus Holiday Story Retaliation: Some Background

Tommy Robinson Convicted Over Cyprus Holiday Story Retaliation: Some Background

From BBC News: Political activist Tommy Robinson has been convicted of harassing two Daily Mail journalists. …The case concerned Robinson’s response to Daily Mail and Mail Online articl…

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Richard Bartholomew@BarthsnotesOct 29
Also, "MailOnline tracked down Robinson's location after he posted a video of himself in the hotel's gym". He wanted privacy and security but couldn't resist showing off his lifestyle and disregard for the court. Hubris.
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RIP Patrick Stewart
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"Journalists were given an escort out of the courtroom by security after one of them was threatened inside the court by one of [Tommy] Robinson’s supporters. The man was ejected from the press gallery and later from the courtroom" theguardian.com/uk-news/2026… xitter.gq/daveatherton/status/21…
David Atherton (@daveatherton) profile pictureDavid Atherton
@daveathertonOct 28
I've just been ejected from Court Number 2 where Tommy @TRobinsonNewEra is expecting his verdict. I sat in the press section & they asked me to move on. I suggested only state approved journalists are allowed? A little shit from MSM said yes. I said, "Like the Soviet Union & NAZI Germany?"
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Atherton isn't just some online outlier - he gets regular fringe-right media appearances and is often photographed about London with figures who either represent or are allied with Reform UK, including Nigel Farage's associate Lois Perry.
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Dave Atherton follows up his complaint that he was ejected from court for not being a proper journalist by expressing the opinion that "the jury looked suspect".
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Carl Eve@CarlEveCrimeOct 28
Replying to @daveatherton @TRobinsonNewEra
As long as you have a press card you shouldn't have been asked to move as per the revised 2026 court/media protocol You did have your press card with you, yes? gov.uk/government/publicatio…
Protocol on sharing court lists, registers and documents with the media (accessible version)

Protocol on sharing court lists, registers and documents with the media (accessible version)

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dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 (@dave43law) profile picture
dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠
@dave43lawOct 29
When you are totally owned by Richard Holden then you have lost. Farage broadcast his lies, on a live presser, on GB News, in the Telegraph And then is called out by numerous MPs with reality and fact
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If you are public figure directing a political movement while on the run from an arrest warrant after skipping court (not to mention staying in a luxury resort in Cyprus two years after declaring bankruptcy), then you do not really have a reasonable expectation of privacy
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Robinson's justification defence was incoherent - he said he "panicked" and was "scared" by the Mail exposé, but also that he had not known that posting photographs of the homes of journalists would similarly put them "in fear". bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq2d…
Tommy Robinson guilty of harassing Daily Mail journalists

Tommy Robinson guilty of harassing Daily Mail journalists

The 43-year-old is convicted after a week-long trial at Southwark Crown Court.

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Also, "MailOnline tracked down Robinson's location after he posted a video of himself in the hotel's gym". He wanted privacy and security but couldn't resist showing off his lifestyle and disregard for the court. Hubris.
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Diana Athill compares post-war Britain to when she was writing 11 years ago, in 2015: "During those 'dreary' years we got so used to simple, material things getting better that their getting worse now seems to be against nature." bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06r4by…
BBC Radio 4 - Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter by Diana Athill, Post War

BBC Radio 4 - Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter by Diana Athill, Post War

Diana Athill debunks the myth that Britain in the 1940s and 50s was dreary.

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"Many people on very low incomes began to join the rest of us by taking for granted indoor toilets, refrigerators, and other household comforts which makes our present dive into poverty horrifying."
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Peter Jukes@peterjukesOct 28
Six years ago, Yaxley Lennon harassed Byline writers Mike Stuchbery and Tim Fenton so badly that they eventually left the country. (He also promised to pay me a visit!) Anyone condoning these kinds of tactics doesn't believe in a free press. It's a license for thuggery.
Rupert Lowe MP (@RupertLowe10) profile pictureRupert Lowe MP
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Tommy Robinson has been found guilty - it is my view that the system has, again, treated him unfairly. We live in dark times.
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Tommy Robinson found guilty of harassing journalists: 'He said he had "wanted to find the journalists" to "put pressure on them". But he told the jury he had not known they were "in fear."' bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq2d…
Tommy Robinson guilty of harassing Daily Mail journalists

Tommy Robinson guilty of harassing Daily Mail journalists

The 43-year-old is convicted after a week-long trial at Southwark Crown Court.

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'The jury accepted the prosecution's case that Robinson had hired detectives to "intimidate" the journalists'. One wonders who these private investigators were.
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