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Welcome to Vulnerable U, a podcast where we explore the intersection of vulnerability and cyber security. Each episode, we explore how vulnerability can drive growth and foster community resilience within our industry. Get ready for thought-provoking conversations, real-life stories, and curated news that inspire you to embrace discomfort on the road to a more vulnerable you.
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50 Shades of Planning is Sam Stafford’s attempt to explore the foibles of the English planning system and it's aim is to cover the breadth of the sector both in terms of topics of conversation and in terms of guests with different experiences and perspectives. 50 Shades episodes include 'Hitting The High Notes', which is a series of conversations with leading planning and property figures. The conversations take in the six milestone planning permissions or projects within a contributor’s car ...
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Much like a Dating Profile of mine, I am doubtful of the true costs of being part of some people's Community. What Agenda. Why must we engage...? Alas, most problems are caused, escalated, exaggerated and Calculated by engaging with near-enough anything. Why bother now...? Good Question. I am trying to bring Irreverence back, in the vain attempt to become at least... Heard. As Pitiful as that sounds, I'd rather not even have that from you for what it's worth, so that just shows you where I B ...
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For the change-makers, explorers and entrepreneurs by heart or practice, Hyper Curious podcast is a celebration of what’s best in human beings: OUR CURIOSITY. Get ready to change your perception of what it means to be an 'overnight success'. Here you will listen to the most intriguing U-turns and A-ha moments of our guests, and how embracing changes (rather than fearing it) keeps them curious and evolving. Your host is Beta Lucca, a successful BAFTA-winning entrepreneur and Forbes Top 50 Wom ...
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I'M NOT FAILING is a creative platform in which I am using my spoken, written, musical, and visual VOICES to tell the TRUTH about being the daughter of a mother with NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER and HEALING from the COMPLEX TRAUMA inherent to my family of origin's isolated and abusive family structure. ****** I’m Elizabeth. I am a modern, multi-faceted, middle-aged woman. A LOT of different (overlapping and sometimes conflicting) labels and titles can describe me...MUSICIAN, WRITER, ACT ...
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Hardly any other producer managed to position himself on top of the world’s DJ Elite in such a short amount of time and no one influenced the global electro- house sound as Klaas. By doing remixes for Dimitri Vegas, Guru Josh, Erick Morillo, Stromae, DJ Antoine, Klaas put himself onto the map. The foundation was laid with “Micha Moors – Space”. Klaas’ remixes became famous all over the world and weren’t just highly successful within the German Dance Charts and Beatport during several weeks, ...
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To rebuild or to retrofit? That is the question posed by former Secretary of State Michael Gove’s intervention in planning applications for the redevelopment of M&S’ Oxford Street store and the former Museum of London building. According to the Climate Change Committee, direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions from buildings account for 23% of …
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Sam Stafford has mentioned previously that the podcast would consider the new Government’s reform agenda and this is an attempt at doing so. The specifics of the NPPF consultation will be covered in more depth in due course, but what Listeners will hear in this jam-packed extravaganza of an episode is an exploration of that reform agenda in it’s br…
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Send us a Text Message. This week, I assume I'm going through withdrawal, because it's been fucking difficult to come up with fucking ANYTHING -Until I begin spilling the liquid diet from betwixt my lips. Very standard procedure self-doubt. Plentiful is the oddballs that encompass who I am. Fairly poetic, that. As all of that sort of rubbish is sub…
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#3: As to whatever, THIS, is... Music may be co-operated, and, BANNED.
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Send us a Text Message. These are for these moments when you cannot wriggle free from the comfort of English voices. ???? Why the fuck did he bring out something to be pre-ordained to be censored ???? Life breeds something of us Gen-Z's. Mostly not coming out to the masses. #Not in a gay way... Millennial's* But if it were, I'd want it to be overtl…
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Long-serving Listeners might recall that for Episode 6 of 50 Shades of Planning Sam Stafford published a chat with Euan Mills, then of the Connected Places Catapult, on the potential for digital innovation, urban data, and user-centred design to improve the planning system. Euan, now CEO and co-founder of Blocktype, got in touch with Sam Stafford e…
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Send us a Text Message. I did say, "ONE". Don't get greedy, now. After a month-long hiatus, (due to deciding to relinquish any semblance of life in favour of smoking bud), WE. ARE. BACK. In all honesty, less schizophrenic than before, but, still equally doting to the idea (spawned from great rappers) that schizophrenia is a positive, or at-the-very…
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One of the new Labour Government’s manifesto pledges is the construction of 1.5 million new homes between now and the end of this new parliament. “We will ensure local communities continue to shape housebuilding in their area, but where necessary Labour will not be afraid to make full use of intervention powers to build the houses we need”, the man…
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With a General Election now imminent Sam Stafford thought that it might be interesting to try to compare what is being offered by the main political parties in relation to housing, planning and development with what the housing, planning and development sector would like to see being offered. In a conversation recorded at Outset Studios in Shoredit…
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#20: Set of Bollocks//#1; actually. Bingefest '24.
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Send us a Text Message. Bollocks But, honestly: Bollocks and bullshite to you all. I've understood where in which I fell to the path of the grey, but, in large to me having Social-Deaths/Living within my meansmentum/"Ah, I suppose it isn't All Bad.", I suppose it's been something to ponder, and whatever withering sentiments people have to propel wh…
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In February 2024 Planning published a special report by Joey Gardiner entitled ‘how cost-saving consultants disrupted council planning services’. Cash-strapped councils have been following management consultants’ advice to split up their planning teams. Staff have been put into central departments to handle additional non-planning tasks. But the up…
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#19: Having enough Commonwealth Time to understand myself almost feels... 1st world abusive...? (No...? No sympathy...? W.a.T. ... (and an outdated vernacular.))
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Send us a Text Message. (")Today's Podcast covers themes of hating how the elusive way of Art-Forms seem to be pathetically captured by the insufferable grief commercialism offers to, US ALL.(") Aside from that, I'll just use this an opportunity to ay, that if I were getting any attention that I truly believe felt me worthwhile in pursuing, then I'…
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Send us a Text Message. Just to be CLEAR (CLARITY, however, NOT LIKE FINISH DOES FOR YOUR DISHWASHER): Please think before expecting violence solves anything... Watch, "A History of Violence", but, with no distractions, or people of different mindsets trying to jilt your viewing... The message at least is fantastic and very thoughtful as story-tell…
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Neutral Impact III (and a bit of Green Belt)
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When Sam Stafford first covered nutrient neutrality, in February 2021, he described the process of eutrophication as a bit like the podcast itself: a little niche, but very important. When Sam published a second episode in September 2022 it had grown in importance to the extent that Prime Minister Liz Truss had pledged to "scrap nutrient neutrality…
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#17: ChaterererORdateEmUp/JustaChatPlease
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Send us a Text Message. Was going to put a, "x", after the episode title, but wasn't sure whether that would be a step too far, these days. Please be ensured: NOBODY, is entitled to kiss me. It's just a niceity that many of us add on to text messages, when we struggle for bonds past those we know. It's a scary and Fearmongering kind of world these …
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#16: THIS IS NOT A DRILL RAP ; am not that BHAD
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Send us a Text Message. ; That is genuinely a tattoo I would never be ashamed to see, as an empath. But, after dealing with suicidal thoughts scientifically, socially, compassionately, and with integrity... I am willing to spare my dignity. In the name of entertainment value. At least value it at an honest estimation. "As I can fecking monetise it …
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#15: Sometimes I end on a joke that is, “fishing”, right at the end. (Not4LazyDisinterestedBuggers - saaawii))
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Send us a Text Message. HOWEVER (SINCERELY, STIW (SORRY, SINCERELY(since I'm not a lying tory fuckwit, just an honest-hard-working-one...(?)) FOR THAT COLLOQUIAL DIG, AS I MENTION IN THE PODDY, I RECKON YOU'RE, 'WELL SMART' (not a direct quote), AND DANGEROUS, AND CLEVER COMPARED TO TORIES, yet: (un/)certainly(certi..? too far-right...? JOKE: HATE …
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#14: Multi-faceted incorrectly perceived Twinkle-Twonkoloid (hop u gert it)=(like in a text)=(knowwhatimean?)
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Send us a Text Message. I know it isn't appropriate/overly-wise/not-risky to piss off charming-date-rapists such as Dapper Laurghs, but since I'm part-Cockney... I feel I've got a reverse-racism-esque right to. "Xharming" fucking Bully... Just as a very personal and intimate note to my ex-HEADTEACHER, it really genuinely and sincerely helped me, fo…
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What are we to make of neighbourhood planning? Friend of the podcast Ben Castell considers it a “grassroots planning revolution”. Perhaps less favourably it conjures for others images of corduroy and tweed-clad councillors convening a parish council working group to thwart plans for an incinerator or, worse still, new housing. With neighbourhood pl…
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Send us a Text Message. what's your favourite colour of your fayvourite carrrrr??? I chat on a bad-sex/"friends"-line. As I say, I'm an Autistic-Fisherman: METAPHORICALLY. I'm into being a tragedy: it gets humourous/humourless. Depending on where I fall on your sword. Or, like... 'Not sure', could be something that isn't phallic these-days. Like pa…
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#12: Ghost a domestic abuser, and just respect identity and integrity. Ride a white swan, instead. Great film.
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Send us a Text Message. [Very sensitive subjects tackled, but I honestly tried. Good as I suddenly felt. After an incredible family-day. My home drains me, and it takes a while to overcome ourselves. Some tosser (not just me): "being progressive, are we...?"] I'm proud of myself, and I know I should be. But: some people iiiiin this bloody world (I …
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#11: Suck my Cock...……………………………………… In a kind way with metaphors and just based respect that levels with your true colours but not often so relish it kind of thing.... "Alright...?"
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Send us a Text Message. "I... dunno sometimes... I just... get irrationally scared..." "By the size of my own bollocks-brain. Move over, bollocks. My true penis comes to town - so to speak... in metaphors..." Hey there anybody out there, I honestly hope you're not choosing to alienate me, but I do have an awful lot to say, after feeling so bloody d…
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#10: You're a boring cunt... make you a/our Monster/Master
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Send us a Text Message. They did the mash, and I don't want to get mashed for no fucking reason anymore. Withdrawal syndrome is acting up, and I'll warn. Not everybody has the time to listen to what and how I think, but, since you truly do not know me... Get fucked. Please yourself. Title is a Dead Kennedys referral. I'd say reference, but I'm tryi…
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Send us a Text Message. This is a ridiculous kind of seriously intentional rap. Sorry for being so confounding|confusing. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "I never thought to say this originally, because I wouldn't like to lose myself in a Social-Vacuum-Esque Hellscape. Pure…
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Send us a Text Message. NOT (as I'm aware due to being brought up in genuinely brighter times that still breed difficulty) to confuse you. Hope y'all understand. I'm not simulating a black person, as I suspect quite strongly I'm not currently very black to a degree we can all trust (NOT LIKE THAT.), and I'm certainly not contrasting anybody to make…
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#8: Hopefully... This is funny and not-so-AUTISTIC, MAINLY.
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Send us a Text Message. Old-school, and the Nua-Scoil need to learrn more doe (faoi láthair), I burn baby burn like disco-inferno. Burn slow like Irish potatoes. Now that I'm not getting high, it luckily makes much more sense, though. There is good-faith, and bad-faith. Very similar to positive and negative discrimination. And... If it helps your C…
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Send us a Text Message. You don't have to agree... I know that, "Art is subjective". Some Art is out-right toss. Hope you spuriously decide for yourselves, without even a direct message! Bollocks! Feck! Arse! If you do get it, however... "your bird can sing, but I still won't fuck you." ______________________________________________________________…
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Send us a Text Message. Just. Fucking. Focus. Then. Fucking. Listen. ...please.... ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "I never thought to say this originally, because I wouldn't like to lose myself in a Social-Vacuum-Esque Hellscape. Purely if you think I have something to be …
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#5: More breaking down over sui decidedly bad thoughts
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Send us a Text Message. Nobody's fault that we are all depressed. I am genuinely sorry that anybody has been through what I have been through. You'd be looked at by those who have no experience, and that I do not wish that upon, as if they are mediators of my own doubts about life itself... Well: You have no decided quality, until something sincere…
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#4: Might just start bloody quoting myself (not actually bloody however)
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Send us a Text Message. If it seems cryptic: That's because poetry often is. Work harder.(/see me) just joking am an autist contains inflammatory material. on purpose ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "I never thought to say this originally, because I wouldn't like to lose my…
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Send us a Text Message. aN ADULT TWONK HAVING A ego wank Not an ego death :D===========DDDmyownpenis Reading...? Nobody does that within Porn anymore. They wank over others who they've invited into their homes, legally... VHS Porn was a bit like buying a Prostitute. however they are people too NOT THE VHS, YOU FUCKING IDIOT. _______________________…
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#2: Fired this one out reyt after the last one | the north is inspiring
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Send us a Text Message. Seriously, I can screenshot things, and editing skills are not a talent of mine... I wanna pause some days, and others, not... "I'M NOT A FUCKING MACHINE" pervert (unless you don't stay to the end. Or the FULL STORY FROM THE GIFT STUD MYSELF. This waste of time has been... lame) ______________________________________________…
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Send us a Text Message. Did I mention I'm Irish? Did I mention I'm Irish? Did I mention I'm Irish?Did I mention I'm Irish? Did I mention I'm Irish? Did I mention I'm Irish?Did I mention I'm Irish? Did I mention I'm Irish? Did I mention I'm Irish?Did I mention I'm Irish? Did I mention I'm Irish? Did I mention I'm Irish?Did I mention I'm Irish? Did I…
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Send us a Text Message. Can't say it was never creepy, when I heard you through the walls. But I wasn't trying to, and that's very much why. Nobody may fight for someone who WAS flighty and defenceless due to trauma, but... hey. I'm less insecure on this side, after time..... And to be honest:(;dumb) Luck. __________________________________________…
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Send us a Text Message. Hard enough to say, but... do NOT listen in an inflammatory way that avoids me being a Human-Being with thoughts and feelings, that deserve personal queries. Do me the service of listening openly. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "I never thought to s…
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#5 Ropey Gervis | I |have| been |a victim and I |care| more| than making others| that who do not deserve it|
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Send us a Text Message. If I meant I was genuinely him, I would've said his name. Not everybody thinks that they shall genuinely be legally threatened in the world...? SOME PEOPLE GREW UP AND REALISED LIFE IS HARD FOR US ALL, AND I MUST EXPRESS THAT I AM NOT RICH. When people yell, however... What? You hiding something...? _________________________…
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Send us a Text Message. Leave it out if you can't handle seriousness/confusion, and from what I remember... me shouting and being seriously, a little bit honestly insane. I vent at home, and can hopefully accept outsiders into bonding with someone who is artistically noting all the dishonesty: And just purely wanting more out of ___________________…
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#4 Listening to a story of woe... anybody: Sometimes: feelsoften not
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Send us a Text Message. A serious and poetic arc has become. Before: Shite. Soon, you may see. You may not, tbf. Fair. Will go-on whether it's one man, or POSSIBLY EVEN MORE THAN THAT. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "I never thought to say this originally, because I wouldn…
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Sam Stafford was in London recently and took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast Catriona Riddell, Shelly Rouse and Nicola Gooch at Soho Radio Studios. One topic, the hot topic of the past few weeks, dominated the conversation. “Labour pledges housebuilding drive on Grey Belt with ‘golden rules’ to boost public services, afforda…
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#3: Basically heart and soul - not the song.
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Send us a Text Message. Heart and soul, I fell in love with you, Heart and soul, Just like a man can feel. Whoops. I'm a homo'. Genuinely, but aside from things like that which are immaterial to a wider expanse of Social-acceptance: Fuck you if you can't hear how I think???? I'm not on a pedestal, so maybe you could not be dismayed by accepting me,…
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Send us a Text Message. Really authentic this one. Worked on it for fucking weeks. Didn't just flow out of me like Tory Shite-streams flow out of our Government. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "I never thought to say this originally, because I wouldn't like to lose myself …
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Sam Stafford was in Manchester recently and took the opportunity to catch up with friends of the podcast Greg Dickson and Claire Petricca-Riding. During a conversation recorded at Reform Radio they talked about another exciting few weeks in the fast-paced, ever-changing, rock and roll world of town and country planning. They talked about RPs not bi…
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Send us a Text Message. Kind of like Herbie's Magical Adventure or some shit like that. Total Herb. Get it, though? It's like a misambiguation of a whole lot of culture by referencing a funk song as a white Irish person (habitually in England to be fair(to be sure)), especially in this day-and-age. Right? I mean... I'm not DJ Qualls or anything, bu…
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Hitting the High Notes - Nick Kilby
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In Hitting the High Notes episodes Sam Stafford chats to preeminent figures in the planning and property sectors about the six planning permissions or projects that helped to shape them as professionals. And, so that Listeners can get to know people a little better personally, for every project or stage of their career Sam also asks his guests for …
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Send us a Text Message. Put it in a song... Alright? ANYTIIIIIME. Except if you're being outwardly rude without saying what you truly feel in an engaging manner. Then... Redacted. Anytime. [NOTE:;] These Royalty Free Beats don't come cheap. I was wary that I'd be charged, under cloak&dagger. "free". I still spat some terriffic bars. Take that for a…
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Send us a Text Message. Thought that mayhaps this could be a new name for a Broadcast? Even when it's about as broad as a Ham-radio with me at the steering wheel. I mean... I've never felt what it is to be depicted as creepy and lechy in terms of being a Lorry-driver. And that reputation is surely offensive... coupled with the, "I've never driven c…
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Send us a Text Message. I'm never going to dance again, wailing, taking,: some more rhythm. Nary shall I dance again... because sometimes in lower moments I feel if I were that bad, you would've broke my legs. NOT to plant any seeds... The internet is crazy. It's all an act, and a viscious cycle. Who knows what flows from a bored and conscious mind…
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Send us a Text Message. Just being frank, here. Some truths emerge within Arts, and I should think we would all be mature, adult, responsible people. At least... That's who I'm aiming for. Drama? Why not plunder nothing to show, into the minds of the international public, who come to the Edinburgh Festival for the Performance Art and the Food! Or g…
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Send us a Text Message. Much like living with my parents again... NOBODY UNDERSTANDS MEEEEE! wHITEY'S ON THE RAG AGAIN, AND HE'S back. Higher intentions within life's bounty entails the true beauty of your soul. Systems don't make you a worthy person. Personality reigns and speaks truth. But then again, that genuinely sounds like a fucking Cultist …
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Send us a Text Message. THAT Neamhchiontach Podcast #7 I'm not one to blow my own fecking horn or anything at least wherever appropriate, as my solemn duty to afflicted lives I've been touched by, and feel I can relate to. Plus, to be transparently honest (which might be smart, and might not be) I already blew off exercising, recording this tripe. …
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The Prime Minister recently announced plans to "turbocharge" development within England's largest towns and cities to mark a Government consultation on strengthening planning policy for brownfield development. Sam Stafford thought then that now would be a good time to share a conversation that he recorded online in August 2023 with old friends of t…
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