The Albion are up and running for the season and so is your favourite independent advert-free Albion mag; Dogma Issue 16 is GO.
The issue will drop next week, but confirm your sub NOW to make sure a copy hits your gaff.
What’s in it? Absolutely LOADS:
www.dogmabrighton.co.uk/articles/iss...
Obsessed with this. Probs account for 1k of the 2k all time listens.
Owen - 2025
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@swiftenburg.bsky.social asks if Albion have a racism problem, and @motski.bsky.social l celebrates THAT Mitoma goal.
JBD investigates BHAFC’s EDI shortcomings, we meet Mark Ormerod, one of our Hereford heroes and Charlie Butler pines for Europe again.
DOGMA ISSUE 15 / Publishing mid-May 2025
Pages of dogmatic opinions, long-form articles and THE best Albion artwork.
Featuring cover photography from Dogma’s @aforsyth.bsky.social , Jason Therios previews the arrival of his countryman Stefanos Tzimas.
#bhafc
Dreamy 😍
After a monumental footballing shitshow this weekend, what better way to start the week than have this land on my doormat. Can't wait to get into the latest @dogmabrighton.bsky.social fanzine. It really is a superb bit of work. #BHAFC
Cheers, Brad, appreciate the kind words.
No surprise that the latest edition of @dogmabrighton.bsky.social is a sublime read as always.
Doff of the cap to @swiftenburg.bsky.social for his piece on the IFR in particular. Resonates with my own view on the benefits of the regulator, but also some of its vocal detraftors #BHAFC
A photo of Small Worlds - a novel by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Please, please, please read Caleb Nelson’s Small Worlds.
Open Water was class, this follow-up even better.
A beautifully written story on music, relationships, migration, identity, racism, belonging, understanding and tough moments in life.
Blew me away.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Some general thoughts:
- I will listen to any Christine and the Queens song at any time
- Boosted by the Girls Aloud reformation, the Nicola Roberts Cinderella’s Eyes (2011) obsession crept up on me
- leavemealone won the title in January when I really did want everyone to leave me alone
I have two words.
Wealth. Tax.
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Ok I’ve got a month. Your organisation focuses the mind ngl.
I’ve got it down to 34 😬
Are yours in order or just a general top 20?
Yas mate. Didn’t realise you’d moved to London. Whereabouts?
A pull quote: The Trafalgar Tavern in Greenwich enjoys the dreamiest location, a great wedding cake of a pub plonked next to Old Father Thames. But it is operated as if ‘David Dickinson and Ben Fogle decided to run a pub together.’ With staff compelled to sport ‘matching crested blue shirts’ and an ‘excessive display of naval tat and bunting’ all throughout the hostelry, there is possibly no smugger pub on this list than The ‘TT’.
Stunning description of the Trafalgar Tavern via @thefence.bsky.social.
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Max, a Jack Russell Terrier Westie cross, modelling a grey and blue checked jacket.
Max, a Jack Russell Terrier Westie cross, modelling a coat.
Max, a Jack Russell Terrier Westie cross, modelling a red fleece.
Max, a Jack Russell Terrier Westie cross, modelling a red raincoat with a hood!
Max inherited some clothes so we had a couple photoshoots. He was disgusted at best.
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Love this Time article on the French Revolution origins of being politically on the left / right.
"...those who thought the king should have an absolute veto sat on the right of the president... and those who thought he should not... sat on the left..."
time.com/5673239/left...
This wonderful @publicdomainrev essay by Peter Keeling explains how there were plans to build a tunnel between England and France in the 1800s (!)
A fascinating array of engineers likely had the technology but war and an army general's fear of invasion scuppered the plans.
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Your Saltburn hate is not welcome here. Bloody loved it.
Here's me, drinking it all in:
Ali & Ava is truly wonderful. A really moving story, beautifully told, excellently acted.
Actually made me quite proud to be British. More of a rom than a romcom, but it has funny moments.
Currently on @BBCiPlayer. Get involved.
bit.ly/3vhfZCi
Start the new year on the right foot by listening to this superb BBC R4 documentary with Shaun Keaveny on planned obsolescence.
It’s where companies deliberately shorten the lifespans of their products to sell more - a tactic invented by a bunch of dodgy companies 100 years ago.
bit.ly/4aHMKbI
Merry Christmas from the lads, x 🎄
Please read this Portland Press Herald article via The Browser on one person's experience of being homeless in Portland, Maine.
Incredibly important humanisation by Grace Benninghoff.
Insane that people are still allowed to be homeless.
bit.ly/485KKbM
Despite my initial reluctance, one of the best experiences of my life was partying in a Mexican graveyard for Day of the Dead in 2011.
Read this superb article by Mathew Sandoval in The Conversation on the origins of the famous 'La Catrina' mask, designed by José Guadalupe Posada.
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Already knew Jennifer Egan as a superb fiction author (A Visit from the Goon Squad, esp.), but this piece on homelessness for the New Yorker is incredible.
A fascinating insight into being homeless, and how we can fix it.
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Completely obsessed with Barry Keoghan, especially after such a compelling turn in the latest series of Top Boy.
Really looking forward to seeing Keoghan in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, released on 17 November, and the topic of this Vogue feature.
bit.ly/46KMZ38
Really enjoyed this J. B. MacKinnon article, fabulously illustrated by Sarah Gilman, for the superb @hakaimagazine.bsky.social.
In Defense of the Rat | Rats are less pestilent and more lovable than we think. Can we learn to live with them?
bit.ly/3rGXjKN
Fewer than 1 in 5 Americans surveyed in the 2021 General Social Survey said they go outside every day to enjoy leisure activities.
Now, your Apple Watch’s Time in Daylight feature can use the watch’s ambient light sensor and its GPS and motion sensors to detect whether a person is outside.
