The Almighty Gob. The Satirical Social Philosopher.

The Almighty Gob. The Satirical Social Philosopher.

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Makerfield or Breakerfield.
The revolving door of 10 Downing Street in motion again.
 • John Langley
I'm now officially a member of the Alternative Disposition, Hardwired Differently Club.
A first-hand account of an adult ADHD diagnosis, and the help that never followed-The Almighty Gob.
 • John Langley
Bristol Harbour Committee, 23 June: every excuse the council will reach for.
Dismantled in advance, using the council's own papers. By John Langley (The Almighty Gob)
 • John Langley
The Filton Four, Henry Nowak, and the Death of Left and Right.
Neither left nor right: a Bristol sergeant's fractured spine, jailed Palestine Action activists, a boy dead in police handcuffs.
 • John Langley
The Spine and the Spineless.
A hundred names defended the Filton 4. Not one named the officer they injured.
 • John Langley
Bristol's Southmead Hospital: The Worst in England?
Forty patients a day, no bed — England's worst for corridor care.
 • John Langley
Brunel Overboard: The Bristol Dockyards Rebrand.
One story's about values. The other's about the takings.
 • John Langley
Bristol and a Damaged Society.
The city centre is being knocked down and renamed in the same breath. A walk down the streets where you can watch it happen.
 • John Langley
THE DEMOLITION OF CRITICAL THINKING.
The Oxford Union, the NHS, the police — the same reflex: feeling first, facts later. How emotion got promoted to the fallacy of evidence. By John…
 • John Langley
CURED TO DEATH.
The Curious Case of the Law-Man and Brownbread Toast. Written ryely, by John Langley | The Almighty Gob.
 • John Langley
Floyd v Nowak. The story isn't so black and white after all.
I Can't Breathe… Either.
 • John Langley

May 2026

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