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Also they write a two-deck broadsheet splash headline where the second deck is just a single word, centred, and I had to leave the room at that point.

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(Or something. That's how I remember it.)

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is a brilliant, gripping drama, right up to the moment they reveal that the whole murderous conspiracy is about suppressing a report from the Transport Select Committee.

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Book #25 31 Inventions That Built Our World by Jonn Elledge; like his previous two (solo - need to get Conspiracy) books, Elledge has a real knack for pitching his books at both smart kids & dads. This feels the best of the three with a more natural throughline as he builds out the story of cities

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War Movie Theatre @warmovietheatre.com · 01/10/2026

ALL-TIME "AND INTRODUCING" WINNER: Which future Hollywood megastar is this?

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You're stuck in a 1990s model of politics.

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"bit of an emergency as I forgot to do a wash and didn't have any other clean t-shirts, I wouldn't normally wear it" answers several of them.

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My "Actually, preparation makes no difference to my performance" T-Shirt is prompting all sorts of questions about my preparation that are really just boring.

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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tell me that you prefer busking stuff to doing the reading in a way that you think makes you sound dynamic.

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This is correct but doesn’t quite engage with why private schools remain popular. Fundamentally most state schools aren’t set up very well to deal with two high grade professional career career families.

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War Movie Theatre @warmovietheatre.com · 01/10/2026

ATTENTION, ATTENTION! This week's episode is on M*A*S*H. Follow the madcap adventures of US medical staff in the Korean War as we launch Definitely Not Vietnam Month. champ.ly/x3fa6sc4

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He is not burning cash. He is investing money to shape political discourse and public opinion in line with his ideology and interests. And it's a successful strategy. Also, for a billionaire losing 10 million is like losing 1000 pounds for a middle class person.

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War Movie Theatre @warmovietheatre.com · 30/09/2026

TOMORROW!

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

'Do you think I'm made of money?!' [stamps around the house, darkness falling in his wake]

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Odysseus arrives home after 20 years and realises that in his absence no one has turned a single light off.

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Increasingly sure that she's doing it for a bit.

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Thorough and nuanced engagement in Lisa Nandy's conference sketch on the deep challenges facing Britain's cultural sector.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I didn't go on a plane until I was 16, in 1990.

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Liquid Bluesky

National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease

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I imagine they spent the 80s running into each other in casting agents' waiting rooms.

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bill Pullman and Jeff Daniels.

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Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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Plenty of ambition, not a lot of detail: my SKETCH of Andy Burnham's speech. thecritic.co.uk/more...

So it is not to question the prime minister’s evident sincerity to note that Burnham has the Boris Johnson quality of needing to tell his audience exactly what they want to hear. And he knows how to do it: his speech in Liverpool brought delegates to their feet cheering again and again. Small details like “what will all this cost?” and “how will it actually work?” were cast aside as the prime minister described the promised land into which he will take us. The comparison with his Tory predecessor offers a contrast too: Johnson delighted in being a naughty boy, whereas there are hints that Burnham thinks he’s the Messiah.

Before the speech we were played a video of ordinary people talking about “the first time I met Andy”. “Andy’s given me hope,” someone said. Have you invited Andy into your life as your leader and prime minister? The celebrity astronomer Brian Cox came and sat near us. An expert on the largest things in the universe, he’d come to see for himself the Burnham ego.

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It would just be so much easier if only the UK had a mainly services-based economy.

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We did not discuss The Cruel Sea's VD vignette in The Cruel Sea episode, confusingly, because we didn't know about it. Which is why I brought it up in the Full Metal Jacket episode.

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Tania Doney @taniadoney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Only with @warmovietheatre.com do you get to hear about both the worst movie lines to use when disciplining your children AND the history of venereal disease in military conflict.

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So, who's your money on? Gérard Depardieu? Javier Bardem? Personally, I suspect Jackie Woodburne (Susan off Neighbours).

UK news
Marco Rubio says foreign actor was 'clearly' behind suspected plot at UK airbase

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Labour is a party disappointed by the people who vote for it and by the economy of the country it's running. thecritic.co.uk/the-...

And how will it do that? Healey, it turns out, has the kind of idea of work you’d expect from a man who has been active in politics since 1986. There were a lot of references to the coalmining heritage of his constituency, and even the more modern work he talked about was hard, manly toil like pipe-fitting, the sort of thing that involves bulging forearms and mucky overalls. Aside from his wife, the one woman he mentioned was Reeves, and she’s just lost her job.

It’s far from clear that the Chancellor has a handle on what the more modern bits of the economy look like. There are a million young people out of work, he said, and the solution he pointed to was shipbuilding apprenticeships. Do this year’s unemployed graduates actually want to go into shipbuilding? Are there enough ships for them to build? His first job, he said, was washing glasses at a pub, exactly the kind of work that has disappeared in the face of minimum wage and tax rises. On artificial intelligence, which has destro

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hopeless Healey: my SKETCH of a Chancellor who's rather better at despair. thecritic.co.uk/the-...

“I’m a proud optimist,” John Healey told the Labour Party conference, unconvincingly. Perhaps he is. Let’s imagine that, away from the cameras, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is known as the cheeriest chap in the office, spotting the silver lining on every cloud and for ever detecting blessings beneath their disguises. Unfortunately, the Almighty, displaying once again the sense of humour that holds the universe together, has bestowed upon Healey the demeanour of an undertaker who’s just learned his business has burned down.

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Confusing cabinet appointments, ranked: 1) Nandy - Visibly disinterested, openly insubordinate, and a vital role. 2) Healey - When you thought the main issue with Rachel Reeves was her haircut. 3) Bryant - Consistent bungler, very little experience in either NI or Home, also not willing to learn.

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Where were you when I was looking for jokes?

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Maybe if we destroy the creative sector then in 2066 a Labour chancellor will make a speech about how great it was when we had it.

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Good news for miners that they finally have the full attention of the Treasury!

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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But what if I've had a busy day and I don't want to spend 20 minutes hunting through your liveblog to try to find out what the story is?

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I see your lack of power sockets and raise you a lamp screwed into the centre so that it’s hard to set up a laptop or do anything else useful.

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Labour is a party disappointed by the people who vote for it and by the economy of the country it's running. thecritic.co.uk/the-...

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Who remembers Rachel Reeves? thecritic.co.uk/the-...

All Labour conference speeches are in constant danger of lapsing into self-congratulation. Did you know that the party founded the NHS? It did, actually. Healey didn’t manage to resist the temptation. He was less comfortable with trickier, more recent aspects of the party’s history. He was, after all, only standing there because of the failure of his predecessor. He gave the briefest of tributes to her work in the Treasury, which won a smattering of applause, and then added that “after 800 years, she will always be recognised as this country’s first ever female Chancellor.” The conference cheered at the thought that Rachel Reeves is only a decade away from being a tricky pub quiz question.

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