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Alison Goldie

@alisongoldie.bsky.social
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Storyteller, actor, coach, political animal, arts lover. Author of The Improv Book: Improvisation for Theatre, Comedy, Education and Life (Bloomsbury). Short Stories on alisongoldie.substack.com Social media marketing dabbler for comedy types.

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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Larry and Paul going where no one else will dare to - to spectacular comic effect
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
People of Hackney! Dunno why our Green council is making this ill-advised move but lets try and stop it so that yet more creators/teachers don’t bite the dust c.org/kmQyZTFvvQ #hackneycouncil #hackney
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Keep the Hackney Mosaic Project at Hackney Downs
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid @thrivingplanet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
FFS. Approaching Yr 8 of the pandemic. So fucking tired of watching people get killed & disabled every week because of gov'mnt / public health / NHS incompetence & misinformation. #CovidIsAirborne Washing your hands is fucking irrelevant. Clean the fucking air & mask up (FFP2/3) you useless cunts.
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Inside Out Anger Character Screaming
Alt: A GIF of a character from the animated movie Inside Out Anger, a red figure in a suit with tie loosened and screaming in rage with an eruption of fire bursting from the top of his head.
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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Emily Wilson clearly knows her stuff and is entitled to her opinion but I came out of The Odyssey with a great big smile on my face and a spring in my jaded old step. #TheOdyssey
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
@damianbarr.bsky.social Just listened to Operation Rex in its entirety.Wonderful. An aspect of WW2 history I never knew about and a gripping and life-affirming story
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Superb satire from the hottest double act of these isles
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
C’mon Clacton!
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
@greenparty.org.uk Please don’t stand in Clacton. We need Farage to be up against joke candidates only for him to be royally humiliated.
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Creepy frog face grifter wants to look heroic again by ‘fighting’ in tired old Clacton (has he done much of note there? Last time I visited, it had a terrible bleakness). I smell a great big shitty mess on the horizon for Nigel. Can’t wait.
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Feeling sad after watching Rick Mayall: Magnificent B’stard. A born performer, more vibrant than any other 10 other comics put together, his demise began with a regular human failing…He made us laugh so much for so long. Lovely bonkers Rick.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Reform U.K. is for people who have tattoos of their children but not custody of them.
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Simply spot on
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Coming to the end of my second reading of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell whilst staying in a hotel that reminds me of another Susanna Clarke novel.
Staircases overlapping in a confusing image of stairs and handrails
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Reform UK wants to shut this down. If it did so, it would throw a million people out of work. Why? because it is beholden to the fossil fuel industry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds
Net zero industry accounts for more than a million jobs and benefits whole country, according to CBI Economics
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I’ve written a new short story about glamour, reality and mother/daughter fighting open.substack.com/pub/alisongo...
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Alison Goldie | Substack
Very Short Stories. Click to read Alison Goldie, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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BeatGhoul @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Happy celestial birthday to Black American actor, activist, singer, and international working class hero Paul Robeson April 9, 1898—January 23, 1976 🎞 He sings 'Joe Hill' in support of Scottish miners in 1949, it became an anthem for civil rights, and political resistance against oppression.
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Let’s do this at Clacton!
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I'm a vicar in a small rural village. I could never say this to my flock because of the outcry, but Reform are blatantly opposed to genuine Christian values and it's clear that anyone considering voting for them has not been listening to a single word I say each week
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Loving this revamp of an old poster for this essential upcoming march
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Yet again, I wake up in a world run by a furious baby and I have to make myself move and carry on and believe in better things
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
There’s a movement to draft Barron Trump, but I think a campaign such as this would be more effective if it impacted someone Donald Trump knew personally.
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
What it feels like for this girl. From the FB feed of Rebecca Solnit, source unknown.
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Art reflecting life in the best way
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
What a slimy creep Mandelson always was. There isn’t a socialist bone in his body. He was always a chancer who took power and money wherever he could, and oiled his way with his vampiric charm. Loathsome.
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
In extraordinary times, the boys give us extraordinary satire
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Excellent summary of how we’ve been betrayed and how we betray ourselves (US commentator but of course, relevant for us all)
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Rachel is colder than a penguin’s bum. How could they never have suspected her before?!! #TheTraitors
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is now closing on 77,000 signatures! Let’s get it to the 100,000 needed! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
@mariastrutz.bsky.social Every one of your posts is utterly beautiful
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Today Suella Braverman came up as a suggested friend on FB and I saw SEVEN of my friends on there were already her friends, not one of them with the excuse of being a journalist. WTF? A Left Wing Person.
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
@theguyliner.bsky.social I am absolutely hooked on The Glorious Dead and am not eating or sleeping...and barely breathing. It's a proper page turner, a really funny, poignant, twisty roller-coaster of a story. Can't wait to get to the end but also don't want to.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Anyone else feeling a bit discombobulated by all the blather and shouting and acting big going on in #TheTraitors this series? It’s less fun than it used to be.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
People fatally shot by UK police in 2024/25: 2 People fatally shot by US law enforcement in 2025: 1280
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
#TheTraitors
Cartoon from The Big Issue magazine. Artist: Dink. The round table in The Traitors is surrounded by dogs with Claudia looking on and one dog saying, Oh come on now! Surely we can’t all be faithful?
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Fantastic story of family history and a living breathing token of friendship travelling through the decades. observer.co.uk/news/first-p...
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The strange tale of Sigmund Freud’s begonia | The Observer
How the gift of a plant helped Emma Freud finally get to know her great-grandfather
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
A nice bit of art, seasonal theme and taxonomy
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Treated myself to a Saturday afternoon matinee of #Pillion on my tod surrounded by a glorious mishmash of an audience. What a great film! Hooted my way through it, felt a little discombobulated in the nether regions, and wanted to stand up and applaud at the end. Radical. Beautiful. Exceptional.
Film poster for Pillion. Handsome blonde man in biker leathers holds younger man between his legs whilst sitting on big bike
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
#BlueSkyArtShow
A thin boy is almost silhouetted in an arched doorway of a white-tiled passage connecting the Embankment to Charing Cross station. Lots of geometric shapes.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 09/12/2025
We're probably going to miss our target... donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... But if you donate to this excellent cause by noon today your money will be doubled and (if you drop me an email) I'll give you free access to the members-only London Centric stories I'm working on.
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Watched #thenightmanager series 1 again in prep for series 2. Oh my. A masterpiece. I fear the new guy may not be able to replicate the love director Susanne Bier had for all her actors. She honours them in every frame. Hiddleston and Debicki - the most beautiful humans anyway - are fully electric.
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
C'mon people! You can protect yourselves and stop spreading disease. Have we learnt bloomin' nothing after all those years of Covid? No one gives a toss if you wear a mask - just do it in crowded places and public transport. And get whatever jabs you can... WAKE UP!
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Calling drama, comedy and Improv students and their gift buyers. Also teachers. Also hosts of evenings of superior party games. In The Improv Book there's a compendium of joyous games and much more. It's one of the best improvisation books. I wrote it. A tenner. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/improv-bo...
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The Improv Book
A smart, witty and accessible guide to the rewarding and joyful practice of improvisation. Classic improv games and variations Telling stories and creating char…
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
So satisfying in many mysterious ways
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Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Fed up with Farage? Me too. I’ve signed the Never Nigel Pledge. Add your name today, and help show that division and hate have no place in our communities. secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/170649/... @hopenothate.org.uk
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Take the Pledge: “I’ll never vote for Nigel Farage”
Join thousands across Britain taking the Never Nigel Pledge. Say no to hate and division and help stop Reform UK from tearing apart our communities. Let's show there is strength in standing together f...
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Mr Global 🌎 @mrglobaltoo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
PSA From Epstein Survivors - Please Share
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