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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

If anyone still wonders about how Jimmy Savile got away with it, just read all the tributes to Archer that refer more prominently to his charity work than his crimes. There’s a big part of it.

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I had forgotten how spectacularly withering the late Clive Everton’s history of snooker is about the appointment of Jeffrey Archer as chairman of the sport’s governing body.

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They are disgusting. The damage they’ve done to the left’s cause is incalculable.

And to think these people don’t consider the likes of me to be proper left-wingers.

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Have you ever seen the marvellous clip where Norris denies having said he would “never, ever support Archer, alive or dead”, despite the fact he was on camera saying exactly that?

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I can understand, for example, Gyles Brandreth talking euphemistically about Archer. They had known each other for years, after all. But there is no excuse for the modern breed of Tories to follow suit. None would be this generous towards a Labour politician with his record.

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I know this is a vanishingly small sample size, but I know a number of people who think she’s “brilliant” or similar, all because she’s vaguely able to “own the libs”, not because she does so with any competence or consistency. Are there enough voters of this type to sustain her?

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And this is against a right-wing interviewer. Honestly, it’s pathetic, but the audience she’s aiming at are so bonkers they won’t care.

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A tragedy to lose, all at once, a former Olympic 100m, marathon and short-track speed skating champion, the first man on the moon, discoverer of the cure for TB and three-time Nobel Peace Prize winner. At least, according to Jeff’s CV.

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His “lovely family” included one son who was banned by the FSA for stock market manipulation. He was nice to you because he realised you were someone it might be useful for him to ingratiate himself with.

Archer wasn’t “well aware of his failings” at all. He refused to admit to most of them. Honestly, senior journalists today can be the most credulous bunch.

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“Antipathy towards Nigel Farage” and “Owl controversy” are my favourites, albeit two different people.

Jeffrey Archer - Clive Anderson Talks Back

The other quintessential Archer TV appearance, of course, was this. youtu.be/1mO9oYXPoIc?...

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YouTube video by jmvirgfb

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It’s the “Christ Almighty” I think is funniest. I believe he went on to say something like, “All the writs will go out when I win.”

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Incidentally, I was once on a ferry to the Channel Islands and was sitting opposite a bloke I recognised but simply couldn’t recall who he was. After he got off at St Peter Port, it came to me. It was Michael Stacpoole, who handed over Archer’s “£2,000”’ (in reality, more) to Monica Coghlan.

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Jeffrey Archer - A Life of Lies (2001)

If you’ve never watched this, you should. One of the best ever editions of Panorama, which began with the continuity announcer saying with great relish, “In a change to the advertised programme, Panorama takes a look at Jeffrey Archer - and his Life of Lies.” youtu.be/z8E-aBGJ3tQ?...

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YouTube video by Culture Of England

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the continued crankery of the English left-of-Labour flank is also, let's be quite real here, downstream of the fact that Corbyn's fanboys and fangirls, instead of ever recognising that they have in fact been huffing paint, invented a stab in the back myth, and I chose those words very deliberately

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Cliff Chapman VO @cliffchapman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The age of AI and click bait has made obituaries so insufferably disrespectful now. "Don't say the name so people click on the story to find out who you're talking about" is rancid, don't *do* this, please.

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Every single time the sort of cranks whose political identity is defined by blathering on about the evils of Zionism take over a party, it’s ruined.

Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It ought to be clear now that this end of left-wing politics in Britain comes with antisemitism as a feature, not a bug.

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Standing with the Ukrainian people against Russia’s brutal invasion is not a political choice — it is a moral and humanitarian duty.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The thing that gets me about these lurid anti-Zionist statements, like the one the Greens just passed, is that it is *so fucking easy* to criticise the Israeli government without engaging in that type of language.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

‘The sort of things listed here’ have contributed more to Britain’s good standing in the world than you or a single one of your colleagues. Fuck yourself into the sun, you revolting snob.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Am in awe at the batshitness of this intro by Rishi Sunak in today’s Sunday Times.

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Liz Truss lettuce panel genuinely made me laugh.

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There must surely be one broadcast news journalist out there who will see the contradiction in claiming to be business friendly while promising to make it harder to trade with the UK's biggest export market. There isn't, is there?

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Matthew Syed says we need more bankruptcies and unemployment; unclear if this extends to Sunday Times columnists.

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weloveallthat @weloveallthat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Shocked, nay stunned, to discover that Clive Dunn's 1970s novelty number one hit "Grandad" actually merited a Japanese 7" single release.

Japanese cover art for Clive Dunn's "Grandad"showing Dunn in Dad's Army military attire holding a gun in one hand, standing to attention next to some kind of hewn stone monument, possibly a gravestone. The song title is rendered in katakana in a curiously artistic font, as is the name of the B-side. Other Japanese script informs potential local purchasers that the disc is a British number one hit.

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A regular and extremely upper-crust caller to the constituency office I worked in used to always stress the last syllable of “the government solicitor, Mr Forsdick”, much to my amusement.

Call me Bill @williamshuttoh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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When you're watching old OXO adverts

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Could someone, please, start making this shit unacceptable rather than a big fucking joke?

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So, so much of that in publishing.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In the months before this; we saw spates of cameras being cut down, spray painted, vandalised and the words of Iain Duncan Smith were: "I am happy for them to do it because they are facing an imposition that no-one wants and they have been lied to about it"

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Headline writers saying Putin "warned the West against escalation" should stop helping the russian dictator manipulate the narrative. He started the war. If he attacks more European countries, he'll be escalating. The West hasn't matched his escalation, let alone ever escalated.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a newspaper that devotes so much space to TV, which ought to be welcome, the Guardian has a painfully narrow definition of how much of the medium it’s permissible to like.