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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 29/09/2026

Your Paul Heaton tribute barrister has had a busy year. Finally made some decent audio recordings (rather than phone audio)! Here's a little sample. *All rights belong to @paulheatonsolo.bsky.social and BMG. We are just fans with mics and instruments who missed out on tickets for the tour!

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 10/08/2026

The Beautiful Mancs are playing at The Hopetown, Liberal Working Men’s Club, Normanton, West Yorkshire. Saturday 15th August. Doors 7.30pm. Tickets £5. Visit thebeautifulmancs.co.uk for details and tickets. #PaulHeaton #LiveMusic #TheBeautifulSouth

Vintage-style sepia gig poster for The Beautiful Mancs, a tribute to The Beautiful South and Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott. Six band members stand in front of an old coal-mining scene. The Hopetown, Liberal Working Men’s Club, Normanton, West Yorkshire. Saturday 15 August. Doors 7.30pm. Tickets £5. Visit thebeautifulmancs.co.uk for details and tickets

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 19/07/2026

Well, that was a busy weekend! Playing Rock N Stroll for second year was nice. And Field of Gold Festival was just superb. Crikey, I'm tired though! @paulheatonsolo.bsky.social makes is look so easy!

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 12/07/2026

When you play a Pride event (as a gay man in a tribute act to a performer and band known to be allies, socially liberal, and anti-populist BS) and you get this on your socials from somebody who engages positively on every other post... Homophobic prick. Off you fuck!

A facebook comment that reads "You have lost me now , you are on the wrong side"

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 24/05/2026

Counting those Reform exits? Somebody is doing that for you.. It's pretty ugly. #UKPolitics #ReformUK #populism

Screenshot of site tracking reform sackings, quitters, arrests...

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 14/05/2026

Without reading the Reuters story text, thus was unfortunate placement of that image.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 18/04/2026

This was her window box for a whole autumn. It was very good. At present, she likes the space behind the telly or my knee in the office.

This is a picture of tippex. She is a very beautiful long-haired black cat with long white whiskers and yellow eyes. She is wearing a metal pink heart tag and she's curled up in a cardboard box that is lined with orange fur. She's staring directly at the camera.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 16/04/2026

Let's headline like the BBC headlines... "BBC journalists sexually abuse children and hold extremist views, review finds." Because those things are few of a tiny number of BBC hacks and you can review news reports of them. Irresponsible headline and pointless hackery.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 21/03/2026

Arts et Métiers shall always be my favourite metro/underground/subway station. What's yours?

A metro platform with a curved, copper-toned tunnel wall featuring round porthole-style windows and fixed seats, a train standing at the platform on the right, and a few passengers walking under bright overhead lighting.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 17/02/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social This is part of the answer to your question about France and phone theft. What happens when a phone is nicked there... In the UK, victim has to deal. Although 75% of violent offending in Paris is phone theft (robbery). In the UK, the potential sentence is higher, not lower.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 17/02/2026

Tippex would like to remind you to dress up warm because, even though it is sunny today, it's blummin chilly. You don't have floof, silly hoomon! Share her advice to other silly hoomons who you don't want to end up all frozen. This has been a Tippex Advice Post. #cat #catsofbluesky

Tippex, a floofy black cat with big eyes and a little pink heart collar.
She's stood on the lino in the kitchen and it's in urgent need of replacing. Sigh.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 06/01/2026

That would be for this reason, then. The Americans are stealing another oil tanker. From a UK footing. BBC News - US may intercept and seize oil tanker heading for Europe, reports say www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 26/11/2025

This is the headline from BBC News that popped up in news alerts. You'll see how terribly biased in favour of the government it is. Obviously. BBC current affairs is right-wing to its core.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 23/11/2025

Chimps Revise Beliefs Like Children, Study Finds So, in that regard, they do much better than Reform voters and MAGA cultists. ground.news/article/chim...

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 19/10/2025

It was terribly exciting. Mind you, it still is. Larceny Act 1916 share.google/OzQoXlSeBfbu...

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 28/09/2025

Internet, does anybody KNOW what this variant of the St George flag is specifically being used for online? I can guess (variant of the crossed axes but with a machete so a 'call to arms' for far right) but I cannot find definitive.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 19/09/2025

'It's what the deceased conman would have wanted.' Pretty sure silencing his critics actually isn't what he would have wanted. His particular schtick required people to argue with him. That's how he made money. Silly uncoordinated fascists!

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 15/09/2025

Hadn't heard who it was. Pru Leith's son. At least it's not some Christian right fundamentalist who has the look of a movie villain. Oh.

Picture of the fascist toad obscured to spare you all. Next to him is Kruger. Not the one with the pointy glove. The other one. The right wing god-botherer.
At some press conference that will get more media attention than any from any actual party with members and more MPs than a Lincolnshirite has fingers.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 14/09/2025

From the second bottomless brunch gig in Barnsley, yesterday...the moment that I cut my lip. Yes. That was very ouchie. :-( #PaulHeaton #TheBeautifulMancs #BeautifulSouth #Barnsley

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 28/08/2025

Pink News keeps reposting and recycling this old pile of shite story. It's a right wing hoax from years ago implying nonces are part of the LGBTQ+ community 'officially'. It is reposted to generate clicks, shares and, therefore, ad revenue. It's also promoting the f-ing BS as 'discussion'. Stop.

See the post text. Screenshot of the article to avoid sharing it. It's the nonce flag and a headline saying that it's nothing to do with the rest of us. Which it isn't. And nobody has talked about this old shit in about 6 years. But Pink News will if it means clicks. Gross.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 26/08/2025

That's on Boiler Central's website. Well, the salesman WAS pushy - so much so that I wondered if it was a scam. Not looking like next day (or actually day 5). And turns out that Which? and Trustpilot really ain't worth crap. Yes - I am pissed off.

Screenshot of their website. Proclaims their virtues (re Trustpilot rating, next day installation, "no pushy salespeople"... Load of bollocks.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 24/08/2025

Another gig nearly sold out. What a bizarrely busy year it is! Unexpected but fun, though.

Me as Paul Heaton with Jakki as Jacqui Abbott — our tribute act The Beautiful Manics, singing all the classics live on stage.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 10/08/2025

Disco’s taken “living on the edge” a bit literally today. Perched across two sofa cushions, fast asleep, defying both gravity and common sense. #CatLife #LivingDangerously #DiscoNap #AdorableLittleDufus

Tabby Disco-cat curled up asleep across the narrow edge between two sofa cushions, head tucked in and body perfectly balanced.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 10/08/2025

A little bit of Perfect 10 from our Donington performance, yesterday. Don't say I never give you anything! And there's the lovely ginger boy that is Dan the sound man! #TheBeautifulSouth (copyright owners) #TheBeautifulMancs (on the stage in the heat) #ConvoyInThePark

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 10/08/2025

Lionization of racists and things. Fuck the BBC for this. I defend the beeb a lot. Well, I have over the years. BBC entertainment is still centre-left but only because comedy is usually from the left. BBC news is disgusting, though. They validate, sure. But their bias is absurd and wrong.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 09/08/2025

Performing at Donington has been unlocked. Great stage crew. Huge event and it's a little sad that the stage is a bit out of the way but we had fun as did the audience. The portaloos haven't changed much since the mid-90s though. #ConveyInThePark #TheBeautifulMancs #PaulHeaton #Donington

Me and Jakki as Paul and Jacqui in front of trucks and festival stuff.

Crowds sitting out on the grass at the festival, in the sun.

My pulling the face you'd expect outside the portaloos!

A DAF truck that says Ben's Demolition on it. But it's now my demolition truck. Boo.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 07/08/2025

"Bluesky is dying"? Oh yeah? Then why does my cat get this absurd number of likes? And why doesn't he even care? WHY?

Floofy idiot Discocat is upside down snoozing with paws all over the place and fangs visible in is dufusy snoring half open danger face-hole.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 05/08/2025

Today's photo of my sleepy, sleepy, Disco-Cat. Tippex has been working on my desk with me but she hasn't done her hair so doesn't want internet fame today. #cats

Disco the tabby cat stretched out and fast asleep on a dark grey sofa, with one paw extended forward and a look of peaceful contentment on his face.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 04/08/2025

This little Discocat is fast asleep and is giving ELEGANZA. No, really.

Disco-Cat, a tabby tom, is curled up asleep on a dark leather surface. His head is twisted upside down in a comically contorted position, with one paw draped over his face and his mouth slightly open to reveal a few tiny teeth. His flooffy body is completely relaxed, mid-dream and, in fact, mid-snore.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 31/07/2025

Tippex and Disco have authorised this official photo via their respective press officers.

Two cats sit on a cluttered wooden table. The foreground cat is a tabby with green eyes, facing slightly to the left. This is Disco. Behind him stands a black cat with green eyes, looking toward the camera. That is Tippex. Items like papers, a map, and a white Google Streamer remote are scattered on the table. A television screen and vase of flowers are visible in the background.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 30/07/2025

This explains why so many people are wankers at work.

Unilad headline in which a boss explains why she gives her staff a daily half hour wank break in the day.... apparently.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 29/07/2025

Well, they are both in summer mode and are, as such, refusing to come inside except for very brief scoffing time! Here is a shot of the lesser spotted Disco Cat, however.

Disco the tabby cat, reclined on the wooden floor.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 29/07/2025

Tommy Robinson. Whatever he did or didn't do to the unconscious man, the response to the BBC female journalist is pretty much all you need to know about this PoS.

News article reporting that British Transport Police are investigating an alleged assault at St Pancras station involving far-right activist Tommy Robinson. Footage showed him near a motionless man with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The suspect, believed to be Robinson, reportedly left the country early the next day. When contacted by the BBC, Robinson replied with the word "slag".

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 25/07/2025

Operation Turn-Bluesky-Into-Facebook!

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 24/07/2025

*shakes fist at Zak Porkman* Damn you, Porkman!!!

Some graffiti on a concrete wall. Basic black text on grey concrete.
Main text (i.e. not tags) says "ZAK PORKMAN STRIKES AGAIN"

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 21/07/2025

Does he stay in many lower mid-range hotels for work? What were the clues? Travel fridge. That is all.

Travel fridge on the floor of my premier Inn cell.
And my umbrella. It is very wet here.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 20/07/2025

More backstage boozing from Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott (well, me and Jakki as them) at RockNStroll. Yes. That was pregig gin..and reader, twas neither the first nor the last. 😮 #AuthenticHeatonBehaviour?

Me and Jakki as Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott, backstage at RockNStroll. I'm holding a cannot premix G&T. We are hiding under a tent before going on.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 20/07/2025

Not this drinky bish taking a selfie with the lovely crowd at Rock N Stroll tonight!

This is the mandatory photograph that I take of me and Jakki on stage at any gig and this is us at rocknstroll with a fantastic audience behind us.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 18/07/2025

Shipping notification. Then (yes, after) a prepping notification! Yes, this is the parcel that has already been bouncing between depot and van for a week! Now it's going in reverse! Evri is totally unhinged!

Notification that my parcel is being prepared for shipping

Notification that my parcel has shipped.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 18/07/2025

Yes. Because no offence known to law was committed. It would be quite a stretch to do so against Bob Vylan too.

Sky news alert that police will take no action re the kneecap Glastonbury performance.

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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 17/07/2025

About time! Good work, Kier. Credit where it's due.

Guardian news alert that voting age to be lowered to 16 in England and NI

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