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Chris Ashworth-Bennion

@chrisabennion.bsky.social
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welsh person. freelance arts journalist. ex TV and Radio Editor at The Telegraph. ex TV and theatre for The Times. wannabe playwright.

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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 3h
do you have more teeth than a normal person
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15h
This can't be talked about enough. "President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal." www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Trump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report finds
The figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 14h
I asked Tom Davis if he was jealous of Romesh and Rob's success. His answer MAY SURPRISE YOU (it won't, but he does talk very eloquently).
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 15h
My main #CelebrityTraitors takeaway - some real overthinking of the Day One outfits there. It's all getting a bit TaskMaster.
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 15h
These are quite the coincidences
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Big night to be Welsh. Sorba Thomas flays Norway, Michael Sheen is on Celebrity Traitors, and The Abergele Files is back on the radio.
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Had a lovely old time meeting Tom Davis www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2026/10/0...
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Had a lovely old time meeting Tom Davis www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2026/10/0...
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've seen all of the new Celebrity Traitors and no spoilers but Freddie Starr wins
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am not joking when I say this. Go and live in a well.
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sorry to be po-faced, but Manchester City should be stripped of all trophies and titles from the appropriate years. They have stained English football and English football has to wear this one. Forget fines and deductions, this needs a permanent record.
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Digger (2026)
Tom Cruise, in the mall, has way too much shit on, holding a shovel so you know we photoshopped really really hard.

"Tom Cruise is Digger"

The real poster is gonna get vandalized a lot in certain neighborhoods.
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sham 69 massively underplayed this
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
me catching up with the news: *How* many locks???
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"You've got to search for the hero inside yourself" - unhelpful surgeon when I swallowed that Superman figurine
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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I DARE you to read this Pochetinno quote without Adam Curtis voice in your head
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I will write the new Doctor Who. And he will be from Rhosllanerchrugog.
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oooh
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't want to see a ghost It's the sight that I fear most I'd rather have a piece of toast Watch the evening news
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Javier Bardem, I reckon
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Without evil there would be no good, so it must be good to be evil sometimes." Satan, South Park: The Movie (1999)
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
With Manchester City the real question for me is what Abu Dhabi got in return for their ownership. www.theguardian.com/football/202... One day we will look at Newcastle and PSG the same way.
theguardian.com
How drawn-out saga of Manchester City’s alleged cheating came to this
Club’s ruthless approach was always at odds with their public image and this inglorious story has further to run
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
made me cackle
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
US Office higher than The (UK) Office? A hate crime. The King must respond. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century
More than 500 influential stars, showrunners and other notable names in the world of TV voted on the best series released since Jan. 1, 2000. See what they chose.
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I've done three interviews with three significant British comedians recently. All either teetotal or barely drink any more.
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom?
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Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ive written a piece for Radio Times. www.radiotimes.com/audio/radio/...
radiotimes.com
Mark Ravenhill: Public service broadcasting must continue to provide access to great drama from bold playwrights
Theatre on the BBC has history, says playwright Mark Ravenhill – and it’s a vital service for the future.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's perhaps time we had the reminder that making generalisations about "cyclists" is about as useful as, say, assuming great aunts are also some sort of homogenous group who can be defined via what is just one element of who they are.
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
never took to this Garfield wannabe
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Gijs Brekelmans @gys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meta removed a video by a satirist wearing Meta glasses asking unrecognizable Meta personnel about Meta glasses. Meta's ground for doing so - and please appreciate the irony here - is... harassment.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‘This is playing into his hands’/‘this will allow him to play the martyr card’/‘this will help with his fundraising’ are all really bad takes. Criminals should be arrested and charged with crimes.
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Philip Ralph @philralph.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Anyone who sees this and cannot join the dots between the end of the BBC and the end of the UK’s world renowned TV industry… frankly, I despair… We need change, yes. We need to get good at making low budget risky TV again, absolutely. But axe it and say goodbye to anything but mid Atlantic dross.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I swear to fucking god I would rather see the place renamed for John Wilkes Booth.
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
successville, murdered
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One day, as a society, we will be able to talk about women in a normal way
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Richard Tol @richardtol.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Meta-glassed journalist interviews meta-employees.
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Good job he didn't throw soup at it or he'd be in big trouble
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is true and depressing. However, I would really like to read a piece on how woke is stopping robots being funny
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either.
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Do you ever read a series of words
Includes exclusive Hanks for our troops pumpkin brulee
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Kuenssberg: I asked Earl Spencer if there will ever be a boy born who can swim faster than a shark?
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A titan. A wonder. Waiting for God, Cabin Pressure and all of the rest.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
John Thomson playing Scrooge?
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