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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Always taking the piss Paul. Congratulations x

Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Sorry for the long delay in getting back to you Matt, I no longer live here but occasionally pop by to collect my mail. Yes that was indeed signed by me. I'm pleased Kate (whoever she may be) was so delighted with it that she was happy to recycle it!

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

IIRC Major was nowhere close at the start

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Kathy Burke, Frances de la Tour, Lindsay Duncan, Ciaran Hinds, Jonathan Pryce, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman, Mark Rylance, Fiona Shaw, Martin Shaw, Juliet Stevenson, Harriet Walter, Richard Wilson. Plus @thewritertype.bsky.social Whatever happened to these people?

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Found this old programme from a benefit show I did (and wrote quite a lot of) for the Birmingham Six in 1990. Pretty sure that cast list is based on star attraction and not alphabetical at all.

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Ah excellent thanks for that. I have a character in my next novel (he said pretentiously) using it in the UK in 1987 and I wasn't sure if it was being used then.

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

I’ve been trying to find out how long “I’ve got a window” as shorthand for having a window of opportunity has been in use? No joy via usual internet channels so am consulting with my favourite human word wrangler…?

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

THE HYENA - GALA DALI 6 Gala Dali is someone I would have liked to meet, but I can’t, so I put her in my book instead, and had her deliver a cryptic warning to Deborah. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

I fear the ear of Keir doesn’t hear good cheer here.

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Brilliant summary but I have one question. What I see is an incredibly well thought through philosophy, and a plan that’s not only workable but should be popular, even in plan form, with almost everyone. Why do you think there’s so little desire to publicise it?

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Read your work back to yourself, out loud. You will start to hear where the overuse of language occurs. If I struggle to read back a sentence I’ve written that usually means it’s too long.

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Thanks. Is the newsletter only appearing in the paper now? I've not been getting it for the last couple of days.

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

Also “these opinions the billionaires have are wrong. My opinions are actually correct.”

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

I'm delighted to hear that kind of thing from someone who actually knows what they're talking about! I'm probably too close to the volatility at my local level to have a more upbeat feeling about the current state of UK politics. Your response has improved my mood (along with England's cricketers)

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Yes fair enough. But I do think US volatility is rubbing off on the UK. And this is the first time I've seen such a united opposition of the simplistic solution crowd - Tory press, Tory right, Reform, Greens and Labour left all using the same language of hostility to Starmer's Labour.

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

A counter thought: lots of caveats, different systems etc BUT "refusing to learn lessons" has done Republicans less harm than expected. Also Labour left (no lessons learned), who are now united with Tory press (no lessons learned) v Starmer. Potential way back for Tory/Reform coalition.

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

#1 New Release in Psychology of Creativity and Genius? Sure, I’ll take that. The genius is you the reader, of course.

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

I can only speak for the UK and the big change here was that left/liberal critics of Israel with a nuanced approach were forced by Corbyn’s Labour to make a choice- Zionist or anti Zionist.

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

They're not the fastest in getting back to you either. I contacted them in Feb and haven't heard back yet.

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

It's a great idea Tony. This happens to be Peston's pet project, if you'll excuse the alliteration. I'm planning to do school visits for this where I get to show kids how to write a history rap - learning about poetry, history and rhythm in one session.

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

What about Vidhya Alakeson? She must be perceived to have been doing a good job on the UK Labour Jewish-Muslim front?

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

… refusal to take the Blair route of sucking up to Murdoch and the Mail (v popular on left of party) but no desire to explain to less hostile media what the plans were/are

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

Internal management largely took care of itself. There was always big grassroots support to choose beating the Tories against fighting each other. Left was collateral in that war… what surprised me more was a refusal (?) or inability to engage with media ahead of election…

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

If only there were some books out there explaining how to write comedy…

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

It’s not a panel it’s research, probably on behalf of one of the mega AI companies. Your answer however has helped me decide. Thanks but no thanks.

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

I’m being asked to contribute to the discussion about whether AI will ever be able to do or get the joke. On the one hand I’m curious, on the other, should I even participate? I think I‘ve got better things to do with my life. What do you think Joel?

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

As someone relatively new to understanding the science (to the point I now know how little I know) is there ever any discussion or agreement about raising awareness through smaller community projects across the globe?

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

Single. Word. Sentences. Wrong.

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

Happens to be looking especially lovely at the moment

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

You probably know it better than I do Jonn

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

Lovely disused train line. I think some of it was going to be a Northern Line extension that was abandoned in 1948

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

Drop into the Parkland walk if you’ve never been on it.

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

I know those streets well. Heavily leafleted at the last election.

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh #lufc

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

And George gets a fortuitous parking space after a patient falls from the window… that whole episode is cap doff to O Lucky Man!

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

I remember - I was a film critic at the time and in a minority! For me as an obsessive lover of If and O Lucky Man it was the perfect end to the trilogy.

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

I forgot he was in that. The last in the extraordinary Lindsay Anderson trilogy. So many brilliant comic performances throughout - thinking Graham Crowden in O Lucky Man, Peter Jeffrey in If. Arthur Lowe and of course Malcolm McDowell

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

We Jews have never been popular with Jordan.

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Noted. It's three stops up the Northern Line so you may have to factor in several hours travel.

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Ah I don't think you mentioned that! Money was published a couple of years after that time I saw him interview KV. Maybe he saw that semi-colon article in his research and put it in there as an in-joke?

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Dave Cohen @daveiswriting.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Kurt Vonnegut would not have been pleased: he hated them. How sad is this...? I didn't use them for years because KV said he hated them. Eventually I accepted there were instances, maybe two or three per novel, where they were the right punctuation.

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