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David Constable

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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Barbican membership page was possibly getting a lot of hits due to the recent cancellation of Sunday In The Park With George. People who had bought a membership in an attempt to increase their chances of obtaining tickets to see Ariana Grande were probably now finding out how to cancel it!
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Trumpton @trumpton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Has anyone considered turning the UK off and back on again?
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 15/09/2026
To have one dodgy politician may be regarded as a misfortune; to have 238 of them seems more like a party policy.
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Does November 2027 count as summer?
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Not quite sure what Harry Ramsden's got to do with it.
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The volume of fly tipping in the area made me surprised to see this headline. Did @barnetpost.bsky.social miss out the word 'pub'?
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Bit of a pointless competition from @lner.co.uk - prize has to be taken before the closing date.
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Trumpton @trumpton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I have received information from Trumptonshire Police about a credible threat to my personal ego. I shall, very bravely, take their advice and hide under a table hugging myself asking myself why I thought a By-election was a good idea.
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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Sky News legend Jon Craig points out that Nigel Farage is the first by-election winner not to turn up for the count since IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in 1981. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...
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Nigel Farage Easily Wins Clacton By-Election – But Dodges Result Declaration
The Reform UK leader said police had told him “there is an organised campaign to disrupt” the announcement.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you enjoyed this eclipse, you should pop the date of the next one in your colander.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Turtle eclipse
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Asking for a mutual friend.
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Available in most old curiosity shops?
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Text which says “Bird seed is amazing. sprinkled some on the garden and when I checked 10 minutes later lots of new little birds had already sprung up.”
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Biggus @biggus.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The longer you look at it, the worse it gets. #aifail
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The Washington Post map of US wildfire smoke looks like Trump’s hair.
As described.
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The Yard Theatre 2.0 is a splendid upgrade of an old friend. Great to be at the first performance in this new space. And I already have a favourite seat!
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 08/07/2026
Nigel Farage is no longer an MP. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Manor of Northstead
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has this day appointed Nigel Paul Farage to be Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Has any other politician ever called a by-election on an explicitly anti-transparency, pro-sleaze ticket before?
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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I've written a thing about Margo: the Surbiton sum of all fears open.substack.com/pub/johngrin...
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'Blackmail is an ugly word, Miss Mountshaft'
Celebrating the legacy of the late Penelope Keith's greatest monster, Margo
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
How long was it before you spotted it was Tom and Barbara Good, who led a “good” life, and Jerry and Margo Leadbetter, who “led a better” one? Anyway just time to note that if Penelope Keith’s character had been called Hannah, it would have been Tom & Jerry, Hannah & Barbara. RIP Penelope Keith
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This sounds like the outline for a fringe musical.
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Which came first?
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Finsbury Park area is a bit lively this evening. Sportsball fans are loudly celebrating that someone has won something.
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I do enjoy reading the occasional utterly scathing theatre review... "The resulting fragments run like something you might expect to watch at the end of a devising workshop, rather than on the professional stage." Ouch! www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/play...
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Player review at Riverside Studios, London: bitterly self-satisfied
Read our review of Player at Riverside Studios, London: half-baked satire on the struggle to achieve success as an actor
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
If you believe that #Reform is a solution to, well, anything, I have a splinter from the true cross I'd like to sell you. I hope you won't think this presumptuous of me, but have you ever considered attending a course that teaches rudimentary reasoning skills, you gullible fucking lack-wit?
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Can now be found on the outside wall of a block of flats in a housing estate built on the site of the Lee Valley Water Company offices. maps.app.goo.gl/tdvzPtHGBfP2...
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Sad news for Alistair.
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
That's not the way I like it
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the increasingly alarming scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Total narcissism
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
With the world going mad, thank goodness for some sanity from Harry Hill. youtu.be/GhJxiU1_5o0
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The Harry Hill Show - Stewart Lee
YouTube video by HARRY HILL
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Carl Maxim @carlmaxim.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I misread that as some sort of allusion to "shitting on your own doorstep"...
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
As December is almost done, it's time to look back at another busy year of theatre trips and compile my annual list. There has been a plethora of great shows making it difficult to pick, but sadly the bottom end of my list has grown longer.
Best & Worst Theatre seen in 2025
(listed in no particular order)

Best 10:
•	Blood Wedding - Omnibus Theatre
•	Burnt Toast - Battersea Arts Centre
•	Daniel's Husband - Marylebone Theatre
•	Kenrex - Southwark Playhouse Borough
•	Kyoto - @sohoplace
•	Reunion - Kiln Theatre
•	Showmanism - Hampstead Theatre
•	Tarantula - Arcola Theatre
•	The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights - Park Theatre
•	The Sociable Plover - Old Red Lion Theatre

Highly Commended:
•	Christmas Day - Almeida Theatre
•	Inter Alia - National Theatre
•	Lifers - Southwark Playhouse Borough
•	Little Brother - Soho Theatre
•	Pitchfork Disney - King's Head Theatre
•	Punch - Young Vic
•	Second Best - Riverside Studios
•	Shucked - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
•	The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs - Kiln Theatre
•	Why I Stuck A Flare Up My Arse For England - Underbelly Boulevard

Worst 10:
•	A Role To Die For – Marylebone Theatre
•	Apex Predator - Hampstead Theatre
•	Da Vinci's Laundry - Riverside Studios
•	Dracapella - Park Theatre
•	East Is South - Hampstead Theatre
•	Noughts & Crosses - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
•	Romans - Almeida Theatre
•	Storehouse - Storehouse Deptford
•	The Brightening Air - Old Vic
•	The Daughter Of Time - Charing Cross Theatre
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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 08/12/2025
A new version of James Graham’s Punch specifically for young people will tour to schools across the UK thanks to profits from the play’s West End run. Read more 👇
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James Graham's Punch to tour schools using profits donated by West End producers
A new version of James Graham's Punch specifically for young people will tour to schools across the UK thanks to profits from the play's West End run
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
[shamelessly both promoting Dorian's point and adding my own] Farage has always been very good at doing sort of golf club racism. He has an instinctive grasp on what codes to use and how much he can say before people recoil that his heirs and imitators lack. (...more)
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Seems that big splash of publicity only 2 weeks ago about Stanstead station about to accept contactless was a trifle previous. Another 6 months of those tasty £100 fines... media.raildeliverygroup.com/news/pay-as-...
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Pay as you go contactless goes live at 30 additional stations in South-East England with 20 stations to follow in Summer 2026 | Rail Delivery Group News
From 14 December 2025, pay as you go (PAYG) with contactless cards and devices will be available to customers at another 30 National Rail stations in South-East England.    PAYG contactless will be ...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
As the site is basically at the end of the London City Airport runway, I'm not sure it is ever going to be attractive for housing!
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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I love how all the Air Force One interviews with Trump look like he’s just coming out of the toilet after a horrific dump.
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
You know you are something of a theatre nut when you see a Green Party video on your feed and are distracted trying to identify the venue it was filmed in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zez... (I think it is Theatre Royal Brighton.)
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Hope is Here - a Green Fundraiser
YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
www.worldofmoose.com/products/dou...
Cartoon of two people looking down a garden towards a house, with high hedges on either side. One says "Nice lawn!". The other replies "To be honest it's a bit of a double-hedged sward".
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
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David Constable @davidconstable.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Also known for Harry Hill's Chief Scientist www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXTv...
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Harry Hill Show - clips
YouTube video by vtx264
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Roads.org.uk 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @roads.org.uk · 03/11/2025
Earlier today we published the Ringways Map, in collaboration with @maps.sabre-roads.org.uk. We are beyond excited to finally put it online - below is a thread explaining why it's so special, but to see it for yourself just follow the link: www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/index.p... 🧵
sabre-roads.org.uk
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament. But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside. Good night.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 02/11/2025
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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Stewart Lee: From Charlie Kirk to CCHQ, the right has realised they can lie and get away with it. So let’s stop them
Is the problem with modern politics that voters are stupid, or is it that no one pushes back against the populist sideshow acts that mislead them? And is it wrong to think the government should act?
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