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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 11h

Oh for fuck’s sake. I see the non-rhotic tyranny is continuing on House of Games despite Michael Sheen, a Welshman, taking the chair. Rhyme Time, my arse.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Denis Healey on David Owen

Healey kept a shelf of Spitting Image puppets as latex mementoes of his turbulent political life - among them Margaret Thatcher, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock and David Owen. As he picked up the Owen puppet and squeezed it to make it squeak, I quoted Owen's view that when Healey stood for the Labour leadership in 1980 he “didn't have the guts to take on the left wing of the party”. “That's absolute bollocks," snorted Healey. “David Owen was a very self-centred person. He was good-looking, he was intelligent, he had immense charm and all these presents were given to him by the good fairy and then the bad fairy came along and tapped him on the shoulder and said, '... but you'll be a shit.”

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’ll say it again. It is extraordinary that THE TRAITORS — which, yes, I’m still watching — can be such a gargantuan success with a format that, for a dozen reasons, makes no fucking sense whatsoever. #celebritytraitors www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

theguardian.com

Celebrity Traitors debut draws almost 9m viewers and more than half of TV audience

Series opener had 3m more viewers than last year to see Claudia Winkleman select the first batch of traitors

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m fine with OBSESSION being classed a comedy, but I can see how others might think that a stretch. In contrast, in what possible way is WIDOW’S BAY *not* a comedy?

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No snark. Genuinely interested. Is an internally regional thing, or do all Americans pronounce “aunt” differently to “ant”? Sometimes their “aunt” is very “ant”. But currently listening to a podcast where they’re really going for “ohnt”

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I were a Warner Brother (which I’m not) I wouldn’t be *delighted* at Cruise running, apparently panicked, towards a Days of Thunder sequel just weeks before the release of Digger.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Obviously at very, very different points in their career, but I think Cruise with Digger gets the Oscar nomination Ana de Armas got for Blonde. The ropiness of the film doesn’t much change how (one way or another) voters will view the performance.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The front fork on my bike is broken. It will need to be ordered. That could take weeks (and it will probably have to be the wrong colour). God be with the days when these things didn’t need to have shock absorbers. I’m not travelling over the Rocky Mountains.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

DIGGER is utterly insufferable. (How long before — as with DON’T LOOK UP — supporters associate bad reviews with climate change denial) Digger review: Tom Cruise can’t be faulted for effort. But it’s still wasted www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

irishtimes.com

Digger review: Tom Cruise can’t be faulted for effort. But it’s still wasted

Cruise throws everything at a character that offers not an iota of nuance

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh lord. We’ve had the Narnia meltdown and the East of Eden meltdown. Now prepare for the Le Carre meltdown. (I can live with this as a less flattened young Smiley).

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I didn’t really know the answer of any of these apart from the opening blue (and there only half the answer). Connections Puzzle #1205 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What point are people trying to make when they post photos of Ireland playing Germany in 1936? I’m sure nobody opposing the Israel match would support us playing Nazi Germany. Pretty sure nobody from the 1936 side is still playing (though I’m no soccer expert). So where’s the supposed hypocrisy?

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ummm… Just dipping into Strictly at my mum’s. I don’t claim to be any expert of this, but Josh Widdecombe is totally wrong. No? He seems totally out of place.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was in Mexico City about 10 years ago. I walked out of my hotel room the first night and Santana were playing a free gig in the street. I guess visiting tourists to Dublin had a similar experience here.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminded me of that Guardian best novels from earlier in the year. Quite hard to get upset about a list so stuffed with usual suspects.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m sure everyone will be very normal about this.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The absolute greatest on the 100th anniversary of his birth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=saN1...

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JOHN COLTRANE Alabama

YouTube video by roger b

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The frantic need of so many on social media — particularly Irish — to follow up any mention of Bono or U2 with a slew of unfiltered hatred has managed to turn me round on them. I won’t hear a word against them now.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lovely first episode of Bake Off. Nigella is, of course, a perfect fit. But can we please stop pretending we’re still going to send someone home whenever someone falls ill? Every viewer knows that leads to a supposedly surprising “no one”. #gbbo

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I presume they just don’t know what they’re talking about and mean Shakespearean English. Because Olde English would make no sense in “capturing a period” unless he were relocating it to England of the early middle-ages. Right?

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m sorry. But, if Ed Sheeran announced an Irish tour tomorrow, it would sell out in seconds. And anyone who thinks differently is living in fairyland.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I saw Bucking Fastard at Venice barely three weeks ago. I remember no such scene.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My ballot for the NYT best TV shows of the century...

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Considering the fury about Narnia and now East of Eden (some vague remarks about making emotional connections with her demonic character), one can only imagine how these people would react if confronted with how Shakespeare has been staged over the last 100 years. Presumably they would demand...

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you’re wondering how the Narnia discourse is going, they’ve just released a still with a black actor in it. You can imagine how normal the originalists are being about *that*.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Look, I know you’re not interested in this stuff. But, for what it’s worth, LA BOLA NEGRA building on Cannes buzz as it takes TIFF People’s Choice. Only two winners in the last 19 years have failed to get a best picture nomination.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Arsenal could have let seven in there. Extraordinary nervous breakdown.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don’t like to overuse the phrase “you couldn’t make it up”, but…

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Nothing says more about the current online baby-brain obsession with “faithfulness” than the entry of Lord of the Rings to the conversation. Nerd A: Why can’t they be faithful to the text like Peter Jackson? Need B: You kidding? He left out Domestos the Dwarf from the Battle of Andrex. A travesty!

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Penny’s are now selling Bride of Frankenstein merchandise. (They’re selling hippie wigs in Wooolworth’s, man)

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’ve no issue at all with Gerwig’s reported adaptations of the Narnia story, but I do worry a little that the images immediately suggest MEGALOPOLIS to me.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Spending the rest of the month getting through the new Carly Rae Jepsen album, which is around the same length as Yessongs. Rewarding so far.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Explain this to me like I’m four. All the people making this argument know that Jesus wasn’t a lion. Right? They do know that. So… how is that all right.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Delighted Gerwig has shaken up Narnia: shifting the novel to the 1950s, confirming Streep as Aslan. Because it’s the right thing to do. And because it will annoy people who deserve to be annoyed. www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

empireonline.com

'David Bowie saved my life': Greta Gerwig's rock'n'roll inspiration for Narnia: The Magician's Nephew

Empire exclusively reveals the first look at the Barbie director's rock-inspired take on CS Lewis. Read more.

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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don't follow Formula One, but good on them for using subtitles for the hard of hearing…

F1 track with numerous Zoom signs on the advertising billboards

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Get out of here. Someone finally made a genuinely cracking RESIDENT EVIL flick? It's Zach Cregger, and he's having an absolute blast. Highly recommended. www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

irishtimes.com

Resident Evil review: Self-aware romp wastes not a single admirably disgusting minute

Zach Cregger’s shameless caper feels like the best Resident Evil film in the franchise’s long history

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Are people going to try and like Macklemore now in the same way they tried to like the [Dixie] Chicks all those years ago? ([Dixie] Chicks actually pretty good to be fair.)

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fascinating how any complaint here about common bad road behaviour by cyclists (of which I am one) is invariably followed up by someone explaining that cars kill you if they hit you and bicycles rarely do. Okay. Carry on running red lights then.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hilarious if Oasis did an Arctic Monkeys and treated the crowd to two hours of their new lounge-music aesthetic.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ah, James Bond. As others here have pointed out, the sex and violence are grand, but they’re nothing to the food and drink.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don’t know if this counts as “in her defence”, but this debunking has altered me that I have been misremembering my own movements that day for around 20 years.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just dropped in on X. The “discourse” on NAZA is completely fucking insane. A carnival of ignorance.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's really best to keep these sorts of things to yourself, as the moment you share them someone will prove it's a fake and spoil your day.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“Sat for the new Dong” sounds like the title of a Fall song. So…

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You can’t really see it. But this is the world premiere of Danny Boyle’s INK.

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