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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me, on hearing Ronaldo will probably never play for Portugal again.

Reporter in the Simpsons asking Krusty “but why now? why not 20 years ago?”, but adjusted to 5 years.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me, whenever post from Germany addressed to ‘Herrn dr. John Cotter’ arrives…

Paulie from the Sopranos in Naples saying, “Commendatori, like a Commander, I like that, that’s respect.”

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Maybe Piddington can get the band back together to negotiate its exit arrangements from and future relationship with the UK…

David Frost lurking, arms folded, looking truculent over the shoulder of a slightly out-of-focus Boris Johnson in the foreground, who while trying to affect a pensive, slightly bemused look actually appears slightly perplexed.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Mr Burns, I think we can trust Donald Trump’s US ambassador to Belgium.

Homer Simpson saying, “Mr Burns, I think we can trust the President of Cuba.”

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Just got caught in one of those very atmospheric Bavarian thunder storms.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Chris Philp: “You ought to have a basic grasp of the British shadow cabinet from 20 yards if you’re going to be in the French navy.”

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Damn British politics; ruined my imagination.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

English revisionist account of this World Cup.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A lot of pressure on England now. Even if they manage to beat Argentina and hold on to the Falklands, they’ll have to then beat Spain in the final with Gibraltar on the line.

John Simpson tweet: “Argentina v England is important way beyond football. If Argentina wins tomorrow night, it’ll put real fire behind the demand for the Falklands. If England wins, that should put the lid on it — for now.”

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It’s over for the little guy.

Patsy Parisi in the Sopranos trying to set up a protection racket at a Starbucks outlet.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The by-election. That’s the real investigation.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

To Americans who have suddenly become soccer experts and are applying their legal interpretative talents to FIFA regulations:

Walter in the Big Lebowski: “You have no frame of reference here, Donny. You’re like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie…”

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

There were options here. You could also go with Milhouse’s reverse vampires theory.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

“Peter Thiel to base. Under attack by Commie Papists.”

McBain from the Simpsons flying a plane and saying “McBain to base. Under attack by Commie Nazis.”

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Europeans trying to cope without Buc-ees and Chick-fil-A.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I hereby coin the term “a Dallas re-join”.

Bobby Ewing in the shower, still alive, like nothing had happened.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

2036 Nick Clegg: “watch out for that Trump guy; he’s a bad egg.”

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

On my walk around Amsterdam today: the house in which John Adams lived from 1781-82.

Plaque: “Here lived from 1781-1782 John Adams…”

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Jefferson: Abolish the Eurovision juries Hamilton: Abolish the Eurovision public votes

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Keir Starmer at his next cabinet meeting.

Cartman having a tea party with his stuffed animals.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Some inspiration for Ed Miliband: in 1994, George Foreman aged 45 became the oldest man ever to win the lineal heavyweight boxing championship, 20 years after he had lost it to Muhammad Ali in Kinshasa.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Lovely bit of ambiguity here. Which owner? The car owner or the land owner?

Sign saying “car parking at owner’s risk.”

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Already at capacity having to deal with a rogue US and Russian aggression, Telegraph readers getting a rush on some tumble dryers might finally spell the end of the EU.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Me, about to make a windfall from tumble dryer sales.

Homer Simpson smoking a cigar and saying, “this year I invested in pumpkins”, but with pumpkins changed to shares in AO and Currys.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

“Dad, what did you do during the Great Net Zero Culture War?” “I bought the sh*t out of some white goods.”

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Back home in Ireland for the weekend, and the names of the townlands and their translations will never not be amazing. The winner is obviously Ballinamuddy, which translates to ‘the town of the low-bred people’.

Map and list of townlands of Anglesborough

Names and translations of local townlands

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Those former hereditary peers returning as life peers.

Moe tossing Barney out of the tavern meme with Barney representing hereditary peers and latterly reappointed life peers.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I can only assume the White House is differentiating between Charles III and Charles *the* III.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

“What a sad little life, Europe…”

The sore loser guy from Come Dine With Me.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Liz Truss pictured here tackling the unaccountable albatross, known to New Labour as the pious bird of good omen.

Cover of Fleetwood Mac’s compilation album ‘The Pious Bird of Good Omen’ featuring a woman dressed like a nun carrying an albatross

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Common law constitutionalism and the classical legal method. Arguably, Hutz’s lawyering is superior here.

Lionel Hutz from the Simpsons edits his business card which reads:
“Works on contingency
No money down”
to read:
“Works on contingency?
No, money down!”
By inserting a question mark, a comma, and an exclamation mark.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Hungarians on reading Trump’s post offering investment in Hungary:

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Not the main point, but Trump has again mixed up his Ayatollahs, meaning that Homer Simpson had superior knowledge of Iranian internal politics than the current US President in that - in the 1990s - he knew Khomeini was dead.

Homer Simpson: “Even as we speak, Ayatollah Razmada and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power.”

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Admit it, you’re all thinking it: this would make one hell of a Jerry Springer episode.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Without newly won Brexit freedoms however, Boris Johnson wouldn’t have been able to sell out British agriculture for a photo op with a Tim Tam, so swings and roundabouts.

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

We shan’t be unblocking the Strait of Hormuz.

David St Hubbins from Spinal Tap saying “we shan’t work together again.”

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

“I’ve seen the future of this dynasty, my liege. It’s mostly puns on the Spurs manager’s name.”

Henry VIII and Thomas More in a Man for all Seasons

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The militias involved in removal of the Cherokees in the 1830s sound rather like the ICE of today. Source: Martin Van Buren by James M. Bradley

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

“Many of you will hear the piffle of the usual negative ninnies telling us that we can either have an Irish Six Nations Championship win or an English wooden spoon, and never the twain shall meet. I say, we can have our gateau and eat it, aujourd’hui!”

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

There must have been some relentless lobbying at the Bank of England.

Homer Simpson showering with woodland creatures and saying: “guys, please, could you give me five minutes.”

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Hungary’s lawyers on hearing that their suit against the Court of Justice will be heard by the Court of Justice.

Lionel Hutz: “I … uh-oh. We’ve drawn the Court of Justice.”

Lionel Hutz: “Well, they’ve had it in for us since we kinda ran over their dog.”

Lionel Hutz: “Replace the word ‘kinda’ with the word ‘repeatedly’ and the word ‘dog’ with ‘values’.”

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I wonder whether this battle will take place in closer proximity to the pyramids than Napoleon’s did (Napoleon’s Battle of the Pyramids was something of a Ryanair-style geographical exaggeration).

Poster for Usyk v Verhoeven, portraying both as Pharohs and advertising their upcoming boxing match at the Pyramids of Giza

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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

DeWitt Clinton’s anonymous 1820 newspaper attack on Martin Van Buren gives off some serious reviewer #2 vibes:

You cannot speak three minutes without violating the rules of grammar, and all your writings are at war with the cannons of criticism. Your literary acquisitions are so few that you can hardly be said to be in a pupillary state. You are ignorant of the first elements of any science. Your range of reading is confined to your law library. You are master of no language—not even the English; and there is nothing creative in your genius—fertile in your invention—profound in your researches sublime in your eloquence—or conclusive in your logic. You can never be a truly wise or great man, until your faculties undergo a decomposition, and your moral sensibilities are remoulded.

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