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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The most politico headline imaginable

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Reviewing Hollywood movies when you don't like Hollywood

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I am randomly reminded of Paul Mason titling a 2017 book Why It Is Kicking Off Everywhere which is possibly the best example of this kind of "Syriza! Five Star! Arab Spring! Occupy! Trump! It's all a bit, yknow, isn't it?" we suffered through in the 2010s

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I have just discovered that Cosmo Jarvis was meant to be in The Odyssey but due to scheduling conflicts his role went to Logan Marshall-Green, showing the lengths Christopher Nolan will go to tell Tom Hardy he misses him

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The Odyssey is very good but I do find it funny how many episodes are basically Odysseus and crew turning up on an island and immediately going "run away" in the tone of Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Andy Burnham is named Labour leader at a special conference, 2026

The Northern lords acclaim Jon Snow as King in the North in a scene from the popular television programme "Game of Thrones"

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Whenever I hear people say we should ignore bond markets I want to burst through the wall like Hbomberguy screaming "then who are we going to borrow money from Andy, fucking Aquaman?"

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I cannot get over how crazy it is that in 2026 there are almost no plausible female candidates for US president

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The Barrie Kosky Ring's interpretation of Fafner, for some reason

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

To the extent that pay is only relevant if it can meet costs then yes we do have low-pay jobs. But that risks everything becoming a version of this

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I have been on Twitter's "for you" feed recently and discovered that just about every post can best be responded to with this

Mark Corrigan from Peep Show flatly asking "I'm sorry, what the fucking hell are you talking about?"

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Kings for some, miniature American flags for others

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The tariff logic is beginning to resemble the Dr Strangelove doomsday machine

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I still occasionally remember this headline and get extremely mad at Angela Merkel.

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

"Do you have any evidence of this conspiracy against your government?" "Well, your honour, we have plenty of hearsay and conjecture. Those are *kinds* of evidence."

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

"So when you failed to deal with this existential crisis, South Korea collapsed?" "No, it did not." "Kids, help"

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Me everytime Spotify tries to handle classical music

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I do not understand the tagline "the electrifying new musical". Hercules is not a lightning deity nor does the Disney film portray him as such! You get the feeling the marketing team budgeted for a logo and then just improvised from there

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

The parallels between the leaders of US/FRA/UK/GER 45 years apart - Scholz and Schmidt as the cautious Hamburg SPD lifers, Macron and d'Estaing as the effete centrist emperors of France, Biden and Carter as the hapless one-term Democrats, and Starmer and Callaghan the Labour PMs with massive specs

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

I have inbuilt affection for Governors of Minnesota ever since playing a game of Kaiserreich in which an alternate-history Floyd Olson saves the USA from 30s fascism and becomes godlike social democratic President

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Incredible that these two top stories are presented side by the Telegraph website without any embarrassment

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

I predict a lot of leftist UK men are about to be Extremely Normal about this woman

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

It's very funny to me that the Democrats have the most generic looking president-from-the-movies serving as Governor of North Carolina, as if this is all a simulation and he is the button marked "base scenario"

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

I hope everyone can agree that the funniest possible outcome is the left agreeing a coalition with Macron on the sole condition this guy is the Prime Minister

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

That Sun editorial endorsing Starmer

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 29/06/2024

Occasionally I recall that my introduction to Crazy Ex Girlfriend was @juliablunck.bsky.social comparing the way the word "neoliberal" is used to Rachel Bloom getting confused about what a triangle is

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

Tory comms strategy in this election

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

you called an election out of social embarrassment? I sometimes buy the Big Issue out of social embarrassment etc

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

Something bothering me about this place... this all-male club doesn't have a fire exit!

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