Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 20/07/2026A Spain shirt, huh? Can you name their first three albums? 011
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 25/06/2026You’re really starting to jeopardise your Peter Kay support slot. 000
Reposted by Gareth WattsRobin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Looking forward to doing Father and Son by Boards of Canada at karaoke 0102
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 27/05/2026I see Blair’s made one of his interventions or a ‘TB jab’ as I’m calling it. 000
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Every chapter ends with ‘needless to say, I got my wiggle back’. 020
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 11/05/2026PLEASE develop a code and bury the key beneath a specific wind turbine. I’d enjoy reading messages that *appear* to be extracts from the Shipping Forecast 🙏 100
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Yes! I attended every one of those: you were great and the diagnosis was clear 👀 010
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 03/05/2026@robinallender.bsky.social think you might enjoy this … www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukIan Penman · I’m just a sound: Back to the Beach BoysIn 1983, Brian Wilson told a reporter: ‘I think ultimately I’m just a sound. I don’t know if I’m a human being... 110
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 20/04/2026@petermblackburn.bsky.social beautiful words earlier mate, topped only by ‘and now a word from Global Telemetrics’ @mattdaviesff.bsky.social 000
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 19/04/2026One for @personalbeatles.bsky.social you know how there’s a ‘Hendrix chord’? What would be the McCartney chord? 110
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Not the point you were making but HAPPY BIRTHDAY I hope it was a great week (mentions aside) 🎂 000
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 14/04/2026It was me that pushed the crossing button when you already pushed it. 000
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Waiting for my glasses to be repaired so am in a coffee shop wearing prescription sunglasses. I look like a disgraced DJ 😎 000
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 06/04/2026A GoFundMe for those of us that need our Scott Mills tattoo removed 000
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 03/04/2026He may well consider good shirts to be a moral failing. 010
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 03/04/2026We can all write our own reviews ’good’ Friday. 000
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 24/03/2026The perennially online are now devouring the offline world 😔 010
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 24/03/2026This is excellent, Robin. As an aside, I’m nostalgic for the time that canned laughter was the thing that got GL hot under the collar on Twitter. Halcyon days. 110
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 10/03/2026I confess I struggle with almost all descriptive lyrics. Friends were 3 albums deep into Arctic Monkeys obsession with me (refusing to listen) saying ‘I don’t care what the bouncers are like in Sheffield’. 010
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 31/01/2026100% this. The online toxic disinhibition of retirement is an under-examined phenomenon. 000
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 14/01/2026[Wiggum sees a speeding motorist] “Let him go, Lou. Anyone driving *that* fast has no time for a ticket.” 100
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 20/12/2025@dankackroyd.bsky.social I think it’s safe to say you’re very much in the culture 🎯 🍻 🎄 141
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 02/10/2025For years I’ve had it on at night to fall asleep to! I find the swearing rhythms soothing. 000
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 22/08/2025I’m curious about the role of forgiveness in terms of voting choices. Assuming the majority of voters have made mistakes & have regrets, I wonder if the candidate who looks like they’d say ‘chin up, old chap’ (👀 Farage / Johnson) is preferable to the candidate who they feel would look down on them. 100
Reposted by Gareth WattsEllie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 20/08/2025When I was a freelance strategic communications consultant, I carried out research with @freedomfromtorture.bsky.social on how to talk about people seeking asylum in a persuasive way. Seems like a good time to share the messaging guide we put together www.freedomfromtorture.org/changing-the...freedomfromtorture.orgChanging the Conversation on Asylum: A Messaging GuideOur new messaging guide looks at the methodology and messages that can help us carve out a new approach that will be successful in persuading the public that seeking safety is a fundamental human righ... 22016
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 31/07/2025‘In the blistering cold of the Korean peninsula, where every inch of ground is paid for in blood, Frozen Fire follows a young American moggie and a North Korean ginger tom whose paths collide in a war neither fully understands.’ 010
Reposted by Gareth WattsRuth Husko @dankackroyd.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Thank you Gareth what a lovely write up!!! ❤️ 🥲 *And yes it is about up the arse 🤝 x 011
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Absolute pleasure! And by all means deny the ‘bit of a prat’ line to Macca’s people ❤️ 100
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 24/07/2025My second blog is about learning to read and a brilliant podcast (with reference to @robinallender.bsky.social @dankackroyd.bsky.social and Jack Pelling) open.substack.com/pub/garethwa...open.substack.comYour Own Personal BeatlesLearning to read and the art of taking a deep dive lightly ... 362
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 24/07/2025I’ve started a substack and would be thrilled if you’d kindly take a read. The first post was an introduction to me, the Manics, Forest and Labour … open.substack.com/pub/garethwa...open.substack.comReds 'Til I’m Dead?An introduction of sorts. And is it okay to treat your political party like your football team? 120
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Sure, I get it, but it’s not THAT shameful to be seen at a Coldplay concert. 010
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 04/07/2025He always nails it. Joke in the first two seconds and I’m onboard! 000
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Ooh I was in that unsettling between-books purgatory… thank you! Fatherland it is! 000
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 03/07/2025William came across as such a sweet person. And I’m glad of any critical mass that de-couples woman-hating Rubber Soul from the sublime Revolver 🙌 110
Gareth Watts @garethwatts.bsky.social · 03/07/2025It’s a brave man who casts shade on Bob Mortimer… 011
