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Cannily avoiding using the word “twat”, I note.

When his character died I wrote a song, Goodbye, Arthur Brownlow (to the tune of Ruby Tuesday). It went down rather well, albeit to a very limited audience. Unlikely, however, to be revived. The moment could be said to have passed.

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And take that arrogant dick Dyson with you!

Hey, Farage, what’s next? Doxxing firemen because they rescue immigrants from a fire started by your sick followers? And they’re paid! Why aren’t they traitors?

Can you imagine Captain Mainwaring leaving people to drown, burn to death or whatever just because they were Nazis? The very idea.

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Describing him as “one of Britain’s richest people” is just misleading. He’s elected not to pay British taxes. In the sixties and seventies being a tax exile was regarded as a bad thing (probably cost David Niven and James Mason knighthoods). Now? The BBC hangs on your every word.

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Trump Says He Has Banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico From White House

There’s something clearly mentally wrong with a man who spends his life publicly defaming his enemies with made-up rhetoric and then cries “fake news” and does this. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...

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The president cited reporting from the outlets that he deemed “fake news.” It was unclear how such a ban would be enforced or defended in court.

Ian Payn @ianpayn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

He was a communist. He used to sing that song. Lenin on a lamppost.

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In for Penny Lancaster, in for Ezra Pound.

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Well, there’s your next 5-part Channel 5 thriller. Stalking Sugden! Deranged by losing out on a beautiful crystal decanter, it’s time for revenge! Co-starring Jill Halfpenny.

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Anyone else think this £72m is a win/win for Reform? Either they’re allowed to keep the money, or they get to play the victim and blame “the establishment “ again.

“Mollie, don’t forget to answer My Pussy at some point. If you get to the last round and still haven’t done it, just do it, whether it makes any sense or not. The audience won’t care, or even notice. They’ll go bananas whatever.”

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No currency, no electricity, no gas, no phones, no benefits, no pensions, no road maintenance, n health service.,. On the bright side (altogether now) no income tax, no VAT…

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Presumably the audience went wild when “My Pussy’ was mentioned.

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Re Trump declaring himself a “High IQ President”. Has he taken an IQ test lately? I have. When I was younger, I scored 160+. Now? At 66, it’s 140 or less. It’s just age. Trumo is much older than I am, and lacks logic, foresight and coherence. High IQ President? And I’m the Queen of Sheba.

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Because Trump pardoned him. I’m sure that was above board, and no money changes hands. After all, Trumo has a reputation for helping the needy with no concern for material reward.

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I think you’re right. Once the party of spivs and racists, backed by dodgy crypto billionaires, is installed at Number 10 we can all sleep easily in our beds. Golden days ahead!

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Was he as miserable on stage as he is in real life?

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Ian Payn @ianpayn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You know what annoys me (apart from everything)? People who think “descry” and “decry” are synonyms, and imagining it makes them look intellectual using the former when they mean the latter.

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For every “Christian” doxxing RNLI volunteers: “O Trinity of love and power, our brethren shield in danger’s hour; from rock and tempest, fire and foe, protect us wheresoe'er they go: thus evermore shall rise to Thee glad hymns of praise from land and sea.”

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Ian Payn @ianpayn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Actor Noel Clarke has been charged with sexual offences. How unwise it was of him to sue The Guardian. Anything exposed by the paper’s lawyers will have helped build the criminal case against him.

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Ian Payn @ianpayn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Jack Hedley himself disappeared from view, apart from the very occasional brief TV appearance. Quite a considerable name in his day.

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Ian Payn @ianpayn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Satirising Jack Hedley and Francis Durbridge? Those were the days.

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Ian Payn @ianpayn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Loads of ancient pigs on Twitter shouting about how someone whose parents might have fought in the war is entitled to beat a woman with a stick at a so-called party conference.

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Ian Payn @ianpayn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A zealous prosecutor could make a very good case for assault with a deadly weapon. You could easily kill someone by repeatedly hitting them with a heavy stick.

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Ian Payn @ianpayn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Reform are all in favour of “short, sharp shock” justice.Interesting to see what they recommend for that vile pig who was hitting the woman with his stick.

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Ian Payn @ianpayn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“A slew?” This was written by their masters at Palantir. The rest of the invective is not what an academic establishment would write, either.

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Ian Payn @ianpayn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So, Farage claims Widdecombe was the “most significant woman politician since Thatcher”. Seriously? More than May or Truss? Actual Prime Ministers? She was a minor figure only briefly a minister. Dozens are more significant. No problem with Ann. Big problem with rewriting history.

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Ian Payn @ianpayn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don’t think they do. And if he doesn’t go, there’ll be a lot of people going back to the Conservatives or drifting towards Restore.

Ian Payn @ianpayn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Quite. Orr clearly a wrong ‘un. As is pretty much everyone in the Reform hierarchy. Farage, of course, throws everyone else under the bus, as usual. “The buck stops here” doesn’t work for him.

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Ian Payn @ianpayn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Whilst your scenario is perfectly plausible, is it your opinion, ir do you have something to back it up? I have a similar opinion but it’s based on nothing better than intuition. I wonder if there‘a any evidence.

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Ian Payn @ianpayn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The whole story is clearly fabricated. Trump has no friends.

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There was a lovely line about the death of Jason Arday in the Byline Times. “The Free Speech Union did not respond to a request for comment”.

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Cry “havoc”, and let slip the dogs of war.

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Some years ago I was involved in quasi-legal proceedings. Lots of them. “It’s a witch hunt” “It’s a kangaroo court” “The people judging are corrupt”. They said. Just like Farage. And you know what? They were lying. They were guilty as sin. Just like Farage. Don’t be taken in.

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“Welcome to Lorenzo’s, the finest Italian restaurant in Brighton. Today’s specials are on the blackboard, next to the signed photo graph of Victor Spinetti (as required by law)”. Those were the days.

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