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Jack Seale

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Lover of gin, tea, Sunday roasts and curling up with a DVD box set

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/09/2026
Tommy Robinson: Where’s the Money Gone? review – endless shocking allegations
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Tommy Robinson: Where’s the Money Gone? review – endless shocking allegations
From his claim of being ‘de-banked’ to a disturbing detail about a rape survivor’s story being used to fundraise, this film puts big questions to the co-founder of the English Defence League. But it is frustratingly hard to get answers
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 04/07/2026
new romantasy dedicated bookshop is opening in Oxford today and 10/10, no notes
Three sections labelled LGBTQ+, monster smut, and unhinged
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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Babe wake up, new industrial band five-album discography just dropped
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Jack Seale @jackseale.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Oh. I thought this was one of the best shows of the year but hey
Ponies cancelled
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The Guardian - TV & Radio @guardian-tv-radio.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
World War II with Tom Hanks review – one of the largest documentaries in human history
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World War II with Tom Hanks review – one of the largest documentaries in human history
This 20-episode take on the second world war, helmed by the Saving Private Ryan star, is a vast creation. But it still manages to wind up feeling basic – despite its great archive footage
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Jack Seale @jackseale.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"AI responses may include mistakes"
Google AI fails to correctly count instances of a certain letter in English words, eg it says there are three p's in antidisestablishmentarianism MagnificentlyPearlescentTrousers
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The Guardian - TV & Radio @guardian-tv-radio.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The Artist review – this flamboyant period comedy is like nothing else on TV
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The Artist review – this flamboyant period comedy is like nothing else on TV
The creator of this singular work of art founded his own TV network to get it aired – and it’s cast is an absolute dream. Mandy Patinkin, Janet McTeer and Patti LuPone are just superb
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Jack Seale @jackseale.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Enjoyed the prose style here
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Corruption erodes trust, weakens democracy Under the parliamentary code, MPs must disclose donations received in the 12 months prior to being elected, within a month of being elected. Farage didn’t do this with the extra £5m handed over by Chakrit Sakunkrit (ชกฤต สกุลกฤต) aka Christopher Harborne.
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Jack Seale @jackseale.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Enjoying Zhao Xintong's somewhat inexplicable choice of walk-on music #thesnooker
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Redbone - Come and Get Your Love (Single Edit - Audio)
YouTube video by RedboneVEVO
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Jack Seale @jackseale.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Widow's Bay on AppleTV is properly terrific. Just watched ep4 and I was half-expecting "Written by Reece Shearsmith & Steve Pemberton" (that ep is in fact by Mackenzie Dohr)
Kate O'Flynn in Widow's Bay
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind
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Grant Sharples @grantsharpies.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Freelance writers following up on old invoices
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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Hoping there's another sign at the end labelled </FOOT PATH>
A footpath sign, with angle brackets serving as arrows on each side of the words "foot path", so the end result looks like an XML or HTML tag.
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Jack Seale @jackseale.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Shout out to the Guardian picture desk for picking a photo that illustrates three different things described in the piece
Guardian review of MasterChef
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Jack Seale @jackseale.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I've read thousands of these and this is my favourite
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
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Jack Seale @jackseale.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
This really made me laugh. Sort of a spiritual successor to Les Dawson
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way
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The Guardian - TV & Radio @guardian-tv-radio.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Gordon Ramsay’s Secret Service review – one restaurant’s kitchen looks like the scene of a murder
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Gordon Ramsay’s Secret Service review – one restaurant’s kitchen looks like the scene of a murder
The chef spies on failing eateries then visits them at night to unearth their secrets – with results that are quite often nauseating … and yet surprisingly emotional
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Jack Seale @jackseale.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Currently No1 on the Guardian chart, ahead of the insubstantial clickbait that is "Middle East Crisis - Live"
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The Guardian - TV & Radio @guardian-tv-radio.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The Assembly review – TV has rarely seen anything like this delightful gem
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The Assembly review – TV has rarely seen anything like this delightful gem
A group of neurodivergent and disabled young adults ask Stephen Fry the tough questions most others don’t dare to – and it makes for a truly liberating experience
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Jack Seale @jackseale.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Agonising finish to Bullseye on Challenge just now. Non dart player got 5, 1, T20 = 66. Dart player got 20, 1, 1 = 22. Just go for treble 11 man!! Lost £199 and could have won a holiday to the Dominican Republic 😭
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
There's something particularly sickening about the way people in media & politics are so eager to take a term that describes a serious problem, like conspiracy theories or antisemitism, and then heedlessly warp the meaning in order to deploy it against their political opponents.
(Picture of vampire) John Rentoul tweet: "This is what I mean. This is a conspiracy theory." over a screenshot of the guardian with words from Hannah Spencer, Green MP: "It's baffling to me that keir starmer and his cabinet can be so unimaginative and lacking in boldness at this point in time. All they need to do is look at how angry people are, look at how much their constituents are suffering, look at the mood of the country. Maybe they don't understand it. Maybe they just don't care. "
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Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The Athletic News for 2 April 1923 relates that the Orient have drawn 0-0 with Derby in “a game that was of a tame description. With mere hard striving discounting science … the attenuated attendance of 8,000 spectators saw little to inspire them” (1/2) #lofc #lofcpress
A clipping from Athletic News, 2 April 1923, reading:

A USEFUL POINT.

CLAPTON ORIENT DIVIDE HONOURS AT DERBY.

*Derby County … 0. Clapton Orient … 0

CLAPTON ORIENT secured a useful point at the expense of Derby County at the Baseball Ground in a game that was of a tame description.
	With mere hard striving discounting science, the football never reached a very high standard, and the attenuated attendance of 8,000 spectators saw little to inspire them. Both sides had chances, but relatively those which fell to Clapton were far the easier, and in the second half Bliss missed two fine openings. In fact, weak finishing was often noticeable on both sides.
	Derby were the more aggressive, but they could not devise ways and means of overcoming a determined if not particularly polished defence. Twice the Clapton goal had narrow escapes. Once in the first half Rosier got his foot to the ball when a shot from Moore had Wood well beaten, while after the interval Murphy hooked the ball on to the crossbar. Paterson, however, did most shooting in the Derby attack. Introduced after a long absence as leader, he strove to keep the game open, and with Thornewell was the pick of the vanguard.
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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 30/03/2026
It's tight but he is just on
A mocked-up VAR Semi-Automated Offside Decision showing David Bowie beating a poorly organised Spurs offside trap.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I cannot stress how quickly the threat level is escalating.
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Robert Beard @arjay61.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
"One wonders if Westminster etiquette prevents Goodall from even considering the unpalatable alternative, that Starmer hasn’t improved people’s lives because he doesn’t want to, and the above gaffes show his instincts when in power are conservative." www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Keir Starmer: Where Did It All Go Wrong? review – is the PM just useless at politics or is it something more sinister?
Westminster insiders try to get to the bottom of Starmer’s awful unpopularity and frequent blunders – but fail to consider less palatable possibilities
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Alan D Alien @alan-d-alien.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
"One wonders if Westminster etiquette prevents Goodall from even considering the unpalatable alternative, which is that Starmer hasn’t improved people’s lives because he doesn’t want to"
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Keir Starmer: Where Did It All Go Wrong? review – is the PM just useless at politics or is it something more sinister?
Westminster insiders try to get to the bottom of Starmer’s awful unpopularity and frequent blunders – but fail to consider less palatable possibilities
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Woken by the Premier Inn's fire alarm.
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Jack Seale @jackseale.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Think I've kept this neutral and balanced www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Keir Starmer: Where Did It All Go Wrong? review – is the PM just useless at politics or is it something more sinister?
Westminster insiders try to get to the bottom of Starmer’s awful unpopularity and frequent blunders – but fail to consider less palatable possibilities
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/03/2026
The Plastic Detox review – a film so terrifying you will want to change your life immediately
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The Plastic Detox review – a film so terrifying you will want to change your life immediately
In this affecting documentary, an epidemiologist asks six couples struggling to conceive to reduce their exposure to plastics and see if it helps. The results are startling – and prove that we should all make changes now
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/03/2026
Portrait of a Confused Father review – the film-maker who recorded his son’s entire life … until his tragic death
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Portrait of a Confused Father review – the film-maker who recorded his son’s entire life … until his tragic death
In this poignant documentary a director shares the footage he took of his son from birth until he was 20, and reflects on losing him
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Jack Seale @jackseale.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The Sky News one on Friday morning was incredible, one of the hosts was completely unguarded in his total contempt for everything Polanski said. Mugging, eye rolling, shaking his head. Amazingly partisan
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/02/2026
Dirty Business review – if this doesn’t incite righteous anger over our filthy water then nothing will
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Dirty Business review – if this doesn’t incite righteous anger over our filthy water then nothing will
Based on the true story of amateur sleuths appalled at the dumping of sewage in our rivers, this drama starring David Thewlis is a blast of controlled fury – and could become the next Mr Bates vs the Post Office
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 20/02/2026
Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter -
PAUL McMULLAN:
Oh, yeah -
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- which is one case that you truly do regret.
PAUL McMULLAN:
I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station.
Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.BROOKE GLADSTONE:
And you offered her 50 pounds -
PAUL MCMULLAN:
Yeah.
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- if she would come to your place and have sex. So you led her into prostitution, which she wasn't in that space for.
PAUL McMULLAN:
No, indeed. But she was in such a bad place that someone offering her 50 pounds for sex. I mean, that's five bags.BROOKE GLADSTONE:
So how do you justify that? Yes, she was a drug addict, yes, she was begging. Why push her that extra step? Why take pictures of her topless?
PAUL McMULLAN:
I was keen. It was in my first year. I wanted to impress Piers Morgan, who was my boss at the time, and just wanted to say, not only have I caught this girl begging, but l've got pictures of her topless and I've got her offering me sex for 50 quid. How great am I?
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
This is a pretty dehumanizing enterprise, not just for Jennifer Elliott, but for you, yourself.
PAUL McMULLAN:
Yeah, that's why I feel terrible about it, not just 'cause she killed herself afterwards, but I, I actually liked her as a person.
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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I hope Martha's doing OK.
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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Watched this last night, the other play Michael Palin wrote for Innes Lloyd. It's very good, stunningly redolent of the late Thatcher era. Only on iPlayer for another 22 days, so get on it. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Ninety-year-old Miss Barwick has lived peacefully in the same house all her life, that is until a young property developer arrives at her front door. A play by Michael Palin.
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 19/02/2026
With every fibre of my being, let me say this in a loud, clear, booming voice: this should have happened when Virginia Giuffre was alive to see it.
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Jack Seale @jackseale.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Do you like it when a character makes a claim, but then events instantly disprove that claim? Yes? You will LOVE the Scrubs remake
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/02/2026
The Tony Blair Story review – some rigorous analysis of his time in office might have been nice
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The Tony Blair Story review – some rigorous analysis of his time in office might have been nice
This documentary talks to the ex-PM, his family and colleagues to find out what he’s like. It’s sadly lacking in the granular detail that would really put his actions under the microscope
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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I don't believe I've ever seen Ted Levine speak so candidly about his regrets of portraying Buffalo Bill in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. He and some of the crew on the film were asked about the film's cultural transphobia by The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Levine did not have concerns while making the movie but has developed a fuller understanding of the trans experience in the ensuing decades. "It's just over time and having gotten aware and worked with trans folks, and understanding a bit more about the culture and the reality of the meaning of gender.", says the actor, "It's unfortunate that the film vilified that, and it's fucking wrong. And you can quote me on that.".
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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
No.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/02/2026
Watson season two review – a Sherlock Holmes spinoff full of naughty wit
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Watson season two review – a Sherlock Holmes spinoff full of naughty wit
It is like House meets Elementary for this show about the sidekick of Conan Doyle's detective, who investigates a different medical mystery each week – when he isn't having tastefully lit horizontal time
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Jack Seale @jackseale.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Noooooo holy shit that is bad
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Jack Seale @jackseale.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
WUTHERING HEIGHTS ⭐⭐⭐ The audacity of it is initially overwhelming and I like that it dramatises an idea of the book, not the book itself which is largely about estate planning. Half an hour too long though and its generic "mad woman in Gothic melodrama" Cathy runs out of gas long before the end
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Timothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 14/02/2026
This is blackout poetry to me
I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018.
How did I do it?

Blacked out lines

CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP.
There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 11/02/2026
"They're serving the interests of multi-millionaires and billionaires." @zackpolanski.bsky.social on @itvpeston.bsky.social
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
RIP Bud Cort. Harold and Maude is one of my favourite movies of all time and he’s spectacular in it. If you haven’t seen it, don’t find out anything about it. Just watch it.
Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort in Harold and Maude (1971).
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Jack Seale @jackseale.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
When a guest on The Romesh Ranganathan Show says something faintly amusing, just part of the conversation really, may not even have been intended as a joke per se
Romesh Ranganathan laughing hysterically
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