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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

'No type-casting for Alfred Burke'. Alfred Burke interviewed by Kenneth Maxwell in The Stage and Television Today (15th October 1970)

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Theatres need more seats in their foyers.

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This a good summary. I'd just add the influence of right-wing think tanks like Policy Exchange, the IEA, Henry Jackson, Bruges Group etc who employ young influencers & feed the "cancelled"/"Save The West" media ecosystem.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Lola Salem story is starting to make sense now. But it makes the original deletions by the Mail, Telegraph, GB News and others look like the result of pressure. [story in the Mail, archive link] archive.is/submit/?url=...

The academic denied the charges at a pre-trial hearing earlier this year and remains on bail ahead of her trial, which is expected to last two to three days.
It is understood that she will argue in her defence that she was sent the four images unsolicited and that she reported them to the police.
Salem was charged by Thames Valley Police in May this year along with Henry Hopwood-Phillips, a historian and geopolitical analyst with whom she worked at The Critic magazine.
Hopwood-Phillips, 39, founded a Singapore-based political consultancy that specialises in analysing China's geopolitics.
In June he admitted two counts of taking an indecent photograph and two counts of distributing indecent photographs of a child at High Wycombe Magistrates' Court.
He was handed a 15-month suspended sentence, a sexual harm prevention order and made subject to

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'd have to see it, but it sounds in very bad taste.

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

His masterclasses are very good.

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It got cancelled because a girl was playing a boy!

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Counting Dead Women deleted a murdered woman because they think she's trans, but she's not. Either way, it's very sad & grim.

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

They're trying to create an ethno-nationalist art scene to "save the West". It's as terrible as you'd imagine, but it gets coverage in the hard/far right media - overlaps with (or is?) the Anglo-futurists: verdur.in/about/?cst

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About Verdurin

Verdurin /vəʁdyrɛ̃/ is a project space in East London programmed by Pierre d’Alancaisez and friends.

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There seems to be a lot of publishing scams about with the scammers using real names & companies.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It is very interesting that the Mail’s story on Michael Gove’s recent ex-girlfriend being charged with CSAM offences has been memoryholed two days after it was published. Public records show she appeared at Oxford Combined Court centre on September 30 and pleaded not guilty.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The campaign of educational censorship sweeping Texas and other GOP-governed states in the name of “free speech” and “diversity of viewpoint” in many ways exceeds the worst of the McCarthy Era (gift link obvs) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Last one for tonight. Not by John Atkinson Grimshaw, but a student of his, Walter Linsley Meegan (1859 - 1944), The painting of Scarborough Lighthouse has a strong resemblance to his teacher’s work. Meegan was born in Leeds and studied at the city’s College of Art.

Scarborough Lighthouse at Night with Full Moon by Leeds born artist Walter Linsley Meegan (1859–1944). The painting is in the collection of Scarborough Art Gallery

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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This isn’t a “controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr,” this is “playing with the lives of vulnerable infants in a developing nation, which is being pushed by malicious grifters who couldn’t care less about the innocent lives they hurt.”

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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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aric @aghastronaut.com · 30/09/2026

Someone is replacing my body with a slightly worse body each night while I sleep.

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying." Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Autumn: A Dirge #BookWormSat 🖼️ Alan Reynolds 'Late Autumn, 1957'

Painting of a stylised bleak landscape with bare trees and a red Sun sinking below the horizon.

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Someone in Yorkshire filmed a man being mauled to death by a tiger at a wildlife park & put it online.

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

More Maureen Lipman drama. She's in her 80s & seems to be sound on all other issues, so it's a rotten situation & a very familiar one if you have a mixed family & have to endure weddings & funerals with opposing sides (some of them married to each other).

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Unveiling of the statue of Nelson Mandela today in Glasgow. 33 years after I stood in George Sq in the rain as a steward when he came to accept freedom of the city, I got to stand in the rain again as a steward. Here's my mum sat behind Mandela in 1993, and my dad holding banner on a torchlit vigil.

Nelson Mandela statue covered in a gold sheet, as staff from the blood transfusion service in Nelson Mandela Place.

As the rain falls and the umbrellas went up, the cover came off the statue. The word in the window behind the statue politely says 'please'.

Nelson Mandela on stage in Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in 1993, my mum sat behind him on stage with the Eurydice choir.

A torchlit demonstration in Glasgow in the 1970s organised by the Scottish Anti-Apartheid Movement, my dad carrying a banner that says "Free Nelson Mandela".

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If I Could But See It is a vivid, full-colour graphic biography of the celebrated 19th-century designer and socialist William Morris OUT NOW 👇️

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's impossible to make belonging & identity fit into neat boxes. Refusing to bend doesn't make us stronger, it makes us break.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just saw an article about a crime so horrific that the headline is making me ill. I feel so sorry for the jury that had to sit through it.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 09/10/2026

Darkland Tales: Crafting Scottish Fiction from Historical Fact 10 Dec, Edinburgh, & online. Free. Join acclaimed writers from Polygon’s Darkland Tales series for a thought-provoking panel discussion on historical reimagining #Booksky #HistoricalFiction 💙📚 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/darkland-t...

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Darkland Tales: Crafting Scottish Fiction from Historical Fact

This panel event will include Val McDermid, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Jo Sharp and Jamie Crawford.

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Even saying it, is so disgusting & uncivilised.

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's sad seeing Glasgow being targeted for a social media anti-migrant campaign & shameful of the BBC to amplify it.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 07/10/2026

I will be putting them in my shop if anyone is interested…

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Jaundiced Brains @johnnymains.co.uk · 07/10/2026

If you're a fan of Robert Aickman and want to know more about the relationship he had with his agent, Herbert van Thal, more commonly known as the editor of THE PAN BOOK OF HORROR STORIES, why not buy a ticket to my online talk on the 3rd of December! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-aic...

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Robert Aickman and Herbert Van Thal - An Unsettled Relationship

Johnny Mains leads this talk on the working and personal relationship between two of the biggest names in horror fiction.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Freelancers Make Theatre Work @freelancersmake.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW FREE ONLINE WORKSHOP Making Tax Digital for Theatre Freelancers. An overview of Making Tax Digital for Live Performing Arts Freelancers Accounting4Actors’ Jon Harris provides an easy guide to the new Making Tax Digital system Book here: buff.ly/gUUZOtV #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW | A corrective to the obituaries… HERE LIES JEFFREY ARCHER The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...

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Here lies Jeffrey Archer

The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan.

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is very true.

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It wasn't till a few weeks ago that I discovered Milquetoast is a cartoon character.

A panel from the newspaper cartoon the The Timid Soul showing the main character Milquetoast (an elderly, thin man with a long mustache and a startled, dismayed expression) being embarrassed as a telegram boy calls out his name ("Mr Milquetoast. Mr Caspar Milquetoast!) and a man next to him says "can you imagine anyone answering to the name of Milquetoast? I'd sure like to see the bird who owns that moniker! Haw! Haw! Haw! He must be a hit sketch. A caption at the bottom reads "He misses an important message. They're in a travel agency.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Zionism does cross the political spectrum, it's just unfortunate that the loudest voices in favour of it these days are right-wing racists who think culture is passed on by "ancestry" - which is pretty weird considering they're all pundits using the media to shape our culture.

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Cherry Red Records @cherryredrecords.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Available to pre-order now, Live In London - The Camden Palace 1984. Adds a newly mixed CD from the original multi-track tapes, two previously unreleased tracks, and a Blu-ray mastered from the original video tape. Pre-order: cherryred.co/JMCamden

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No one would take up this offer unless they wanted to be involved with racist/sectarian/paramilitary groups, so basically he's recruiting.

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That's sad. Because it's a fun, weird wee space with historical features & I'm not convinced that Scottish cities need so many new tiny expensive student flats.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The New York Times has *four* people bylined on this piece — its chief UK correspondent, national security correspondent, another international correspondent based in London, and a ‘global security’ reporter based in London — and… it’s a soufflé of speculation puffed up through hyperventilating.

An Iranian Threat, 3 Vans and a Phone Call: Behind the Mystery at a U.K. Air Base
A mysterious call last Sunday near a military base used by the U.S. set in motion a huge counterterrorism response and days of uncertainty in Britain.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yglesias has lost his mind. This is not "progressive economic thinking," this is what you see on Twitter. substack.com/@matthewygle...

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I favour 2-states - but I think realistically Israel will last as long as America backs it & will then either dwindle because of demographic change or will get invaded. I'm not sure any middle-eastern states will be the same hundreds of years from now. It's a volatile region with random borders.

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The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Katharine Briggs Award 2026 Shortlist: www.folklore-society.com/blog/post/th... The winner will be announced 10 Nov, after The Katharine Briggs Lecture by @yinkaolusoga.bsky.social, 18:30-20:30 @warburginstitute.bsky.social Tickets £10: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kathar...

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VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

jaunty ships on the Thames

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was weighing in on the Green Party drama, posted an awful typo & gave up in despair. The non-stop racism in political discourse - that's not going to achieve any of the goals it claims to have is incredibly depressing.

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Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The head of the IEA has decided that England isn't a nation - Britain is - so what does England do if Scotland & Wales go independent & Northern Ireland unites with the Republic?? England is abolishing itself because racists want to keep the definition of English restricted to white people !?

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'A Wet Walk', Kingston Bridge by Paul Cleden paulcleden.co.uk

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"BRITAIN BECOMES DUMP FOR THE NAXI EXILES. Scores of Jews and other exiles are being smuggled into England in small foreign ships, for £25 a time." Daily Mirror, 1938. Sound familiar?

Headline: Britain becomes dump for the Nazi exiles

SCORES of Jews and other exiles, abandoning their homes in the Nazi terror, are being smuggled into England by the captains of small foreign ships who slink inside the three-mile limit at night and put ashore their human cargoes for £25 a time.
This smuggling, once sporadic, is now a racket earning thousands of pounds weekly for captains of French, Dutch and Belgian trawlers.
It was exposed entirely at Hove, yesterday when two foreign seamen were gaoled for smuggling a German in at Shoreham harbour last Monday.
Britain's immigration officers are helpless. They know that Hitler is dumping his unwanted people here. They cannot stop other Mid-European Governments seizing on Britain's lethargy to lower their own unemployment figures.
Every day refugee Spaniards, Jews, Ger mans and Austrians are slipping into Britain Employment agencies are inundated by fran-tic appeals from foreigners who, scared by European unrest, want British security.

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