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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I was looking through the set of radical playing cards someone gave me and, for an awful moment, I thought they’d done one of Labour Party grifter Tom Watson but, thankfully, it was Chilean martyr Salvador Allende.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This one is off to university today. I am bereft. Playing ‘Fresher’s Ball’ by Richard Dawson on a loop.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Starting the day with upbeat, feelgood, super positive vibes.

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran has forfeited his geopolitical moral leadership

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Inside of you there are two wolves.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 14/09/2026

#OtD 14 Sep 1940 protesters occupied the air raid shelter at the luxury Savoy Hotel in London to protest against the stark differences in bomb shelters for rich and poor. The action resulted in improvements to shelters for working-class Londoners stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8627...

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Affirmation from a note I intercepted in class today.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Right. I’m off to take my REM hating partner off to the Brudenell to see Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy perform ‘Life’s Rich Pageant.’

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

thys nys no partye! thys nys no disco! thys nys no jestinge arounde! thys nys no taverne! nor roade-syde playhous! Ich ne have tyme for that nowe!

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Has anyone else noticed how John Leguizamo is in everything?

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Look, if you absolutely have to do Robin Hood again then reboot 80s series Robin of Sherwood, get Clarissa Connelly to do the soundtrack and have Richard Dawson play Friar Tuck.

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 26/08/2026

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026

This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Began watching Ann Droid. Nobody told me it featured this queen.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

When I get to Leeds I am going to have a burger as big as the Ritz.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Off to Halifax to see Paul Hardcastle’s ‘19’ for Sea Power fans. (Public Service Broadcasting).

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I have just bemoaned, “L’elf et safteh” in a discussion about treading grapes while on my third glass of champagne.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Christ. That bit about the body bags in Prophet Song by Paul Lynch.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It really isn’t normal for media outlets to hound minor public figures to death, just for fun, because they can. That really is a Just Britain thing.

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Just remember this message is aimed at your children not theirs.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A rare occasion where DL is correct. As a sixth former I got taken to the Barbican to see Roger Allam as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. Mustve been over thirty years ago. Have never forgotten it. The man is a comic genius.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Nicest- Steve Shelley from Sonic Youth Rudest: Terry Pratchett

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Early Lou Reed song: She's busy sucking on my ding-dong Oh, now, do it just like Sister Ray said I'm searching for my mainline I couldn't hit it sideways Late Lou Reed song: An-an-and, I wanna hookywooky with you Ah-ha-ha-ha, I wanna hookywooky with you

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Britain’s tiny gaggle of hooting mad elite cranks, who all know each other and relentlessly repeat each other’s idiotic bullshit, are of course not “victims of social contagion”.

The Times and Sunday Times • • 2h
X
A disproportionate number of Gen Z females are affected by vague syndromes and may be victims of social contagion

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MrsLScarles @mrslscarles.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Learned today that this is on BBC iPlayer. Saw it in Edinburgh back in the day, my first theatre experience. 🎭 The great Bill Paterson’s performance still indelibly stamped on my memory. Short doco of Bill’s recollections of performing and touring the play also on iPlayer.

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Play for Today - Series 4: The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

The 1974 TV adaptation of John McGrath's iconic 7:84 play about the exploitation of the Scottish people through history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Me 18 years ago today. (I’m the one in the brown jumper.)

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I share this one quite a lot but seeing as it would have been his birthday today here’s the times my father appears in MI5 files while they were keeping his dad (Bill) and grandfather (Bob Stewart) under surveillance for communist subversion. breakingthefetters.com/2023/01/19/c...

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Comrades: Michael Robin Stewart.

Michael Robin Stewart (1933-2018). Before it got dropped from the GCSE English Literature syllabus, I used love teaching ‘Before You Were Mine’ by Carol Ann Duffy. In the poem, Duffy describes a ph…

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

‘Birding’ has been on my unread pile for far too long and ive finally got round to it the last couple of days. Absolutely loved it @regretteruane.bsky.social.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Incredible shit here: the guy Badenoch is defending was sent to prison for sending racist abuse to the MP Luciana Berger. Who then did a whole series of interviews and columns talking about her criminal harassment by Nazis, in a manner intended to make listeners believe it was done by Labour members

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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

When Liddle slagged off my comedy book I took it as a badge of honour as it was written specifically to be slagged off by a fucker like him. A nasty, racist sack of toxic shit who made the familiar, cynical march from liberal to far right. The world is a better place with one fewer Liddles in it.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Jude Law as Vladimir Putin in The Wizard of the Kremlin looks like Harry Enfield playing Robert Shaw in a remake of From Russia With Love.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I would also die on this hill.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I have just seen an advert for a Play Dead 5 CD box set and I really should be over 1980s second tier goth bands but…

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Andy Churnwell @churnwell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

So rare that you can actually look into a man's eyes and see his divorce.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Driving the Soviet Ambassador around and spying for the USSR.

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dylan @pinkponysub.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I want 4 day work weeks, free universal healthcare, and a livable wage to meet my basic needs!!

Anne Hathaway as Penelope in her soon to be Oscar winning performance screaming I want odysseys in the odyssey 2026

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I want to see @mchshe.bsky.social direct ‘The Island’ by RS Thomas!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

World-class UK anthropology, archaeology, area studies, chemistry, classics, English language and literature, geography, history, history of art, modern languages and philosophy, among other subjects, are also at risk, and have been for quite some time now. You don't need a telescope to see it.

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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 27/07/2026

Okay I probably won’t adapt The Odyssey then

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Today I’m writing about the Salute to the Red Army held at the Royal Albert Hall in 1943 which featured Laurence Oliver, John Gielgud, Sybil Thorndike & Marius Goring. Anthony Eden gave the closing speech and the finale was a rousing Internationale followed by God Save the Queen.

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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I mean, who even needs an education? Just send them straight to work for free at 14 🤷‍♀️

Education policy
Burnham to tell schools in England to adapt teaching to local business needs

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

mildly funny that X is having blazing rows about Nolan’s Odyssey because he cast black people in it and Bluesky is having blazing rows about whether a noted Homeric translator’s LRB review of it misses the point or not

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I thoroughly enjoyed the film. Almost as much as I enjoyed Emily Wilson’s beautifully written criticism of it.

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Farewell Bill, most radical of the Goodies. Present at Grosvenor Square with Tariq & Vanessa. Turned his harassment by the Met into slapstick TV comedy for kids. Angry, hairy, furiously talented.

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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’ve just been at the wake of one of the parents I’ve known since my 18 year old started at primary school. A lovely guy who was always a pleasure to be around. Too much fucking perspective. RIP Andrew Evans x

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