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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I was angry enough when the dachsund in the Vitality advert starting talking to camera instead of just hearing its thoughts in voiceover.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also a bit odd because I believe Shaun Lintern has written a lot in the same paper about maternity units pushing a "normal birth ideology" at the expense of mothers' health?

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Saying "I'll get this" to my husband as I present the waiter/waitress with the card for our joint account.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Been checking in on the Fairford story on and off and my most consistent thought is "Christ, is that farmer STILL going?"

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The five men are going to be *released*? Gets weirder. They were actually just planning a protest? Sabotage? (Though bail seems a little bit unlikely even then)

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm guessing the idea is to pre-frame the Tories' election campaign as partisan wrecking.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So many confounding variables - genuine proximity to [place] - genuine knowledge of [place] - willingness to admit knowledge/ignorance of [place] - willingness to feign knowledge/ignorance of [place] to send cultural signal - (in this case) car ownership etc etc

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Love that bit of the world, used to holiday there as a child and do the coast walk from Start Point to Prawle Point. Lannacombe beach a favourite.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Good. Not least because my other worry is that statements like this mean that the only loud Jewish voices in opposition to Netanyahu end up being the extreme anti-zionist fringe. (Yachad an honourable exception.)

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I can't imagine Nadine isn't the only British Jew quietly furious at this statement (or that of the Board of Deputies or the JLC). A friend was once amazed when I told him how few British Jews support Netanyahu, and no wonder he got the wrong impression when their leaders talk like this.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I thought Labour under AB were going to stop being utterly shit on this kind of thing...

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So there IS a variant of Sensodyne which I think tastes nicer than the others. But when I get to the shelf I can never remember which one it is.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What I love about that six word Hemingway story, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" is that in those few words we instantly grasp the sadness of what it is trying to tell us: the baby was so freakishly massive when it was born that it could never wear the shoes its parents had bought for it.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Possibly worth mentioning the links between "race science" and literal Nazis, e.g. Mankind Quarterly founder Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, Josef Mengele's doctoral supervisor.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lanyard class eh, I think a nearby horse might be missing its shoe

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Does it matter whether or not a Prime Minister is likeable? It's a question that splits Britain down the middle between people who tell the truth and people who tell lies.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Also performatively Christian in a very "high church" way, or am I thinking of someone else?

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Deep down they still want to be accepted by the "establishment" they profess to disdain, and know that their success depends on the money and clicks of midwit racists.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Quite something that there is only one paragraph in the statement that doesn't have the word "Zionist" in it

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The only good thing about this policy is that it will neatly split Reform in two between the overly online Young Yimbys and the the offline pint-quaffing trads.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

FWIW having seen Paddy O'Connell present Newsnight several times, I lean on the side of "he knew it was much less than that and was helping his interviewee make the point" but admit that is no more than a hunch.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Right, or if they can't make up their mind, like Bridgerton which tends to hover between 2 and 3 but never fully go either way.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A poisonous review gleefully shared by Certain People on a Certain Website

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Slightly fear that some people might be reading this as if it was posted today. Check the date - it's bad and lays bare how little she cared about the human involved, but not that bad!

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Mrs Quent @quarkquent.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Please just want to remind everyone about the reporting (or even public discussion) guidelines around suicide - suicide is not ever caused by any one reason and speculating on (or even announcing) why someone completed suicide is really unhelpful, incl. to people with suicidal ideation

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

No no it walks *beside* you on four wheels, at heel

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

On the other hand we upgraded hand luggage cases recently and ones with four good wheels, my god, it's almost like it walks itself to plane with you, like an obedient shiny dog

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

After reading the first 25 posts on my timeline I glanced at this and for a moment assumed CBA was someone's A-level results.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Not one for your twins perhaps but I always root for David and Victoria Coren-Mitchell.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

(Oh I see this video was in the article, I saw it being shared some time ago)

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Oh good. Now Kemi can quietly draw a line under the story and get on with the job of - [finger in ear] sorry she's done what?

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Why is it that these people always seem to want to stay in the public eye anyway? Surely if you're genuinely an ex Neo-Nazi you at the most educate people quietly about extremism, and generally strive to live a blameless life for your remaining years.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Always have an instinctive mistrust of people who are or claim to be deradicalised but still seem to have an incessant need for attention.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Wow, cocaine really does age you.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This is usually how I talk myself OUT of work...

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Also grew up in Stockport. Considered posh by Stockport standards but when I went to uni down south my accent was strong enough to make me some kind of exotic anthropological specimen. After two decades in London it's barely detectable. Do revert a bit talking to my Mum though.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Oh don't worry, he's found the angle. Simple non-journalists like us just don't have that kind of imagination and tenacity.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This is every advertising agency I have ever freelanced at.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I remember when this guy was the hero of student protests or Occupy or something. Now he grifts for a living, posing as a political journalist when actually every single he does consists of pointing at people and saying "they know Jews".

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Officially writing for ads is my job, but sadly my pithy headlines for the London Stock Exchange Group haven't quite yet permeated the national vernacular. Though my copywriting teacher once overheard his MoreThan line ("That's lucky" "That's more than lucky") said in the pub.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

We did it (as in performed it) at school, I was in the band. One of the most fun things I ever did there.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This IS the news. There is no other news.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The PM so checked out that even Andrew Sparrow can't be arsed.

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