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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 4h

Tories: Burnham is being "dangerous and divisive". Farage: hold my beer...

Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Several years behind trend, just discovering the joys of The Traitors... But, a hot take - the missions are boring. Ditch them.

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Vinted Treasure, no 352: good luck seller, hope you find a taker...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And SB's insistence that she isn't English (for whatever reason) isn't anything like the gotcha she seems to think it is either. Her self-proclaimed un-Englishness is the kind of mindset that many little Englanders feel is why such people should be "sent home".

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For a start, if it all depends on your personal feeling of kinship with your fellow countrymen/women, I have to confess to not feeling particularly English a lot of the time because the idea of "Englishness" has been appropriated by a particular breed of white men.

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It seems that SB's perception of this is a very personal one, about her own feelings of her own Englishness. This is entirely her prerogative, but isn't particularly useful more broadly at all.

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What a glorious gift today. Four unreleased tracks from the greatest album of the Seventies, maybe of all. Begs the question, what other riches are locked away from Stevie's unparalleled creative period? Until the answer comes though, what a joy... 😍 open.spotify.com/album/7gzJYO...

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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP - EP by Stevie Wonder | Spotify

Stevie Wonder · EP · 2026 · 4 songs

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great work, Dale. About time someone started valuing local journalism again.

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 23/09/2026

A new adventure in an old industry - can’t wait to get started..:)

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fantastic to see someone values local journalism and is willing to invest in it. Congratulations @dalevince.com www.instagram.com/reel/Ddom_wx...

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Having the name "Kash Patrol" probably helped... 🤔😆

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not just a citadel of Toryism, but of succinct, accurate, comprehensive reporting - held up as the very best to trainee journalists like me 40 years ago.

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ha. Mine are in crates in the cellar. They have been there for 18 years, unbothered, aside from the occasional crate reshuffle, patiently awaiting the zombie holocaust...

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The vast access to huge volumes of all music today is, in part, why music is not as tribal anymore. Young people today are more musically literate and open minded than any generation before them, because their tastes are not as shaped / limited by access.

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I often think of my introduction to Bowie. My imagination was piqued after my dad bought Scary Monsters in 1980, but the only other Bowie album I was familiar with for years was Ziggy, because it was the only album I could find in our local newsagent/record shop. No such problems today.

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

V much agree on this. I can still count a good dozen albums/artists who I have continued to love from pre-1970, because my dad owned them - Sgt Pepper, Monk, CS&N, Brubeck, Miles etc. Seems impossible today, but exploring the classics was so difficult in the 70s, they were just not accessible.

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Also anecdotal - there is a possibility that John Lennon's death was the beginning of a different attitude to old music, but the emergence of "catalogue" (driven in the Eighties by the CD and the 90s, 00s & 10s by digital music) was also very important. Availability was v limited before that.

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We had a music lesson that day and our music teacher spent that day's class playing us Rubber Soul and teaching us why the Beatles were important.

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Jeez. Repatriation beyond the grave seems extreme, even for this shower.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Can anyone explain what on earth this is for? To test whether you are truly British? Or recommended films to watch to assimilate into (and understand) British culture? And if the latter, why is this even remotely relevant in an era of an increasingly internationalised culture? So many questions...

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Historic day today, as @claptoncfc.co.uk debuted in the FA Cup, with an historic first win, 3-0 at home to Benfleet. From the extra preliminary round, onto the preliminary round: 13 wins from Wembley, apparently. Non league Bobby was there to witness the occasion. @nonleaguedogs.bsky.social

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Lest we forget how gleefully foul he was. This passes for comedy in certain circles

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The monoculture. Simultaneously dead AND alive in the Grauniad this week. 🤔

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

And, don't most AI tools source the details it has gathered/condensed? Surely it is basic work to check a first hand source for any information you are citing, doubly so if you are directly quoting?

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

PS. We saw a 35mm Curzon screening. (We're seeing it in IMAX in a month's time.) What Nolan has achieved given the limitations of the technology is mind-boggling. Genuinely can't believe how he delivered certain shots. All in all, a magnificent film.

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Saw it today. Brilliant film. Watch it sweep awards season. Nolan's achievement in telling such a complex story in such an accessible way is extraordinary. Of course, more Samantha Morton/Elliot Page, and less Anne Hathaway would have been better. At almost 3 hours, it is a perfect length.

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Presumably this will be screened at his cinema on Mars?

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

And hopefully... A fourth act is on the way...

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A play in three parts. 🤨🤬

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Mum, I'm going out with my mates, can you take this home for me?" We've all been Nico Williams... 😆

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Back in bed, after having three grass seeds extracted from her ear canal - Bobby on the mend. 🥰

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Can't wait to read this, Pete. 👏👏👏👏

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Btw, the singles market is now approaching 99.9% streaming. Streaming IS the singles market.

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Think of a singles purchase as an advance on 100 future listens/streams - historically the chart counted that advance at one moment of purchase; in 2026 we count those listens ongoing (assuming you even reach 100 plays). So the purchase of yesteryear is now essentially stretched out over weeks.

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Quite simply, streaming is the predominant consumption mechanism for music in 2026, it has to be considered or the vast majority of music consumption would be being ignored. Streaming is an ongoing consumption model however. As a result, movement in the singles charts has slowed.

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Compliments will get you everywhere, Ian. 😂 Streams were added in 2014 (singles) and 2015 (albums) as streaming began to significantly cannibalise purchase. Details here: www.officialcharts.com/getting-into...

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How the Official Charts are compiled

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

X here, interfering with our domestic politics by sponsoring a fascist leader. Why is anyone still there? This is utterly baffling to me. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Elon Musk’s family foundation took Tommy Robinson to Russia, says Musk’s father

Errol Musk says far-right activist is ‘a fine young man’ and held meetings with Russian business figures

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Martin Talbot @martinlt.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Social media (broadly US owned) pipes US-centric news relentlessly into our timelines, traditional media follows this agenda too. Which is why the BBC remains so important to our national interest.

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