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Max Preston

@maxpreston86.bsky.social
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Sky News journalist - working chiefly on "The Wrap". Re-posts aren't endorsements. Views mine; not Sky's. Still on that other app, but migrating away.

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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Ricky Gervais' "Alley Cats" is what would happen if someone told ChatGPT to write a "Derek and Clive" sketch as badly as it can.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Our friend Dermot Murnaghan has left us. He was a gentleman, a consummate broadcaster and journalist, and a great laugh. His stoicism in the face of his diagnosis and his advocacy for prostate cancer screening were a true inspiration. I am privileged to have known him.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Soooo .. it didn't go well, then?
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
"Young" people on TV in the 80s and 90s were old AF.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
"Why aren't the BBC reporting XXXXX when social media has been showing it for 2 hours?" Maybe because they are checking and verifying it like a proper, professional news outlet rather than just throwing any old half-understood, possibly fake shite out into the world.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I've long thought the simplest question one could ask Trump - and which would yield the most-illuminating answer - would be: "Are people allowed not to like you?" Thanks to Rob Reiner and his wife, we appear to have the answer.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Student Loan - PAID OFF!
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Random Facebook commenter: "We never had all these knife stabbings in the 60s and 70s, when we had discipline and respect." I've yet to receive a reply to my request for her thoughts on "gun shootings".
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Remembering the halcyon days of three weeks ago, when a "BBC Trump Edit" meant Celia Imrie's flatulence.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
How is THIS the PRIMARY image you put on an online property listing?! Up next, the radiator in the spare bedroom! Better get an offer in ASAP!
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
PR agent called Sam Cooke sends me a press release. My first thought: 🎼"Yooouu... send me... spam."
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Headlines like this utterly infuriate me. The gist is essentially: "How dare a public figure not be living up to the public's judgemental expectations at all times?" At its worst, it's what makes weirdos dream up ideas like... *checks notes*... KIDNAPPING HOLLY WILLOUGHBY! Just gross.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Dear PR agency, You do not get to e-mail me an "OPERATIONAL NOTE" - my bosses do - and you are not them. It's called a press release. Get over yourselves.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Something called "Black Country Live" brings us two bits of Earth-shattering news... 1. There's a news programme on ITV called "Good Morning Brain". 2. Apparently, it's news that a news programme went to an item in their running order. (Appalling, merit-free clickbait)
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Pleased to hear U.S. viewers will soon be seeing a lot more @news.sky.com content on @msnbc.com (or MS NOW, as it will soon be known). news.sky.com/story/sky-ne...
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Sky News coverage to be featured on MSNBC as part of commercial agreement
Sky News strikes a deal with MSNBC to expand the reach of its journalism to the US.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I'm not sure "We're awesome. You suck." is the masterful diplomatic gambit Trump thinks it is.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
If Biden gave a speech this rambling, self-congratulatory and nonsensical to the U.N., Fox News would (rightly) call for him to be taken away by men in white coats.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Colleague in her 20s: "Should we blur Madonna's boobs on the front of the Star?" Me: "Hmmm... it's... Borderline!" [deafening silence]
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Just seen a van with a website address that reads i-wash-it-me. Never went hyphens more-needed.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Apparently, all the anaesthetic machines in this hospital have names. Mine were called Sybil and Basil. I asked if that meant they were Fawlty.
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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
You join us live from Danny Dyer’s birthday drinks.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Tomorrow, I'm going into hospital for a double endoscopy and cystoscopy. (Trust me... DON'T Google it! 😂) There's nothing to worry about until or unless there's something to worry about, but that's why we're checking. That said, please think good thoughts.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The Charlie Kirk video. Don't watch it. Don't share it. Channels airing it unexpurgated should be ashamed.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Is it just me, or has tomorrow's Metro made Vernon Kay look like Melvyn Bragg?!
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Just seen a man so posh, he pronounced it "hwheel-CHAIR". I feel like a peas-ANT.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Well, that answers that question.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
HEADLINE: "Putin might not want a deal with Ukraine, says Trump" Does one need to sit in a room with Putin -:or even talk to him - to understand that?
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
PLEASE SHARE THIS JOB AD! Wheelchair-user (me) seeks support workers for social, domestic, work and personal care activities. Must have a UK-eligible driving licence and be able to start in early Sept. Full details below. (PLEASE NOTE: NOT a @skynewsrss.bsky.social job)
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
PLEASE SHARE THIS JOB AD! Wheelchair-user (me) seeks support workers for social, domestic, work and personal care activities. Must have a UK-eligible driving licence and be able to start in early Sept. Full details below. (PLEASE NOTE: NOT a @skynewsrss.bsky.social job)
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Your mistress?
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
This is silly. Why would - or should - Colbert want to be a member of a club that doesn't want him - and that he will likely feel wants to constrain his ability to perform as he pleases?
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Gotta love a man who amputated his own legs for creepy reasons being called Neil HOPPER. news.sky.com/story/surgeo...
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Surgeon charged with buying 'Eunuch Maker' videos and fraud over removal of own legs
Neil Hopper, 49, is alleged to have dishonestly made a false representation to insurers claiming that his leg injuries were the "result of sepsis and were not self-inflicted".
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Fifteen years ago today, I made my debut as a reporter on Radio 4. I say "debut"... they've not invited me to do it again since. Probably wise! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCeS...
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Max Preston: "Today in Parliament" - BBC Radio 4 (2010)
YouTube video by Max Preston
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Recruiting a new assistant. I'll give them points for conciseness.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Again, let's please keep any discussion on this to the theory of my question - not Wallace himself. That way madness and legal pitfalls lie.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Without getting into specific allegations... Are any other neurodivergent people really uncomfortable with Gregg Wallace citing his neurodivergence as - let's be generous - an alibi for his behaviour? Just because I can misread a moment doesn't excuse me from accountability.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I was under the impression she had married... y'know... a man.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
🎵"There are many swear-words I would like to say to you - and I'm gonna now..." #Oasis www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFCk...
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SO FUNNY!!! - OASIS - WONDERWALL
YouTube video by Stevie Riks
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Permit me to editorialise... Rubbish. And insulting rubbish at that. If (until this week) it was imperative to get the changes through, why - now - claim the U-turn is on "moral" grounds? Or was the "imperative" to save the PM's leadership? An insult to disabled people like me.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
"So, what goes on in this sweatshop, then?"
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
That thing when they've erected tacky, Beverly Hills-style gates outside your childhood home (that you're visiting for the first time in 28 years), so you have to peep through the bushes like a pervert with a nostalgia fetish...
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Thinking good thoughts for our dear friend and former colleague. You couldn't hope to find a more-consummate professional or a lovelier guy. news.sky.com/story/dermot...
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Dermot Murnaghan: Former Sky News presenter diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer
The 67-year-old announced on social media his diagnosis, saying he is "responding positively" to treatment and "feeling well".
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Gee, thanks, Uber Eats! That really is an offer I CAN refuse!
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Armada: How Danny Dyer compares himself to other geezers.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Friend: "Have you read a book called 'Futility'?" Me: "I didn't see the point."
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
My mother left us 20 years ago today. Anyone who tells you it gets any easier is lying, but what it does do is give clarity. What would make her proud? What treatment wouldn't she tolerate? What would she find worthy of mockery? What would she relish? Embrace those - and you can't go far wrong.
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Exactly one year apart. Coverage of the FA Cup final at Wembley on the TV... while I feel smug about no longer having to deal with 90,000 football fans 20 yards from my doorstep!
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Apparently, I just crashed our opening titles. Oops!
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Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
That's news to me... and him, I imagine.
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