Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Lovely to see Charlie Hawtrey on Have I Got News For You. 1140
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 19/05/2026"That looks like a Job Centre over there." 0183
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Going to write a thesis on how this was the greatest cultural juxtaposition of the 1980s. 2222
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 17/03/2026The mighty Len Deighton has passed away aged 97. What a writer and what a man. My bookshelf here speaks for my love of him. 2190
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Good Bye Lenin! is on Prime! Do yourself a massive favour if you've never seen it. 292
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 10/03/2026If Spurs turn that around in the second leg, it'll be the greatest Tudor comeback since Henry VII landed at Milford Haven in 1485. 3222
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 22/02/2026There was a 1987 episode of Wogan on BBC4 tonight featuring Jenny Agutter, Laurie Lee and this guy. Culturally, 1987 feels like a million years ago. 190
Reposted by Michael GlasperStephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 20/02/2026www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...theguardian.com‘He loved showing his bum. Loved it’: the subversive genius of Kenneth WilliamsThe actor, comedian and raconteur, who would have turned 100 on Sunday, could play humble or haughty, cheeky or Chekhov – but always stole the show 1314824
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 20/02/2026"Good birthday?" "Pretty quiet." "You do much?" "Ten hours in a police station." 0141
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Another Level? Subterranean presumably. #totp 020
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 13/02/2026When you're opening the batting for Ireland at 2pm and appearing on #totp at 8pm. 170
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Watched Palin twice this week and realised that when he goes that's the real ravens leaving the Tower of London moment. 0211
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Listening to No Jacket Required. Can honestly say that due to inherent prejudices, I've never listened to it before. It's pretty good, as it goes. 440
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 31/01/2026When Jeremy Corbyn and his missus go on holiday to Greece. 091
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 29/01/2026When Lord Sugar cracks a joke on The Apprentice. 1352
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Reading a biography of Brezhnev. The caption for this 1971 photo is 'I look like Alain Delon'. 2120
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Hitler having a copy of the Beveridge Report in the bunker is a lovely bit of trivia. 080
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 24/01/2026This is like that time when Henry Tudor landed at Milford Haven and explained that he simply wanted to join Richard III's cabinet for the greater good of the country. 2140
Reposted by Michael Glasperℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted. 5550041897
Reposted by Michael GlasperRobin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 19/01/2026The Norwegian government is staying fairly quiet for now, but as a sign of the shifting vibe here the former head of Norway’s armed forces has come out and called the US a “neo-fascist banana republic” and a “hostile great power without norms”. www.dn.no/politikk/tid...dn.noTidligere forsvarssjef om Trumps USA: – Neo-fascistisk bananrepublikk (+)Tidligere forsvarssjef Sverre Diesen mener USA er blitt «en normløs og fiendtlig innstilt stormakt», og advarer samtidig mot å feste vår lit til Europa. Harald Sunde mener det haster med en plan B. 9933691101
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 19/01/2026"l no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace" 1223
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Listened to Bob Monkhouse's Desert Island Discs episode again. He picked this, which I had forgotten about entirely. Fucking incredible. open.spotify.com/track/20U4KB...open.spotify.comAin't She Sweet 140
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Imagine seeing the not-so-slow death of NATO in your lifetime though. The entire western postwar consensus, tossed on the bonfire. 5150
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Imagine explaining The Masked Singer in 1977 and John Lydon appearing on it. 1110
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 10/01/2026I love The Traitors, but there should definitely be a 20 mins highlights show where they show the breakfast, round table and murder. 080
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 27/12/2025"Four cakes, Jeremy? Four? That's insane" 0120
Reposted by Michael GlasperAndrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Up to midnight with Beverly Kenney. I hope everyone had the best Christmas Day available to them. 1472
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Me describing my brother-in-law when he comes for Christmas dinner. 0301
Reposted by Michael GlasperBUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Just finished watching It’s a Wonderful Life, and I’m not being funny but this guy’s a right cunt x 2526312
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 24/12/2025"And from the crew of Apollo 8 we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you, all of you on the good earth." 2214
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 20/12/2025If I was Pat Cummins I'd declare now and get this all done by lunch. 010
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Please enjoy this photo of my granddad, Ernie, and the telegram he sent to my nana the day he came home from the war. Nine months later, my dad was born 5344
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 07/11/2025"Trump & Orban will appear at Blackpool Palace of Varieties from May to September. Contact the box office for ticket prices." 4140
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 07/11/2025The new Charlatans album is terrific, really terrific. And 'We Are Love' is so obviously a lost Smiths track that I went looking to see if Johnny Marr is playing on it. 080
Reposted by Michael GlasperGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence. 221638438
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Absolute filth from Nigel Slater in today's Observer. 4428
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 01/11/2025My main take from this girlband thing on BBC2 is that Mel Blatt is a fucking legend. 4130
Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Good to see pleasant-smelling concierges from fictitious Mitteleuropa hotels are safe from AI. 090
Reposted by Michael GlasperStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Today’s newsletter: some thoughts on a shocking new poll and a great speech by John Major:ft.comLabour best placed to become ‘Stop Reform’ force — if it improvesParty slumps to 17% in new poll, as John Major urges Tories to use strengths against Nigel Farage’s party 99716
