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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 7h

Okay

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 16h

Does anyone have a big inflatable cock and some gaffer tape handy?

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 17h

Would love to see Orphans of the Tide by Struan Murray given a go. I loved reading that to Big 'Un and Mrs W is currently reading it to Little 'Un, and there was lots of shouting and squawking when they hit the big twist last night.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 17h

Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell is a possibility. There's a lot of action in that, and the chapters feel somewhat episodic. But fantasy require expensive locations and loads of CGI.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 17h

Some of the fantasy books aimed at the middle-to-older end of the kid reading scale could work over six, maybe eight episodes, but ten is a push. But they'd be so expensive to film.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Finally got one down to 17% myself, and I think we'd all enjoy it. tentpolegame.com/m/T3E6uvmpKUiM

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think you're supposed to make the best movie you can, but it's more fun making something that sounds truly awful. Who's up for an R-rated prison-based fairy tale from Oliver Stone, starring Martin Lawrence, Zack Galifanakis, Pat Morita and David Schneider? tentpolegame.com/m/9oESvOAml9Tg

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The Wishing Cell — Tentpole

“Every wish gets out. Somebody pays the rent.” — Prison fairy tale, rated R, dir. Oliver Stone. $166M domestic · 51/100 · Serviceable. A picture made at Tentpole.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Overlay that on a map of the Reform local election votes and I bet those gaps look very teal.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Big shout out to Nic Maddinson (previous record: 27 runs in four innings) who has returned to the Australian Test cricket side with a blistering 33 ball duck.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch's rejuvenation of the Conservative party has won over an impressively wide coalition of voters, from people who write about politics for the Times to people who write about politics for the Telegraph.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The main takeaway is that the voters of Holborn and St Pancras are perfectly content with the size of their breasts.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh, so Police and Crime Commissioners aren't important now, are they?

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Jerry Hall's accent flits across the Atlantic more than a Virgin flight attendant.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Good to see four solid British animals selected for the new bank notes: The hedgehog, the owl, the hydra and the XL bully.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Still think they should put a monkey on the £50 notes to confuse cockneys.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ill-considered pitch of the day: "Dad, can I have my own laptop so I can put stickers on it?"

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Well, speaking for myself, absolutely not. For others? The cost gap between staying at home and going out gets higher, irrespective of whether wages are going up.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Drink and ticket prices make a night out seem like a Big night out, and therefore people are less inclined to have a night out.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A basic expectation is that food on the flyer/ menu is the food you serve, and I ain't eating some fake shit that came out of a computer.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Season 3 was bad, Season 4 is somehow worse.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The emotion-prompting loss of Jeffrey Archer has reminded me of the ancient Chinese curse - May your Wikipedia entry have many unusual subsections.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Arched will be remembered largely for his crimes, which were published by Hachette, and later Macmillan

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Shame about Jeffrey Archer - his son, Jofra, will have to pull out of the Pakistan one-day series to attend the funeral.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Proper "couldn't afford the rights to Monkey Tennis" vibes.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

People want tapestries so much, they'll queue up to see an embroidery.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I reckon I've spotted a gap in the market, and I am going to churn out an absolute fuckload of tapestries.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That sounds like a truly dreadful Black Eyed Peas song.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I *think* they all reached number two in the singles charts. And, guessing by the rough dates, were all kept off number one by Bohemian Rhapsody?

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Every South American election recently has basically been: Jesús Marx Bonaventura de Corruption (Alliance to Not Kill Puppies): 48.9% Pedro Sanchez-Hitler (Reform): 50.01% Geraldo Demonslayer (Bitcoin Liberation Front): 1%

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The pub quiz episode in Ted Lasso series 4 is possibly the worst thing I have ever seen. And I've seen a child vomit all over their room, bathroom, hallway and stairs.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AI music generation has got so good that it could create an entire Take That album and nobody would be able to tell the difference.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When asked "where's the bin"? (which happens a lot with children unwilling to spend 10 seconds looking for it), describing in great detail my movements of the last hour or so in a broad Yorkshire accent.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This works best if there is someone actually trying to kill him, but is always foiled by the hilarious consequences of Ross' comical paranoia.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Claudia's look is Goth Oompa Loompah

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm watching about 40 minutes behind, but I take it Amol Rajan has won everyone over with his lightly-worn charm, yes?

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

me at the first traitors round table: so are you a traitor if she taps your shoulder? because i think she tapped my shoulder. is that good or bad. its good right.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I see Michael Sheen has gone for the time-honoured Pretending To Be Welsh strategy. #CelebrityTraitors

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What I want to see tonight is "I'm voting for Amol. I've no idea whether he's a traitor or not, but I've a moral obligation to keep him on the telly for as little time as possible."

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

(Although I suspect the smart money is getting the rights to Australian/ Canadian/ NZ reality TV shows like Survivor/ the Bachelor and cosy dramas). Get stuff with 5+ series that people can binge-watch. Half-decent, affordable ballast for both the iPlayer and the schedules makes sense!

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

These are the TV equivalent of snapping up a good footballer coming to the end of his contract in order to bolster the squad. Why on earth would anyone bother complaining about it?

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How can Winchester be designed for cars when those M3 junctions have been designed to never let a car get near Winchester?

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's a problem for after the UK population has agreed to Rejoin, though. (Obviously, the Government should negotiate terms for rejoining THEN put it to a referendum, but that won't happen because we're collectively dumb as bricks)

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also, there's the not inconsiderable advantage of being able to point at the Stay Out campaigners saying "they're the ones who fed you a crock of shit last time", with that point being undeniably true.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The difference in campaign dynamics this time is that the Rejoin side can be the one giving 100 different fantasy versions of what it'll be like, and the easy approach is saying we'll keep the pound (probably true) and get a Schengen opt-out (probably less true).

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Would be interested to see the figures for Schengen membership but keeping the pound, which is what I suspect the deal would be.

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