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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 10h

In the garden today: the roses are still going strong in the October sunshine. What a year.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 11h

I’m currently on the Tunguska Event, the launch of the Model T Ford and the publication of The Wind in the Willows.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 14h

And that’s before we even start talking about the number of medieval kings, barons, Sheriffs of Nottingham and Princes of Denmark who live in undecorated, half-ruined castles blown to bits in the Civil War.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 15h

Also (and I appreciate this is straying into the realm of impossibly high expectations), if it’s set in the 17th Century, like Witchfinder General or The Visitation, they film it at a genuine 17th Century house, and I’m like okay, but it should be brand new. How come that house looks 350 years old?

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 16h

Same goes for house interiors, curtains, furniture, wallpaper etc. If a film or show is set in, say, 1973, everyone seems to live in a house decked out from top to bottom like the 1973 Habitat catalogue. (And yet they’re seldom able to get the hairstyles even vaguely right.)

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 17h

Avoided the 2005 Pride and Prejudice film after a ‘hilarious’ bit in the trailer where someone introduces ‘Miss Bennet, Miss Bennet, Miss Bennet, Miss Bennet and Miss Bennet.’ As if etiquette didn’t have that sorted. Miss Bennet is the eldest. Her sisters are Miss Elizabeth, Miss Lydia, etc. Bah.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 17h

Murder by Decree, in which Sherlock Holmes investigates the Ripper murders of 1888, begins with a shot of Tower Bridge, which opened in 1894. Bohemian Rhapsody’s many errors include Rick James’s 1981 single Super Freak playing at a party in 1980. And don’t get me started on huge modern wine glasses.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Boris Johnson, literally the most notorious and proven liar in British political history, accuses someone else of lying about stuff that he himself is known to have lied about. Lest we forget, this is the man who partied with his KGB-adjacent chum Lebedev in 2018. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

well done lads, it's 2026 & you've managed to allow the fucking Sun to position itself as slightly less hostile to people who support LGBT+ rights than The Big Supposedly Gay Dancing Show

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Suella Braverman and her publisher appear to have made the same fundamental error that Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and their publishers made before their books likewise bombed. It’s very simple: the sort of people who like Braverman, Johnson and Rees-Mogg are not the sort of people who buy books.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Outstanding! Congratulations, old friend. x

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

just when you thought it couldn’t get worse

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Overdiagnosis” is the new transphobia. It’s the same people

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In the 1985 Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos, an authoritarian regime run by a weak man keeps the downtrodden population in line by broadcasting public executions to distract from the fact that it has tanked the economy through a combination of incompetence, arrogance and institutional cruelty.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just popped into my head. Can’t imagine why.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Trump goes full Taliban. How utterly disgusting. What a contemptible country the USA has become.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We made a whole season about the complex history and different meanings of socialism and he just comes out and nails it in a sentence. Damn

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“She told me her name was Billie Jean, and she caused a scene, then a heavy hit her with the ice cream.” To this day I have no idea what the actual line is, and I don’t want to know either.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thinking Allowed, Open Country, You and Yours, Free Thinking, and The Artificial Human are all being axed. It would be interesting to know what percentage of the £500m cuts sought by the BBC will be saved by cherished and valuable little radio shows being cancelled by executives on huge salaries.

bbc.co.uk

BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Badenoch pops in a slice of performative transphobia for applause. The legacy of Rishi Sunak lives on.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is an utter brain stew of a speech. She pays fond tribute to Jeffrey Archer who leaves the world a ‘less colourful’ place, before crowing about Reform MPs going to prison. She attacks Labour taxes, then showers praise on Denis Healey, the most famous high-tax Labour chancellor in living memory.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Badenoch just declared war on bats, newts and fish.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch’s speech: 1. Say the word ‘Conference’ VERY solemnly. 2. Draw a fridge magnet from the bag at random and read out the facile slogan, starting very quietly before rapidly increasing in volume, ending with an emphatic finger jab. 3. Bask in rapturous applause. 4. Return to 1.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the absence of anything to say in her big speech, she’s tearing up over Jeffrey Archer and boasting about that embarrassing tapestry.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

‘Started watching Arc of Infinity.’

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Good old autocorrect. I knew what you meant!

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Flashback to that Sky News classic in February 2020, when the then Home Secretary Priti Patel demonstrated, over and over again, that she thought ‘counter-terrorism’ meant the same as ‘terrorism’. It wasn’t just a momentary slip of the tongue. She said it nine times. Here’s how Michael Spicer coped.

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The Room Next Door - Priti Patel

YouTube video by Michael Spicer

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As car crashes go, this is right up there with the one in which Home Secretary Priti Patel let slip (not once but nine times) that she thought ‘counter-terrorism’ was a kind of terrorism. Quizzed on her latest flagship policy, Badenoch isn’t sure what it is. It might be a thing in the sea. Possibly.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Archer came and spoke to my school in the 1980s. Charm personified. Bragged at length about his many achievements and then... something bizarre happened. 1/3 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Jeffrey Archer obituary

Politician and best-selling author whose career was mired in scandal and disgrace.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is what’s so remarkable about the gushing tributes. Even if you ignore all of Archer’s other crimes and misdemeanours, he betrayed the Conservatives by lying to them, causing colossal political embarrassment and damage to the party. Many Tories are old enough to remember. The rest should know.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Knowing how highly Kemi Badenoch prizes her lack of gaffes, she might wish to correct the softening effect of her chosen words: ‘We wanted him to be our mayoral candidate.’ Jeffrey Archer WAS the Tories’ mayoral candidate, endorsed by Margaret Thatcher and John Major, until his crimes were exposed.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch continues: ‘I can see why so many people were very fond of Jeffrey Archer. You know, we wanted him to be our mayoral candidate, and then yet another thing happened.’ Happened? He didn’t sit on a box of chocolates. He was sent to prison for perjury and perverting the course of justice.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

‘He was someone that people liked so much that even after he’d been in tricky situations, he kept being given further chances.’ - Kemi Badenoch on Today, openly acknowledging that Jeffrey Archer’s life was very different from that of, for example, Monica Coghlan, who was destroyed by Archer’s lies.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not entirely sure that’s what he was best known for.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In 1990, a decade before Jeffrey Archer’s conviction and imprisonment for perjury and perverting the course of justice during his 1987 libel action against the tabloids, The Beloved’s Jon Marsh spoke for a nation with his choice of hand gesture while name-checking Archer in the video for ‘Hello’.

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The Beloved - Hello (Official Video)

YouTube video by TheBelovedVEVO

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In the garden today: Tricyrtis hirta, colloquially known by the altogether more beguiling name of Japanese Toad Lily. October is a special month.

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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I will be unsurprised if, at some point in the future, we find out that the experts who designed the exhibition indicated the comfortable visitor numbers and someone higher up overruled them. What an embarassment.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In the garden today: the chilli harvest commences. That should keep us going for a while.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

3rd September 2026: asked if she would follow Reform’s example and block journalists from the Conservative Party conference, Kemi Badenoch replied: “We do not do that. It’s absolutely not something we believe in. We believe in free speech. We believe in a free press.” 30th September 2026:

bylinetimes.com

Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My preposterously talented fellow humanoid Barnaby has an exhibition of his paintings at Exeter Picturehouse. The theme is fantasy cinema, and needless to say this beauty is one of my favourites. If you’re in the area between now and 1 November, do drop in. If not, it’s all online. See thread below!

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And if “what ultimately awaits George” means his becoming king, as it clearly does, then self-evidently William does not know better than anyone what ultimately awaits him. The person who knows better than anyone what it’s like to be king would be (checks notes) the king.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Transfixed by the absolute honking gibberish of “evolves from schoolboy to future monarch” - what on earth is that supposed to mean? He’s been the future monarch since birth. He only became a schoolboy later. So if anything, he’s evolved from future monarch to schoolboy. Which is also gibberish.

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