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Steve Nolan @ohstevenolan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Agree with this. Also Bryan Cranston is a massive ham. Not a bad thing (see The Studio) but some of the claims of Great AcTor at the time were wide of the mark.

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Steve Nolan @ohstevenolan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Annoyed I can only like this once.

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Steve Nolan @ohstevenolan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The Invite is the most fun I’ve had in the cinema in a long time.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/06/2026

Brits, Our Friends In The North, one of the finest drama series of the past 35 years, is starting a run of repeats on BBC Four this evening from 10.20pm. (I feel old; I watched this when it was new.) www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Why Our Friends in the North still thrills 25 years on

An incredible cast – from Daniel Craig to Gina McKee – and Shakespearean narrative add up to make a modern classic

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Steve Nolan @ohstevenolan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Make this the law with cruel and unusual punishment attached.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It does all come back to the tax pledge, Hunt deliberately shafting them and Labour choosing to remain shafted has basically undermined their entire governing project.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

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Steve Nolan @ohstevenolan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Have not been able to stop watching this all week. My family are despairing.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Increasingly think there is a strong case for an explicit wealth tax in order to make the politics of a more general tax rise more manageable. About fairness and burden sharing rather than revenue raising as such.

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Steve Nolan @ohstevenolan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

But does Tudor play 1536 have the backing of 81 MPs?

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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This is one of the worst things about modern politics coverage. Treating the audience like they’re idiots incapable of understanding anything - which is quite often being used to conceal the fact that the person speaking does in fact not understand what they’re talking about!

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Steve Nolan @ohstevenolan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

My Curse - Afghan Whigs Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones Beautiful Life - Gui Boratto Sometimes it Snows in April - Prince This Is How We Walk On the Moon - Arthur Russell One from the heart - Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle Promised Land - Johnnie Allan Promised Land - Joe Smooth

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Steve Nolan @ohstevenolan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Everyone else my age is calling their A.I. Joshua right?

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Steve Nolan @ohstevenolan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

“That’s some catch, that Catch-22.”

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I want a movie about the poor untenured archaeologist who has to cover Indiana Jones' teaching and do his marking while he fucks off to do 'fieldwork'.

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Steve Nolan @ohstevenolan.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I understand why it kind of disappeared—a pandemic show in 2021/2 is a hard sell—but it is the best show of the last ten years.

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Steve Nolan @ohstevenolan.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

10 year gilts entering their Dark Knight Returns period

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Steve Nolan @ohstevenolan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

"Ernest Hemingway once wrote 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for in front of Zendaya.' I agree with the second part."

Picture of Morgan Freeman nearly but not completely defeated because he saw Jeremy O. Harris call Sam Altman a Nazi in front of Zendaya

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Steve Nolan @ohstevenolan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Finally having my Claude code moment. Going to resist the urge to write 5,000 blogposts about it but, yes… wow.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 17/01/2026

There are going to be limits to what you can make other countries do by threatening to tax your own citizen's purchases of their products. I believe handing over entire territories falls well beyond those limits. 🤷‍♂️

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Columnists! People who make videos of their own heads! Do you know nothing about autism & its complexity? Never read a word about it, but seen something about SEND reform and what Badenoch/Tice said the other day? Top tip: Just sound off about "overdiagnosis" and get another week's beer money

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Steve Nolan @ohstevenolan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Basically another version of DiCaprio's "GIVE ME THE OSCAR" stare to camera at the end of The Revenant.

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Oh, look. A load of coverage about a new government inquiry into "overdiagnosis" that completely blurs autism & mental illness, and ends up leaning into all those tropes about people making it all up.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

There was maybe a 45 minute window where you could get coverage of what was actually in the budget and it was, crucially, the period when it was leaked by the OBR but before it was announced.

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

Scene from OFFICE SPACE with Michael Bolton replying to Samir Nagheenanajar:

“No way. Why should I change?
He's the one who sucks.”

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

It's completely ridiculous. Pre-budget everyone thought the headroom gap was £20-30bn including policy changes (e.g. on welfare). It was in fact £16bn. It's hardly a massive difference.

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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Watching Reeves being interviewed on Laura Kuenssberg and they’ve spent 10 minutes on (i) whether Reeves lied, and (ii) whether she broke the manifesto commitments. Utterly futile.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

We'll do anything to increase tax revenues but we won't Do That (broadbased tax rises that might actually plug the gap)

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 24/11/2025

Please clap

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Steve Nolan @ohstevenolan.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Continue to be confused by this strand of Labour MPs that appear not to want to raise any taxes at all.

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Labour MPs wanted the threshold to be at least £2mn; that figure, first reported by the Times, was on Monday confirmed by people briefed on the Budget. Some MPs wanted the threshold set even higher at £2.5mn.

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Steve Nolan @ohstevenolan.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Had my first "hey, where did the sound go?" moment on live tv today. Thankfully, I think I styled it out and definitely didn't end up looking like a giant head in a tank babbling silently to themselves.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Anyway the basic gist is that this government have decided businesses, universities and immigrants should pay the taxes that the median voter doesn’t want to pay. I’m sure that will have no worrying incidence effects or counteract ‘the singleminded focus on growth’.

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Steve Nolan @ohstevenolan.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Very good adaptation of Train Dreams on Netflix. Captures the mood of the book perfectly. Pretty much perfectly cast including having Will Patton narrate. His audiobook reading is one of the all time greats.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

And autism was never something to be so terrified of that you avoid vaccines for preventable childhood diseases that could disable or kill you and others The inherent ableism of this strain of anti-vaccinationism has always been acute

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 16/11/2025

lol every other year since 2019, a prominent male economist has been revealed as the absolute worst person ever. Like clockwork.

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Steve Nolan @ohstevenolan.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Pretty hard not to despair most days.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Yes, I think this is what the “it’s smart not to do income tax” stuff is missing. If you remove salary sacrifice on someone’s pension contributions you are increasing their income tax! If you freeze thresholds you are increasing their income tax!

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

To be honest I think “I’m going to give a press conference to tell the whole nation over their breakfasts about the absolute need for something big on tax, then just drop the idea 10 days later” may actually be more stupid than anything Truss and Kwarteng did.

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