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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 17h

I'd like to live in Westminster on an income level compatible with occasional forays to nick fuel, but perhaps that's just me

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 18h

I see the new DG has fallen straight into the politicians' trap of "saying stupid, ill-considered and largely fictional things about AI". Why must they do this?

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 29/09/2026

Someone asked me recently what good public service digital leadership looked like. My answer was long, but essentially boiled down to "not parroting this kind of shit" 👇

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 28/09/2026

The penalty for flipping your number plate on a motorbike (tucking it up for immunity for tunnel tolls and speed cameras) is £100 and no points. How can that make any sense?

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 28/09/2026

A story, nudged out of memory by recent events. Aged about 12, I was in the front seat of my mum's car heading out to Southport. We passed a country lane by the Diglake Farm Shop and I said "that looks weird". I'd seen 4 men getting into two cars, tucked away almost out of sight of the main road.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 28/09/2026

Nothing makes my head smash into the table faster than yet another clever-clever post about em dashes (yafuckingwn) illustrated by... en dashes. If you don't know the difference you shouldn't be allowed to post anything, anywhere. And you probably say 'pecific'. {Izzy Hands voice: TerWAATT}

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 26/09/2026

Well that filled a Saturday: scampered off train in Herts and realised my coat and keys were still enjoying their journey. To Birmingham. Limped home to get spare keys. Saw the lost souls coming back south. Jumped on train at Euston, all exactly where left. Get a keyring tracker, kids.

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We really do need a proper reappraisal of Oprah given some of the absolute frauds and woo she popularised. Dr. Oz. Dr. Phil. That 'psychic surgeon' who was raping hundreds of his followers. The Secret. The Satanic ritual abuse hoax.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 23/09/2026

I have recently learned that HR people say Haytch Arr a LOT. Feels like some sort of industry shibboleth now. The more senior, the more they haspirate it. Some very weird inversion going on: anyone who breaks with the code probably gets a rapid meeting with, er,

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Trubs @trubshaw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They're supposed to sit on the boat and patriotically watch them slowly drown, and then patriotically not have night terrors about it until the day they die, and then patriotically not go to hell.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 17/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: The new James Bond actor has been chosen and it's this guy. www.tiktok.com/@jrw21/video...

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 18/09/2026

What first attracted you to the billionaire Peter Thiel?

on the left, Tom battles against the gambling industry. On the right, a mere two years later, Tom battles for the gambling industry.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 18/09/2026

You know you're getting old when Walliams' Day comes round faster every year

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 18/09/2026

Someone just targeted me with this ad and I have many, many questions

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 15/09/2026

Can someone tell Greenwich Council it's 2026, not 2020?

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 14/09/2026

Barbershops? You fucking WHAT?

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 12/09/2026

The Great River Race is one of those massive life experiences that terrifies in the preparation, hurts in the doing, but lives happily in the memory forever

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 12/09/2026

Spoiler: I did not "try it"

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 10/09/2026

Good morning. How are you? Great, thanks. Take your fucking glasses and watch off NOW, you creepy twat! [This is going to be smooth, isn't it?]

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 09/09/2026

From 1966. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossu... (I loved this book as a kid. But, er...)

en.wikipedia.org

Colossus (novel) - Wikipedia

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 08/09/2026

I could be a writer with a growing reputation, I could be the quiet zone at Ealing Broadway station... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

'Calm space' installed at busy west London Tube station

The space is being trialled to support passengers who find travelling in London overwhelming.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 07/09/2026

It was bollocks. Not that unusual really for last days of an administration. Stuff gets said, and nobody really cares that it all gets memory holed. Especially when it was total bollocks to appease Mumsnet.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 07/09/2026

Big fan of how Russia can shut down a major UK port for half a day with just 5kg of cocaine and 100 severely divorced men.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 06/09/2026

In Whitstable, and my strongest memory of this town is the picture of the hairdresser's sign I took 15 years ago. Don't know if it's still there.

A sign for Gina's hair salon. A graphic of scissors are snipping the G to create a V shape. So it sort of spells VGINA'S

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 05/09/2026

This will not go down well here, but many of the replies to my piggate memories share disbelief about the 'weirdness' of posh people in a way they'd absolutely never dream of doing about almost any cultural tradition. Nobody cries for the rich, sure, but very little is 'weird' to those that do it.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 04/09/2026

I've lost count of the times I've looked at a proposed professional transaction and had to ask "is this all above board?". No, wait, I haven't. It's zero times.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 04/09/2026

Very much here for St Miriam being called out. She's not a national treasure, she's a fucking liability and pretty much always has been. No idea why her previous broadcasting antics hadn't put her on every single producer's "not in a million years are you insane?" list. More fool them in some ways.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 03/09/2026

if this bot were in a traditional graphics studio in the 90s, it would just be punched and punched and punched again

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 02/09/2026

Tidying up the mess of bus lane rules would be an excellent step towards safety and fairness

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 02/09/2026

I see it's the turn of our media, again, to ignore the "every single thing I say is a lie for attention" sign that glows over his head.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 31/08/2026

"Sticking with things has never been Yiannopoulos’ strong point. He has been mainstream and alternative…He has been a journalist, entrepreneur, and Christian telesales agent. He has been gay and ‘straight’, British and ‘Greek’. Even “Milo Yiannopoulos” is only one of several names he has tried out."

thenewworld.co.uk

How luck finally ran out for Milo Yiannopoulos

The early adopter of right wing outrage has been kicked out of America - showing tens of thousands now do his tired schtick better than him

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 31/08/2026

I still get the occasional gift from a client of a bottle of single malt, or similar. I've not had alcohol since the noughties, but always smile (and gift it on). LET IT BE KNOWN that should you feel the urge, this is what to send: lincolnshirepoachercheese.com/shop/poacher... Outstanding cheese.

lincolnshirepoachercheese.com

Poacher 50 – Lincolnshire Poacher Cheese

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 31/08/2026

Ramen Moto, Charlotte St. Do yourselves a favour. Wonderful range of broths, served with simplicity and beauty by people who very much care about good food and good soup. Art. Wagamama, who charge a quid less for their insipid instasoup, can go bust as quickly as possible, please.

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Sometimes Bluesky is like Sanjeev Bhaskar's Indian Dad but instead of India it's autism.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 28/08/2026

one for the old-timers there

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 27/08/2026

I don't tend to enjoy Blocked and Reported as a matter of style and tone, but their latest dissection of a grifter is compelling. The thread between that and er other cases is that we are fascinated by grifters. Whether they cook, write speeches for their dad, compulsively fundraise, we are gripped

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 27/08/2026

Filey Brigg: a little spike of Yorkshire jabbing into the North Sea. I learnt on this trip that until WW1 it was mostly called "The German Sea", but obviously that needed some rapid revision for obvious reasons. Not sure why 'East' wasn't a better description though?

A seascape: late afternoon clouds with blue sky in between, and a foamy wash of sea on the left, rolling into a thin rocky headland on the right.

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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Nothing quite says “I don’t give a shit what my posters look like, AI did them for free” than calling the kiddies teacup ride “TON CUNT”

An AI generated poster. Amongst other egregious errors, the teacup ride tent has a big sign, front and centre, saying “Ton Cunt”

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 27/08/2026

Doing some cataloguing and remembering the weirdness that happened 6 years ago this week

A protestor screaming next to Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. She is protesting against COVID restrictions, and carries a cardboard sign saying "WHATS UR LEGAL FICTION?" - a reference to one of the tropes of the sovereign citizen movement

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This feels like a glorious opportunity for both the BBC and Amol Rajan to discover just how likeable, popular and essential Amol Rajan is.

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 26/08/2026

I've become such a London wanker. Need toothpaste, strolled down the local supermarket just now. Shut at 10. What do you mean shut at 10? That's inhuman! So... provincial! So, the wanker's strut a further 5 minutes to the one that shuts at 11. London wanker.

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