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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I was spoiled before watching it so I've always wondered if we're meant to know the truth before Avon. Incredible episode. The two-hander in the cave is perhaps the best scene on the whole series (but I love the final confrontation in Sarcophagus. Lee should have written for Dr Who)

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That link between Catholicism and treason, an obvious product of late Elizabethan religio-politics finding apparent confirmation in Catesby's Plot of November 1605, really does survive very late in English culture. This is an aide memoire for something that will presumably never be written.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Rewatching the ITV play 'The Traitor', the defacto pilot for Mr Palfrey of Westminster. Struck by the brief suggestion of a linkl between the Traitor's work for Moscow and his conversion to Catholicism. Similar link made in Burgess' Bond pastiche Tremor of Intent (although there it becomes ironic)

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If you have a family member who's a Trump supporter, do make sure to give them a good kick in the bollocks this weekend. Two kicks if they are that saddest of thing, a British or Irish Trumper. And if you're not close enough for a kicking, give them a ring to tell them they are a massive cunt.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He's superb in the under appreciated Campion (not helped by the BBC not really understanding what they were getting and the poor scheduling)

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The strangest 'children's series' I've ever seen. The sexualising of Gillan Hills' character - not helped by the cast being too old to play the teenage roles - particularly the climatic exorcism/orgasm, is shocking.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Completests can find the German remake of End of the Line (End station) on YouTube.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For those who enjoyed @docoho44.bsky.social's theory that the 6th Doctor is the Hyacinth Bucket of Doctor Who, here's some of Patricia Rutledge's library in Chichester Books

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Presumably Dickie Tice passed this 'verdict' to the Torygraph in order to get ahead of, and muddied the waters for, the official parliamentary investigation.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Peter Sellers is great in it, as are Orson Welles and Bernard Cribbins.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sean O'Grady remains the idiot's idiot.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

'He was lion' This bollox was dreaming about Narnia.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

'Going the Right Way'...Going, going, gone

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If they had any regard for culture, they would know 'The Right Way' was a campaign slogan chosen by the Collingridge government in House of Cards. Collingridge, of course, falls as a result of the machinations of Francis Urquhart.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of the greatest shows of all time.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Really shit article for the incredibly cranky i newspaper. This weird statement about show runners demonstrates the quality.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The islanders in The Wicker Man are cunts. #teamhowie

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dr Who fan speculation in 3...2...1....

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mike Tyson has one, and Russell Brand may get one, so that's an interesting connection - beyond the crank health politics.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Odd editorial decision by the Torygraph to leave Farage piece up (unless a sub-editor is taking the piss, again).

Torygraph shitting in their hands, again

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He must be an AI-addled shit like his father.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On my old topic of Protestant views of Roman Catholicism in #Sussex & why that has to be included in any discussion of the Bonfire celebrations. Which the #bbc hasn't done in this article. There's a chapter on Woodman which someone strip-mined for a podcast while claiming it was 'hard to follow'

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Even three centuries after the Marian burnings they, along with 1605, the 'Glorious' Revolution of 1688/9, & presumably on some level the Papist conspiracy theory for the English Civil War, continued to dictate popular views of Roman Catholicism. The Bonfire celebrations were part of that recall 10/

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Neale, the translator of O Come I Come Emmanuel, was accused of building a secret Catholic chapel at Sackville College in East Grinstead, and was literally chased out of Lewes when it was rumoured he was trying to perform Catholic rites at a Protestant funeral at All Saints Church. 9/

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

lens of English Protestant history. Manning was responsible for the conversions of Bessie Rayner Parkes Mary Chandler, the mothers of Sussex writers Hilare Belloc and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Protestant Sussex's loathing of Roman Catholicism would lead to trouble for John Mason Neale 8/

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

1557 and 1605 to generate opposition to the return of the Catholic hierarchy. The modern Bonfire celebrations in Lewes stem from this Protestant opposition. The conversion to Catholicism in 1851 of Henry Manning, Archdeacon of Chichester, was another Sussex event viewed through the conspiratorial 7/

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That long cultural memory of the threat from Papistry meant the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England in the 1850s was viewed with suspicion and hostility. Mark Anthony Lower, a teacher, low church preacher, and founder of the Sussex Archeological Society, used the memory of 6/

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Gunpowder celebrations/commemorations thus recall the violence and danger of Roman Catholicism. The eastern half of Sussex was very Protestant, with residual Lollardry surviving in the Weald, and influences from militant European Protestant. Horror stories about Roman found a ready audience 5/

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They symbolise the 33(?) barrels of gunpowder which Fawkes was discovered with in 1605 & the barrels in which the Lewes martyrs stood while being burned (although this is contested). The Marian burnings & the Gunpowder Plot become connected in religious, political, cultural and local memory 4/

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lewes was the kill zone. 17 men and women were burned in the town including nine on June 22 1557. These nine included the ironmaster Richard Woodman about whom we know the most. The key is the barrels used during Lewes' bonfire celebration 3/

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

During the reign of Mary I (1553 - 1558), Sussex saw the martyrdom of a significant number of Protestant martyrs. Sussex has the third-highest number of Protestant martyrs after London diocese and Kent. But Sussex alone has the specific idea of county martyrdom - the Sussex martyrs 2/

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... And yet the article fails to answer its own question. 1) Obviously when Nov 5th was treated as a separate event, not as an adjunct to an American version of Halloween, it marked the discovery & the defeat of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot. But there's more to it in Sussex 1/

bbc.co.uk

Why Sussex is the heartland of Bonfire Night

While Bonfire Night is marked nationwide, Sussex is known for its large-scale celebrations.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

William Squire's voice is a deep, velvety chocolate, in which Edward Woodward drowns you.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Although, given how relatively easy (hours of checking sources) it is too prove AI use in an essay, 'expert' is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

An expert plagiarist on every module!

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'I like how the light plays across my fist. It has a really haunted quality'

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck the leaders of the Russell Group

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If nothing else, trigger warnings are so passé. You won, enjoy your victory while reaping the terrible whirlwind. You'll miss us when we're gone.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right-wing press: you've already helped to kill #UKHE - certainly the humanities - by injecting culture wars poison into the middle & working-classes, creating hostility & out-right hate with tales of wokery & radicalism. You don't need to waste our time with frivolous FOIs about trigger-warnings

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thomas Moffat ("Young Bob") doing the rounds again.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is he wearing his Nonce Goggles in order to record everyone?

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day... More Hungarian 'educational fun'. The Times Higher actively hates Higher Education. I'd call it the strangest trade magazine in the world but it's just a mouth piece for private equity and for-profit educational groups.

thedriftmag.com

The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest

By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I remember everyone in the room getting dewy-eyed when she was given an award at the Capitol convention in 2016 or 17. This now smacks of 'we'd better get her to talk while she's still alive', reflecting that reawakening of interest in S4 that's been apparent for the last 15 years.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Depressingly. I don't know if you'd heard, but William Hartnell was a bit of a racist and an anti-Semite. Next she'll be telling us that Troughton was a bit of a shagger.

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