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Robin Parker

@robinparker.bsky.social
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For hire. Telly, movies, music and nonsense. Freelance writer/editor: Radio Times, Broadcast, Talent Manager, Screen International, BAFTA, WFTV, Variety, Campaign, Robb Report. Comms/copy: Plank PR, Faber & Bishopp, Social Finance, Asylum Aid, BSI, ODI.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 02/06/2026
Debbie Harry in VIDEODROME saying “Don’t be afraid to let your body die.”
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Rewatching The Thick Of It. 20 years ago, the idea that the ‘Mother’s piss’ lady was BNP was enough for the news media to wipe her from reports. These days, any news platform would make her a hero for the same reason. We live with deliberately enforced social regression.
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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 21/09/2026
Someone from Exeter was buried on Friday and one of their wishes was to have dinosaurs and the Grim Reaper present. Legend. Photo source: Exeter & Devon Crematorium and Memorial Gardens
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Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Talking of dodgy newspaper Top 100 lists, I hope @stuartmaconie.bsky.social and @markradcliffe.bsky.social sue The Guardian for every penny they've got. www.theguardian.com/food/2026/se...
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‘They smell of urinal cakes!’: 100 unusual crisp flavours, ranked – from truly awful to totally scoffable
Move over ready salted, salt and vinegar and cheese and onion. Gourmet crisps are everywhere, but which are actually worth trying?
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Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This post from Tice quoted here means one thing - from this point onwards, whatever this masked fash mob do next, we can all legitimately say "These are Reform's people. Reform support violent fascist criminals"
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Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dunno. Too shy to ask
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
God this is going so well. I haven’t laughed this hard in so long!
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I decided I'm going to start a thread of things I love to add to now and then, just because. Music, art, games, whatever. First up: the viscacha, a rodent native to South America. They like to sit on rocks and warm themselves in the sun, which I can greatly emphasise with
A viscacha, which kind of looks like a spherical rabbit with brown and grey fur, sits on a rock and looks very chill.
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AJRed @ajred.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That weird feeling when you're really into a band from the beginning and suddenly they get really big and everyone loves them? That, but for Kate O'Flynn.
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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Pisspot to Pamlicoo.
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Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
honestly thought this new Clinic song was a Frank Sidebottom number when the vocals started, and it's none the worse for that open.spotify.com/track/1PZlaH...
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Clinic · You and I · Song · 2026
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Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What a bracing 24 minutes of TV and, given the political environment of the time, pretty brave too
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Thanks, I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I love the implication that Mowgli has settled down with the singing girl and they bought an apartment together and are hosting dinner parties, but he still doesn't own a shirt.
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Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So many questions
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Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Was thinking this too
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Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
An uncanny Toast/Brian Butterfield hybrid
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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.
A small machine, the front resembles a smiling face, and its back reflected in the mirror behind it resembles a horrified face.
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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just perfection. You will not see any better bit of broadcasting this century.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hell yeah. Hell yeah brother. Here we go. Hit me with this content. Hell yeah. I can feel it.
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The idea that Heinlein's Starship Troopers were fascists is a lazy Leftist smear
Just because you don't like an idea doesn't mean it's Nazi
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yossarian, but instead of being an airman, he’s an AI developer
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Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Remember the pregnant woman who got arrested for drawing a picture of Sunak as a coconut? BBC has at least twice today implied that Ed Miliband isn't really Jewish I'm not saying anyone should go to court. But interesting difference isn't it? Especially whilst acknowledging dangers of antisemitism
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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
‘are we just trying to get our mums a house?’
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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Complain. To the BBC. Takes five minutes. Demand a response.
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Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Panic moment in job application
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Friday
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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 03/09/2026
Chris Mason right now
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Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When Steinem met Kingsley youtu.be/oVNdTXmg9tY?...
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HANK KINGSLEY meets GLORIA STEINEM
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Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sarah’s columns always have at least one phrase for the ages; here it concerns Ray Winstone’s gradual metamorphosis “Meanwhile, the perpetually semi-naked Bobby continues to bark orders from between his sauna and hot tub; an effort, presumably, to become the world’s first fully amphibious cockney.”
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Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Greatly amused that Spotify’s AI bothered to transcribe the lyrics to Carsie Blanton/The Burning Hell’s ‘Hoist That Guillotine’ without informing the boss what it’s about
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Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
End of an era: Guardian Jobs is closing. An oasis of faint hope since the university days I spent scouring the bulky print media edition and watching it mirror the Yellow Pages' journey to a slim pamphlet then an unwieldy website. It even got me the occasional interview in the early days.
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Simon Threadgold @sthreadgold.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I'm gonna write my own The Odyssey, with blackjack and hookers.
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Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
British actors in Ted Lasso now just blithely accepting the American pronunciation of ‘cliques’ now is it
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026
The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan
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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.
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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This needs to be a thing
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hear me out: The John F. Kennedy and Dolly Parton Memorial Center for the Performing Arts
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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There's obviously been some sort of mistake, hasn't there. Come on, get your coats on, we're going to go and get her back.
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Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Horrific that the Orange One outlives her; let's pay our respects by collectively ignoring whichever vile way he opts to make this one all about him. #dolly
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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh man. Room's suddenly got terribly dusty. I'm gone, I'm afraid.
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Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Mercifully killed on arrival
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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Precision matters, especially in headlines, especially on the BBC.
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Chris Orton @chriso1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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WooooOoOooOendy 👻 @wednesdaygj.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If you were excited to read this as a person who has suffered through this intense summer, don’t be: the answer is MONEY This person had enough money to completely - and I mean completely - gut their home and rebuild from the inside out.
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Den of Scholes @denofscholes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
”and it's Burchill 🏇🏽 coming around the bend, there's just a length between her and Maugham 🏇🏻 in this years Grade One Cunt Cup”
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Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Digging Kim Newman on accordion. Really wild, Kim! #proms #graceland
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