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What has Price done to deserve this? No one should be made to go through this

Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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RIP George Fenton, forget the prestigous movie themes and Oscar nominations. You gave us moody guitar noodling and accordians as our sunday evening soundtrack. youtu.be/1y5E63jGT2I?...

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Bergerac theme

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might have to do the late bulletin though, not sure she'd fit a pre-watershed slot

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Monday afternoon depravity with a preview of the restored cut of The Devils. Looking glorious on the big screen. Climactic literal boning aside, I became fixated on what Ken put Vanessa Redgrave through to achieve a realistic 90-ish degree head angle for all her scenes

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The Guide #263: How Claudia Winkleman became TV’s perfect ‘bad’ gameshow host

Odd omission in this article: it characterises Paxman and Ann Robinson as ushering in an era of 'bad' quiz show hosts without mentioning that both of their successors are among this year's Celebrity Traitors cohort www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

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In this week’s newsletter: As The Celebrity Traitors returns, Winkleman once again proves herself the show’s secret weapon, becoming heir to a distinctly British TV tradition

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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The AI industry continues to be trapped in an endless panicky improv game, where they have to think up new uses for the humorously pointless object they’ve been given.

Whose line is it anyway. Stiles and mocherie play an improv game with a big white foam object

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Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Totally. He was fantastic on Last One Laughing UK

Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have not encountered any of those three in my dealings with it. It still feels friendly. Where’s all the bad stuff hiding?

Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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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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Jaundiced Brains @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

It’s a perfect format. I particularly enjoy hearing him struggle with how to react to hearing the answers to the duller questions from the audience

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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 · 23/09/2026

Appalling grammar use on that fake newsstand sign

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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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Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This also affected the new Larry David series. The sketches were interminable because they had to justify the spend. No room for a quick gag and out when you’ve paid for the costumes and extras. Might have been better to do running gags in the settings throughout the series à la Horrible Histories

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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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Ball now in Burnham’s court to drop in a line about breaking down these government walls

Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026

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Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses

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surely an equally unimaginative 80s-influenced band has shat out Stop Making Senses Work Overtime by now

Chris Ashworth-Bennion @chrisabennion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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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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brace yourself, it's quite the ride. Best show of 2025

absolutely. And batshit HBO show The Chair Company getting nominated for writing and directing was particularly welcome, even if it was overlooked elsewhere. Joseph Tudisco should have been recognised for his commitment to a truly unhinged supporting role.

Clinic · You and I · Song · 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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You and I

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

Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

watched Penda's Fen (BBC1, 1973) on BBC4 this week and its depiction of the 17 year old main character's homoerotic dream about his classmate was, while not explicit, very suggestive for a mainstream channel at the time

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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

Must be hard to plan and act around a big guest name/ego. Looking forward to Jamie D

Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

An uncanny Toast/Brian Butterfield hybrid

Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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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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Robin Parker @robinparker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There’s at least an ITV two-parter in that. If he’d killed her, Jeff Pope would’ve been right on it

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Btw have you heard the excellent new ep of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social in which Samira Ahmed waxes lyrical about Dread Poets Society?

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Hell yeah. Hell yeah brother. Here we go. Hit me with this content. Hell yeah. I can feel it.

Lewis Page
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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it's rated 12 on DVD. Would've right messed up my nut at that age

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

well I'd never seen that before and had no real inkling of what it was going to be about beyond 'folk horror'. What a strange and wonderful thing it is. Ditto, Stephen's magnificent barnet.

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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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