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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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MrPaulRobinson @mrpaulrobinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me reading your posts

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Prettiest pumpkin 2025 @wikihowtologout.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why the fuck is this man not in custody

Screenshot of Danny Tommo posting on X an hour ago "my thoughts on yesterday" with a video

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Hughstergeist @hughster.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

*Even GB News* was able to report this properly

GB News
Police launch probe into Danny Tommo after activist seen slashing dinghy in English Channel
3 hours ago

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

*sigh*

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

imagine if the WH press corp had banded together 18 fucking months ago

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Daryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 20/09/2026

It's mad that after everything, Ed Sheeran thinks it's a win to stand on stage and say he wants people who agree with genocide to be able to stand next to people who disagree with genocide, so they all can listen to his songs about love & unity. And by mad, I mean complicit. #FreePalestine

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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Seeing people's careers end on a massive round stadium screen in my new jam.

Ed Sheeran reading a pre-written statement about maybe perhaps possibly being wrong not to instinctively oppose children being murdered on a big round stadium screen.

The Coldplay shagger away-day couple on a big round stadium screen.

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Chris @basiclychris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not sure how long it’s been like this, but if you google it the first image you get features an edited sign reading ‘The World of Allegations’

A Google search result for ‘World of David Walliams’ - the first image shows the entrance, where the large sign has been edited to read “The World of Allegations”

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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's all on you, members of the British public, to solve the climate crisis, and I'm giving you 43p each to do so.

Headline: British people understand the climate crisis threat. Today I’m empowering them to tackle it - Andy Burnham

[Photo of Andy Burnham, a middle aged white man with brown hair wearing a black shirt]

Subhead: With nearly £30m of funding, I’m giving communities power over local energy. They know the gravity of global heating, and they want to be part of the solution

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

This is a tax guy. His advice could be the difference between someone having their assets seized & maybe going to jail, or not. Now imagine having to worry about racist shit in every interaction you have with any person in authority. Every doctor & nurse, every cop, every lawyer & judge, every boss

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 12/09/2026

Her team is responding solely because @lillywachowski.bsky.social is American and not subject to the draconian UK libel/slander laws. So they have to straight up lie about her £1 billion legal fund that exists solely to strip transgender people of their civil rights and silence Rowling's critics.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"One more thing Miss Barlow... you were about 14 in 2001, and you grew up in the UK, so why did they dismiss your school at noon on 9/11, when the attacks would have happened around 2 pm your time? I just don't understand how the school knew the attacks would be happening later"

Columbo (Peter Falk) asking one more question

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Berks of DeFrights...or Something. @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Mother is watching a very old episode of Location, Location, Location from that wearying period of TV and film where everything was shot like Paul Greengrass doing United 93. Zoom. Pullback. Zoom. Shaky shaky cinema verite.

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Richard Drew #MDANT @ourmanincairo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Want to know what I was doing in October 1994? , shooting this. One of my finest hours as an Art Director. It took ages to shoot, the crew ordered pizzas after the studio canteens had all shut.

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Buckle up for the DOOMSDAY press tour. Three months of absolute nonsense. Like 78 actors who aren't allowed to say anything and wouldn't know what to say even if they were, eating hot wings, playing with puppies, seeing if American snacks are better than British ones. No thoughts just vibes.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Why stand around waiting for him with the press there?

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Dr Sarah J Young @sarahjyoung.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“The Guardian sought to establish what was true. … the Guardian sought to meet tests of importance and proportionality, covering the issue with nuance.” So 20-odd articles before Arday’sdeath, several of them front page news, was proportional? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Guardian view on Jason Arday: a tragedy that demands reflection | Editorial

Editorial: Legitimate scrutiny became entangled with a racial argument about merit and diversity. His death raises questions about how society treats black success and failure

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

amazon being so secretive we gotta apple airtag a book shipment to see that they’re buying and destroying them for AI but also having this on the warehouse front door:

Symbol for Amazon’s VGT3 operation which depicts a T rex with its mouth open over an open booky

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas specials cancelled after star breaks jaw"

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Crossroads Christmas 1979

ALT: Crossroads Christmas 1979

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 20/02/2026

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

BROOKE GLADSTONE:
The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter -
PAUL McMULLAN:
Oh, yeah -
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- which is one case that you truly do regret.
PAUL McMULLAN:
I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station.
Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.

BROOKE GLADSTONE:
And you offered her 50 pounds -
PAUL MCMULLAN:
Yeah.
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- if she would come to your place and have sex. So you led her into prostitution, which she wasn't in that space for.
PAUL McMULLAN:
No, indeed. But she was in such a bad place that someone offering her 50 pounds for sex. I mean, that's five bags.

BROOKE GLADSTONE:
So how do you justify that? Yes, she was a drug addict, yes, she was begging. Why push her that extra step? Why take pictures of her topless?
PAUL McMULLAN:
I was keen. It was in my first year. I wanted to impress Piers Morgan, who was my boss at the time, and just wanted to say, not only have I caught this girl begging, but l've got pictures of her topless and I've got her offering me sex for 50 quid. How great am I?
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
This is a pretty dehumanizing enterprise, not just for Jennifer Elliott, but for you, yourself.
PAUL McMULLAN:
Yeah, that's why I feel terrible about it, not just 'cause she killed herself afterwards, but I, I actually liked her as a person.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The BBC has now had to revise this headline 3 times to try and get something approaching impartiality I am incredulous as to what is going on there

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 15/08/2026

We refuse to pay for more sewage in our rivers, hosepipe bans, service cuts, dividends and bonuses Andy Burnham must say no to any bill hike. IF private water companies can't survive without it, let them go bust 82% of us want public ownership of water. We've had enough of privatisation

"“If water companies cannot invest without raising our bills, they should be allowed to go bust and then taken into public ownership. The public has had enough of the rising bills, service cuts, hosepipe bans and sewage dumping. It is time for water to be taken into public ownership like 90% of the world.”

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Time and time again, I'm reminded of Phill Jupitus remarking almost twenty years ago that he had encountered individuals at the BBC who had clearly been sent in by outside parties to deliberately make 'mistakes'. He almost certainly meant Murdoch et al but it's evidently political parties too.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026

A former director of BBC News speaks:

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Funny to me that there are white professors at elite British universities out here straight up plagerizing and making up data yet they aren’t scrutinized. The idea that he was over-promoted when white ppl have been over-promoted as a standard reeks of racism The differences are astounding

From the Financial Times:
University of Cambridge
Cambridge professor remains in post despite plagiarism
History academic published an article containing large parts of essays copied from one of his students
Cambridge university professor Dr William O'Reilly. A university disciplinary tribunal ruled the plagiarism was the product of negligent acts but was not deliberate'

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Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Issues should not be "prosecuted" by publicly persecuting individuals like Prof Jason Arday (in ways never done to NT white men) or Chris Packham (questioning his autism diagnosis). Media & powerful individuals pile on specific ppl to push their deadly+ anti-DEI, anti-academia, anti-autism+ agendas+

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 15/08/2026

For some reason I'm reminded of Rosenberg defense attorney Manny Bloch asking David Greenglass, as Greenglass paved the way for his sister's execution, "Are you aware that you are smiling?"

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

can't believe they call them baby potatoes when petitoes is right there

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 15/08/2026

I've long used the notion of the Bay-Herzog scale to talk about this with students. On one side is Bay. A lot happens on screen but little happens in the viewer. On the other side is Herzog. Little happens on screen, but the view is the site of fundamental change.

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"It's actually you proles who are too blame, as I float blameless and morally superior above absolutely everyone else." God she pisses me off.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I think it’s just worth remembering that as the media handwring to justify publicly humiliating and hounding a man to death, just two weeks ago they gave glowing eulogies to another man with a history of domestic violence and brushed off his own statements about having pedophillic impulses

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I don’t think the old excuse that it’s what the public are baying for holds water: they do this stuff because they want to, and because they enjoy doing it. And if a section of the public does want racist all-media hate jihads against minor public figures, I suggest they shouldn’t be pandered to.

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I'm going to need stats to back this up - did the articles about Arday do such incredible numbers that the papers would be in breach of fiduciary duty if they didn't keep publishing them? Was the public just slathering for new revelations in 'guy-lost-his-job-gate'?

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This Morecambe and Wise retrospective is a bit bleak.

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Journalists today.

Hotdog guy 'we're all looking for the person who did this' meme

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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 14/08/2026

I know you all hate the emergency alert about disposable barbeques. But yesterday I watched a man at our hotel breakfast set fire to a toaster by trying to toast a croissant - despite multiple signs telling him not to. Today he tried again. So, you know, calibrate for the average person.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 15/08/2026

can this finally be the end of people pretending Helen Lewis has ever said anything of value she’s a transphobe and a racist and no amount of anti-Trump “feminist” pieces will ever absolve her of the violence she has directly and indirectly contributed to

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Super important to learn precisely NO lessons in how situations like this should be handled and at no point exercise any perspective or humanity.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 15/08/2026

Stephen Ambrose, military historian whose work inspired Saving Private Ryan and were adapted as Band of Brothers, lifted sections of his book Wild Blue from other books without acknowledgment. He was white.

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Martin Headon @martinheadon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Well. Glad you had your fun, I guess.

Sonia Sodha post on X: A lot of chin-stroking over on BlueSky about why there's so much interest in the Arday story. It's because it beautifully and hilariously exposes the intellectual dishonesty of your worldview guys, of course you don't get it! 🤪

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