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Andrew Hunter Murray @andrewhunterm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Improved version of this headline: FOSSIL FUELS RISK YOUR LIFE, YOUR HOME AND YOUR PLANET

Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

An excellent article, and I agree with pretty much every word. For my money, it's a contender for the greatest British crime series ever, because of the way real historical detail is seamlessly woven into the plots.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

On the podcast The Rest is Entertainment, Richard Osman and Marina Hyde usually sign off the Thursday edition by saying "See you next Tuesday". I've often wondered if they're trolling the listeners, and daring anyone to pick them up on it.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

My dad knew Peter Butterworth during the war, as a fellow POW in Stalag Luft III. My family have got programmes from shows staged in the camp featuring Butterworth and future Carry On writer Talbot Rothwell. It's odd to think that so much silliness came out of that dark time.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

7 for me too, going back to Duncan Welbourne. I'll be impressed if anyone reading this can make it to double figures.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

It's also famous among Bruce Springsteen fans as the pub where he sang karaoke while he was over here on tour in 1993: rocknrollroutemaster.com/2015/11/19/a...

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

That used to be my local when I lived in Finsbury Park. I believe it really was a dairy once upon a time. Nice pub.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Given that two consecutive head coaches have been reluctant to give Baah significant time on the pitch, I think it's fair to assume the problem is with him, not them.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I'm sure you didn't mean to do this, but the way the pics are cropped in the preview image (on my browser, at least) means that Ms Kendal's face is only visible in one. Two focus on her breasts and one on her legs - which, ironically, may reflect the way a lot of men in the 70s thought of her.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Love this from Humanists UK. #Thatshumanism is the perfect introduction to the humanist approach to life, featuring four animations narrated by Stephen Fry, and brand new posters all about humanism for schools. humanists.uk/thatshumanism/

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That's humanism!

We've teamed up with our patron Stephen Fry, to explore humanist ideas about some of life’s big questions in four animated shorts.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I spent a day at a Headingley Test on the Western Terrace once. It was fun for a couple of hours, but by mid-afternoon, most of my neighbours were more interested in the beer snakes than the magnificent century Joe Root was compiling.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Yay! Unlike TOTP episodes, I clearly remember sitting down to watch this in the TV room at college.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

For what it's worth, I was there, and I laughed.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I spotted this too - it’s a disgrace. Part of the essence of being a football fan is having a matchday routine that barely changes from year to year. Now we have to rethink it every sodding week.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Join me and tell Chancellor Rachel Reeves: no more airport expansion while we’re in a climate emergency 🚨🌎 @friends-earth.bsky.social 👇

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

If you're into poetry, check out a new translation of Jürgen Becker's 'Dressels Garten' by my talented friend mcrucefix.bsky.social - with a bonus reading of a section of the original German by yours truly: www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/dress...

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Dressel’s Garden - Asymptote

You can be sure: a picture postcard is not enoughto disentangle the background to the imagefor a visitor, perhaps, who looks beyond the staircasefor a few motifs. After all, it’s not yeta comple...

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

These have arrived! - the finished, hardback copies of a little book I've written about the joyfully unpredictable experience of producing Father Ted. Publication is Feb 20th but I'd like to give away two copies early - RT by Saturday 6pm and my dog Watson will pick the winners.

The front cover of 'Picnic on Craggy Island, the surreal joys of producing Father Ted', illustrated with snapshots of the filming of 'Father Ted'

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

You guys were absolutely on it that night at 229 and you played all my favourite Long Ryders songs (well, apart from 10-5-60, but that was always going to be a very long shot). Good venue, too, even if they did pretty much run out of beer!

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

No need to apologise. Well, apart from making me read Julie Burchill... 😀

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Wrong link, I assume - this is a Julie Burchill article from 2016 where she manages to completely overlook HMHB's joy in the minutiae of life and portrays Nigel purely as a class warrior.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

My top 5 gigs of 2024: 1) The Long Ryders (229) 2) Police Dog Hogan (Half Moon) 3) Bruce Springsteen (Cork) 4) Sons Of Town Hall (St Pancras Old Church) 5) The Hanging Stars (Jazz Cafe) @sidthesquid.bsky.social @policedoghogan.bsky.social @officialbruce.bsky.social @thehangingstars.bsky.social

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

You can see why he and Elton made such a good team. They've both got a sense of humour - much influenced by the Goons, I would say, especially in Elton's case - but GT is a little more serious when he needs to be.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

To be fair, he does look about 16. I'm surprised he was old enough to drive that Rover 2000. Being a speedway fan is very 70s, though I don't know where he'd have gone to watch it live. White City, maybe?

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

An odd one, this, quite apart from the mufti (nice chunky-knit sweater, btw). Why did they ask him his occupation? What did they think he was going to say? Also, someone needed to explain to him that he could play at Wembley, or in Division 1, but not both at the same time.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I always liked Bobby, and the fact that his answer to the 'Hobbies' question is exactly what I'd have said at that time makes me warm to him even more.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

His profile picture suggests an entertainer too, rather than a footballer. Why wasn't he photographed in his Watford kit? Another vote for duckling as favourite food, I note. Different times.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Of course - I did know that. Any others?

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I didn't know he'd played in a European club competition while at Spurs. That must have made him unusual, if not unique, among Watford players in the 70s.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Presumably, many reading his professional ambition would have thought, "Fat chance" – but he only went and did it.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Oddly, I have no memory of seeing him play, even though he made more than 70 appearances at a time when I was going to the Vic fairly regularly, if not every game.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

That's an, um, interesting choice – like one of today's players wanting to meet Vladimir Putin, say. But I seem to remember that Amin was often portrayed as a figure of fun in Britain in the 70s, so maybe that caricature was who Laurie had in mind.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Another one whose favourite food is duck. I wonder if any footballer would give that answer today? Presumably this was the heyday of duck a l'orange being the sort of thing you'd order in a fancy restaurant, and thus a sign that you'd made it.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Poor old Arthur. One thing I learned from 'Champions' was that Ken Furphy considered signing him from Middlesbrough in 1966 along with Terry Garbett, but he wasn't available. Maybe we'd have got a better version of Arthur if we'd had him 10 years earlier.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Was this questionnaire pre-GT? If so, you've got a point. When I was too young to go to footy on my own, my dad used to take me, and had a very low opinion of Ross. For years afterwards, he was incredulous whenever I raved about Ross's latest feats.

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Tim Turner @timturner.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I love these questionnaires. 'Favourite food: Meat'. Care to be more specific, Ross?

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