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Will Cooling

@willcooling.bsky.social
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Writes & Hosts the It Could Be Said substack & podcast; itcouldbesaid.substack.com Has contributed to a variety of outlets on politics, sport or pop culture Contact email is w.cooling[at]gmail.com All opinions his own & not of any employer

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 9h
Oh my giddy aunt - looks like De Gaulle Resistance and Liberte may becoming out on digital this after all From the advert for what I persume is the American release
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 10h
Not showing the whole thread becsuse the rest is reasonable and don't want to start a pile-on, but this screams of finding a reason to be mad at people. The reason people say "Jewish person/people" is they have been taught that bluntly saying "Jew/Jews" was what racists do, a la saying "the Blacks"
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Look at the difference between Gordon Brown when he's an active politician engaging with English footballers and when he's retired watching an England game
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I am once again asking you to recognise that Britain just simply isn't European
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't think left of centre opinion has fully internalised how discrediting to statism, nonsense like this is. Real people's lives have been ruined by skittish politicians acting like God. No way to run a piss-up in a brewery, let alone a vital public service
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We go live to David Ellison
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cool idea but when do I get my De Gaulle double bill followed by a Julian Jackson book club!!!
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We must stop Putin's anti-LGBTQ+ agenda! .... What do you mean it's referring to the animal!?!
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The dream response to Abu Dhabi's nonsense
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin emergency podcast on Man City"
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I can live with that
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing I hadn't picked up before is the very clear influence The Troubles in Northern Ireland had on how Wagner wrote about Total War and the Judges's response
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great sly joke that America is such a faded memory in Mega City One that a Judge assumes control would need it spelling out
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Give me your most French line ever.... No, that's too French!
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And his most recent article on immigration was attacking efforts to gut Visa programs
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If we end up with Labour having to do a LibDem, Green, Nationalist Coalition that will surely be proof that 2010 not 2016 was the sliding doors moment in British politics
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stephen to his slightly older mentions this afternoon
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Erm.....
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
More regulation with a side helping of racism...
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Okay this is the one that cuts deepest
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Not sure which of these lists it's weirder for me to be on; I've never consumed any Harry Potter media and now ban my kids from doing so for political reasons, and I've pretty much opposed every Western military intervention in the past 30 years
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Andy Burnham right now
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
1. I knew the West Midlands owed us East Midlanders reparations 2. As someone who has since 2008 lived in the West Midlands for all but three years, do I recieve or contribute to them?
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Don't all do-gooders do this to the people they do-good at?
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Did not expect @jonnelledge.bsky.social to reference the park next to my flat
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Should probably give y'all a photo
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Pretty sure Brexiters alignment with Trump et al is a bigger problem for Brexit than not securing a fake/bad free trade deal with America
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
He's calmed down a lot lately, but every now and again, he shows the game that made him an all-time great wind-up merchant.
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Okay that's it. Human civilisation was a mistake.
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I don't want to be all "That's Devolved" but on what planet are the Greens ahead of the SNP, Plaid and Sinn Fein in the major party stakes? And you can't even say they contest all of Great Britain unlike those parties, because the party Polanski leads is limited to England and Walles.
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The OG White Yardie lol (This was 29 years ago btw - which underlines just how weird trying trying ti make carnival a wedge issue is)
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Labour nerds
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I really dislike this (very common) slight of hand. A company's annual turnover should be compared to a country's GDP because they're both measurements of annual capacity. That gives you a better sense of how much bigger countries still i.e. Nivida's turnover is 0.03% of Germany's GDP
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
No - but this one might itcouldbesaid.substack.com/p/it-could-b...
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Coquelicot Bakers Oven
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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