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William French

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Head of Communications at @theelders.bsky.social. Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before. 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇪🇺

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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 3h
Unironically agree.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 3h
Crumpets here too. Le goût de la victoire!
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 4h
Genuine feelings of national pride here.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 6h
The decline of Newsnight, at a time when we need detailed and decent investigative and foreign reporting more than ever, is so depressing. Marshall is more than an ex singer. He’s Paul Marshall’s son - of GB News, Unherd, Speccie - & is on ARC Forum advisory board
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 18h
Paving the way for a new podcast with Liz Truss.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 23h
Oh the delights of the digital realm. Bon weekend à toi aussi!
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 23h
Two nations divided by a common language.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Meet The Rooneys, with Wayne, Colleen, Cousin Sally (if she can ever get her head out of a buke) and Mad Uncle Mickey.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"Décrivant l’Ukraine comme « un allié qui donne bien plus qu’il ne reçoit », il a souligné l’évolution des échanges militaires : « Nous sommes passés d’une phase où nous formions les Ukrainiens à une où les Ukrainiens nous forment. »" Bien dit.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
40 years ago I remember watching a Newsround episode about the Ariane rocket programme and thought "that looks cool, who needs Cape Canaveral"? Plus ça change...
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Guaranteed to make GB News viewers' heads explode in a fit of cognitive dissonance. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Milei adviser claims UK being ‘colonised by Islam’ as Falklands row grows
Santiago Caputo cites election of Sagal Abdi-Wali as MP and calls UK a threat to the west in post shared by Argentina’s president
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Pining for the good old days of "No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish" eh.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
For fans of BBC arts documentaries from the 70s and 80s in particular.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I went to the theatre in Stockholm once (admittedly using my NUJ card to blag a cheap ticket) and a beer at the interval was three times the price. Still felt better vfm than any West End theatre bar.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
When I was at university, the urban myth was that the RCP gave its new recruits a clothing allowance so they could look authentically prole-y (while keeping their dinner jackets & gowns in reserve for the college ball bien sûr). The struggle takes many forms.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I've always enjoyed films of Ishiguro novels better than the books. But you've also reminded me of the toe-curlingly bad adaptation of The Human Stain with Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman...
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Haven't read the article, but the headline looks more like something Irvine Welsh might have written for Mixmag in 1997 (or a joke on Blockbusters) rather than the FT.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Just don't tell anyone about Franciacorta.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"There has not been, and doubtless will not be, one word of regret, apology or shame from this man to at least provide his victims with some crumb of comfort.” But will angry mobs take to the streets to "protect our women", or is that only if dark-skinned people in NI are accused of sexual assault?
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
LOOK ACTUAL GOOD NEWS
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Feel a lot of pride about the way Britain has responded to Trump's attacks on Ukraine, repeatedly launching big symbolic demonstrations of solidarity when things are at their most tenuous.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
And here he is.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Dear God this is foul. #Content über alles...
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Thanks for the review. Arcola's a great little theatre.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
When I was researching my family history, I learned that my grandmother's grandfather was deported and died there in the early 40s. There's v belatedly now a memorial to the Gurs victims in his hometown of Freiburg. The play looks... merkwürdig. www.freiburg.de/pb/2655154.h...
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Gedenken am Jahrestag der Deportation nach Gurs
Der 22. Oktober 1940 war der letzte Tag des jüdischen Laubhüttenfestes (hebräisch: Sukkot). In einer konzertierten Aktion der nationalsozialistischen Gauleiter wurden an diesem Tag über 6500 jüdische ...
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"Many falsehoods were propagated in the referendum campaign, but none greater than the leavers’ boasts of patriotism, when their agenda was certain to make Britain poorer and weaker." Well said, @rafaelbehr.bsky.social. Mieux vaut tard que jamais from the PM, too. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Brexiters can’t cope with the fact that Putin was cheering them on | Rafael Behr
Russian meddling probably didn’t affect the referendum result – but the Kremlin’s motives for wanting to undermine the EU still matter, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Depends what you mean by "big" but the General Strike is now closer than the Wall Street Crash for me.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Gnus of Navarone.
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Michela Wrong @michelawrong.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Joseph Kabila playing the same role as his father Laurent, providing Congolese cover for Rwanda's annexation of eastern DRC... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Joseph Kabila: DR Congo ex-president named leader of new M23 rebel coalition
Joseph Kabila had previously denied having links to the M23 rebels, which control much of eastern DR Congo.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Weirdly enough the first one I went to was in Geneva, 20 years ago. Felt a bit like sending coals to Newcastle, but did have the benefit of being willing to serve you lunch after 2 pm unlike pretty much anywhere else apart from kebab stands.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
What a foul and cynical debasement of the public realm.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A review of Mr. Tickle that does not highlight the greatest moment in all English literature -- his ability to reach downstairs and get a biscuit out of the biscuit tin WITHOUT GETTING OUT OF BED -- is not worthy of the name.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
What an insane story. Key line: "Despite retiring on a generous state pension of €11,000 a month... Hanning set his sights on making money in the private sector." The fall of Germany’s ex-spymaster - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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The fall of Germany’s ex-spymaster
August Hanning is accused of having illegally purchased state secrets for over a decade
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The correct response to this would be to make all the evidence used to draw the conclusion public, then challenge Farage to respond, otherwise people will just pick their opinions on the matter based purely on who they trust.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Not a bad birthday treat!
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Pots and kettles update.
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How I long for the day we focus on the female winner rather than the big male loser #holborn
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just finished Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck; familiar territory of "things fall apart", collapse of DDR mirrored in abusive love affair, but told from a refreshing feminist perspective rather than the usual male voyeuristic gaze. Can't help but wonder which of the book's characters would now vote AfD...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Britain's ultra-Far Left have always been, and will always be, only that which they are:
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
South African judge Navi Pillay - who headed a UN commission that last year found Israel was committing a genocide in Gaza - has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel committee hailed her as "one of the most respected international jurists of our time."
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I just hear the old Primal Scream song: "Polanski, vanishing point..." (Surely someone must do a Bust Flush headline too?)
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Foul barbarism, the logic of the lynch mob. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"ChatGPT, write me a grotesque parody of Philip Larkin." "Coming right up, master."
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Roland Rat, Shergar, Feathers McGraw and the elephant that relieved itself in the Blue Peter studio.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ach, that's rubbish.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bloody hell.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I based one of my A Level French papers on this text. (Pretentious? Moi?)
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Phew, that's alright then.
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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Explains why Telly Savalas was such a fan, perhaps. www.dailymotion.com/video/x8ar18m
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Telly Savalas - aka Kojak - looks at Birmingham in 1981 - video Dailymotion
Telly Savalas - aka Kojak - looks at Birmingham in 1981
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