Alistair King
@alistairking.bsky.social
If you’d be my bodyguard, I can be your long-lost pal.
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Alistair King
@alistairking.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Nice to see my follower count rise. My policy is to follow back people I know from elsewhere and generally follow others after there's been a bit of interaction. If I haven't followed you back despite knowing you, it's probably because you're using a different photo. Just like this and I'll rectify.
***A CALL FOR HELP***
While a startup I'm involved in trundles on, I need to up my freelance work.
Does anyone have anything? I can provide content marketing strategy, content writing (copy, blog posts, white papers etc), proof-reading and copyediting, and even admin if needed.
(My DMs are open.)
While a startup I'm involved in trundles on, I need to up my freelance work.
Does anyone have anything? I can provide content marketing strategy, content writing (copy, blog posts, white papers etc), proof-reading and copyediting, and even admin if needed.
(My DMs are open.)
www.linkedin.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:22 AM
***A CALL FOR HELP***
While a startup I'm involved in trundles on, I need to up my freelance work.
Does anyone have anything? I can provide content marketing strategy, content writing (copy, blog posts, white papers etc), proof-reading and copyediting, and even admin if needed.
(My DMs are open.)
While a startup I'm involved in trundles on, I need to up my freelance work.
Does anyone have anything? I can provide content marketing strategy, content writing (copy, blog posts, white papers etc), proof-reading and copyediting, and even admin if needed.
(My DMs are open.)
Don’t mind me, I’m just fitting a new mega-server into Wikipedia HQ so there’s capacity to update the scandals section for Peter Mandelson.
February 2, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Don’t mind me, I’m just fitting a new mega-server into Wikipedia HQ so there’s capacity to update the scandals section for Peter Mandelson.
Reposted by Alistair King
Mandelson resigning now to 'save embarrassment' is like me suddenly remembering that I should tell my partner "I'm keeping the baby" on my way to taking the child to school lol
February 2, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Mandelson resigning now to 'save embarrassment' is like me suddenly remembering that I should tell my partner "I'm keeping the baby" on my way to taking the child to school lol
You just KNOW that a vox poper who says “I haven’t got trust in any of them whatsoever” will somehow still find themselves voting, and voting for Reform, don’t you? #r4today
February 2, 2026 at 8:39 AM
You just KNOW that a vox poper who says “I haven’t got trust in any of them whatsoever” will somehow still find themselves voting, and voting for Reform, don’t you? #r4today
Feeling spoilt by #r4today’s vox pops in Gorton and Denton. Thanks, guys. 💕
February 2, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Feeling spoilt by #r4today’s vox pops in Gorton and Denton. Thanks, guys. 💕
Home after six hours minus three coffee break stops probably totally about 25 minutes.
30,500 steps, 15 miles, five boroughs, zero blisters.
30,500 steps, 15 miles, five boroughs, zero blisters.
Going on a very long walk to clear my head.
Let me know if you need anything from Muswell Hill, Friern Barnet, North Finchley, East Finchley, Hampstead, Gospel Oak, Archway, Crouch End or Hornsey, although bear in mind I’m only taking a small rucksack and it’s got three huge flasks of coffee in it.
Let me know if you need anything from Muswell Hill, Friern Barnet, North Finchley, East Finchley, Hampstead, Gospel Oak, Archway, Crouch End or Hornsey, although bear in mind I’m only taking a small rucksack and it’s got three huge flasks of coffee in it.
February 1, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Home after six hours minus three coffee break stops probably totally about 25 minutes.
30,500 steps, 15 miles, five boroughs, zero blisters.
30,500 steps, 15 miles, five boroughs, zero blisters.
I’m not sure enough thought was put into how this name could be mispronounced.
February 1, 2026 at 2:56 PM
I’m not sure enough thought was put into how this name could be mispronounced.
Great Aunt (Your loved one)’s graveside flower thing has arrived. God rest her soul.
February 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Great Aunt (Your loved one)’s graveside flower thing has arrived. God rest her soul.
Help, I have a marketing problem. I’ve started a company called ‘Better No Junk Mail Signs For Your Front Door (signage, London) Ltd’ and our main way of promoting ourselves is with hand-delivered leaflets but, now I think about it, we might be missing out on getting through to our core demographic.
February 1, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Help, I have a marketing problem. I’ve started a company called ‘Better No Junk Mail Signs For Your Front Door (signage, London) Ltd’ and our main way of promoting ourselves is with hand-delivered leaflets but, now I think about it, we might be missing out on getting through to our core demographic.
Surely no one’s mouth is that big.
February 1, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Surely no one’s mouth is that big.
Going on a very long walk to clear my head.
Let me know if you need anything from Muswell Hill, Friern Barnet, North Finchley, East Finchley, Hampstead, Gospel Oak, Archway, Crouch End or Hornsey, although bear in mind I’m only taking a small rucksack and it’s got three huge flasks of coffee in it.
Let me know if you need anything from Muswell Hill, Friern Barnet, North Finchley, East Finchley, Hampstead, Gospel Oak, Archway, Crouch End or Hornsey, although bear in mind I’m only taking a small rucksack and it’s got three huge flasks of coffee in it.
February 1, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Going on a very long walk to clear my head.
Let me know if you need anything from Muswell Hill, Friern Barnet, North Finchley, East Finchley, Hampstead, Gospel Oak, Archway, Crouch End or Hornsey, although bear in mind I’m only taking a small rucksack and it’s got three huge flasks of coffee in it.
Let me know if you need anything from Muswell Hill, Friern Barnet, North Finchley, East Finchley, Hampstead, Gospel Oak, Archway, Crouch End or Hornsey, although bear in mind I’m only taking a small rucksack and it’s got three huge flasks of coffee in it.
Feeling a bit nihilistic and have the urge to see how many random LinkedIn posts I can reply to with “Wise words, mate” before I’m pulled up on it in some way.
January 31, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Feeling a bit nihilistic and have the urge to see how many random LinkedIn posts I can reply to with “Wise words, mate” before I’m pulled up on it in some way.
Finally! The signed portrait of Brexit-supporting England goalkeeper Peter Shilton I’ve been hoping to stumble on for MONTHS. And it’s in our local charity shop. It’ll take pride of place next to my life-size cardboard cutout of Lord Botham.
January 31, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Finally! The signed portrait of Brexit-supporting England goalkeeper Peter Shilton I’ve been hoping to stumble on for MONTHS. And it’s in our local charity shop. It’ll take pride of place next to my life-size cardboard cutout of Lord Botham.
I read this interview with Mackenzie Crook yesterday and my mind keeps returning to this observation of his: “Everything seems to have been 20 years ago.”
So depressing. So true.
So depressing. So true.
‘Watching The Office recently, my heart just sank’ – Mackenzie Crook on comedy, cruelty and being TV royalty
After a very hard landing into fame in the 00s, he decided to take a softer approach – and hit on a winning formula for classic comedy. The star talks about his fantastical new show Small Prophets, hi...
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 3:23 PM
I read this interview with Mackenzie Crook yesterday and my mind keeps returning to this observation of his: “Everything seems to have been 20 years ago.”
So depressing. So true.
So depressing. So true.
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The thing about Epstein is that it seems that everyone who spent any time with him MUST have been aware of all the young women that surrounded and were associated with him.
The trouble is, though, there’s a superficial plausible deniability. “Oh, that’s just Jeffrey,” you can hear them saying.
The thing about Epstein is that it seems that everyone who spent any time with him MUST have been aware of all the young women that surrounded and were associated with him.
The trouble is, though, there’s a superficial plausible deniability. “Oh, that’s just Jeffrey,” you can hear them saying.
January 31, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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The thing about Epstein is that it seems that everyone who spent any time with him MUST have been aware of all the young women that surrounded and were associated with him.
The trouble is, though, there’s a superficial plausible deniability. “Oh, that’s just Jeffrey,” you can hear them saying.
The thing about Epstein is that it seems that everyone who spent any time with him MUST have been aware of all the young women that surrounded and were associated with him.
The trouble is, though, there’s a superficial plausible deniability. “Oh, that’s just Jeffrey,” you can hear them saying.
Cryptic crosswords demonstrate brilliantly how you can get through much of life by retaining not nothing but just the slimmest superficial memories of school.
Minute Cryptic - 31 January, 2026
"Plain, unsalted barnacle" (4)
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🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (60,870 solvers so far).
Minute Cryptic - 31 January, 2026
"Plain, unsalted barnacle" (4)
🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (60,870 solvers so far).
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January 31, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Cryptic crosswords demonstrate brilliantly how you can get through much of life by retaining not nothing but just the slimmest superficial memories of school.
Minute Cryptic - 31 January, 2026
"Plain, unsalted barnacle" (4)
🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (60,870 solvers so far).
Minute Cryptic - 31 January, 2026
"Plain, unsalted barnacle" (4)
🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (60,870 solvers so far).
Radio 4 newsreaders: for the next ten years or so, please refer to ‘Queen Camilla’ in the first instance rather than ‘the queen’; the latter is discombobulating, and I can’t be alone in taking a few moments to reset my brain, which is left thinking ‘hang on, the queen’s dead’. Wait till 2036, maybe.
January 30, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Radio 4 newsreaders: for the next ten years or so, please refer to ‘Queen Camilla’ in the first instance rather than ‘the queen’; the latter is discombobulating, and I can’t be alone in taking a few moments to reset my brain, which is left thinking ‘hang on, the queen’s dead’. Wait till 2036, maybe.
Oh no! And I’d been meaning to seek out and follow this quality account.
January 30, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Oh no! And I’d been meaning to seek out and follow this quality account.
The dangerous, rabble-rousing, right-wing gobshite, who dabbles in fringe politics that appeal to thugs because it's the only way he can stay relevant, is reported to have welcomed Robinson's support.
Labour accuses Reform candidate of ‘toxic politics’ after Tommy Robinson endorsement
Far-right activist tells 1.8m X followers to ‘Vote for Matt’, referring to Reform UK’s Gorton and Denton candidate Matthew Goodwin
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:29 PM
The dangerous, rabble-rousing, right-wing gobshite, who dabbles in fringe politics that appeal to thugs because it's the only way he can stay relevant, is reported to have welcomed Robinson's support.
Upsets a male in cinema nightmare (7)
#IfFilmReviewsWereCrosswordClues
(Haven’t seen it and don’t intend to, by the way, but I’m sure this is an accurate assessment.)
#IfFilmReviewsWereCrosswordClues
(Haven’t seen it and don’t intend to, by the way, but I’m sure this is an accurate assessment.)
January 30, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Upsets a male in cinema nightmare (7)
#IfFilmReviewsWereCrosswordClues
(Haven’t seen it and don’t intend to, by the way, but I’m sure this is an accurate assessment.)
#IfFilmReviewsWereCrosswordClues
(Haven’t seen it and don’t intend to, by the way, but I’m sure this is an accurate assessment.)
Minute Cryptic - 30 January, 2026
"Fig 'n' ram!" (5,7)
🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
🏆 0 hints – 6 under the community par (42,173 solvers so far).
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January 30, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Minute Cryptic - 30 January, 2026
"Fig 'n' ram!" (5,7)
🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
🏆 0 hints – 6 under the community par (42,173 solvers so far).
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‘First crewed mission to the moon…’
Anyone else take half a second to process that Anna Foster on #r4today just now said ‘crewed’, not ‘crude’?
Anyone else take half a second to process that Anna Foster on #r4today just now said ‘crewed’, not ‘crude’?
January 30, 2026 at 7:49 AM
‘First crewed mission to the moon…’
Anyone else take half a second to process that Anna Foster on #r4today just now said ‘crewed’, not ‘crude’?
Anyone else take half a second to process that Anna Foster on #r4today just now said ‘crewed’, not ‘crude’?
Everyone's laying into guy - and, tbh, I can see why. What a twit.
Also, I know his style is 'high-energy scattergun list that's just separated by commas and without an "and" before the last item' but I'm enjoying reading 'and eggs' as though it IS a final item, rather than attached to 'eat steak'.
Also, I know his style is 'high-energy scattergun list that's just separated by commas and without an "and" before the last item' but I'm enjoying reading 'and eggs' as though it IS a final item, rather than attached to 'eat steak'.
January 29, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Everyone's laying into guy - and, tbh, I can see why. What a twit.
Also, I know his style is 'high-energy scattergun list that's just separated by commas and without an "and" before the last item' but I'm enjoying reading 'and eggs' as though it IS a final item, rather than attached to 'eat steak'.
Also, I know his style is 'high-energy scattergun list that's just separated by commas and without an "and" before the last item' but I'm enjoying reading 'and eggs' as though it IS a final item, rather than attached to 'eat steak'.
Gorton and Denton in the tarmac in Muswell Hill. Probably a sign of some sort.
Unless it’s Australia. Or possibly Guinea.
Unless it’s Australia. Or possibly Guinea.
January 29, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Gorton and Denton in the tarmac in Muswell Hill. Probably a sign of some sort.
Unless it’s Australia. Or possibly Guinea.
Unless it’s Australia. Or possibly Guinea.
Aldi own-brand tampons. Hats off to their branding team: this is a clever product name.
January 29, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Aldi own-brand tampons. Hats off to their branding team: this is a clever product name.