Colin Hazelden
@colinhazeldentv.bsky.social
BBC Presenter (East Midlands Today, Sport) and Journalist. Chairboy. Speaker and MC.
Books, comics, politics, environment, dreams of epic train trips.
Books, comics, politics, environment, dreams of epic train trips.
Hang it in the … oh, wait
November 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Hang it in the … oh, wait
Over the moon there’s new Lily Allen music out of such high quality. Sad for her it comes from such a place of pain and rage. But it really is an amazing album!
October 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Over the moon there’s new Lily Allen music out of such high quality. Sad for her it comes from such a place of pain and rage. But it really is an amazing album!
Oh my, @bexhb.bsky.social , can you imagine?!
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Oh my, @bexhb.bsky.social , can you imagine?!
@martinm-media.bsky.social This thread might as well have been written just for you (poor Louise!)
approximately three hundred of you have sent me this and you know what? Sure. I’ve got time today. Put 40 bulbs of garlic in my pasta, coming right up
September 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
@martinm-media.bsky.social This thread might as well have been written just for you (poor Louise!)
Reposted by Colin Hazelden
1. INT. SHOP - EVENING
Darkened shop interior, moonlight-lit. The Most Important, Beautiful, Magical, Saggy Old Cloth Cat in the Whole, Wide World sleeps, quietly snoring. His eyes dart open, upon the silhouette of a stranger.
They step into the light. It's Mr Benn.
"I'm putting a team together."
Darkened shop interior, moonlight-lit. The Most Important, Beautiful, Magical, Saggy Old Cloth Cat in the Whole, Wide World sleeps, quietly snoring. His eyes dart open, upon the silhouette of a stranger.
They step into the light. It's Mr Benn.
"I'm putting a team together."
September 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
1. INT. SHOP - EVENING
Darkened shop interior, moonlight-lit. The Most Important, Beautiful, Magical, Saggy Old Cloth Cat in the Whole, Wide World sleeps, quietly snoring. His eyes dart open, upon the silhouette of a stranger.
They step into the light. It's Mr Benn.
"I'm putting a team together."
Darkened shop interior, moonlight-lit. The Most Important, Beautiful, Magical, Saggy Old Cloth Cat in the Whole, Wide World sleeps, quietly snoring. His eyes dart open, upon the silhouette of a stranger.
They step into the light. It's Mr Benn.
"I'm putting a team together."
Here - just take my money …
Netflix have announced a new four part crime thriller by Charlie Brooker, starring Paddy Considine, Georgina Campbell and Lena Headey.
It’s called UNTITLED CHARLIE BROOKER PROJECT (working title) and is now in production.
It’s called UNTITLED CHARLIE BROOKER PROJECT (working title) and is now in production.
September 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Here - just take my money …
There needs to be some sort of enormous prize for the first person to invent an app which automatically searches through all your streaming services to find out where the film you absolutely know you bought is.
September 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
There needs to be some sort of enormous prize for the first person to invent an app which automatically searches through all your streaming services to find out where the film you absolutely know you bought is.
So, finally and slightly reluctantly got round to watching Thunderbolts*
Great stuff. I mean, really. Some pacing issues but they remembered films need, y’know, a story!
Great stuff. I mean, really. Some pacing issues but they remembered films need, y’know, a story!
a man says just when i thought i was out in a kitchen
ALT: a man says just when i thought i was out in a kitchen
media.tenor.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
So, finally and slightly reluctantly got round to watching Thunderbolts*
Great stuff. I mean, really. Some pacing issues but they remembered films need, y’know, a story!
Great stuff. I mean, really. Some pacing issues but they remembered films need, y’know, a story!
Just been to the #nffc press conference. It was crazy. Basically the relationship between Nuno Espírito Santo and Evangelos Marinakis has fallen apart. Live page here:
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Premier League news conferences and team news: Rodri and Foden return for Man City
All the latest from Friday's 11 Premier League news conferences with Pep Guardiola, Mikel Arteta, Thomas Frank and Ruben Amorim all speaking amid transfer latest.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Just been to the #nffc press conference. It was crazy. Basically the relationship between Nuno Espírito Santo and Evangelos Marinakis has fallen apart. Live page here:
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
At a party tonight and they played Erasure’s “Respect” and I just want to say … “Chooooon!” 😀
July 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
At a party tonight and they played Erasure’s “Respect” and I just want to say … “Chooooon!” 😀
Genuinely awesome choice of small hill to die on. I’m tempted to join Alan just because of the sheer futile nicheness!
FFS THE BAYEUX "TAPESTRY" IS NOT A TAPESTRY. IT'S AN EMBROIDERY. TAPESTRIES ARE WOVEN. THE BAYEUX "TAPESTRY" IS SEWN. IN ABOUT 50 YEARS WE'LL HAVE THE 1000-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF PEOPLE MAKING THIS ELEMENTARY MISTAKE. SORT IT OUT, PEOPLE.
Nor is it from Bayeux.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Nor is it from Bayeux.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Bayeux tapestry to return to Britain for first time in 900 years
Tapestry to go on display in British Museum next year, with treasures from Sutton Hoo lent to France in exchange
www.theguardian.com
July 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Genuinely awesome choice of small hill to die on. I’m tempted to join Alan just because of the sheer futile nicheness!
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With this and Captain Tom, it's getting hard to trust people who go on really long walks.
July 6, 2025 at 8:47 AM
With this and Captain Tom, it's getting hard to trust people who go on really long walks.
Huw Stephens Home Run a belter this evening! I mean, Inspiral Carpets’ Saturn 5 is just bloody perfection.
July 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Huw Stephens Home Run a belter this evening! I mean, Inspiral Carpets’ Saturn 5 is just bloody perfection.
Love love love that Raye comes out at #Glastonbury with her slick look and her slick band and slick slick rhythms and still manages to give of an air of endearing shambolic ness. Quite the trick!. Anyway, she’s awesome.
June 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Love love love that Raye comes out at #Glastonbury with her slick look and her slick band and slick slick rhythms and still manages to give of an air of endearing shambolic ness. Quite the trick!. Anyway, she’s awesome.
I got dumped once and one of the worst things about it (and it was really really terrible to begin with) was the following morning there was no coffee in the coffee jar. Hysterical doesn’t cover my reaction.
Woke up this morning, hungover, with no coffee. None, of any sort, anywhere in the house. If you want to learn how thin the line is between you and a crazed drug fiend I highly recommend it.
June 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I got dumped once and one of the worst things about it (and it was really really terrible to begin with) was the following morning there was no coffee in the coffee jar. Hysterical doesn’t cover my reaction.
Once again … AI is a terrible technology. Please stop using it.
When I searched to see if Mary Shelley and Jane Austen could have met in Bath, Google AI informed me that they were, in fact, sisters...
June 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Once again … AI is a terrible technology. Please stop using it.
Look what my brilliant wife brought me back from @hayfestival.bsky.social, @dorianlynskey.bsky.social. Can’t wait to get me some apocalypse!
May 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Look what my brilliant wife brought me back from @hayfestival.bsky.social, @dorianlynskey.bsky.social. Can’t wait to get me some apocalypse!
At #NottsCounty with notifications on and everything 🤞🏼
May 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
At #NottsCounty with notifications on and everything 🤞🏼
I love this! Perfectly captures it.
guys! I have huge news!
as of this week I now have a monthly sports column (!) in the new Observer
first piece will be in the paper on Sunday but it's already online: observer.co.uk/news/columni... [free to read!]
as of this week I now have a monthly sports column (!) in the new Observer
first piece will be in the paper on Sunday but it's already online: observer.co.uk/news/columni... [free to read!]
May 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I love this! Perfectly captures it.
Reposted by Colin Hazelden
While you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists!
Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
While you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists!
Once again, if AI can’t get basic facts right consistently what is it actually FOR?
I googled David Olusoga to check when his daughter was born and Google AI confidently assured me that he "does not have a daughter". This sort of thing happens a lot. It constantly amazes me that they rolled out this broken technology and put it at the top of the page. It's a misinformation machine.
March 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Once again, if AI can’t get basic facts right consistently what is it actually FOR?
I’m not allowed a public opinion on the politics of this. But purely as a journalist, imagine, just IMAGINE, a scoop like this landing in your lap. Top tier stuff!
March 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I’m not allowed a public opinion on the politics of this. But purely as a journalist, imagine, just IMAGINE, a scoop like this landing in your lap. Top tier stuff!
Give the young actor who played Jade in Episode 2 of Adolescence every award available. Do it now. No need to wait.
March 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Give the young actor who played Jade in Episode 2 of Adolescence every award available. Do it now. No need to wait.