Dominic Minghella
@dminghella.bsky.social
Screenwriter / Producer / Showrunner / Writer, Creator of TV series eg ITV's Doc Martin / Political, Charity & Business Strategy & Comms /
www.minghella.com/about
www.minghella.com/about
What do you call it when a British MP takes direct calls from a foreign leader to conspire against the BBC, our national broadcaster?
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
What do you call it when a British MP takes direct calls from a foreign leader to conspire against the BBC, our national broadcaster?
After Eurythmics, Annie Lennox worried that she wouldn't be able to write songs on her own. She sat down to try, and produced Why in ten minutes.
I don't know why I spends weeks, months, years trying to create stuff. It turns me inside f88king out.
I don't know why I spends weeks, months, years trying to create stuff. It turns me inside f88king out.
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
After Eurythmics, Annie Lennox worried that she wouldn't be able to write songs on her own. She sat down to try, and produced Why in ten minutes.
I don't know why I spends weeks, months, years trying to create stuff. It turns me inside f88king out.
I don't know why I spends weeks, months, years trying to create stuff. It turns me inside f88king out.
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It took just 8 minutes for thieves to steal the Napoleonic-era crown jewels from the Louvre. There weren't enough cameras and the ones there were there were facing the wrong way.
Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
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www.bbc.com/news/art...
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Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
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www.bbc.com/news/art...
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Where are the Louvre jewels now and can France get them back?
Experts warn that whilst the criminals may yet be caught, the gemstones they stole may never be recovered.
www.bbc.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
It took just 8 minutes for thieves to steal the Napoleonic-era crown jewels from the Louvre. There weren't enough cameras and the ones there were there were facing the wrong way.
Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
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www.bbc.com/news/art...
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Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
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www.bbc.com/news/art...
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I heard once about some young folk who went to hear John Martyn at the Fairfield Halls. Driving home after the gig they saw someone at the bus stop with a guitar case. It was John. They offered him a lift, and he ended up going back to theirs and smoking and playing half the night.
October 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I heard once about some young folk who went to hear John Martyn at the Fairfield Halls. Driving home after the gig they saw someone at the bus stop with a guitar case. It was John. They offered him a lift, and he ended up going back to theirs and smoking and playing half the night.
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“A neighbour told this newspaper that he shouted the word ‘n*****’ at her repeatedly, said he would set the far-right English Defence League on her and told her there’d be ‘black body bags’
So not “just” racial slurs - death threats too.
So not “just” racial slurs - death threats too.
Perhaps rather than endlessly promoting Mr Farage, the national media could highlight what his local councillors are doing - as demonstrated here by @northantstelegraph.bsky.social
www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...
www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...
Corby Reform councillor resigns over serious racism allegations
Reform councillor Robert Bloom, who has been in his North Northamptonshire Council post for just 117 days, has resigned after a neighbour alleged he used appalling racial slurs toward her family.
www.northantstelegraph.co.uk
August 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
“A neighbour told this newspaper that he shouted the word ‘n*****’ at her repeatedly, said he would set the far-right English Defence League on her and told her there’d be ‘black body bags’
So not “just” racial slurs - death threats too.
So not “just” racial slurs - death threats too.
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Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...
August 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...
Three years since the luminous Edana Minghella left us, and it might as well be three minutes, for the shock we are still reeling in.
July 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Three years since the luminous Edana Minghella left us, and it might as well be three minutes, for the shock we are still reeling in.
Nobody brings car history to life like Peter Grimsdale. Here he is in 'launch mode' last night with his latest literary model, Superveloce: how a country with no industrial revolution, hampered by poverty, took the 20th Century automotive world by storm.
Great Father's Day present!
Great Father's Day present!
June 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Nobody brings car history to life like Peter Grimsdale. Here he is in 'launch mode' last night with his latest literary model, Superveloce: how a country with no industrial revolution, hampered by poverty, took the 20th Century automotive world by storm.
Great Father's Day present!
Great Father's Day present!
Is this an apology?
June 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Is this an apology?
Talk of an 'island of strangers' only serves to promote an island of xenophobes.
May 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Talk of an 'island of strangers' only serves to promote an island of xenophobes.
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Not much point having power if you use it to further the agenda of your opponents…
The Brexit mindset is a dull-witted and dangerous dead end. Beyond time to make the case for a more grown up, prosperous and cooperative relationship with our European neighbours.
(Letter, Times)
The Brexit mindset is a dull-witted and dangerous dead end. Beyond time to make the case for a more grown up, prosperous and cooperative relationship with our European neighbours.
(Letter, Times)
May 9, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Not much point having power if you use it to further the agenda of your opponents…
The Brexit mindset is a dull-witted and dangerous dead end. Beyond time to make the case for a more grown up, prosperous and cooperative relationship with our European neighbours.
(Letter, Times)
The Brexit mindset is a dull-witted and dangerous dead end. Beyond time to make the case for a more grown up, prosperous and cooperative relationship with our European neighbours.
(Letter, Times)
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Welcome to Brexitland, US, in which waywardness is described as "strategic uncertainty", restrictions on trade boost performance and self harm is lauded....
Spoiler, it does not end happily
www.ft.com/content/342d...
Spoiler, it does not end happily
www.ft.com/content/342d...
May 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Welcome to Brexitland, US, in which waywardness is described as "strategic uncertainty", restrictions on trade boost performance and self harm is lauded....
Spoiler, it does not end happily
www.ft.com/content/342d...
Spoiler, it does not end happily
www.ft.com/content/342d...
Wait. Tariffs are beautiful. But it's 'hostile' to itemise them?
April 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Wait. Tariffs are beautiful. But it's 'hostile' to itemise them?
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What a legacy, eh? Created the grim conditions in which this toxic, insidious parasite could thrive and grow. A canker on the body politic.
“With Brexit, Farage helped embed the poor growth and state dysfunction that are even now providing fuel for his return.Britain has already spent one decade struggling to get by in the world Farage created. It can ill afford a second”
Ffs. How much failure can we take?
economist.com/leaders/2025...
Ffs. How much failure can we take?
economist.com/leaders/2025...
The man Britain cannot ignore
Nigel Farage’s return means a new, more volatile era in British politics
economist.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
What a legacy, eh? Created the grim conditions in which this toxic, insidious parasite could thrive and grow. A canker on the body politic.
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Raskin: So on the logic of this arrest of Judge Dugan, all of the people in the trump administration who participated in defying that order by Judge Boasberg themselves, could be arrested for interfering with a legal proceeding and perhaps other criminal charges like kidnaping..
April 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Raskin: So on the logic of this arrest of Judge Dugan, all of the people in the trump administration who participated in defying that order by Judge Boasberg themselves, could be arrested for interfering with a legal proceeding and perhaps other criminal charges like kidnaping..
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We've reached the "as long as Jesus came here legally" part of the evangelical's descent into darkness.
This is both hilarious and disturbing.
This is both hilarious and disturbing.
April 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We've reached the "as long as Jesus came here legally" part of the evangelical's descent into darkness.
This is both hilarious and disturbing.
This is both hilarious and disturbing.
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Excellent thread.
Are Muslims really banning dogs in parks? 🤔
Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked…
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Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked…
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April 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Excellent thread.
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The financing and transparency of "think tanks" & lobby groups in the UK is an absolute disgrace.
It needs root-and-branch reform, starting with full disclosure of donors and an immediate ban on foreign funding.
Having broken their own democracy, MAGA plutocrats should not be able to buy up ours.
It needs root-and-branch reform, starting with full disclosure of donors and an immediate ban on foreign funding.
Having broken their own democracy, MAGA plutocrats should not be able to buy up ours.
April 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The financing and transparency of "think tanks" & lobby groups in the UK is an absolute disgrace.
It needs root-and-branch reform, starting with full disclosure of donors and an immediate ban on foreign funding.
Having broken their own democracy, MAGA plutocrats should not be able to buy up ours.
It needs root-and-branch reform, starting with full disclosure of donors and an immediate ban on foreign funding.
Having broken their own democracy, MAGA plutocrats should not be able to buy up ours.
Forgot the extraordinary PSH was in Scent of a Woman.
April 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Forgot the extraordinary PSH was in Scent of a Woman.
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"Nice little law firm you got there..." These extorted "settlements" (really just protection money) continue to be the most sinister thing Trump/MAGA are doing. The law firms must know they are only inviting more bullying...for themselves and others. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...
Five More Big Law Firms Reach Deals With Trump
Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, A&O Shearman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft agreed to do free legal work on causes the White House supports.
www.nytimes.com
April 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"Nice little law firm you got there..." These extorted "settlements" (really just protection money) continue to be the most sinister thing Trump/MAGA are doing. The law firms must know they are only inviting more bullying...for themselves and others. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...
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Who holds US Treasury debt (Dec 2024 figures)
Japan, the UK, the EU and Canada hold 3.5 trillion between them
www.visualcapitalist.com/which-countr...
Japan, the UK, the EU and Canada hold 3.5 trillion between them
www.visualcapitalist.com/which-countr...
April 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Who holds US Treasury debt (Dec 2024 figures)
Japan, the UK, the EU and Canada hold 3.5 trillion between them
www.visualcapitalist.com/which-countr...
Japan, the UK, the EU and Canada hold 3.5 trillion between them
www.visualcapitalist.com/which-countr...
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Trump blinks again: smart phones, laptops and at least some chips now exempt from the reciprocal tariffs, including (as I understand it) from China.
April 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Trump blinks again: smart phones, laptops and at least some chips now exempt from the reciprocal tariffs, including (as I understand it) from China.
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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
April 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
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The Internal Revenue Service's acting commissioner is resigning after reaching a controversial agreement to release immigrants' tax data to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
This is the thirds IRS commissioner THIS YEAR to resign. www.axios.com/2025/04/09/i...
This is the thirds IRS commissioner THIS YEAR to resign. www.axios.com/2025/04/09/i...
IRS chief to resign on heels of immigrant data deal: reports
She was the third person to lead the IRS this year.
www.axios.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The Internal Revenue Service's acting commissioner is resigning after reaching a controversial agreement to release immigrants' tax data to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
This is the thirds IRS commissioner THIS YEAR to resign. www.axios.com/2025/04/09/i...
This is the thirds IRS commissioner THIS YEAR to resign. www.axios.com/2025/04/09/i...