Hope Dickson Leach
@hopedickle.bsky.social
Screenwriter and director based in Edinburgh often found tending to my children and shouting about how hard it all is.
YES
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
YES
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Looking for stories of outageous Scottish footballing success? Asif Kapadia’s superdoc pulls together the inspirational footage required to help soccer King Kenny Dalglish tell his story in his own famously terse and unpretentious words, streaming now in the UK 4/5
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Kenny Dalglish - film-authority.com
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film-authority.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Looking for stories of outageous Scottish footballing success? Asif Kapadia’s superdoc pulls together the inspirational footage required to help soccer King Kenny Dalglish tell his story in his own famously terse and unpretentious words, streaming now in the UK 4/5
film-authority.com/2025/11/19/k...
film-authority.com/2025/11/19/k...
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The kicker. Oh my god.
(Read to the end. Trust me. You have to read all the way to the end.)
www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
(Read to the end. Trust me. You have to read all the way to the end.)
www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The kicker. Oh my god.
(Read to the end. Trust me. You have to read all the way to the end.)
www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
(Read to the end. Trust me. You have to read all the way to the end.)
www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
What a NIGHT for Scottish football. Electric. Three extraordinary goals.
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
What a NIGHT for Scottish football. Electric. Three extraordinary goals.
Going in for number six, this time on 70mm @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social
I’ve seen One Battle After Another four times now, and I’m just getting started.
November 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Going in for number six, this time on 70mm @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social
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Petition to stop the closure of Film Studies at the University of Leicester - please sign!
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Sign the Petition
Stop the Closure of Film Studies at Uni of Leicester
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November 16, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Petition to stop the closure of Film Studies at the University of Leicester - please sign!
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Is it cute for a 49 year old woman to wear those pimple stickers? Wondering if they come in more age appropriate designs, maybe Gisela Graham or Toast could design some. Thoughts on this billion dollar menopause business idea.
November 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Is it cute for a 49 year old woman to wear those pimple stickers? Wondering if they come in more age appropriate designs, maybe Gisela Graham or Toast could design some. Thoughts on this billion dollar menopause business idea.
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celebrities walking pokémon instead of their dogs: thread
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
celebrities walking pokémon instead of their dogs: thread
Ed Berger seems to be missing off this list.
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Ed Berger seems to be missing off this list.
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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deserve its own post
October 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
deserve its own post
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My comment, for @pnreview.bsky.social, on the Len Pennie & Sarah Doyle affair - or Canongagegate, as I like to think of it. Honourable mentions: @naush.bsky.social, @thetimes.com.
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
PN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine - Remarkable Coincidences - Rory Waterman - PN Review 286
One of the outstanding poetry journals of our time.
www.pnreview.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My comment, for @pnreview.bsky.social, on the Len Pennie & Sarah Doyle affair - or Canongagegate, as I like to think of it. Honourable mentions: @naush.bsky.social, @thetimes.com.
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
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"Lotteries and ritual stoning are integral parts of American life. Whether or not the lottery actually increases the yearly harvest, rural working-class Americans think it does. Let me be blunt: liberals who want to abolish ritual murder are the reason that Donald Trump won."
Stoning Our Neighbors to Death Makes the Corn Grow High, and Elitist Liberals Should Stop Attacking This Traditional Value
Since Biblical times, stoning people to death has been a horrible punishment reserved for the worst criminals. But now, in PC liberal America, the ...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"Lotteries and ritual stoning are integral parts of American life. Whether or not the lottery actually increases the yearly harvest, rural working-class Americans think it does. Let me be blunt: liberals who want to abolish ritual murder are the reason that Donald Trump won."
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The next screen grab on this thread is perfect.
This really is the pits. This is not a design that — whatever you think of them — Saudi Arabia, the organisers of the 2034 World Cup have anything to do with. Has popped up randomly on social, caught fire and now pushed for attention by the Mail. Pathetic business.
October 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The next screen grab on this thread is perfect.
As the light starts to fade and the pumpkins are lit we prepare for the guising children of the neighbourhood to knock on the door and perform for their sweets. I am hoping for lots of K-Pop Demon Hunter songs tonight, but also expect the (sadly) now regular tradition of Donald Trumpkin gags too.
October 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
As the light starts to fade and the pumpkins are lit we prepare for the guising children of the neighbourhood to knock on the door and perform for their sweets. I am hoping for lots of K-Pop Demon Hunter songs tonight, but also expect the (sadly) now regular tradition of Donald Trumpkin gags too.
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
2
[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
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NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
7
NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?
October 31, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?
Will someone PLEASE explain daylight savings to the cats? They are refusing to listen to me.
October 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Will someone PLEASE explain daylight savings to the cats? They are refusing to listen to me.
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Thanks to @heraldscotland.bsky.social for including The Diary of Lies in this list of books to read in Autumn…
www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
10 books to read this autumn, from autobiographies to hot new novels
From Darren McGarvey to Nicola Sturgeon and Jennifer Dawson, here's 10 essential books to read this autumn
www.heraldscotland.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Thanks to @heraldscotland.bsky.social for including The Diary of Lies in this list of books to read in Autumn…
www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
I’ve seen One Battle After Another four times now, and I’m just getting started.
October 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I’ve seen One Battle After Another four times now, and I’m just getting started.
Also available are some floral prints - instant autumnal vibes for your kitchen. Www.shelovestoprint.etsy.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Also available are some floral prints - instant autumnal vibes for your kitchen. Www.shelovestoprint.etsy.com
if you like tea towels, I’ve made some Halloween ones… available on #etsy shelovestoprint.etsy.com/listing/4368...
October 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
if you like tea towels, I’ve made some Halloween ones… available on #etsy shelovestoprint.etsy.com/listing/4368...
Any leads on how to get Don Peake's The Hills Have Eyes soundtrack anywhere digitally? Will pay!
October 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Any leads on how to get Don Peake's The Hills Have Eyes soundtrack anywhere digitally? Will pay!