Jack Seale
@jackseale.bsky.social
Lover of gin, tea, Sunday roasts and curling up with a DVD box set
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hey folks, six figure opinion columnist here and gotta say, made a big ol’ whoopsie on the most consequential and honestly, probably the most obvious opinion of my life. thats my bad. anyway, guess I’ll just keep getting paid to give my opinion, thanks for reading
January 25, 2026 at 9:12 PM
hey folks, six figure opinion columnist here and gotta say, made a big ol’ whoopsie on the most consequential and honestly, probably the most obvious opinion of my life. thats my bad. anyway, guess I’ll just keep getting paid to give my opinion, thanks for reading
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Morning all.
Outside the Divis Flats, Belfast, 1978.
Photographer Chris Steele-Perkins.
Outside the Divis Flats, Belfast, 1978.
Photographer Chris Steele-Perkins.
January 23, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Morning all.
Outside the Divis Flats, Belfast, 1978.
Photographer Chris Steele-Perkins.
Outside the Divis Flats, Belfast, 1978.
Photographer Chris Steele-Perkins.
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the feel-good film of Sundance is a documentary where a community stands up to immigration officials, tells them to fuck off, and wins www.avclub.com/everybody-to...
A timely Sundance doc is an ICE-breaker around community action
Everybody To Kenmure Street shows what's possible when immigration officials aren't allowed to murder at will.
www.avclub.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:03 PM
the feel-good film of Sundance is a documentary where a community stands up to immigration officials, tells them to fuck off, and wins www.avclub.com/everybody-to...
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Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
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Always a good time to revisit @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @notalawyer.bsky.social's delightfully excoriating deconstruction of this particular bullshit artist and his signature text...
January 14, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Always a good time to revisit @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @notalawyer.bsky.social's delightfully excoriating deconstruction of this particular bullshit artist and his signature text...
I was the interviewer there. 2013, which... seems like a long time ago 😕
January 11, 2026 at 7:50 PM
I was the interviewer there. 2013, which... seems like a long time ago 😕
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[sombrely, with tears in eyes] "truly the people of Iran embody the great spirit of Flumpo The Fart Wizard" - author of Flumpo The Fart Wizard
January 11, 2026 at 11:53 AM
[sombrely, with tears in eyes] "truly the people of Iran embody the great spirit of Flumpo The Fart Wizard" - author of Flumpo The Fart Wizard
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Delighted to have received a grant from a submerging writers foundation, which supports mid-career authors while they age, procrastinate and feel their early promise ebb away. Grants like this are essential to the production of unmarketable work of limited appeal.
January 8, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Delighted to have received a grant from a submerging writers foundation, which supports mid-career authors while they age, procrastinate and feel their early promise ebb away. Grants like this are essential to the production of unmarketable work of limited appeal.
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this looks like it was lab engineered just for me
Please see Gus van Sant's Dead Man's Wire, a hostage film & social tapestry that is "unabashedly inspired by the best crime dramas from the 1970s, including Dog Day Afternoon,The Sugarland Express, Network and Badlands, and can stand proudly alongside any of them." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dead...
Dead Man's Wire review: Gus Van Sant tackles true-crime intrigue
A thoughtful, bleakly funny 1970s drama that speaks to the current moment, and is equal to the many classics that inspired it.
www.rogerebert.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
this looks like it was lab engineered just for me
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Bowie: The Final Act review – the critic who made the star cry is stunned by his own disrespect
Bowie: The Final Act review – the critic who made the star cry is stunned by his own disrespect
Released two days before his death, Bowie’s last album Blackstar was a redemptive masterstroke. But his career was stuffed with failures – and this documentary refuses to gloss over the most painful parts
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Bowie: The Final Act review – the critic who made the star cry is stunned by his own disrespect
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The Night Manager review – no naughty bum-flashing? It’s still a class above all other spy thrillers
The Night Manager review – no naughty bum-flashing? It’s still a class above all other spy thrillers
The racy espionage blockbuster caused a global frenzy a decade ago – and set an unbelievably high bar. As Tom Hiddleston’s M16 agent Jonathan Pine returns to take down a new supervillain, he just about pulls it off
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 10:35 PM
The Night Manager review – no naughty bum-flashing? It’s still a class above all other spy thrillers
Yep this is basically what I thought
The Night Manager is back tonight on BBC One (though episodes 1 and 2 are already available on the iPlayer). Here's what I wrote about it for Radio Times #TheNightManager
January 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Yep this is basically what I thought
Annual round-up of my most important, commented-on or influential writing of the year:
[Nothing of note in 2025]
[Nothing of note in 2025]
January 1, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Annual round-up of my most important, commented-on or influential writing of the year:
[Nothing of note in 2025]
[Nothing of note in 2025]
TikTok film guy who deserves more followers imo www.tiktok.com/@idlemild?_r...
Scott's Creator Profile
www.tiktok.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:30 PM
TikTok film guy who deserves more followers imo www.tiktok.com/@idlemild?_r...
The political reasons are (unless you're professionally invested in not seeing them) so myriad the only issue is what order to rank them in, but an underrated one maybe is Starmer/Reeves being so personally charmless. On the most basic level they are an insane pick for an ongoing popularity contest
Glad the FT is asking the question. Even if I’m not convinced they found a compelling answer.
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
Allies concede the prime minister and chancellor have made mistakes yet the level of disdain towards them is still striking
www.ft.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The political reasons are (unless you're professionally invested in not seeing them) so myriad the only issue is what order to rank them in, but an underrated one maybe is Starmer/Reeves being so personally charmless. On the most basic level they are an insane pick for an ongoing popularity contest
Just wanna reach out to the me of six years ago who sat through a primary school assembly with the theme of "celebrating the books of David Walliams" and say: you were right to silently wonder if this was really a good idea
December 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Just wanna reach out to the me of six years ago who sat through a primary school assembly with the theme of "celebrating the books of David Walliams" and say: you were right to silently wonder if this was really a good idea
This show is really, really good
‘A lot of these scary blokes doing time are terrified little boys’: Dennis Kelly on writing a new kind of prison drama
The new project from the creator of Pulling and Utopia is the real-life tale of a teacher whose life is upended by working with inmates. ‘It upends your prejudices,’ he says
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This show is really, really good
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BOOK-RELATED HIVEMIND LONGSHOT REQUEST: can anyone identify this children's book of the 1970s/80s from this incomplete and possibly inaccurate synopsis?!
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
BOOK-RELATED HIVEMIND LONGSHOT REQUEST: can anyone identify this children's book of the 1970s/80s from this incomplete and possibly inaccurate synopsis?!
Chris Hemsworth remakes the Limmy "Millport" sketch
Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember review – a heartbreaking attempt to fight his dad’s dementia
The Thor actor and his father try to stave off the latter’s symptoms by taking a road trips to old haunts. It’s a journey filled with a wistful, desperate longing, towards a destination nobody can qui...
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Chris Hemsworth remakes the Limmy "Millport" sketch
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Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
Keeping the Mani tribute simple with Love Spreads three times in a row 👍
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Keeping the Mani tribute simple with Love Spreads three times in a row 👍
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Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks review – the sheer number of pornographic drawings is a big shock
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks review – the sheer number of pornographic drawings is a big shock
JMW Turner left behind some 37,000 sketches when he died, many of which have rarely been seen. Do they – including a huge collection of explicit sketches – reveal truths about the elusive man?
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks review – the sheer number of pornographic drawings is a big shock
BOOK-RELATED HIVEMIND LONGSHOT REQUEST: can anyone identify this children's book of the 1970s/80s from this incomplete and possibly inaccurate synopsis?!
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
BOOK-RELATED HIVEMIND LONGSHOT REQUEST: can anyone identify this children's book of the 1970s/80s from this incomplete and possibly inaccurate synopsis?!
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"I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" appears to have popped up from the start on 4 Extra. Series 1 from April '64 started yesterday. Quite muted, with a long way to go before it becomes the prune-filled punfest we're familiar with, but a fascinating start. Listen here - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC Radio 4 Extra - I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, Series 1, Episode 1
John Cleese and Tim Brooke-Taylor star in the debut of the cult sketch comedy
www.bbc.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 12:10 PM
"I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" appears to have popped up from the start on 4 Extra. Series 1 from April '64 started yesterday. Quite muted, with a long way to go before it becomes the prune-filled punfest we're familiar with, but a fascinating start. Listen here - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
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I’ve written about wonderful new comedy Leonard and Hungry Paul
Leonard and Hungry Paul review – this Julia Roberts-narrated comedy is the perfect antidote to modern life
Alex Lawther and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell star in this adaptation of Rónán Hession’s understated 2019 novel. Its quiet celebration of the gentle life is the opposite of today’s frantic TV – even if it does...
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I’ve written about wonderful new comedy Leonard and Hungry Paul