Tony Cross
@lokster71.bsky.social
I talk a bit about politics, but mostly this is going to be books, Doctor Who, and a little smattering of Brentford FC. My YouTube Channels:
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youtu.be/tLXrrMsCIXE - Remembrance Reads, Day Nineteen Reading: features mention of Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Radclyffe Hall. Plus mention of H G Wells, D H Lawrence, Somerset Maugham, Ezra Pound and others.
Remembrance Reads: Day Nineteen Reading
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November 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
youtu.be/tLXrrMsCIXE - Remembrance Reads, Day Nineteen Reading: features mention of Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Radclyffe Hall. Plus mention of H G Wells, D H Lawrence, Somerset Maugham, Ezra Pound and others.
patientcenturion.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... - My short blog on #DoctorWho The Eaters of Light.
The Eaters of Light
The Eaters of Light There is a point in a Doctor Who season - a post-2005 Doctor Who season – whereas the season finale yaws into view t...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
patientcenturion.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... - My short blog on #DoctorWho The Eaters of Light.
Send me chocolate please. Lol.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Send me chocolate please. Lol.
My colds always follow the same pattern: sore throat for a couple of day, nose runs non-stop for a day, then blocked nose for a week/two weeks. The later being the most annoying part of the process. I'm in the nose running phase at the moment.
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
My colds always follow the same pattern: sore throat for a couple of day, nose runs non-stop for a day, then blocked nose for a week/two weeks. The later being the most annoying part of the process. I'm in the nose running phase at the moment.
The traffic on Acton High Street is such a joke. The big roundabout and all the many many sets of traffic lights seemed designed to make traffic flow like treacle.
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The traffic on Acton High Street is such a joke. The big roundabout and all the many many sets of traffic lights seemed designed to make traffic flow like treacle.
I know it is sad but I like it when my notes look nice. They don’t always look like this btw. lol.
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I know it is sad but I like it when my notes look nice. They don’t always look like this btw. lol.
One of the stories of the modern world is the disappearance of shame. Or even the pretence of shame.
November 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
One of the stories of the modern world is the disappearance of shame. Or even the pretence of shame.
youtu.be/PrGDgy9QLBc - Remembrance Reads Day Eighteen. Today I read Tickets, Please by D H Lawrence; six Chapters of Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden; a chapter about Siegfried Sassoon is Heroes' Twilight and 21 of Isaac Rosenberg's poems. One of which I read here - 'In the Heart of the Forest'.
Remembrance Reads - Day Eighteen Reading
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November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
youtu.be/PrGDgy9QLBc - Remembrance Reads Day Eighteen. Today I read Tickets, Please by D H Lawrence; six Chapters of Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden; a chapter about Siegfried Sassoon is Heroes' Twilight and 21 of Isaac Rosenberg's poems. One of which I read here - 'In the Heart of the Forest'.
Wall Street is behaving in a clearly dumb way in the face of an obvious and potentially catastrophic bubble? Colour me unsurprised. Because they always get bailed out. It’s like gambling on horses but knowing that if you fuck up the government will cover your mistakes.
My business partner has been predicting the collapse of this house of cards for months.
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”
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November 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Wall Street is behaving in a clearly dumb way in the face of an obvious and potentially catastrophic bubble? Colour me unsurprised. Because they always get bailed out. It’s like gambling on horses but knowing that if you fuck up the government will cover your mistakes.
youtu.be/s6DB2JdRpOQ - Remembrance Reads Day 17 featuring talk of Ivor Gurney and Edward Thomas. Plus some thoughts on reading at the end that I fear might count as a rant. But perhaps not.
Remembrance Reads: Day Seventeen Reading (plus a small 'rant')
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November 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
youtu.be/s6DB2JdRpOQ - Remembrance Reads Day 17 featuring talk of Ivor Gurney and Edward Thomas. Plus some thoughts on reading at the end that I fear might count as a rant. But perhaps not.
I just watched a video of an interview between Saunders Lewis and David Jones from a 1965 arts programme and it was produced by Melvyn Bragg. It's always fun to be reminded of how long Melvyn Bragg's been making arts programmes.
November 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I just watched a video of an interview between Saunders Lewis and David Jones from a 1965 arts programme and it was produced by Melvyn Bragg. It's always fun to be reminded of how long Melvyn Bragg's been making arts programmes.
He makes interesting documentaries, which people watch but I thought the Civil War series lent a bit too heavily on the 'Lost Cause'. And might be one of the reason for that idiotic idea making a proper come back.
November 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
He makes interesting documentaries, which people watch but I thought the Civil War series lent a bit too heavily on the 'Lost Cause'. And might be one of the reason for that idiotic idea making a proper come back.
youtu.be/aISzDjBPZe8 - Day 16 of Remembrance Reads: today Isaac Rosenberg, a Stacy Aumonier short story that made me want to read more Aumonier, and talk of Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, Charles Sorley etc. And another writer slags off the poetry of Robert Nichol.
Remembrance Reads: Day Sixteen Reading
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November 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
youtu.be/aISzDjBPZe8 - Day 16 of Remembrance Reads: today Isaac Rosenberg, a Stacy Aumonier short story that made me want to read more Aumonier, and talk of Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, Charles Sorley etc. And another writer slags off the poetry of Robert Nichol.
Worst. British. Government. Ever. (Well, with the possible exception of all the previous ones since...well...whenever.)
On Monday, Shabana Mahmood will announce an overhaul of the asylum system, here’s why ⬇️
November 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Worst. British. Government. Ever. (Well, with the possible exception of all the previous ones since...well...whenever.)
youtu.be/4mw_xjucECI - Day Fifteen of my Remembrance Reads. Today featuring a Rudyard Kipling short story, Isaac Rosenberg poems, and Bernard Bergonzi's 'Heroes Twilight'.
Remembrance Reads: Day Fifteen Reading
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November 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
youtu.be/4mw_xjucECI - Day Fifteen of my Remembrance Reads. Today featuring a Rudyard Kipling short story, Isaac Rosenberg poems, and Bernard Bergonzi's 'Heroes Twilight'.
youtu.be/GSB_eribJmQ - Day Fourteen of my Remembrance Reads. Featuring John Buchan, Bernard Bergonzi and Isaac Rosenberg.
Remembrance Reads: Day Fourteen Reading
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November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
youtu.be/GSB_eribJmQ - Day Fourteen of my Remembrance Reads. Featuring John Buchan, Bernard Bergonzi and Isaac Rosenberg.
O dear.
“I always find that violent exercise makes me hungry.” I’ve edited a thing. 7 DECEMBER! – 7PM – BBC FOUR (and iPlayer from 6AM, for early risers/sadists)…
THE SEA DEVILS. 🌊😈⚔️🥪🚤🔥👹 A brand-new 90-minute blockbuster edit of one of the maddest DOCTOR WHO stories EVER! www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-fea...
THE SEA DEVILS. 🌊😈⚔️🥪🚤🔥👹 A brand-new 90-minute blockbuster edit of one of the maddest DOCTOR WHO stories EVER! www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-fea...
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
O dear.
youtu.be/M491eawMj20 - Remembrance Reads: Day Thirteen. I finished the Great War and Modern Memory and made a start on Edmund Blunden's 'Undertones of War'. Do not expect me to look this smart again.
Remembrance Reads: Day Thirteen Reading
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November 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
youtu.be/M491eawMj20 - Remembrance Reads: Day Thirteen. I finished the Great War and Modern Memory and made a start on Edmund Blunden's 'Undertones of War'. Do not expect me to look this smart again.
I have finished Paul Fusell’s ‘The Great War and Modern Memory’, which I have some issues with but which I think is a good starting point for a literary analysis of WW1 literature. After you’ve read the literature itself naturally.
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I have finished Paul Fusell’s ‘The Great War and Modern Memory’, which I have some issues with but which I think is a good starting point for a literary analysis of WW1 literature. After you’ve read the literature itself naturally.
youtu.be/4aoUHqYLWNw - My Remembrance Reads Day Eleven Reading.
Remembrance Reads: Day Eleven Reading (Armistice Day)
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November 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
youtu.be/4aoUHqYLWNw - My Remembrance Reads Day Eleven Reading.
I mean there’s also this. And he bought him back. See also Conan Doyle and Holmes.
And yet, I'm not seeing anyone point out that Fleming killed him early in the series
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I mean there’s also this. And he bought him back. See also Conan Doyle and Holmes.
Just start again. No one cares. It’s Bond. Or do that ‘James Bond is a code name’ thing. Or team up with the BBC and make Bond a Time Lord.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
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Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Just start again. No one cares. It’s Bond. Or do that ‘James Bond is a code name’ thing. Or team up with the BBC and make Bond a Time Lord.
It’s amazing how many British patriots who hated the EU telling us what to do are happy for Americans to tell us what to do. If Trump asked Reform to make the UK the 51st State they’d jump at the chance.
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It’s amazing how many British patriots who hated the EU telling us what to do are happy for Americans to tell us what to do. If Trump asked Reform to make the UK the 51st State they’d jump at the chance.
I mean if I was a billionaire I’d pay writers to teach me things - particularly historians. I’d build a place where writers/academics could stay for free on the condition they fill me in on their areas of expertise.
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I mean if I was a billionaire I’d pay writers to teach me things - particularly historians. I’d build a place where writers/academics could stay for free on the condition they fill me in on their areas of expertise.
If people weren't taking their photos then no one would fucking know. And fuck you all for being judgmental about this shit anyway. Is reading in public - even if you're reading Dan Brown - performative?
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
If people weren't taking their photos then no one would fucking know. And fuck you all for being judgmental about this shit anyway. Is reading in public - even if you're reading Dan Brown - performative?