Mark Harrison
@markharrison.bsky.social
He/him
Writer. Quizmaster. Dad.
Location: Teesside
Writing and quizzes: Film Stories, VODzilla, Yahoo! Ent. UK, and others
Views: my own
Frequent topics: Doctor Who, James Bond, Dexter the dog...
Writer. Quizmaster. Dad.
Location: Teesside
Writing and quizzes: Film Stories, VODzilla, Yahoo! Ent. UK, and others
Views: my own
Frequent topics: Doctor Who, James Bond, Dexter the dog...
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What we’ve done is create a kind of Wanker’s Veto where nothing good or useful can ever happen, because MPs and the press will unite and destroy it. So the only things that will ever succeed even temporarily are projects that nobody likes or wants, except for said MPs and media figures.
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
What we’ve done is create a kind of Wanker’s Veto where nothing good or useful can ever happen, because MPs and the press will unite and destroy it. So the only things that will ever succeed even temporarily are projects that nobody likes or wants, except for said MPs and media figures.
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suddenly finding out a lot of people are apparently emotionally invested in james bond. same thing happened on twitter ten years ago with wrestling. no one it gets harder to trust people every day.
February 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
suddenly finding out a lot of people are apparently emotionally invested in james bond. same thing happened on twitter ten years ago with wrestling. no one it gets harder to trust people every day.
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"...we risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together." – Kev Starmer, May 2025
🚨 PM: “Some of the rhetoric we’re hearing – racist rhetoric, divisive rhetoric – that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago is returning to politics and it makes people feel very scared,”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/11/racism-returning-to-uk-politics-says-starmer
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/11/racism-returning-to-uk-politics-says-starmer
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"...we risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together." – Kev Starmer, May 2025
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"No Mr Bond, I expect you to deliver 40-50 packages before your first piss break"
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"No Mr Bond, I expect you to deliver 40-50 packages before your first piss break"
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I must not James Bond discourse. James Bond discourse is the mind killer. James Bond discourse is the little death that brings total obliteration.
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I must not James Bond discourse. James Bond discourse is the mind killer. James Bond discourse is the little death that brings total obliteration.
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NEW | if the BBC *is* biased, it’s not against the right…
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
The resignation of Tim Davie as BBC Director-General is the next stage in the corporation's collapse into cowardice.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
NEW | if the BBC *is* biased, it’s not against the right…
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
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Having attended 'a few' pub quizzes over a number of tears, and having written and ran them during student days, this properly irks me.
It's a pub quiz. It's FUN, and should be kept as such in the spirit of a social event. Yes, a competitive edge is nice, but DON'T BLOODY CHEAT.
It's a pub quiz. It's FUN, and should be kept as such in the spirit of a social event. Yes, a competitive edge is nice, but DON'T BLOODY CHEAT.
BBC News - 'Massive whodunnit' after pub quiz team banned for cheating - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Massive whodunnit. Im guessing it's the team that keeps winning and has stopped turning up.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Massive whodunnit. Im guessing it's the team that keeps winning and has stopped turning up.
'Massive whodunnit' after pub quiz team banned for cheating
A Greater Manchester pub landlord bans a quiz team after its members were caught using their smartwatches to cheat.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Having attended 'a few' pub quizzes over a number of tears, and having written and ran them during student days, this properly irks me.
It's a pub quiz. It's FUN, and should be kept as such in the spirit of a social event. Yes, a competitive edge is nice, but DON'T BLOODY CHEAT.
It's a pub quiz. It's FUN, and should be kept as such in the spirit of a social event. Yes, a competitive edge is nice, but DON'T BLOODY CHEAT.
Can only hear people claiming "Everyone's going back to Twitter" as Will Ferrell yelling "We're going streaking" in Old School.
a shirtless man says " everybody 's doing it "
Alt: A naked Will Ferrell saying "Everybody's doing it" in Old School
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Can only hear people claiming "Everyone's going back to Twitter" as Will Ferrell yelling "We're going streaking" in Old School.
One time in the gents at Isaac's in Boro, a bloke was pissing into the corner urinal, facing the wall like the end of Blair Witch, loudly chuntering: "WHOTHEFUCK IS IDRIS ELBA? NOT MY JAMES BOND! NOT MY BOND!"
Anyway, he won't see your joke posts about how unserious James Bond is, but I will. 😢
Anyway, he won't see your joke posts about how unserious James Bond is, but I will. 😢
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
One time in the gents at Isaac's in Boro, a bloke was pissing into the corner urinal, facing the wall like the end of Blair Witch, loudly chuntering: "WHOTHEFUCK IS IDRIS ELBA? NOT MY JAMES BOND! NOT MY BOND!"
Anyway, he won't see your joke posts about how unserious James Bond is, but I will. 😢
Anyway, he won't see your joke posts about how unserious James Bond is, but I will. 😢
It's really weird that Casino Royale (1967) takes the piss out of there being multiple agents all called James Bond ("even the girls") two years before they recast the part for the first time. There are many reasons that film fails as a comedy, but in that sole regard, a bit prescient?
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It's really weird that Casino Royale (1967) takes the piss out of there being multiple agents all called James Bond ("even the girls") two years before they recast the part for the first time. There are many reasons that film fails as a comedy, but in that sole regard, a bit prescient?
Fun fact: They never made that third Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law because there was no way to get Holmes and Watson back to Victorian London after they lived in 2010s London and looked like Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. It would confuse the audience.
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Fun fact: They never made that third Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law because there was no way to get Holmes and Watson back to Victorian London after they lived in 2010s London and looked like Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. It would confuse the audience.
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There is a moment in all of Moore's post Moonraker films, where Bond stops and thinks "Was I really in space? No, I can't have been in space. Fuck me, I was, I was in fucking space!"
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
There is a moment in all of Moore's post Moonraker films, where Bond stops and thinks "Was I really in space? No, I can't have been in space. Fuck me, I was, I was in fucking space!"
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It's actually worse than this - Prescott tried to argue that the BBC had inappropriately hidden the fact that a Trans woman in pro wrestling had been part of storylines where she "won" trophies against other women - a fictional sport he treated as if it was real.
It was instructive to see that the Prescott memo argued at one point for completely the opposite: that enabling trans voices even as counterbalance to GC dogma is not legitimate, based on a spurious analogy with maternity care.
November 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
It's actually worse than this - Prescott tried to argue that the BBC had inappropriately hidden the fact that a Trans woman in pro wrestling had been part of storylines where she "won" trophies against other women - a fictional sport he treated as if it was real.
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lol at "I wouldn't be able to do it." I will get Bond out of that predicament with two lines of dialogue a la X-Men. "Weren't you dead?" "I got better." Done. Give me $250k.
November 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
lol at "I wouldn't be able to do it." I will get Bond out of that predicament with two lines of dialogue a la X-Men. "Weren't you dead?" "I got better." Done. Give me $250k.
Insane that anyone pretends like the James Bond from all the way back in Dr No is the one who died. I blame Skyfall.
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."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
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 9:55 AM
Insane that anyone pretends like the James Bond from all the way back in Dr No is the one who died. I blame Skyfall.
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second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
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doing my bit to combat the gender pay gap by bringing down the men's average
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
doing my bit to combat the gender pay gap by bringing down the men's average
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Heads up! David Lean's first film In Which We Serve (co-directed by and starring Noël Coward) is on BBC2 tomorrow afternoon (and hopefully iPlayer thereafter), and it is a *belter*. Been watching a lot of WW2 films this year and this is one of the very best.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Heads up! David Lean's first film In Which We Serve (co-directed by and starring Noël Coward) is on BBC2 tomorrow afternoon (and hopefully iPlayer thereafter), and it is a *belter*. Been watching a lot of WW2 films this year and this is one of the very best.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
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Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
April 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
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I wish I was in more of a position at the moment to celebrate this, but I think I'm still allowed to be a little bit chuffed. Film Stories has got to 500 episodes...
filmstories.co.uk/film-stories...
filmstories.co.uk/film-stories...
Podcast | Episode 500 celebrations - a long conversation with Kevin Smith
Film Stories hits a milestone - and Kevin Smith kicks off our episode 500 celebrations with a very special episode.
filmstories.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I wish I was in more of a position at the moment to celebrate this, but I think I'm still allowed to be a little bit chuffed. Film Stories has got to 500 episodes...
filmstories.co.uk/film-stories...
filmstories.co.uk/film-stories...
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The point is Panorama should have quoted Trump in full: "Look, we just have to accept it. I lost the election. This was a fair result, Biden won, and we must now have a peaceful transfer of power. You should all go home. I don't even know what you're all doing here. I certainly didn't invite you."
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The point is Panorama should have quoted Trump in full: "Look, we just have to accept it. I lost the election. This was a fair result, Biden won, and we must now have a peaceful transfer of power. You should all go home. I don't even know what you're all doing here. I certainly didn't invite you."
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken]
CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter
CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter
March 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken]
CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter
CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter
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Me, giggling like a goblin, strapping myself into the BBC Boss chair, commissioning non-celeb sitcom & sketch show after another. High concept narrative comedies by women! 100 shows with writers rooms! Tell whatever celeb blokes are doing a travel show they can make their own way back from Bordeaux!
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Me, giggling like a goblin, strapping myself into the BBC Boss chair, commissioning non-celeb sitcom & sketch show after another. High concept narrative comedies by women! 100 shows with writers rooms! Tell whatever celeb blokes are doing a travel show they can make their own way back from Bordeaux!