Patrick Kincaid
@patrickkincaid.bsky.social
Doctor of Shakespeare, Master of Writing. Author of THE CONTINUITY GIRL (“A wistfully entertaining romantic comedy.” Jonathan Coe).
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I'M SORRY I HAD TO GO - A GIRL ON THE CORRIDOR CAME OUT TO ASK ME TO STOP, I TOLD HER TO GO DOWNSTAIRS BUT SHE SAID THERE WERE PEOPLE THERE TOO - WHICH SHE COULDN'T KNOW BECAUSE SHE'D BEEN UPSTAIRS ALL THE TIME SINCE I REVERSED THE CHARGES; BUT SHE KEPT BANGING ON THE GLASS AT ME
February 20, 2026 at 3:33 AM
I'M SORRY I HAD TO GO - A GIRL ON THE CORRIDOR CAME OUT TO ASK ME TO STOP, I TOLD HER TO GO DOWNSTAIRS BUT SHE SAID THERE WERE PEOPLE THERE TOO - WHICH SHE COULDN'T KNOW BECAUSE SHE'D BEEN UPSTAIRS ALL THE TIME SINCE I REVERSED THE CHARGES; BUT SHE KEPT BANGING ON THE GLASS AT ME
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To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
February 19, 2026 at 9:30 PM
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
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This is Joseph Wright of Derby's 1768 painting 'An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump', and seeing it in the flesh today reminded me of the immense power of art.
February 19, 2026 at 7:26 PM
This is Joseph Wright of Derby's 1768 painting 'An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump', and seeing it in the flesh today reminded me of the immense power of art.
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A more posiitive review from Screen Daily.
February 19, 2026 at 3:41 PM
A more posiitive review from Screen Daily.
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Oh, The Second Stain too — that’s a good one. Jeremy Brett’s snarl!
February 19, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Oh, The Second Stain too — that’s a good one. Jeremy Brett’s snarl!
This is how I remember it, but I can’t easily access and archived ITV schedule to confirm.
Here’s an unfortunate thing: I always associate Hitchcock’s Rear Window with Andrew Battenberg-Wotsit because it premiered on UK TV on the night he married Sarah Ferguson.
February 19, 2026 at 4:48 PM
This is how I remember it, but I can’t easily access and archived ITV schedule to confirm.
Here’s an unfortunate thing: I always associate Hitchcock’s Rear Window with Andrew Battenberg-Wotsit because it premiered on UK TV on the night he married Sarah Ferguson.
February 19, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Here’s an unfortunate thing: I always associate Hitchcock’s Rear Window with Andrew Battenberg-Wotsit because it premiered on UK TV on the night he married Sarah Ferguson.
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The ideal situation I think would've been to restore all the concert footage from 'Elvis, That's the Way It Is' documentary, which I also haven't seen. But this is dynamite: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1g5...
Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds (Live in Las Vegas) HD
YouTube video by Lauro
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February 19, 2026 at 3:07 PM
The ideal situation I think would've been to restore all the concert footage from 'Elvis, That's the Way It Is' documentary, which I also haven't seen. But this is dynamite: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1g5...
The Luhrmann biopic didn’t work for me and I really tried to like it; but I’m very excited about this.
Featuring restored & previously unseen footage & a booming soundtrack, Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert puts the viewer front row (& on stage) for The King’s Las Vegas residency. Choice of songs variable & patter occasionally corny, but Elvis’s stagecraft electric & voice immaculate.
February 19, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The Luhrmann biopic didn’t work for me and I really tried to like it; but I’m very excited about this.
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Sky News: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says Polish citizens in Iran should leave immediately.
'In a few hours, there may be no more possibility to evacuate,' he says.
'In a few hours, there may be no more possibility to evacuate,' he says.
February 19, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Sky News: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says Polish citizens in Iran should leave immediately.
'In a few hours, there may be no more possibility to evacuate,' he says.
'In a few hours, there may be no more possibility to evacuate,' he says.
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Bruce Beresford (who directed him in his Oscar-winning TENDER MERCIES role) on Robert Duvall's idiosyncracies/eccentricities. 'I don’t know what that was all about. I thought to myself, “This guy has made over 50 films. He knows about lights and microphones.” '
Robert Duvall Remembered by Bruce Beresford, Who Directed His Oscar-Winning Turn in ‘Tender Mercies’
The Australian filmmaker remembers the American actor, who died last Sunday at 95, as "surly" and "opinionated," but "absolutely great."
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 19, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Bruce Beresford (who directed him in his Oscar-winning TENDER MERCIES role) on Robert Duvall's idiosyncracies/eccentricities. 'I don’t know what that was all about. I thought to myself, “This guy has made over 50 films. He knows about lights and microphones.” '
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I wanted to, too, but the grizzled Island Of The Mighty finally put paid to that. Thank gawd for Excalibur which renewed my faith in origin-Arthurs! www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/d...
February 19, 2026 at 2:27 PM
I wanted to, too, but the grizzled Island Of The Mighty finally put paid to that. Thank gawd for Excalibur which renewed my faith in origin-Arthurs! www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/d...
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All I'm saying is that the French thought it was the height of style.
February 4, 2026 at 6:13 PM
All I'm saying is that the French thought it was the height of style.
When I first read The Sword in the Stone as an earnest 12-year-old Arthurian, I really didn’t like the conceit of Uther Pendragon being an alternative Norman conqueror who lived for over 100 years, and the novel sort of being set at all times between 1200 and 1938. But I really love it now.
February 19, 2026 at 2:01 PM
When I first read The Sword in the Stone as an earnest 12-year-old Arthurian, I really didn’t like the conceit of Uther Pendragon being an alternative Norman conqueror who lived for over 100 years, and the novel sort of being set at all times between 1200 and 1938. But I really love it now.
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And #BookPost is Keshed. Congratulations to @stuhennigan.bsky.social on the publication of your first novel and to @ortacpress.bsky.social for putting this out and creating such a beautifully produced (really) book. Wishing you a huge success. And, as always, #GoIndiePublishing
February 19, 2026 at 10:11 AM
And #BookPost is Keshed. Congratulations to @stuhennigan.bsky.social on the publication of your first novel and to @ortacpress.bsky.social for putting this out and creating such a beautifully produced (really) book. Wishing you a huge success. And, as always, #GoIndiePublishing
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Godber I need some more pineapple chunks. Grouty has a posh cell mate arriving and we need to make the pizzas look fancy
February 19, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Godber I need some more pineapple chunks. Grouty has a posh cell mate arriving and we need to make the pizzas look fancy
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What I think about now is not whether
a reconditioned ship can still be
called Argo, but how to consider a ship
built from its discarded woodwork.
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
£2 off until 20 February
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
a reconditioned ship can still be
called Argo, but how to consider a ship
built from its discarded woodwork.
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
£2 off until 20 February
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
February 19, 2026 at 8:06 AM
What I think about now is not whether
a reconditioned ship can still be
called Argo, but how to consider a ship
built from its discarded woodwork.
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
£2 off until 20 February
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
a reconditioned ship can still be
called Argo, but how to consider a ship
built from its discarded woodwork.
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
£2 off until 20 February
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
I want them to sarcastically offer him birthday cake. A Mr Kipling French fancy with one candle on it.
February 19, 2026 at 12:09 PM
I want them to sarcastically offer him birthday cake. A Mr Kipling French fancy with one candle on it.
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Three years ago. I’d just finished a very stressful temp job with a head of dept who had taken against me, so I was probably stressed to the very temples. Happily these lines have eased now, but I guess they’re waiting for me down the road.
February 19, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Three years ago. I’d just finished a very stressful temp job with a head of dept who had taken against me, so I was probably stressed to the very temples. Happily these lines have eased now, but I guess they’re waiting for me down the road.
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Finally. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, BBC understands
It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with Jeffrey Epstein.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 19, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Finally. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...
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I worked on this. Nicole is a natural storyteller with a fantastic sense of the art world and contemporary financial shenanigans. But there’s a lovely time slip element too.
BOOK BARGAIN ALERT!
We have no idea how long this offer will last but The Portrait Girl by Nicole Swengley is now only a fiver on Waterstones’ website!
Described as “a throughly engaging mystery” by the FT, this gorgeous paperback is also the perfect #BookClubRead.
We have no idea how long this offer will last but The Portrait Girl by Nicole Swengley is now only a fiver on Waterstones’ website!
Described as “a throughly engaging mystery” by the FT, this gorgeous paperback is also the perfect #BookClubRead.
February 18, 2026 at 4:54 PM
I worked on this. Nicole is a natural storyteller with a fantastic sense of the art world and contemporary financial shenanigans. But there’s a lovely time slip element too.
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"Stephen, instead, just couldn't stop crying. It confirmed his suspicion that his father was a windbag whose exhortations of 'on and ever on' were meaningless."
The effect on children when a parent loses a parliamentary election
Matthew Spender's book A House in St John's Wood is a portrait of his father, the poet Stephen Spender. Stephen's father was Harold Spender...
liberalengland.blogspot.com
February 18, 2026 at 8:40 PM
"Stephen, instead, just couldn't stop crying. It confirmed his suspicion that his father was a windbag whose exhortations of 'on and ever on' were meaningless."