Paul Kirkley
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Still writing Stuff for Things.
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Reckon I'd be pretty good at these Winter Olympic sports that are basically just laying down.
February 15, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Reckon I'd be pretty good at these Winter Olympic sports that are basically just laying down.
You call it a Love Meter, I call it a Valentine Dial.
(This is a great joke for at least 26 of you)
(This is a great joke for at least 26 of you)
February 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
You call it a Love Meter, I call it a Valentine Dial.
(This is a great joke for at least 26 of you)
(This is a great joke for at least 26 of you)
Just me risking further reputational damage with this 3.5 star Mumford & Sons review
February 13, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Just me risking further reputational damage with this 3.5 star Mumford & Sons review
Humanity is facing a mass extinction event and I'm increasingly fine with that.
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
www.pbs.org
February 13, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Humanity is facing a mass extinction event and I'm increasingly fine with that.
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Tried not to binge all of Small Prophets in one go, so have only just finished it and, god, it's perfect. Gently funny, quietly mystical, devastatingly melancholy. The creature effects exactly the right blend of nostalgic and eerie. Just pure magic all the way through.
February 12, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Tried not to binge all of Small Prophets in one go, so have only just finished it and, god, it's perfect. Gently funny, quietly mystical, devastatingly melancholy. The creature effects exactly the right blend of nostalgic and eerie. Just pure magic all the way through.
Just discovered there was an Auf Wiedersehen, Pet computer game. (Spoiler: It didn't "reach Jet Set Willy proportions")
February 12, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Just discovered there was an Auf Wiedersehen, Pet computer game. (Spoiler: It didn't "reach Jet Set Willy proportions")
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Andy BURN-ham
Superb from Burnham telling tax dodging Jim Ratcliffe where to stick it... Pull the plug on the new stadium plan, Andy. Make the rat squirm!
February 12, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Andy BURN-ham
Meanwhile, at the Telegraph
February 12, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Meanwhile, at the Telegraph
What a song.
#OrchestralManoeuvres Day 12
🗣️ Mercury Rev
🎶 Holes
Some songs just sound too good to be true. They are songs that permeate true joy. They are songs like Holes, the string-laden opener to the wonderful 'Deserter's Songs'.
🗣️ Mercury Rev
🎶 Holes
Some songs just sound too good to be true. They are songs that permeate true joy. They are songs like Holes, the string-laden opener to the wonderful 'Deserter's Songs'.
February 12, 2026 at 1:06 PM
What a song.
What if the real threads were the friends we met along the way?
Threads director Mick Jackson has expressed worry over the upcoming remake’s focus on finding “hope even in the most challenging of times.”
“That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
“That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
February 12, 2026 at 10:47 AM
What if the real threads were the friends we met along the way?
Andrew Morton, who wrote that Diana book. That's how shit my school was.
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
guys i just found out i went to the same high school as howard lutnick. please respect my privacy at this time.
February 12, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Andrew Morton, who wrote that Diana book. That's how shit my school was.
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Dr. Who x Airwolf | Epic Theme Song Mashup 2026
YouTube video by CLMC Music
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February 11, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Freelancers / sole traders - now that we're being forced to fork out for the privilege of paying tax (as part of #MakeTaxDigital), any cheap software recommendations?
February 11, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Freelancers / sole traders - now that we're being forced to fork out for the privilege of paying tax (as part of #MakeTaxDigital), any cheap software recommendations?
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Toby Young, Matthew Elliott, Daniel Moylan, Claire Fox, Daniel Hannan, Michael Gove, Therese Coffey (a Brexit convert), Paul Goodman, John Moynihan, Ruth Lea, Stewart Jackson, Michael Hintze, Charles Moore, David Frost, Theo Agnew; & now John Redwood.
Rewarded for the Brexit calamity with peerages.
Rewarded for the Brexit calamity with peerages.
Ex Tory MP John Redwood has been made a peer, as Lord Redwood on 31 January, and was formally introduced in the Lords on Tuesday
February 11, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Toby Young, Matthew Elliott, Daniel Moylan, Claire Fox, Daniel Hannan, Michael Gove, Therese Coffey (a Brexit convert), Paul Goodman, John Moynihan, Ruth Lea, Stewart Jackson, Michael Hintze, Charles Moore, David Frost, Theo Agnew; & now John Redwood.
Rewarded for the Brexit calamity with peerages.
Rewarded for the Brexit calamity with peerages.
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I don’t care if it’s Pete McTighe or Jack Thorne, but whoever the next Who showrunner may be, I’ll bear your children if you make this the version of the theme you use:
Dear BBC and RTD: please bring back the Peter Howell version of the Doctor Who theme, and add a kicking drum beat to it, like this:
Howell at the Moon
YouTube video by HardWire - Topic
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February 10, 2026 at 8:49 PM
I don’t care if it’s Pete McTighe or Jack Thorne, but whoever the next Who showrunner may be, I’ll bear your children if you make this the version of the theme you use:
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Yeah, British politics is simple. You just need to improve public services without any meaningful tax increases, reduce immigration without any labour market impacts, and deliver growth and you'll be hugely successful.
Right, but if you strip out the hyperbole it's just "the public are angry about the cost of living, immigration and the NHS and don't particularly understand any of them" which, sure, but what do I do with that?
You may not like it, but strip out the hyperbole and abuse and it's quite hard to argue with this Cummings asssessment of the public mood
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Yeah, British politics is simple. You just need to improve public services without any meaningful tax increases, reduce immigration without any labour market impacts, and deliver growth and you'll be hugely successful.
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I'm shocked that it turns out the horseshoe is real.
Genuinely, the actual hell? 'Bristol anti-racists' offering to team up with... the far right. Genuinely am quite surprised they'd be this explicit
Genuinely, the actual hell? 'Bristol anti-racists' offering to team up with... the far right. Genuinely am quite surprised they'd be this explicit
'March against the government instead of marching to hotels'
Your Party and Bristol Anti-Racist Action have addressed Bristol Patriots in an open letter
www.bristol247.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:59 PM
I'm shocked that it turns out the horseshoe is real.
Genuinely, the actual hell? 'Bristol anti-racists' offering to team up with... the far right. Genuinely am quite surprised they'd be this explicit
Genuinely, the actual hell? 'Bristol anti-racists' offering to team up with... the far right. Genuinely am quite surprised they'd be this explicit
Love this picture (from Steven Ricks Tailoring). Feels... redemptive. Hope Colin knows what a bloody legend he is.
February 10, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Love this picture (from Steven Ricks Tailoring). Feels... redemptive. Hope Colin knows what a bloody legend he is.
Wuthering Heights reviews making Melania look like Man on Wire.
February 10, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Wuthering Heights reviews making Melania look like Man on Wire.
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I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.
February 10, 2026 at 6:10 AM
I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.
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This is mad. They've all gone mad.
February 9, 2026 at 2:39 PM
This is mad. They've all gone mad.
Feel increasingly furious about this. Starmer may have made the worst of a bad job, but if he's hounded out of office, it's proof that Britain is no longer governable.
It would be so 2026 if Keir Starmer - a fundamentally decent, if politically inept, man who would rather be watching Arsenal than hanging out on billionaire's private islands - becomes the only major casualty of the Epstein Files.
February 9, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Feel increasingly furious about this. Starmer may have made the worst of a bad job, but if he's hounded out of office, it's proof that Britain is no longer governable.
Not sure I'd have the bladder control to do non-cursive.
Now that is Olympic-level peeing. Give that man a gold medal.
Winter Olympics Team GB skier targets ICE with graphic message written in snow
Team GB skier Gus Kenworthy has launched a blistering attack on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers including a message written in the snow
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Not sure I'd have the bladder control to do non-cursive.
Also found my grandma's 1982 diary. It's like Alan Bennett writing haikus. Hard not to read in the voice of Patricia Routledge.
February 8, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Also found my grandma's 1982 diary. It's like Alan Bennett writing haikus. Hard not to read in the voice of Patricia Routledge.