Mark Barrowcliffe
@barrowcliffe.bsky.social
Writer, also writes as Mark Alder and MD Lachlan. Professional fencing coach too. Slightly alarmingly, I live by the sword. Hobby motorcyclist and friend of dogs.
I just understood you buy x amount of copies off them but not having used one, I don't actually know. I have the familiar feeling of having enthusiastically entered a conversation to find myself utterly bereft of facts.
July 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I just understood you buy x amount of copies off them but not having used one, I don't actually know. I have the familiar feeling of having enthusiastically entered a conversation to find myself utterly bereft of facts.
That's fairly standard vanity publishing isn't it? You pay to have x amount of books printed.
July 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
That's fairly standard vanity publishing isn't it? You pay to have x amount of books printed.
I must see that.
July 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I must see that.
Spike Milligan wrote a few.
July 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Spike Milligan wrote a few.
Why don't you think it needs defending, debating or explaining?
July 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Why don't you think it needs defending, debating or explaining?
Don't even need that. Assigned already in past tense. You can drop the auxiliaries entirely. Standard in newspaper headlines.
July 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Don't even need that. Assigned already in past tense. You can drop the auxiliaries entirely. Standard in newspaper headlines.
David Baddiel says conspiracy theories are how stupid people get to feel clever.
July 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
David Baddiel says conspiracy theories are how stupid people get to feel clever.
I'm a working class man with a direct manner. Luckily I'm not also a sex-obsessed wanker.
July 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I'm a working class man with a direct manner. Luckily I'm not also a sex-obsessed wanker.
Guarantee Trump won't be on it. Are you going to name the guy who could pardon you?
July 14, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Guarantee Trump won't be on it. Are you going to name the guy who could pardon you?
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I got a similar one from Pol Pot.
July 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I got a similar one from Pol Pot.
They are hardly unique. See Farage's ongoing popularity etc. I'd prefer to see an IQ test.
July 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
They are hardly unique. See Farage's ongoing popularity etc. I'd prefer to see an IQ test.
Bang goes votes for 16 year olds.
July 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Bang goes votes for 16 year olds.
I think he's a great drummer. Maybe not the best (in The Beatles) but still a master of feel and genuine invention. It's one thing to go Keith Moon on the case and flash out, it's another to do Ticket to Ride - inventive, catchy but also subtle.
June 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I think he's a great drummer. Maybe not the best (in The Beatles) but still a master of feel and genuine invention. It's one thing to go Keith Moon on the case and flash out, it's another to do Ticket to Ride - inventive, catchy but also subtle.
Ringo is the best example of a drummer giving a song exactly what it needs! Allow the drummer to sing and play at the same time and you risk Phil Collins, which is a condition, not a person.
June 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Ringo is the best example of a drummer giving a song exactly what it needs! Allow the drummer to sing and play at the same time and you risk Phil Collins, which is a condition, not a person.
Young men seem gripped by so many anxieties about their masculinity that they actually undermine it. Is it manly to spend hours primping your biceps?Relax, laugh at yourself, do something more useful with your time. Your muscles reveal you as a trembling little boy.
June 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Young men seem gripped by so many anxieties about their masculinity that they actually undermine it. Is it manly to spend hours primping your biceps?Relax, laugh at yourself, do something more useful with your time. Your muscles reveal you as a trembling little boy.
I have noticed how even liberal American intellectuals subscribe to a tough guy narrative. Just warning you, as a Brit, fucking with me will make me go: 'Ooooh! Well someone got out of bed the wrong side this morning !'
I'm 60 and look terrible, btw. I would go to a gym but I can't be bothered.
I'm 60 and look terrible, btw. I would go to a gym but I can't be bothered.
June 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I have noticed how even liberal American intellectuals subscribe to a tough guy narrative. Just warning you, as a Brit, fucking with me will make me go: 'Ooooh! Well someone got out of bed the wrong side this morning !'
I'm 60 and look terrible, btw. I would go to a gym but I can't be bothered.
I'm 60 and look terrible, btw. I would go to a gym but I can't be bothered.
I feel like I've been waiting for that ballroom my entire life.
June 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I feel like I've been waiting for that ballroom my entire life.
Back in London 20 years after I lived there a week ago. Traffic levels do seem to have declined from what I remember- fewer jams, even at rush hour.
June 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Back in London 20 years after I lived there a week ago. Traffic levels do seem to have declined from what I remember- fewer jams, even at rush hour.
I watched it late for the reasons you state. Ep 1 all about McNulty and thought it was just another hard man cop show. Glad I eventually got past it.
June 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I watched it late for the reasons you state. Ep 1 all about McNulty and thought it was just another hard man cop show. Glad I eventually got past it.