Charles Leggat
@charleseleggat.bsky.social
Screenwriter and director based in Leicestershire
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Conversation at London ticket counter yesterday:
HIM: It’s peak time. The next off-peak train is in three hours. Travelling sooner will cost you an extra £25 peak upgrade.
ME: So it’s a £25 fare add-on now… or three hours in a pub?!
HIM: ...I guarantee you will spend more than £25 in a pub here.
HIM: It’s peak time. The next off-peak train is in three hours. Travelling sooner will cost you an extra £25 peak upgrade.
ME: So it’s a £25 fare add-on now… or three hours in a pub?!
HIM: ...I guarantee you will spend more than £25 in a pub here.
December 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Conversation at London ticket counter yesterday:
HIM: It’s peak time. The next off-peak train is in three hours. Travelling sooner will cost you an extra £25 peak upgrade.
ME: So it’s a £25 fare add-on now… or three hours in a pub?!
HIM: ...I guarantee you will spend more than £25 in a pub here.
HIM: It’s peak time. The next off-peak train is in three hours. Travelling sooner will cost you an extra £25 peak upgrade.
ME: So it’s a £25 fare add-on now… or three hours in a pub?!
HIM: ...I guarantee you will spend more than £25 in a pub here.
December 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Very good result for Leicester against Derby county this afternoon. Hoping this is the start of a long term improvement in the Foxes' fortunes, but for now I'm just enjoying the victory
December 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Very good result for Leicester against Derby county this afternoon. Hoping this is the start of a long term improvement in the Foxes' fortunes, but for now I'm just enjoying the victory
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To be a good person you have to risk saying ‘no’, being disliked or called “mean”.
Because sticking up for what’s right against misinformed and/or awful people, they’ll be upset at boundaries and demands for equitability and well… tough, deny the harm until they evolve for your principles.
Because sticking up for what’s right against misinformed and/or awful people, they’ll be upset at boundaries and demands for equitability and well… tough, deny the harm until they evolve for your principles.
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
To be a good person you have to risk saying ‘no’, being disliked or called “mean”.
Because sticking up for what’s right against misinformed and/or awful people, they’ll be upset at boundaries and demands for equitability and well… tough, deny the harm until they evolve for your principles.
Because sticking up for what’s right against misinformed and/or awful people, they’ll be upset at boundaries and demands for equitability and well… tough, deny the harm until they evolve for your principles.
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
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YES this is an important distinction
regular reminder that when i say something is my *favorite* that is distinct from saying it is *the best*.
October 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
YES this is an important distinction
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Plays are (generally) meant to be performed in front of an audience and are (generally) written with that in mind, so absolutely seeing it performed by competent actors, live and with others around you, makes a huge difference. Most theatrical films assume an communal audience as well.
We saw Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe, and it’s crazy how much more sense it made with a live audience and the Shakespearean actors. I don’t remember laughing ever while reading the play, but we laughed a lot and had a lot of fun even though it was a tragedy
October 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Plays are (generally) meant to be performed in front of an audience and are (generally) written with that in mind, so absolutely seeing it performed by competent actors, live and with others around you, makes a huge difference. Most theatrical films assume an communal audience as well.
My short film Ignoramus has been selected to screen at short stack in Nottingham on Sunday November 7!
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
My short film Ignoramus has been selected to screen at short stack in Nottingham on Sunday November 7!
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Leaving the ECHR is just another "cause" that right-wing lunatics can latch onto.
It's Brexit 2.
And like the original most people backing, it don't understand it, don't really believe in what they
are doing and do not care one jot what havoc it causes.
It's Brexit 2.
And like the original most people backing, it don't understand it, don't really believe in what they
are doing and do not care one jot what havoc it causes.
October 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Leaving the ECHR is just another "cause" that right-wing lunatics can latch onto.
It's Brexit 2.
And like the original most people backing, it don't understand it, don't really believe in what they
are doing and do not care one jot what havoc it causes.
It's Brexit 2.
And like the original most people backing, it don't understand it, don't really believe in what they
are doing and do not care one jot what havoc it causes.
October 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Reminder to folks that when an author/other creative tells you that a new work is available, when you go into their comments to tell them why you're not going to get it, you look like an asshole, I'm sure your stand is principled and all that but going out of your way to tell us "no sale" is dickish
October 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Reminder to folks that when an author/other creative tells you that a new work is available, when you go into their comments to tell them why you're not going to get it, you look like an asshole, I'm sure your stand is principled and all that but going out of your way to tell us "no sale" is dickish
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Anglophone culture's slow descent into a witless insistence that art depicting something must be endorsing it is genuinely horrifying.
October 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Anglophone culture's slow descent into a witless insistence that art depicting something must be endorsing it is genuinely horrifying.
September 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Opening day of MILLER’S CROSSING, 9/22/90
September 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Opening day of MILLER’S CROSSING, 9/22/90
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has anyone considered the whole "these people don't feel listened to anywhere other than a fascist rally" might be due to the fact that they should not, in fact, be listened to?
September 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
has anyone considered the whole "these people don't feel listened to anywhere other than a fascist rally" might be due to the fact that they should not, in fact, be listened to?
In a world of Charlie Kirks, be a Robert Redford
September 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In a world of Charlie Kirks, be a Robert Redford
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The old "if you bring up Hitler in an argument you've already lost" has evolved in to not being able to call literal fascists what they are without everybody thinking you're being overly dramatic.
September 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The old "if you bring up Hitler in an argument you've already lost" has evolved in to not being able to call literal fascists what they are without everybody thinking you're being overly dramatic.
RIP Robert Redford
September 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
RIP Robert Redford
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So this is apparently how it goes these days:
(violence occurs)
TRANSPHOBE: It's the evil violent trans people who have done this!
(perpetrator revealed not to be trans)
TRANSPHOBE: Ah! Nevertheless -
(violence occurs)
TRANSPHOBE: It's the evil violent trans people who have done this!
(perpetrator revealed not to be trans)
TRANSPHOBE: Ah! Nevertheless -
September 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
So this is apparently how it goes these days:
(violence occurs)
TRANSPHOBE: It's the evil violent trans people who have done this!
(perpetrator revealed not to be trans)
TRANSPHOBE: Ah! Nevertheless -
(violence occurs)
TRANSPHOBE: It's the evil violent trans people who have done this!
(perpetrator revealed not to be trans)
TRANSPHOBE: Ah! Nevertheless -
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Statement from Trans Safety Network on the Linehan arrest.
TSN understand Linehan's tweet to be an unambiguous call for vigilante violence against trans women in toilets. And yet senior government figures and police have jumped to find a way to make excuses for it.
TSN understand Linehan's tweet to be an unambiguous call for vigilante violence against trans women in toilets. And yet senior government figures and police have jumped to find a way to make excuses for it.
September 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Statement from Trans Safety Network on the Linehan arrest.
TSN understand Linehan's tweet to be an unambiguous call for vigilante violence against trans women in toilets. And yet senior government figures and police have jumped to find a way to make excuses for it.
TSN understand Linehan's tweet to be an unambiguous call for vigilante violence against trans women in toilets. And yet senior government figures and police have jumped to find a way to make excuses for it.
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There are no sacrifices that will keep any right-wingers happy. They're not going to say "okay, we got rid of trans rights, gay marriages are OK" or "we stopped small boats, people with leave to remain can stay". They'll want another target. Appeasement is pointless. Don't give them an inch.
Should we move away from trans rights,like sports, which affect "very few" people?
Once you decide that [one group] can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third. (Judith Butler)
Once you decide that [one group] can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third. (Judith Butler)
This is stupid. Newsom is not anti trans. He just doesnt believe that trans should be in some women’s sports that they could have a physical advantage. Most the population has this view. As they work through what is fair for all, quit throwing newsom under the bus.
August 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
There are no sacrifices that will keep any right-wingers happy. They're not going to say "okay, we got rid of trans rights, gay marriages are OK" or "we stopped small boats, people with leave to remain can stay". They'll want another target. Appeasement is pointless. Don't give them an inch.
Don't let perfectionism ruin good things
August 31, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Don't let perfectionism ruin good things
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7. (takes off "former pro film critic" hat)
Thank you for your attention, here's a picture of a cat.
Thank you for your attention, here's a picture of a cat.
August 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
7. (takes off "former pro film critic" hat)
Thank you for your attention, here's a picture of a cat.
Thank you for your attention, here's a picture of a cat.
Inside Man
Without saying The Silence of the Lambs, fav Jodie Foster Film?
August 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Inside Man
RIP Terence Stamp
August 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
RIP Terence Stamp