Lee Marlow
@leemarlow.bsky.social
Underwhelmed writer & journalism lecturer.
* Politics/writing/music/football and endless griping * #lcfc 🦊
* Politics/writing/music/football and endless griping * #lcfc 🦊
Arguably the worst crisps ever made. Hideous.
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Arguably the worst crisps ever made. Hideous.
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
Full story: pages 4,5, 6,7. 🙄
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Full story: pages 4,5, 6,7. 🙄
Aw, I loved Rachel Cooke and I regularly use her features to inspire our student feature writers.
Lovely piece here by @timadamswrites.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Lovely piece here by @timadamswrites.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Aw, I loved Rachel Cooke and I regularly use her features to inspire our student feature writers.
Lovely piece here by @timadamswrites.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Lovely piece here by @timadamswrites.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Had to go to Volkswagen yesterday to fix a broken air vent pipe.
Vw: We need £115 to ID the problem.
Me: it’s there, look. You can see the pipe is broken.
Vw: No, we need our mechanic to do it. It’s £115. Then the part. Then the repair.
And this is why my local garage is now doing it.
Vw: We need £115 to ID the problem.
Me: it’s there, look. You can see the pipe is broken.
Vw: No, we need our mechanic to do it. It’s £115. Then the part. Then the repair.
And this is why my local garage is now doing it.
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Had to go to Volkswagen yesterday to fix a broken air vent pipe.
Vw: We need £115 to ID the problem.
Me: it’s there, look. You can see the pipe is broken.
Vw: No, we need our mechanic to do it. It’s £115. Then the part. Then the repair.
And this is why my local garage is now doing it.
Vw: We need £115 to ID the problem.
Me: it’s there, look. You can see the pipe is broken.
Vw: No, we need our mechanic to do it. It’s £115. Then the part. Then the repair.
And this is why my local garage is now doing it.
Imagine GB News staging a debate on one of its shit talk shows called: Can we trust GB News?
It wouldn’t do it.
That’s (partly) the difference.
It wouldn’t do it.
That’s (partly) the difference.
November 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Imagine GB News staging a debate on one of its shit talk shows called: Can we trust GB News?
It wouldn’t do it.
That’s (partly) the difference.
It wouldn’t do it.
That’s (partly) the difference.
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I’ve been re-writing errant feature intros all day.
Come home.
Eat tea.
Quick look what’s on tonight.
I feel like I’m back at work.
Come home.
Eat tea.
Quick look what’s on tonight.
I feel like I’m back at work.
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I’ve been re-writing errant feature intros all day.
Come home.
Eat tea.
Quick look what’s on tonight.
I feel like I’m back at work.
Come home.
Eat tea.
Quick look what’s on tonight.
I feel like I’m back at work.
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Even I thought this was one of mine!
November 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Even I thought this was one of mine!
This makes me sound like a dusty old dinosaur but when I started at the Leicester Mercury in ‘96 there were 140 editorial staff, working from 7am to 10pm, covering every court, every council meeting.
It sold 126k copies a day.
Today - a dozen staff?
Sells 4k copies a day.
It sold 126k copies a day.
Today - a dozen staff?
Sells 4k copies a day.
Met the former editor of the York Evening Press last night, who said in the mid-90s he had 85 people working directly for him, including nine staff photographers. All that to serve a city and surrounding area of about 200k people. Local news was wilddddd.
November 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This makes me sound like a dusty old dinosaur but when I started at the Leicester Mercury in ‘96 there were 140 editorial staff, working from 7am to 10pm, covering every court, every council meeting.
It sold 126k copies a day.
Today - a dozen staff?
Sells 4k copies a day.
It sold 126k copies a day.
Today - a dozen staff?
Sells 4k copies a day.
M1 closed both ways.
I think I might be quicker walking into Leicester this morning.
I think I might be quicker walking into Leicester this morning.
November 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
M1 closed both ways.
I think I might be quicker walking into Leicester this morning.
I think I might be quicker walking into Leicester this morning.
I’m watching Liverpool vs Villa and it’s almost like a different sport to the Leicester vs Blackburn game I saw earlier.
November 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I’m watching Liverpool vs Villa and it’s almost like a different sport to the Leicester vs Blackburn game I saw earlier.
I’m generally unmoved by all this right wing Stop The Boats anti-immigrant nonsense but this stuff like this makes me want to paint the St George flag on a mini-roundabout.
October 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I’m generally unmoved by all this right wing Stop The Boats anti-immigrant nonsense but this stuff like this makes me want to paint the St George flag on a mini-roundabout.
I spent my extra hour in bed listening to a male Tawny Owl furiously too-whit-a-wooing outside my bedroom window at 4am.
October 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I spent my extra hour in bed listening to a male Tawny Owl furiously too-whit-a-wooing outside my bedroom window at 4am.
The finest soundtrack for your Saturday morning hangover.
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The Black Crowes - Remedy
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October 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The finest soundtrack for your Saturday morning hangover.
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News tonight: Prince Andrew stripped of everything.
Also news tonight: “We go live to the 30-room-mansion in Windsor where Andrew lives.”
🤷
Also news tonight: “We go live to the 30-room-mansion in Windsor where Andrew lives.”
🤷
October 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
News tonight: Prince Andrew stripped of everything.
Also news tonight: “We go live to the 30-room-mansion in Windsor where Andrew lives.”
🤷
Also news tonight: “We go live to the 30-room-mansion in Windsor where Andrew lives.”
🤷
Gratuitous shots of Tom Daley in the shower is the kind of #everydaysexism I rail against. #traitors
October 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Gratuitous shots of Tom Daley in the shower is the kind of #everydaysexism I rail against. #traitors
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I’m in a pub, with my dog and a pint, reading a broadsheet paper.
This is just how I hoped my 50s would be.
This is just how I hoped my 50s would be.
October 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I’m in a pub, with my dog and a pint, reading a broadsheet paper.
This is just how I hoped my 50s would be.
This is just how I hoped my 50s would be.
It’s Spurs vs Man Utd from 1976 on ITV4’s Big Match Live.
Absolute end to end stuff. Tackles flying in.
Ralph Coates’ hair.
Two kids climbing 150ft up the floodlights for a better view
Football was better then.
Absolute end to end stuff. Tackles flying in.
Ralph Coates’ hair.
Two kids climbing 150ft up the floodlights for a better view
Football was better then.
October 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
It’s Spurs vs Man Utd from 1976 on ITV4’s Big Match Live.
Absolute end to end stuff. Tackles flying in.
Ralph Coates’ hair.
Two kids climbing 150ft up the floodlights for a better view
Football was better then.
Absolute end to end stuff. Tackles flying in.
Ralph Coates’ hair.
Two kids climbing 150ft up the floodlights for a better view
Football was better then.