Patrick Kincaid
@patrickkincaid.bsky.social
Doctor of Shakespeare, Master of Writing. Author of THE CONTINUITY GIRL. Novelist, editor, teacher. Never AI.
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Oh, this is a great endorsement of my little debut. Nicolas is preparing a BFI Classics volume on Billy Wilder’s masterpiece The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, the film behind the book. A new edition of The Continuity Girl will be available in 2025. Meanwhile, I’m working on a sorta prequel.
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Not a half-baked gesture at all. Tidal has much better quality and pays artists four times as much as Spotify.
I just switched from Spotify to Tidal as a half-baked ethical gesture and maybe this is some sort of aural placebo effect but the difference in sound quality is startling, as though Spotify plays everything through a sock. Or am I just imagining this
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Not a half-baked gesture at all. Tidal has much better quality and pays artists four times as much as Spotify.
Sorry, I should’ve said nonce word of the week, shouldn’t I?
Coinage of the week: brojob.
November 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Sorry, I should’ve said nonce word of the week, shouldn’t I?
Coinage of the week: brojob.
November 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Coinage of the week: brojob.
In the Middle Ages, Kenilworth Castle was rose out of a mere. Today it does so again. Extraordinary.
November 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
In the Middle Ages, Kenilworth Castle was rose out of a mere. Today it does so again. Extraordinary.
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DNA Sequencing Reveals Hitler Was Type Of Fern
DNA Sequencing Reveals Hitler Was Type Of Fern
BATH, ENGLAND—Saying the discovery shed new light on the infamous German dictator’s life, University of Bath researchers revealed DNA sequencing Friday showing that Adolf Hitler was a type of fern. “A...
theonion.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
DNA Sequencing Reveals Hitler Was Type Of Fern
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Haven’t watched it yet but it seems to me there’s an expectation attached to this strand which it can’t possibly live up to. And as others have said, it’s not as if all the BBC PfTs were five-star classics. That wasn’t the point of the exercise.
Play for Today review – Channel 5 has turned wildly influential TV drama into banal pantomime
Play for Today review – Channel 5 has turned wildly influential TV drama into banal pantomime
This revival of the classic BBC drama strand is utterly lacking in the innovative spirit of the original. The next Dennis Potter might be out there somewhere … but they certainly aren’t here
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Haven’t watched it yet but it seems to me there’s an expectation attached to this strand which it can’t possibly live up to. And as others have said, it’s not as if all the BBC PfTs were five-star classics. That wasn’t the point of the exercise.
For “Brezhnev” read “Caligula”.
There’s a “last months of Brezhnev” vibe about the Trump presidency, isn’t there?
November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
For “Brezhnev” read “Caligula”.
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Best description of everything since 2016 tbh
Total Non-Stop Last Episode of Blake's 7 Energy innit?
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Best description of everything since 2016 tbh
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He should have really silly punctuation imposed on him instead, as a mark of shame.
Andrew Mountbatten≠Windsor.
Andrew Mountbatten@Windsor.
Andrew #Mountbatten#Windsor.
Andrew "Mountbatten" "Windsor".
Andrew Mountbatten[...]Windsor.
Andrew Mountbatten ;-) Windsor.
Andrew Mountbatten🍆Windsor.
Andrew Mountbatten≠Windsor.
Andrew Mountbatten@Windsor.
Andrew #Mountbatten#Windsor.
Andrew "Mountbatten" "Windsor".
Andrew Mountbatten[...]Windsor.
Andrew Mountbatten ;-) Windsor.
Andrew Mountbatten🍆Windsor.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s name to be hyphenated, as decreed by late queen
Palace announcement of ex-prince’s new name missed out hyphen used by other descendants of Elizabeth II
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
He should have really silly punctuation imposed on him instead, as a mark of shame.
Andrew Mountbatten≠Windsor.
Andrew Mountbatten@Windsor.
Andrew #Mountbatten#Windsor.
Andrew "Mountbatten" "Windsor".
Andrew Mountbatten[...]Windsor.
Andrew Mountbatten ;-) Windsor.
Andrew Mountbatten🍆Windsor.
Andrew Mountbatten≠Windsor.
Andrew Mountbatten@Windsor.
Andrew #Mountbatten#Windsor.
Andrew "Mountbatten" "Windsor".
Andrew Mountbatten[...]Windsor.
Andrew Mountbatten ;-) Windsor.
Andrew Mountbatten🍆Windsor.
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Dartmoor is dying - it's time to bring it back to life.
Today the Dartmoor Nature Alliance publish a new call to action to restore Dartmoor's habitats: rewet peat bogs, revive heaths by reducing grazing, double temperate rainforest area
Read it & join here:
www.dartmoornature.org.uk/call-to-action
Today the Dartmoor Nature Alliance publish a new call to action to restore Dartmoor's habitats: rewet peat bogs, revive heaths by reducing grazing, double temperate rainforest area
Read it & join here:
www.dartmoornature.org.uk/call-to-action
November 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Dartmoor is dying - it's time to bring it back to life.
Today the Dartmoor Nature Alliance publish a new call to action to restore Dartmoor's habitats: rewet peat bogs, revive heaths by reducing grazing, double temperate rainforest area
Read it & join here:
www.dartmoornature.org.uk/call-to-action
Today the Dartmoor Nature Alliance publish a new call to action to restore Dartmoor's habitats: rewet peat bogs, revive heaths by reducing grazing, double temperate rainforest area
Read it & join here:
www.dartmoornature.org.uk/call-to-action
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When you're a Liverpool theatre and you need an absolute cert to subsidise your more experimental programme.
Hilary Mantel story imagining Margaret Thatcher’s assassination to be staged in Liverpool
Short story set in 1983, and published a year after the former prime minister’s death, considers ‘what happens when people feel they don’t have a voice’ says director John Young
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
When you're a Liverpool theatre and you need an absolute cert to subsidise your more experimental programme.
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We went to a nuclear power station.
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
We went to a nuclear power station.
It wasn’t in the Albert Hall after all.
Sexual developmental disorders are very variable in how they present. Some (a minority) males with this condition have cryptorchidism - an undescended testicle. A smaller proportion have have microphallus - a small penis.
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
It wasn’t in the Albert Hall after all.
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Right. Hitler's DNA. Brace yourselves for a deluge of misinformation and bad science.
I'm in Australia, so do get in touch if you want some expert debunking.
I'm in Australia, so do get in touch if you want some expert debunking.
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Right. Hitler's DNA. Brace yourselves for a deluge of misinformation and bad science.
I'm in Australia, so do get in touch if you want some expert debunking.
I'm in Australia, so do get in touch if you want some expert debunking.
Scripted by Billy Wilder’s longtime collaborator IAL Diamond and it really shows. Catch it if you can.
On the @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social channel at 4.45pm, Walter Matthau & Goldie Hawn star in the 1969 screwball comedy "Cactus Flower" with a soundtrack by Quincy Jones. Goldie Hawn won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in the film. artandhue.com/movie-map
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Scripted by Billy Wilder’s longtime collaborator IAL Diamond and it really shows. Catch it if you can.
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Features glad tidings about this beauty:
Features glad tidings about this beauty:
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Our new newsletter is newsy: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi...
Features glad tidings about this beauty:
Features glad tidings about this beauty:
There’s a “last months of Brezhnev” vibe about the Trump presidency, isn’t there?
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
There’s a “last months of Brezhnev” vibe about the Trump presidency, isn’t there?
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"Why are we all so pleased about digging up a king? Perhaps because the present is paying some of the debt it owes to the past, and science has come to the aid of history."
Hilary Mantel on the finding of Richard III
Here's Hilary Mantel , writing in the London Review of Books, 21 February 2013: Royal bodies do change after death, and not just as a conseq...
liberalengland.blogspot.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"Why are we all so pleased about digging up a king? Perhaps because the present is paying some of the debt it owes to the past, and science has come to the aid of history."
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I reviewed Song (1928), and I wrote about how wonderful Anna May Wong is in it, and how much structural racism has denied us the film histories we should have. www.patreon.com/posts/song-1...
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I reviewed Song (1928), and I wrote about how wonderful Anna May Wong is in it, and how much structural racism has denied us the film histories we should have. www.patreon.com/posts/song-1...
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A second BBC has hit the BBC
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A second BBC has hit the BBC
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Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
I don’t know what to do with a world that has no good news in it.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I don’t know what to do with a world that has no good news in it.
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Watch the moment Flesh was announced as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025, and hear what David Szalay said in his acceptance speech.
youtu.be/ugGpoi1CifY
youtu.be/ugGpoi1CifY
David Szalay wins the Booker Prize 2025 with Flesh | The Booker Prize
YouTube video by The Booker Prizes
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November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Watch the moment Flesh was announced as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025, and hear what David Szalay said in his acceptance speech.
youtu.be/ugGpoi1CifY
youtu.be/ugGpoi1CifY
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On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"
November 9, 2024 at 9:40 PM
On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA