Stephen Cottrell.
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Stephen Cottrell.
@stecottrell.bsky.social
How many special people, Dave
Can you fit on the roof of your cabriolet?
@unseriousdarts.bsky.social Comito looks like he should be on a no-show Job at the Newark waterfront
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Ah man, Robin Smith. Great, great man. Horrible news. A genuine childhood hero.
December 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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this is unequivocally a war crime
Hegseth - and the people carrying out his orders - need to be tried in The Hague for this
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Aurora or something to do with the moon? In Surrey.
November 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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I don’t say this lightly, but I may have found the essence of TFTM here. From a Dis n Dat Phil Daniels shaking Lady Di, to a Rod Hull & Emu impersonator, and I’m only 3 minutes in. Enjoy
1983: A Package Holiday to Benidorm | Forty Minutes | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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November 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Seems the bbc will do absolutely anything for celebrity traitors.
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
‘Martin Parr notices that his audience engages most keenly when they recognise something from their own lives – the moment that comes to us all one day, in a museum or an exhibition, of “we had one like that”.’

Rosemary Hill on the photographer’s new memoir.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rosemary Hill · Saturdays at the Sewage Works: Martin Parr’s People
It is on the border between the ordinary and the peculiar that Parr likes to work. He points out, more than once, that...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Russia still considers the UK one of its prime enemies.

And what’s the best way to bring ‘Britain to its knees’ again as the former Russian Ambassador to London once boasted?

Repeat the talking points of Farage and Far right activists - key collaborators in Putin’s mission
October 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Decades after the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters, can politicians please not second-guess expert safety assessments for football stadiums.

Thank you.

An Aston Villa fan.
October 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Never forget the time the Sun published a sneering article mocking 'snowflake' academics and students for correctly understanding the whole fucking point of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
October 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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A brave Hungarian peasant girl.
Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
October 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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This is a great piece of local journalism - about all those flags going up in Brum.

Some interesting details.
Ryan Bridge has become a familiar face in Stirchley lately. He's one of two "company directors" of raisetheflags.org, where he collects donations from £10-£500 for flags.
October 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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'out of the three mass shootings today'
Iraq War veteran Thomas Sanford has been identified as the gunman who attacked Grand Blanc Mormon church, killing 2 people and setting it ablaze. Out of the three mass shootings today, two of them have been carried out by Iraq war veterans.
September 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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“Legitimate concerns.”
September 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I’m rewatching Sightseers for the first time since it came out. I was mildly underwhelmed at the time - toying it was a bit too obvious after Downe Terrace and Kill List, but it is bone CT overly fantastic.
September 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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I've never seen a comma work so hard
September 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Angela Rayner is a hero
September 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Wordle 1,536 1/6

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It’s all downhill from here
September 2, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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September 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Actual Conservative front bench politicians are calling for the government to overturn a not guilty verdict returned by an independent jury in respect of a political rival.

Trump levels of partisan, anti-rule of law authoritarianism.
August 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Israel Accuses Al Jazeera Of Being Mouthpiece For Journalism
theonion.com/israel-...
August 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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if I ever go properly "screaming about nothing in particular in the street" mad it will be due to having spent too much time having read about the opinions of men who have absolutely never cared about women's rights for one moment in their lives but decided to pretend just for the sake of racism
The Mail on Sunday: TOP TORY'S FEARS FOR DAUGHTERS OVER BOAT MIGRANTS #TomorrowsPapersToday
August 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM