Stephen Graham
@stephengraham.bsky.social
PhD researcher: identity and development in University Service Unit cadets. Also historian, rake and villain.
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Stephen Graham
@stephengraham.bsky.social
· Nov 15
The Faces of Fascism - Mussolini, Hitler & Franco: Their Paths to Power: Amazon.co.uk: Graham, Stephen: 9781915490148: Books
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Y'know what's huge right now? Fascism!
Who knows what it is? Nobody!
Why not get a handle on it with a fascinating and fast-moving biography of Mussolini, Hitler and Franco? Written by me!
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/191549014...
Who knows what it is? Nobody!
Why not get a handle on it with a fascinating and fast-moving biography of Mussolini, Hitler and Franco? Written by me!
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/191549014...
It's like I always say, the BBC lost its way when it started taking complaints seriously instead of letting Barry Took roll his eyes at them.
News Chronicle, December 1936. Those were the days...
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
It's like I always say, the BBC lost its way when it started taking complaints seriously instead of letting Barry Took roll his eyes at them.
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I like the Carry On films but the lore is too confusing, impossible for modern audiences to accept these people could play a major part in the French Revolution AND lose their bras on camping holidays
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I like the Carry On films but the lore is too confusing, impossible for modern audiences to accept these people could play a major part in the French Revolution AND lose their bras on camping holidays
I've definitely put on weight, though. I used to be 8lbs 10oz.
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I've definitely put on weight, though. I used to be 8lbs 10oz.
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WHO SHOULD BE THE NEXT BBC D-G?
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
WHO SHOULD BE THE NEXT BBC D-G?
We wouldn't have any of this Bond handwringing if we hadn't allowed the art of Hack Writing to die out. Stick a paperback novelist in his shed for the weekend with a bottle of whisky, and you'd have got cinema gold.
November 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
We wouldn't have any of this Bond handwringing if we hadn't allowed the art of Hack Writing to die out. Stick a paperback novelist in his shed for the weekend with a bottle of whisky, and you'd have got cinema gold.
Every previous Bond film ended with him drifting off to sea with a lady, and did Christopher Wood, Roald Dahl or George MacDonald Fraser worry about that? Pull your socks up, Horowitz.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Every previous Bond film ended with him drifting off to sea with a lady, and did Christopher Wood, Roald Dahl or George MacDonald Fraser worry about that? Pull your socks up, Horowitz.
The Bond movie people shouldn't worry about their next script, anyway - there's literally hundreds of iterations of 'Ian Fleming's Moonraker' waiting to be sent the instant the copyright runs out.
November 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The Bond movie people shouldn't worry about their next script, anyway - there's literally hundreds of iterations of 'Ian Fleming's Moonraker' waiting to be sent the instant the copyright runs out.
Heretical opinion - a period-set Bond would actually be shite.
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Heretical opinion - a period-set Bond would actually be shite.
Anyway, this video of Prof Hannah Fry popped up on my Instagram and I can't believe your filthy mind went there.
November 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Anyway, this video of Prof Hannah Fry popped up on my Instagram and I can't believe your filthy mind went there.
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We all know that Americans don't understand sarcasm so the Beeb should just do the most ott apology imaginable to Trump and everybody's happy.
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
We all know that Americans don't understand sarcasm so the Beeb should just do the most ott apology imaginable to Trump and everybody's happy.
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
He's the shittest extortionist ever, isn't he? He's just been lucky that Yanks roll over at the mention of big numbers.
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
He's the shittest extortionist ever, isn't he? He's just been lucky that Yanks roll over at the mention of big numbers.
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Can't even cottage now, because of woke.
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Can't even cottage now, because of woke.
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We'll probably lose against them too
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
We'll probably lose against them too
The BBC can just ignore Trump's Friday deadline: as we've seen with Putin, those things are more elasticated than your mum's gusset.
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The BBC can just ignore Trump's Friday deadline: as we've seen with Putin, those things are more elasticated than your mum's gusset.
Funko are going under? What will 90% of the shelf space in Forbidden Planet be filled with now?
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Funko are going under? What will 90% of the shelf space in Forbidden Planet be filled with now?
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Can’t believe Disney have pulled all their money out of Tim Davie.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Can’t believe Disney have pulled all their money out of Tim Davie.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
I will never 'watch to the end' and none of you will ever make me.
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I will never 'watch to the end' and none of you will ever make me.
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The BBC, both as a radio broadcaster, and a TV broadcaster, didn’t start out doing news at all. News is the upstart department. Its job is to act as a national fireplace. And that’s properly vital now, more than ever.
I reckon a shared national popular culture is just as important (if not more important) than a fact based, impartial news service for liberal democracy to work.
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The BBC, both as a radio broadcaster, and a TV broadcaster, didn’t start out doing news at all. News is the upstart department. Its job is to act as a national fireplace. And that’s properly vital now, more than ever.
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"Hello, yes? Yes, it is an emergency. I've accidentally..."
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"Hello, yes? Yes, it is an emergency. I've accidentally..."
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Guess what. BBC News channel is showing yet another Nigel Farage ‘press conference’.
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Guess what. BBC News channel is showing yet another Nigel Farage ‘press conference’.
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Feels like there are only two types of opinion column now.
Right Wing papers: 'The world is going to hell, because of woke'
Centre Left papers: 'The thing you like is bad/cringe'
Right Wing papers: 'The world is going to hell, because of woke'
Centre Left papers: 'The thing you like is bad/cringe'
November 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Feels like there are only two types of opinion column now.
Right Wing papers: 'The world is going to hell, because of woke'
Centre Left papers: 'The thing you like is bad/cringe'
Right Wing papers: 'The world is going to hell, because of woke'
Centre Left papers: 'The thing you like is bad/cringe'