Deborah McAndrew
@deborahmc.bsky.social
Playwright and actor with a theatre company and a beautiful dog. Audio books and Scottish whisky are my drugs of choice. Staffordshire, England
deborahmcandrew.com
claybodytheatre.com
deborahmcandrew.com
claybodytheatre.com
Lunchtime dog walk listening sorted!*
*I prefer to confront the uncanny in broad daylight 😬👻
*I prefer to confront the uncanny in broad daylight 😬👻
Come with me back to my hometown of Newcastle for a truly chilling poltergeist case. It's 1997, and a house of disaffected goths are about to experience something that really will make their hair stand on end😱👻😱
Uncanny | Listen on BBC Sounds
Uncanny | Listen on BBC Sounds
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Lunchtime dog walk listening sorted!*
*I prefer to confront the uncanny in broad daylight 😬👻
*I prefer to confront the uncanny in broad daylight 😬👻
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Entertaining Mr Bennett, a
FREE film at the Dudson Centre, Hope street, Hanley. 6th December. A compilation of archive films and recodings of things Bennett found entertaining and sometimes used in his writing. Famous stars he knew at the SAVOY HOTEL.
FREE film at the Dudson Centre, Hope street, Hanley. 6th December. A compilation of archive films and recodings of things Bennett found entertaining and sometimes used in his writing. Famous stars he knew at the SAVOY HOTEL.
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Entertaining Mr Bennett, a
FREE film at the Dudson Centre, Hope street, Hanley. 6th December. A compilation of archive films and recodings of things Bennett found entertaining and sometimes used in his writing. Famous stars he knew at the SAVOY HOTEL.
FREE film at the Dudson Centre, Hope street, Hanley. 6th December. A compilation of archive films and recodings of things Bennett found entertaining and sometimes used in his writing. Famous stars he knew at the SAVOY HOTEL.
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Racism is not justified by immigration levels or rising poverty, unemployment or crime.
It is not justified, period.
I see the rising wave of voices & arguments justifying the rising levels of racism as the most sinister political development in 2025 on the British landscape.
It is not justified, period.
I see the rising wave of voices & arguments justifying the rising levels of racism as the most sinister political development in 2025 on the British landscape.
The Home Secretary explaining that the rise in racist violence is, actually, the natural response to higher levels of immigration is a state of affairs that can't exist without the government having largely decided that racist violence is, if not legitimate, at least understandable.
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Racism is not justified by immigration levels or rising poverty, unemployment or crime.
It is not justified, period.
I see the rising wave of voices & arguments justifying the rising levels of racism as the most sinister political development in 2025 on the British landscape.
It is not justified, period.
I see the rising wave of voices & arguments justifying the rising levels of racism as the most sinister political development in 2025 on the British landscape.
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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They missed opportunities to save lives….
But, didn’t miss opportunities for political friends to make £billions from VIP Lane PPE and Covid Testing deals..
Viplanebook.com
@bylinetimes.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social
But, didn’t miss opportunities for political friends to make £billions from VIP Lane PPE and Covid Testing deals..
Viplanebook.com
@bylinetimes.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Day by day, how Johnson and Hancock missed opportunities to grip Covid crisis trib.al/OK0T0YX
Day by day, how Johnson and Hancock missed opportunities to grip Covid crisis
Baroness Heather Hallett’s report on the government response to Covid accused Johnson of being too “optimistic” in his outlook in the early months of 2020
inews.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
They missed opportunities to save lives….
But, didn’t miss opportunities for political friends to make £billions from VIP Lane PPE and Covid Testing deals..
Viplanebook.com
@bylinetimes.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social
But, didn’t miss opportunities for political friends to make £billions from VIP Lane PPE and Covid Testing deals..
Viplanebook.com
@bylinetimes.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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I simply do not understand how the govt can simultaneously believe (1) they don’t have enough political capital to breach the manifesto on tax and (2) they have enough to political capital to pick an unwinnable fight with their own MPs on immigration.
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I simply do not understand how the govt can simultaneously believe (1) they don’t have enough political capital to breach the manifesto on tax and (2) they have enough to political capital to pick an unwinnable fight with their own MPs on immigration.
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Is it just people who have an arts background and move into politics that are considered to have failed? Or is it applied equally to all politicians - failed lawyers, failed investment bankers, failed landlords etc.
The right wing approach now is to put me in a box with an incredibly successful politician who just won a stunning victory.
This is Pure Cope Exhibit A
Join.greenparty.org.uk
This is Pure Cope Exhibit A
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Is it just people who have an arts background and move into politics that are considered to have failed? Or is it applied equally to all politicians - failed lawyers, failed investment bankers, failed landlords etc.
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Nothing says keep the BBC more strongly than Farage, Trump, Putin and Netanyahu saying it should go.
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Nothing says keep the BBC more strongly than Farage, Trump, Putin and Netanyahu saying it should go.
Somewhat archaic use of the word ‘overlooks’ also… unless they were implying something else? Or perhaps a new definition of the word entirely - one that means ‘showing up and paying respect’?
If they only knew how to zoom in, they might just be able to make out the red poppy too....
November 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Somewhat archaic use of the word ‘overlooks’ also… unless they were implying something else? Or perhaps a new definition of the word entirely - one that means ‘showing up and paying respect’?
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If they only knew how to zoom in, they might just be able to make out the red poppy too....
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
If they only knew how to zoom in, they might just be able to make out the red poppy too....
Excellent. I hope so!
At this rate, they’re gonna have a full choir by next week.
November 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Excellent. I hope so!
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I love how, in a 20 year timeframe, we've "transitioned to a knowledge economy" - but somehow also unilaterally decided that knowing stuff is so fundamentally worthless, it can be outsourced to a Magic 8 Ball stuffed with pages from a thesaurus by a handful of sociopaths six thousand miles away
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I love how, in a 20 year timeframe, we've "transitioned to a knowledge economy" - but somehow also unilaterally decided that knowing stuff is so fundamentally worthless, it can be outsourced to a Magic 8 Ball stuffed with pages from a thesaurus by a handful of sociopaths six thousand miles away
This gives me hope.
A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.
November 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
This gives me hope.
Someone also needs to ask them where the flags are made!
November 2, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Someone also needs to ask them where the flags are made!
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The Haunt, 1969, painting by by L.S. Lowry (The Lowry). #NorthernArt
October 31, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The Haunt, 1969, painting by by L.S. Lowry (The Lowry). #NorthernArt
Absolutely this. Come on Keir! Imagine for one moment if the person saying these thing was not a RICH WHITE MAN but… oh, I dunno…
October 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Absolutely this. Come on Keir! Imagine for one moment if the person saying these thing was not a RICH WHITE MAN but… oh, I dunno…
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- Saturday Open Day -
Photographer @philshallcross.bsky.social and Architectural artist @stevehenshall.bsky.social representing their respective exhibitions today at www.twodoorsstudio.co.uk ..
Photographer @philshallcross.bsky.social and Architectural artist @stevehenshall.bsky.social representing their respective exhibitions today at www.twodoorsstudio.co.uk ..
- Time of the Season -
An Exhibition of Fine Art & Photography
22nd October - January 2026
Two Doors Studio. Alsager. Cheshire.
alsager.nub.news/whats-on/art...
An Exhibition of Fine Art & Photography
22nd October - January 2026
Two Doors Studio. Alsager. Cheshire.
alsager.nub.news/whats-on/art...
October 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
- Saturday Open Day -
Photographer @philshallcross.bsky.social and Architectural artist @stevehenshall.bsky.social representing their respective exhibitions today at www.twodoorsstudio.co.uk ..
Photographer @philshallcross.bsky.social and Architectural artist @stevehenshall.bsky.social representing their respective exhibitions today at www.twodoorsstudio.co.uk ..
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Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
October 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
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The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth
October 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth
This is true👇🏻
Sorry I keep talking about this but I’m genuinely alarmed by the growing narrative that poverty is a cause of racism. First it’s super insulting of people on low incomes. Second it normalises & excuses racist takes. And third it deters real action on racism by shifting the whole focus to economics.
October 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is true👇🏻
Because this intelligent, targeted use of valuable police resources will make our country SO much safer*
*Not
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*Not
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BREAKING: Heroic police officers save public from this terrifying terrorist who was holding a sign the government doesn’t like x
October 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Because this intelligent, targeted use of valuable police resources will make our country SO much safer*
*Not
😡
*Not
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