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Episode 1. A stolen gong, a dead cockapoo and a cutout of Dirk Bogarde. If you like your comedy silly and full of jokes, step inside...

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Mate, come on. Of *course* she still believes in unicorns
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
A brilliant artist with a quite extraordinarily messy life
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Lawrence Stephen Lowry, Ships Near Cumberland Coast, 1963
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135624
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Honestly if I'd been given the Reith Lectures and one line got lawyered I'd shut up about it
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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“Laidlaw is the melancholy heir to Marlowe. Reads like a breathless scalpel cut through the bloody heart of a city’ – @damedenisemina.bsky.social

William McIlvanney at Dundee Literary Festival 2013, in conversation with @russeldmclean.bsky.social
#CrimeFiction 💙📚
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William McIlvanney at Dundee Literary Festival 2013
YouTube video by literary dundee
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November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Emanuel de Witte of Alkmaar. Painter of churches, markets, portraits. All-around great artist! Here, Nieuwe Kerk in Delft w/ tomb of William the Silent, 1656.
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Er, I'm good thanks, Duolingo
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Fond memories of the time on the old place when a guy called me a grifter “writing books for cash” for writing a book with an extremely loosely Japanese connection, before launching on a jaw-dropping racist rant about the Japanese (genuinely featured the words “cruel race” iirc)
Gone, but not forgotten
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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This s the one thing we didn't want to happen.

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November 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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A strange choice to publish this… unverified… story on BBC Verify.
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Butternut Squash?
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Dan O’Bannon said: '“Fuck ’em. If I can’t make them laugh, I’ll scare the shit out of them.” And that was the seed for his screenplay for Alien.'
‘We used a beachball as an alien!’ John Carpenter on his gloriously shonky sci-fi comedy Dark Star
‘The control room buttons were upside-down ice-cube trays, one space suit had a dish-drying rack on it – and the special effects guy wrote the theme tune lyrics’
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Hope Dad has his motoring gloves on.
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
We featured this place in s4 of Bravo Two Charlies
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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What do you buy for the Londoner who probably has everything there is to do with London already? Here's a selection of what you might want to buy for them.

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14 gift ideas for Londonphilles this Christmas
What do you buy for the Londoner who probably has everything there is to do with London already? Here's a selection of what you might want to buy for them.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Lots of artists have been great at B-sides but only The Teardrop Explodes and Julian Cope (albeit perhaps not beyond My Nation Underground) did enough to compile into a stone-cold, no notes, filler-free, ten-out-of-ten, sky-high all-time masterpiece. open.spotify.com/playlist/0ju...
East Of The Equator – The Other Side Of Julian Cope & The Teardrop Explodes
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November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Stop whatever sensible thing you're doing and curl up with the Rightmove Roundup immediately. We've got a peeling old mansion flat in Bloomsbury, a shack by the river Douro in Portugal and a luxury Neapolitan mansion overlooking the sea: heawood.substack.com/p/its-a-cosy...
It's a cosy little Sunday evening Rightmove Roundup
Weeping over the dialectical nature of truth in Bloomsbury 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
heawood.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Prisoner 951, though. So calmly devastating. I doubt there's a better director than Philippa Lowthorpe working in TV anywhere at the moment.
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Tried The Death of Bunny Munro and...hmmmm. Feels like something from the 90s. Tortured self-loathing is just another way of romanticising wretched men as rock'n'roll outlaws, isn't it.
November 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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When my wife left me it cured me of any fantasy that being "Left" was desirable
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM