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Nick Clay
@nickclay.bsky.social
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11+ failure, frustrated musician, actual criminal defence lawyer.
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · 5d
I think I can see why West Ham are having so much trouble this season. Playing Arsenal and Manchester Utd away *at the same time* is a stretch too far.
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · 13d
Starmer’s white-hot heat of barcode technology
Principal Skinner/Keir Starmer ponders digital ID cards
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · 13d
Were the CPS correct to abandon their authorised charge on 22/5? If the 6-month limit does not include the day of the alleged offence - Verderers of the New Forest v Young [2004] EWHC 2954 (Admin) - then was that not arguably in time? Or was that charge flawed in some other way?
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · 18d
Emily’s Granpa, in case you were struggling to recall what he looks like next to Palin, Heaton, Macca and Lewis.
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · 18d
Mandy Rice-Davies
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · 19d
Us 11 years ago…
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · Sep 5
I see Primark are using The Slits’ version of Heard It Through The Grapevine in their new advert.
I wonder how far Shoplifting got in the selection shortlist?
#DoARunner
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · Aug 30
[being murdered]

murderer: (murdering) what are you doing on your phone

me: (putting away phone) my bad what's up what's going on
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · Sep 1
Alan Plater's 1973 Land Of Green Ginger is fantastic.
The real star is the footage of early 1970s Hull (and The Watersons singing in the Blue Bell).
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · Aug 29
Just before that bit, they sneaked in a ‘fucking hell” which only adds to its brilliance.
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Andy Parmo @andyparmo.co.uk · Aug 29
Your mam shouts at hotels and your dad paints roundabouts
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · Aug 28
While you wait for the film to start, why not enjoy James Robertson Justice's Wikipedia entry? It's a wild ride:- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R...
James Robertson Justice - Wikipedia
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · Aug 22
Lydon’s No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs ought to be fertile ground.
IIRC, it includes a gloating reference the Sex Pistols using stolen equipment followed pages later with a denunciation of thieves.
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · Aug 20
Oooh!
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · Aug 17
@skyview.social unroll
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · Aug 10
Always the ones you most expect
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 10
Kwasi Kwarteng to speak at event for firm that helps super-rich pay less tax
Kwasi Kwarteng to speak at event for firm that helps super-rich pay less tax
Former chancellor who devised disastrous 2022 mini-budget hired for Nomad Capitalist’s conference Kwasi Kwarteng, the former chancellor dismissed after 38 days following his disastrous 2022 mini-budget for Liz Truss, has been hired as a keynote speaker by an advisory firm offering services to help the super-rich pay less tax. Nomad Capitalist, which bills itself as the “masters of international mobility”, lists the second shortest-serving postwar incumbent of 11 Downing Street as one of the star attractions at its annual conference, which will take place in September in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Continue reading...
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · Aug 9
Perverse
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · Aug 6
😮
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · Jul 6
I agree, but the fact the compiler slipped this brilliant top line in on 18/6 means I am prepared to forgive her.
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · Jul 2
You’re a firestarter, a seated firestarter.
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · Jun 27
Pool Hall dickhead
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · Jun 27
Just listened to this episode because Emily is my daughter. She should’ve added that she is the person who manufactured/gifted you the sweary bracelets in Leeds a few weeks ago.
Encouraged by her, I dived into TFTM in January.
Being methodical, I started at the beginning. I’m now up to Aug 2019.
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · Jun 27
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Nick Clay @nickclay.bsky.social · Jun 26
I saw this blue plaque in Whitefriargate today. I had not noticed it before, and was briefly taken aback until the joke dawned on me.
When I got back to my office I found this HDM piece from June 24. Is it possible that nobody at the paper had a similar period of reflection?
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Mike O’Brien @zoomburst.substack.com · Jun 26
How much stuff have you got? What will happen to it when you die? A morbid thought but one I often think about. I have even written #poetry about it. Rather that than actually get rid of any of it.
35. Stuff
... being a consideration of our relationship to material possessions.
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