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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 20h

#totp

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Graeme. Fantastic work on the book (both books!)

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 1d

How were China Crisis?

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 1d

Obsessed with the Nobel Peace Prize guy's arms.

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 1d

Leave me alone, Simple Minds, you bloody stalkers! (I'm thrilled, obviously 🙂) Glad you enjoyed the show. Where was it?

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 1d

I’m delighted and honoured to have contributed a chapter to this excellent new book about one of my favourite periods of Doctor Who. As I type this, the Kickstarter page went live 45 minutes ago and it’s already over halfway to hitting the target!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...

THE GRAHAM WILLIAMS YEARS - The DNA of Doctor Who

Our second title in a range of beautiful large-format books focusing on the creative team behind BBC Television's DOCTOR WHO!

www.kickstarter.com

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 1d

That audience did give me a sliver of hope, actually. (It's the hope that kills you.)

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely this. Was quite enjoying Zack Polanski and Zia Yusuf going at it on QT last night, then had to have a word with myself. It's good telly, but terrible for democracy.

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 1d

I can still recite the whole of Take Me, I'm Yours (and did, in the bath recently) but can't remember to put the bins out.

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 1d

Amen to that. (Though Difford's the lyric man, surely?)

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 2d

FreeAlanBudd

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 2d

Please imagine Jenna Coleman tapping her watch at you.

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 2d

I like The Number One Song in Heaven, but I still think Pet Shop Boys went on to do that stuff so much better.

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 2d

I like everything about Sparks - the attitude, the aesthetic, the jokes - except the actual songs.

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 2d

Well, I guess this is as good as it gets, career-wise. A magazine cover story about a band that's been the soundtrack to my life for 40 years.

Stick a fork in me, I'm done 😎

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 2d

FB Memories reminds me of the time those lads who were selling a bowl of Lucky Charms for six quid a pop got a book deal and produced the laziest 'Will this do?' thing ever published.

Cereal Killer. Like serial killer. Those people who murder people. Geddit?

If you put a gun to my head on a rollercoaster while defusing a bomb I could still think of something better than what they've farted onto this page.

Cut out masks of the two perpetrators of the cafe should you wish to look like a prick or a twat.

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 2d

Will Smith is really bringing his Marillion fetish to work this season. #SlowHorses

Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 2d

See also I'm A Celeb. Always more fun watching people forge unlikely friendships than tedious manufactured rows. (Which is why Big Brother is unwatchable.)

Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 2d

US #Traitors casts sneaky & backstabbing celebrities to amp up drama. UK celeb version already feels smart for the opposite instinct: national treasures, Olympians and overall sound types. Their liking for each other makes the game more challenging and the programme funnier & warmer. Great first ep.

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 2d

Alan Carr is such a great booking. #CelebrityTraitors

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 2d

Could make good use of these round here.

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 2d

Good shout. (Are you familiar with this gorgeous collab?)

Jim White - Static On The Radio

YouTube video by Phil Bebbington

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 2d

And... Leonard Cohen, Stuart Murdoch, Justin Currie, Neil Tennant, Conor Oberst, Jenny Lewis, Guy Garvey... (Most overrated: Bob bloody Dylan)

Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 2d

Paddy McAloon. (But Taylor is definitely up there.)

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 5d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 3d

We definitely need to get more kids studying STEM subjects. And Britain does have a long-running productivity problem, which means a lower standard of living for everyone. But they should offer incentives for that, instead of just trash-talking the humanities.

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, Media Studies absolutely *should* be one of the most important subjects a student can take in the current landscape. But the GCSE Media Studies syllabus is not fit for purpose. My son spent more time studying [checks notes] the 2015 BBC cop drama Cuffs than media ownership.

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