Richard Cooper
@richardhcooper.bsky.social
Reads, writes, watches, gets increasingly leftwing as he gets older. I live in Battle, East Sussex. I’m 41. I try & write essays (on literature, film, TV drama, TV comedy) for my blog. I have an MA. I’m on the Spectrum. Socialism or barbarism.
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One Foot in The Grave: some thoughts on a masterpiece
One Foot in the Grave is one of the least suburban, least traditional sitcoms ever made. It's worth stressing this, because the Daily M...
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new followers won’t have seen these so what the hell: essays on each of the four greatest sitcoms
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Share a 90s movie you believe needs more love…
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Share a 90s movie you believe needs more love…
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Share a 90s movie you believe needs more love…
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Share a 90s movie you believe needs more love…
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Great big news!
My book, LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK is coming to America! I'm so pleased that @princetonupress.bsky.social will be publishing my strange, slippery take on Spark's life and work. It'll be out in spring!
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My book, LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK is coming to America! I'm so pleased that @princetonupress.bsky.social will be publishing my strange, slippery take on Spark's life and work. It'll be out in spring!
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November 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Great big news!
My book, LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK is coming to America! I'm so pleased that @princetonupress.bsky.social will be publishing my strange, slippery take on Spark's life and work. It'll be out in spring!
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My book, LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK is coming to America! I'm so pleased that @princetonupress.bsky.social will be publishing my strange, slippery take on Spark's life and work. It'll be out in spring!
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The nightmare of Graham Linehan is that I don’t really think he’s a case of diminished responsibility, even though stupidity that self-defeating is hard not to think of as insane. His addiction since July 2018 has been to unrelenting narcissism, self-justification, ego massage…
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The nightmare of Graham Linehan is that I don’t really think he’s a case of diminished responsibility, even though stupidity that self-defeating is hard not to think of as insane. His addiction since July 2018 has been to unrelenting narcissism, self-justification, ego massage…
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new writing is now up on the haunt: thehaunt.blog/2025/11/25/t...
The Haunted House On Film Part One
Over the next few months I’ve decided to spend some time exploring the haunted house in horror film. Given the simplicity of the plots and the general structure which has become so well established…
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November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
new writing is now up on the haunt: thehaunt.blog/2025/11/25/t...
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Trying to find out where a 17 year old lives and where they go to college IS harassment. It just is.
If the cunt wasn't rich & famous, there's no way this verdict would have gone this way. THIS is two-tier justice.
If the cunt wasn't rich & famous, there's no way this verdict would have gone this way. THIS is two-tier justice.
linehan has been found not guilty of harassment.
linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage.
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really starting to wonder exactly what that man has to do to be found guilty of harassment??
he spends every day online doxxing and stalking ppl.
linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage.
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really starting to wonder exactly what that man has to do to be found guilty of harassment??
he spends every day online doxxing and stalking ppl.
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Trying to find out where a 17 year old lives and where they go to college IS harassment. It just is.
If the cunt wasn't rich & famous, there's no way this verdict would have gone this way. THIS is two-tier justice.
If the cunt wasn't rich & famous, there's no way this verdict would have gone this way. THIS is two-tier justice.
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Thinking Alan Dershowitz is mainstream is beyond self parody.
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Thinking Alan Dershowitz is mainstream is beyond self parody.
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Man, I hope competent Dems and leftwing pols the world over hold up Starmer (/McSweeney) and Reeves' government as a cautionary tale for decades and decades to come and hence salvage something from that slow-rolling, unnecessary train-wreck of 'centrism,' fiscal orthodoxy, de facto austerity, &c.
Britain’s Most Unpopular Chancellor in Decades Faces Another Big Test
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November 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Man, I hope competent Dems and leftwing pols the world over hold up Starmer (/McSweeney) and Reeves' government as a cautionary tale for decades and decades to come and hence salvage something from that slow-rolling, unnecessary train-wreck of 'centrism,' fiscal orthodoxy, de facto austerity, &c.
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Treating a failed campaign for president that ushered in an era of fascist terror like it was the second interview to be a Jamba Juice manager.
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Treating a failed campaign for president that ushered in an era of fascist terror like it was the second interview to be a Jamba Juice manager.
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The Kamala Harris book is so excruciating
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The Kamala Harris book is so excruciating
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"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love...
Breakdown! I've been thinking again about the late J.T. Walsh, one of those all-timer "that guy!" actors, a name you mightn't know but you'd absolutely recognize him and go "holy shit, it's that guy!"
Anyway, he was great in this with Kurt Russell
Breakdown! I've been thinking again about the late J.T. Walsh, one of those all-timer "that guy!" actors, a name you mightn't know but you'd absolutely recognize him and go "holy shit, it's that guy!"
Anyway, he was great in this with Kurt Russell
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love...
Breakdown! I've been thinking again about the late J.T. Walsh, one of those all-timer "that guy!" actors, a name you mightn't know but you'd absolutely recognize him and go "holy shit, it's that guy!"
Anyway, he was great in this with Kurt Russell
Breakdown! I've been thinking again about the late J.T. Walsh, one of those all-timer "that guy!" actors, a name you mightn't know but you'd absolutely recognize him and go "holy shit, it's that guy!"
Anyway, he was great in this with Kurt Russell
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Melt ice
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
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She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Melt ice
DO IT
Zack Polanski tells the BBC it would be "very tempting" for him to stand in Keir Starmer's seat at the next general election
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
DO IT
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Do it, @zackpolanski.bsky.social.
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Zack Polanski tells the BBC it would be "very tempting" for him to stand in Keir Starmer's seat at the next general election
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Do it, @zackpolanski.bsky.social.
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Please help Abo Jameel and his family if you can, they're hungry and freezing:
chuffed.org/project/1574...
chuffed.org/project/1574...
November 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Please help Abo Jameel and his family if you can, they're hungry and freezing:
chuffed.org/project/1574...
chuffed.org/project/1574...
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It’s weird how in Beckett’s Endgame, every time Hamm says ”I need a piss” Clov says “I’ll fetch the catheter.” Surely that’s not how catheters work?
November 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
It’s weird how in Beckett’s Endgame, every time Hamm says ”I need a piss” Clov says “I’ll fetch the catheter.” Surely that’s not how catheters work?
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Hello Monday.
🖼️ EH Shepard, 1931.
🖼️ EH Shepard, 1931.
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Hello Monday.
🖼️ EH Shepard, 1931.
🖼️ EH Shepard, 1931.
Rewatching it this Christmas. Perfect festive viewing.
And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus
Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC
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November 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Rewatching it this Christmas. Perfect festive viewing.
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And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus
Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC
thequietus.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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“Hold on, you mean what you say?”
Welker: Do you think that Trump is a fascist?
Mamdani: That’s something that I’ve said in the past. I say it today.
Welker: You’ve called him a despot. Do you still believe Trump is a threat to the democracy?
Mamdani: Everything that I’ve said in the past, I continue to believe.
Mamdani: That’s something that I’ve said in the past. I say it today.
Welker: You’ve called him a despot. Do you still believe Trump is a threat to the democracy?
Mamdani: Everything that I’ve said in the past, I continue to believe.
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
“Hold on, you mean what you say?”
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"How much better can you eat?" those six words express one of the key elements of all crime fiction and film as succinctly, and even poetically, as anyone ever has
November 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"How much better can you eat?" those six words express one of the key elements of all crime fiction and film as succinctly, and even poetically, as anyone ever has
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November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I have stuff to do today but I am now seriously tempted to go and watch about three hours of Harry Enfield's Television Programme.
I still can't hear the M25 mentioned without thinking of Harry Enfield's character repeatedly saying "You don't wanna go on the M25" and the other bloke saying "I didn't go on the M25!"
November 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I have stuff to do today but I am now seriously tempted to go and watch about three hours of Harry Enfield's Television Programme.