Tom Collins
@tcollins.bsky.social
Scribbler, Irish News columnist, dad. Emeritus journalism prof at Stirling University.
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Great chat with quiz legends Brian Mullen and Martin Bradley on BBC Radio Foyle's Mark Patterson Show at lunchtime.
For many years, quizzes were the only entertainment in Derry, providing their own drama, casualties, and deathbed confessions...
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For many years, quizzes were the only entertainment in Derry, providing their own drama, casualties, and deathbed confessions...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Mark Patterson Show - Mark takes on the Handy Wee Derry Quiz Book! - BBC Sounds
Mark takes on the Handy Wee Derry Quiz Book!
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November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Great chat with quiz legends Brian Mullen and Martin Bradley on BBC Radio Foyle's Mark Patterson Show at lunchtime.
For many years, quizzes were the only entertainment in Derry, providing their own drama, casualties, and deathbed confessions...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
For many years, quizzes were the only entertainment in Derry, providing their own drama, casualties, and deathbed confessions...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Michelle Mone can be expelled from the House of Lords by a simple majority vote in the Commons, and then in the House of Lords.
Like if she needs to go.
RT if she has to go.
Like if she needs to go.
RT if she has to go.
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Michelle Mone can be expelled from the House of Lords by a simple majority vote in the Commons, and then in the House of Lords.
Like if she needs to go.
RT if she has to go.
Like if she needs to go.
RT if she has to go.
www.irishnews.com/opinion/tom-... My column in today’s @irishnews.com online and in the shops.
Tom Collins: All of Europe should quake if Trump sells out Ukraine
Pity anyone who has Donald Trump as an ally
www.irishnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
www.irishnews.com/opinion/tom-... My column in today’s @irishnews.com online and in the shops.
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Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...
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1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
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WANTED: A Chair that does not give way when sat on.
November 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
WANTED: A Chair that does not give way when sat on.
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Delighted to announce that vol 30 of 'Review of Scottish Culture' is now available online. It's another super issue, ranging through Scotland and across genres, from senior scholars and emerging voices. All free to download. Now open, for new submissions!
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Delighted to announce that vol 30 of 'Review of Scottish Culture' is now available online. It's another super issue, ranging through Scotland and across genres, from senior scholars and emerging voices. All free to download. Now open, for new submissions!
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n... This is frightening
More than half of UK novelists believe AI will replace their work
A new study by the University of Cambridge found many authors’ work has already been used – without their permission – to train large language models
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n... This is frightening
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My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.
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Life comes at you fast huh
November 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Life comes at you fast huh
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Disrespect, racism and misogyny are running rampant in America because of this parasite of a president‼️
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Disrespect, racism and misogyny are running rampant in America because of this parasite of a president‼️
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wonder if the Washington Post has any strong words about the President being buddy buddy with the man who ordered to have one of their reporters dismembered
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
wonder if the Washington Post has any strong words about the President being buddy buddy with the man who ordered to have one of their reporters dismembered
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I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
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To be a brilliant sketch-writer you have to be so much more than a sketch-writer - and @mrjohncrace.bsky.social is one of the very best.
‘I thought the grownups were back in charge!’: John Crace on how Labour shattered his expectations
After 14 years of Tory rule, the Guardian’s parliamentary sketch writer thought he had seen it all. Westminster would surely tick along nicely once Keir Starmer’s party took over. How wrong he was ...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM
To be a brilliant sketch-writer you have to be so much more than a sketch-writer - and @mrjohncrace.bsky.social is one of the very best.
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Just got an advance copy of my third book published this year, this one co-written with Alan Tate, on the history of Lemon’s Pure Sweets. It looks stunning with over 200 great images and a story at the heart of Dublin life for decades. Great job by Merrion Press as always.
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Just got an advance copy of my third book published this year, this one co-written with Alan Tate, on the history of Lemon’s Pure Sweets. It looks stunning with over 200 great images and a story at the heart of Dublin life for decades. Great job by Merrion Press as always.
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Labour MP Brian Leishman: "The Government has surrendered to... the vile rhetoric of Reform. Does the Home Secretary not see that removing the legal obligation to support asylum seekers who will be otherwise destitute, is as far away from Labour Party principles and values as we can get?"
November 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Labour MP Brian Leishman: "The Government has surrendered to... the vile rhetoric of Reform. Does the Home Secretary not see that removing the legal obligation to support asylum seekers who will be otherwise destitute, is as far away from Labour Party principles and values as we can get?"
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It’s strange that so many politicians claim to be Christian. Christ would be on a beach today welcoming refugees off small boats with tea and blankets. He’d be hated by Reform, hated by the Tories and hated by the tabloids. Christ was woke, after all
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
If Tommy Robinson is celebrating Labour, then the party deserves to die
The UK government’s new asylum and immigration rules are the antithesis of everything Labour is supposed to represent, Neil Mackay argues. By…
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November 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
It’s strange that so many politicians claim to be Christian. Christ would be on a beach today welcoming refugees off small boats with tea and blankets. He’d be hated by Reform, hated by the Tories and hated by the tabloids. Christ was woke, after all
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
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Tick-tock
November 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Tick-tock
www.irishnews.com/opinion/tom-... My column in today’s @irishnews.com online and in the shops
Tom Collins: Even Keir Starmer must know his time as prime minister is up
Prime minister is captain of a ship that thinks every distant iceberg is a destination
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November 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
www.irishnews.com/opinion/tom-... My column in today’s @irishnews.com online and in the shops
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So far today Labour Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been showered with praise by - checks notes - Far Right agitator Tommy Robinson, leader of the Conservatives Kemi Badenoch, the Daily Express and GB News.
November 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
So far today Labour Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been showered with praise by - checks notes - Far Right agitator Tommy Robinson, leader of the Conservatives Kemi Badenoch, the Daily Express and GB News.