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The Nicholas Parsons Project

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Here because there's nowhere else to go now. And you know what? I'm rather enjoying it. See pinned post regarding what makes me tick and if you're going to follow me, POST SOMETHING! Je ne suis pas Charlie.

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The Nicholas Parsons Project @wazzock.bsky.social · Nov 4

In arbitrary order; beer, cats, philatelic history, broadcasting history, buses, architecture, the Peak District, the Yorkshire coast, cooking, jazz, classical, prog, football, cricket, Tom Lehrer, Flanders & Swann, not doing small talk, fighting against the grim meathook future on multiple fronts.

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · Nov 4

okay, time for a prompt post to distract us all from the horrors. quote this post with your areas of expertise, interest, hyperfixation and/or obsession and invite your audience to ask you questions about them.

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D J E @davidjamesevans.bsky.social · 2h

Last week: Oi, Kids, stop studying arts subjects like English and get yourself down the Amazon warehouse you unproductive worms.

This week: Oi, Immigrants, A-Level English is the gold standard, a key milestone in proving your loyalty and usefulness to His Majesty. Pass it or fuck off.

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The Nicholas Parsons Project @wazzock.bsky.social · 2h

Some statement coming from the guy who starred in Hellcats Of The Navy!

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 3h

If you agree that mandatory digital ID cards are a terrible idea, please ask your MP to sign my motion opposing them.

These plans risk turning us into checkpoint Britain. They must be scrapped.

Email your MP my motion: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 2h

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted a dinner at the five-star Corinthia hotel giving tech barons access to a government minister.

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy

www.theguardian.com

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 3h

Okay this sounds shit, but most companies are forcing people back to the office for equally spurious reasons and not getting a massive newspaper article about it

Wonder if the Herald staff have to do a few days a week in the office 😁

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2553909...

'Humanely insensitive': Civil servants fume at Scottish Government office working

Internal documents reveal the anger among civil servants after the Scottish Government updated its equality impact assessment for office working.

www.heraldscotland.com

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 3h

I've got a very good friend of mine. His vocabulary exceeds the entirety of the current sitting MPs in the House of Commons. He's been living over here north of fifteen years and he spoke and wrote in English long before he moved here.

And yet according to what we've been told THAT'S NOT SUFFICIENT

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 3h

So, let's say you are not *only* have the temerity to be born in a foreign country to foreign parents, what if - and I know in 2025 when Wes Streeting would like nothing more than to send your lazy arse back to work - you are also NEURODIVERGENT TOO

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 3h

Do you compose or publish music in the UK? 'Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores' with the British Library and other legal deposit libraries? www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

Please share with any musicians you know!

Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores

Help us to collect digital scores from composers and independent publishers.

www.bl.uk

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 3h

Just sold a signed copy of "POTATO DISHES" (1960) by the woman in this strange clip
www.britishpathe.com/asset/98519/

WHAT'S COOKING with CHARLIE DRAKE and MARGARET ALDEN Reel Two

A+Heinz+home+cookery+service%2C+demonstrating+how+to+cook+with+Heinz+and+some+comedy+from+Charlie+Drake.

www.britishpathe.com

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The Nicholas Parsons Project @wazzock.bsky.social · 2h

It *is* a noodle, surely! Didn't Marco Polo introduce them to Italy from China in much the same manner that Walter Raleigh brought potatoes to England from the New World?

The Nicholas Parsons Project @wazzock.bsky.social · 3h

Knocking around in my collection I have a CD by Eddie Grundy off of The Archers, and it's much better than it ought to be. It features The Rumour (as in Graham Parker and the) as backing musicians and a duet with Sam Brown on Syd Barrett's Scarecrow.

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 3h

INCREDIBLE WIKIPEDIA
Peter Gabriel, after leaving Genesis in late 1975, produced a single "You Never Know" for Charlie Drake (UK Charisma), with Sandy Denny on backing vocals and Phil Collins on drums. It was not a chart success.

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 18h

The British Army have had more number one singles in Ireland (one) than Aslan, The Corrs, Van Morrison, or The Cranberries (zero).

Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 18h

Starting soon on Irish Number Ones: all our chart-topping singles and acts of 1972, including:
☘️ Nationalist protest songs
☘️ New Irish global superstars
☘️ Ireland's only no. 1 single in Irish
🇬🇧 A British Army unit stationed in Northern Ireland

Yes, it'll be weird: irishnumberones.com

Collage of photos superimposed with the text 1972

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 6h

Batchelor's Windsor Soup—A Meal in itself!
Your first taste of Batchelor's Windsor Soup will quickly convince you that here is something in a class apart, new in flavour, deliciousness, appetising value.

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Jane Hogarth @janehogarth.bsky.social · 6h

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artibartfast @artie.gay · 6h

Beau Greaves, the women's darts world champion, has beaten Luke Littler, the men's darts world champion, in a competitive match, which makes darts' ban on trans women look a wee bit silly

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 5h

I've recently realised that A Canterbury Tale is even greater than I thought - Esma Cannon is in it.

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Sevenoaks, Dartford and Gravesham Liberal Democrats @sevenoakslibdems.bsky.social · 6h

Yet another scandal hits Reform’s #Kent administration. Omnishambles. www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne...

Reform councillor suspended amid investigation into ‘lewd remarks’

A Reform UK councillor has been suspended amid an investigation into allegations of misconduct following a complaint by “several women”.

www.kentonline.co.uk

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The Nicholas Parsons Project @wazzock.bsky.social · 5h

If the Spectator are rushing to condemn them, then they are doing it right. I'd be worried if the Speccy were to endorse their views!

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I’m Ned Ludd and so’s my wife @heptaglemious.bsky.social · 5h

It’s beginning to look as if Reform UK Ltd. care as little about candidate selection as they do about human rights, climate change, or facts.

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 5h

Reform UK suspend county councillor after complaint

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK suspend Kent county councillor after complaint

An investigation is pending into a complaint made by some women into the behaviour of Robert Ford.

www.bbc.co.uk

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DC @tanngrisnir.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t know what he thinks “the truth” is, but I see the writer of the piece is well-known TERF Gareth Roberts. I’m assuming he’s anti the Greens as well.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7h

Many on the right will try and belittle and undermine what’s happening.

But here’s the truth. Tens of thousands are joining Greens. Polls are at record highs. People are just starting to feel hope again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The truth about the green party's booming membership

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The Nicholas Parsons Project @wazzock.bsky.social · 5h

Why oh why every time I arrange for Royal Mail to pick up a parcel, knowing full well that I will be in, do they send Edward Marshmallowhands? And they charge for re-collection, so they can get stuffed. A trip to the Post Office it is then. At least I know the subpostmaster will get it done.

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · Aug 14

People are always rightly pointing out that Warhammer contributes more to the British economy than the fishing industry, but the problem is that there just aren't very many folk songs about Warhammer

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7h

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

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@GalaxyFarrahWay @galaxyfarrahway.bsky.social · 1d

What an absolutely gorgeous photo of Diane Keaton.

JerseyGirlDefiant @catmom10.bsky.social · 2d

Rest in peace Diane

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