Iain Coleman
@iaincoleman.bsky.social
Writer/Producer of the Thought & Belief channel on YouTube https://youtube.com/@thoughtbelief
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People understandably get caught up in the visions and horsemen and multi-eyed angels and whatnot and miss the basic fact that the book is the exact C1 Jewish-Christian cultural equivalent of a thread predicting Trump gets overthrown by a colour revolution followed by a new Reconstruction
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
People understandably get caught up in the visions and horsemen and multi-eyed angels and whatnot and miss the basic fact that the book is the exact C1 Jewish-Christian cultural equivalent of a thread predicting Trump gets overthrown by a colour revolution followed by a new Reconstruction
Survivors, and it's not even close.
while I am posting trivia, which TV show do you think showed the sharpest fall in quality from first to last seasons? I ask because the answer is obviously The Morning Show, the last series of which was garbage
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Survivors, and it's not even close.
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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
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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-...
April is the cruelest month, Charlie Brown.
Bitches Ain’t Shit, Charlie Brown
About suffering they were never wrong, Charlie Brown
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
April is the cruelest month, Charlie Brown.
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I suppose history does show that both economically destructive capital controls and blatantly racist policy to try to win votes are consistent with Labour values. Specifically the values of losing Labour governments, but that too is a tradition.
Possibly the stupidest idea I've heard in the last few months, which is saying something. Shows utter ignorance around practicalities regardless of the ethics/desirability.
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
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November 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I suppose history does show that both economically destructive capital controls and blatantly racist policy to try to win votes are consistent with Labour values. Specifically the values of losing Labour governments, but that too is a tradition.
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This should really be on a T-shirt.
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This should really be on a T-shirt.
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Ok, ok, ONE more
The original scripted ending for The Deadly Assassin, which would have ended with this BRILLIANT roller caption and they should have kept it in!
#doctorwhoday #doctorwho
The original scripted ending for The Deadly Assassin, which would have ended with this BRILLIANT roller caption and they should have kept it in!
#doctorwhoday #doctorwho
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Ok, ok, ONE more
The original scripted ending for The Deadly Assassin, which would have ended with this BRILLIANT roller caption and they should have kept it in!
#doctorwhoday #doctorwho
The original scripted ending for The Deadly Assassin, which would have ended with this BRILLIANT roller caption and they should have kept it in!
#doctorwhoday #doctorwho
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if you're still writing using the hero's journey, your mind is closed to all the possibilities
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
if you're still writing using the hero's journey, your mind is closed to all the possibilities
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the thing that scares me about Labour HE policy is that because I work in the sector I can see how absolutely insane it is, which makes me wonder just how terrible their policies are in all the other sectors I’m in less of a position to engage with critically out of lack of knowledge.
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
the thing that scares me about Labour HE policy is that because I work in the sector I can see how absolutely insane it is, which makes me wonder just how terrible their policies are in all the other sectors I’m in less of a position to engage with critically out of lack of knowledge.
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The only Doctor Who history you will ever need
My important contribution to #DoctorWho Day.
A complete history of the history of Doctor Who
On November 1963 – coincidentally, just a day after the assassination of President Kennedy – British viewers sat down to watch a new science fiction programme designed to fill the grandstand at Juk…
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November 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The only Doctor Who history you will ever need
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How Jodrell Bank spied on Soviet missile launches. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How Jodrell Bank kept an eye on Cold War Soviet missile launches
How did a giant radio telescope in Cheshire help the West monitor the Soviet Union's nuclear missiles?
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November 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
How Jodrell Bank spied on Soviet missile launches. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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cop in The Wicker Man (leaving unharmed because he slept with that hot blonde): what a strange, sexy island
March 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
cop in The Wicker Man (leaving unharmed because he slept with that hot blonde): what a strange, sexy island
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why does keir starmer always look terrified like this whole political career and prime minister thing started out as a white lie he told to get his a levels pushed back that got really really out of hand and he’s just trying to not get caught.
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
why does keir starmer always look terrified like this whole political career and prime minister thing started out as a white lie he told to get his a levels pushed back that got really really out of hand and he’s just trying to not get caught.
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"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
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There are many shortcomings with the Nazi bar analogy, but one of them is that X really isn't so much a 'is it a Nazi bar', it is 'you arrive at your favourite bar. The landlord is busy pissing in a bucket, adding red dye and pouring it in the red wine bottles. Order a glass of white, Y/N?'
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
There are many shortcomings with the Nazi bar analogy, but one of them is that X really isn't so much a 'is it a Nazi bar', it is 'you arrive at your favourite bar. The landlord is busy pissing in a bucket, adding red dye and pouring it in the red wine bottles. Order a glass of white, Y/N?'
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President Elect of the @libdems.org.uk the wonderful @joshbabarinde.bsky.social says trans rights in parliament (and gets a non answer from the government spokes)
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
President Elect of the @libdems.org.uk the wonderful @joshbabarinde.bsky.social says trans rights in parliament (and gets a non answer from the government spokes)
"Call me Snake"
November 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
"Call me Snake"
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Is it milk?
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Is it milk?
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
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People use "Labour" not to refer to anything the Labour Party itself has ever done or stood for, or even a consistent ideal. It's basically like that cat in the viral post yesterday using its "vacuum" button, but for "thing I approve of" rather than "bad thing".
Once you've seen this you can't unsee it (ht @stephenkb.bsky.social). politicians trying to describe things as "is this Labour", "this is not Labour", "there is nothing Labour about this", "this has the mandate of Labour, it partakes of the Labour nature" as a substitute for good or bad.
November 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
People use "Labour" not to refer to anything the Labour Party itself has ever done or stood for, or even a consistent ideal. It's basically like that cat in the viral post yesterday using its "vacuum" button, but for "thing I approve of" rather than "bad thing".
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I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.
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Ian Richardson's Francis Urquhart was magnificent, but it was really Susannah Harker as Mattie Storin that made this show work, IMO.
The first episode of House of Cards was broadcast on this day in 1990.
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Ian Richardson's Francis Urquhart was magnificent, but it was really Susannah Harker as Mattie Storin that made this show work, IMO.
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The Dossier remains the Most Fun Thing I've ever written.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
If you want to grab THE DRACULA DOSSIER campaign at a discount, Pelgrane have just launched a promotion over at Backerkit.
The Dossier remains the Most Fun Thing I've ever written.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...
The Dossier remains the Most Fun Thing I've ever written.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...