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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 24m

A combo of an angry as fuck Jaws 2 performance Roy Scheider and Sandra Bullock could liven this up.

Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 1h

My mouth was watering after reading Will’s piece and the wheel of fortune means I have time today to pop in on a lovely quiet afternoon to really appreciate the pub in all its glory.

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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 4h

Began watching this because it’s a Paul Greengrass film and he can handle a story. Starts off strongly in his typical style i.e. frenetic and stressful but then it becomes Bizarro Speed where the bus has to painfully manoeuvre at no more than 20mph while kids scream a lot.

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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 19h

Spent the day immersed in British crime from Brink’s-Mat in the 80s to the Murder Mile of the late 90s/2000s. Ellroy with a whiff of cockles and jerk.

Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 20h

Terrific piece here about the Dog & Bell, Deptford. One of London’s finest boozers.

Will Hawkes @willhawkes.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve written for @pelliclemag.com about the Dog and Bell, a unique pub whose evolution over the past 40 years nevertheless illustrates the story of modern London pubs. It’s here: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out — The Dog and Bell in Deptford, London — Pellicle

On a Friday night in early December, Deptford’s Dog and Bell is Christmas as imagined by a Haribo-addled toddler.  A huge resin Santa, grinning merrily in his sleigh, squats in Prince Street out...

www.pelliclemag.com

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Will Hawkes @willhawkes.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve written for @pelliclemag.com about the Dog and Bell, a unique pub whose evolution over the past 40 years nevertheless illustrates the story of modern London pubs. It’s here: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out — The Dog and Bell in Deptford, London — Pellicle

On a Friday night in early December, Deptford’s Dog and Bell is Christmas as imagined by a Haribo-addled toddler.  A huge resin Santa, grinning merrily in his sleigh, squats in Prince Street out...

www.pelliclemag.com

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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 1d

Bloke in the pub yesterday just casually using nail clippers to trim his fingernails.

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Tim Smith-Laing @timsmith-laing.com · 1d

Courtesy of @thefence.bsky.social I discover that David Mellor has an absolutely incredible house and absolutely execrable taste. Apparently this is decorated in the manner of John Soane. Yeah. Sure.

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Check out this 4 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove

4 bedroom detached house for sale in St Katharine By The Tower, London, E1W for £15,000,000. Marketed by Carter Jonas, Mayfair

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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 1d

Did not know about that. Cracking tale. So that’s 3 different studios in Haringey then. Maybe more.

Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 1d

Thought this was a great piece! It did leave me fuming at the developers though. Have also shared where I can.

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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 2d

Ha. Recorded, partially, at Konk in Hornsey. Also, the lyrics might be a slight nonsense. Who could tell?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

‘The lyrics were throwaway. I never intended keeping them!’ How Feeder made Buck Rogers

‘My wife finds the whole thing hilarious. She was the girlfriend who inspired it. We’ve now been together for 30 years’

www.theguardian.com

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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe that’s why Dutch/Belgium places have receded? You simply cannot have a ‘proper’ night out if you’re wankered off 3 pints of Delirium Tremens and it’s not gone 6.23pm.

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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe that’s the mark of a great USP, it’s the location before the location? No harm in taking money for being the funnel to somewhere better.

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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 2d

Keen to know. Seems to have been a retreat from lowlands themed places. Belgo’s gone, was excellent for Trappist fayre and the Dutch bar on Drury Lane is now a ‘London pub’ (it isn’t) again. Exmouth Arms used to do some good stuff.

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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 3d

Always found it a bizarre pub. A piece of Soho marooned on the wrong of the road. Shift it over 25/30ft and it might be great. I’ll ask myself ‘why haven’t I been in here for a while?’ The answer quickly presents itself.

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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 3d

Admittedly I’ve never actually read Jilly Cooper but this cover (and perhaps Rivals) feels as much a part of my childhood as a Sade album in the car with mum smoking fags with the window up, on a trip to Laura Ashley, Grandstand and Brian Walden boring on at Geoffrey Howe. 🫡

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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 3d

They call me Shadowhat.

Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 3d

Brings your mates for a sit down in Walworth but remember to ask for the keys @deserterblog.bsky.social

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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 3d

Spied around Walworth.

Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 3d

Popped into The Charlie Chaplin, Walworth. Only (re)opened a few months ago after a name change it seems. £5 pints before 8pm which is lovely. No cask ale for the heads. Found it very pleasant for a couple on a Sunday afternoon.

Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 3d

Just putting this here for no reason www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

Fiona Apple Quit Cocaine After An 'Excruciating' Night With Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson

The singer said every addict should be locked in a private movie theater with these two filmmakers.

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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 3d

Great interview/discussion by DiCaprio/PTA about One Battle… Reads like his amazing Boogie Nights commentary where he was pissed up with Wahlberg. Just a director & actor chewing the fat. Belies the false impression PTA is ‘art house’, Midnight Run is name checked ffs www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

What Does Leonardo DiCaprio Want Now?

How do you get the actor talking? Put him in a room with Paul Thomas Anderson. During hours of conversation, two era-defining men—on the record together for the first time—went deep. They cracked some...

www.esquire.com

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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 4d

Feel absolutely drained after watching this. Many things I loved about it not at least Sean Penn on staggeringly lunatic form, his second PTA collaboration where the direction appears to have been ‘you do you Sean’.

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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 4d

If I see a Yop, I’m buying a Yop.

Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · 4d

The poignantly empty perches in Bookmongers, Brixton.

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