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Paul Quinn

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In 2020 I appeared on The World at One (albeit talking about the creator of Scooby Do). In 2025 I made two crude masks out of felt and crepe paper for two fairly laboured jokes on a Dr Who YouTube Channel. How times change.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · Jul 25

Q. What does the world not need?
A. Another Dr Who podcast?

Fortunately my daughter suggested we do a Star Wars podcast (because the world 'definitely' needs another one of them).

Here's the introductory episode.

open.spotify.com/episode/0n3N...

Qui-Gon Quinns love cute Star Wars aliens. And lightsabers.

Qui-Gon Quinns' Star Wars Podcast · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 13h

It would have to be into December as I have some public lectures between now and the first week of December. But yes, I'm up for that.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 7d

Hugely underrated piece of sci-fi, second best of the season only let down by some odd design decisions and the skirt (which is explained in the novel).

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 7d

He should be living in 1980 with Jimmy Savile and his mother.

Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 8d

But I do wonder if he's a comedy act designed to annoy the Right.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 8d

www.spectator.co.uk/article/what...

Then he doubled down.

Oxford educated - massive brain, no sense.

What my GB News incest row critics fail to understand

If reproductive and non-reproductive incest are so bad, why do people resort to personal attacks as opposed to moral arguments?

www.spectator.co.uk

Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 8d

www.theargus.co.uk/news/2480979...

East Grinstead - doesn't surprise me in the least.

Ex Sussex councillor defends sibling marriage on live television

Ex-Sussex councillor Charles Amos defended marriages between siblings on GB News.

www.theargus.co.uk

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 8d

As he's been on the telly defending incest then he could be his own grandfather

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 8d

Coming soon on @thepolisbox.bsky.social or Strictly, this bollox in McCoy's pullover defends the politics of Nation, Haisman and Lincoln, or bitches about wokeness and RTD.

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 8d

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

An article from The Times: "Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future". Featuring bizarre portraits of Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin and Daniel Campbell.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 8d

Someone should tell the one in the middle that Sylvester McCoy disapproves of his politics (and that he's making Dr Who fans look like twats. It's a surprise, I know).

Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 13d

Or that's what a majority of the British public are now. 40 years of Right-wing propaganda across all forms of media, anything to distract from the social and economic cost of neo-liberalism, has poisoned discourse and the body politic.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 13d

Do Kemi and Nigel stick bits of carpet on the sides of their heads when they are fantasising about wielding the chainsaw?

Kemi would probably cut the head of a SPAD and then blame her lefty teachers.

Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 13d

Is it an irrational hatred when the people for whom you have an apparent irrational hatred (past reason hatred) are, in fact, utter cunts?

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 15d

Greatness, it has greatness

Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 15d

It has greatest but it's no Villa or Orphan 55.

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Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 15d

It's impossible to prosecute this season.

Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 15d

TOO SOON!!!!

Paul Quinn @pljquinn.bsky.social · 15d