Nick Barlow
@nickbwalking.bsky.social
Writer, walker, Who and Wolves fan. Lives in Whitehaven. Lots of other things that don't begin with W. https://linktr.ee/nickbarlow He/him
Avatar: Me (50ish man with greying hair and beard) smiling at the camera.
Avatar: Me (50ish man with greying hair and beard) smiling at the camera.
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A quick reminder of who Nigel Farage was most concerned about when Putin's tanks first rolled into Ukraine
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A quick reminder of who Nigel Farage was most concerned about when Putin's tanks first rolled into Ukraine
Today's it's grey and rainy, but last week it was clear blue skies and snow-topped mountains, so we had a nice walk up Latrigg.
Wainwrighting: A Snow-Covered Latrigg
And a dog who found a new source of joy
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November 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Today's it's grey and rainy, but last week it was clear blue skies and snow-topped mountains, so we had a nice walk up Latrigg.
I remember that even back in 1998 some people found a way to turn this into "how dare they call Doctor Who a children's show" discourse.
This BBC kids tv advert from 1998 is still very impressive and very lovely
November 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I remember that even back in 1998 some people found a way to turn this into "how dare they call Doctor Who a children's show" discourse.
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It's true! Money may be exchanged for ska and services.
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
It's true! Money may be exchanged for ska and services.
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Full Hollywood-ised Hero's Journey version of Doctor Who: The Movie containing every bad idea from the previous attempts. Then threaten people who oppose my rule with having to watch it.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Full Hollywood-ised Hero's Journey version of Doctor Who: The Movie containing every bad idea from the previous attempts. Then threaten people who oppose my rule with having to watch it.
Wait, does this mean he joined Labour because his mother gave birth to him in labour?
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Wait, does this mean he joined Labour because his mother gave birth to him in labour?
"His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy, there's vomit on his cassock already, Mom's spaghetti."
November 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy, there's vomit on his cassock already, Mom's spaghetti."
To be fair, the British media have learned the lesson from these elections and they're not going to let Conservative or Labour politicians make unfounded and unevidenced populist claims about the country, society or economy.
The fact that in both 2019 and 2024, the winning party did so with a set of manifesto promises that could not be kept and dissolved upon contact with actual office is something that as an industry we should be much more bothered by than we are.
November 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
To be fair, the British media have learned the lesson from these elections and they're not going to let Conservative or Labour politicians make unfounded and unevidenced populist claims about the country, society or economy.
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The fact that in both 2019 and 2024, the winning party did so with a set of manifesto promises that could not be kept and dissolved upon contact with actual office is something that as an industry we should be much more bothered by than we are.
November 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The fact that in both 2019 and 2024, the winning party did so with a set of manifesto promises that could not be kept and dissolved upon contact with actual office is something that as an industry we should be much more bothered by than we are.
Doctor Who day, and time to watch the episode that started it all:
Wall's Sky Ray - Dr. Who (1967, UK, cinema)
YouTube video by LesterLeapsIn1
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November 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Doctor Who day, and time to watch the episode that started it all:
"Hey now, hey now now, sing this corrosion to me..."
November 23, 2025 at 6:57 AM
"Hey now, hey now now, sing this corrosion to me..."
"Right Keir, we've spent days showing you how Zack Polanski is doing really well by being open and honest in interviews."
"Got it. I'll get in there and do the exact opposite of that."
"Got it. I'll get in there and do the exact opposite of that."
November 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
"Right Keir, we've spent days showing you how Zack Polanski is doing really well by being open and honest in interviews."
"Got it. I'll get in there and do the exact opposite of that."
"Got it. I'll get in there and do the exact opposite of that."
That'll be the man who panicked so badly over Covid he fled to Northumbria lecturing other people on mental toughness, will it?
Seems probably bad that this guy was functioning as a shadow PM at one stage
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
That'll be the man who panicked so badly over Covid he fled to Northumbria lecturing other people on mental toughness, will it?
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This, from the Guardian, is Ryanair at its very worst.
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?
November 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This, from the Guardian, is Ryanair at its very worst.
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?
It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this...
I wonder if legislation is needed?
Just working out the #strictly maths after La Voix withdrew and thinking unless they have a week with no eliminations they're only going to have two people in the final...and then they announce no one's leaving this week.
November 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Just working out the #strictly maths after La Voix withdrew and thinking unless they have a week with no eliminations they're only going to have two people in the final...and then they announce no one's leaving this week.
Yet another example of how you can be well-educated and also a bit thick. There's a Channel 4 documentary of him and his mother (Prue Leith) looking at assisted dying in Canada and it's remarkable how little he engages - personally or intellectually - with people he disagrees with.
"America is British", "socialism is heaven". Good Charlotte Edwardes profile of Danny Kruger, in which he gets the opportunity to say what he really thinks. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Yet another example of how you can be well-educated and also a bit thick. There's a Channel 4 documentary of him and his mother (Prue Leith) looking at assisted dying in Canada and it's remarkable how little he engages - personally or intellectually - with people he disagrees with.
The Trump-Mamdani meeting is a reminder that Mayor of NYC is the one job that might have made Trump actually happy.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Trump-Mamdani meeting is a reminder that Mayor of NYC is the one job that might have made Trump actually happy.
Just read this and god, yes, so much here I've wanted to scream out into the world.
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Just read this and god, yes, so much here I've wanted to scream out into the world.
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What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/
Take a break from doomscrolling and watch Dougal playing in the snow for the first time. (Near the top of Latrigg in the Lake Distrixt, for the curious)
November 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Take a break from doomscrolling and watch Dougal playing in the snow for the first time. (Near the top of Latrigg in the Lake Distrixt, for the curious)
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We're an undeniable border violation. We exist and we show that the border between male and female is both permeable and not simply a hierarchy. So we have to be dealt with the way border problems are - extreme violence or a complex series of exceptions.
I think you cannot understand anything until you realise the scale of cis society's obsession with transfeminity and the lengths it goes to not only to quarantine and punish it, but construct social rituals to navigate its presence in everyday cis life.
November 19, 2025 at 7:18 AM
We're an undeniable border violation. We exist and we show that the border between male and female is both permeable and not simply a hierarchy. So we have to be dealt with the way border problems are - extreme violence or a complex series of exceptions.
"We can always tell" enacted into law, Reform and the Tories will probably counter by promising to make Forstater the Transfinder General.
The core aim of the Terf movement - a tiny number of newspaper columnists who melted the brains of middle aged reactionaries - was always to encourage maximum public hostility against transgender people, and give them the impunity to act upon it.
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
"We can always tell" enacted into law, Reform and the Tories will probably counter by promising to make Forstater the Transfinder General.
A story set in the future of Albert Square? What could possibly go wrong?
November 20, 2025 at 7:52 AM
A story set in the future of Albert Square? What could possibly go wrong?
Anthology slice of future life series across all the different civilizations. Klingon scientists, Cardassian sports, Romulan builders.
What is your Star Trek project that only you would love?
All of the TOS episodes rewritten in the Mirror Universe. 79 episodes of pure uncut goateed chaos.
All of the TOS episodes rewritten in the Mirror Universe. 79 episodes of pure uncut goateed chaos.
a man with a beard is standing with his arms crossed in a room .
ALT: a man with a beard is standing with his arms crossed in a room .
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November 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Anthology slice of future life series across all the different civilizations. Klingon scientists, Cardassian sports, Romulan builders.