Paul Kirkley
@paulkirkley.bsky.social
Still writing Stuff for Things.
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People are so weird about rock stars:
Ozzy Osbourne murders 16 cats in a drug-fuelled frenzy of violence: Legend!
Bono gets African debt cancelled: Pompous prick.
#totp
Ozzy Osbourne murders 16 cats in a drug-fuelled frenzy of violence: Legend!
Bono gets African debt cancelled: Pompous prick.
#totp
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
People are so weird about rock stars:
Ozzy Osbourne murders 16 cats in a drug-fuelled frenzy of violence: Legend!
Bono gets African debt cancelled: Pompous prick.
#totp
Ozzy Osbourne murders 16 cats in a drug-fuelled frenzy of violence: Legend!
Bono gets African debt cancelled: Pompous prick.
#totp
Fascinating how The Beatles endure, in an age when even Elvis is starting to fade. I suppose it's because The Beatles were the start of music as we still understand it today, while Elvis belongs to an era that's gone.
The long and winding road: Stuart Maconie on why our opinions about the Beatles keep changing
The long and winding road: Stuart Maconie on why our opinions about the Beatles keep changing
Fans and historians have spent 60 years debating what the band means – and which member is greatest. Will the returning Anthology project and Sam Mendes’s planned biopics create new arguments?
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Fascinating how The Beatles endure, in an age when even Elvis is starting to fade. I suppose it's because The Beatles were the start of music as we still understand it today, while Elvis belongs to an era that's gone.
What a terrible weekend to have ears.
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
What a terrible weekend to have ears.
Interviewed Harry Enfield and not sure whether I should get an award or a slap for this headline.
weekend-online.co.uk/issue772/#26
weekend-online.co.uk/issue772/#26
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Interviewed Harry Enfield and not sure whether I should get an award or a slap for this headline.
weekend-online.co.uk/issue772/#26
weekend-online.co.uk/issue772/#26
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Stuart Sutcliffe inventing Suede here
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Stuart Sutcliffe inventing Suede here
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Anyone wanting to find Ed Davey's response to the budget on the BBC website, you need to look under ENGLAND -> POLITICS -> PARLIAMENT -> BUDGET -> BEWARE OF THE LEOPARD -> and it's the third item on the page after two pieces about Reform.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Anyone wanting to find Ed Davey's response to the budget on the BBC website, you need to look under ENGLAND -> POLITICS -> PARLIAMENT -> BUDGET -> BEWARE OF THE LEOPARD -> and it's the third item on the page after two pieces about Reform.
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If you've got a history book at home, take it out, throw it in the bin, it's worthless. The history books, now, will have to be rewritten. They'll quite simply say "The OBR released a budget analysis 25 minutes early". Everything else will be a footnote.
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
If you've got a history book at home, take it out, throw it in the bin, it's worthless. The history books, now, will have to be rewritten. They'll quite simply say "The OBR released a budget analysis 25 minutes early". Everything else will be a footnote.
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Imagine TV News covering this farmer protest - banned, but turned up anyway, grinding capital to a halt - if it were about Palestine or climate change, not inheritance tax. Would they present protesters as heroes? Or showing "I need to get to work" and "me auld mam missed her hip operation" voxpops?
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Imagine TV News covering this farmer protest - banned, but turned up anyway, grinding capital to a halt - if it were about Palestine or climate change, not inheritance tax. Would they present protesters as heroes? Or showing "I need to get to work" and "me auld mam missed her hip operation" voxpops?
Ah, great. Now my all-time favourite song - Simple Minds' Someone Somewhere in Summertime - is being used to advertise ChatGPT 😐
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Ah, great. Now my all-time favourite song - Simple Minds' Someone Somewhere in Summertime - is being used to advertise ChatGPT 😐
Had to double-check this fact from The Rest Is Entertainment - but yes, according to market research, people's favourite Christmas ad this year is... the Coke AI one 😐
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Had to double-check this fact from The Rest Is Entertainment - but yes, according to market research, people's favourite Christmas ad this year is... the Coke AI one 😐
Sure the family of the very much still alive Nina Sosanya will love this (entirely deliberate) clickbait picture cropping. Misdirection is now the internet's main job.
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Sure the family of the very much still alive Nina Sosanya will love this (entirely deliberate) clickbait picture cropping. Misdirection is now the internet's main job.
This Budget has never not been about to happen.
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This Budget has never not been about to happen.
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"The guidance is not enforceable".
Ofcom is hopelessly out of touch with what is a national emergency.
www.thetimes.com/article/c47a...
Ofcom is hopelessly out of touch with what is a national emergency.
www.thetimes.com/article/c47a...
Ofcom bans social media giants from using ‘toxic’ algorithms
Regulator targets ‘manosphere’ misogyny and hate as seen in content produced by Andrew Tate
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
"The guidance is not enforceable".
Ofcom is hopelessly out of touch with what is a national emergency.
www.thetimes.com/article/c47a...
Ofcom is hopelessly out of touch with what is a national emergency.
www.thetimes.com/article/c47a...
Always enjoy the disconnect between Pink Pop's name and line-up 💖
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Always enjoy the disconnect between Pink Pop's name and line-up 💖
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…
interestingmedia.blog
November 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My important contribution to #DoctorWho Day.
What Billie's *actually* doing now.
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
What Billie's *actually* doing now.
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It's Doctor Who Day. To celebrate, I've edited and designed a new digital bookazine for @radiotimes.bsky.social, collecting the best of the magazine's articles and rare photography from the show's early years. Download it FREE from www.radiotimes.com/doctor-who-t...
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It's Doctor Who Day. To celebrate, I've edited and designed a new digital bookazine for @radiotimes.bsky.social, collecting the best of the magazine's articles and rare photography from the show's early years. Download it FREE from www.radiotimes.com/doctor-who-t...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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