Chris Addison
@mrchrisaddison.bsky.social
Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy.
Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett [email protected]
Avi pic by Clara Wolden. Background pic designed by Gentleman Jim Gloster.
Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett [email protected]
Avi pic by Clara Wolden. Background pic designed by Gentleman Jim Gloster.
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Chris Addison
@mrchrisaddison.bsky.social
· Nov 17
I intend to use this new, less-sullied place to:
1) Make gently humourous observations about everyday life;
2) Post charming pictures;
3) Crush my enemies utterly beneath my heel.
1) Make gently humourous observations about everyday life;
2) Post charming pictures;
3) Crush my enemies utterly beneath my heel.
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Absolutely right. I criticise BBC News, because we need it to be as good as we know it can be. People like Farage criticise the BBC, because they work for its competitors and don't want it to exist.
🎯 Davey is spot on. "We can have criticism of the BBC, but within that, we need to recognise how valuable an institution it is [and how] precious to our country. And that's one of the reasons why people like President Trump and Nigel Farage, want to undermine the BBC." 👏🏽~AA
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Absolutely right. I criticise BBC News, because we need it to be as good as we know it can be. People like Farage criticise the BBC, because they work for its competitors and don't want it to exist.
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Second five star review!
ALBUM OF THE WEEK
The Man From Delmonte release their debut studio album, Better Things, only 38 years after releasing their first single
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The Man From Delmonte release their debut studio album, Better Things, only 38 years after releasing their first single
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@iainlee.com @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social @wayneafcarey.bsky.social @nigelcarruk.bsky.social
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The Man From Delmonte: Better Things - Album Review
The Man From Delmonte finally release their debut studio album, Better Things, only 38 years after releasing their first single
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November 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Second five star review!
Just saw The Producers for the second time this year and I’m absolutely knackered from laughing. It’s perfect. Andy Nyman and his incredible performance lead a peerless cast. Everyone spot on. Jaw dropping gag after jaw dropping gag. Joy joy joy.
November 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Just saw The Producers for the second time this year and I’m absolutely knackered from laughing. It’s perfect. Andy Nyman and his incredible performance lead a peerless cast. Everyone spot on. Jaw dropping gag after jaw dropping gag. Joy joy joy.
This podcast ep, on freedom of speech, is excellent. And concludes with my dear pal and cricket buddy of 34 years, the Prof - Anshuman Mondal - actually giving some sage advice on how to deal with the weaponisation of free speech by people pushing racist (etc) agendas.
www.npr.org/podcasts/510...
www.npr.org/podcasts/510...
Code Switch
What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore ...
www.npr.org
November 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This podcast ep, on freedom of speech, is excellent. And concludes with my dear pal and cricket buddy of 34 years, the Prof - Anshuman Mondal - actually giving some sage advice on how to deal with the weaponisation of free speech by people pushing racist (etc) agendas.
www.npr.org/podcasts/510...
www.npr.org/podcasts/510...
Treats in the post! My brilliant friend wrote another very lovely book for Christmasheads.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Treats in the post! My brilliant friend wrote another very lovely book for Christmasheads.
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Heartbroken to share the news that recruitment to Undergraduate Music courses at the University of Nottingham has been suspended.
Please do contact us on [email protected] if you would like to support us.
Please do contact us on [email protected] if you would like to support us.
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Heartbroken to share the news that recruitment to Undergraduate Music courses at the University of Nottingham has been suspended.
Please do contact us on [email protected] if you would like to support us.
Please do contact us on [email protected] if you would like to support us.
There’s a posh woman in this pub with a voice so loud an American couple are complaining. Skillz.
November 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
There’s a posh woman in this pub with a voice so loud an American couple are complaining. Skillz.
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Beat the Christmas rush
I've just launched my #Christmas Gift Guide.
There’s 10% off everything in my online shop with code XMAS25 until Friday.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-gi...
I've just launched my #Christmas Gift Guide.
There’s 10% off everything in my online shop with code XMAS25 until Friday.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-gi...
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Beat the Christmas rush
I've just launched my #Christmas Gift Guide.
There’s 10% off everything in my online shop with code XMAS25 until Friday.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-gi...
I've just launched my #Christmas Gift Guide.
There’s 10% off everything in my online shop with code XMAS25 until Friday.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-gi...
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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
I really don’t mind which team wins the #CWC25 final because whoever it is will be good for the game, but I just love Laura Woolvardt and I’d love the version where she drags SA over the line. Anyway, Cricket’s the winner, innit. 🏏🇮🇳🇿🇦
November 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I really don’t mind which team wins the #CWC25 final because whoever it is will be good for the game, but I just love Laura Woolvardt and I’d love the version where she drags SA over the line. Anyway, Cricket’s the winner, innit. 🏏🇮🇳🇿🇦
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Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph.
Sunak in the Times.
Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper.
Johnson in the Mail.
Gove editing the Spectator.
Farage everywhere.
All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made.
Nauseating.
Sunak in the Times.
Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper.
Johnson in the Mail.
Gove editing the Spectator.
Farage everywhere.
All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made.
Nauseating.
November 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph.
Sunak in the Times.
Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper.
Johnson in the Mail.
Gove editing the Spectator.
Farage everywhere.
All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made.
Nauseating.
Sunak in the Times.
Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper.
Johnson in the Mail.
Gove editing the Spectator.
Farage everywhere.
All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made.
Nauseating.
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1 November 1901 | A Polish Jew, Joachim Astel, was born in Przemyśl. The last rabbi in Czech Kroměříž.
In #Auschwitz from 11 June 1942.
No. 39253
He perished in the camp on 24 June 1942.
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Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U
In #Auschwitz from 11 June 1942.
No. 39253
He perished in the camp on 24 June 1942.
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Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
1 November 1901 | A Polish Jew, Joachim Astel, was born in Przemyśl. The last rabbi in Czech Kroměříž.
In #Auschwitz from 11 June 1942.
No. 39253
He perished in the camp on 24 June 1942.
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Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U
In #Auschwitz from 11 June 1942.
No. 39253
He perished in the camp on 24 June 1942.
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Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U
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Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Friday night. As ever, the world is filled with women who look like a million dollars and men who’ve made fuck all effort. Her: perfectly chosen outfit, hair immaculate. Him: hoodie.
October 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Friday night. As ever, the world is filled with women who look like a million dollars and men who’ve made fuck all effort. Her: perfectly chosen outfit, hair immaculate. Him: hoodie.
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this will save lives
November 9, 2024 at 11:30 PM
this will save lives
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Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?
October 31, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
1
NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
2
[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
6
NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
7
NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
8
KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
9
[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
10
MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
11
[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
12
[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Thrilled with this morning’s Lime Bike Basket Lottery win.
October 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Thrilled with this morning’s Lime Bike Basket Lottery win.
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My Brutalist Christmas cards are back by popular demand!
Get yours here www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-ca...
Get yours here www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-ca...
October 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
My Brutalist Christmas cards are back by popular demand!
Get yours here www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-ca...
Get yours here www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-ca...
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🌳 As a #NationalTrust member I’ve just voted for the recommended slate to keep out the bogus, right-wing entryists of “Restore Trust”. Anything this creep wants is bad for Britain and bad for our heritage.
🌳 If you’re a member, vote Recommended Slate now: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
🌳 If you’re a member, vote Recommended Slate now: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
One vital reason to vote in the National Trust elections and for the NT endorsed candidates. We can't risk the Restore Trust candidates getting any influence on it.
October 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🌳 As a #NationalTrust member I’ve just voted for the recommended slate to keep out the bogus, right-wing entryists of “Restore Trust”. Anything this creep wants is bad for Britain and bad for our heritage.
🌳 If you’re a member, vote Recommended Slate now: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
🌳 If you’re a member, vote Recommended Slate now: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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Only been in this train for three minutes and the woman in the next seat just said into her phone 'Like Eric Morcombe said, I've only got one arm full!' I have pulled the emergency cord.
October 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Only been in this train for three minutes and the woman in the next seat just said into her phone 'Like Eric Morcombe said, I've only got one arm full!' I have pulled the emergency cord.
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28 October 1934 | Dutch Jewish girl, Esther Louise Pachter, was born in Amsterdam.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in October 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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Children at Auschwitz. Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in October 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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Children at Auschwitz. Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
October 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
28 October 1934 | Dutch Jewish girl, Esther Louise Pachter, was born in Amsterdam.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in October 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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Children at Auschwitz. Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in October 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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Children at Auschwitz. Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
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28 October 1944 | A transport of 1,308 Jewish women prisoners left #Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. They were transferred to KL Bergen-Belsen.
Most probably among them were sisters Anne and Margot Frank who died there of typhus in February 1945.
Most probably among them were sisters Anne and Margot Frank who died there of typhus in February 1945.
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
28 October 1944 | A transport of 1,308 Jewish women prisoners left #Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. They were transferred to KL Bergen-Belsen.
Most probably among them were sisters Anne and Margot Frank who died there of typhus in February 1945.
Most probably among them were sisters Anne and Margot Frank who died there of typhus in February 1945.