Andrew Bickle
@wikibickle.bsky.social
Cappuccino-drinking, cake-eating problem-solver. Enjoying the fresh air in the BlueSky.
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Quick, the Americans are distracted.
Let's get up to European hijinks.
Let's get up to European hijinks.
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Quick, the Americans are distracted.
Let's get up to European hijinks.
Let's get up to European hijinks.
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COP30 in Brazil was billed as the “implementation summit”, when hot air turned to action. But Edelman, the PR firm that won the contract to promote the climate summit, was pulling in two directions.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
COP30 in Brazil was billed as the “implementation summit”, when hot air turned to action. But Edelman, the PR firm that won the contract to promote the climate summit, was pulling in two directions.
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Knowing your love of a pop culture founding myth, the A-Team opening begins by saying they're wanted for a crime they didn't commit.
The crime: robbing the bank of Hanoi
The defence: they were ordered to do so by US Command
The point: that order is *still illegal*: you cannot rob civilian banks!
The crime: robbing the bank of Hanoi
The defence: they were ordered to do so by US Command
The point: that order is *still illegal*: you cannot rob civilian banks!
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Knowing your love of a pop culture founding myth, the A-Team opening begins by saying they're wanted for a crime they didn't commit.
The crime: robbing the bank of Hanoi
The defence: they were ordered to do so by US Command
The point: that order is *still illegal*: you cannot rob civilian banks!
The crime: robbing the bank of Hanoi
The defence: they were ordered to do so by US Command
The point: that order is *still illegal*: you cannot rob civilian banks!
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“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 AM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
Definitely in my top five favourite comedy films. If you haven’t already seen, I beg you to watch. If you have, go on and watch it again
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Definitely in my top five favourite comedy films. If you haven’t already seen, I beg you to watch. If you have, go on and watch it again
“Killing in the name of….”
November 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“Killing in the name of….”
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'When the Wolves Were Running', the first episode of The Box of Delights, was originally broadcast on this day in 1984.
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
'When the Wolves Were Running', the first episode of The Box of Delights, was originally broadcast on this day in 1984.
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Lionel Jeffries in The Quatermass Xperiment (1955). His age at the time? TWENTY NINE
November 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Lionel Jeffries in The Quatermass Xperiment (1955). His age at the time? TWENTY NINE
Good. An absolute waste of time and money. Why it was decided the best idea would be for political parties to put forward candidates is anyone’s guess
Police and crime commissioner roles to be abolished
Police and crime commissioner roles to be abolished
Police and crime commissioner roles will be abolished, the policing minister has announced.
news.sky.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Good. An absolute waste of time and money. Why it was decided the best idea would be for political parties to put forward candidates is anyone’s guess
My previous idea for James Bond still stands: make the next film a period piece set in the 1960’s
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
My previous idea for James Bond still stands: make the next film a period piece set in the 1960’s
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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If you're traveling by train, buy some fucking headphones. I don't want to listen to your shitty music, hear a crappy American comedy, or listen to a conversation with your significant other who's a bigger twat than you.
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
If you're traveling by train, buy some fucking headphones. I don't want to listen to your shitty music, hear a crappy American comedy, or listen to a conversation with your significant other who's a bigger twat than you.
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Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.
Put head above parapet on twitter to tweet about a stabbing at a local college which was an altercation between 2 students. Hit with a delude of racist responses from people with ‘MAGA’, ‘British patriot’ and similar in their bios telling me what I witnessed is wrong. Have deleted my twitter account
November 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Put head above parapet on twitter to tweet about a stabbing at a local college which was an altercation between 2 students. Hit with a delude of racist responses from people with ‘MAGA’, ‘British patriot’ and similar in their bios telling me what I witnessed is wrong. Have deleted my twitter account
A friend texts from abroad this morning
“What has happened to your country?”
Three words:
Right wing grifters
That’s what happened
“What has happened to your country?”
Three words:
Right wing grifters
That’s what happened
November 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A friend texts from abroad this morning
“What has happened to your country?”
Three words:
Right wing grifters
That’s what happened
“What has happened to your country?”
Three words:
Right wing grifters
That’s what happened
The guy who wants the Nobel Peace Prize says he will restart nuclear weapon testing #slowhandclap Does American nuke technology need testing, or does Dementia Donny think they are just like really really big fireworks? 🤷♂️
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The guy who wants the Nobel Peace Prize says he will restart nuclear weapon testing #slowhandclap Does American nuke technology need testing, or does Dementia Donny think they are just like really really big fireworks? 🤷♂️
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Checking in on the White House renovations…
October 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Checking in on the White House renovations…
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News in Colombia reports that Alejandro Carranza, a career fisherman pictured below, was one of the people Trump killed when he blew up his boat.
October 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
News in Colombia reports that Alejandro Carranza, a career fisherman pictured below, was one of the people Trump killed when he blew up his boat.
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RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
October 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
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Struggling to find much humour in the likely next leader of the Conservative Party cosplaying the National Front of the 1970s.
October 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Struggling to find much humour in the likely next leader of the Conservative Party cosplaying the National Front of the 1970s.
If you look at everything that Labour does through the lens of “What would Reform voters want us to do?”, all their decisions make sense
“It is designed to capture cumulative disruption.”
Shabana Mahmood denies that strengthened protest laws were created with the Gaza protests specifically in mind.
Shabana Mahmood denies that strengthened protest laws were created with the Gaza protests specifically in mind.
October 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
If you look at everything that Labour does through the lens of “What would Reform voters want us to do?”, all their decisions make sense
I might stand for parliament using this:
“I will make the UK the largest economy in the world”
“How will you do that?”
“I’m tired of irrelevant questions”
“I will make the UK the largest economy in the world”
“How will you do that?”
“I’m tired of irrelevant questions”
Kuenssberg: “Where would the 150,000 people you plan to deport each year actually go?”
Badenoch: “I’m tired of irrelevant questions.”
The Tories have an idiot in charge, one who doesn’t know NI voted Remain or why deportation deals even matter. #ukpolitics
Badenoch: “I’m tired of irrelevant questions.”
The Tories have an idiot in charge, one who doesn’t know NI voted Remain or why deportation deals even matter. #ukpolitics
October 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I might stand for parliament using this:
“I will make the UK the largest economy in the world”
“How will you do that?”
“I’m tired of irrelevant questions”
“I will make the UK the largest economy in the world”
“How will you do that?”
“I’m tired of irrelevant questions”