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The problem with going from 2000 followers on the other terrible place to less than three dozen here is that I don’t get to talk to complete strangers about football :(

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Pundits inform me that Mbappe was 'much closer to himself' last night, but also 'not himself'. #football

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Never a bad choice.

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A Day At The Seaside (1970) - timwright.typepad.com/the_sleep_ar... #sleepartist

The notion that death liked to follow Peter Shure around is not a new one. As Roman Polanski once remarked:
"Je me demande si la mort essaie toujours d'apprendre de Peter...

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Watched Edge of The City (1957) last night. Cassavetes and Poitier - both impossibly young - light up what is in the end a tame knock-off of On The Waterfront, albeit with what must have been a serious and edgy racial element at the time. #amwatching #film

youtu.be/GLffmmkImiM?...

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Why on earth would people want to boo the vaccine-denying pandemic-partying Serb nationalist Djokovic?🤔

www.theguardian.com/sport/articl...

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Getaway (1996) - timwright.typepad.com/the_sleep_ar... #sleepartist

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Yeah I can see you would like that 😃

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He is the first PM for quite a while to have actually run an organisation before becoming a party leader, isn’t he? (Although of course Boris ‘led’ the Spectator 😂)

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So far, Labour look like they’re on course for a vote share of less than 35% across the country, but will gain a majority of nearly 100 seats. Yet another result that shows why Britain needs to adopt a proportional voting system.

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Carla Denyer FTW. Excellent. Great to have someone in Westminster who’s so focussed, serious and caring about the things that really matter : the climate emergency, environmental justice, voting reform, fair renting, taxing the rich. #votegreen

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Penny Mordaunt fallen on a sword made by Reform.

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Oh please let it be Jeremy Hunt. I’d be tempted to go back to Twitter just to send him a farewell message.

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Gosh it must be a troubling time for the squillionaire Rishi Sunak 😂

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Suella Braverman doing yet another ‘sorry it wasn’t me’ speech when she’s been in the cabinet not once but twice. 🤮

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Btw the Reform guy at the count was a perfectly affable bloke. God knows what thoughts are in his head, but that’s not the point. The weirdos were the Conservatives - gilets for blokes, Carrie dress for women - & the only smokers in the place, talking to no-one else. Maybe that’s just Lambeth. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Some of them still could go to prison.

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Dawn Butler (about to be returned as a Labour MP) says that she thinks there’ll be a stronger conversation about moving to a proportional electoral system after this election. Good.

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You couldn’t do that before smartphones and the web. 😂😃

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All media! The clusterfuck of MSM photographers around him is sickening. Nuremberg rallies were very photogenic I’m told.

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Currently it’s the lowest turnout since 2005.

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Just please don’t ask Labour to hold a referendum on the issue so they can kill it as Cameron did.

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It is low. If you put together all the parties that want electoral reform and add a good chunk of voters who have disengaged with voting at all, I’d say the case for some form of PR is stronger than it’s ever been.

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God it feels good to have Grant Schapps gone. Also, his haircut is an atrocity.

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Btw I’ve spent the evening at the Lambeth count. I am buzzed by how well organised everything is & how committed everyone is about getting all the ballots sorted accurately & honestly. It’s my first time of seeing democracy in action at a physical level - it’s great. Shame on you if you didn’t vote.

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I am here for Neil Kinnock’s unfettered ‘I’m so old I can say anything’ vibe. And i don’t even vote Labour. #bbc #election

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Heh. Well... can't change the system by voting for the system IMO. I don't think people are stupid just because they don't vote tactically 🙃😉

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A lot of people who vote Green do so precisely because they know how unfair FPTP is and don’t want to vote for a party that supports it and benefits from it.

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RIP Robert Towne, who crystallised the ‘ideal’ of the genius 70s screenwriter. Everyone is going to mention Chinatown, of course, but I am more likely to rewatch The Last Detail, a rough, heartbreaking piece of realism that goes against the times and does something timeless.

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Fifteen years ago today I was getting lost on the island of Mull, as part of my attempt to map out in real time the trail of RL Stephenson’s ‘Kidnapped’.

You might say this is where the idea for the Curiously Specific Book Club came from. timwright.typepad.com/kidmapper/20...

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England resorting to Tony Pulis Stoke-era tactics. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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I’d say a good 75% of all the creative work I’ve ever done can’t be seen by anyone and has never been archived effectively because it relies on obsolete software and outmoded web standards. Even the British Library when talking about the history of Digital Writing rarely goes back beyond 2004/5.

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I suppose we should include this guy in our Canary Scots, but frankly the less said about his performances in a Norwich shirt the better :(

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As a magazine production editor of yore, I’m a sucker for a good typeface (or ‘lettering style’) story #watneys 👇

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