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Steve Tallantyre@tallantyre.bsky.social |
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Steve Tallantyre
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The one good thing the Tories have done is return the vote to UK citizens who live abroad. I mean, they promised and failed to do it before Brexit but at least we now have some say over the mess they've left us in.
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Éamann Mac Donnchada
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I'm going to keep these free to read till the Catalan election on May 12. So, fill yr boots and please RT
macdonnchada.substack.com/p/the-catala...
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Steve Tallantyre
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Glad he won, he's the best ever. (Claim to proximity to fame: I actually watched a match sat next to him at the Camp Nou when he was just 17 and just breaking through. He looked more like a pizza delivery boy than an athlete.) But he's already had all the plaudits in the universe.
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Steve Tallantyre
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I have been a huge fan of Aitana Bonmati since the day I first saw her play. My daughter and I are season ticket holders at Barça women largely because of her. She is an *exceptional* talent and a great role model. Full deserves the Balon D'or. Felicitats!
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Tom Phillips
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ah, the warm, comforting feeling of an England batting collapse, like a big cozy familiar blanket of despair you can wrap yourself up in
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Steve Tallantyre
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Global broadcasts of the India vs England cricket world cup match should be delayed so that it is shown after the watershed in every time zone. Play it behind closed doors, too. The public's blood-thirst should not be slaked like this. Allow us some dignity.
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Steve Tallantyre
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Oh, I love it (which is why I made them watch it) but you can imagine the delicious bewilderment it induces in a generation brought up on focus-grouped, audience-tested mainstream entertainment.
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Steve Tallantyre
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He probably got some of those sweet streaming residuals when I watched Big Trouble in Little China last weekend with the kids. My 15-year-old's verdict was, "This is the most random thing ever made" and I don't think I can top her review.
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Steve Tallantyre
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How dare you, we have been assured by those paid handsomely to say these things that the 5-ball farce is the future of cricket and not at all a black hole of pointlessness that has swallowed August.
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Steve Tallantyre
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It's grim. Not sure any of it will make any difference though, as long as 50-over cricket (and English county cricket in general) is sacrificed to the gods of avarice and vanity on the altar of The Hundred.
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Steve Tallantyre
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I didn't even bother watching today. The ship hit the iceberg in the first match and the subsequent plunge has been inevitable. Still, at least everyone enjoyed The Hundred, eh?
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Steve Tallantyre
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Well this is unexpected. The new Rolling Stones album is... good? Energetic, tuneful and well-produced, bound tight with cracking riffs? Did anyone see this coming?
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John Bull
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Spare some love today for Collingwood. The other Admiral at Trafalgar. Proud northerner. Hater of flogging. Legit brilliant commander and Nelson's trusted right hand. First into battle on Royal Sovereign. Took charge after Nelson was sniped and saved the British Fleet. Here's HIS Trafalgar... /1 🧵
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B. A. Friedman
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Looked at the videos of the Gaza hospital strike. You can tell it was a rocket or a missile. That's it. No way to tell who fired it or whether it was fired from the surface or the air. Anyone saying otherwise is making it up.
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Steve Tallantyre
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Took my teenage daughter to the cinema to watch the Taylor Swift concert film and found myself thoroughly enjoying it. Somewhere in the void, the ghost of my teenage heavy metaller self is howling.
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Ariel Zellman
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Israel has restored water supplies to Gaza. It has also agreed to the resumption of food and medical supply shipments. This was unquestionably the correct decision.
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Steve Tallantyre
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I did get a like from JKR once, years before the TERF wars, for a picture of my kids in Potter costumes.
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Steve Tallantyre
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Even moderately well-known people I've met IRL and/or have exchanged emails with refuse to follow me on the other place. My banal guff and drunken hot takes are clearly not magnets for celebs.
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Steve Tallantyre
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The England cricket team owes the nation nothing. The last few years have been amazing thanks to many of the men on the field today. But this has been a sloppy, cack-handed, half-arsed World Cup campaign so far. Arrogance? Fatigue? Age? Or just a couple of off days?
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Steve Tallantyre
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I will get off my usual noncommittal centrist fence and say that he is very, very good indeed.
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John Self
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I'll stick with Hilary Mantel: "If I were to be granted a coat of arms, my motto would be "It's not that simple"."
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Steve Tallantyre
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I don't imagine he's loving it now. Glad I steered clear!
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Steve Tallantyre
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Thinking of going for a haircut just so I can watch the India v Pakistan cricket match with my Pakistani barber. It's very exciting and I bet he's loving it but I'd be a bit concerned about his concentration while he wielded the straight razor.
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Steve Tallantyre
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Spending my dwindling time on Twitter unfollowing accounts retweeting antisemitic or sympathetic-to-Hamas content. I'm sure there's equally vile stuff out there about innocents in Gaza but it's not on my timeline because I didn't follow those people. It's been an unpleasantly revealing week.
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Steve Tallantyre
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Same. Surprised it took this long, TBH.
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Steve Tallantyre
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I'm not Jewish, no Jewish family or very close friends, so I'm undoubtedly usually blind to a lot of it. But it has been unmissable this week, at a time when surely everyone's first reaction should have been solidarity and sympathy. But no, straight to whataboutism on a massive scale. Shameful.
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Steve Tallantyre
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It's not just Spain of course. The antisemitism on display among the "right side of history" crowd in the UK and US has been wild this week.
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Steve Tallantyre
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There are many worse responses than his, in fact. He at least admits it was a tremendous horror. Plenty on the international left and hard left continue to disgrace themselves with their victim-blaming and complete lack of sensitivity. And I say that as someone who is centre-left on most issues.
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Steve Tallantyre
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He's not alone. It seems to have been a common response; perhaps a cognitive-dissonance-driven response of insane justification or mitigation when self-identifying "good people" found that they'd been supporting people who gleefully commit atrocities.
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Josh Spero
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Such a lovely interview with the guy who designed the InterCity 125, the Kenwood Chef, an Anglepoise, the Kodak Instamatic, cigarette lighters, door handles... on.ft.com/46cow6Y
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Steve Tallantyre
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The police won't catch them I suppose, unless the culprits are stupid enough to boast about it on social media. But if they are identified, I'd happily chainsaw *them* in half. 2/2
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Steve Tallantyre
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Like everyone else from the North East of England, I've got photos of many visits to Sycamore Gap on Hadrian's Wall. It is a literal landmark, part of our physical, cultural and emotional geography. And now some vandal has chopped it down overnight. 1/2
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