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Disinformation, Cyber-security & North Korea wonk at @BBCMonitoring . Former internet celebrity, author, a bit 🇬🇧 & a bit 🇮🇪. Arsenal. Also on Bluesky.

Dorset, England
Joined December 2006
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Alistair Coleman
4 years
PINNED TWEET: Thank you for your comments. I will not be drawn into an argument about your conspiracy theory.
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1 year
Is… is it Paddington?
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6 years
Wanna feel old? This is what the kid from The Omen looks like now
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3 years
Well, this has aged badly.
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3 years
“Right them Zouma, I want you using the width, get in behind them and leave half a dead mouse in the goalmouth” #KIDWHU
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4 years
I’m still seeing quite a few posts asking why Joe Biden has “a Chinese bodyguard”. He doesn’t. That is David Cho, he is Korean-American, one of the most respected and experienced members of the Secret Service who has worked for administrations both Republican and Democrat.
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Happy eighth birthday to my favourite ever misunderstanding of the words “five inch gun”
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4 months
This has taken over my brain.
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6 months
I once cancelled a Sky subscription.
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What’s harder than this?
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9 months
Significant clothing has arrived from Australia
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5 months
KFC’s parking bay of shame
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5 months
Brooklyn Beckham WAS right - they ARE difficult to photograph.
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8 months
Happy 11th birthday to this pair of headlines
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5 years
@SmooGoo @mjrobbins I believe this by @Oatmeal is obligatory
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@CrimeGirI We had an “is everything alright at home?” meeting with my daughter’s nursery teacher over a series of drawings of five people and a coffin. It was the Spice Girls and Princess Diana.
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7 years
That's not what it says on your T-shirt, mate
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6 years
They missed a complete open goal. WHY NOT RAMBO NUMBER FIVE?
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4 years
Whoever submitted this IMDB trivia for Home Alone 2
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8 years
"Do you think people will know that says arise?" "Yeah, go for it"
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6 years
Huge if true
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4 months
Fair play to her, I hope it works out.
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🚨 BREAKING: Chelsea have narrowed down their search for Mauricio Pochettino’s successor to 4 candidates: 🔷 Kieran McKenna 🔷 Enzo Maresca 🔷 Thomas Frank 🔷 Unknown Chelsea have dropped interest in Stuttgart’s Sebastian Hoeness and Girona’s Michel. (via @Matt_Law_DT )
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6 years
It was a sad day when the World Taekwondo Federation voted to change its name to World Taekwondo, because people like me though pictures like this are supremely funny.
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6 years
That's not how acronyms work
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6 years
Tuesday week is the 7th anniversary of Fenton. Jesus Christ.
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7 years
My God, they're throwing the stuff at each other now.
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4 years
Here’s David Cho receiving the Exceptional Service Gold Medal in 2019.
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6 years
This amazing photo of Emmanuel Macron was the work of Alexei Nikolsky of TASS news agency. Credit where it's due - it's a superb capture. #WorldCupFinal
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6 years
"You let Dougal do a funeral?!"
@realDonaldTrump
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I will Chair the United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran next week!
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1 year
This is a video that keeps on giving. And giving. And giving.
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2 months
Heads up guys. It’s bloody Colin again. #DamnYouAutocorrect
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4 years
There are claims that the bearded guy in this photo inside the Capitol is Antifa because of his hand tattoo. It's the Outsider's Mark from the 2012 video game Dishonored. He's a gamer.
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1 year
Scottish League Two - final table East Fife 4th, Forfar 5th
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7 years
The front page of today's Cumbria News and Star is a bona fide work of art ( @OfficialOMD )
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3 years
The Human League look like there’s a new landlord at the Queen Vic in EastEnders who’s trying to keep a lid on his complicated love life.
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3 months
I'm not sure the police should be dealing drugs at any time of the day
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11 months
I think I have just encountered peak Australia.
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4 years
LOL, only in French
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2 years
Absolutely dying at this courtroom sketch of Wayne Rooney.
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5 months
I’m not saying three decades as a media analyst has changed my brain, but I just busted a local estate agent for using the same stock image of clouds for two different properties.
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6 months
Delighted to announce that Leo, a dog, has joined the family.
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4 years
People actually believe that he has bodyguards supplied by China, and/or his “CCP Handler” went to the inauguration to keep an eye on their asset. Nope. He’s a bonafide decorated American hero.
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10 years
Dear @TheTimes , You are WRONG. This is the Briton of the Year. http://t.co/6txvCNX8uS
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6 years
I’ve found the worst thing in the world - a Costa coffee machine that plays coffee shop noises while it makes your drink, so you can pretend you’re not all alone at the 3rd floor coffee machine.
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4 years
Breaks my heart to see an empty shop window
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7 years
"What's that?" "Blue Passports" "Nah, I said bloop arse ports. Arse ports for bloops" #moreiconicthanbluepassports
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3 years
Here's the moment Russia's RT went off the air on UK screens at 1545 after EU sanctions took down its satellite uplink from Luxemburg. #UkraineWar
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6 years
That @PiersMorgan had a go at Daniel Craig over a perceived lack of manliness for carrying a baby in a papoose. Yet here he is, moisturising.
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2 years
Regret to report that simple Berkshire village folk have crucified the Queen.
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4 years
Let’s get our retaliation in first: 🔸Yes, it has been adequately tested 🔸No, mRNA vaccines don’t overwrite your DNA 🔸No, Bill Gates hasn’t put a microchip in it 🔸No, #COVID19 is not a hoax
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2 years
@heidistephens @buntyhoven I’m the son of a virologist, the old man has strong opinions about cruise liners.
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8 years
ITV Great British Bake Off Dermot O'Leary: "So why did you apply to come on Bake Off?" Baker: "Me nan died, and she loved cake" [Manly hug]
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6 years
When you accidentally kick the seat in front of you on the rail replacement bus
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5 years
@redditships "And here's another reason why you're wrong and Hegel is right..."
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9 months
Paddington 2 is on BBC1 this evening. Brace yourself, @JimMFelton
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6 years
I’m going to put it out there that @RichardEGrant ’s current state of infectious, unbridled joy is the only thing that is holding this planet together right now. We must never let it end.
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1 year
Happy tenth birthday to this unfortunate series of events.
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8 years
And Echo and the Bunnymen to clamp down on people pissing in doorways
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2 years
WORLD LEADERS: The new Prime Minister of the UK and Northern Ireland is @trussliz . Do not send your congratulations to @liztruss as she is my pal’s sister in law, has no plans to lead the country, and her mentions have gone completely John Lewis. Looking at you, Sweden.
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5 months
HEAR ME OUT Another Willy Wonka remake but Matt Berry.
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2 years
@weirddalle @sigourneybeaver It’s not Little Boy, then
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Alistair Coleman
3 years
Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping incident. How will you be marking this momentous day in world history?
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4 years
The Kraken - Sidney Powell's lawsuit that will supposedly blow Biden out of the water has been released. And it's not a great start, managing to spell "district" incorrectly twice, differently, in the opening sentence
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4 years
Our dog Archie died last night. He was a good boy.
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6 years
Putin's reached that bit in the computer game when you're about to be sent on a side-quest
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4 years
Fact check: Nowhere is the world is achieving herd immunity from COVID-19. (Source: Science)
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'As it becomes clearer that the British population will soon achieve herd immunity, people will begin to ask tough questions of the Government,' writes @toadmeister
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6 years
Oh well played, Harry Hill, well played.
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6 years
@PopTartsUS People in the UK reading this
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3 years
So, B&Q are selling off their unused social distancing arrows in the ‘reduced to clear’ bin. I’ve literally no idea what I’m going to do with these, but you can’t argue at 10p.
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@DPD_ @katiedimartin I will just put it out there that I am not in any way involved in the mining or trading of coal or coal-related products.
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3 years
That time I found the saddest book in the world in a charity shop 😭
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6 months
Norman Price out of Fireman Sam would be in his mid-thirties by now. What do you reckon he’d be doing today (apart from ‘time at His Majesty’s Pleasure’)?
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2 years
Facebook has reminded me that it is eight years today since I saw Sideshow Bob’s lorry on the Swallowfield Bypass.
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1 year
I am at A Thing at the British Library. The barman has just dropped a glass and one (1) person did an ironic cheer in full compliance of the Obligatory Banter Act of 1997 (otherwise known as the Oi Oi Saveloy Law).
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6 years
I am being accused of putting this on the notice board. I did not put it on the notice board.
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1 year
Speaking of conspiracy theories, it’s four years and one day since the Notre Dame fire, and four years since this spectacular hot take.
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8 months
Happy tenth birthday to this expert-level photobomb by Danny Baker.
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7 years
I believe I have found the world's most boring commemorative wall plaque
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1 year
“Bollnocklers” #FacebookNews
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3 years
Getting the author’s name wrong on the cover is a pretty bad error, but it’s still not my favourite typo. Particitrousers - the result of a lazy search-replace when switching the manuscript from US to UK English.
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3 years
Russia's RIA-Novosti news agency accidentally published its victory piece on Saturday, and swiftly deleted it. But the web archive remembers, and oh boy (Google translate is your friend). "Now this problem is gone - Ukraine has returned to Russia."
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2 years
@NoContextBrits FACT: The lyrics to the Mr Bean theme are Latin for “Behold the man, who is a bean”
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3 years
🎵 Your own inflatable Jesus Someone to fill with air Someone who cares 🎶
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Ronald Lacey Arnold “Argh my head is melting” Toht (Raiders of the Lost Ark) The Baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells (Blackadder)
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Punt Road
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What was your aha moment when you realised ‘wow, that’s the same actor!!’?? I’ll start: Janette Goldstein Aliens & Terminator 2
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@AlanBaxter Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman
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@KeirGiles @iLepikVonWiren This act of kindness may be remembered when the robots rise up against their fleshy masters. I suggest we all do the same.
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3 years
Vladimir Putin announces Fireman Sam - The Musical
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3 years
“It means ‘The Bart’”
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11 months
Australia - we need a conversation about the colour of your crisp packets, and I think we’re going to copy in @GaryLineker . GARY - Have a word if you could please
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8 years
What? EVERY Friday?
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9 months
In twenty years time, people will still remember where they were when they found out Blackpool Tower wasn’t on fire. Sitting at home, full of cheese and chocolate, saying “When is bins?”
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8 years
Now there's a typo
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5 months
New mug came lads.
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10 years
There are misunderstandings, and there's Sir Alexander Glen http://t.co/ah4CQPA6VD
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4 years
Here's the uncropped version of this photo. The Philly Antifa dot org tag is correct - it's from an article on their website naming him and claiming that he is a neo-Nazi activist. So if it *is* the same person, you've gone scored an own goal.
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2 years
@MonicaLewinsky @Rschooley People keep telling The New Owner that this would happen, it happened from day one, and it’s still happening. The New Owner doesn’t seem to care.
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1 year
I’ve just had to go outside and rescue our black and white cat from a fight with another, near identical, black and white cat in our garden, and I’m not 100% sure I’ve let the right one inside.
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3 years
Hey @NoContextBrits - nobody likes a tweet thief.
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2 years
My father, Professor Jonathan Coleman, died peacefully at home this afternoon. I’ve never been entirely sure how old he was, but I think he was 86. Or 85. He’d been living with dementia for years, and was patiently cared for by my stepmother. I feel strangely calm about it.
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As opposed to this, a five inch gnu.
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