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Software dev, theatre critic, writer, director. Creating @CritiCalTheatre app in my spare time. He/him 🏳️‍🌈

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28 days
I'm scottm1970 on the Thready place and Insta. Going to try to be on there more often than here in future.
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5 years
Speaking of #Fleabag , I don’t know who it was who said that Andrew Scott is a man who looks like both Ant and Dec at the same time, but you can’t ever unsee something like that.
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@GuntherEagleman God, I can’t think how horrible it must be to be so insecure in one’s own self that even the prospect of voting for a woman causes you to question your whole identity. Have you considered therapy?
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@TommyTook Way to deny Georgia Tennant any sense of agency in her own life, just because you find the age gap between two adults a bit icky.
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@ejrosetta Is this like how your mum’s ashamed that you lied about not being a TERF until you were asked to dig into JK Rowling’s history of anti-trans rhetoric, despite actually being a dyed-in-the wool transphobe from the get-go?
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@10DowningStreet “Checks and balances shouldn’t apply to us, a government which has frequently shown that it cannot in fact be entrusted to abide by the law.” What utter rot. Resign.
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Just a reminder that if you parrot the line “let women speak” over and over again, then get angry when Sandi Toksvig says something you don’t agree with, it shows that it’s not women’s voices you want to hear, just transphobes’.
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@connor_stringer @mailplus @DailyMailUK I know of an organisation full of people pushing propaganda day and night, stoking up fear and persuading the ignorant that it's anyone but tax-dodging billionaires who are the problem. Their cabal is funded by a non-dom viscount. Is that the sort of thing you mean?
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“Next on BBC1, Survivor will be delayed by 30 minutes because Claudia accidentally asked Vito another question” #StrictlyFinal
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@jameslineytv @AnnaMcGovernUK As Dan Wootton's producer, there seems to be quite a lot you're determined not to see.
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@JakeBerry The law blocked it. Thinking MPs can do whatever they like without consequence seems to be a common trait amongst your party of late; do you not realise that you're not despots, however hard you may want to be?
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Jinkx Monsoon is just the best. Wish I could make it to New York to see her Audrey… (Not enough alt text to support the whole extract, but the full interview is at and worth a read)
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@Miss_Snuffy Are you still going? No wonder everybody is coming to realise that you’re an obsessive fantasist who’s spent so long chasing after fame that you’ve lost whatever slender grasp on reality you once held.
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@LozzaFox What do you mean? You’re as free to be a miserable human being with a sense of entitlement in inverse proportion to your worth on this planet as you have been on any other day.
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@therealmissjo Not to worry, if anybody writes a character whose only distinguishing characteristic is being a horrid person who hates the world as a means of avoiding the fact that she hates herself, I’m sure they’ll consider you for the role
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@VioletWhiteG @LulachTheSimple @JackieDP That’s not “being forced to share a sink”, that’s having to wait for a little bit. How dreadful for you.
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@jk_rowling When I was young, successful authors didn’t spend all their time on social media issuing transphobic dog whistles to encourage their mentally unencumbered fanbase to pile on people just wanting to live their lives. Times change, I guess
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6 months
All the guessing games about who she’s talking about miss the point. It’s a story about Rebecca Ferguson centring herself in her own story, and gaining the confidence from that. Trying to find the costar negates that.
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Dune star Rebecca Ferguson reveals she refused to work with a former film co-star again after they 'screamed' at her and left her in tears
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@jk_rowling @SwipeWright What a hypocritical scumbag you are. Doubling down on your lies so your fellow dumb bigots will see you as some sort of leader, instead of the witless troll without a leg to stand on that you know yourself to be.
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10 years
Oh Captain, my Captain. #RIP http://t.co/uk63f2TXcu
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@LozzaFox I’m not sure why a straight man with no friends and a whole shedload of already questionable opinions thinks that the people for whom Pride is geared give two hoots what he thinks
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@NickFletcherMP The cost of the Rainbow Badge scheme to NHS England was £220k. The NHS budget is £160bn+. If you seriously believe scrapping the scheme is a money saver, then you're even thicker than your constant stream of homophobic and transphobic dogwhistles on this site would suggest.
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8 years
This is actually the actual press secretary of the actual fucking White House. Who is, apparently, a 12 year old child.
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whomever just unfollowed me - show yourself you coward
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4 years
Turned on to BBC News channel in time for the Cummings statement, only to be confronted with that snivelling teenager from Guido Fawkes doing his usual “how dare people hold Tories up to scrutiny, the big bullies” schtick.
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@OliverDowden @abidraja @trussliz @tradegovuk @DCMS The entire population of Liechtenstein is roughly 40% of the maximum capacity of Wembley Stadium. I’m not sure this is the victory you think it is, Mr Dowden
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@thecoastguy Why, has your agent told you that you can’t appear on any TV screen that could get more viewers than GB News?
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@SharpieDj @raptorbaitjoe Hate to break it you, but that happens all the time. You just don't notice it because you're too busy griping about the few occasions when it doesn't.
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If you're not on disgraced imbecile Dan Wootton's list of what he considers to be “the worst people in the UK”, try harder. There is no greater badge of honour than to be hated by a repulsive toad with an ego in inverse proportion to his ability
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@KateBMwriting Oh good, if you’re upset then that’s a throughly good sign for sane LGBTQ+ people who aren’t triggered as often as you are
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5 years
@greg_jenner OH MY GOD. A real life version of the classic illusion illustration.
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@lalaloo19100393 @skedeschi @bindelj In over five decades on this planet, I have never seen a man get his penis out to wash it in a public restroom. It's hard enough getting men to wash their *hands* in there.
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1 year
We have to stop referring to @JasonManford as a stand-up comedian who just happens to do musical theatre – he approaches both disciplines with equal rigour and enthusiasm, and deserves to be acknowledged for that. He’s a great ambassador for the form. #BigNightOfMusicals
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@JamesEsses @westmeadsschool It’s talking to them about family relationships that they and their friends may experience - their parents, other relatives or their friends - and teaching them to treat them with love and respect. And when some of them turn out to be gay later in life, as some will, their chance
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@AdamLenson Adam, this is so horrific. To have to go through something like this when you should be focussing on your health and recovery is unconscionable. I'm so sorry.
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1 year
Your reminder that Amanda Abbington is awful. #Strictly
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Your weekly reminder: LGBTQ workers should NOT be required to work with homophobic people. #strictly #scd #StrictlyComeDancing #bbc
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Like many of us who saw it, this was one of the most formative acting performances of our lives. There are few actors who could carry this off. RIP Adrian Schiller
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Proof that the best acting doesn’t always take place on stage, or on a multi million dollar film set. This freaked me out as a child, but looking back now, all I see is an insane bit of acting. In 30 seconds, Adrian performs a blinder. And it’s just for an ad. Amazing.
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Wouldn't it be great if ITV followed #AllStarMusicals up with #StageStarMusicals , showcasing the talents of the wide range of performers who would normally be singing their hearts out 8 shows a week, but who haven't been able to have reliable work for a year
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@RafHM Thank goodness there's nothing else to worry about in Britain, other than whether a university joining many others in not including the anthem in their ceremonies is going to cause a flag shagger to lose his jingoistic hard-on
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1 year
@jasonjamesbnn “I don’t have an issue with Pride month…” and then writes an essay* about the issue he has with Pride month. Gotcha. *I say essay, but that implies something fact-based. “Collection of straw men” would be more appropriate.
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@OliverDowden Funding should not be contingent on an institution’s willingness, or otherwise, to feed your childish desire for performative flag-shagging
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@DavidGHFrost We were forced to pay for you when you worked for the government, and yet you still took your huge pay check. Can we have our money back?
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@TommyTook This tweet seems to be doing numbers. Not going to promote anything specific on the back of it, other than to say: show love to non-binary and trans kids, and listen to them. Thank you.
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2 years
I would quite happily sit through a crime-of-the-week drama series where each episode was Catherine Cawood narrating the day’s detective work to her sister, with flashbacks #HappyValley
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@DWPoop Sylvia: “It’s not doing anything. They could be doing anything in there. Let’s go.” Rose: “Just wait. I want to see it… eventually… dematerialise.” Shaun: “I’m siding with my daughter over my mother-in-law. Of course. (Let’s give it ten more seconds.)”
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@trussliz Thank goodness it failed, it was a bill that matched your premiership – totally without merit or value, and the country would be much better off if it had never happened.
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@Telegraph Badencoh told the Commons she had "extensively" communicated with LGBT groups in her role as Equalities Minister, when in fact she'd only communicated with two fringe transphobic hate groups. If anybody’s apologising it should be her.
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@FeministRoar Fuller reports from day one (which comprises only the prosecution’s opening argument) include references from the two accused to Brianna as “it”, finding out if she’d scream like a man or a girl as they murdered her, and more. I can’t see how you can justify that position.
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@CharlotteCGill The most disappointing thing about this whole mess is that you typed out "Big Woke" without thinking, "oh god, I'm just a pathetic parody of myself, aren't I"
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@Sargon_of_Akkad Amazing how they’ve become an “unimpressive man” in just months when it’s something you’ve been spending years on, isn’t it
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@ejrosetta “Ignorance and rudeness runs in the family” isn’t the win you think it is.
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@RishiSunak If we’re really a nation of drivers, why are you so attached to your private helicopter
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2 years
@jk_rowling She explicitly said “some”. The headline in the twitter preview says “some”. You turned it to “all”. One would have thought a billionaire who made her money from words would be able to tell the difference.
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@spectator So many false assertions in this drivel, presented without evidence, justification or common sense. I realise you earn money by being angry about anything which will fill the column inches, but surely you ought to aspire to be better than Allison Pearson-levels of effluence
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@trussliz It may have escaped what you seem to think is that razor-sharp mind of yours, but the public has decided that what you think is of no consequence. Take the hint, love.
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An episode centred on a deaf character, played by a deaf actor, written by two deaf writers and shot by a deaf director. #Casualty
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Tomorrow’s episode is a special one! During filming we had a chat with Director John and Writer Charlie about why this episode is different, and also got a sneak peek behind the scenes 👀 *this episode was filmed before social distancing measures were in place*
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@Jeremy_Hunt Is “the opposition didn’t criticise 13 years of Tory mismanagement of the economy in the way I’d have preferred them to” really the best you’ve got?
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@HJoyceGender Most gay people recognise that the LGBTQ+ community is stronger when we stand together against people like you, who seek to sow division just so you can feel better about your own hate-filled lives.
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@LozzaFox @NHSuk You didn't criticise the institution, you used a frankly childish, inaccurate and insulting ”I pay your wages” putdown to an NHS worker. By that token, I've watched Lewis, bought products that advertised with ITV, so I pay *your* wages. Can I have my money back?
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@RishiSunak I know you've made it clear over the past week that you're not the sharpest tool in the box, but surely even you can realise that pens work best when you take the lid off
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@Miss_Snuffy “When you’re in a hole of your own making, stop digging” — Winston Churchill
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@LilyLilyMaynard This feels like an enormous over-reaction to a single image of a trans person, created specifically for an LGBTQ Pride event over a year ago. Are you sure you’re quite well?
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@uncanny_eli Hope the recovery is going well!
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@LeeAndersonMP_ It's appropriate because nobody wants foxes in their henhouse.
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@ejrosetta Nobody's denying people the freedom to read a good book. They're doing so – by reading ones other than hers.
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@JamesSpivey1 @JakeBerry An "activist judiciary" is what right-wingers always whine about when they're barred from being the bullying, torturing, halfwitted bellends they so dearly want to be.
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4 years
Does anybody know of duvet covers that are the right shade of green so they can be used as a green screen for zoom calls as well? Asking for a friend who wants look like he’s sitting at a desk while actually lying down.
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@Bren4Bassetlaw “How dare a person in a position of responsibility be held accountable!” Is the motto of all Conservative MPs these day, so no wonder you want to echo that sentiment
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@TobyonTV He looks like two Jimmy Savile tribute acts sharing the same suit.
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2 years
All who defend Maya Forstater’s transphobia as “she’s just defending women,” need to see that she doesn’t care about women either. She cares for nobody and nothing, other than herself and her own publicity.
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Three months ago I ate only 8 waffles over 4 days, behind on rent, & cried in my bathroom when my period started because I had one tampon left and no money to buy more. “Adult women need to buy, carry, remember sanpro” is such degrading erasure of what life can actually be like.
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We’re over half an hour in, and have covered the first couple of minutes of the musical and its movie adaptation. You can take that several ways: to me, it’s an example of how well the stage work was able to condense the novel into an evening’s performance. #LesMiserables
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@KathyBurke You, my love, are a diamond. And the people stomping their feet in tantrums at you do nothing but prove your worth.
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@walters11 @lorraine @hannahw253 I look forward to your complaints every time trans issues are discussed without a single trans person present. You’ll be busy.
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@Rylan @RobbieRinder The way you both exposed your vulnerabilities was therapeutic to someone like myself, who always struggled to talk about my life as a gay man with even my closest gay friends. Strip away the Renaissance art, and the show paints gay men opening up to each other in ways they
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@JuliaHB1 What you mean is it will require us all to be less selfish, and that’s a personality mode you don’t feel you can achieve, so you’ll continue hitting out at everyone else. Same old, same old
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@NickFletcherMP Could be worse; this fictional child could grow up to be the Tory Party's thickest MP, and then what distinction would you be able to claim?
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@ClarkeMicah @MailOnline Thanks for revealing that you think non-consensual contact with women is your prerogative. Just in case we were in any doubt about just how heinous, entitled and pathetic you are.
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If someone can point me to where @LauraLoomer berated white men walking around Vegas after the attack there, I’d be grateful.
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Who knew when he joined the cast that Jakob would turn out to be the best character in Ambridge. A sensible adult in a village full of idiots. #TheArchers
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Racists complaining that Nathaniel Curtis played Isaac Newton as an apple fell on him & he had a conversation with time travellers who led him to name his force “mavity”: your complaint about which bit of that is not historically accurate reveals much about you #DoctorWho
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@treevoir @DanaSchwartzzz Only if all the non-white characters get to say what they really like of her, on screen.
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@Telegraph You get your figures from the Taxpayers’ Alliance, a shady organisation that refuses to reveal who its funders are. If you have anybody left working for the newspaper who’s capable of joined-up thinking, perhaps look in to the TPA?
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@Conservatives Not sure you’re in a position to boast mate
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Top Gun doesn’t have Mel Giedroyc suggestively operating a milk churn, so I guess it’s me?
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You're watching Eurovision. I'm watching Top Gun. Now who's laughing?
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@AnnaMcGovernUK In the very second episode in 1963, the TARDIS went back to a Palaeolithic tribe that just happened to speak RP English. Where was your outrage about that, you cherrypicking hatemonger?
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I’m at @SucceedLDN and able to get the programme to line up with the set…
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@femkgs @VioletWhiteG @LulachTheSimple @JackieDP I don’t know what you think the point is, other than somebody with a sense of entitlement couldn’t face waiting for a sink to become available because the other one was out of order, and acted like this was a major affront to civilisation.
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@Nigel_Farage “Sharron Davies is right” is something only ignorant agitators who don't care about the truth would say, so it's little wonder those words come from you.
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@JamesEsses @westmeadsschool That's not what you're doing. You're trying to encourage harassment. Lord knows why you get such a thrill from doing so, but it's something you ought to discuss with a professional.
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@HJoyceGender Well done for demonstrating your inability to understand the English language. Maybe if we presented the argument in the form of a subplot in an erotic fanfiction story involving children, you’d find it more palatable?
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@connolly_reece …Rose didn’t like chips? …Martha used the Osterhagen Key? …Donna believed in herself?
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I want a series of musical theatre shows on BBC telly. Running through the history of the medium through different slices – adaptations, historicals, shows set in the theatre, etc – combining history, archive footage and live performances. Mixing big, well known, crowd-pleasing
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@TrilbeeReviews Or how Ruby knows all about Bridgerton, but didn’t notice that Queen Charlotte was looking after the space babies…
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RIP #TerranceDicks . I'm from an age where you couldn't buy old #DoctorWho stories to watch again, so the Target Books were our bingeable box sets. Terrance's style – thoughtful, action-packed, descriptive without ever being florid – WAS archive Doctor Who to a generation.
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@gailingtonford @JamesEsses @westmeadsschool Children that age are learning about families and other social relationships. If you want to think of that as sexual, then that’s your problem, not theirs
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4 years
Oh look, Laurence Fox is talking about being "silenced". Again. In a national newspaper. Again. Ah well. I'm going to get on supporting London candidates who genuinely want to help others, like the unstoppable @ManduReid .
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In other news, can Sally Wainwright please take over The Trip from Michael Winterbottom and have Sarah Lancashire and Nicola Walker travelling the world, drinking wine and improvising stories about how their various relationships have sucked. Thank you.
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@allthingsFoust @StructuredSucc This! It's so useful. Also, one of those days-of-the-week pill dispensers (especially if you don't need to travel with it, and can leave the flaps for the days where you've taken the pills open)
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@sharrond62 @MailOnline How dare trans people wear clothes without asking a former swimmer for permission first. This is what it comes down to – Sharron Davies is angry that trans people exist, and vents her hatred by pretending it's about “protecting women”. It's not. It’s bigotry.
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@TVKev @mrJamesGraham So you called it "woeful wokery" initially, but now you're "who cares" when it's pointed out that you were incorrect about it being a Robin Hood series. I'd say it shows that you're an irrelevant joke, but having to spout your bilge on TalkTV kind of makes that point already
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@toadmeister I realise that your long and storied history shows that you’re nothing but a very thick bloke with an air of entitlement that makes Laurence Fox’s sense of privilege look meek by comparison, but this stance makes you look thick even by your own low standards
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@edwinhayward And remember, a majority of 52%* is sufficient to discount any votes to the contrary. * or above
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