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Michael Hardacre
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Lawyer. Red.
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contemprainn.bsky.social
This guy got people from around the world to teach him their favourite dance moves.

📹Ed People
October 5, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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janinegibson.ft.com
James Blunt and Ross Kemp can SAS all they like, Jerry Hall was married to Rupert Murdoch. There’s only one boss here
October 1, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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danielsugarman.bsky.social
The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.
​Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”. The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims. Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.” Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar. He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive. In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down. “We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.” In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O​’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.
August 30, 2026 at 10:56 PM
michaelhardacre.bsky.social
At this point in the media frenzy, Tuchel’s substitutions have taken on an or almost mythical quality. There’s nothing like a witchhunt with faint xenophobic qualities to overexcite the pundits, armchair or otherwise.
July 16, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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jasonhazeley.bsky.social
Released 40 years ago today. Still the greatest day off.
A still from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
June 11, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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joxley.jmoxley.co.uk
Yeah, I've not quite found the right framing to write about this properly, yet, but I think a huge problem is media/politics becoming fully passive and reactive to what it sees as mass opinion rather than striving to argue with it.
June 10, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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ianmartin.bsky.social
Roger James Martin

1957-2026

The middle brother. Just me and Paul left now.

Playing Marvin Gaye at a decent volume, his absolute favourite. Got to see him one last time, told him I loved him.

I'm unmoored. Not looking for condolences. Just putting down a marker.

Tell someone you love them. x
March 29, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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lewisgoodall.com
One of the stories of British politics over last 15 years has been Conservatives and Labour valuing narrower and narrower ideological coherence over their historic, broad coalitions and then being astonished that their vote shares keep falling.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Centrist ideas no longer wanted in Conservative party, says Kemi Badenoch
Party leader tells MPs that one-nation Tories doubting her rightward direction ‘need to get out of the way’
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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tpgroberts.bsky.social
Important to remember that the British public is actively being misinformed on this issue.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Nov 27
New net migration figures at 930am.

Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023

56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down

2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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jessicaelgot.bsky.social
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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samfr.bsky.social
Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time.

I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
November 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
michaelhardacre.bsky.social
Definitely this guy

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
a man in a suit and white gloves holds a string of pearls
ALT: a man in a suit and white gloves holds a string of pearls
media.tenor.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
michaelhardacre.bsky.social
Jeez, once upon a time this guy was just another right wing nut job. Turns out no one’s safe. Who knew?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ex-Trump adviser John Bolton indicted on charges of mishandling classified information
Eighteen-count indictment handed down by federal grand jury in Maryland as US president calls former ally a ‘bad guy’
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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samfr.bsky.social
Can we have lessons for all the adults too?
August 26, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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parodypm.bsky.social
Not sure why Reform are up in arms about 16 and 17 year olds voting. They put this 18 year old in charge of a £2bn council, which is pretty irresponsible if they thought he couldn’t even be trusted to vote a few months ago.
July 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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adaspota.bsky.social
Swiss-French architectural designer, painter and writer Le Corbusier photographed by Henri Cartier-Bresson

#LeCorbusier #Photography
June 27, 2025 at 2:13 AM
michaelhardacre.bsky.social
Funny how Twitter squeezed all the fun out of life. Haven’t been able to sum up their energy to engage with this platform properly yet.
June 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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reblambert.bsky.social
Manchester
May 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
this quote is basically as close as I'll ever get to a religious text, I always reread it in the way I assume some read the bible
brendelbored.bsky.social Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Apr 10
Kurt Vonnegut man
Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."
April 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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reecedinsdale.bsky.social
Did someone say…
Happy Threads Day! 😱
March 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
michaelhardacre.bsky.social
I stand with Rog. 😂✊

State premier calls US vice-president JD Vance a ‘knob’
March 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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brianphillips.lol
If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.”

The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out
January 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
michaelhardacre.bsky.social
Is it still January? Asking for a friend.
January 30, 2025 at 5:24 AM
michaelhardacre.bsky.social
Gutted. End of an era.

Manchester United and Scotland legend, dies aged 84
January 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM