Bob Mallett

After the world’s longest hiatus, my TV nostalgia podcast - The Box of Delights - is coming back for a real actual series of new episodes. And you don’t have long to wait!

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

One ring to rule them all, three rings to let me know you are home safely.

Trickle around economics. Time and time again shown to be more effective at improving people's lives than trickle down.

Knickers at half mast today everyone, for Jilly Cooper x

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Fabulous!

Telling me this is a podcast, and that I should add it to my podcatcher of choice so I never miss an episode - How the chuff do you think I found it.

BBC Witness History, I'm looking at you.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

He’s foaming at the mouth to go full Gestapo.

In memoriam...

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton Dorian Gray Does NOT Have a Portrait in His Attic 🎃👻🔪

Dorian Gray does NOT have a picture in his attic
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Some of us were talking about both subjects before it was cool.

A gravestone in a lovely grassy graveyard, and a load of leafy branches on top of the grave. The stone is marked: Matthew Wall died 1595

2 October? But that can mean only one thing! YES, THAT’S RIGHT!

In a village in Hertfordshire, they’re marking Old Man’s Day, because it’s the 454th anniversary of Mathew Wall almost being buried, and then not being buried, because he was in fact not dead

The UK was experiencing a national emergency when Michelle Mone decided to scam the government for £ms.
She should be in prison not issuing self pitying press releases.

A headline from the Financial Times, which reads: US billionaire Josh Harris’s firm in talks for Aga cooker unit.

Fair enough, they’re not cheap.

I find it interesting that there is far less flag shagging going on on motorway bridges that can only be accessed on foot as part of a long walk.

President Trump and Congressional Republicans just shut down the government because they refused to stop your health care costs from rising.

Let me be clear: Republicans are in charge of the White House, House, and Senate. This is their shutdown.

Cartoon of a dog sitting on a lawn. In the foreground is a sign saying: BEWARE OF THE DOG'S FEELINGS

I'll give it a week before this is actually announced as a policy.

The AfD qualified for three mayoral run-offs in cities in North Rhine-Westphalia today, and lost all by big margins. The lesson is not that we have overdone the AfD's rise, but that we do perhaps sometimes underestimate the counter-mobilisation effects - including in east Germany, incidentally.

Sean Penn looks like Wile E. Coyote after a TNT mishap

YouTube video by Alasdair Beckett-King The Nightmare Before Michaelmas

It's that time of year again. Happy Michaelmas to all who celebrate.
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Reaction in the hall had already been very positive to Reeves' announcement on steel, but the way she responded to a pro-Palestine protester made it positively feverish. ~AA #Lab25

So about 10 people loitering around, on governments paychecks without creating anything for the economy or security are chasing the one guy that actually serves the american people with honest work.

Saying ID cards will prevent illegal working is really putting a lot of faith in people already breaking the law not wanting to break the law.

If you see this, post a dragon🐉

A man with black bouffant hair and sideburns looks moodily at camera, wearing a black leather (possibly snakeskin/faux snakeskin) jacket, black gloves and huge jewellery. Or, in the words of his Telegraph obituary “an extravagantly quiffed, leather-clad rocker with preposterous sideburns and chunky rings worn over tight-fitting leather gloves”

Today would have been the 83rd birthday of Bernard William Jewry, had he not sadly died in 2014 at the relatively young age of 72. This wouldn’t be especially remarkable had he not spent the previous 40 years going by the name Alvin Stardust

Ronald Lacey as the creepy Nazi Arnold Toht, pre face-melting, in Raiders Of The Lost Ark

Arnold Lacey As the Baby Eating Bishop If Bath And Wells in Blackadder

Just remembered one of my favorite diverse filmography facts: Ronald Lacey, who played Toht in Raiders (the Nazi who gets his face melted), was also the Baby Eating Bishop Of Bath And Wells in Blackadder.