Simon Kane

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Freelance Writing Jobs: English Heritage, BikeRadar, BBC Plus some brilliant residencies.

@mjowen174.bsky.social Hey Mat, I get this free bulletin of freelance writing jobs every week - sharing in case it might be any use to you.

I don't know, I'm just not entirely convinced Andrew was a one-off.

So this is gross - the Tories want to revoke Indefinite Leave to Remain for anyone whose income falls below the national full-time average, for any reason. First three bands of teachers and FIVE bands of nurses don't earn that, before we even think about healthcare assistants, carers and so on. 1/2

Share and Enjoy LOOK HOW HAPPY HE IS! Wow! I've really played a game of chicken plugging this. Okay: Time Spanner , the thing whose progress I've b...

Not this one in the thumbnail, but three images down in the post. slepkane.blogspot.com/2017/02/shar...

More people marched today than at any time in the history of the United States.

For @nytimes.com, it was the 6th most important story.

They are making sure that those in power do not see what they do not want to see.

This is not what we were brought up to think of as journalism.

The wrong people are being ethnically cleansed is an argument I'm really sick of hearing. Sorry. Of course, if you can offer any other way to "dismantle" a nation, I owe you an apology.

I get that there are times when disputes over news coverage are a matter of emphasis or perspective on big, sprawling events, but it feels bad for public trust in a publication when it fails to accurately describe a video that’s 20 seconds long, and that everyone can see.

As late as 2017, a show I wrote got one, from Thomas Flintham. It was a hell of a thing: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

Simon Kane’s warm and trusting eyes burn out of this lovely photo of him promoting his role as Mr Spooner in The Divide.

This man is @slepkane.bsky.social. You will have heard him in The Monster Hunters. You will be hearing him in The Divide. He does a good line in difficult bosses. The Divide starts on Friday. #audiodrama #podcast #spy

Yay!

"There's a big question about what to do with all the rubble..." "... there have been preliminary talks and various plans about a Gaza seaport..."  So that's what I needed to get back on the blog, it turn...

Watched an amazing interview with peace negotiator Gershon Baskin and so I'm sharing it and so I'm back on the blog... slepkane.blogspot.com/2025/10/ther...

YouTube video by Channel 4 Comedy Aliens Want Feedback On Their TV Shows | Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping | Channel 4 Comedy

Goomb, won't you? www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6DG...

Freedom is just another word for “a gap in the law” 7th October 2025 * The Home Secretary wants to ban more things * There are many ways in which freedom can be expressed. For example, the eminent jurist Janis Joplin averred that freedom is just ano…

Brilliant: Freedom is just another word for “a gap in the law” davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

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There are few things more laudable than non-comedy people awkwardly committing to a great bit.

Love it

THE GOOMB In my first night's sleep after being hospitalised for smoke inhalation in 2009, I had three very vivid dreams. I recorded the details of t...

And tonight, just fifteen short years on, it aired... slepkane.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-...

There’s a Mitchell and Webb sketch where it’s obviously a pisstake of S4C or some such where it’s like a 1970s craft programme in “Welsh” and it’s probably fairly offensive really but James Bachman plays gentle guitar throughout and gentle beige television with handicrafts and strumming would fix me

Robert Webb, David Mitchell, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Krystal Evans in a group of people all with pale faces, dressed in black, hooded robes, and staring into the camera with their mouths wide open.

Tonight at 10pm on Channel 4 🌟 A tricky job interview, a confusing book signing, and a very eager request on #MitchellandWebbAreNotHelping!

That famous "are we the baddies?" meme comes from a Mitchell & Webb sketch about this very subject:

"Have you looked at the badges on our caps?"
"Eh? No... a bit. Why?"
"They've got *skulls* on them."

You might know more than me. My feeling is still that Corbyn can't organise a pissup in a brewery.

I guess what I took issue with, not that you should care, is that you didn't say you disagreed with her position, you said you didn't trust her. That's very different.

I don't think their position is secure though. I think the party needs new leadership. And you can refuse the whip, so how is it less power?

If nothing else they were securing the party's position in Government (which I also beleive is being run by - but bot populated by - bigots). And you can introduce bills. Although I voted for him, noone would say Corbyn is the model of an effective MP.

But having a seat in Parliament doesn't mean you're in the Government.

I don't think that.

Why wouldn't they stick it out? They're in government. That's exactly where they wanted to be.

YouTube video by Jens Kristian Jacobsen Gylne Tider - We Are The World

I assume by now everyone's seen their star-studded "Let It Be", but I've just found out Gylne Tider did more!!! Among some tough competition, I think my favourite cameo is at 2:21. Enjoy... www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEgq...

YouTube video by simonkane JONAH NON GRATA by Simon Kane -Trailer

There's a proper gulf between August and October, innit, but here's an actual Jonah Non Grata trailer. youtu.be/OdIXUJ5-kH8?...

Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) on Threads Hanna-Barbera goons.

But also goons who now disappear people: a thousand missing from the Dade Collier Detention Facility, their records destroyed. It's a death camp. So yeah, get on yer bike. www.threads.com/@pattonoswal...