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I’m not sure Grotbags has ever been described as a nuanced character before.

A person in colorful and theatrical makeup and costume, including a green curly wig and a witch hat, is depicted in a vibrant and dramatic manner. The caption reads; CAPTURING 1980S ENERGY, LEE'S PERFORMANCE IN THE 80'S SHOW IS CELEBRATED FOR ITS "NUANCED AND POETIC" APPROACH.
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How long before we mock Tudor?

News caption: Spurs have appointed former Juventus manager Igor Tudor as interim until the end of the season.
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Watched: 28 Years Later 🍿

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Houdini’s. 📍

Escape Room time.

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Time ever marches on.

A comic-style illustration showing football players in Manchester United colours about to kick a ball, surrounded by cheering spectators. The caption reads: When United won the trophy at Wembley and I smashed home a brilliant goal… Just like Nana did in 1996!
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Fright Night remains my favourite vampire film, but this has come in as a close second. Watched: Sinners 🍿

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President signs his ‘Bored of Peace’ plan.

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It would be nice if many of those calling for an under-16s social media ban took a look at the parental controls available on kids’ devices. Blocking, or restricting, apps is right there.

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Maybe it’s me, but it did feel that Western geo-politics began to shift yesterday.

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“And you know, as Gramsci said, ‘if the old is dying and the new is not yet born, you live in a time of monsters,’”

Quite the quote from the Belgian Premier.

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Our first confirmed garden visitor from the TrailCam.

alt: night vision footage of a fox entering the garden, checking out the apple tree, then leaving again.

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My daughter came home ecstatic from school last week after trying gravy on chips for the first time. Truly she is now a child of the North.

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It’s not even my birthday but I suddenly feel old.

A Facebook post from Star Wars & Beyond asks older Star Wars fans about the audience's reaction to Yoda fighting Count Dooku in Attack of the Clones.
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Watched: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery 🍿

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This review of panto as an art form is best summarised as ‘Oh yes it is! Oh no it isn’t!’.

A social reply discusses perspectives on pantomime: i kind of agree with your perspective, yet not - like Africa, panto is communitarian in a roussuean sense; unlike Africa, it is also Bakhtinian and Brechtian - disruptive of the narrative and the authoritarian sweep of power.
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The Tory Party say they don’t want Bonnie Blue as a member. A spokesperson said they don’t need any help fucking the country.

Ben Elton, back in the 1980s, holding a microphone and talking to camera.
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I’m guessing they were taken into ‘custardy’.

News story of two people wearing Take Back Power shirts stand holding a sign in front of a gate with a cracked case, following an apple crumble protest at the Tower of London. The headline is ‘Tower of London reopens after Apple crumble thrown at Crown Jewels display’
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Gentrified cafés in Nantwich may be pricey, but when you ask for crispy bacon they truly understand the assignment.

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Who is putting up photos of Rocky Horror era Tim Curry in Warrington?

A boarded-up window displays a black-and-white portrait with the word GLAM and a colorful event poster.A street sign indicating bus lane times is next to a wall with a poster of a person displaying a dramatic makeup look and the word VOGUE below.

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First up, I’m sure the military are capable of thinking about more than one thing at a time - wars are complex, after all.

Secondly, which party is mostly responsible for cuts in the armed forces over the last, say, 20 years?

Highlight quote from a news story: "We've entered a new era of insecurity and there's an urgency to spend more money on defence,&10;" he said. "To learn that there is a&10;corner of the RAF pouring effort into designing and procuring vegan uniforms and hats that aren't made of wool really suggests we're not focusing on the right priorities."&10;Mr Ellwood explained how reduced the current RAF is compared to the end of the Cold War. "We had 36 fast jet squadrons. We're down to
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Given the violence against police, criminal damage, and a guest speaker calling for the overthrow of the democratically-elected government, I assume the organisers of yesterday’s racist rally are going to made a proscribed group?

Quote from a news story reading: A large turnout led to clashes with police, involving assaults and projectiles like bottles and flares.
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Well done to Warrington Guardian for finding the local angle.

Nadine Dorris in a bright pink outfit is featured in a news graphic with the headline, "Former Warrington Hospital nurse defects from Tories to Reform."
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It’s a shame about Angela Rayner. I can’t shake the feeling that if she’s been part of the landlord class she could have shrugged it off as bad legal advice, paid the tax, and it would have been forgotten about.

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No fingers were lost in the staging of this photo.

A young person offers food to a tiger through a fence at a wildlife park.
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Swirly.