Paul Kirkley
@paulkirkley.bsky.social
Still writing Stuff for Things. interestingmedia.blog
Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase.
USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that no one — and, particularly, no children — have died because of its funding cuts. But the AP has documented the deaths of women and children from Myanmar to Nigeria.
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Someone bought me a Red Letter Days "experience". But all the options - afternoon tea, spa day, wine tasting, murder mystery evening, go karting, escape room, West End musical, "golf getaway" etc etc - sound vaguely hellish. Am I depressed, do you think? Or just middle-aged and grumpy?
Pitch: Jaws remake, but we're all rooting for the shark.
The influencers getting bitten chasing the perfect shark shot
Tayane Dalazen was on a shark-diving trip in Brazil when she was attacked.
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Son, I'm thirty I only went with your mother 'cos she's dirty - Ryder 10:90
Jonathan Edward Durham@thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhat’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)
Listening to Jordan: The Comeback, and this one feels particularly appropriate this morning.
Paul Kirkley@paulkirkley.bsky.social · 2d agoHe's been! @nigetassell.bsky.social
Just as they did with Brexit, Johnson, Trump, Truss, climate denial... No reflection, no accountability. Just on and on to the next disastrous take.
Jonny Morris@jonnymorris.bsky.social · 2d agoThey're not gonna have a moment of introspection about their actions. They're gonna wipe their hands, stretch their fingers, and go, "Moving on. Now for the next one!"
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
I genuinely don't know how Britain can move forward as a society with our toxic press culture dragging us down at every step, poisoning everything.
A little empathy and human kindness, eh, even when people have made mistakes. Perhaps especially so. Imagine where that might get us.
Had an absolute hoot, as you'd expect, interviewing Grace Dent for Waitrose Your Week In Food. Pick up a free copy (while stocks last, probably).
Just remembered that time Nigel Farage was asked for his favourite film, and couldn't think of any films, so panicked and said Love, Actually.
Told my wife I can't put the bins out because of a credible threat to my security.
A thousand "what would Patsy say?" thinkpieces incoming...
Rosie Niven@rosieniven.bsky.social · 4d agoHarvey Nicks to get the Mike Ashley treatment. Wonder if he'll bring out some massive Harvey Nicks mugs? Seriously though, Much as I dislike MA those mugs are great marketing. We've still got one in the kitchen at work. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
In the UK, C4 did quite a lot of fancy poster advertising for flagship programming. Look how they positioned their medical procedural in 2004…
Am I going mad? Are you all gaslighting me? This is the press coverage of the eclipse, versus a picture I took at the height of the non-event in Cambridgeshire.
Literally nothing happened here in Britain's driest / least eclipsey village 🫤
Insanely excited to tell you that @worldoftelly.bsky.social and I will be hosting a 50th anniversary celebration of one of TV’s most unique dramas, Philip Martin’s Gangsters, on 8 November with some amazing guests. Part of this year’s Square Eyes TV Festival in (where else?) Birmingham. Do come!
50 Years Of Gangsters + Q&A | Mac Birmingham
Gangsters was a TV drama like no other. Burrowing into the dark underbelly of the Birmingham crime scene, it mixed Shakespearian soliloquy with comic strip
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Not this pinhole camera bullshit again. Just watch it on telly.
Andy Burnham should do something about Weetabix crumbs next.
Auf Wiedersehen Pet is the most accurate observation of male friendship thats ever been on TV. From the 80's to the early 00's, it's a perfect example of how flawed men with good hearts love one another and how that love evolves as they get older.
The music jokes in American Psycho don't really work now everyone loves Phil Collins again. We're all Patrick Bateman now.
I don't think there should be a defibrilator on Snowdon. And that's a hill I'm prepared to die on
