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Stephen Gallagher

@stephengallagher.co.uk

Doctor Who. BUGS. That creepy monster thing you might remember. Creator of Eleventh Hour and lead writer on Crusoe www.stephengallagher.com

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eoh84.bsky.social@eoh84.bsky.social · yesterday

Easily the most frightening thing I saw on TV as a child. Each glimpse of the hunched, chittering thing in striped jumper and dungarees made me feel sick with fear. It all seemed horrifyingly realistic, more like documentary than a drama. We need to launch a campaign for blu-ray release of this!

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ex-PM Starmer said, in response to Raise the Colours terrorising people, ‘I am supporter of flags’, ‘I’m very encouraging of flags. I think they’re patriotic and I think they’re a great symbol of our nation’ and his family had ‘got St George’s flag in our flat’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Raise the Colours Oxfordshire organiser Ben Cullen head-butted a highways worker after police were called to McDonalds in Benson where highways staff were attempting to remove flags from lamp posts; Highways staff now wear unbranded PPE, work in unbranded vehicles, wear face coverings to hide their identity, and do not travel alone for fear of attacks; Highways staff working on streetlight maintenance, not flag removal, have been spat on and abused by RTC supporters; Cullen and his partner Trudy Wells posted the office addresses and phone numbers of highways depots online, leading to comments suggesting “hanging council workers from those same lamp posts”; RTC Oxfordshire fixed trackers to the vehicles used by highways staff, then used this to find out their home addresses – which have been published online, and repeated to staff with threatening messages; Highways depots now have to remain locked at all times; A highways contractor’s sponsorship of a children’s football club is being rethought after concerns that children could be targeted.
Cllr Dr Alex Powell@apowelllaw.bsky.social · 2d ago

The campaign of harassment and intimidation Raise the Colours have undertaken against council staff, contractors, and members of the public as reported by the Clarion today is shocking if not surprising. Excellent reporting. oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...

Stephen Gallagher@stephengallagher.co.uk · 6d ago

More on the book sale scuppered by AI suspicions. "This will be an important teaching moment for writers with aspirations to become serious bankable authors. The lesson: stay the hell away from AI"

AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On 'Call Me, I'll Hide The Body' Novel

That screeching sound you heard from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel.

deadline.com

HappyToast@happytoast.co.uk · 6d ago

This has really pissed me off, if you're in the area and can afford it go and give the cafe owner some money to help fund the kids meals. And if he refuses buy yourself a nice coffee and tip him as much as you can. Fuck Reform taking food from kids in need. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform council chief threatens to report café boss who fed kids for free to cops

EXCLUSIVE: Barry Ashley, who runs the Grumpy Cook café in Hastings, and Labour MP Helena Dollimore have been told by East Sussex County Council chief Andy Woolley that he plans to contact police after...

mirror.co.uk

Dominik Starck@dominikstarck.bsky.social · 6d ago

Remembering British screenwriter Brian Clemens on his birthday. He made "The Avengers" iconic, wrote and produced "The Professionals" and wrote and directed the cult classic Hammer Films feature "Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter". He also contributed to the "Highlander"-universe. True icon. #BOTD

British screenwriter Brian Clemens at his typewriter with a poster of master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock behind him.
James Moran@jamesmoran.com · 6d ago

Love this. Love also that I got to do an episode he was in, even though his stuff was written and shot separately before I turned up, I was still sort of Sam-adjacent!

Stephen Gallagher@stephengallagher.co.uk · last wk.

Seriously, follow the thread. She's a professional media pauper. It would only be funny if said media weren't complicit in perverting the national conversation

Legal C@legalclaret.bsky.social · 2w ago

This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1

Legal C@legalclaret.bsky.social · 2w ago

This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1

Ash@queerash.bsky.social · 2w ago

Elaine in this article "can't remember the last time she used her oven" but also spends £200 a month on petrol (so driving probably ~50 miles a day?) (she's also a professional old person; she was on Good Morning Britain last year, and then also at the Nov budget, and the year before lmao)