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Alistair Smith

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Mid-life crisis: return to OSRPGs, painting and general escape from the mundane. Happiness through imagination and camaraderie. He/him. #grognard

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Why can’t we have Churchill cuddling a badger. I mean what’s the point of Generative AI if we can’t make this sort of magic happen.

Jane Austen and an otter
Shakespeare and a pine marten, etc.

11.03.2026 18:30 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

I am surprised Trump hasn’t used Iran’s transgender policies as one of his reasons for attacking them.

11.03.2026 17:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Of course if Reform were in charge, they’d be putting Trump and Putin on our banknotes.

11.03.2026 17:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

4,3,6,2

10.03.2026 21:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Daily Telegraph weekly column almost secured.

10.03.2026 20:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s a shame the Crimson Fists got replaced by the Ultramarines as the stock Space Marine chapter. You don’t have to be a very good painter to give someone a red hand.

09.03.2026 20:35 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And the suggestion that Starmer should be trying to appease Trump is absurd. He needs to maintain some self respect and let Badenoch and Farage get themselves in knots sucking up to American right wingers.

09.03.2026 17:10 👍 27 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Shaming Scottish football for 140 years.

09.03.2026 07:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The commentators don’t watch URC or Top14 so miss the quality in those competitions - as witness failure to see how good some of the Italian players are.

07.03.2026 21:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That said, still sad to see a brewery close and jobs go.

07.03.2026 08:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Was never a big fan of Innis & Gunn beer, but I do like the Inveralmond beers, especially Lia Fail.

Will buy and drink when in Perth next week.

07.03.2026 08:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It was good. Have used a couple of your lines already.

07.03.2026 06:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow. Thanks for sharing.

06.03.2026 18:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s also not the same when the floor isn’t sticky with cider and black.

06.03.2026 13:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lovely games about horrible things. Surely? #freemarketingadvice 😀

06.03.2026 10:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The cover of Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel Poor Things. A drawing of a large lumpy man with a smaller woman and man hugging on his lap.

The cover of Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel Poor Things. A drawing of a large lumpy man with a smaller woman and man hugging on his lap.

Post the cover of a book you love from the 90s. (Any century!)
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

06.03.2026 07:48 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

There was a point, when James Harding was editor, that it was much more centrist and had a range of voices. Since Tony Gallagher ( ex Mail) it’s moved a lot.

06.03.2026 07:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s been turning into the Daily Mail for several years. They binned off their left and centrist columnists, employed the Mail’s parliamentary sketch writer and started writing nonsense like the article here.

Only the fact that the Daily Telegraph has gone insane masks The Times’ rightward drift.

06.03.2026 07:31 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

For policy workshop read bunch of ageing golfers with g&ts in hand at the 19th hole.

06.03.2026 07:26 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My son was so scornful when the school sent an email. Identified it as AI slop immediately.

05.03.2026 17:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A powerful defence of the aspiration to a better world.

05.03.2026 17:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Am increasingly thinking the Chinese are a more predictable partner, albeit one with not even a pretend belief in democracy.

05.03.2026 08:32 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Yes I would. Am obviously on UK time but could speak later today or later tomorrow afternoon. Am tied up until 1630.

04.03.2026 15:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Always interested by the ubiquity of guns in the US in post apocalyptic media. There is so much less post apocalyptic UK fiction. Is that down to the smallness of our country and the rarity of firearms?

People bludgeoning one another with chair legs in crowded streets is all just too downbeat.

04.03.2026 15:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In what way is Robin Hood anything other than a redistributive rebel taking from the rich and giving to the poor?

03.03.2026 21:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thinking they might be great with bacon and an egg at the weekend.

03.03.2026 20:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m going to try doing that.

03.03.2026 20:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Quite alarmed that i can express such an angry view at 0840 without any help from alcohol!

03.03.2026 12:21 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m dreading whatever self-regarding shite Watt will post to try and justify the value he took out of the business while making it unsustainable in the long term. He’s such a cock.

03.03.2026 08:41 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They can complain when they take on the responsibility and do as much for the community as

02.03.2026 19:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0